Television: September 2008 Archives
* Bravo is developing a new reality show spun off from the essay collection about fags and their hags, "Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys." Whether the show will be a docu-series or a competition remains to be seen; AfterElton has some speculation on the matter.
* Fey Fave Sarah Michelle Gellar was at Seaworld where she petted the dolphin! (via JustJared)
* Sarah Palin and John McCain had a nice little sitdown with Katie Couric in which John McCain played the role of Daddy Protector to a nauseatingly anti-woman 'T.' In case you can't bear to watch, yes Sarah Palin looked just as stupid and unprepared as ever.
* At the prodding of some Fox News halfwits, McCain suggests he may suspend his campaign once again. Well it worked so well the last time!
* Today's polls for Barack Obama are very encouraging. (via 538)
* Are we facing a complete LIBERAL REALIGNMENT in America? This guy AND this guy AND this guy think we might be...and these guys are hardly liberals themselves. YAY!
* Introducing The Jitterbug, the cellphone for old blindos! (PoeTV)
This Saturday, at the invitation of our friend Connie Klein, me and JMZZ got to sit in the pit at a SNL taping. Connie (she's a writer for the show) set aside a pair of tickets for us because she knows what a big Anna Faris fan I am, but good as Faris was, Wiig was even better. Not only was she a star or featured player in virtually every skit, she also warmed up the crowd by singing a persuasively sexy and rocking rendition of "Hanging on the Telephone!" That's like tied with 11:59 as my fave Blondie song!
I even have a SCOOP from the set! As Kristen Wiig performed her Judy Grimes skit on Weekend Update I overheard someone affiliated with the show talking about how amazing she is, and how she is clearly the heir to Amy Poehler's title of Reigning Queen of SNL. Wait, what? Everybody knows that that's how Wiig is perceived both inside and outside SNL? Oh. And also, I didn't really see the guy who said it, so for all I know he might have been a grip. Come to think, he may've just been an audience member.
But still: reportage! My first ever!
For more Wiig analysis and a totally not exclusive Wiig clip from last night's SNL, click on the pressy!
How did everyone miss this? In last night's PRESIDENTIAL debate, when Obama called McCain out on his foolish opposition to holding a meeting with the prime minister of Spain b/c he's a Mexican terrorist, McCain CUSSES HIM OUT! He called Obama's TRUE claim "HORSESHIT"!!!!!
Swing voters h8 swearing. On the other hand, Republicans might think "yay, he's a hateful, erratic, bitter old white man, just like us!"
Can the FCC plz fine McCain ASAP??!
UPDATE: Maybe he is saying "WARSHINGTON."
From Variety:
A New York judge granted a preliminary injunction on Friday, temporarily barring the Weinstein Co. from moving the reality series "Project Runway" from Bravo to Lifetime or marketing any such move.
The ruling puts the fate of the show, which is currently skedded to bow its sixth season on Lifetime in January, in limbo. Production is continuing in Los Angeles, however.
"The overwhelming evidence demonstrated that The Weinstein Company violated NBC Universal's right of first refusal to future cycles of 'Project Runway,' " NBC U said in a statement. "After hearing all of the evidence, the court issued an order prohibiting The Weinstein Company from taking the show or any spinoff to Lifetime."
The weird part is that even I, who know next to nothing about entertainment law, could see this coming. The whole thing was obviously a desperate, impulsive, and contract-violating move on Weinstein's part, who obvs just wanted to squeeze every last possible cent out of the franchise to boost his flagging fortunes with no regard to his credibility or to the legitimacy of his claims. If you're wondering if I'm building up to making a very forced comparison with this guy...you'd be right. I'll stop.
Click the linky for the unfortunately kind of safe for work dick slip pic.
Remember this coffeehouse dyke from the mid-90s? The one you thought might get famous one day for writing a bitching feminist zine or maybe an underground comic? Can you believe she grew up to become a shiny, post-Ellen powerhouse of a MSM pundit? With her own show?
I am so proud of Maddow. Scratch that: I am so proud OF US.(image via Gawker)
According to this ad for Friday Night Lights. Or maybe that's more of a Moses pose? Either way, Bmad is so going to use this utterly retarded promo as supporting evidence for his "FNL is totes lame" theory.
(h/t Videogum)
Did anyone watch 90210 last night? I know, I know-- it sucks ballz. But I watched it anyway and how old and decrepit did BRENDA WALSH look!? I guess you have to give her credit for totally not having any plastic surgery. She looked like bloated grandma! And also why have I never noticed the gap in her front teeth? Well, she's still beautiful-- just beautiful and wrinkly and looking like she's a month late for an AA meeting.
If anyone has any screen captures of Doherty from last night, please send to bmad AT feyfriends DAWT com
A Shouts and Murmurs that is not insufferably zzzzzzzzzzz? Can it be? I never thought this would happen in my lifetime. Thank God for genius daddy bear George Saunders, whose exploration of lipstick, pigs and dog collars in this week's New Yorker is a total LOL-a-thon:
So, when Barack Obama says he will put some lipstick on my pig, I am, like, Are you calling me a pig? If so, thanks! Pigs are the most non-Élite of all barnyard animals. And also, if you put lipstick on my pig, do you know what the difference will be between that pig and a pit bull? I’ll tell you: a pit bull can easily kill a pig. And, as the pig dies, guess what the Hockey Mom is doing? Going to her car, putting on more lipstick, so that, upon returning, finding that pig dead, she once again looks identical to that pit bull, which, staying on mission, the two of them step over the dead pig, looking exactly like twins, except the pit bull is scratching his lower ass with one frantic leg, whereas the Hockey Mom is carrying an extra hockey stick in case Todd breaks his again. But both are going, like, Ha ha, where’s that dumb pig now? Dead, that’s who, and also: not a smidge of lipstick.
Oh, PoeTV. I promise to stop ceaselessly plundering your wares just as soon as you stop putting up such irresistible, theft-worthy clips.
In an on-the-scene report covering the TOTAL COLLAPSE of the American financial sector, two men, according to CNN anchor Kiran Chetry, "make light of a bad situation" by "pretending to console each other." It sure looks real to me! And by "real," I mean HAWT!
From Huff Po
Corporate failure and McCain shill Carly Fiorina is calling the waaambulance again! According to Carly, everything is totally SEXIST. First it was the Democratic Party's treatment of her new favorite trailblazer Hillary Clinton, then it was Lipstickonapiggate, and now it's Saturday Night Live.
MITCHELL: You are the first person from the McCain campaign I can ask, what did you think of Tina Fey as Sarah Palin?
FIORINA: Well, I think that she looked a bit like her. I think that, of course, the portrait was very dismissive of the substance of Sarah Palin, and so in that sense, they were defining Hillary Clinton as very substantive, and Sarah Palin as totally superficial. I think that continues the line of argument that is disrespectful in the extreme, and yes, I would say, sexist in the sense that just because Sarah Palin has different views than Hillary Clinton does not mean that she lacks substance. She has a lot of substance.
Gimme a break! Sexist? Disrespectful in the extreme? A LOT OF SUBSTANCE??!
Is anyone besides me going to point out that Carly Fiorina is RACIST for serially lying about Barack Obama's record? What about Carly's own record as CEO of Hewlett Packard? Sorry to be SEXIST, but Fiorina laid off 18,000 American workers and after she was "spectacularly" fired, received a $42 million golden parachute. But she will not be held hostage to the Democrats on abortion, thank you very much!
Does this person have any idea what sexism is? Maybe Carly and her fellow GOP feminists should heed the advice of Amy Poehler/Hillary Clinton and grow a pair!
Does anybody hear me? Does anybody hear me? Cause I don't. Cause I've lost my hearing!!!!
Poor Shannen Doherty! Has she gone deaf?? Yesterday's Shannen/Shenae controversy reminded me that FRIENDS TIL THE END is truly one of the greatest films of all times. It comes from that glorious period of the post-grunge era when all that was good and true about the early 90's had trickled down in the crassest possible way, and what you wound up with was Brenda Walsh channeling Alanis while singing bizarre socially conscious (yet strangely catchy!) schlock-rock ballads in a floral print Jane Pratt babydoll dress. That sounds horrible, right!?
WRONG! IT'S COMPLETELY AWESOME.
By the way, the plot of this movie is also really good as you will see if you watch the above clip.
"I feel completely f---ed over." That was fey hero Nancy Wilson's reaction to the Republicans' unauthorized use of Heart's "Barracuda" last night to revive the audience from John McCain's coma-inducingly boring speech.
The Wilsons' statement from EW:
"Sarah Palin's views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song 'Barracuda' no longer be used to promote her image. The song 'Barracuda' was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The 'barracuda' represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there's irony in Republican strategists' choice to make use of it there."
Aren't they Canadian women? Jake Tapper also notes the oddness of the song choice considering it's lyrics.
If the real thing don’t do the trick/No, you better make up something quick/You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn it to the wick/Ooooooohhhh, barra barracuda."
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