Back in the early 1990’s, maybe it was even 1990, there was a show on TV called Get a Life.  It was hilarious and dumb and strange and puerile (I sense a new blog coming on. . .!), but most of all it was brilliant, or at least I thought it was at the time.  It was actually rather hit-and-miss, but the ‘hit’ moments were priceless.  Here are two of them, “Zoo Animals on Wheels”. . .

. . .and “The Handsome Boy Modeling School.”  This is part one of three, by the way.  If you’re interested, you can search for the next two.

You may or may not recognize HBMS as the name of a hip hop project put together by Dan the Automator.  Here’s one of the best songs. . .no video, unfortunately, but at least you can hear the song.

It was nice to finally track down “Get a Life” again.  I think my friend Dave and I were the only people in the United States who watched that show, let alone enjoyed it.  So may I propose a toast to the show’s creator, Chris Elliott, who was (and presumably still is) a slightly odd comic genius, and whose show was very much ahead of its time.

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