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Mike Myers is a professional baseball player. He's a left-handed pitcher for the New York Yankees and wears number 36. He is managed by pitching manager Ron Guidry.

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The Day We All Stopped Laughing

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From: getthebigpicture.net

With Mike Myers' career as a box office superstar mining comedy gold with each new film sputtering if not beginning to nose dive into terra firma, Ryan Zeinert at Film Wad has put together an excellent study on the moment in time when 15 famous comedians "lost their funny."

I was immediately drawn to this for several reasons, chief among them that I use funny as a noun, as in "bring the funny," "lost their funny," etc. In fact, when saying pretty much the same thing we're discussing here back on May 20th, I said Myers was "fresh out of funny."

Also, many years ago, one of my friends theorized that musicians tend to go downhill after their first greatest hits album. There are a couple of exceptions, like The Eagles and Elton John, both of whom had some of their best songs pop up on later albums.

Likewise, another friend mounted the belief that athletes usually go to pot after they marry an actress or a singer. In fact, only Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs has performed better after marriage, which is weird, because I only see him as a cuckolded husband in that relationship.

So I like little pop culture catch-alls like that, and this one, essentially a riff off Jumping the Shark, is timely and easy to enhance.

I have to confess that I disagree with some of Filmwad's assessments: Dane Cook was never funny, and if he ever was it ended long before Employee of the Month, just as David Spade hasn't made me crack a smile since he was on Saturday Night Live so Joe Dirt isn't really the last straw; Robin Williams stopped being funny a few years before Patch Adams, but because he hadn't tried to be funny in a long time, I can understand why they chose this one; and they have Carrot Top on the list for Chairman of the Board...wait, I thought this list was limited to comedians.

Overall, I think they got it right. Or right-ish.

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