This Kid Playing T.I.'s "Whatever You Like" On The Piano Is Also The Best

All business, this one. Very serious. Big recital coming up.

How many Presidents can we have at one time?

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Reminder: Roger Ebert Is The Best

Every once in awhile, you just need to be reminded that Roger Ebert is the best. He's smart and funny and earnest and doesn't give an FFFFFF. He wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls for his friend Russ Meyer. Russ Meyer! He's bananas. They both are, but Roger Ebert is more bananas because Roger Ebert is mainstream bananas. And he's been reminding us how great he is all over the place this week. First there is this great excerpt (via Alex Balk) from an altogether great essay from his blog yesterday:

Let me give another example of credulity. The following paragraph appeared this week in a New York Post review by Adam Buckman of the season premiere of "Heroes."

This show, which was once so thrilling and fun, has become full of itself, its characters spouting crazy nonsense. Here's one I wish someone would translate for me: "There's a divinity that shapes our ends--rough hew them how we will," spouts the enigmatic industrialist Linderman played by Malcolm McDowell, who should win an Emmy for keeping a straight face while reciting these lines.

Perhaps McDowell kept a straight face because he knew he was quoting one of the most famous speeches in Hamlet. I don't expect everyone to have read Hamlet, but I would hope a New York critic might have run across it once or twice. Still, we all have our blind spots. After I once quoted Dr. Johnson, I had an editor who asked me who the doctor was, and whether he practiced at a Chicago hospital. So let's assume Buckman knew Hamlet by heart, but had forgotten that one sentence.

Nuts! Gotcha! Gotcha, Adam Buckman! The blog post that's taken from addressed a seemingly straight-forward piece on Creationism that Ebert published in the Chicago Sun Times earlier this week. Which created a firestorm on the nets. But was a joke. A straight-forward piece on Creationism in a major newspaper as a goof. THIS GUY IS THE BEST.

Meanwhile, BuzzFeed points us to another recent moment in Ebert greatness when he answered a reader's question about Disaster Movie.

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Posted by Gabe at 5:30 PM in They Nailed It
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Hamlet 2: Full Throttle

In your face, Pineapple Express. In your feyce, Tina Fey. Amy Poehler and Hamlet 2 for the win!

Boom goes the dynamite. Now that is how you make a comedy trailer. Finally, Waiting for Guffman, Dead Poets Society, Kentucky Fried Movie, and Head of the Class in one movie. Also, did I mention Amy Poehler? She's the Onion News Network of actors.

Let's see this movie, you guys. It looks funny enough that I'm even willing to overlook how Steve Coogan gave Owen Wilson all that heroin. (But please, Steve Coogan, stop giving everyone heroin.)

Posted by Gabe at 2:19 PM in They Nailed It, Trailer
Tags: Amy Poehler | Hamlet 2 | Steve Coogan

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Lost To Be Rebroadcast On Nick At Nite

Man, Slashfilm has been CRUSHING IT on great Lost videos this week. They were the ones who first introduced us to the "What?" video, and now today they've got another great one in which the show has been re-imagineered as a more straight-forward MacGruber-style adventure.

Make all the fun you want, I promise you if this is how the show started each week we wouldn't still be here scratching our butts over the smoke monster. Shows like this git er done.

Posted by Gabe at 3:00 PM in They Nailed It
Tags: J.J. Abrams | Lost | Smoke Monster

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Saturday Night Live Makes A Funny

Saturday Night Live kind of nailed it this weekend, you guys. Even Christopher Walken's opening monologue was funny (the opening monologue!). Because NBC will supposedly sue us for helping to promote their show using embedded video clips, I can't show you what happened. Sorry, maybe you shouldn't have been out socializing with your friend and having a life Saturday and maybe you'd know what I was talking about. In any case, the whole episode was really weird with lots of unusual premises and also funny sometimes! Success!

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Posted by Gabe at 1:49 PM in They Nailed It
Tags: Christopher Walken | Laffs | Saturday Night Live

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The Wire And Friday Night Lights T-Shirts Are The New Black

Here are two items of clothing that are very real, and are very wanted by me.

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Posted by Gabe at 12:12 PM in Free Advertising, They Nailed It
Tags: Buy Me This, Seriously | Fashion | Friday Night Lights | The Wire

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Oh What's The Matter, Mother, Don't You Love Me?

The thing about parodies is that at their best, they earn a soft nod and quietly muttered "yup, I get it." At their worst, they are directed by the Wayans Brothers and earn millions of retards' dollars. But AD Miles*'s new webisodes (whoops, I used that word. Shoot me in the face) Horrible People is so pitch perfect and funny that it actually stops making you laugh at a certain point, and just gives you a new appreciation for soap operas. Maybe it's time to stop making fun of the midwestern secretaries with their big butts and their sad haircuts, because apparently they (and AD Miles) know something we don't. Just see if after this you don't want to use up all your personal days sitting at home watching your "stories." The second episode just came out today.

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Posted by Gabe at 7:34 PM in They Nailed It
Tags: AD Miles | Horrible People | Joe Lo Truglio | Kristen Schall

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