Arts: November 2011 Archives

Wednesday November 30, 2011

Todd Barry on Patrice O'Neal's Death

If you're a comedy fan you've probably heard about the death of Patrice O'Neal (pictured). He's a great stand-up comic who's been on The Office, Arrested Development and Chappelle's Show. Well this week Brent spoke with Todd Barry, another really talented comic. Patrice was a friend of his. Here's what Barry had to say.

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Friday November 25, 2011

This is the REAL Swedish Chef. Maybe. Maybe not.

Lars "Kuprick" Backman is a chef from Sweden who may or may not have been the inspiration for the Swedish Chef from The Muppet Show.

Honest. His personal story has some curious parallels to the Muppet character's own story. Right down to his floppy hat.

The Jim Henson Company shot down the suggestion.  But the idea persists.  And Lars himself continues to believe that maybe he is to blame for the Bork! Bork! Bork!

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Friday November 18, 2011

Episode 52- Music & the Brain

 

• Giffords Musical Recovery
• Occupy Evicted
• Mommy Blogs & Disney
• Rethink: Maonomics
• P.J. O'Rourke
• Defending Nickleback
• Oh No! Oogopogo!

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• April 2012
  • Mon., 2 – Getting down to business: Erotic Fiction
     
• March 2012
  • Fri., 30 – Episode 71 - Online Vigilantes
     
  • Mon., 26 – REPOST: Mad Men's Jessica Paré On Day 6
     
  • Fri., 23 – Episode 70 - The Lone Wolf
     
  • Fri., 16 – UPDATE: Mike Daisey Fabricated Parts of Apple Monologue
     
  • Fri., 16 – Hungry For Hunger Games
     
  • Fri., 2 – Episode 67- Reverse RoboCall
     
  • Fri., 2 – The Monkees' Head Trip
     
• February 2012
  • Fri., 24 – Episode 66 - Fixing Oscar
     
  • Fri., 24 – Anonymous Vs. Vic Toews, Privacy and Ethics
     
  • Fri., 24 – Oscar Attack Ads
     
  • Fri., 24 – Fixing the Oscars with Dana Stevens and Adam Kempenaar
     
  • Fri., 10 – Bonus Oscars Giveaway: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
     
  • Fri., 10 – The Real Iran & "A Separation"
     
  • Fri., 10 – Alexandra Molotkow on Valentine's Day
     
  • Fri., 10 – Putting A Price On Pandas
     
  • Fri., 10 – What's Next For Schwartz's?
     
  • Fri., 3 – Episode 63- Facebook Fortunes
     
  • Fri., 3 – All Hell Breaks Loose: The Winners
     
  • Fri., 3 – Does Andy Serkis Deserve an Oscar?
     
• January 2012
  • Fri., 27 – Linden MacIntyre reads your bad writing
     
  • Fri., 27 – Michael Moore on Oscar Documentary Snubs
     
  • Fri., 27 – Eurocrash! The Musical!
     
  • Fri., 20 – All Hell Breaks Loose: The Elmore Leonard Rule-Breaking Contest
     
  • Fri., 20 – Elmore Leonard on Raylan, Moonshine, and Robbing Banks
     
  • Fri., 20 – Dungeons & Dragons: Stephen Lea Sheppard on Edition Wars
     
  • Fri., 13 – Contest Winners: Dawkins & Stooges Giveaways
     
  • Fri., 13 – Immigration, Gangsters & Mexican Wrestling
     
  • Fri., 13 – Chasing Hot Art
     
  • Fri., 6 – Where The Candidates Get Their Money: A Guide To Donations
     
  • Fri., 6 – The Story of A Stooge: James Williamson
     
  • Thu., 5 – Contest Winners & "10 Voices" Answers
     
• December 2011
  • Wed., 28 – Best of Day 6: Tommy James on Music and The Mob
     
  • Mon., 26 – Best of Day 6: Jon Ronson
     
  • Fri., 23 – Merry Christmas, Hosers
     
  • Fri., 23 – Can Hollywood Make A Good 9/11 Movie?
     
  • Fri., 9 – Episode 55- Mirror Planet
     
  • Fri., 9 – Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
     
  • Fri., 9 – Was Ryan Gosling Winning in 2011?
     
  • Fri., 9 – The Uncanny Valley: Animations that give us the creeps
     
  • Fri., 2 – Episode 54 - The Big 6 Returns
     
  • Fri., 2 – Shame Embraces NC-17 Rating
     
• November 2011
  • Wed., 30 – Todd Barry on Patrice O'Neal's Death
     
  • Fri., 25 – This is the REAL Swedish Chef. Maybe. Maybe not.
     
  • Fri., 18 – Episode 52- Music & the Brain
     
  • Fri., 18 – PJ O'Rourke "Holidays In Heck" Giveaway
     
  • Fri., 18 – In Defense of Nickelback
     
  • Wed., 16 – Pulphead Winner!
     
  • Fri., 11 – Episode 51 - Leaders Retreat
     
  • Fri., 11 – John Jeremiah Sullivan on Michael Jackson & Pulphead Giveaway
     
  • Fri., 11 – Silvio Berlusconi: Songwriter
     
  • Fri., 11 – Tim Heidecker Vs. Herman Cain
     
  • Wed., 9 – Coming Soon on Day 6: PJ O'Rourke
     
  • Fri., 4 – Episode 50 - Greek Drama
     
  • Fri., 4 – The Lou Reed & Metallica Collaboration: How Bad Is It?
     
  • Fri., 4 – Politicians & Mental Health Issues: Can Depression Help Leaders?
     
  • Thu., 3 – "The Art of Fielding" Winners!
     
  • Tue., 1 – Coming up this weekend: Haruki Murakami's 1Q84
     
• October 2011
  • Fri., 28 – Marriage Plot Winners
     
  • Fri., 28 – Euthanasia Coaster
     
  • Fri., 21 – Book Giveaway: The Art of Fielding
     
  • Tue., 18 – What Was That Song?
     
  • Fri., 14 – The Marriage Plot: Should I Read It?
     
• September 2011
  • Fri., 30 – 50/50: Comedy Takes On Cancer
     
  • Fri., 30 – 1,000 Songs in 1,000 Days
     
  • Fri., 30 – Incognito Book Giveaway Winners
     
  • Fri., 30 – Coming Soon: Mark Bowden on "The First Digital War"
     
  • Thu., 29 – From the CBC Archives: The Jacksons in 1984
     
  • Wed., 28 – This is your brain on Day 6, Part 2: Jon Ronson on "The Psychopath Test"
     
  • Wed., 28 – Classic CBC Interviews: Canadian Punk Rock 1977
     
  • Tue., 27 – CBC Classic Interviews: Stompin' Tom Connors
     
  • Tue., 27 – This is your brain on Day 6, Part One: Oliver Sacks
     
  • Mon., 26 – Classic CBC Interviews: Johnny Cash
     
  • Sat., 24 – Classic CBC Interviews: Iggy Pop & Peter Gzowski
     
  • Fri., 23 – The Real Stories Behind "Playboy Club" and "Pan Am"
     
  • Fri., 23 – Dick Cheney Heads North
     
  • Wed., 21 – Happy Birthday, Leonard Cohen: 1966 CBC Interview
     
  • Tue., 20 – This week on Day 6: David Eagleman on Neuroscience & The Law
     
  • Fri., 16 – "Sarah Palin: You Betcha" Film-maker Nick Broomfield
     
  • Fri., 16 – Memo To George Lucas: Stop "Improving" Star Wars
     
  • Fri., 16 – Kathleen Phillips Vs. The Cinema
     
  • Thu., 15 – Manslaughter Trial of Italian Seismologists
     
  • Fri., 9 – Norm McDonald on Gadhafi, Soylent Green & More
     
  • Fri., 9 – The Onion After 9/11
     
  • Fri., 9 – Episode 42 - Day 6 Round 2
     
• August 2011
  • Sat., 20 – Summer Podcast - New Yorker Sacred Texts Talk - Part 2
     
  • Sat., 13 – Summer Podcast - New Yorker Sacred Texts Talk - Part 1
     
• July 2011
  • Sat., 30 – Extended Interview: Ai Weiwei's Blog
     
• June 2011
  • Thu., 30 – Malcolm Gladwell Contest Winners!
     
  • Fri., 24 – Is Papa Smurf a Stalinist?
     
  • Fri., 24 – Birgitta Jonsdottir on Iceland's Constitution, Wikileaks, and Information Transparency
     
  • Fri., 24 – Marc Maron on Tracy Morgan & Roger Ebert
     
  • Tue., 21 – What the Smurf?
     
  • Fri., 17 – Episode 40- Vancouver Meltdown
     
  • Fri., 17 – Ai Weiwei's Blog - UPDATED
     
  • Fri., 17 – The "Go The F*** To Sleep" Phenomenon
     
  • Fri., 17 – Comeback Kings
     
  • Tue., 14 – SNEAK PEAK: What Was in Ai Wei Wei's Blog?
     
  • Fri., 10 – Is Terrence Malick The J.D. Salinger of Film?
     
  • Fri., 10 – Should Hollywood Remake Classics?
     
  • Fri., 3 – What happens to fans when their teams Jet?
     
• May 2011
  • Fri., 27 – WEB EXCLUSIVE: WWAWKD? Advice From Andrew W.K.
     
  • Wed., 25 – WWAWKD? Advice from ANDREW W.K.!
     
  • Fri., 20 – Should I Read It? A Visit from the Goon Squad
     
  • Fri., 20 – Jon Ronson's Psychopath Test
     
  • Fri., 20 – Kelefa Sanneh on The Earl Sweatshirt Mystery
     
  • Tue., 17 – This weekend on Day 6: Jon Ronson on The Psychopath Test
     
  • Fri., 13 – Moby Duck - Thousands of Bath Toys Lost At Sea
     
  • Fri., 13 – Bridesmaids: Redefining Female Comedy?
     
  • Tue., 10 – Stream: The Book Of Mormon
     
  • Mon., 9 – Win a copy of "Trouble In The Camera Club" - Amazing Punk Rock Photos
     
  • Fri., 6 – Interview: Terrorist Plotlines in a Post-bin Laden World
     
  • Fri., 6 – Superman To Bail On U.S. Citizenship?
     
• April 2011
  • Fri., 29 – Kinky Friedman on Barack Obama, Bob Dylan, and Borneo
     
  • Fri., 29 – Spurlock Supersizes & Satirizes Selling Out
     
  • Thu., 28 – Episode 33 - Will, Kate and History
     
  • Thu., 21 – Ep. 32 - Democratic Reform Freefall
     
  • Thu., 21 – Dengue Fever Revive Cambodian Rock N Roll
     
  • Fri., 15 – David Foster Wallace's "The Pale King" - Should I Read It?
     
  • Fri., 8 – WTF Reinvents The Showbiz Interview
     
  • Thu., 7 – EXCLUSIVE: Excerpt from David Foster Wallace's "The Pale King"
     
  • Fri., 1 – Mad Men's Jessica Paré & Her Real BFF
     
• March 2011
  • Thu., 31 – Midweek Podcast: Sarah Vowell full interview + reading
     
  • Tue., 29 – Say it ain't so! Mad Men postponed until 2012
     
  • Fri., 25 – Disasters & Japanese Culture
     
  • Fri., 25 – Vowell Goes Hawaiian
     
  • Sat., 19 – Muslim Metal: The Soundtrack to Revolution
     
  • Fri., 18 – Episode 27 - Doubts Over Nukes
     
  • Fri., 18 – Interview: Comedy in Crisis
     
  • Fri., 11 – Reading and Interview: Redefining Motherhood
     
• February 2011
  • Fri., 25 – The Onion Takes On TV + Onion Contest
     
  • Fri., 25 – Mad Magazine Writers On The 2011 Oscars
     
  • Fri., 18 – Oscar Pool: Expert Predictions
     
  • Fri., 18 – Interview: Hunt for the Worst Movie of All Time
     
  • Thu., 17 – New this week: The Day 6 Midweek Podcast
     
  • Fri., 11 – Episode 22 - Fireworks in Cairo
     
  • Fri., 11 – Tommy James: The Mob And The Music
     
  • Fri., 11 – Commentary: An Open Letter to Yann Martel
     
  • Fri., 11 – Oscar Pool: Predictions and More
     
  • Thu., 10 – Coming Soon: Does The Onion work on TV?
     
  • Mon., 7 – Yann Martel: Reaction & Interview
     
  • Sun., 6 – Yann Martel Reads His Last Letter to Harper
     
  • Fri., 4 – Episode 21 - Soccer and the Street
     
  • Fri., 4 – Interview: Creating A Pop Hit In 8-hours
     
  • Fri., 4 – Harper Earns a Shout Out
     
  • Fri., 4 – Day 6 Oscar Pool: Best Doc
     
  • Tue., 1 – COMMENT: The Lesbian Bechdel Test
     
• January 2011
  • Fri., 28 – Episode 20 - Chaos in Egypt... But what's next?
     
  • Fri., 28 – Do The Oscar Noms Pass The Test?
     
  • Fri., 28 – Oscar Pool: Win two free movies a month for a year
     
  • Wed., 19 – Feel good Wednesday: Golden Globes Pre-Gervais
     
  • Fri., 7 – Episode 17: Signs of Apocalypse
     
  • Fri., 7 – Four decades of Doonesbury
     
  • Fri., 7 – Giller Winners Read Snooki's Book
     
  • Tue., 4 – The Black List Gets a Green Light
     
  • Sun., 2 – Let's Go Around Again by Tanya Davis
     
  • Sat., 1 – The Big 6: Big Finish
     
  • Sat., 1 – Comeback of the Year: Betty White
     
  • Sat., 1 – Trend of the Year: iPad
     
  • Sat., 1 – Guilty Pleasure of the Year: Stieg Larsson
     
  • Sat., 1 – Episode 16: The Big 6
     
• December 2010
  • Fri., 31 – Top Ten Things That Aren't What They Are Cracked Up To Be
     
  • Thu., 30 – Three Amazing Things From 2010
     
  • Tue., 28 – Lists, lists of lists, and Links that are lists
     
  • Tue., 28 – Coming soon on Day 6: Tanya Davis
     
  • Mon., 27 – Brent's Best-Of Best-Ofs
     
  • Wed., 22 – Christmas Rappin'
     
  • Mon., 20 – COMMENT: Why I'm Seeing Tron
     
  • Fri., 17 – Episode 15: Don't Misquote My Exit Line
     
  • Fri., 17 – Big 6: Final Voting Begins
     
  • Fri., 17 – The Black List: Hollywood's Next Hits?
     
  • Fri., 17 – Interview: David Lynch, Meditation and The Troops
     
  • Fri., 17 – Interview: Evan Gregory of The Gregory Brothers
     
  • Wed., 15 – Big 6 Casualties: Round 3
     
  • Tue., 14 – The Times They Are Ka-ching!
     
  • Tue., 14 – Big 6 Casualties: Round Two
     
  • Fri., 10 – Episode 14: Rise of the Hacktivist
     
  • Thu., 9 – Stephen Harper's Set List: The Originals
     
  • Mon., 6 – Can Mel Gibson make a comeback? Watch his new trailer here
     
  • Fri., 3 – Viral Love Letter: I Hope This Gets To You
     
  • Fri., 3 – Does Country Get Respect?
     
• November 2010
  • Fri., 26 – Feature Interview: Salman Rushdie
     
  • Fri., 26 – Salman Rushdie Contest: How To Enter
     
  • Fri., 19 – Episode 11: What You Can Learn From a Full Body Scan
     
  • Fri., 19 – The Big 6: Vote and Win!
     
  • Fri., 19 – The Palins Take Over Reality TV
     
  • Tue., 16 – Rock Bands Rocking Road Tour Advice
     
  • Fri., 12 – Episode 10: I Like These Odds
     
  • Tue., 9 – We like... OK GO
     
  • Mon., 8 – Oliver Sacks reads from The Mind's Eye
     
  • Fri., 5 – Episode 9: Shellacked!
     
  • Fri., 5 – Amy Sedaris on Crafts For Poor People
     
  • Thu., 4 – Moose! Sadies! Mummies!
     
  • Wed., 3 – New Musical Micro-genre: Songs About Silly Bandz
     
  • Wed., 3 – The Day 6 Contest: Keef! Keef! Keef!
     
• October 2010
  • Fri., 29 – Episode 8: Tailings Ponds Bad for Ducks, Kanye West Makes an Epic, Trick or Treat, America!
     
  • Fri., 29 – Keith Richards Contest - How To Join Twitter
     
  • Fri., 29 – Pop and Culture Panel: Kanye, LeBron, Leno, Conan
     
  • Thu., 28 – Johnny Depp Reads Keith Richards
     
  • Wed., 27 – Keith Richards Bio + Rolling Stones in 1965
     
  • Tue., 26 – Snooki? Antoine Dodson? Decisions, decisions.
     
  • Mon., 25 – Citizen Kanye
     
  • Tue., 19 – How to Play a Song Without Your Instruments
     
  • Mon., 18 – Sesame Street: Hitting the right notes?
     
  • Fri., 15 – Episode 6: Chilean Miners Ready for their Closeup, David Sedaris, "Mad Men" in 90 Seconds
     
  • Fri., 15 – David Sedaris Reads "The Vigilant Rabbit" (and How You Can Win a Book)
     
  • Fri., 8 – Episode 5: Thanksgiving for New Canadians, P.J. O'Rourke, Drone Wars
     
  • Fri., 1 – Episode 4: Cameron in Alberta, Reality TV Turns Deadly, Ecuador Ransoms Amazon and How to Run a Brothel
     
  • Fri., 1 – Safran Foer: On Eating Animals
     
  • Fri., 1 – Day 6 Review: The Social Network (a.k.a. "that Facebook movie")
     
• September 2010
  • Fri., 24 – Max Valiquette: A Movie About A Website
     
  • Wed., 22 – Movin' On Up
     
  • Fri., 17 – Band Link? Flunked If I Know.
     
  • Fri., 17 – Margaret Cho Tour Dates
     
  • Mon., 13 – TOP 6: LIFE, AND SUPER MARIO
     
  • Fri., 10 – EXCLUSIVE: Tanya Davis, "Peaceful & Crimson"
     
  • Fri., 10 – Day 6 Exclusive: William Gibson "Zero History" Excerpt
     
  • Fri., 3 – Fashion Icon? (BONUS Day 6 AUDIO)
     
  • Wed., 1 – FULL INTERVIEW: Archie's GBFF!
     
• August 2010
  • Tue., 31 – Should I Read It?