Nerve and IFC present the 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time. While I could quibble over their picks (as some of you will) at the very least it’s a lovely hour or so distraction. H/T, Beckylooo! (nerve)
A law that makes leering at minors illegal? You know damn well Chris Hanson and his pervert team are gonna take full advantage of this. (QuizLaw)
Shut. The. Fuck. Up. Universal Studios unveils their new Krustyland ride. Oh, who am I kidding? Like I’ll ever go to Universal Studios. (Comedy Central Insider)
Dr. Phil crossed a line this time. I mean, even for Satan, this is pretty bad. (Yeeeah!)
Liveblogging of the “Rock of Love” finale is probably infinitely more entertaining than the show itself. Yeah, even for me, shit’s getting old. (Jezebel)
And speaking of shitty celebreality shows: best idea for a show or worst idea for a show? (IDLYITW)
I like my “Funyuns” like Buddy Cole likes his men: Flaaaming! (The Impulsive Buy)
KSK Mock Draft: Fucking Terrible Songs edition. Ahhh, c’mon though. Can we leave REM out of it? (KSK)
Apologies in advance for all my Kids in the Hall related stuff lately, (What can I say? I’m swept up in the fever!) but here’s a clip of the Kids brainstorming some new ideas for their tour, after the jump.
Nothing about the impending final straw to break Jessica Simpson? Nothing?
You totally know that it is coming. Run Romo RUN!!
We need an afternoon diversion about worst songs ever or the worst songs by a good artist.
Posted by: Melody at April 14, 2008 3:33 PM
Gillian Anderson is so pretty.
This message is brought to you by the Council for Completely Unoriginal Thoughts and 2 bottles of spanish red wine.
Posted by: Julie at April 14, 2008 3:43 PM
Not only do I live in Orlando, but I work at the Universal Studios here. We have the Simpsons ride too. All they did was convert the old Back to the Future ride. I was one the people to test it. Meh. Not so great.
Posted by: Trouble at April 14, 2008 4:02 PM
Aw, man. Aside from Fergie and Meredith Brooks, I like all of those songs. I mean, really, of all the songs to choose, those are the ones they go with? Have they looked at the Top 40 lately?
Posted by: Lannie at April 14, 2008 4:09 PM
I am so happy that I never liked Dr. Phil to begin with. He just screams of Media Whore.
Hey, Agent Scully looks pretty good. And I hope she never ditches the red hair.
Stacy, since you're such a Kids in the Hall fan, did you know that Kevin used to be this really fat guy before he did the show? It's weird, cuz he's like a friggin' bamboo stick now.
I have to agree w/ Kokomo on that song list. But only b/c they played that fucking song on every other episode of Full House, and I hate that show more than the song.
But Another Brick in the Wall? No way. That guitar solo is sick.
Posted by: Brie at April 14, 2008 4:19 PM
Come on, don't tell me these producer types have already forgotten Britney Spears' reality show with KFed. You know, Chaotic? The show she shot herself on a digital camcorder? So bad that even UPN smashed the final two episodes of a six episode series to get it off the air faster? No? No one remembers it?
At first I thought you wrote, "Krystyland", and having attempted "Southland Tales" last night I was a little perplexed and intrigued.
Because could you just imagine? Could ya?
Posted by: Stace at April 14, 2008 4:35 PM
Well, as someone who had grown men not only leering at her but actively coming on to her at 13, I'd LOVE to see their asses sent to prison to experience what I felt as someone the size and shape of "Little Chino" from Dexter does the same to them. I still had goddamned braces, people, it wasn't a mystery that I was a long way from legal.
Julie, Gillian Anderson is really pretty, isn't she? I still want to be Agent Scully when I grow up.
I must admit Agent Scully is mighty fine. If I close my eyes I can see my thick black schlong laying against her milky white skin.
Posted by: Pookie at April 14, 2008 4:37 PM
Hahhhhh, I totally forgot to gloat about my KITH tickets for their San Francisco appearance in May. So . . . [/gloats].
As much total geekboy love as I harbor for Scully, doing a photo shoot with Maxim is the stuff of desperation. That's just kind of sad and pathetic.
Posted by: socalledonlycousins at April 14, 2008 4:40 PM
I must admit Agent Scully is mighty fine. If I close my eyes I can see my thick black schlong laying against her milky white skin.
. . . over at j u n g l e f v r . c o m.
Posted by: your friendly neighborhood spambot at April 14, 2008 4:42 PM
Fucking Nerve and the fucking Quicktime associations crashed the fucking browser.
Fucking.
Melody, Michael K certainly thinks so and I'm inclined to agree. She's gonna CRACK.
Stacey, honey, it's all Fugees and Funyons. What else matters?
Regarding Ms. Anderson, since WIMB is blocked here (probably not unintentionally, I'd guess the title just tripped the filter but I can't say "hey, unblock this site that I....have no need for to do my job") so I'll give qualified approval. With any prurience-based modeling, from Maxim all the way up to nothing-but-shoes, there's the potential for things to go very wrong. So what if she's barely dressed, what she's wearing is fug! "Who cares?? I can see titties!" "I care! Look, take it all off or put on something better. Please."
But yeah, what Julie said. And Brie, you know, I'd never thought of it, but yeah, she is pretty unique for not fucking abandoning her hair color. Who else is there but Julianne Moore? How sad. That Spy Kids girl did, right? Terrible.
Now, Gillian AND two bottles of red wine? Oh dear, I better not even think about it. What a pleasant time that'd be. Hey, did anyone else see "Playing By Heart"? Besides Gillian and Jon I thought it was pretty neat that Gena Rowlands was Sean Connery's wife. How daringly age-appropriate and....cozy, even.
These KSK people are equating "Kokomo" with "Bennie and the Jets" and "Piano Man"? And they all hate R.E.M.? Take off, hosers. You don't know bad.
Ha, yeah Brie, I have heard that. Before I found out he used to be fat, I never understood the sketch where everyone Kevin encounters calls him a fat man. That poor guy really wore it on his sleeve for the sake of comedy.
Also, now I'm wondering if someone over at KSK knew me as a child because I wore out not one, but two tapes (remember those?) of "Walking on Sunshine". My tiny little girl self just could not get enough of that song.
Are Pookie and the spambot going to form some kind of unholy alliance? I'm afraid.
Hey, did anyone else see "Playing By Heart"? Besides Gillian and Jon I thought it was pretty neat that Gena Rowlands was Sean Connery's wife.
Hell to the yeah! Nubile Angelina + oh-so-nobly-suffering Ryan Phillipe (and who played his mother? Was that Dianne Weist at the hospital?). Just a loaded cast, for . . . not much payoff. I still can tolerate a few scenes when it pops up on Ted Boynton's Insomnia Theater though.
Posted by: socalledonlycousins at April 14, 2008 4:47 PM
Re: The Funniest Comedy Sketches thing: I am about to beg for some help here.
The Sid Caesar/Nanette Fabray thing (which is just genius) reminded me of an old SNL skit. It was Steve Martin and Gilda Radner, dancing, no dialogue. It was one of the funniest and sweetest fucking things I have ever seen in my life.
I tried to search YouTube, with "Steve Martin dance," "Gilda Radner dance," "Steve Martin Gilda Radner," etc. and so on. I cannot find it.
Do any of you know what I'm talking about, and how to find it??
I am. BEGGING. You guys to help me!
Thanks!
Posted by: Jerce at April 14, 2008 4:53 PM
Jay, how long do you give her before the nice people in the white coats come to haul her to a "special" place?
I am thinking 3 weeks before J. Simp goes all Britney on a reporter.
Posted by: Melody at April 14, 2008 4:55 PM
Jay, my roommate has been telling me to watch that movie for years.
Posted by: Julie at April 14, 2008 4:57 PM
Jay, you are right; there are worse songs out there. I would have to say the worst is Pricilla's "I've Never Been To Me." It's weird, and it's crap. One of the lyrics is "I took the hand of a preacher man and we made love in the sun." When I hear it, I just crack up. It's intuitive.
I'm thinking it's either a Thorn Birds reference or this woman is a serious freak.
Posted by: Brie at April 14, 2008 5:02 PM
"...Nubile Angelina + oh-so-nobly-suffering Ryan Phillipe..."
I feel so backwards...why, oh why, have I never heard of this movie before? Remedying this even as we speak...
We were speaking, right? 'ello?
Those posers over at KSK are so cute...trying to "hate" culturally popular songs while trying to be snarky about it. Pretty sure they grew up listening to most of those. Leave hating popular culture to the professionals, kids.
Posted by: Shadows of Dakaron at April 14, 2008 5:02 PM
I like most of those songs...damnit...
Posted by: Shadows of Dakaron at April 14, 2008 5:05 PM
I love the KSK boys, but I like a lot of those songs too :)
They should stick to listing fake football player names. That post had me and thejodester howling with laughter at work.
Posted by: Julie at April 14, 2008 5:09 PM
Re Playing By Heart, I'm aghast to realize that the film also features one of Patricia Clarkson's under-the-radar, stealth performances -- how could I forget? And, of course, it's Jay Mohr in the hospital with Ellen Burstyn as his mother.
This movie is probably the champion of one of my favorite movie games, "Count the D-List-and-Above Stars/Celebrities in the Ensemble Piece." At the end of the film, but before the credits roll, you guess how many should-be-recognizable actors were in the film, then count them up in the credits. (Intentionally cameo-laden films like Prêt-à-Porter/Ready to Wear excluded) I love this game because I only ever play it with Mrs. socalled, who could give a shit about remembering, "Hey, that's Hillbilly #3 from Deliverance!"
Playing By Heart checks in with a whopping 16 legitimate D-List-or-better cast members, including people who became famous later (those count!), such as Jeremy Sisto and Ben from "Lost."
Posted by: socalledonlycousins at April 14, 2008 5:33 PM
Shadows, "Playing By Heart" came and went pretty quickly. 98, maybe? I happened to go see it that week it was there. I thought it was pleasant enough, and again, Gillian and the still underappreciated Mr. Stewart were nice to see both in a movie and together.
I meant WIMB is unintentionally/not intentionally blocked.
But "I've Never Been To Me" is too fucking CRAAAZY to be "bad".
Plus Kevin showed us his hairy back. All those guys are wonderfully without shame. In my personal 50 the Island Brothers sketch would probably be included. "Do you see a fence?"
My late night starts now. Hope everybody else has fun too.
Playing By Heart checks in with a whopping 16 legitimate D-List-or-better cast members, including people who became famous later (those count!), such as Jeremy Sisto and Ben from "Lost."
Notably, this is also the only award the film was even nominated for.
Posted by: socalledonlycousins at April 14, 2008 5:41 PM
Count the D-List-and-Above Stars/Celebrities in the Ensemble Piece
Ooh! My favorite movie to play this to is Can't Hardly Wait. Everyone and their mother is cast in that.
Posted by: Julie at April 14, 2008 5:44 PM
Agent Scully does Maxim. Um, yay?
Hell yes, yay. So much yay that it steals the Ys from other Yays to add Yay to the yay.
I've never bought a copy of Maxim. I'm going to have to score three or four now.
Posted by: Sean at April 14, 2008 5:47 PM
Wow, that is a good one. What's your official count on that? I had 15, but I think I may not recognize some of the younger ones who may qualify as D- or C-List. There's quite a few of these "Smallville"/"Supernatural" types that I just am not familiar with.
Better yet, there's an overlap actor who was in both movies, John Patrick White, who appears to be bucking for some kind of Lifetime Achievement Award in Count the D-List-and-Above Stars/Celebrities in the Ensemble Piece.
Posted by: socalledonlycousins at April 14, 2008 5:50 PM
Socalled, off the top of my head and aside from Love-Hewitt and Ethan Embry (oh how I used to love him) there's: Amber Benson, Eric Palladino (he should be worth two), Peter Fascinelli, Sean Patrick what's his face who danced with Julia Stiles, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Charlie "I have no legs" Korsmo, the red-haired dude who steals shit and has been in soooo many teen movies, Eric Balfour, Nicole Bilderback (Bring it On, whoot), Jason "Blink and you'll miss him" Segel, Sarah Rue, Clea DuVall...I could go on and on.
Posted by: Julie at April 14, 2008 6:04 PM
Oh! And my Six Feet Under alums Lauren Ambrose and Freddy Rodriguez, Donald Faison, Seth Green, Jaime Pressley, Breckin Myer, Selma Blair, Jerry O'Connell, Paige "I stole Oz from Willow" Moss...my mind just broke.
Posted by: Julie at April 14, 2008 6:07 PM
Yes, see, here's the list of people just in your post whose names I don't recognize, other than from my IMDB review: Amber Benson, Peter Fascinelli, Charlie Korsmo, Eric Balfour (is this the guy who drafted the Balfour Declaration on Palestine?), Nicole Bilderback, Jason Segel, and Sarah Rue. So Can't Hardly Wait would appear to be the champion as of now, subject to objection or appeal based on any disagreements about the legitimacy of these celebrities.
Posted by: socalledonlycousins at April 14, 2008 6:10 PM
Hee...there are a LOT of Buffy castmembers and guest stars, which explains my sad sad knowledge of these names.
Amber Benson: Tara from Buffy, friend of Eliza Dushku's character in that terrible movie that I always watch on TBS Bye Bye Love.
Peter Fascinelli: Oh god...well, he's married to Jenny Garth.
Charlie Korsmo: the son from Hook
Eric Balfour: Claire Fisher's jackass boyfriend in Six Feet Under
Nicole Bilderback: one of the cheerleaders. Heh.
Jason Segel: Socalled! Freaks and Geeks, How I Met Your Mother, and the upcoming Sarah Marshall movie
Sarah Rue: Some tv show I've never seen. Why do I know who she is?
Posted by: Julie at April 14, 2008 6:16 PM
Freaks and Geeks
I never watched this; how big of a crime is it that my introduction to Linda Cardellini came with her starring turn in (the unfairly criticized) Grandma's Boy?
Posted by: socalledonlycousins at April 14, 2008 6:23 PM
Socalled, as long as you weren't introduced to her via Scooby Doo you're still aces in my book.
Posted by: Julie at April 14, 2008 6:25 PM
Sarah Rue was in that office workplace comedy with Andy Dick that I can't remember the name of.
Peter Fascinelli was in some weird buddy undercover cop show, right? Kind of like Miami Vice? He also was Lauren Ambrose's boyfriend for a while on Six Feet Under, I think season 4. The episode "Grinding the Corn" I particularly remember.
Posted by: Three-nineteen at April 14, 2008 6:26 PM
Can't Hardly Wait is one of those cute underrated movies. Jennifer Love Hewitt was supposed to be the focus, but I forgot about her after 10 minutes.
Is it wrong that I remember Linda Cardellini from Good Burger? And Sara Rue will always be the "sheep" girl to me. :)
Julie, I remember Eric Balfour (aka "Brownie Boy") in a completely different way. He did some "erotic" thriller a few years back and did a full frontal nude scene.
Brave? Yes.
Hung? No.
Posted by: Brie at April 14, 2008 6:32 PM
Oh! Oh! And Julie, don't forget, Eric Balfour is also Willow and Xander's super cool friend Jesse who eats it in the series premiere of "Buffy."
Good shoes and then understated black yet see-through and demi-cup top and...is that a garter belt built into that top? If so that's kinda nutty but...whatever, it all looks okay. Well, better than okay.
Call me predictable but I'll be sad if The Walkmen don't play "The Rat" in their opening set tonight.
How did you all forget Jerry O'Connell?!? He plays the washed up football player who's talked about most of the movie and then shows up all pathetic and shit. And now he's married to Rebecca Romaine Lettuce (can't spell her last name, but I can spell that homonym).
*Ahem* It's been a while since I've seen that movie, I may need to put that on the summer viewing list.
The sketch list is a travesty. No skit from the Unambiguously Gay Duo AKA Men on Film (2 snaps up) from In Living Color and more importantly no "Does Wayne Brady have to choke a bitch out?" from the Chapelle show. Even The Spanish Inquisition or the Cheese Shop was better than the Parrot Sketch.
Posted by: OscarTamerz at April 14, 2008 6:49 PM
I actually own a copy of Playing by Heart. I love the cast. The movie is okay. It has Jon Stewart as a love interest. It has Angelina. It has Gillian. Perhaps I should just watch it with the sound off.
Posted by: greer at April 14, 2008 6:50 PM
"...as long as you weren't introduced to her via Scooby Doo you're still aces in my book..."
Ummm....Dead Man on Campus. Hot, hot catholic schoolgirl. K, I'm done.
Catholic schoolgirl!!! Must go watch it again now.
Posted by: Shadows of Dakaron at April 14, 2008 7:08 PM
Jerce, you can find the Dancing in the Dark video with Steve Martin and Gilda Radner at:
The video quality is terrible but the funny is great. I forgot the nerdgasms they would have while doing the elegant Hollywood musical dance routine.
Posted by: OscarTamerz at April 14, 2008 7:30 PM
Another cameo in Can't Hardly Wait: Jenna Elfman. Yeah, she's a crazy Scientologist, but once upon a time she was famous-ish. I give her some cool points for having been in Depeche Mode's "Halo" video.
Posted by: Lannie at April 14, 2008 7:32 PM
I remember an interview where Michael Stipe apologized for Shiny Happy People, but I still love it. Especially Kate Pierson's back-up vocals.
Speaking of sexy redheads, thanks for the fresh Gillian pix link. Besides playing young Joan Crawford, she really needs to do more A-list pictures. She was perfect in House of Mirth; just because it tanked at the b.o. was not a good enough reason not to hire her. Meanwhile Duchovny gets to headline a series of mediocre Hollywood flicks and his own sleazy cable show. And she was the one who won the Emmy god damn it!
I have ever saw that woman at POZGROUP.COM, which focuses on providing a safe dating&support community for those living with herpes,hpv, hiv/aids or other STDs. Not sure why she is there. Maybe, they were talking about her at the blog area.
Posted by: Jerry at April 14, 2008 10:25 PM
Oscar, from the bottom of the terrifying abyss where a heart would be if I had one, I thank you.
Posted by: Jerce at April 14, 2008 10:32 PM
Oscar, from the bottom of the terrifying abyss where a heart would be if I had one, I thank you.
De nada, I hadn't thought of that in years and it was fun to watch the glory days of Steve and SNL again. The down side was thinking of his last however many movies it's been and that put a really bad taste to it.
Posted by: OscarTamerz at April 14, 2008 10:45 PM
Oscar, thanks for the link to Steve and Gilda. I had never seen the entire dance. I had only seen a clip during a Gilda-memorial show. It's sweet and silly at the same time.
Posted by: rlr260 at April 14, 2008 11:18 PM
Gillian Anderson is very very pretty, yes, but doesn't anyone else think she looks a mite hungry? In her Agent Scully days she was a bit more juicy. Eat a BLT, Gillian! Don't forget the Hellmanns!
Posted by: AdaHaze at April 15, 2008 7:21 AM
In her Agent Scully days she was a bit more juicy
Yes, I was always more of a fan of "pregnant Dana" back in the day, flushed and heaving. I can't help thinking she looks like she's really trying in those photos. Maybe now's my chance to get in there . . . .
Posted by: socalledonlycousins at April 15, 2008 8:27 AM
"I have ever saw that woman at POZGROUP.COM, which focuses on providing a safe dating&support community for those living with herpes,hpv, hiv/aids or other STDs. Not sure why she is there. Maybe, they were talking about her at the blog area."
Dear SpamBot: Maybe if you didn't insist on sticking your dick all over the internet, you wouldn't be all VD'd up. Friggin' pervert.
Nothing about the impending final straw to break Jessica Simpson? Nothing?
You totally know that it is coming. Run Romo RUN!!
We need an afternoon diversion about worst songs ever or the worst songs by a good artist.