Andy Kaufman

Jesus Jokes

[Hey, You!] Don't dis da son o' God, sonny

'Girls' Boy Makes Good

In movies and TV, Alex Karpovsky is only playing an asshole

Jerry "The King" Lawler's Top Five Musical Moments (Get Well Soon!)

See Also: *House of Campaign - Five Rap Songs Looking For Your Vote *Going for the Gold: Five 2012 Rap Songs To Inspire Our Olympic Team*Monday Night Raw's Six Most Memorable Music Moments In an unsettling moment of reality last Monday night, WWE Hall of Fame wrestler, commentator and famed Andy K ... More >>

Monday Night Raw's Six Most Memorable Music Moments

Tonight, television's longest running weekly episodic program, WWE's "Monday Night Raw" has its 1,000th episode. While the show's most known for its brawls in and out of the ring, the past 19 years have had plenty of unforgettable cameos from some of the biggest names in music. On this momentou ... More >>

Are the Dwarves the Punk Soundtrack to Sexual Perversion?

Vocalist Blag Dahlia contemplates the powers of rebellion, rock & roll, and 'A Serbian Film'

Are the Dwarves the Punk Soundtrack to Sexual Perversion?

Considering they're the most taboo of taboos, rape, incest, necrophilia and pedophilia rarely receive simultaneous play on the silver screen. But in 2010, Serbian director Srdjan Spasojevic dedicated camera time to all of those topics in A Serbian Film--a flick YouTube user feagfilms used to make an ... More >>

Rocco, Rocking the Vote, Rips Up Janet Nguyen Campaign Sign?

Steve Rocco, the perennial political candidate who previously served as a trustee of the Orange Unified School District, wants you to vote for him today in his race to unseat Janet Nguyen, the incumbent county supervisor from Orange County's first district. The beanie-and-sunglasses-wearing "re ... More >>

Steve Rocco, Ex-Educator, Andy Kaufman Reincarnator and Ketchup Thief, Now Running For OC Supervisor!

​It'll take more than a lifetime of failed election bids (not including one wildly successful, from a comedic point of view, tenure as a school trustee), and repeated arrests for shoplifting to stop Steve Rocco. On March 8, one day after Janet Nguyen filed her own declaration of candidacy for a se ... More >>

[UPDATED with Denial:] NO New Trial for Steve Rocco, Ex-Orange School Trustee, in Ketchup Heist

​UPDATE, AUG. 8, 8:38 A.M.: Game, set and match, The Partnership? Steve Rocco lost his bid for retrial of his ketchup theft conviction Friday when Judge Jacki Brown refused the ex-Orange Unified School Board trustee's request for court-appointed counsel and, thus, a continuation of the nonsense.

Killer Quince

Happy Quinceañera to us! A look back at 15 years of telling the other side (that is, the real side) of OC's story

Barbara Coe on Barack Obama: "Worse, Much Worse" Than Hitler

If Obama is worse than Hitler, what does that make Coe?​I once had an argument of sorts with a prominent O.C. newsman who basically told me to give it a rest on the Barbara Coe beat. "She's just an old, paranoid woman who barely has a following," he said of the head of the California Coalition for ... More >>

Tonight: Neil Hamburger at Alex's Bar!

Why did NASA send a titanium copy of the latest Linkin Park album to every planet in our solar system? Well, to kill off any interest that the aliens may have had in invading earth. That's one of the many jokes in the considerable arsenal of Neil Hamburger, "America's youngest comedian." For those ... More >>

'House Hunters' Host Set to Perpetuate Racial Stereotypes

I was fairly surprised when I saw that Suzanne Whang, the inoffensively pleasant host of HGTV's inoffensively pleasant "House Hunters," was performing tonight at the Irvine Improv. After all, she's most famous for uttering lines like "Jim and Mandy are looking for a home with plenty of space to rais ... More >>

I'm a Rocketman

Harland Williams

A Year Without Cathy Seipp

It wasn't long after I moved to OC that I got the news that Cathy Seipp had died. I got it almost instantaneously -- Cathy was so hooked into the blogosphere that her last moments, much like many of her days, were obsessively chronicled online by friends and colleagues. That was a year ago today. ... More >>

Rocco Recall Documentary Hits the Internets

Chapman University political science professor Fred Smoller has been fascinated by the spectacular rise to power of Steve Rocco, the wacky Orange Unified School District trustee, ever since Rocco won his election in November 2004, and particularly after parents who voted for Rocco because the ballot ... More >>

Return of the Rocco Files: Rocco Lives!

An article (if you can call a 10-sentence blurb, including the writer's contact information, an article) in yesterday's Orange County Register confirms that Steve Rocco, Orange County's favorite edgoo-ma-caterer, has survived the latest assassination attempt by the secret cabal that controls local p ... More >>

New Reviews

We recommend: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, The Lives of Others (Das Leben Der Anderen), My Best Friend and Goyas Ghosts

Rocco's Modern Life

It's possible that, by censuring trustee Steve Rocco, the Orange Unified School District may be hastening the Second Coming. Not of Jesus, mind you, but of Andy Kaufman. The Weekly recently received the following graphic from a reader. At first we were puzzled—the first picture is clearly ... More >>

Not Ready for Prime Time DVD

OnDVD: Saturday Night Live: The Complete First Season, 1974-75

Looking for Laughs in All the Wrong Places

Albert Brooks phones in the jokes

Orange

Whos the Real Mystery Man?

Not me, says Orange school trustee Steve Rocco

Albertsons Wants Me Dead

Orange school trustee Steve Rocco charges supermarket with murder attempt

Letters

Letters

Its Puzzlementary!

Internet company linking Rocco, Kaufman claims no link between Rocco, Kaufman

Letters

Will the Real Steve Rocco Please Stand Up?

Internet mystery surrounds Orange school trustee

Youre in Hell

Whos Crazier: Rocco or his fans?

The Rocco Files

Andy Kaufman Isnt Dead

Hes serving on the Orange School Board

Cleveland Rocked

Vote for Change and Vote Often

Cheese Lounge

More Lovingkindness than you can stand

Stirring It Up

Bob Marley lives forever

Not The Tom Green Show

Tom Green puts away childish things

Try Everything Once

Money Marks stupid, lurid brilliance

Hot!

Jumping on the (band)wagon

A Paler Shade of Green

Tom Green: an Andy Kaufman talent in a Carson Daly age

Records That Changed My Life

Nearly Non-Nazi Night!

Is David Woodard's Life His Art?

Or is his art his life?
Or is he just scamming us?

Visions of Utopia

Onboard Basslands magic bus