No doubt this displays shocking ignorance, but what show is that and how can I watch every episode immediately?

Eh, I thought it was one of the worst episodes of the season (but it’s been a pretty strong season, so that’s okay). Katy Perry was fine, but I almost would have preferred her to be hilariously awful than just kind of boring. She was a good sport about everything she was in, but never really seemed to go for broke with the impressions or characters.

Oh well. Next week Jimmy Fallon!!

This, but leave out the “Kool-aid” bit.

Les Jeunes de Paris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqQw7nYkwCg

The related videos Bing is providing for this post are upsetting.

Truly, Johnny Depp is OUR generation’s Hank Williams Jr.

I think it’s a little more nuanced than that. African-Americans have a different cultural history than just People of African Descent in White Cultures generally. In particular, “blackface” as a cultural construct came straight from America. If you had no idea of the history of blackface performance you were linking yourself to, it would be less offensive than someone who appropriated that tradition deliberately. There’s a difference between “painting yourself black” and “going in blackface.”. As Gabe pointed out, both are absolutely unacceptable, but one is racist and the other just astoundingly ignorant.

Point being, the fact that they’re Canadian does explain how they could just be ignorant of what they were doing, which would be a hard excuse to buy from anywhere in (most parts of) America.

You know what it doesn’t work on? “Zach Galifianakis.” You end up in an endless loop between “telecommunication” and “transmission.”

Otherwise, though, yeah. This is amazing.