He loves doing this. He does this every year, which means I have to do this every year, too. Every fall, Bruce Springsteen ...

Typical of the show’s calculated coyness was the time Tallulah Bankhead (whose parody of herself is becoming increasingly pathetic) started to tell a joke about some Texans in Paris, only to be ...

was often to tell one from Soviet times. Maybe that humour is safe and reliable because it’s dated. Maybe there’s something about old jokes that makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside.