Russell Brand's MTV Movie Awards Monologue Hits All the Predictable Notes
Matt Toder · 06/03/12 09:19PMKardashian joke? Check. Hunger Games and Twilight? Check? Michael Fassbender's Penis? Check.
Kardashian joke? Check. Hunger Games and Twilight? Check? Michael Fassbender's Penis? Check.
Facebook's terms of service are a modern soporific miracle. They are so blindingly dull that I fell out of my chair into a near-coma after struggling through the first paragraph just now. But take these bath salts to stay alert and follow me: Now is your chance to vote on the Facebook terms of service that nobody reads even though we all know we should.
On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert took a look at the recent revelations surrounding Obama's "kill list," and all the logical leaps that keep down the stats about civilian deaths. Turns out these numbers are pretty easy to rig as long as you completely divorce yourself from reality first.
On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart expressed some concerns over Mayor Mike Bloomberg's soda ban. The problem, as Stewart sees it, is that killing ourselves through terrible diets is basically a New York tradition, and until someone puts a limit on the amount of roast beef we can shovel down our throats, we should at least be able to wash it all down.
On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart was given a gift from the comedy gods: the re-emergence of Donald Trump and his birther claims. Trump and his ridiculousness is truly a gift that just keeps giving.
Poor people: why are they poor and dissolute? In this modern age of electrical light-bulbs, horseless carriages, and the inter-net, what excuse hath any man for being less than prosperous? Today, even those of modest means can possess a cell phone, a television, and a "Google" machine that possesses many times the knowledge of the fabled Library of Alexandria. Why haven't our nation's paupers taken advantage of these capabilities to catapult themselves into the upper class?
Real-life The Matrix extra Julian Assange lost his extradition appeal today, as Britain's highest court ruled that he can be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. For the past year and a half Assange has been under house arrest fighting the European arrest warrant against him because it's "invalid" and also he really, really doesn't want to go to prison.
Socialism has become an often used epithet by Fox News types when needing to bash Obama. As Jon Stewart points out on tonight's Daily Show, there's just a wee bit of hypocrisy in these attacks as many people on the right, Mitt Romney especially, have espoused socialist views, just about different things.
How stupid is tinted meatball Donald Trump? So stupid that Wolf Blitzer — Wolf Blitzer! — made him look like a fool on CNN. A partial transcript:
These two really, unbelievably gruesome photos, allegedly of the Miami man whose face was partially eaten off over Memorial Day weekend, have been circulating around the internet, because the sight of rended flesh is a visceral reminder of the unbearably thin dividing line between life and death, and also because they're really fucking gross.
Yet another earthquake hit the Emilia Romagna region of Italy on Tuesday morning, killing at least ten people around Modena and burying several others in rubble. Last Sunday, a 6.0 magnitude quake killed seven and destroyed 300,000 wheels of cheese; several historic buildings in Cavezzo and other towns have since collapsed.
On tonight's Real Time, Bill Maher closed with a rant about the claim that President Obama is radical in his views. It makes little sense to Maher that the right has such a problem with Obama when Obama hasn't exactly been the bastion of liberal ideology some thought he would be.
Tonight was the premiere of a new TBS sitcom about four dudes who just hang out, get drunk and hook up. Men at Work was, believe it or not, created by actor Breckin Meyer and it shows. Here's the pilot's most bro-tactular observations about sex, drugs and friendship.