Several years old, but no less amazing.
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Laughs »Roger Clark is a B Boy
Oh, how I love NY1! My friends may tease when it's blaring in the background when they stop by but they're just missing out on some amazing journalism by Roger Clark whose described on their a site as having “eaten prawn at seven in the morning” and by The Observer, (affectionately) as “The Last Schlub on TV“.
Even the stoic Lewis Dodley had to chuckle after seeing Roger's face turn a bizarre shade of out-of-shape-man red during an intense b-boy and b-girl session. Clark is like a dream character for Ed Helms, a likable, well intentioned nerd whose friends and family, I imagine must endure weekly cringe-fests at his latest on screen antics.
Like the time he was supposed to report on a major political round table where the president was meeting “with like, all kinds of people” and quoting Coming to America to an unamused Pat Kiernan. Or when he was trying to wrap his head around Rick Rolling. Or as he was patiently being taught how to scratch like a DJ.
While it's not updated, you can meet another fan of the man's doofus ways here at the I Heart Roger Clark blog.
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Posted on January 12, 2009
Laughs »Zach Galifianakis
I recommended the Seth Galifianakis clips from youtube awhile ago but had yet to see the entire Live From the Purple Onion special that it was pulled from. As a fan, it's almost an inforgivable offense. Fortunately, it's available for instant viewing on Netflix (who sponsered it) so, finally, we sat down to it tonight.
If an hour of jokes about, among many things: Natalie Merchant lazer shows, Noam Chomsky eating pussy, and Mort Sahl appeals to you, you are probably already a fan of this charming, unhinged and wonderfully bearded comedian. You've seen him in the infamous Absolut Vodka ads, singing with Fiona Apple, and robbing gravy. Here you can also watch as he chastises the audience, throws around amazing flirty faces, and dives into self deprecation about his celebrity and beer gut status.
Aside from his turn as Seth, a few quirky short films of him hanging out on a road trip dot the dvd, but it's his stand up that will have you laughing most.?I was particularly struck by his character “a five year old complaining about his beard.”
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Posted on January 5, 2009
Laughs »Soccer Fashion Show
You can always tell if a man is European on the train or a bar, whether the give away is a strange Navajo silver bracelet peaking out of his Wilson's leather (warning – can also be an indicator of a Rhode Islander) or any sort of soccer jersey, or lots of heady cologne, there's just always something different about them and this soccer fashion video is an extreme embodiment of the “differentness”.
First off, I love the fashions, and not ironically. I had enough years of high school boys in the nineties accidentally flashing their balls in Umbros to turn me off from a baggy shorts forever, and you all know how I feel about the Kevin Smith style, yet even baggier variety that followed. No, just like I prefer tightie whities and facial and chest hair of the seventies, I prefer a short short and knee highs in Mork and Mindy color palettes. I guess in some ways I was born in the wrong decade.
Second, the dancing is phenomenal. They're all so jolly and those moves are truly unique, each man that struts down the line has a signature move. I emailed the video to Jim telling him he should pick up some moves from it. He wrote back that he though they were his moves. So maybe I am in the right decade after all.
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Posted on December 28, 2008
Laughs »All I Want For Christmas…
Paul Rayment's yule tide sentiment seems to be that it's better to receive, as long as you receive that “remote control megabot ranger x-series with proton phasers” you've been wanting.
His fun neon animation, which he also used in the Super Furry Animals Drygioni music video reminds me of Miami Vice, Keith Haring, Tim Biskup's helper character, and Harold's Purple Crayon.
Music by the timeless Nat King Cole.
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Posted on December 22, 2008
Laughs »Lego Runway Show
JC de Castelbajac has always been a royally delightful nut and he shows no signs of toning things down with this Lego presentation of his Spring/Summer 3001 Collection. It's bright, it's surreal, it's got a Lego version of (the perhaps the soon to be former editor of Vogue??) Anna Wintour! I love the finishing moves each dolled up toy top model makes at the end of the runway in their bone dresses, Kiss makeup, and retro nineties catchphrases.
The animation was broadcast on French channels during Paris Fashion Week.
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Posted on December 15, 2008
Laughs »Gino the Ginny
I’ll be honest, the set up is a lot funnier than the videos themselves – be prepared for a wealth of bad titles and horrible club music. A couple of months back, my old co-worker Cody described the self-anointed YouTube sensation kind of like this (only Cody would affect a pretty good Long/Staten Island accent from time to time to emphasize the cultural criticism):
“It’s a 12-year-old kid imitating his older brother, who is a total Guido. He’s wearing a tank top and a gold chain and his hair is blown out and he talks about going to clubs, pumping mega-mixes, and taking ecstasy.”
It sounds hilarious, right? And it is, to a degree. He shouts things like, “If I’m not VIP, I’m fucking out of here!” and “Who’s DJing tonight? DJ Go-Fuck-Yourself!” Which is pretty funny; but the clips aren’t short and the lack of brevity kind of deflates the concept after a little while.
But this clip of Guido fashion police is pretty awesome: Get Juiced!
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Posted on December 8, 2008
Laughs »Once upon a time…
I love little kids of all ages, but my favorite age is about three, when they can't stop talking fun time nonsense. This unbelievably adorable video features, “A breathtaking story by [a French toddler named] Capucine. Starring baby monkeys lost in frightening trees, a witch, crocodiles, a tiger, a “popotamus” and a lion, and even a “tremendously very bad mammoth”. There are also magic powers and an orange ring, but sometimes, “something goes amiss”.”
t makes me laugh and want to be a mommy.
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Posted on December 1, 2008
Laughs »Cool As Ice
It's up to you how much of this thing you actually want to watch. I say “thing” because it in no way qualifies as a movie. It's more of a mash-up of mildly multi-racial 90's breakfast snack commercials, C + C Music Factory videos, and total nonsense, with a little Steven Seagal thrown in, e.g. lazy man's fighting in customized jackets.
In Ice's case, whose character in the film is a “teen” called “Johnny”, the jacket is over sized black pleather with the words “Lust”, “Danger”, “Sex”, “Dancer” and, Jim Jarmusch will be happy to learn, “Down by Law” appliqued all over it. Oh, yeah — and it also says “Yep Yep” on the shoulder, which is apparently a catch phrase of the man's because he says it many times throughout the film.
The story is as thin as an episode of Zack and Cody: the Suite Life, Lizzie McGuire, Boy Meets World (take your pick depending on your generation). There's a kidnapping sub-plot that Vanilla solves in both the laziest way possible (by brilliantly managing to recognize a sound he heard mere hours before), and the most inexplicable way possible (riding his crotch rocket up several flights of stairs — silently).
Most of the running time is devoted either to musical montages (some quite romantic) or a critique, from the artist's point, of nerdy and up-tight white Americans, all of whom stand around dazed and slack jawed at the very sight of Vanilla Ice and his crew of neutered urban dancers. It's very hard to take criticism leveled at the “squares” too seriously when it comes from a shirtless man wearing unbuckled shortalls emblazoned with the words “Oh Yeah” on the butt (“Oh Yeah” is purposefully stitched upside down on the inside so that it's readable when the shortalls are unbuckled at the top and hang from the waist) and a black fanny pack. Yep, yep.
I believe that this really is how he viewed the world, only he assumed that everyone was staring in awe and respect rather than complete dumbfoundedness. If you don't believe he was delusional, just take a look at the poster. It's almost cute the way it says, “Starring in his First Motion Picture” as if there were actually more to come.
I want to say I'm sorry to Kristin Minter who plays the love interest “Kat” A/K/A “College Girl”. What a horrible way to begin and end a career; between the fleshy legs of Robert Van Winkle on a neon yellow crotch rocket in the desert clad in a stone-washed jean jacket and a sunflower dress with a pair of biker shorts underneath (remember when girls used to do that?).
I want to expressly say that I'm not sorry to Naomi Campbell, who opens up the “movie” with this “song”. I think it's unfair that this performance is never brought up in articles about how she beats up hired help.
I'd like to conclude this entry the same way Vanilla Ice ends the movie — no not in a suit that cannot be explained, but with these profound words of wisdom: “I am O-U-T, out and forget all that peace stuff cause I ain't wit it!”
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Posted on November 24, 2008
Laughs »Ricky Gervais Out of England
Filmed in Madison Square Garden, Ricky Gervais' stand up comedy special, Out of England, begins with Elvis like fanfare: his name in giant lights, pyrotechnics, a crown, and a velvet cape. It quickly turns less extravagant as his sips on a Fosters (a large can he points out, in case people watching think he's a dwarf) and begins borderline offensive jokes about cancer and obesity. He manages to never quite cross the line and I found myself laughing at things that are usually off limits.
That's part of the undeniable charm of Ricky Gervais, on one side he is witty and almost philosophical – a man intrigued by the world around him and dismayed by the idiocy within it. On the other hand, he can just seem like a complete asshole, and not just to play a part. Both personas are on display here as he jokes equally about alternatives for anal sex and the logistics of Humpty Dumpty.
Actually, his surprisingly less off color jokes, mostly to do with nursery rhymes (in a very non Andrew Dice Clay way) and animal facts were some of the best part of the show.
As a wildly successful television star (if at this point you still haven't seen the original version of The Office, I won't tell anyone if you promise to just quietly rent them immediately) he manages to make the leap to stand up pretty well. I thought it usually went the other way. If you're a fan, this special is a must see. If you're not a fan, I hope you don't offend too easily. It airs again tonight on HBO 2 at 10:00 and, if I know HBO quite a few more times after that.