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Sarah Silverman is working on another video to premiere on Jimmy Kimmel Live. [My Desert]
Is it just me or is Aziz Ansari charming the pants off of everyone in that morning news show? [Aziz is Bored]
Adam Sandler and Will Smith are holding Kevin James down. [All Headline News]
MTV gives us a sneak peak at this week's SNL. Apparently there's a Frost/Nixon sketch. Since I haven't seen the movie, all my historical information will be culled from that sketch. [MTV Newsroom]
The creator of Weeds brings us this new Showtime pilot slated to be directed by Paul Feig, one of the best sitcom directors around. [TV Guide]
Muslim Public Affairs Council applauds The Daily Show. [Jewish Journal]
My favorite part of The 20 Funniest Will Ferrell Moments is the clip where Will Ferrell crashes the CNBC studio. [Manofest]
Demetri Martin presented some original material at The Television Critics Association's Press Tour, and apparently killed. Since no one article reprints all of his best jokes, I've culled together a few links. [The Live Feed, LA Times, Mulitchannel]
Thanks to a stunt during Ptolemy "Man of 1,000 Commercials" Slocum's wedding, the original Neutrino Video Projects are getting the band back together for a night of "how the fuck do they do that?" level improv, Tuesday at 9:30.
If you've never seen a Neutrino show, the format employs three camera crew/acting teams who take to the streets while runners deliver the footage to a magic editing booth. You're watching a movie getting shot, cut and shown on the fly, and aside from Jack McBrayer and Paul Scheer fathering a super baby together this is the improv highlight of the season.
The Internet is the only place in the world where you can observe people venally jockeying for fame and fortune, testing the limits of their creativity, or, for just $8.99/mo, jerking off into any element on the periodic table. And, according to Amy Sedaris, sometimes you can even find comedy on the Internet.
If you happen to run across any of this comedy, please send its whereabouts in a first class envelope to The Insider c/o The World Wide Web, Tube 9000, The Ether, MO, 10101.
Since
the days when Archie Bunker ruled the airwaves, conservative TV
characters have been a bit few and far between. But as the right-wing
blog IMAO points out, there are still a few out there:
Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock: Yes, he’s a joke character
played by a well known liberal Alec Baldwin (no relation to Adam), but
you have to give huge points if you’re grading on a curve since he’s
not the butt of jokes anymore than any other character — his
conservatism is as often a joke as Liz Lemon’s reflexive New York
liberalism. Actually, 30 Rock is an example that you can bring up
politics for humor without bashing people over the heads with a certain
political belief (also see early seasons of the Simpsons).
Fair
enough. The rest of the short list isn't bad either. But I have to say
I'm a little surprised the new Knight Rider wasn't included. Just like
the GOP, he's rogue, individualistic, and late last year most of
America decided they never wanted to see him again.
It's pretty common knowledge that more than half of all marriages end in divorce. That's scary, sure, but what's even scarier is the rest of the marriages all end in death! Why gay people would want to sign up for that is beyond me. If this 23/6 video can change some gay minds about marriage, it just might save their gay life.
Here's the deal. I am a geek, guys. I know. Big surprise, right? Now that my secret is out in the open, I can admit that I enjoy video games, and even enjoy watching online videos about video games. So I can assure you I really enjoy College Humor's Bleep Bloop videos. But what happens when Michael Ian Black sits in for a Bleep Bloop video? One thing's for certain, saying the words Bleep Bloop is really fun.
The funny thing is, I have a very distinct childhood memory of seeing someone play a very similar game. I think it was back when my family lived in Panama. It's quite a vague memory, but I think it may have been some bootlegged off-brand NES game. Ever since that day, I've been confused about female sexuality.
At least now I finally know I'm not supposed to slide game cartridges into vaginas. That's not what they are for at all. Even though I haven't yet had the opportunity to try it, I now know vaginas are clearly designed for storing the NES Zapper gun.
Have you seen those Mac commercials with McLovin? Yeah, me neither, but apparently some creationists have, because they made this anti-evolution Mac ad parody, and their PC looks a hell of a lot more like Christopher Mintz-Plasse than John Hodgman.
I guess it's at least one degree better than the other parodies that portray PC as an obese slob, but still. Oh well, all that really matter is their logic is iron-clad, right?
Just in time for new episodes of Best Week Ever, which begin next Friday, the show's host Paul F. Tompkins has launched his new website, PaulFTompkins.com. It's a little light on content as yet, but the design is very nice, and there's a spot for a blog, which should be awesome. His Twitter is worth following, that's for damn sure. Oh, there's also a picture of Paul with a hawk, which pretty much every website should have (I'm looking at you, FDA.gov).
When I was in college I was a file clerk for a major corporation's intellectual property legal department, so I actually know a thing or two about copyright law. Like, for example, did you know that if you go to the back corner in the very last row of cabinets in the file room and sit on the floor against the wall with a few files strewn around you and a couple drawers open, you can nap for hours without anyone being the wiser? It's important to put a chair or something near the door though, so it makes enough racket to wake you up if someone comes in. As you might imagine, Stephen Colbert's interview with Lawrence Lessig last night was all pretty familiar ground for me.
Salma Hayek will guest star on tonight's 30 Rock. As a Hispanic male, whenever Salma Hayek's name is mentioned I am legally obligated to holler, "Ay, mamacita, ven aqui!" [Videogum]
Aziz Ansari's interviews are always so whimsically absurd. There's no such things as fish tacos, you silly Billy. [Gothamist]
Did you know it's Stand-Up Month? It is! How do I know? Because we said so. If a fraternity pledge told you it was Slip Someone GHB at a Jack Johnson Concert Month, you wouldn't question it, would you? Exactly. So yeah, as I was saying, happy Stand-Up Month! To celebrate, here are some clips from the upcoming season of Comedy Central Presents. And look for more stand-up throughout the month... and then also after that. Basically forever. This is Comedy Central.
Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis and HUSTLER magazine
publisher Larry Flynt are petitioning the newly convened 111th Congress
to provide a financial bailout for the adult entertainment industry
along the lines of what is being sought by the Big Three automakers, a
spokesperson for Francis announced today.
Adult industry leaders Flynt and Francis sent a joint request to
Congress asking for $5 billion in federal assistance, "Just to see us
through hard times," Francis said.
"Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation's most important
businesses, we feel we deserve the same consideration. In difficult
economic times, Americans turn to entertainment for relief. More and
more, the kind of entertainment they turn to is adult entertainment."...
"With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex
is the farthest thing from their mind," Flynt says, "It's time for
congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America. The only way
they can do this is by supporting the adult industry and doing it
quickly."
Obviously, neither Flynt nor Francis are being particularly genuine
with this call for relief from the government. But I can't really see
why -- if they were serious -- they shouldn't be subject to the same
kind of bailout as the auto industry.
Of course, if our porn industry did go bankrupt, I suppose that we'd
still be able to import pornography from countries like Japan, Germany
and Eastern Europe. And I guess that would just be the fault of the
lazy American porn industry for not providing the quality of content
that the American porn consumer has become dependant upon.
Maybe our auto-erotic industry can use this as an opportunity to
start employing more of the increasingly popular hybrid performers.
The last time I sincerely felt my own mortality, I realized it was time to leave my life as an intoxicated, free spirited college student with no worldly responsibility to fulfill my lifelong dream of moving to a dank basement apartment in South Slope, Brooklyn and becoming a web copywriter.
Coulton is still struck by the sheer unlikelihood of his success, which has earned him a comfortable living through online music sales and gigs writing music for TV, Web sites and video games. But when many new parents might have stayed with the reliability of a desk job, he knew he had to do something else.
"When my daughter was born, I felt my own mortality very acutely," he said. "You're like 'Oh I get it. My grandfather is dead. My father is now a grandfather. I am now a father. I see where this is going,' you know? I wanted to give her an example of somebody doing what they wanted to do instead of staying in a job that wasn't really what they wanted to do because it was safe. That's the kind of decision I would want her to make when she gets older so it seemed hypocritical to not make that leap myself."
According to Movieweb, Nancy Meyer, director of such classics as The Parent Trap, The Holiday, and What Women Want, has a new movie and Universal Pictures has an open casting call.
Universal Pictures has put out an open casting call for Nancy Meyers' latest comedy,
which will star the likes of Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, and Steve
Martin. The studio is currently looking for a young male to play the
character of Edward, a high school senior, in the untitled project.
They are hoping to find the next Michael Cera /McLovin type to play a
17-year-old in this upcoming film, which will shoot in New York and Los
Angeles in early 2009. No prior acting experience is said to be
necessary.
No prior acting experience is my greatest credential! I might not be 17, but I look and act like I'm way younger. Yo, Nancy Meyer, you know what women want? Christian Bale. But right after Christian Bale, most (none) women say they want Gonzalo Cordova as your new Michael Cera/McLovin' type.
Who are they casting? Edward, an awkward, funny, precocious
seventeen-year-old high school senior. The actor that is chosen for the
role must be available for work in New York City and Los Angeles from
February 2009 until mid-June 2009. No prior experience or preparation
is necessary...
Again, no prior experience or preparation is my greatest credential!!!! I am awkward, funny, and precocious. I believe that's what Hollywood calls a triple threat (ED note: that's not what Hollywood calls a triple threat at all).
I don't know much about you Nancy Meyer, but if you are anything like the 50-something year old women I usually hang out with, you will think I am beautiful, talented, and quite possibly also be your son.
I'll do anything for the part. Anything... except sex. I won't do anything remotely sexual.
So, CC Insider was basically the best blog of 2008. We wrecked it on every level possible. But, we're humble here, so we know there's always room for improvement, which is where you come in.
How are we doing?
What should we do different in 2009? What should we do the same? What should we not do at all?
Would you like to see more posts about giraffes with rabies or exactly the same number of posts about giraffes with rabies. What about giraffes with scabies? Scabies with rabies? I know what you're thinking, but I added language to my contract that says I will never have to write a post about scabie babies with rabies, so don't even think about it.
Anyway, the bottom line is, we want to hear from you, so leave your suggestions in the comments, and we'll do whatever we can to put them to use in the coming year. Thanks for reading.
When the Insider staff took the holidays off to check out the burgeoning sex-tourism industry in Saskatchewan (one word: Calienté!), we left some robots in charge of the blog. They did a pretty good job, but there were a few things that flew under their radars (they literally have radars). One of them was a leaked script from the upcoming Comedy Central series Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire that materialized on Ain't It Cool. Anyway, better that than never, so watch this trailer and head over to AICN to read the script.
I talk a lot about not owning a TV on this blog. But (SPOILER ALERT!) it's just a schtick. I have a TV. I have eleven TVs. I have TVs in my TVs so I can watch TV while I watch TV, dawg. But Rachel Maddow was on The Daily Show last night, and when she said she doesn't own a TV, I'm pretty sure she wasn't doing a bit, which is crazy, even perhaps Un-American. I mean, how does she fulfill her civic duty of casually flipping around looking for something to kill half-an-hour and then accidentally watching seven hours of a Brooke Knows Best marathon?
I've never watched Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but today I learned that Sarah Connor is played by a beautiful woman named Lena Headey. You mean they put beautiful people on TV? What a shock! I also learned that Lena Headey starred in a pretty great Funny or Die video. It was made for Mercy Corps, which is a charity, so you're a bad person if you don't watch this, and you're an even worse person if you don't think this is funny, because it's pretty funny.
I did some detective work and confirmed my suspicion. The man in the video is Brian Huskey, who on top of being in a ton of funny stuff, plays the husband in the Sonic Drive In commercials. Wow, I dug up that information all by myself just now. That's basically journalism (it's not journalism, just googling).
If you're like me, you are always wondering, "What ever happened to Jackie Mason's abandoned daughter?" Here's the answer. [The Observer]
Some of the people behind The Daily Show, Wonder Showzen, and TV Carnage have a new show coming up on Adult Swim. [Street Carnage]
Hey, the new SNL has Neil Patrick Harris in it. He is the greatest gay actor whose onscreen persona is a womanizer since Rock Hudson. [Hulu]
Kelsey Grammer (a.k.a. Fraiser 4-evrs!) set to star in a new "multicam laffer." Who the hell calls a sitcom a laffer? Variety writer Tucker Cawley apparently. [Variety]
Aziz Ansari reveals that Sway was behind Human Giant's absence from MTV. Apparently he has a lot of sway at MTV. I apologize for that pun and offer my future children in penance. [Village Voice]
Broken Lizard, the people behind Super Troopers, have a new movie coming out. [Coming Soon]
Horror directors attempt to prove they can create funny content. Ummm, excuse me, James Wan, but didn't you already prove that with Saw II - Saw XXIIIV? [Crave Online]
NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien website has been offering free tickets to the Conan O'Brien show. If you are thinking, "Geez, Gonzalo, isn't the Conan O'Brien show always free to attend?" Well, yes, it is. But this is special, because it's also the last few episodes of the long running show.
After 16 seasons on the air, the curtain
is coming down on Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Conan prepares to
head out to L.A. to take over The Tonight Show. Would you like to be a
member of one of Conan's last studio audiences in New York? Here's your
chance!
For an opportunity to obtain FREE tickets, please e-mail your Name, Address, Phone Number, & E-mail Address to: conangobyebye@nbc.com
LOCATION: Studio 6A, 30 Rockefeller Plaza (located between 49th and 50th Streets and between Fifth and Sixth Avenues) New York, NY
SHOW DATES: Weekdays from Monday, February 2, 2009 - Friday, February 20, 2009
SHOW TIME: 5:30 PM each day (4:15 arrival time)
I grew up on Conan. In fact, Late Night with Conan O'Brien was probably one of my earliest comedic influences. "Comedic influences?" I'm not remotely famous, I'm not allowed to have comedic influences.
Whatever. The point is, I'm going to be sad to see it go. I have so many fond memories of staying up way past my bedtime to catch this show. Sure, Conan is moving to LA to take over Leno's old spot, but I'm sure the transition will bring about many changes. Are you even allowed to say "masturbating bear" before midnight? Seeing February 20, 2009 listed as the last show makes my heart cry.
P.S. I intentionally chose an older picture of Conan O'Brien, because in a perfect world, our heroes don't age or change at all.
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