INTERVIEW / Jonah Raskin : Paul Krassner Is Still Smokin' at 80. Paul Krassner at his 80th birthday party.
The counterculture was a spiritual revolution:A Rag Blog interview with Paul Krassner As the editor of The Realist, Krassner taught me not to take myself too seriously and not to gaze with absolute reverence at the icons of the Sixties. By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / June 7, 2012 Alive and well and still kicking, with a satirical brand of biting humor that’s right on-target and as deadly as ever, Paul Krassner is an American national treasure. In April 2012, he celebrated his 80th birthday with his daughter and grandchild. Right about here, and now, the ethics of the profession demand that I make a full disclosure.
Unafraid to poke fun at himself and unafraid to move at the pace of a turtle, not a rabbit, he has outlived many of his hilarious and deadly serious co-conspirators including Jerry, Abbie, Phil, and Stew (Rubin, Hoffman, Ochs, and Albert). Jonah Raskin: The new, updated version of your old book is entitled Pot Stories for the Soul. 6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying. All of a sudden, it's like you can't make huge amounts of money without people getting all pissed off about it.
And it's only going to get worse -- with the election coming up and the weather getting warmer, this whole "Occupy" movement is probably going to come back strong. The 1 percent will feel even more besieged than before. "What the hell? " you're probably thinking, if you're somehow both rich and reading an article with this title, "I didn't crash the economy!
" You might even be tempted to take to a microphone, to defend yourself and your wealthy friends. . #6. "The amount that I have to reinvest in my business and feed my family is more like $600,000 ... and so by the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over ... " -- Congressman John Fleming Pictured here with his poverty. "It is hard to ask more of households making $250,000 or $300,000 a year. -- Senator Chuck Schumer.
60 Signs You Studied Sociology In College. “Saturday Night Live” and Richard Pryor: The untold story behind “SNL’s” edgiest sketch ever. Up until the mid-1970s, the networks had little interest in Saturday late-night shows.
After the eleven o’clock news, the airwaves were a bone-yard for local affiliates, the final resting place for schlock movies from the 1950s and ’60s. NBC stations had the option of rerunning recent episodes of “The Tonight Show” to predictably tepid ratings, which did not please either the affiliates or Johnny Carson. When Carson pulled the weekend reruns, preferring to repackage them as “best of ” programs to air on weeknights so that he could enjoy some time off, NBC president Herbert Schlosser and vice president of late night programming Dick Ebersol tapped Lorne Michaels, a veteran of Rowan and Martin’s “Laugh-In,” to create something edgy and new. Johnny Carson dismissed “Saturday Night” as crude and sophomoric. He was right. Conventional wisdom held that it would be ludicrous to expect the show’s target audience to sit at home watching TV at eleven thirty on a Saturday night. Negro.