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By Drew Grant 6/17 2:06pm

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Just enjoying his weekend. (YouTube)

Central Park Daddy-O Has Life Figured Out (Video)

While you were busy writing out a list of neutral topics yesterday to discuss during your terse, obligatory five minute Father’s Day phone call (verboten items, as always: your career, your love life, how mom’s doing), this roller-skating poppa said “Screw it” and went to the park instead of waiting for his kids to call. Why stress about family when you can just strap on your quad skates, go to Central Park and dance like nobody’s watching?

In this era of over-snark and legitimate concerns of Big Brother-monitoring, it’s truly refreshing to see a man who doesn’t care what people think of his good time moves. Read More

By Drew Grant 3/22 4:13pm

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Spring Break forever...until you stick a Q-tip in your ear. (THR)

The Girls of Spring Breakers: The Best Mashup of the Season?

You see, we put a question mark in the title because that way you will click through to find out whether The Hollywood Reporter‘s video combining scenes from Spring Breakers and HBO’s GIRLS is as great as we question it to be. But the truth is, you already know the answer. You’ve known it all along, deep down. This is obviously the best mashup you will be seeing for awhile. Honestly, they had us at “Spring Breakers meets Girls.” Enjoy. Read More

By Drew Grant 3/07 1:22am

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We are just saying you might want to watch this.

Stephen Colbert to a Certain Someone: ‘Are You Also a Fraud?’

Tuesday night, Stephen Colbert had a very funny segment with someone pretty famous. We’re not going to say who, because, really, does it really matter? Colbert sometimes just has those “On” nights, where all the jokes land and everyone is in the mood and the guest gets totally schooled while trying to one-up Colbert with trivia questions about the novelizations of those Peter Jackson movies that James Franco read last semester.

Damnit. Okay, fine, the guest was James Franco. BUT IT IS STILL WORTH WATCHING. Read More

By Drew Grant 12/20/12 2:55pm

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Jerry Seinfeld know people will not be interested in this video. (NYTimes/YouTube)

Jerry Seinfeld Answers New York Times Question: ‘What’s the Deal With Comedy Writing?’ (Video)

You know that phrase, “I could listen to him read a phone book”? The implication is that said person is so talented, that they could give a nuanced performance to the most boring material, and you’d still be enthralled.

Unfortunately, there is another saying in showbiz: “If you have to explain it, it’s not funny.”

That being said, here is the very talented Jerry Seinfeld talking in a New York Times video about why words like Pop Tart, chimps, dirt, playing and sticks are all very funny. Read More

By Drew Grant 12/11/12 2:36pm

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So this is a thing, now. (ERB)

Snoop Dogg’s Moses Takes Down Santa Claus in New Insanity-Laden Christmas Rap [Video]

The YouTube series “Epic Rap Battles of History” is pretty fantastic; pitting two famous but incongruous figures together for something resembling that final scene of 8 Mile. It’s the dirty dozens when Cleopatra met Marilyn Monroe, or the time Darth Vader showed Hitler what true evil really looks like. Who would drop the best beats: Doc Brown or Dr. Who? These are the questions that need answering.

Now ERB is at it again, with its biggest celebrity yet: Snoop Dogg as Moses, in a Christmas song that is sure to leave many people confused about why Santa Claus hates Jewish people so much. Read More

By Drew Grant 11/08/12 3:40pm

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Namaste (IFC)

Portlandia-licious: Everyone’s Favorite Hipster-Mocking Show Gently Teases Third Season (Video)

After HBO’s Girls, there really is only one show that perfectly encapsulates the adorka-suicidable tweeness of today’s 20-somethings, and that is Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s sketch series Portlandia. The IFC show takes on a broader range of crunchy subcultures to parody than Ms. Dunham’s, and its gently-mocking, “You’ve got to love them even though they are ridiculous and also ‘they’ are ‘you,’ so lighten up” tone is way less controversial than the abrasive, uncomfortable humor behind Girls.* Read More

By Steve Huff 9/22/12 1:21pm

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They don't teach Krav Maga at Wharton. (Screengrab)

Happy Saturday, Here’s A Couple of Guys Fighting Over a Taxi [Video]

Based on the minimal information in the YouTube description of this unintentionally comic viral video, it appears film producer and screenwriter Ron Senkowski was “walking between film financing meetings” in New York City on Thursday when he captured this instance of mutual thuggery between a pair of Wall Street types waiting for a cab.

In the video we see two nicely-dressed men of indeterminate age slapping, shoving, then grappling until one finally wins and slams that yellow door. The camera then swings rather sadly away, as if Mr. Senkowski was shaking his head sadly at the state of humanity. Read More