After a few hours out there, yesterday's brief return from the grave by yours truly has been seen by over three-quarters of a million Twitter users. Given that I haven't been on-screen for two months and telly is very much a present-tense medium, I'm pleasantly surprised there are that many people who remember who I am. I'm especially touched by the kind words from Steyn Show regulars. Everybody's favourite Hilversum milkmaid, Eva Vlaardingerbroek: Look who's back. A far sweeter Leilani than Bing serenaded, the one and only Leilani Dowding: I can't wait. Mark will be back on The Mark Steyn Show very soon, I will join him along with many of his regular contributors..!! Amazing B'day news for me that THE man, THE anchor is back..!! Happy ...
Reports of Mark Twain's Steyn's death are greatly exaggerated. For his first on-camera appearance in two months, please click above. ~Aside from anything else, Mark is fully committed to staying alive at least long enough to be buried at sea during this year's Mark Steyn Cruise. He may eschew his traditional leap over the orchestra pit for the Steyn Show finale, but rest assured, his terrific line-up of guests - including Eva Vlaardingerbroek, Mister Snerdley and Michele Bachmann - stand ready to pick up the choreographic slack. This is our first post-Covid cruise and you won't want to miss it: more information here - and no tests or vax passports required. ~Notwithstanding Mark's brace of heart attacks, we had a busy weekend at ...
Two years ago today - January 9th 2021, just before six o'clock in the morning at Mississauga Hospital in Ontario - our dear friend Kathy Shaidle departed this world far too soon...
If you enjoy Steyn's Song of the Week at SteynOnline and Serenade Radio, please note that there'll be a live stage edition during the 2023 Mark Steyn Cruise - along with many other favourite features from SteynOnline and The Mark Steyn Show. More details here. For those who missed today's Serenade Radio edition of our Song of the Week, here's a chance to catch up. Today's episode tells the story of one of the most recorded standards of all time, even though eighty per cent of all performers are never entirely sure what the song's about. Notwithstanding that minor difficulty, it's beloved by Vegas swingers, folk-rockers, a prisoner of Mussolini, and the wife of a Beatle. Click above to listen. This airing of Steyn's Serenade Song of the ...
November 1922 continues with a new Caliph in Constantinople, an old Pharoah in Luxor, an absent Emperor in the bridal suite, and a lot of dead prime ministers in Greece...