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June 12, 2009

Anna Faris Made A Cute Video About The Adorable Recession

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I don't know what this has to do with Glamour Magazine, but their cover girl Anna Faris made a funny-cute video for them about how the recession is affecting Hollywood. It's not full of LOLs, but it's not terrible either, and if you like Anna Faris (and video co-stars Rose McGowan and Anna's real-life boyfriend, Parks And Recreation's Chris Pratt), you'll probably be so won over by her charm that you'll forget for a second that the recession is really bad for many non-Hollywood regular people. I mean, that just has to be said.

A video with this premise was bound to get made anyway, so the fact that it was lovable Anna Faris instead of, say, Diddy makes it easier to swallow. It does kind of remind me a LITTLE of those internal videos they used to make for George W. Bush, though. (Via New York Mag's Daily Intelligencer.)

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I guess this and her role in Observe and Report add up to two points for Anna this year. She really is cute, too.

Posted by: Deezey profile link at 06/12/09 2:05 PM  | Reply
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Guys, seriously. I want to know why gay jokes are funny when Norm makes them and offensive when they're in The Hangover or whatever.

I JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND LIFE.

Posted by: An American Patriot profile link at 06/12/09 2:07 PM  | Reply
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You make me glad to be Canadian.

Posted by: heywoodjewbrome profile link  in reply to  An American Patriot's comment at 06/12/09 2:16 PM  | Reply
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You know how Luigi's superpower* is to invert the universe around him? Norm gets to do that too. Unfunny jokes are funny! Up is down! Offensive is charming!

* I know I'm the only one here who knows what Luigi's superpower is.

Posted by: BradOFarrell profile link  in reply to  An American Patriot's comment at 06/12/09 2:20 PM  | Reply
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the only one who's played smash bros? come on

Posted by: MilesMayhem  in reply to  BradOFarrell's comment at 06/12/09 7:11 PM  | Reply
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FUCK YES. This is the only reply needed. You could've just been like, "Well it was offensive until Norm got the SMASH BALL." AND I WOULD have been on board.

Posted by: An American Patriot profile link  in reply to  BradOFarrell's comment at 06/14/09 1:26 PM  | Reply
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I don't really understand your question. Funny jokes are funny, and offensive jokes are offensive. Sometimes offensive jokes are also funny, and sometimes they're not funny at all. It depends on the joke. It's not necessarily dependent on who is telling them or where they are being told, but just whether or not they're funny (and/or offensive).

The jokes that Norm MacDonald told weren't offensive. They were jokes about Andy being a male prostitute, which makes them prostitute jokes. The nickel joke, for example, is gender-and-orientation-nonspecific.

And I don't remember anyone complaining about gay jokes in The Hangover.

What are you even talking about?

Posted by: Gabe profile link  in reply to  An American Patriot's comment at 06/12/09 2:21 PM  | Reply
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Thank you, Gabe for your response and clarity.

EVERYONE SHOULD LEARN TO REPLY AS WELL AS GABE DOES.

Also people on the internet where complaining about The Hangover having gay jokes and stuff. People on the internet you don't know. But I do. We hang out all the time. Where are you at?

Posted by: An American Patriot profile link  in reply to  Gabe's comment at 06/12/09 3:56 PM  | Reply
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Seriously, we know you're not serious and you're just some bored, overacting hipster dbag.


No one makes a quote that close to something from The Room on accident.


I found you, you snake in the grass.

Posted by: Max the King of All Wild Things profile link  in reply to  An American Patriot's comment at 06/12/09 4:01 PM  | Reply
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why is your comment on the anna f. page?

Posted by: inko8 profile link  in reply to  An American Patriot's comment at 06/13/09 1:09 AM  | Reply
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Cause no one answered me on the other one. And she's much better to look at. Why the fuck are you on this page?

Posted by: An American Patriot profile link  in reply to  inko8's comment at 06/14/09 1:27 PM  | Reply
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I did it.....for America.

Posted by: PJ Beardsley at 06/12/09 3:11 PM  | Reply
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Am I going crazy, or did Anna Faris have plastic surgery? Her lips look different?

Posted by: Dr. Crentist profile link at 06/12/09 6:51 PM  | Reply
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seeing anna faris be cute and charming and goofy so often, you just assume that it's easy, but then you see rose mcgowan be a total bummer and you see that it isn't easy to do, even in a low stakes mini-movie for glamour.

Posted by: caringiscool profile link at 06/12/09 8:35 PM  | Reply
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Anna Faris is hot and funny, which makes her extra special hotter! She is the best, most consistent comedic actor around today. And "Smiley Face" was the BEST STONER MOVIE EVER! And she managed to survive the "Scary Movie" franchise.

Posted by: Ethelred the Unready profile link at 06/12/09 9:14 PM  | Reply
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so happy that someone else likes smiley face as much as i do!

that movie was gold.

Posted by: Panda Snare profile link  in reply to  Ethelred the Unready's comment at 06/13/09 6:13 PM  | Reply
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how do i know that "taylor schechter" guy....wait is that "little bit of luck"???

Posted by: tough titties turkleton profile link at 06/13/09 5:16 AM  | Reply
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Ugh. Anna Faris is NOT cute and adorable. She was however in a shallow, sexist, pandering piece of crap called The House Bunny. Awesome.

Posted by: Matt at 06/13/09 7:56 AM  | Reply
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Hey Matt, guess what? You're a fuckin tool. She's better than the shit you get and has a lifetime pass so fuck whatever she's in now.

Posted by: An American Patriot profile link  in reply to  Matt's comment at 06/14/09 1:28 PM  | Reply
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