 It’s Friday. Wait, that never stops me from posting this sort of stuff any other day…
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 Chris Rock appeared on Comedy Central’s “Night of Too Many Stars,” a benefit to research and fight autism. Since he has a comedy special coming up on HBO (this Saturday, to be exact), he’s not contractually allowed to do his own standup. So he does the standup of one of his (and my) favorite comedians, Steven Wright. Their styles are completely opposite, but Rock makes it work…
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You be the judge! Here’s a scene from the 1993 flick “Alive.”
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I can’t tell if this is real or not, but it sure is amusing, especially at the :57 mark as stated by one of the comments. It’s apparently a set of outtakes for a company called Blue Rectangle dot com. Good times.
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 I’m not a particularly big proponent of posting videos on a blog (unless it’s a trailer, of course), but this is simply too funny to pass up. While perusing my usual selection of movie and TV blogs this afternoon, I came across this hilarious 42-second video over on SlashFilm. In a nutshell, it’s essentially what the opening credits of “Lost” would look like if it were treated like any other television show.
Which got me thinking, if there are people out there willing to create fake opening credit videos using original theme music, then surely there are some diehard fans that have done the same with songs from their favorite shows. As it turns out, I was right, and while there are quite a bit to mine through, these two using theme songs from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Friends” are probably the best of the bunch. Enjoy! Filed under: TV and Humor and Lost and External TV Comments: 1 Comment Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
 I was having a chat with Film School Reject and Fat Guys at the Movies co-host Kevin Carr last Friday about the Academy Awards. I naively thought that, because of the writers’ strike, this year’s show should be pretty brisk because they won’t have time to prepare any elaborate bits. But Kevin set me straight: he said, because the producers are doing the majority of heavy lifting, the show will be filled with self-congratulatory, back-slapping puff pieces. Smart guy, that Kevin Carr. I had an All-Star lineup of writers at my house last night, including Carr, fellow BE critic Jason Zingale, Film School Rejects editor in chief Neil Miller, Nights and Weekends EIC Kristin Dreyer Kramer, and From the Balcony EIC Bill Clark. About 20 minutes into the broadcast, all of us were singing Trey Parker’s “We Need a Montage” song. Holy cow, are the members of the academy proud of themselves. Here are some wacky moments from Oscars past. Here are a bunch of Best Actress winners. Here are a bunch of Best Actor winners. Here are ALL of the Best Picture winners. Thank goodness, then, for Jon Stewart’s tribute to periscopes and binoculars. As for the awards themselves, there were some pleasant surprises and some pleasant non-surprises. I was thrilled to see Brad Bird get an Oscar for “Ratatouille,” likewise Javier Bardem getting the Supporting Actor award for “No Country for Old Men.” Marion Cotillard snagging Best Actress was a nice shocker too, as was “Falling Slowly” beating three songs from “Enchanted” for Best Song. Mega-bonus points to Stewart for bringing Marketa Irglova back out on stage to say her thank-yous after the orchestra drowned her out. Something must be done, though, about the academy’s tendency to vote for someone in a category just because they liked the movie and want to make sure it gets some kind of recognition, even if the person in question doesn’t exactly deserve it. Tilda Swinton, I’m looking at you. My jaw hit the floor when Entertainment Weekly listed her as the favorite to win. Did they see the movie? She wasn’t all that memorable. Not that she was awful or anything, but between her, Clooney and Tom Wilkinson, she was easily the weakest link in “Michael Clayton,” and she sure as hell was no Cate Blanchett in “I’m Not There.” This isn’t grade school, people; if someone doesn’t deserve an award, you don’t give them one just because you don’t want the movie to get shut out. Really, Swinton winning is a joke. It’s like Votefortheworst.com took over Price Waterhouse for a day. I would rather have seen Ruby Dee win than Swinton, and Dee had no business even being nominated. How many lines did she even have in “American Gangster,” six? By the way, the group and I casted three biopics last night. Casey Affleck should play David Byrne, Amy Adams is the perfect person to play Kirsty MacColl, and Tilda Swinton as…David Bowie. Admit it, you were thinking it too when you saw her fiery red hair. The producers of the Academy Awards know that their show has a reputation for being unnecessarily long. The strike gave them the perfect opportunity to correct that. They didn’t take it. They made montages. Lots and lots of montages. And in their “honor,” I present them with “The Montage Song.” Boneheads. Filed under: Movies and Actors and Actresses and Humor and Movie Comedies and Movie Dramas and Action Movies Comments: None Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
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I think I would have preferred that the DHL carrier just punched me in the face rather than deliver this to me.
“Witless Protection,” in theaters February 22. It is your civic duty to make sure this movie makes as little money as possible. Filed under: Movies and Actors and Humor and Movie Comedies and Horror Movies and Scare of the Day Comments: 1 Comment Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
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If it was, it wouldn’t be so damned funny. Of course, if you’ve actually got kids, it’s also pretty disconcerting to realize that, one of these days, it could be your teenager who’s surfing over to the MTSS site and getting educated on things ranging from masturbation (it’s equal opportunity, offering segments for both males and females) to “backdoor business“…and just for the record, those are their quotation marks, not mine. On the up side, though, at least they remind kids that it’s okay to talk to their parents about these things. Shit. I better study up. |
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Probably not, given that there’s only one film from prior to the ’80s (and the line they’ve cited is, while a little cheesy, still one of the most immortal in cinematic history), but if you’re curious to see EW’s personal favorites, you can find there right here. I don’t agree with all of them - I actually quite like some of the lines they’ve called out as being awful - but I sure as hell agree wholeheartedly with at least this one: “You know what happens when a toad gets struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.'’ Recognize it…? Filed under: Movies and Humor and Movie Comedies and Movie Dramas and Horror Movies and Action Movies and External Entertainment and External Movies Comments: None Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
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In what will most likely be one in a string of many like-minded videos, The Action Room has created a parody of the latest Tom Cruise psychobabble video. But to me, power from Twinkies makes a hell of a lot more sense. For T.T.K.!
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I’m in the middle of watching the PBS miniseries, “Pioneers of Television,” and in the middle of the episode which focuses on the variety show, I was thrilled to see an appearance from what has always been my favorite moment from “The Carol Burnett Show.” It always shows up on blooper specials, but you know how that series was: if they’d yanked every moment from the show where they were cracking up, you wouldn’t have had a show. Anyway, sit back and enjoy as Tim Conway goes out of his way to completely destroy the composure of his co-stars…
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Bill Simmons (a.k.a. “The Sports Guy”) writes for ESPN, but occasionally his column delves into the entertainment world. Here’s his theory about Axel Foley (of the “Beverly Hills Cop” trilogy), and whether or not he was gay.
Of course, he forgot the biggest clue of all - banana in the tailpipe. Filed under: Movies and Humor and Movie Comedies and External Entertainment and External Movies Comments: 1 Comment Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
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…sitting around, killing time ’til you can do an interview with former Harlem Globetrotter Curly Neal? Sure, we all have! But if you’re like me, and you find yourself still waiting for Neal to call you over 30 minutes after the scheduled interview time because he’s running a little behind schedule (probably because he’s such a nice guy that he can’t bring himself to cut off any of the journalists who want to talk to him), you’ll eventually turn to YouTube to keep yourself occupied…and if you do end up doing that, may I recommend this clip from the 1974 Saturday morning variety show, “The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine”? Yes, I know: Rodney Allen Rippy and Avery Schrieber? For those of us who are fans of both Jack in the Box spokesmen and “My Mother The Car,” it truly is a dream come true. Filed under: TV and Actors and Humor and External Entertainment and External TV Comments: None Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
 Clearly, the Carol Channing ventriloquist doll - which my wife accidentally stumbled upon while doing some online Christmas shopping - exists on a whole other level of fright entirely. I’d love to have been in on the sales meetings which led to this particular item being green-lighted as a J.C. Penney’s exclusive. I like to think it took place in a board room filled with cigar smoke, and that someone referred to Ms. Channing as “an alright dame,” but for as much thought as I’ve put into this, I still can’t work out the logistics of how it got to the point where someone said, “So it’s decided, then: the world needs a ventriloquist’s doll that looks like Carol Channing, and J.C. Penney needs, nay, deserves the exclusive sales rights!” At first, I thought maybe it had something to do with the licensing issues which forced them to scrap the Liza Minnelli model, but then I got stuck wondering when the words “Carol Channing” and “ventriloquism” became synonymous. Ah, it’s probably best that neither of us dwell on it, so let’s just sit back, watch this video of the doll in action, and then drop back by tomorrow to leave a comment about what kind of nightmares resulted. |
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Life is good. Especially when Spider-Man and Batman team up to beat up some punk on a busy street corner. I especially like the way Spidey called the guy “motherfucker” at the top of his lungs while jumping up and down.
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Now, mind you, we can’t tell you where to find a copy of this elusive piece of LucasFilm lore, but if you happen to already have a copy, you’ll want to head over to Mike Nelson’s RiffTrax right now and be prepared to spend $3.99 to download the newly-recorded audio commentary for the special by Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett, a.k.a. The Film Crew. Filed under: TV and Actors and Actresses and News and Humor and TV Comedies and External Entertainment and External TV and TV Sci-Fi Comments: None Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
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Apparently, Conan O’Brien is, as you’ll see when you watch this “important message” from the man in NBC’s 12:30 AM slot. Sometimes I forget just how funny that guy is… Filed under: TV and Actors and Humor and External Entertainment and External TV Comments: None Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
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We at Premium Hollywood have been dating ourselves — insert your own “isn’t that against the law” joke here — with our love for bad ’70s commercials and the opening credits to zany TV shows that were only greenlit by mountains of coke, so we thought it was only fair to show some love for a TV commercial currently airing that looks like it was also the work of someone who has done mountains of coke. Sweet, hilarious, wonderful coke. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
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 Why settle for Will Ferrell when you can have a jolly good laugh with the real thing?
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