Archive for October, 2006

SNL is Really Just Sad Now

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

I don’t even know who the “comedian” is playing Screech in this Weekend Update bit on the Screech sex tape, but nothing about it is right. Not even the costume. How hard is it to get a costume that looks like something Screech would wear? IT IS NOT HARD, LORNE MICHAELS. It is not hard at all. And the voice? Has he ever even seen a SBTB episode? Did someone just tell him “He sounds kind of like Kermit the Frog,” so he just went with a Kermit voice? The mannerisms are all wrong too. There is a cricket who lives on my patio who does a better Screech Powers.

YOU ARE NOT EVEN TRYING ANYMORE, NBC!

And if you still care, TMZ has a second clip from the actual video, featuring girls who are — you guessed it — way, way drunk.

FOX Programming Available on mySpace

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Come on, key demographics! Check them out here!

Available shows include “Bones,” “Prison Break,” “Standoff,” “Vanished,” “Talk Show With Spike Feresten,” “’Til Death,” “The Loop” and “Justice,” among others.

Shows will be streamed in high definition and are free, although non-skippable advertising is included. Users will be required to download a player to view the content.

[via TechCrunch]

Is Nick Carter Getting a Cut of These Sales? Debra LaFave’s Ex Has a Tell-All

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

The timing of this is a little too close for me not to become suspicious. Less than a week after Nick Carter dragged Debra LaFave’s name out of obscurity — admitting he lost his virginity to the Florida schoolteacher who was, years later, charged with having sex with her 14-year-old-student — LaFave’s ex-husband, Owen, begins his publicity tour for Gorgeous Disaster: The Shocking Story of Debra LaFave.

In the book, Owen says, “In hindsight, I made bad decisions. There were red flags. I put up with her emotional issues. She was pretty. I felt I had to save her . . . I guess I should have walked away.”

You have to admit it’s strange. Two weeks ago, no one remembered who Debra LaFave was, but last week she rode Nick Carter full-force into the blogosphere, priming us all for Owen’s book. Curious.

Paris Hilton Needs to Pay More Attention to Who Has a Camera When She’s Drunk Out of Her Head

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Because one of these days, she’s gonna pull a Kate Moss and get caught putting powder up her nose (please, God?).
More drunkie Paris (including an ass shot) here.

There is a Human Penis on a Dog in an Ikea Ad

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Those wacky Swedes!
[via MollyGood]

Anna Nicole’s Ex Files Paternity Suit

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Larry Birkhead has filed suit against Anna Nicole Smith in Los Angeles, hoping to compel the actress/model/trainwreck to return to the United States from the Bahamas so that a paternity test can be performed on her baby, Dannielynn Hope, who Birkhead claims to have fathered. Smith claims her baby daddy is her longtime attorney, Howard K. Stern.

Papers from the lawsuit are sealed, but rumor has it they contain an array of disturbing allegations against Anna Nicole, including that she has been taking methadone, a habit facilitated by Stern. Smith’s 20-year-old son, Daniel, died last month of a drug overdose involving methadone.

Birkhead has alleged for months that Anna Nicole moved to the Bahamas in order to avoid a paternity suit by Birkhead and to avoid being tested for drug use.

I guess we’ll just hang tight until someone leaks the court documents.

Okay So Here’s the Problem with Studio 60

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

It’s the same as the problem with Saturday Night Live.

The sketches aren’t funny.

Aaron Sorkin, we learn, has a weakness — other than crack cocaine, of course — and it’s sketch comedy. What makes the Sorkin thing work — fast-paced, pedantic, clipped dialogue — for whatever reason just doesn’t translate in the sketches on S60. I can’t quite pinpoint the problem, but I have a feeling Sorkin relies too heavily on an audience’s relationship with and empathy towards his characters, and you don’t get to build that in a sketch. Or maybe Sorkin himself relies too heavily on his own relationship with and empathy towards his characters, and he can’t write solid one-liners for two-dimensional characters he’ll never see again.

I gave him a pass last week on that Pirates of Penzance unfunniness, thinking he just had to get his feet under him, but it happened this week, again. I really, really like everything else about the show, but if the sketch comedy doesn’t actually become funny at some point, I’m going to have a lot of trouble tuning in each week to suspend my disbelief. Maybe time to change up your own writing staff, Aaron?

Update: America agrees with me. S60’s ratings are down 30% from its premiere, 17% from last week.

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