Royal Wedding Bells

Scour the world, and you'll probably never find a schmaltzier statue than the statue of the Queen of Hearts and her Dodi erected by Mohamed Al-Fayed in the basement of Harrods in London. Of all the weird things to come from Diana's death, that was no doubt the weirdest.

Well, with Prince William of Wales finally proposing to Kate, I guess the circle is unbroken, and what Diana and Dodi could find only in a statue in the Harrods basement will hopefully be found by Wills and Kate in Anglesey where the newlyweds intend to live (say what you will about Prince William of Wales, but he seems to take the "of Wales" part of his name considerably more seriously than his father ever did).

But remembering the death of Di has only fed into my rampant Nineties Nostalgia, which has lately seen me revisit the O.J. trial via Frontline and the Clinton impeachment via Dean Gormley's fascinating tome on the subject. (Sidenote: did anyone else notice that Ken Starr is now the President of Baylor? Also, remember when there was all that talk about making Baylor an evangelical equivalent of an Ivy League school and how that totally fizzled?) And of course, nothing has cheered me up of late more than revisiting Joycelyn Elders and her wacky ideas.

Anyhow, wanting to revisit Princess Di, as a crucial part of 1990s weirdness, but not wanting to revisit the funeral (too sad) or the Martin Bashir interview (too weird - and at any rate superseded by Bashir's interview with Michael Jackson the next decade).

So, I humbly submit this clip from the shortlived 1996 ABC Dana Carvey Show. (Probably an underrated show, but Carvey was sort of old hat by then. But look at the all-star cast: Steve Carell, Bill Chott, Stephen Colbert, Elon Gold, Chris McKinney, Heather Morgan, Peggy Shay, Robert Smigel, and James Stephens III. And the writers: Charlie Kaufman, Louis C.K., Jon Glaser, Dino Stamatopoulos, Spike Feresten, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell and Robert Carlock.

Or if you want something more in bad taste.