Dan Aykroyd – Simon Dunn

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Chase A Rabbit Down A Hole

On this day, in 2002, the cover of Broadcasting & Cable Magazine featured this photograph: The cover seems only to be justified by two sentences in the whole magazine. Here’s the first: NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker is “very high” on a pilot starring Chevy Chase he describes as an updated My Three Sons, “only…

April 15, 2025
Ghostbusters Tonight

The official Johnny Carson channel recently put this video up. It marks the first appearance of Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray on The Tonight Show, and it’s good watching. I love Dan’s staccato way of talking, and when Bill comes on being all laconic, it’s a lovely contrast. Johnny is a well-known skeptic, so his…

May 15, 2021

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Nineteen 90s Shows

I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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Re-Casting Keanu

Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…