It's been so long since Conan O'Brien had real writers that we forgot that he can deliver their lines in a funny way. In this clip, he sets up one of his production assistants with an insurance salesman. If you spent last night in your pajamas, eating chocolate ice cream, maybe Conan find a match for you next.
Liam Gallagher married his longtime GF, Nicole Appleton yesterday. If you think marrying on Valentine's Day is cheesy, you should consider that Gallagher's son with his first wife is named Lennon.
We were wrong. At first we thought the Gary "Whatcha Talkin' About Willis" Coleman marriage was just the product of a slow news day. But people love hearing about a former child actor with chronic kidney problems marrying a 5'6" redhead. At least that's what we're told. So enjoy the clip below. The part with Gary asking if his wife is warm enough at the end is our favorite.
Remember that "special episode" of Saved By The Bell where they discover oil underneath the football field? And because of the the environmentally related death of the duck Becky, the gang realizes there are things more important things than money, like school spirit? Also, remember There Will Be Blood, that movie no one can stop talking about? Well, this is an effective mash-up of the two:
As if Michael Jackson, the person, didn't do enough to destroy the legacy of Thriller, Michael Jackson, the artist, is doing his part. "For All Time," a track that was wisely kept off Thriller 25 years ago, is going to be added for the anniversary edition.
We didn't go to business school or anything, but adding tracks no one would download illegally is a lousy strategy to increase record sales.
Angelina Jolie took a little vakay to Iraq. We can’t believe she was able to break away from her human rights charity case family for the trip. Brad's probably left with the kids again.
Too bad she can’t speak on health care. Americans don’t really care about Iraq anymore. After all, that war only affects poor people.
We've been kind of obsessed with Celine Dion since Titanic. Just kidding, we never saw Titanic. Even in high school, we could tell we would have long-lasting street cred if we never saw it. And weren't we right?
But since reading, Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, a book about the Celine Dion phenomenon, we have been kind of obsessed with her. The video below featuring an actress playing Celine Dion as a fitness instructor doesn't take you, or your heart, anywhere Ana Gasteyer didn't. But still, Celine Dion and her popularity are so weird, it's worth a look.
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For all his talents, Stevie Wonder is still blind. Which makes us wonder why Michelle Obama would let him lead her on stage. The result: a celebrity take down. We trip over carpet, so we're not abstain from judgment, but you guys go ahead.
On a cold Saturday in New York City, the world’s largest train station came to a sudden halt. Over 200 Improv Everywhere Agents froze in place at the exact same second for five minutes in the Main Concourse of Grand Central Station.
Improv Everywhere made a good decision not staging this during a weekday. Lawyers from Westchester have no patience for absurdist art.
[via Gothamist]
Have you heard? Sunday is the Super Bowl. It’s not a regular bowl game. It’s a super one.
To build hype for the Most Important Sport Event Ever, for the past two weeks we’ve been bombarded with touching locker room pieces and less touching stalkings of Tom Brady and Giselle.
But the real game going on is the advertising game. The Super Bowl really is the Most Important Sport Event Ever, at least in terms of ratings. Consequently, Super Bowl ads this year are going for an average of $2.7 million.
But that’s nothing when you consider all the hype having a Super Bowl ad brings a company. Above is an ad we voluntarily put up for Pepsi. Think about that for a second. We’re putting up an advertisement for a soft drink we don’t even like because we think you, the reader, are interested in it. And somehow you are. We are, too.
For $2.7 million, Pepsi didn’t just buy a captive audience. They bought an adoring one. Anyone want a soda?
At the circulation department of a certain liberal magazine they have an expression: "What's bad for the country is good for The Nation." The same could be said for Keith Olbermann, but since Olbermann isn't a synonym for country, it doesn't work as well.
Ratings have been up for K.O. since George Bush … well, you know what happened in the past seven years. But ratings aren't enough for Olbermann. He wants civil liberties, too. This man is insatiable.
Heath Ledger's death has left us all feeling a bit sad and awkward. And we never met him. Imagine how sad and awkward Mary-Kate Olsen feels.
Even though Ledger's masseuse called Mary-Kate an inappropriate amount of times, she's not will not be involved in the investigation according to police commissioner Ray Kelly:
There is absolutely no indication that investigators were going to speak to Mary-Kate Olsen. … They determined that they had all the information needed, by the witnesses who were on the scene.
Well, things would have certainly been more awkward for MKO is they were questioning her about her ex-party friend's death.
In other Heath Ledger Is Dead! news, Daniel Day Lewis dedicated his Screen Actors Guild award to the actor. Video after the jump.
As if recent pictures of Amy Winehouse weren't enough proof, The Sun has a video of Amy Winehouse doing crack, coke and ecstasy.
The tormented singing sensation took hit after hit of the deadly drug after a 19-minute binge in which she snorted powdered ecstasy and cocaine.
And she admitted she had just popped six Valium pills to “bring myself down”.
Kate Moss snorting coke on tape had some glamor to it; see her follow-up cover on Vanity Fair. Amy Winehouse doing crack is a DARE ad.
Americans are always feeling bad about being fat. So they buy a book about getting skinny. But these books are stupid and people just get fatter. So they another one, and the cycle continues. This system might help the publishing industry, but as the video above proves, doesn't do much for you.
[via GalleyCat]
If you don't have time to watch, here's our summary:
• With Oprah's Obama endorsement, less exciting politicians and less talented talk show hosts make due with the scraps.
• Women: Hillary can relate to you about having a philandering husband, which equals if she becomes president, there will be peace in the Middle East.
• Hillary is her own woman. Staying married to a serial cheater is a decision she made for herself. But because of the 19th amendment, that choice is up to you.
Michigan's native son, Mitt Romney, had some words with AP reporter Glen Johnson over lobbyists' role in his campaign. The actual fight is a little elementary school—"did so" "did not"—but the South Carolina Target has all the atmosphere of the Atlantic Yards one.
Clips like this make us realize that War Room would have been twice as long if Bill Clinton had ran in the YouTube era. We're sure he said some inappropriate things to reporters in between charming the pants off of them.
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