2011
Monkey’s Out of the Bottle Now
James Franco didn’t impress much at the Oscars this year but who cares, his brilliance in “Pineapple Express” will always be enough for me. And then there’s this great two-part interview with Colbert that I enjoyed (not to mention a previous segment with Frank Jameso).
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Part 2:
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2011
Howie
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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Oh, how I miss Howie.
2011
Colbert vs. Charlie Rose
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2010
Goin’ Rogue
Republicans have a problem. The most-talked-about figure in the GOP is a reality show star who cannot be elected. And yet the same leaders who fret that Sarah Palin could devastate their party in 2012 are too scared to say in public what they all complain about in private.
I’ve never seen Joe’s show but I suspect he is speaking for many Republicans who are, indeed, scared to go up against this woman. Why? I have no idea, but while I do my best to ignore her, it’s hard not to hear the Crazy that comes out of her camp on a regular basis (she just accused a non-citizen of the U.S. of committing treason while somehow blaming Obama for it–and no, I do not follow her on twitter).
Slowly, though, they are speaking out. Palin would get destroyed in an actual election, the Booze Cabinet stands by that prediction! But I would be amazed if she got that far: the GOP candidate for president? Wow, what a disaster that would be, for all of us. We’d have to hear that voice screeching at us for the next 2 years and wall-to-wall coverage of every burp and fart out of her. No, right-wingin’ conservative nutballs, please…NO!
UPDATE:
Well, this is pure genius… “Spankin’ Sarah Palin: A clown short of a circus“!
If Sarah Palin is not some kind of a massive political joke in the USA, wheeled out to liven up the political scene from time to time with nonsensical and pastiche (one hopes) displays of sheer and utter ignorance, then it is worrying … she shows the tact of a boorish drunkard bawling obscenities at a funeral. … a real-life female version of Homer Simpson-cum-Belching Barney at Mo’s, giving us ever-more hilarious soundbites as she sets herself up as the dumbest woman on Earth.
Nice.
2010
Dumb-assery, Inc.
Ken Buck, the Colorado Tea Party candidate for the U.S. Senate, thinks birthers are dumbasses:
“Will you tell those dumbasses at the Tea Party to stop asking questions about birth certificates while I’m on the camera,” Buck said to the worker while laughing. “God, what am I supposed to do?”
Haha! You better start acting crazier, Mr. Buck, or you’re gonna lose your people!
2010
The Smartest People in America
2009
The 11/3 Project
Brilliant!
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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2009
Splashback!
Ah, and here it is! I had forgotten about the site onegoodmove, which I used to visit quite regularly. It has been a while, and so as I now see, it is my loss. You can see great clips like this one, or Al Franken kicking ass, or any number of things. Larry David = Genius.
2009
Urinating on Jesus!
I don’t have HBO so I’ll have to wait for this one, but it sounds pretty sweet:
At one point in the show, David goes to the bathroom in a Catholic home and splatters urine on a picture of Jesus; he doesn’t clean it off. Then a Catholic woman goes to the bathroom, sees the picture and concludes that Jesus is crying. She then summons her equally stupid mother and the two of them fall to their knees in prayer. When David and Jerry Seinfeld (playing himself) are asked if they ever experienced a miracle, David answers, “every erection is a miracle.”
That’s Catholic League sourpuss Bill Donahue commenting on the show. Man, I would love to have seen his face as he took that episode in!
2009
Freedom-Lovers
Glenn Greenwald reads a poll on Iran:
In the last ten years, the U.S. and Israel collectively have bombed at least six Muslim countries (including Gaza). Despite that, 40% of Americans want to attack yet another one, and 1/3 want to invade. Those are the same people who, if there is another terrorist attack on U.S. soil, will be walking around, eyebrows earnestly raised, innocent, self-righteous and confused, and asking: ”why do they hate us??” And their friends and neighbors and leaders will assure them: ”they hate us for our freedoms.”
Reminds me of the David Cross bit:
I don’t think Osama bin Laden sent those planes to attack us because he hated our freedom. I think he did it because of our support for Israel, our ties with the Saudi family and our military bases in Saudi Arabia. You know why I think that? Because that’s what he fucking said!
2009
Queer and Loathing in D.C.
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I could post these every day, sure, but really, this one brings up a good point: if 75,000 people march on Washington and Fox News doesn’t report it, did it really happen?
2009
We’re Gonna Have to Leave It There
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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