Comedian Todd Barry wants you to have an extra special New Year’s Eve. If you film yourself chanting his name while counting down to the new year, you may earn $500 for a charity of your choice. Sounds like a good deal to me.
Category: Humor (Page 29 of 74)
Between “Shaun of the Dead,” “Zombieland,” and who knows how many humorous books and live comedy bits, the zombie-movie inspired vein of humor seems oddly unlimited — as we see in this short film in which pals Rich Sommer (“Mad Men“) and comedian Paul F. Tompkins take a fresh approach to the brain-eating zombie paradigm.
H/t Huffpo
And, just for the heck of it, here’s a blast from the zombie comedy past I also enjoy.
It really is embarrassingly slow in the movie blogosphere this week. I mean, I could link up to some stuff being generated out in the movie news blogosphere, but it’s just pretty much marking time, especially now that the deadline for movies to be eligible for 2009 Oscar consideration is almost here. Cinephile bloggers are generally just posting holiday greetings. It’s time to watch movies more and write about them less.
In fact, according to Box Office Mojo, there is only one Wednesday release slipping in under the 2009 wire for Oscar consideration tomorrow — and it’s Michael Haneke’s “The White Ribbon.” Since the acclaimed dark drama from noted feel-bad director Haneke is Germany’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar anyhow, I’m not sure it even matters. (Some foreign film nominees are often not released in the U.S. until well after the Oscars.)
Also, it appears that the studios aren’t even bothering to release anything new on Friday/New Year’s Day. A good weekend for catching up, which I certainly hope to be doing.
So, let’s make jokes poking fun at James Cameron and self-promoting DVD extras. Via Devin at CHUD.
You can see Mel Brooks collecting his Kennedy Center Honor from the president on television Tuesday night, but only right here on the Internet can you see the first ever film by one of the funniest men in movie history.
In this 1963 Oscar winning animated short subject, a cantankerous old Jewish man (voiced by Brooks, of course) watches an abstract/experimental short in the style of Canada’s Norman McLaren. It’s called, “The Critic.”
Brooks wrote this, of course, but the actual director and producer who handled the animation was Ernest Pintoff. Nevertheless, I think we can agree that it’s really Mel’s movie.
Just for fun, just a few years later, Mel shows off his mimicry skills to chat-show host Dick Cavett and then-celebrity critic Rex Reed. This clip gets gradually funnier as it goes, and the Frank Sinatra bit is kind of a gas.
Because you expect it. Sorry about the gratuitous ad at the end.
One thing’s for sure, Jean Shepherd could write. Oh, and Merry Christmas/Happy Chinese-food-and-movie-day to one and all!
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