Lately I’ve only been remembering the lousy things about the ’90s: the atrocious fashion, post-grunge pop music, “Saved by the Bell,” the Macarena, and so on. Tina Fey’s Mutual Savings Bank commercial is a nice example of the decade sucking out loud.

The ’90s also killed Phil Hartman and Chris Farley, two people who worked their asses off to at least make the decade funny. Well, I guess the ’90s didn’t kill them, per se. That ignominy falls on as a shotgun-toting wife and enough drugs to kill a family of manatees, respectively.

Still, this 1994 clip of Farley and Hartman hosting a live call-in show on CNBC is a pleasant reminder of which of our memories are worth keeping from that woebegone decade. There isn’t anything explosive or hilarious in this clip, but it’s cool to see Hartman and Farley talk about “Saturday Night Live” and their comedic influences. Listen for Adam Sandler and David Spade on the phone a couple minutes in. By the way, thanks for that one, God. Hartman gets a trio of shotgun blasts from his drunk and coked-up wife, while Spade has spent the last decade wearing a conga line of Playboy bunnies on his head of wispy hair. That seems fair.

(thanks to Oski for the tip)

I’m terrified of developing positive expectations when it comes to new TV shows — especially TV shows borne of Internet projects — but I’d be lying if I said that HBO’s “Funny or Die Presents” didn’t look genuinely entertaining. Judging by the preview below, it seems to have a nice balance of big-time stars like Will Ferrell and Don Cheadle with respected comedy professionals like, uh, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, That Guy from That One Show, Whathisface from Human Giant, and Ed Something, You Know, He Was on The Daily Show before being in The Office and The Hangover?

Taken as a whole, the cast shown in the preview is more impressive than any given week of “Saturday Night Live.” Not like that’s some kind of miraculous accomplishment. “Oohh, check it out! Funny or Die got Tim Meadows for this sketch! It’s automatically better than anything with Kenan Thompson!”

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When I first heard the uproar about David Spade being in a new DirecTV ad with his old deceased pal Chris Farley, I shrugged it off. After all, DirecTV had already done a Poltergeist commercial, and that girl died at age 12. Besides, I don’t particularly care about the sensitive things that most people get worked up about. Every good thing gets crapped on, you know?

But then I actually saw the commercial, and I have to hand it to Spade and DirecTV: it really is tacky and tasteless. I understand that Spade’s made a career out of being sarcastic (for which I raise my glass to him), but… I wouldn’t sarcastically dismiss the work of my dead friends. I’m just kind of not a dick like that. But hey, whatever pays the Playboy models you’re nailing, right?