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As a responsible New York weekend blog person I really should find something to say about this Times article about all the poor Manhattanites who can't unload their million-dollar one-bedroom apartments. But oh my God I don't care! Instead, here is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory recut to look like a movie about an evil drug pusher.
(Thanks, VirusWithShoes!)
Gorgeous and magical Alanis Morrisette stopped by "The Howard Stern Show" Friday, where she discussed her break-up with loser Ryan Reynolds—who her band, Howard, and Artie Lang all hate—as well her experimentations with lesbianism. Clip after the jump.
[via OhNoTheyDidn't]
Good thing President Bush and his merry band of thieves have most of our troops over-extended in Iraq! "A brazen bomb and rocket attack on the main prison in southern Afghanistan has freed more than 600 inmates, many of them members of the Taliban. The destruction is evident following a brazen attack on a major Afghan prison...Using rockets and bombs Taliban militants were able to blow down the front gate of the facility, freeing more than 600 inmates—many of whom, officials say, have ties to the Taliban.The prison is in Kandahar." Video after the jump.
Oh Sen. Hillary Clinton, this really isn't the kind of thing you need at all. You know, that whole angry, shouty, "shrill" thing? Just something to think about is all.
So I was gonna do a "Best of Harvey Korman" clip thread to close out that day yesterday, but Gawker Media went all fooey just when I was all ready to get it started. So here it is now. Below is an example of my favorite kind of Harvey Korman moment—namely, him losing his shit. What's yours?
Would you rather be able to fly or be invisible? The Office and Extras creator Ricky Gervais explains the pitfalls of flight to The Daily Show's John Hodgman. Also? Penis nipples and breast testicles.
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What do you get when you have a local weather man whose last name is Quinn and is quite dashing, plus a local anchor who is perhaps overtired and has gay things on her mind? The answer is revealed in this snippet from tonight's 5:00 p.m. airing of CBS 2 News in New York. Watch the Freudian slippage after the jump.
What do you get when you have a local weather man whose last name is Quinn and is quite dashing, plus a local anchor who is perhaps overtired and has gay things on her mind? The answer is revealed in this snippet from tonight's 5:00 p.m. airing of CBS 2 News in New York. Watch the Freudian slippage after the jump.
In honor of the holiday, and in grieving for those not at the beach, let's all watch this surfer from LA in all of his now-famous pitted glory.
Tornadoes devastated Kansas for the second day in a row yesterday. Here is some video of the event. Now be grateful you live somewhere nice and sunny with access to a beach. That is, if you do live in a such place. I do. But I'm locked in my apartment!
Okay, I don't know who these people are or what on earth they're talking about, but apparently even adults watch Gossip Girl on the CW network. Hell, I still watch Smallville! So here's a clip from tomorrow's show.
OMG! The final episode—for now!—of MTV's semi-reality trainwreck The Hills is almost here and who can wait? I have no idea what's going on, but Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt sure do look shouty and angry! Watch it here. [via OhNoTheyDidn't]
This home movie footage is purportedly the last ever captured of legendary comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. Well, that's what the guy on YouTube says, and who am I to doubt him? Video (Really! Not just a link!! I hope!) after the jump.
Oh please work!
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Even battle-hardened, still-occupied, America-hating Iraqis are embracing this brave new media landscape of ours. According to newswire AFP, our wacky post-colonial subjects are posting some hilarious YouTube material lampooning us, our little war, and even themselves! Sort of. Mostly us, though.
There's nothing like a war zone to bring out the comedian in some people, like the wags that uploaded the clip of "a large-mouthed soldier repeating Arabic phrases told to him by a group of locals." The "locals" have the soldier explain that he'd like to go home and see his family. You can't make this stuff up!
Here is a clip the AFP called "hilarious."
The AFP description for this next clip was clearly written by someone who somehow managed to avoid the entire terrible ad campaign for Happy Feet.
One video clip shows a colony of penguins, led by a large male with distinctive orange markings on his neck, swaggering around the ice chanting "Moqtada, Moqtada, Moqtada!"The 66-second segment, its soundtrack clearly recorded at a Mahdi Army gathering engaged in rowdy praise of the cleric, shows the penguins raising their flippers heavenwards, beaks wide open as they become more and more enthusiastic about Sadr.
The video, clearly doctored electronically, ends with the penguins forming a large heart-shaped gathering around their leader who stands bellowing in the middle.
Clearly doctored electronically? You mean real penguins didn't begin chanting in Arabic and them form a heart around the spirit of Shiite Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr as channeled through a talking penguin? Illusions: shattered.
Iraqis Mock US Soldiers And Themselves On You Tube [AFP]