Hillary Clinton: modest American action hero
March 26, 2008
Perhaps you’ve been following the brouhaha over Hillary Clinton’s “misstatements” about the level of danger she faced in an official 90s visit to war-torn Bosnia. Well, internet diggers have been internet digging, and it turns out the former First Lady was self-effacingly understating the danger she faced. Modest, modest Hillary!
Big baby
March 24, 2008
Matumbo Goldberg is an adopted African baby who is not quite what his parents expected. Anthony Anderson lends his ample talents. More on creator Rob Pearlstein, who plays the clueless dad in the skit:
Rob’s writing/directing debut, Our Time Is Up, received an Oscar Nomination for Best Live Action Short Film for the 78th Academy Awards. He has sold screenplays to Universal Pictures, Focus Features and Working Title Films as well as television pilots to NBC, FOX, ABC, Jerry Bruckheimer Television, Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers and Lorne Michael’s Broadway Video Productions. Rob has also written episodes for the NBC series Medium and the Fox series The Inside. Previously, Rob wrote TV commercials and print and radio ads for agencies like TBWA Chiat/Day, Fallon, BBDO, Deutsch and MTV.
Gay Celebrity Dad Sex
March 20, 2008
Ba ha ha ha ha. Jonah Hill is dating Andy Samberg’s dad. Concept: 10. Execution: 9.75.
Get excited about The Internet!
March 19, 2008
Above: Presenting, the World Wide Web
Props to Gawker for excavating this museum-worthy introduction to THE INTERNET, which apparently can be used for learning, marketing, and just plain having fun.
Of course, you’ll need a device to access this video, and that device is a computer! (With at least 386 power and 8 megabytes of RAM… sorry, only billionaires need apply).
In other words, it’s impossible to stop quoting this video, which is not really sketch, but essentially is a sketch of itself.
Pay attention, idiots: here’s how to write
March 14, 2008
Writing can be pretty tough, between grammar, punctuation, and dragging your mouse all the way up to the Word toolbar to do a spell check (…what? You can just press F7? My productivity is tripled!) Anyways, its good for all of us writers that there’s someone out there who cares, someone to teach us all the important shortcuts to being a top-notch word delivery person.
Shitty Writing Tips is from Paul Rust, who is on the up and up:
Paul Rust is an actor, writer, and comedian living in Los Angeles. His writing credits include Adult Swim’s Moral Orel and MTV’s Human Giant. He will next appear in the feature film Semi-Pro starring Will Ferrell.
