To quote that great intellectual, Yakov Smirnov: America, what a country! Where else can an individual be a complete unknown one day, and achieve planetary domination the next?

TRIVIA: What comedian/cast member of Laugh-In recently passed away? ANSWER: Arte Johnson, who played the German soldier who said “Verrrrrry interesting” with a heavy German accent holding a cigarette ...

As Russian comic Yakov Smirnov famously catchphrased before exiling himself to the show business tar pit of Branson, Mo.: “Is this a great country or what?” If you’re among a select group of baseball ...