Fact #19. An Idiot Abroad is the greatest travel show on television.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tmnMsGm6ZA&feature=player_embedded] Emily, my fellow Korean sista from another motha sent me this clip of Conan O'Brien amusing some Korean tourists. She said, "they remind me of the minions from Despicable Me."
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Team CoCo's leader is back on the airwaves. In case you missed it, Don Draper dropped by and asked "What?"
Oh so sweet Jersey Shore related swag.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0bOw1lqxBc&feature=player_embedded] A video compilation from various reality shows of contestants saying "I'm not here to make friends."
If Saul Bass (previously) created the intro to hit TV show Lost, it might look something like this. [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/6660925]
The bed and breakfast Shrute Farm, owned and operated by "The Office's" Dwight Shrute has over 600 (often funny) reviews over at Trip Advisor with 81 percent of visitors recommending this hotbed of beet-related agrotourism. According to the New York Times article on this, the particular episode which mentioned Trip Advisor was written by Paul Lieberstein aka Toby Flenderson, Michael's nemesis in Human Resources.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwqorRnsfMo] What's interesting (to me) about this video of John Belushi's SNL screen test is how unfunny it is. Maybe it's because the topical nature of his audition-Brando impersonation-is just so dated and derivative by today's standards. Nonetheless it's still a fascinating view from an archival point of view.
[I forgot the site or blog where I first guffawed upon seeing this screen capture. I broke rule number 5 of blogging. Poor form. If you know where this is from, let me know and I can properly credit/cite/hat tip. Spanks!]
Tom Haverford's (played by Aziz Ansari) DJ Roomba appearance sealed it for me; "Parks and Recreation" is the best comedy on television right now. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt0wBL2GGlA]
A neat bit of trivia about the actor that plays Michael Scott's boss, CFO David Wallace in NBC's "The Office": A Stanford alum, Andy Buckley actually has a full time job in real life as a wealth management advisor at "a leading investment bank and wealth-management advisory firm in Los Angeles" and his David Wallace role is actually a side gig.
In 2001, Buckley gave up acting and switched careers. He filmed what he thought was one of his final roles on an episode of “NYPD Blue” and showed up for training at a leading investment bank two weeks later. Still employed at the firm more than eight years later, Buckley said he is unable to disclose its name due to company policy. (His company is fine with his side gig, he said, but he has to run everything, including this interview and scripts, by compliance.)His surprising turn as a minor character on “The Office” happened almost by accident, Buckley said. While at a local farmer’s market, he ran into the show’s casting director, who had tried to find roles for him in the past. She asked for his card, and nine months later, invited him to audition for the part of Dunder Mifflin’s CFO.
Unemployed actors and bankers hate this guy.
Explicit? Indecent? Erotic? Or commentary about the way in which women are treated in the workplace? Here's a woman, hard at work, pulled herself up by the bootstraps despite her ethnic heritage, but all you see is that she's topless. It's sad, but the saddest part is that the woman was willing to pose for this photograph without a single question as to the artist's intent. What happened to integrity?
The character Ryan from The Office has an active photo mock-blog where he posts sophmoric black and white "artsy" photos with accompanying context (see above), as well as his responses to comments and (often bleak) critiques of photos submitted by readers. It's amazing.
HOW DID MY NONEXISTENT TIVO NOT RECORD THIS SHIT???[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1PMdU0tKdU] On January 19, 1993 all three contestants went all in with their earnings, but guessed the incorrect answer in the final round of Jeopardy, except for Air Force Lt. Col. Daryl Scott who held back $1 or just enough money to win by default and in the process set a record for the smallest total earning on Jeopardy.
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Even if you don't love The Jersey Shore Soundboard, The Jersey Shore Soundboard is going to make you love The Jersey Shore Soundboard.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc20vMz0V7Q&feature=player_embedded] Watch this funny segment on Sesame Street where comedy genius Ricky Gervais sings a lullaby to help Elmo fall asleep. Too bad it isn't quite the sort of lullaby Elmo was expecting. It's old but Ricky Gervais' "No one recognizes me as a celebrity but I actually am not only a celebrity, but if you listen between the lines of what I'm passive aggressively saying, I'm a mega-celebrity who is also quite filthy rich" shtick never fails to make me laugh.