No matter how you feel about Sarah Palin's treatment by the press during and after the electoral landscape, I would like to invite you to make heads or tails of this video, without the jaded lens of the media pundits talking over her or asking any tough questions about newspapers or NAFTA, and just…listen to her. Do her sentences ever end? Sometimes I think I'm crazy because she sounds like she's making sense, but then I realize she's just using and reusing the same prepositional phrase over and over, and never ending her statement.
Says Cajun Boy:
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Queerty commenter Michael alerted us to this super-duper pressingly important PSA from the Upright Citizen's Brigade that all Prop. 8 supporters should see. It's important now that they've won one battle, that they be ideologically consistent with their beliefs and make marriage safe by eliminating the family-destroying, children's-tears-inducing world of divorce.
So … we're still figuring this out. There's something called Legally Brown: The Search For The Next Piragua Guy, which looks like a web-only spoof that's supposedly casting for a bit part of Broadway musical In The Heights. "Dozens of people" auditioned. It's a take off of MTV's reality show Legally Blonde: The Search for the Next Elle Woods, which crowned Bailey Hanks the winner, only to see her show get canceled.
From the videos we watched, well, it's sort of funny, mostly because its creators got actual Broadway stars involved, including the likes of Allison Janney (of new Dolly Parton show 9 To 5) and Cheyenne Jackson (he of the also-closing Xanadu), as well as Legally Blonde's judge Bernie Telsey to reprise his role. That, and you don't need to be a total theatre geek to get the jokes.
Below, the project's trailer, which reminds viewers that each of the contestants, who are on Broadway, have a chance to be on Broadway. CONTINUED »
Haha. So remember that time we caught Bill O'Reilly, back when he was at Inside Edition, rehearsing off-air for his broadcast while the camera was still recording? And he said things like, "I'll fuckin' do it live"?
Well.
Here is Jeopardy host Alex Trebek, from some unknown year — but circa when his hair had color — where he was hosting a telethon … drunk. Be forewarned — some of the language is NSFW, NSFH. Like this: "There's a daily cash prize of one thousand dollars and, fuck!" CONTINUED »
"Frat brother" and "avid hunter" Clay Aiken's coming out surprised only two groups of people: His alarmingly proactive fleet of obsessive fans known as Claymates, and those who knew him best from his days of pussy prowling in his youth. CONTINUED »
Please don't hit the volunteers on the street asking you to sign a petition to support gay rights. Please don't hit the volunteers on the street asking you to register to vote. Please don't hit the volunteers on the street asking you to donate to the homeless. But please feel free to hit this guy. He's Neg from Balls of Steel, and he deserves it. CONTINUED »
Oh it's viral marketing week already? That lovely time of year when you imagine all the modern mad men sit around their offices and discuss how to market their products to a bunch of kids who have zero interest in being told what to do.
So firms spend X amount of dollars on marketing strategists, teen focus groups, and the latest pop culture analysts, and if they are Wendy's, they end up with a finished product that looks a little something like this:
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If you're going to create a list of Ann Coulter's craziest moments, is it really fair to stop at … 11? No. That's like saying you're satisfied with only one clip of Bill O'Reilly flipping out in front of the camera, when what you really want is an entire HD channel devoted to the cause. But between almost getting pied on stage to storming off the set of Hannity & Colmes, there's enough in here to keep you entertained for entire moments. Perhaps our favorite on-air Coulter moment, however, is when Elizabeth Edwards schooled the bitch. [SJ]
"Miss Hilton was neither asked, nor did she give permission, for the use of her likeness in the ad, and has no further comment," Paris Hilton's rep said in a statement last week.
This week? She has further comment.
(And meanwhile, it wasn't McCain who first compared Obama to Hilton. It was Obama himself, in a 2005 WaPo article.)
They didn't try fooling you into believing a cell phone could pop corn. They didn't try pretending a German town wanted to launch a car across the Atlantic. They didn't try passing off a movie promo as security camera footage of an office freak out. And they didn't try to encourage stalking women.
Instead, Staple's took a hidden camera cue from Burger King to create this series of excellent viral videos — where a guy tries to pay for things with pennies — plugging its back-to-school shopping event. Two more videos worth complimenting, below. CONTINUED »
Did you know Fox News publishes an Internet magazine? WE DID NOT. It is called iMag, and it includes a lot of video content you'd expect to see from a women's magazine. We know this because we watched several of their video clips and started feeling bad about ourselves.
But that doesn't mean we understand what iMag is for. Or who it's for. But who cares when there's content like … this office makeover? It's part of Fox News' editorial mission to not only make crazy right-wingers feel normal, but bland people seem interesting.
The media is in love with Barack Obama! But according to another version of things, the media is attacking him! And they should totes leave him alone. Everything Is Upside Down website Slate has reimagined this scenario with a visual that's one-part barely clever, nine-parts not worth swallowing, with this Chris Crocker parody. He, of "Leave Britney Alone" cewebrity. Slate, of the "Arguing Against Common Sense" editorial policy.
Ugh.
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Sex kitten Rachel Kramer Bussel, who writes for publications with "Pent" and "house" in their titles, tried exploiting this whole web video thing everybody is talking about to promote the erotic book Spanked that she's editing. So she uploaded a promo teaser to four video sharing sites: Vimeo, Flickr, YouTube, and Blip. In the clip, Bussel shows you just what to expect inside the pages of Spanked, namely, spankings — with books, rulers, hands, frat paddles, and even a copy of Spanked. If the book doesn't move on Nielsen BookScan's charts, at least it'll be an example in the standards policies of each of the sites. CONTINUED »
Chris Ciccone wrapped up his two-part interview today on Good Morning America with a smile on his face and a new batch of insults for his sister Madonna. For someone who claims to love his sibling, he sure has an interesting way of showing it. And as for hope that the two will reconcile, Chris says that depends on whether Guy Ritchie cleans up his act. Because this rift between Chris and Madonna has nothing to do with this stupid tell-all book that he admits is all about the money.
Harry Shearer, who brought you the Katie Couric clip reel, is back with not-for-air footage from Laura Ingraham, the Fox News fill-in who scored her own show in June that is, uh, already finished. "Jesus, God in heaven," Ingraham can be heard saying, in between complaining about the proper spelling of the word "the" and yelling at a "Jessica" about how "ridiculous" some of their screw ups have been. And where's Tom? And don't come in her ear.
Not only is storm chasing a rabid hobby, but it's a career subject to the same "professional jealousy" as other industry where dollars and reputations are on the line! In, in language we can understand: Opportunities for gossip that's rife scandal!
As a doctored tornado video — supposedly of a Nebraska tornado last week, but more likely of a a Kansas tornado filmed four years ago with some haphazard editing — made the rounds to some 2,000 websites and 60 digital customers through distribution from Associated Press, blame is being thrown about every which way.
The AP blamed Andy Fabel, who they paid $295 for the video, for faking the clip after fellow storm chaser Dan Robinson of Appalachian Skies Media called foul. But Fabel insists the footage isn't doctored, and that he's being accused of faking it because people like Robinson are jealous of his "success." CONTINUED »
The Associated Press has pulled video footage of a Nebraska tornado that touched down last week after its authenticity has been questioned. The footage is, likely, taken from a Kansas tornado filmed four years ago, with the clip flipped horizontally, sped up, with power lines added and trees removed. The AP had paid storm chaser Andy Fabel an astronomical $295 for the clip. They will likely want their money back. [AP]
And so it is, the return of the viral video onslaught. This spot, so obviously from Adidas (promoting its Ajax shirt), is shot in the public square in Amsterdam's Leidseplein district. We're only about six days in, so don't judge the video's mere 60,000 views as a measure of success, or failure, just yet. But it's a clever video, and we enjoyed watching it, and it's the type of thing worth emailing to your friends or posting to Fark. And most importantly, it doesn't leave you looking stupid as you try to guess whether some fanboy orchestrated the whole thing, or a guerilla marketing agency.
It's hard to tell where the parody of morning shows like Today and Good Morning America ends and the parody of Nancy Grace begins. But so long as you spend your tax rebate cheque at Home Depot and start stimulating this here economy, does it really matter?
Oh this is just brilliant. "Project Make McCain Exciting: Gray Ambition," a mash up between Madonna's "Vogue" and the Republican presidential hopeful's talking points, is exactly what Internetphobe John McCain needs to reach the progressive Web savvy set. Funny, because it's also what Madonna needs to reach conservative crowd.
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