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Zach Galifianakis Got A Mr. T Haircut
The last time Zach Galifianakis hosted “Saturday Night Live,” he shaved his beard for the show’s final sketch. This time around, he got a Mr. T haircut during the final commercial break (watch backstage video below). I pity the fool who sat through both of Jessie J’s performances.
As for the rest of the episode, this is going to shock you: there were some...
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March 14, 2011
Discuss
Look. At. This. Dog.
Morning links, everybody. Click on ‘em so’s us bloggers can eat.
Know your mascots: Appalachian League. Part 2 in With Leather’s series from Brandon Stroud. All you really need to know is “Appalachia” plus “mascots.” [With Leather]
Five Laws That Run the Internet. The supremacy of boobs and cats gets its due. [Uproxx]
Sports fans should stick to drinking beer. Fifty...
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March 14, 2011
Weekend Preview: Awful Music
Saturday Night Live (NBC) — Zach Galifianakis hosts with musical guest Jessie J. Above is Jessie J’s video for “Do It Like a Dude,” an excruciating aural gang rape of autotune, stupid lyrics, and something that is neither singing nor rapping. It has been viewed over 22 million times on YouTube, presumably in interrogation rooms. Inspired by how awful that song is, I thought...
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March 11, 2011
Even Kristen Wiig’s Mother Hates Gilly
Kristen Wiig is one of my favorite actors on “Saturday Night Live,” but man oh man do I LOATHE her character Gilly. I feel like “SNL” should give advance notice when it’s going to air a Gilly sketch so that I can put up chicken wire in front of my TV. In an interview with MovieLine, Wiig acknowledged her divisive character:
Do you feel that Gilly is polarizing? I feel it’s...
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March 11, 2011
Help me Find the $5 Corgi
Earlier this week, reader J-Beks sent me a picture of a five-dollar bill stamped with a corgi face and the inscription “QUIZZICAL CORGI • HI FROM HOUSTON, TX” (full-size image here). He wrote:
I found this here in Houston, a friend gave it to me when she paid me back for something or other. I must find out who is doing this/what this is.
Well J-Beks, I agree: I want to know...
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March 11, 2011
Daniel Tosh Versus Reddit
As evidenced by Ken Jennings’s witty repartee with Internet geeks, Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” forums have become increasingly newsworthy in recent weeks. Yesterday, a staffer for “Tosh.0″ published the banner image here as an AMA. It was a funny twist: Daniel Tosh, obviously knowing that white signboards are an invitation for Photoshop mockery...
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March 11, 2011
This Guy Really Likes ‘Idol’
A man visiting Florida held two co-workers at knifepoint when they wouldn’t change the channel to “American Idol.” He has been charged with “aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill,” which has to be one of the more specific crimes you can be charged with.
Barran Prakash, 47, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was talking to his wife on the phone while he was preparing...
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March 11, 2011
Hunch Hunch! What What!
I’d like to apologize: there are real TV news stories for me to cover, but right now I’m obsessed with the annoying but addictive “pirate virus” song from last week’s episode of “Archer” (S2E6, “Tragical History”). This tune has been stuck in my head for eight days now, and I’m hoping that I can shake it by overexposing myself to it and sharing it with other people...
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March 11, 2011
Mmmm… Tastes Like Winning
I know, I know: we’ve all enjoyed the last few days of peace and prosperity under my refusal to write about Charlie Sheen. But I wouldn’t break that boycott without good reason: this Funny or Die video of Sheen’s “Winning Recipes” cooking show is genuinely entertaining. It’s Sheen’s first acting gig since Briefcase of Cocainegate triggered...
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March 11, 2011
Meanwhile, in Japan…
Before I delve into today’s TV news, I want to acknowledge the tsunami in the room: a massive earthquake rocked Japan late last night, devastating the coastal city of Sendai and triggering a tsunami that swept away cars, boats, houses, and other large objects that generally shouldn’t be swept away. News reports stated that the quake measured an 8.9 on the Richter scale, but Internet...
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March 11, 2011
This Baby Knows What I’m Talkin’ About
...right?
Archer (FX) — I don’t get a whole lot of pleasure from doing this nightly write-up of TV listings, but the handful of Thursdays a year that “Archer” airs a new episode makes it all worthwhile. Rachel Harris guest stars on tonight’s episode. WHAT WHAT!
Man vs. Wild (Discovery) — Bear Grylls goes to Borneo, where he faces snakes, leeches, and torrential downpours...
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March 10, 2011
Oh No She Di-in’t! Da Mad Real Houzwives of Hip Hop, Yo
YES. The hate that I have for all of Bravo’s “Real Housewives” is now matched by my love for VH1′s “Love and Hip Hop,” which premieres next Monday. Jezebel says:
None of the women are actually married to rappers but are in various stages of unofficial commitment and divorce. Some of the women featured on the show are Emily Bustamante, Fabolous’ stylist/baby mama, Mashonda...
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March 10, 2011
‘Game of Thrones’ Has a Poster
Ah, entertainment journalism: where a poster is news. Here’s a fun game: type “game of thrones poster” into Google and try to find all the blogs and media outlets that are writing about this. I haven’t done this myself, but I’ve been around the block enough to know that fanboys will say, “OMG LOOK AT HOW AWESOME THE THRONE OF SWORDS IS” while more mainstream media will...
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March 10, 2011
Zoobilee Zoo: Hypnotically Bad
Until today, I had no knowledge of the 1980s childrens program “Zoobilee Zoo” that lived on in syndication throughout the ’90s. But this video of clips compiled by Rich at fourfour is enough to make me never want to have kids. Or if I do have kids, I’d rather raise them outside in Bangladesh than anywhere near a TV that might play something like this.
I beg you: watch this...
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March 10, 2011
Okay, This Is Cool
One of my biggest challenges as a blogger — aside from keeping dog fur out of my lunch whiskey — is the need to constantly preach against nostalgia for ’90s pop culture. People need to understand that just because something happened when they were young, doesn’t mean that it was actually good. (See: high-waisted jeans, fluorescent colors, “Saved by the...
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March 10, 2011
Drug Bust Snags Snoop from ‘The Wire’
Felicia Pearson, the actress who played drug assassin Snoop on HBO’s “The Wire,” was one of 30-plus people arrested in and around Baltimore this morning, the result of five-month investigation into a large-scale heroin and marijuana operation. Man, you think she would’ve learned something from watching Seasons 1 and 3.
Of course, Pearson isn’t some Oxford-trained actress...
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March 10, 2011
Anthony Bourdain 1, Guy Fieri 0
It’s not some great revelation that Anthony Bourdain is a better human being than Guy Fieri in every way. Bourdain spent three decades working in kitchens before writing an excellent bestselling book that paved the way for his TV show, a travelogue in which he exudes wit and a passion for other cultures. Fieri, on the other hand, achieved fame by winning a Food Network reality...
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March 10, 2011
TASER IN THE BALLS!
Know your ABCs: Always Be Cool
It’s been a long time since a show has kicked enough ass to require a write-up of Just the Badass Parts, but holy hell did last night’s episode of “Justified” (S2E5, “Cottonmouth”) qualify — and then some. As always with JBA, I don’t get hung up on character names or plot points: I’m here strictly to celebrate the devastating ownage...
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March 10, 2011
What’s on 2nite: Another ‘Real World’
The Real World Las Vegas (MTV) — Season premiere. The show returns to Vegas for the first time since 2002, which is more or less when MTV stopped casting people with talent and ambition, and instead just gave a bunch of alcohol to attractive, volatile people. (Side note: Complex made a list of the 25 hottest women from “The Real World,” but you shouldn’t trust it because...
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March 09, 2011
Follow-Up to ‘Planet Earth’ and ‘Life’!
On the set of Cronenberg's "African Promises"
If you’ve never seen the BBC/Discovery specials “Planet Earth” or “Life” (the British versions with David Attenborough narrating, not the crappy Oprah one), then you’re missing the apex of smoking weed and watching HD television. However, there’s good news if you’re late to the party: a third installation called “Human...
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March 09, 2011
Doctor Who Coming to Utah
I have a hard time pretending to care about “Doctor Who,” but I would never denigrate the show because Anglophile sci-fi geeks are some of the most annoying humans on the planet. (“Um, you can’t write ‘Dr. Who’ because he’s just The Doctor, therefore making it his name, not a title.” DIE.) So the tweed-wearing geeks will be happy to hear that the new season has an...
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March 09, 2011
‘SNL’ Promos Actually Funny For Once
Zach Galifianakis will host this weekend’s episode of “Saturday Night Live,” and in a stirring departure from established protocol, NBC’s promos for the show are actually kind of funny (video below). Of course, that depends on whether you like Zach’s ability to twist an awkward situation for laughs, but it worked for me, and let’s face it: that’s what really matters...
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March 09, 2011
Fun Fact: The New Arby’s Guy Was My College Roommate
By now you’ve likely seen the new Arby’s ad campaign featuring an affable white guy leading a sing-along about “Good Mood Food.” Frankly, I have no idea whether the commercial is a success or not — YouTube comments like “WORST MARKETING CAMPAIGN EVER!” don’t help — but I love it. My reasoning is simple: the ad stars one of my closest friends over the last 14...
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March 09, 2011
Ten Seriously Disturbing Pieces of TV Fan Fiction
"...and then he bought me some shoes and called me pretty and told me my shoes looked great and bought me more shoes and we lived happily ever shoes."
For this week’s list, we sent Josh Kurp into the darkest realms of the Internet: fan fiction forums. But since the grotesque sexual perversions of geeks are well documented elsewhere, we gave him two restraints: 1. No slash fiction...
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March 09, 2011
Ha Ha, Suck It Fieri!
Great news, everybody! Guy Fieri’s $200,000 Lamborhini was stolen! Oh man, I hope he didn’t have insurance.
Fieri, who lives in Santa Rosa, could not be reached for comment. And managers of the Bentley, Lamborghini, Lotus dealership on Van Ness Avenue where the chef’s prized ride was until Tuesday, were pointedly not saying much…
This much was clear, though. Sometime in the...
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March 09, 2011
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