The Friday Six — The Return of the Magnificent Six
The Magnificent Seven — if you’re grading on the curve…
You can probably name, or at least recognize, six of the actors in The Magnificent Seven. Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, James Coburn, Charles Bronson and Robert Vaughn all went on to have pretty good film careers.
And, for the record, I am counting Robert Vaughn’s role in Pootie Tang.
I don’t know much about Hollywood other than I’d like to sleep with Lindsay Lohan, but I’m pretty sure Brad Dexter should have fired his agent.
It must have been tough to continually hear your name brought up as the answer to a trivia question. Or, worse yet, run into someone at a party and have the following conversation:
Random stranger: So, what do you do?
Brad Dexter: I’m an actor.
Random: Have you been in anything I may have seen?
Brad: I was in The Magnificent Seven.
Random: I loved that movie. I don’t remember you, though. Were you one of the farmers?
Brad: Uh, no. I was one of the Magnificent Seven.
Random: Really? Let’s see…there was Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn and ….
Brad: Me.
Random: They should’ve called it the Magnificent Six..hahaha!
At which point, Brad Dexter, who was an amateur boxer, would probably punch the guy in the face and go sleep with some hot young actress.
In the final analysis, Brad probably had a pretty magnificent life.
Blogging is a lot like Brad Dexter’s career, except without all the fights and hot young actresses. Which is to say, you do your best and hope someone recognizes your efforts.
The (Magnificent) Friday Six honors six videos, blogs or papal customs that made us laugh over the past week or so. As always, it’s certified carbon-neutral and alliteration-free. It’s also hypo-allergenic.
The Friday Six. Because we deal in humor, friend.
Star Trek has stood the test of time. The sets, costumes and acting are still reminiscent of every high school play you ever attended. Milk and Cookies has a silly compilation of “dead” lines delivered by Star Trek characters. Nothing deadpan about it.
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Sinister Dan offers up a tasty dish of political commentary, perfectly seasoned with the right mix of outrage and humor over at The Reasonable Ego. (Please don’t jump on Sinister Dan like he was George Stephanopoulos. My bad for sitting on this for two weeks, but it’s still funny and appropriate.)
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Lottery winners aren’t so lucky over at Pointless Banter.
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In honor of the Pope’s visit, I thought it would be appropriate to link to Crummy Church Signs. I’m a practicing humor-blogger, so I visit the site more often than those fair-weather humorists who only show up on high holy days like Easter, Christmas and April Fool’s Day.
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Ahhh, Spring. When a young man’s thoughts turn to love. Cracked.com covers The Five Most Ill-Advised Dating Sites on the Web. Caveat horndog.
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Sure, Bizlevity has business satire and parody, but one of the added bonuses is that you’ll never be able to think of “pig brain mist” again without thinking of Judy Garland. That’s gotta be worth something…
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Hope the weather is great where you are. Have an excellent weekend, everybody!
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