Remember Barack Obama’s Abercrombie boys? Of course you do. But what about those Detroit Red Wings guys? No? Well, comedian Jon Glaser and some other guy (who dat be?) are here to remind you.
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John McCain stopped by The Daily Show Wednesday to remind us what a pig he is.
“Today there was a very attractive young woman with a tee shirt that said ‘John McCain Doesn’t Represent Me’ … So I called on her and asked her what it was that she’d like to say. That’s the essence…”
I realize the man is, what, 120-years-old? But can’t he at least try to hide his old-fashioned way of thinking for a few minutes? Like we really needed to know the woman was attractive. Because that has SO MUCH to do with what she had to say.
When Jon Stewart cut McCain off to actually ask him what the woman (who, in case you forgot, was very attractive and young!) had to say, a surprised McCain nervously chuckled, “She said, ‘Why did I want to discriminate against women?’”
I don’t get what’s so funny about that question. But I probably shouldn’t be worrying my young pretty little head, now should I?
I have a feeling McCain will be moving into the White House in a few months and I am terrified. TERRIFIED.
The Office’s Steve Carell plays Maxwell Smart in this summer’s big-screen redo of Get Smart. Since he’s an expert on smart now, Carell shares 10 simple ways that people can act brilliant in the new issue of Wired.
Here are my favorite three:
Engage in Reading-Type Behavior
If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended — for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your — what’s the word I’m looking for? — your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.
Know Things
It’s important to be well-rounded — not purely scientific and analytical. Explore the arts: poetry, music, decoupage (a visual art form I’ve been developing since the first grade). And remember, it’s always better to have a cursory knowledge of a lot of things than to actually know a lot about any one thing. This is called a liberal arts education.
Act “Human”
When I go to parties, people often look stunned at how smart I am. But nobody wants to talk about astrophysics at a dinner party. Hey, when I want to talk like that, I head to the lab! Instead, I talk about “human” things they enjoy and understand: midrange wines, movie trivia, and mundane subjects like family and emotional fulfillment. I like to end my conversations with a quote, usually something in French, like “c’est la vie,” which means “down the hatch!” But don’t overdo it: Nobody likes a show-off.
Read the rest of Mr. Smart’s brilliant advice @ Wired.
Faux reporter (and real comedian) Eugene Mirman traveled to Pennsylvania for the Democratic Debates.
At last, a reporter who isn’t afraid to do whatever it takes to bring us the scoop!
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Rachel Dratch left Saturday Night Live two years ago and then she was replaced on 30 Rock. The comedian is now working on, uh, dur…
“Maybe you can tell me,” Dratch told NY Mag at a Smart People screening on March 31. “I know you’re supposed to come up with fake stuff you’re doing. But honestly, I’m not doing much.”
Of the downtime since SNL, Dratch said: “It’s starting to get old. I’m starting to go crazy. I’m ready for a job.”
Being excluded from Vanity Fair’s recent “Queens of Comedy” issue didn’t help matters either. “Dude, that was a dark day,” she recalled. “I was like, ‘Oh, there’s everyone I worked with’.”
Dratch, who provided me with many laughs as Debbie Downer on SNL and Spencer’s girlfriend on The King Of Queens, isn’t picky about her next gig either.
“I’d work in a black-box theater company at this point,” she said. “I’d work with George W.”
Comedian Margaret Cho’s Beautiful Tour kicked off in the states yesterday — and VH1 just ordered seven episodes of her new reality program, “The Cho Show.”
In addition to those delightful bits of Cho news, the bellydancing queer activist just gave her gay pals the real scoop in Out’s ‘Can I Be Blunt?’ feature:
The rest of Cho’s amusing list can be found at @ Out.com
In 1993 Ted Danson paid tribute to his then girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg at a Friars Club roast. Danson performed in blackface, used the N-word several times, caused quite the stir, and got called racist by a bunch of people (even though Goldberg had written most of his material and secured the makeup artist who painted his face). Danson is the perfect example of BGW (Blackface Gone Wrong).
In the new film Tropic Thunder, Robert Downey Jr. plays a white man cast to play a black soldier in a satire of the performing profession. “If it’s done right, it could be the type of role you called Peter Sellers to do 35 years ago,” Downey told Entertainment Weekly magazine. “If you don’t do it right, we’re going to hell.”
To keep the character from becoming a caricature (and to prevent another case of BGW), Downey “dove in with both feet.”
“If I didn’t feel it was morally sound,” he said, “or that it would be easily misinterpreted that I’m just C. Thomas Howell in (Soul Man), I would’ve stayed home.”
Tropic Thunder, which is set to be released Aug. 15, also stars Jack Black and Ben Stiller, who co-wrote, directed and produced it.
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That Hillary Clinton has quite the sense of humor, doesn’t she? Yes, siree, Bob. But you should never vote for the candidate you’d most like to “have a beer with.” And that’s why I’m voting Nader no matter what.
STOP MAKING SENSE • Amelie Gillette’s take on Vanity Fair’s irksome “Queens of Comedy” article.
[The Onion A.V. Club: The Hater]
Playing Andy Samberg’s girlfriend, Page whined after attending a Melissa Etheridge/Indigo Girls concert, “Why does everything have to have a freaking label? Why can’t I just hug a woman with my legs in friendship?”
The sketch’s ending didn’t necessarily bring the lolz. Instead, it left me with a case of the warm fuzzies. Which brings me to my next question: Would you go gay for Ellen Page? Ju-no what? I probably would. She’s got the cutest little nose, I swear!
