I forgot Gene Wilder's birthday! June 11. Fellow Wisconsinite!

"We are the music makers... and we are the dreamers of dreams."

- Willy Wonka

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Tim Meadows is the antithesis of funny. He is anti-funny. And he's not from Wisconsin.

I watched "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" last night. Great flick. I laughed a ton. John C. Reiley's funny. But I stopped laughing whenever Tim Meadows was on the screen. I always do. I thought he sucked on SNL and couldn't figure out why he lasted 10 years on the show (he wrote as well - and that even sucked).

Seriously...I have feces funnier than this guy. Inappropriate comment? Possibly. But so is Tim Meadows practicing comedy and charging people to see him be funny.

I know - it's a picture of the late Chris Farley, who was a contemporary of Meadow's. He was funny. His left testicle was funnier than Meadows. But whose isn't? I just couldn't rationalize putting a picture of Meadows on my blog. He makes me cry and get angry. Farley makes me laugh. And Farley's from Wisconsin. So is Gene Wilder. Funny guys. Spencer Tracy was from Wisconsin and he wasn't even a comedian and he was funnier than Meadows.

Perhaps if Tim had been born in Wisconsin....no, can't do anything about that now. He could move there - I mean, if he wanted to be funnier, right?

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Happy Birthday, Gene Wilder. Etcetera, etcetera. Good day!

Gene Wilder is a fellow Wisconsinite, growing up in Milwaukee, and he's an incredibly wonderful, kind actor and he's 73 today - can you believe it?

He was great in Young Frankenstein and Stir Crazy - lots of stuff. Check out this scene from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". My musician buddy Nick in Iowa and I crack up every time we watch this flick:

Grandpa Joe: Mr. Wonka?

Willy Wonka: I am extraordinarily busy, sir.

Grandpa Joe: I just wanted to ask about the chocolate - Uh, the lifetime supply of chocolate... for Charlie. When does he get it?

Willy Wonka: He doesn't.

Grandpa Joe: Why not?

Willy Wonka: Because he broke the rules.

Grandpa Joe: What rules? We didn't see any rules. Did we, Charlie?

Willy Wonka: Wrong, sir! Wrong! Under section 37B of the contract signed by him, it states quite clearly that all offers shall become null and void if - and you can read it for yourself in this photostatic copy - "I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein and herein contained," et cetera, et cetera...”Fax mentis incendium gloria cultum," et cetera, et cetera...”Memo bis punitor delicatum!" It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You stole fizzy lifting drinks. You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing! You lose! Good day sir!

Grandpa Joe: You're a crook. You're a cheat and a swindler! That's what you are! How could you do a thing like this, build up a little boy's hopes and then smash all his dreams to pieces? You're an inhuman monster!

Willy Wonka: I said "Good day!"

Classic. Watch the You Tube video below of Gene Wilder at one of his "wildest" moments in the movie.

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