 …God bless Comedy Central, who’ve stepped up their online content to the point of offering clips from the better part of nine years worth of “The Daily Show” for viewing…and, for websites like this one, embedding. As an example, here’s Jon Stewart having a chat with Norm MacDonald from way back on March 22, 1999: Oh, wait, and here’s David Cross, too, from 2004: Basically, we could do this all day…but why should we waste our time when you can head over to ComedyCentral.com and waste your own? Filed under: TV and Actors and News and Humor and Interviews and TV Comedies and Stand-Up Comics and New Media and External TV Comments: None Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
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If you aren’t familiar with Seth Grahame-Smith, there’s no better time than Halloween to discover the work of the man responsible for DodgeTheKills.com. Not long ago, Grahame-Smith published his book, HOW TO SURVIVE A HORROR MOVIE: ALL THE SKILLS TO DODGE THE KILLS; now, he’s taken portions of the text and made instructional films. Here’s one of my favorite lessons: “Seven Things To Never, Ever, Ever Put In A Child’s Room.” Man, I hate cymbal monkeys. Anyway, go check out this flick and others over at DodgeTheKills.com and have several good laughs on me. Filed under: Movies and TV and TV Comedies and Movie Comedies and Horror Movies and New Media and External Entertainment and External Movies Comments: None Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
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Such is the case with the documentary about the competitive world of breeding and showing dachshunds, a film which could only be called… …”Weiner Take All.” Filed under: Movies and News and New Media and Documentaries and External Entertainment and External Movies Comments: None Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
 Not to put down the greatness of YouTube and all that is has brought us so far, but if you’re looking for another cool video site to check out, then by all means head over to Stage 6. You’ll have to sign up for a free account and download the site’s divx player, but once you do, you can check out all sorts of video there. Among the bunch, the infamous flick Salo in its entirety. Also rare live music clips that YouTube doesn’t seem to have and lots, lots more. Definitely worth a good look. Filed under: New Media and External Entertainment and External Movies and External TV Comments: None Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
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Those looking for entertainment during the lean months of summer TV might want to check out the HBO Voyeur Project:
You can see the project at HBO.com and HBO On Demand. Basically, it’s a collection of silent films (with pretty good music) that capture the intertwining stories of everyday life. In one area, you can watch eight Manhattan apartments all at once, or zoom in on one or two apartments to see the goings on. To catch all the action, you might want to watch the whole film more than once. (It only runs five minutes, so it’s not a big deal.) There are also a few other apartments around the city that all have fairly creepy storylines. The other apartments appear to be online only; I couldn’t find them in HBO On Demand. HBO has always been on the forefront of creative television, and this project is no different. It’s an interesting experiment, to say the least. Filed under: TV and TV Dramas and New Media and External Entertainment and External TV and TV Anime Comments: None Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
 OK, it took me a while to come around to it (and with some insistence from my ex), but “Psych” on the USA Network has fast become one of my fave shows on TV. Enough so that I went out and bought the first season DVD set and ordered a t-shirt on the official site. However, the coolest thing may just be the mash-ups you can create over there as well. Here’s the third one I’ve created, entitled “Psych-O-Nuts.” It took a couple tries to get a good narrative running through, but check it out and if you dig the show as well, make one of your own and share it, too. Groovy, baby. Filed under: TV and TV Comedies and TV Dramas and New Media and External Entertainment and External TV Comments: None Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
 Per the Sci-Fi Network’s panel at the TCA press tour… “Sci-Fi.com has ordered a 10-part webisode series based on the multi-award-winning “Farscape” the fan and critical darling that has been widely recognized as one of the greatest sci-fi series in television history. Executive-produced by Brian Henson and Robert Halmi, Jr., and produced by The Jim Henson Company, in association with RHI Entertainment, the series will revive and expand the beloved “Farscape” universe.” Filed under: TV and News and TV Dramas and New Media and External Entertainment and External TV and TCA Press Tour Comments: 29 Comments Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
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Seriously, what’s up with Comedy Central constantly going after the lowest common denominator…? The network is furthering their original broadband programming market by premiering two new series: “Baxter and McGuire” and “Good God.” I don’t think I really need to tell you anything about the former except that it’s an animated show and its title characters are a pair of testicles.
As far as the latter, it’s a live-action series that takes place in the offices of God; there’s a really funny premise there, but its failing comes from being such a slavish attempt at ripping “The Office.” (It also doesn’t help that the first episode is literally potty humor, revolving around the question of whether or not God took a stinky dump in the office bathroom.) There are, thankfully, others segments in the network’s web repetoire that are worth making note of. “I Love The ’30s” is a spot-on parody of the various decade-spotlighting series on VH-1; its creators also offer “All Access: The Middle Ages,” which is pretty funny as well. “Golden Age,” however, is full-on genius. It’s an animated mockumentary series about what happened to various animated commercial icons after their careers went downhill; the first episode involves a cereal spokesperson (think Sonny the Cuckoo Bird) who goes insane, kills three children in his rampage to get his favorite cereal, and is now living a quiet life in a sanitarium. “Guacamole” has its moments, with dialogue ostensibly coming from various food items, like a cabbage, a can of soup, and, yes, a container of guacamole. The only thing worth recommending about the surreal “Tiny Hands,” however, is that David Cross appears in its first episode. Check out ComedyCentral.com for a list of all the web shows at your disposal, but, trust me, start with “Golden Age.” Filed under: TV and Humor and Reviews and TV Comedies and New Media and External Entertainment and External TV Comments: None Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
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Watch out for Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the guys who created Kazaa and Skype. They’re now working on P2P TV, aka Joost. Based on their track record, it wouldn’t be wise to bet against them.
The system will be capable of delivering HD content, but that requires the user to have a 2MB internet connection, so it might be a while before that part of the program is ready to go. It’s an interesting project, but it will probably be a while before big media content is transferred over the internet at this quality. Nothing scares off the networks more than the possibility of piracy. |
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…is “Can’t Sleep with Dave Foley.” While it’s not the best talk show currently on the air - that honor might go to “The Craig Ferguson Show,” which has upped its ante by adding Tim Meadows as a recurring guest correspondent - it is, to be sure, the best online talk show. (Sorry, Tom Green.) How can you go wrong with a concept that involves Foley (”Kids in the Hall,” “NewsRadio”), who’s suffering from insomnia, offering a monologue in bed as he lies beside his sleeping wife, talking to a “guest” that he finds online via iChat, and enjoying a number from whatever musical guest happens to be conveniently positioned outside his house. Right now, I’m watching the third episode, where Dave has a virtual conversation with his former”NewsRadio” co-star, Maura Tierney (who looks just as hot in the middle of the night as you’d always hoped she would), then steps outside for a song from Jon Brion…and after that description, you know you want to watch it, too: P.S. The other two episodes are available for your viewing pleasure at SuperDeluxe.com. Filed under: TV and Humor and Interviews and TV Comedies and New Media and External Entertainment and External TV Comments: 3 Comments Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
 While watching the Oscars last night wasn’t quite as entertaining as many of us would have hoped (why the heck was Ellen DeGeneres so tame?), several new commercials aired that really had me laughing. The best of the pack was the latest in American Express’ long line of look-what-celebrity-uses-our-credit-card commercials featuring director Wes Anderson in a single-shot ad that’s both hilarious and impressive. Take a look. Filed under: Humor and New Media and External Entertainment Comments: 2 Comments Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
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So says Jack Black in the latest public announcement about music and movie piracy. Actually, if the MPAA and RIAA took this approach in persuading others not to steal, people might actually to be half-tempted to listen. If nothing else, at least they’d know that: “No cash = no inspiration. No inspiration = no rocket sauce. No rocket sauce = no kick ass rock n’ roll music or movies.” Filed under: Movies and Actors and Humor and Movie Comedies and New Media Comments: None Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
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Imagine if they had played Space Invaders. That’s it. Nothing more needs to be said. |
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Fans of popular FOX dramas like “24″ and “Prison Break” can now rest easy after missing the latest episode of their favorite show: the network giant has just announced the arrival of their library on Apple iTunes. Along with favorites like the aforementioned series and “The Shield,” the library will also include access to episodes of “Black.White,” “30 Days,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and “Firefly,” as well as nine more shows from 20th Century Fox. Filed under: TV and News and New Media and Prison Break and 24 Comments: None Digg this! Add to Del.icio.us |
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When folks Rhino Handmade and Hip-O Select started making limited-edition releases of albums with cult followings, it was only inevitable that someone would pick up the torch for the DVD market…and, now, someone has. DVD on Demand is going to be releasing titles through Customflix from NBC Universal, A & E, and PBS on a made-when-ordered basis. Some of the titles mentioned at the moment are a collection of “Where In The World Is Matt Lauer?” segments from the annual feature on NBC’s “Today,” as well as a “Westerminster Kennel Club Show” disc, but A &E has no end of “Biography” episodes up for grabs, and PBS has “Antiques Roadshow,” “Nova,” and others. My God. Does this mean I might finally be able to get “Quark” on DVD…? UPDATE: I traded E-mail with the very pleasant Katrina Florence, the publicist at NBC who’s handling media queries about DVD on Demand. I asked of the possibility of seeing short-lived or cult programs released via this new program, and she responded, “I can’t give you a really definitive answer regarding those TV shows…what I can tell you is that at this time we’re geared more toward releasing the unique specialty titles like the ones listed in our press release, as opposed to our TV catalog. But DVD-on-Demand certainly opens up options previously unavailable in terms of bringing titles to the market.” So it’s not a “yes,” but it’s not a “no,” either. I like those odds… |
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Mere hours after commending TiVo for a job well done, I’ve experienced television recording hell; that moment in your life when you realize that you’ve just missed the only showing of your favorite television series due to a technical glitch. In my case, I missed two of my favorite shows: “Prison Break” and “24,” a little slice of heaven also known as Monday Nights on FOX. I still don’t understand why FOX doesn’t rerun these episodes sometime later in the week (and I’m pretty sure they used to years prior), but that’s hardly the issue at hand. What is disappointing, however, are the countless years that I’ve stuck with, and stuck up for, TiVo despite cheaper options (through cable companies) and numerous glitches such as the one that occurred tonight. Well, I say no more! No longer will I pay 12.95/month for glorified TV recording! No longer will I listen to the wonderful “beep-beep” noise that can only be heard from fast-forwarding through unwanted commercials! No longer will I belong to a DVR cult made up elitist television fanatics whose sole purpose is to get the most out of their viewing experience! Who else has given up TiVo for a cheaper option? Feel free to post your horror stories below… |
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I’m sure it will come as no surprise that even the fine people at TiVo can’t claim 100% satisfaction from their product, and while we’ve all had our share of problems with the little love box, the following story certainly takes the cake: A San Franciso man reportedly recieved over $2000 in phone bills for a line at his vacation home in Michigan. Having been previously connected to TiVo before the subscription was cancelled, the man was shocked to hear from his phone company that it was his disconnected TiVo service dialing the long distance numbers. Oh, and they weren’t just normal long distance calls, either, but 1-900 sex lines to Singapore. I find this difficult to believe, since all it takes is a quick yank of the phone cord out of the wall to disconnect your subscription, but TiVo has still agreed to pay the man’s insanely expensive phone bills in full. Now that’s customer service! |
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Hey? Where’s the best place to buy DVDs? Well, for those of you who like your coffee made to order, Starbucks wills soon be a DVD retailer. Yes, after offering exclusive music CDs and starting up their own label, the coffee chain is going to start cranking out the video as well. Can you dig it? Can we all assume that the DVDs will be as expensive as their coffee? Oh, who am I kidding? Gimme a Doubleshot and a frozen vanilla creme beverage now! |
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I caught 20 minutes of Howard’s first broadcast on Sirius and it was friggin’ hilarious (click here for a complete overview of the first show). George Takei (of Star Trek fame) was on board as the show’s new announcer, so Howard and the gang had lots of fun with the whole gay theme. I almost drove my car off the road when they started playing the Pat O’Brien tape. Of course it was uncensored, which took the bit to a whole new level. Then they started playing song parodies (like Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy”) with O’Brien’s ridiculous statements in the background. Priceless. One blog counted 77 f-bombs from Howard. Howard claims he doesn’t want to rely too heavily on profanity, pointing out that it gets boring if used too often. My first impression is that he’s striking a good balance, and the O’Brien tape is a great example of content that works much better in an uncensored setting. I’m glad he’s back. |
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I didn’t know it till just over this past weekend, so I’m thinking you might not know it as well, but Google now has a beta version of Google Video now online. Scour the internet to watch all sorts of clips ranging from homemade music videos, TV clips, full-length features, and so much more. You could literally spend hours getting sucked into all the content. And of course, you can search for what you like (hint: a search for “ipecac” will take you to a particularly funny one for those into the more juvenile types of entertainment). The twisted beauty of the Internet is revealed once again by those mad geniuses over at Google. Man, I’m glad I work from home. |
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