One of Michael Jackson’s hallmarks was elaborate and exciting music videos that weren’t just about illustrating the song. At a time when Jackson is posthumously making a new mark, Katy Perry, a pop superstar herself, seems to be taking up the mantle by creating elaborate videos, although hers are done with some knowing humor. Continue reading
It must be an incredibly fun job to write for characters like Wile E. Coyote and coming up with ever more complex and inventive ways to abuse the poor character. Continue reading
A quickie for Thursday: One of my favorite movie moments perhaps ever, featuring Tim Curry and Lesley Ann Warren in one of the most over-aired movies to ever show on Comedy Central, “Clue.” Continue reading
The New York Times has tried a bit of a bolder experiment as it expands its offerings online: Acted out re-enactments of actual transcriptions. The result is quite amusing, if not news, per se. Continue reading
Last year, the CW rebooted “Whose Line is it Anyway?” with the standard U.S. cast and new host Aisha Tyler. The magic is still there, but some of the classic games hadn’t made it back onto the show yet. Last night, one finally made its return: The Hoedown. Continue reading
At the height of the trash talk show mania, one stood out for me even amongst the many others: The Richard Bey Show. Produced by WWOR in the New York area and syndicated nationally, I became aware of it as a teenager once my family moved to the tri-state area, and for awhile, like many, I was hooked. Continue reading
What happens when an article in McSweeney’s parodying brand videos that all look the same is turned into a video with actual stock imagery to hit the point harder? You get this amazing YouTube video produced by the team at Dissolve, a stock video company. Continue reading
I’m woefully behind in listening to Never Not Funny: The Jimmy Pardo Podcast, a pioneer program that recently brought back free audio (a post directly about the podcast in general will follow soon), but there was a concept mentioned on an episode I was listening to recently brought up the term “Forcebook,” which I think is brilliant. Continue reading
Deception in the form of a beard isn’t anything new to those in the gay community, but this is a brand new form of it that’s both amusing and a bit crazy to me.
When I read this article in the New York Post about people getting facial hair implants so they can grow a beard, it seemed both obvious and ridiculous. Continue reading
Last year I bought the gigantic Time Life box set of The Carol Burnett Show, and I’ve found the program incredibly entertaining to watch. Among the fabled outtakes and bloopers from the show is the one above, where Tim Conway improvises about an elephant during a Mama’s Family sketch. Every time they think they got out of it, he kept going. Continue reading