Happy Friday, everyone! As you know, this weekend marks the annual celebration of very solemn and important holiday; a time to gather with friends and family and reflect on what it means to be an upright, moral person in this chaotic, modern world. That's right, it's Sherri Shepherd's birthday.
And to commemorate the comedienne’s 44nd, we'd like to point you toward two of the best Celebrity Autobiographies ever, featuring Sherri reading books by
Madonna, which she handles solo, and by
Destiny's Child, in which she's joined by comedy superheroes Mario Cantone and Jackie Hoffman.
So don't forget to toast this legendary funnywoman the way God intended: by eating yourself stupid on Cadbury Creme eggs.
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Stanley Ann Durham Soetoro on 6/4/2008 6:18:00 AM by Rob Barnett
I put our children to bed just one night - five months ago, feeling the real possibility that Barack Obama could be the next President after Iowa.
Last night was an historic moment. Here's a photo and a prayer - in respect for the work ahead - and for what happens next.
Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro is the mother of President hopeful and Senator Barack Obama. Born in 1942 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Stanley Ann Dunham attended the University of Hawaii in the late 1950's. It was during her study in UH that Ann Dunham met Barack Obama's father Kenyan student Barack Obama Sr. and got engaged, and later married at an age of 18 in 1960. Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. divorced in 1965, when he left for Harvard University to continue his education. In 1967 when Barack Obama was 3 years old, Ann Dunham married Indonesian student in UH Lolo Soetoro, so that's why there was a "Soetoro" in Dunham's name. Dunham and Soetoro divorced in the late 1970s. In 1992, the 50-year-old Stanley Ann Dunham earned a Ph.D. in anthropology for her 1067-pages-long dissertation Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds from the University of Hawai'i. Ann Dunham died in 1995 of ovarian cancer and uterine cancer at the age of 52. In A Free-Spirited Wanderer Who Set Obama’s Path, New York Times reporter Janny Scott writes a biography on Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro.
Here's a new Christmas video made for My Damn Channel and for your emailing pleasure. Judith Owen performs the Spinal Tap classic: "Christmas With the Devil"
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/channel.aspx?episode=352
The Devil's on bass.
Judith Owen combines beautiful music with a sweet and powerful voice. Her stage presence and performance is cutting, comical, honest, and raw. I've taken at least ten uninitiated friends to see Judith play live over the years and everyone leaves high on her cool-aid.
You can barely discover new music in the old ways - but we thought My Damn Channel was the right forum to introduce you to Judith. Her bio & her website are linked below. Her albums are weekend essentials gettable off the discography on her site.
We just filmed two of Judith's shows last week in beautiful, downtown Burbank. We'll be giving you more videos from this music on The Harry Shearer Channel.....Judith's so in love with this man of all seasons that she married the Devil.
http://www.judithowen.net/biography/
http://www.judithowen.net/
CONNECT THE DOTS: http://www.mydamnchannel.com/channel.aspx?episode=154