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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Sunday, February 25, 2007


Spread out!!!

UPDATE: Scorsese wins! More gangster pics!!!

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Minor note: You can tell Bruce Vilanch isn't writing "ad-libs" in the sidelines or else there would have been a joke comparing Jack Nicholson to Britney Spears.

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Red Buttons made the In Memoriam film. But he never got a dinner.

I was surprised James Doohan made the cut...

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Hey! Melissa Etheridge said "Democrat". According to today's Doonesbury and today's Candorville, she's like McCarthy!!!!!1!

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GM cut out the part of the commercial where the robot jumps off the bridge, probably because of concern about suicidal robots.

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Gore wins. Which means six more weeks of winter in LA.

Also La Fonatine blames Katrina on global warming.

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Snakes on a Plane!!!!1! Woo!!!

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"How about those kids with their cell phones and their YouTubes?"

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"You bet, Chris! More fun!"

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Al Gore's here? No wonder we've been getting Gore Effect temperatures.

UPDATE: OK, the music cutoff thing was funny.

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Another Nikki Finke Oscar prediction that didn't happen: According to her, we weren't going to see the Supporting Acting Oscars until the last third of the show.

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A sound effects montage and no love for the Wilhelm scream?

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In these magical days of the Interwebs, you can find the winner of Best Live-Action Short on the YouTube. Also the nice Jewish boy brings his mother to the Oscars.

UPDATE Oops, that was a trailer. It has a site but the site's already overloaded.

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Tech awards gets thirty seconds? Prepare yourselves for thirty musical numbers and seventy montages. UPDATE If all the musical numbers are like the Black-Ferrell number, I wouldn't mind so much. Why aren't they hosting?

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Good double-take by Steve Carrell (Earlier I was wondering if Nancy Wall (the lovely Mrs. Carrell) was not here or was just asked to step aside while ABC interviewed Carrell. Now I know it was the latter).

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Back to the "billion viewers" claim, I see.

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Don La Fontaine (one of the "In a world" guys) is announcing!

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A crawler during the interview with Cate Blanchett said she'd be playing Bob Dylan. Photographic proof.

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I hearby predict that a humorous comparison will be made between Britney being bald and the Oscar statuette being bald.

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The Rob Lowe Snow White production of 1989 which was literally the reason they stopped doing these numbers. I forgot Merv was in it too.

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Sunday, February 18, 2007


The beauty of the Internet: You can fact-check a Drew Friedman cartoon and find this:
Appel also quotes a personal conversation in which Nabokov mused: 'Dennis the Menace doesn’t look like his father. Could he be illegitimate?". When he ponders writing a letter about it to The Herald Tribune, "he is dissuaded by Vera who remarks that the paper had not printed his earlier letter about plot inconsistencies in Rex Morgan."

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Sorry. I'm a little behind on this:

Joe Rogan (who we remember here for calling out Dennis O'Leary for stealing from Bill Hicks) gets into an onstage fight with Carlos Mencia after calling Mencia a joke thief. Video here (and, yes, the "who's gonna build your border wall" joke isn't the best gag to build one's case on). He loses his agent over it here (which portrays it as a "You can't fire me; I quit!" scenario).

Coincidentally, Radar did an article on known joke-thieves.

Warning: All of the above has lots of swears.

I will say that I once heard the booker of a club tell a bunch of young comics "Don't steal. I don't book thieves...unless they put asses in the seats."

The story I heard about Robin Williams has David Letterman walking into the Comedy Store in the middle of a Williams set and asking somebody "Is he up to the L's yet?"

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007


Tina Fey at the WGA Awards:
I hear Aaron Sorkin is in Los Angeles wearing the same dress - but longer, and not funny.

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As long as I'm linking to funny book reviews, here's something I'll probably be swiping:
[I]t's not even "not funny" in the way that Christmas cracker jokes aren't funny. It's not funny in the way that chairs and rocks aren't funny.

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Is he strong? Listen, bub, he's got radioactive...ewwwwwww!*

*Scroll down to review of SPIDER-MAN: REIGN #3.

UPDATE: The scene in question.

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