A while back, I asked the question about the first example in film of a person walking slowly away from a giant explosion. Almost a year later, I discover this video: This isn’t really the best of these musical sketches that Andy Sandberg does, but what I do like about this is all of the [...]
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Keith Stone
September 23rd, 2010
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So you’ve probably seen these Keystone Light commercials featuring Keith Stone. They’re amusing, but I always wondered why this trailer park dweller is supposed to be the epitome of smooth. I understand that incongruity can be funny, but the concept has, regardless, always been a head-scratcher for me. Thankfully, this blogger illuminates the matter. Apparently, [...]
Bill Maher Is a Racist
September 20th, 2010
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Well, no…he’s actually not. Or if he is, the fact that he used the word “nigger” on Larry King isn’t proof of that. Listen, I’m not a black man, and I don’t presume to speak for them, but Bill Maher’s use of the word was purely technical. It’s a word–an arrangement of letters to form [...]
More Auto-tuning
September 7th, 2010
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Another lazy post, but oh well. I’ve been lately browsing the auto-tuned videos on YouTube. There are a lot of people doing these, apparently, though I had no idea until I discovered the brilliant Auto-Tune the News series. I can’t say that the majority of other auto-tuning efforts work especially well, but there are a [...]
Dodged That Bullet
August 5th, 2010
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Whew. All these years of never smoking finally paid off. Okay, obviously, that was a joke from The Onion.
Auto-Tuned
August 4th, 2010
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I have to give credit to my brother Josh for leading me to this series of videos by posting “Bed Intruder” on Facebook. That was a real head-scratcher (I honestly couldn’t figure out if it was a real news story that had been mashed up or if it were merely some sort of off-color music [...]
I Wish Louis C.K.’s Shows Were as Funny as Louis C.K.
August 3rd, 2010
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First of all, I should say that if you’ve never seen Louis C.K.’s stand-up before, go watch any video on YouTube, and I can pretty much guarantee that if you have a sense of humor, you’re going to laugh. Probably, a lot. That said, his HBO sitcom, “Lucky Louie” was uneven at best and unfunny [...]
When Great Scenes are F’ed Up By Bad Editing
July 29th, 2010
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I watched a bit of Dumb and Dumber on television the other week–I think it was TNT–and they absolutely shat on the best scene in the movie with overzealous editing. If you excise Jim Carrey using a guy’s testicles as speed bags or ripping the chef’s heart out of his chest, you almost may as [...]
