Links of God

Hey, Ty Templeton, comics artiste and writere, as well as actore, dropped by Sneaky Dragon for a fun and wide-ranging conversation. Here are some video links related to what we talked about:

First things first, Ian and Ty reveal the dirty secret of Scrooge’s money vault. The following scene gives new meaning to the term “golden shower”, which already gave new meaning to the term “golden shower”.

Disgusting, Scrooge! You can keep it!

This lady is not for burning. That one over there on the other hand. Whatevs.

They left out the scene where Richard Chamberlain started to operate. (That was a Doctor Kildare joke, everyone, because I’m 100 years old.)

It turns out that we talked about Katts and Dog. I don’t see how that is so bad that we actually have to watch it.

Sorry, Ian. Three minutes in and I’d surpassed my 80’s limit.

One of the shows Ty has acted on is The Campbells. Here’s a little taste:

You don’t have to swallow it. You can spit it out into this bucket here.

Ty told us a story of throwing a shoe during an audition. I hope his aim was better than this lameass:

What, he was, like, twenty feet away? In his defense, a shoe is an awkward thing to throw. You’ll find very few ball sports involving shoes – except on feet.

Who quoted Dorothy Parker?

That was disillusioning. Parker with her Noo Yawk accent reading a poem in a cattle barn.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love PG Wodehouse, but the idea of him slaving away over his plots with little index cards strikes me as so amusing because his stories were essentially always the same!

But so sublimely the same!

Apparently Asimov never re-wrote a book. That explains a lot!

He wrote I, Robot, but not iCarly.

I just posted this because I love Louie!

You can go to ebay and buy one of Ty’s children. You can go to ewhiteslavetradebay and buy one of mine.

Ty worked on the comic, Wasteland, which is one of Ian’s favourite comics and was co-written by improv legend Del Close.

Does he look like a man who would hunt rats in a sewer wearing roller skates? In a word, yes.

Ty couldn’t believe that Richard Pryor had a kids TV show. Ian provides definitve proof.

A generation of kids said, “What the eff…?”

Ty’s father, Charles Templeton, worked with Billy Graham on a pioneering Evangelical television show called Look Up and Live. This isn’t that show:

That was a safety video produced to prevent something that has caused, quote, “very few deaths”.

Martin Landau played the ancient, rickety version of Ty’s father in Billy: The Early Years.

Apparently they hired a mathematician to do the publicity for this movie. Because numbers impress?!?

They made a film based on Ty’s dad’s book, The Kidnapping of the President, which is all about a girl in Kansas who is magically transported to another world. That’s all I’m going to say. I don’t want to spoil it.

Charles Templeton is not only responsible for the kidnapping of the president, he also killed Elvis.

Elvis made people dance! Why, oh why did he kill him with a book and Elvis’ body full of drugs?

Ty just finished working on a young reader’s book about the true creator of Batman, Bill Finger.

Ian hypothesizes what it must be like at Ty’s comic book boot camp:

I actually think it’s probably more like this:

Here’s the comic produced by students of Ty’s workshops.

Holmes Inc. Not to be confused with Mike Holmes:

That’s all for this week. Thanks to Ty for dropping by the show! Don’t forget to check out his blog for lots of great laughs and Ty related news.