Tonight, Zach Galifianakis is hosting Saturday Night Live, and—if his monologue was any indication—we're in for a funny evening. Because he absolutely killed it. Hilarious stand-up jokes, awkward silences, and an Annie lip sync?! Like. A. Boss.
During last night's Real Time, Bill Maher decried shows like Secret Millionaire—which he claims "try and put a happy ending on America's enormous wealth disparity"—in a rant against the glamorization/idolization of the rich by the poor.
Take a picturesque location—Boulders Beach in South Africa, in this case—a brave little penguin, and a dash of suspenseful buildup, all set to Vangelis' "Chariots of Fire," and what do you get? You get one awesome animal video!
Demetri Martin plays with words and sings about random observations such as "Hiking is just walking where it's okay to pee."
If you can stomach it—I'm not exaggerating—here's the music video for teen "artist" Rebecca Black's "Friday," which has been exploding all over the Internet this weekend. My pug could write better lyrics. And my pug is dumb.
The two top content generators—er, editors at AOL's massively popular tech blog Engadget, Josh Topolsky (pictured) and Nilay Patel, have quit, according to All Things Digital. We were hoping for a juicy tale of combat with AOL's new content manager, Arianna Huffington's Blackberry, but the departure has more to do with AOL's lame corporatism. It can't be a coincidence that this comes just a month after new AOL boss Tim Armstrong unveiled his insane scheme to squeeze way more content and pageviews from fewer bloggers (aka "The AOL Way"). Well, here's fewer bloggers.
Wow! This must be seen to be believed. CNBC's Larry Kudlow talked about Japan's earthquake yesterday: "The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that." It's hard to say if this was a blooper or just a horrible thing he actually believes? Watch the video and judge for yourself. [Vanity Fair]
In this amazing video watch a gazelle play dead while a hyena and cheetah try to claim it. The gazelle outsmarts the two and skips its way to safety, no doubt becoming a local legend.
It's still unclear if the Japanese nuclear plant that exploded this morning is experiencing a meltdown or not. But it definitely is leaking radiation: Three out of 90 people tested in the town of Fukushima "show excess exposure to radiation," reports the Los Angeles Times. "The people had apparently been exposed as they waited outside a school for evacuation by helicopter."
Last year, 50 Cent decided he wanted to become a serious actor, and he dropped 54 pounds for the lead role in Things Fall Apart.
Quentin Tarantino is suing his neighbor, fellow Oscar winning writer Alan Ball over Ball's pet macaws, which "emit blood-curdling screams." Fair enough! But Tarantino's lawsuit is ridiculously worded, and starts off by quoting Goethe: "He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." Good grief. Here's more of the lawsuit:
Forget Batman! This guy is the real superhero, bringing parking lot thieves to justice one pee at a time.
If you're still unsure if Ferris Bueller is, indeed, a hipster, look no further than this video. Slow, striking music and carefully placed voice-overs frame Matthew Broderick in all his young, coming-of-age glory.
