Follow-up: The Ackroyd Julia Child Parody

What the heck, those of us of a certain age will remember seeing  this live. It’s pretty pitch perfect.

Click on Dan to see the full skit on Hulu.

Dan Ackroyd as Julia Child, circa 1978 or 79

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The Parody Thing

Coyote v. Acme
Ian Frazier

Working through a backlog at AHC and have a few days at home so perhaps we’ll make progress. Today our subject is one of the best-loved and seemingly defining forms of our time-the parody. From SNL to The Simpsons you can’t escape it. I freely admit to having limited tolerance for any one form of anything. So an abundance is not necessarily a blessing. An abundance of any thing that requires perfect pitch to pull off might, in fact, be more of a curse.

That  brings me to  Coyote v. Acme by Ian ‘Sandy’ Frazier. Someone, it might have been John McPhee,