Oh ye of little faith! All of you (okay, me too) thought that political comedy was going to be a little thin on the ground once Obama took office, right? WELL. Everyone on both sides of the playing field take note, cause there's plenty of funny in this story for everyone. Well, unless you're Dick Cheney. Then you're pretty much screwed.
So who is really making politicians sweat these days, and what is the White House doing in order to save face with this superpower? Whoever could it be???
I'll give you a hint: He's a snarky New Yorker on basic cable.
Shia LaBeouf has always reminded me of a younger Harrison Ford, except not as menstrual. Ford always seems crabby and I've rarely seen photos of him with a smile on his face. Maybe he's constipated a lot.
LaBeouf always seems amiable and gracious, yet he definitely exudes some sort of leading man appeal. A former Disney star ("Even Stevens") LaBeouf has transitioned well and with minimal awkwardness from that of child actor to adult actor. And he's half-cajun!
He recently appeared on the "Today" show to promote "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and a fangirl made it the one of the cutest interviews ever.
Oh, David Letterman. What are we going to do with you?
I mean, I applaud your willingness to go out on a limb for a joke. It's what makes you watchable, as opposed to, say, Jay Leno, who was never watchable, because, seriously. But then you go and make a joke that seems to mock child rape and you know, I think that that might have been a bit too much.
Here are two topics I don't care too much about: Jimmy Kimmel and Lil Wayne. They both seem like perfectly fine guys, but from an artistic standpoint, nothing that either of them has ever done has really appealed to me. But one aspect of Lil Wayne's recent appearance on Kimmel's show really has me skeeved out.
And now Diddy, Puffy, what the hell is his name, has weighed in to say he "did them a favor" by opening up his home for the Chris Brown and Rihanna reconciliation when he was interviewed on the Ellen Degeneres show yesterday. He also explained twitter during the interview. I have no idea how those two things go together.
Dan Abrams, the Chief Legal Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, recently called the long held presumption of innocence "hogwash." You know the presumption of innocence, the idea that someone is innocent until proven guilty. It comes out of something we Americans like to call the Constitution.
Then again, some of our former Presidents haven't read the Constitution. Why would we expect a newsman to have read it?
To be fair, Dan didn't say the entire presumption of innocence was
hogwash. Just the idea that the media has to abide by the presumption of
innocence is hogwash.
"Joaquin, I'm sorry you couldn't be here tonight," quipped Dave Letterman after one of the most bizarre interviews I've ever seen - even for Joaquin Phoenix.
Phoenix, Rick Rubin, and Alan Moore (the latter authored "Watchmen and "V for Vendetta") should start a hairy man club. Phoenix sat in his contrasting suit and scruff and fielded the majority of Letterman's questions with monosyllabic responses; Letterman admonished him: "I'll just come to your house and sit and chew gum" (Phoenix stuck it under his desk), and asked the actor-turned-"rapper" about his relationship with Ted Kaczynski. I thought the interview was very cringe-worthy, but despite Phoenix's best efforts, now more than ever, I'm totally not buying the New Joaquin.
Until now I've been completely uninterested in the story of the Octo-Mom for several reasons. So what if a woman wants to have a kerpillion children? I'm unperturbed unless we, as taxpayers, have to foot the bill for her loin fruit, in which case we are entitled to air our opinions. And then I caught her interview this morning.
Maybe it's just me, but when I saw Nadya Suleman the first thought in my head was "Oh WHO you fooling? You Angelina wannabe." This is the only way I can imagine how someone would justify having buttcheeks implanted horizontally to where their mouth should be.
Like most of you, I have mixed feelings re: one Milorad "Rod" R. Blagojevich, former God-Emperor of Illinois. On the one hand, I like the rest of you believe that he should be staked down in a desicated turnip field so that the worms might devour him alive. On the other...do you all remember the old Warner Bros. cartoons in which Wile E. Coyote actually spoke? There is a poignance there, seeing this poor wretched creature, so sure of himself, so completely in the grip of psychotic delusions of grandeur that he fails to see that Man and God and Fate and all of the Universe are arrayed against him. Blago is our Wile E. Coyote, a visionary brought low by the petty machinations of those not worthy to lick his Acme Jet-Powered Roller Skates. Last night, Rod Blagovich appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman. One could ask, "What was he thinking?" The question is moot. Following the jump, you can watch some of Letterman/Blagojevich, courtesy of the folks at The Huffington Post.
Oh, YAY. It's another literary liar. I LOVE these guys.
No, really, I do. I am endlessly fascinated with fakers, from Janet Cooke to James Frey to (oh my god my FAVORITE) Margaret Seltzer. Or perhaps I just kind of admire the incredible BALLS it requires to be all, "Yeah, I was an eight-year-old heroin addict who was saved from the Holocaust by a gang of East L.A. wolves who threw apples at me, and stuff. What part of that don't you believe?"
I'm a political junkie and love Meet The Press. I was devastated when Tim Russert died. Tom Brokaw has been doing a nice job pinch hitting since his death.
It was announced yesterday that David Gregory will be the new permanent host of Meet the Press by everyone except NBC. NBC refused to confirm that. But it was widely reported in the press.
Isis King, the pre-op trangendered contestant on this season of America's Next Top Model, is finally getting her sex reassignment surgery, and it was Miss Tyra herself who put the whole plan in motion.
I most remember Isis, who was eliminated early in the competition, not for being transgendered, but for her eyes. To me, they held the weight of the world, and it was the lack of vibrancy and life in her photographs that sent her packing from the competition. I hope that now she will really be able to, as Tyra says endlessly, "smile with her eyes."
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