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We finally took a moment to dive into Maureen Orth’s Vanity Fair exposé about Nazanin Boniadi and her relationship with Tom Cruise and Scientology. That was completely wacky, right? Follow-up question: Did the idea of auditioning spouses make you sort of want to join the church of Scientology? No reason, we’re just asking. Hey look! Conan did a segment about how he met his wife! Read More
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Several weeks ago, PBS Digital Studios released a Bob Ross mashup called “Happy Little Clouds.” It was the follow-up to the studio’s Mister Rogers Auto-Tune smash hit, “Garden of Your Mind,” and it was all sorts of wacky. What are you doing, PBS? Public Broadcasting isn’t supposed to be hipster-cool!
But following the “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it,” theorem, we now have a Julia Child remix, “Keep on Cooking.” It’s making us kind of hungry. Read More
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What happens when you take the best song of the summer and combine it with the meme explosion of 2010? Apparently some guy in a sparkly bikini lip-synching “Call Me Maybe” on Chatroulette. Read More
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Will there ever be a time when we don’t get a good dose of schadenfreude looking at the visual timeline of former 90210 hunk Luke Perry? How much his face sags seems to be in inverse proportion to how much we want to see him pretend to be Dylan McKay again. Because it’s funny? Because it’s sad? Because it reminds us of our own mortality?
Who knows … here’s an Old Navy commercial, though, with Jennie Garth, Mr. Perry and the seemingly un-aging Jason Priestley. Read More
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Poor Bob Costas. Now we know why the NBC news host and Olympics anchor has been sequestered away in his tower of green screens and library books: because other people at the network’s local affiliates are planning on killing him. Read More
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Zooey Deschanel orders tomato soup. John Malkovich demands a joke. Samuel L. Jackson makes his own tomato soup (Hot-spacho!)
The iPhone 4S ads have drawn some A-list names to promote its new feature: indentured robotic servant Siri. Because Apple won’t rest until the singularity is here and everything Isaac Asimov predicted comes true.
The latest spot, released yesterday, stars director Martin Scorsese in the back of a taxi cab. In 1976′s Taxi Driver, it was Mr. Scorsese himself who made the cameo as a creepy backseat passenger. Now, he’s returning the favor.
See if you can spot the Taxi Driver shout-out in the iconic director’s commercial. Read More
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If you have not seen The Onion’s latest spoof on Real World/Road Rules/Jersey Shore/any reality show that involves strangers being forced to fight under barbaric conditions (lack of food, overabundance of alcohol, constant camera crews, etc.), then you need to immediately go watch Sex House. Now in its second episode, Sex House plays with the reality TV convention before ramping it up to 11.
And then it gets dark. Real dark. Read More
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Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” is this year’s Rebecca Black’s “Friday.” Sorry, but it’s true! They are both totally nonsensical songs with lyrics that on the surface seem…off…and on closer inspection are not only grammatically incorrect but are composed entirely of stream of consciousness tween diary entries. (“Before you came into my life,
I missed you so bad”? What does that even mean?)
So of course, “Call Me Maybe” is the first viral election season song that has been mashed up with President Obama’s speeches to create a wonderful, chaotic piece of YouTube. It’s the “Obama Rickroll” of 2012! Read More
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This “Blessed Event” video reminds us of how far the whimsical comedy group Improv Everywhere and its ilk have come since their inception…and not in a good way. It used to be that Charlie Todd‘s gathering of merry pranksters would do something to surprise and delight people, like that frozen Grand Central piece, or impromptu musicals about food courts. Read More
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Did we need a Brooklyn spoof of Portlandia? Not really, since the IFC comedy encapsulates most of the tropes of hipster culture already, not just those relevant to the West Coast. (If you need further evidence, check out Adrianne Jeffries‘ amazing piece, “A Twee Grows in Brooklyn” on this exact subject.)
Plus, we already had that Sh*t New Yorkers Say last week, which was close enough. When Eliot and Ilana Glazer were naming off newspaper titles, it was just like that one sketch from Portlandia, “Did you read it?“
Brooklyn blog Brokelyn‘s latest incarnation of the imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-viral-flattery takes the “Did you read it” Portlandia sketch and turns it into a food fight. Funny if you live in Brooklyn and can laugh at a joke about Roberta’s; kind of confusing if you don’t and can’t. Read More
