The highlight of last night's Comedy Central Roast Of Larry The Cable Guy had to be Gary Busey's surprisingly-self-aware-but-still-crazy roast of himself. Guys, he knows!!:
(Via CC Insider.) It's not as genius as Norm MacDonald's Bob Saget roast, but, well, nothing is. (You can watch Gary's entire roast here.)
Posted by Lindsay at 12:45 PM in So Meta
Tags: Gary Busey | Larry The Cable Guy | Roasts
Stephen Colbert regularly mentions House, MD's Dr. Gregory House on his show, and last night House returned the attention by displaying a framed photo of Stephen Colbert on House's shelf:
Since Dr. House probably wouldn't have a framed photo of a famous comedian, I've decided that this means that House and "Stephen Colbert the character" are old best friends, and that the two shows exist in the same TV universe. House would be friends with a conservative blowhard TV host. It makes total sense! Done and done. (Via No Fact Zone, who've dug up some videos of Colbert mentioning House.)
Posted by Lindsay at 11:00 AM in So Meta
Tags: House | Hugh Laurie | Stephen Colbert | The Colbert Report
I didn't include this in SNL: Just The Funny Parts, because it isn't one, but in a Weekend Update segment this weekend, SNL made their stance on bloggers known with a mouth-breathing portrayal by Michaela Watkins. For anyone taking Intro To Rhetoric, this is a perfect example of a STRAW MAN:
Ugh. SNL, please put that segment into a time machine and send it back to 2005, where it would make sense as a parody of Perez Hilton instead of a transparent attempt to discount all online critics (pegging it to the Oscars was a nice distraction effort, though). While it's probably comforting for TV stars to tell themselves that everyone on the internet who criticizes them is a socially inept pajama-clad loser doing so from his or her parent's basement, the reality is that in 2009 that is just not true. (I changed into real clothes hours ago.) Seth Myers does know that all of his Weekend Update news jokes have already been made by bloggers by the time Saturday night rolls around, right? I mean, that's just a timing issue, but if he thinks he's not doing exactly what bloggers do but on TV, for ten minutes a week, and with twenty writers, he's kidding himself. On behalf of bloggers as a whole, I would like to say "Remember last fall when everyone finally started talking about you again? WE MADE THAT HAPPEN. And as your former Weekend Update co-host, who answered her anonymous online critics in a much classier and funnier way would say: you can suck it."
(HOWEVER, ALL OF THAT SAID, Michaela Watkins's portrayal is completely accurate if you change "blogger" to "YouTube commenter".)
Posted by Lindsay at 3:15 PM in Sketch Comedy, So Meta
Tags: Michaela Watkins | Saturday Night Live | Seth Meyers
Last night's How I Met Your Mother went crazy with the inside jokes and internet discoveries. There were at least three:
1. Ted's "Dr. X" college DJ persona
The gang makes fun of Ted for including his college stint as a "top secret" college radio DJ at Wesleyan as the mysterious "Dr. X" on his resume at age 30. Dr. X has a website, too, looking straight out of the '90s and featuring Josh Radnor's Dr. X rants about sweatshops, the "jocktocracy," and the Ivy League.
Continue reading How I Met Your Mother's Easter Eggs For The SuperFans...
Posted by Lindsay at 10:30 AM in Sitcoms, So Meta
Tags: Alyson Hannigan | Cobie Smulders | How I Met Your Mother | Jason Segel | Josh Radnor | Neil Patrick Harris
Continuing our meta tradition of bringing you the best of The Soup each Monday morning, it would be a shame if anyone missed what will hopefully become some sort of talk show inside joke (but probably not). McHale and team were paying attention last week when the Morning Show With Mike And Julia, during a show about drunk driving, mistakenly cut to, and lingered on, a picture of a cat eating spaghetti:
So far there are no answers as to why that picture was all cued up and ready to go, but let's just all insert this into our videos and TV shows from now on:
"It was, for lack of a better word: art."
Posted by Lindsay at 9:00 AM in Animals On Film, Bloopers, Daytime Talk Shows, So Meta
Tags: Cats | Spaghetti | The Soup
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