WE'VE GOT TO GET BACK TO THE PILOT! • Someone has made a side-by-side split-screen of the plane scene from Lost S01E01 and Lost S06E01, because when the Internet sees a need, the Internet fills that need.

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Duh Aficionado Magazine: R. Kelly Is A Lunatic

Every month, Duh Aficionado magazine has at least one feature-length article about how R. Kelly is a lunatic, duh. This month, upon the release of his song "Echo," R. Kelly appears to have stirred up some controversy, or at least to believe that he has stirred up some controversy, with his use of yodeling in the song. Sure. Very controversial. If you look up "controversy" in the dictionary, I am sure there is a photo of R. Kelly standing on a mountain with an alphorn in one hand and a teenage girl in the other. But, so, in light of this FIRESTORM surrounding the yodeling in his song, R. Kelly this week has started posting short videos on-line that are directed to random, individual members of Twitter? Responding to their questions and concerns? I mean, no offense to @sierracandia, @Jonebek, @cadieparanoia, @keltron8500, and @braidedgirl, I am sure they are genuinely confused and upset, but R. Kelly is taking what could only be considered mild criticism pretty hard. Let's put it this way: he is working much harder to respond to questions and concerns over the yodeling in his song "Echo" than he ever did to the questions and concerns over his history of urinating on underage women. For public figures, it is important to get out front and "control the story" but this story?

Haters will hate, R. Kelly! And you are mentally ill! You should get out of that armchair and into a brain hospital!

Posted by Gabe at 1:00 PM in Music Related Content
Tags: Crazy People | R. Kelly

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Jon Stewart And Bill O'Reilly Are Both Adults

Last night, Jon Stewart appeared on The O'Reilly Factor with Bill O'Reilly for the second time. His last appearance, in 2004, was a pretty gentle back-and-forth bantering between two adult professional entertainers/pundits/broadcasters. But in the interim between the two episodes, Jon Stewart became a much larger pop culture icon, he took down CNN's Crossfire, and he was seen as the arbiter of left-leaning truth for American men age 18-35, or whatever. (Of course, O'Reilly has been on the Daily Show a few times, but somehow this is so different. [?].) So there was much anticipation leading into last night's face-off (not to be confused with Face/Off, which is a medial procedure). Would the sparks fly?! Would Jon Stewart detonate a FACTS bomb and destroy FOX News from the inside? Would Bill O'Reilly actually unveil a scimitar encased below his desk and behead Jon Stewart in front of the world? Would the difference between right and wrong finally be permanently delineated and immutable forever?

None of that. It turns out that both Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly remain professional, adult entertainers/pundits/broadcasters who are capable of talking to each other on television in mostly reasonable tones. But if you are still curious, you can see two adults being super adults after the jump:

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Posted by Gabe at 11:45 AM in Interviews
Tags: Bill O'Reilly | Jon Stewart | The Daily Show | The O'Reilly Factor

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The Snuggler And Cetra • Adult Swim has compiled every Zach Galifianakis clip from Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job. What is weird is that this didn't exist before, but I guess hindsight 20/20 (I'm sure I'm using that expression correctly).

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You Crazy For This One, Australian News

With traditional media feeling the strain of the 24-hour news cycle created by the web (as predicted in Sandra Bullock's The Net), and many journalists finding themselves forced to compete at this frantically escalated rate of production or face being out of work, it only makes sense that the news will become more and more like a Mad TV sketch from 1994. Not that the rules for the news have changed at all. As always, those remain:

1. GET THEIR ATTENTION
2. Make them laugh
3. Parody it!
4. News

Nailed it. A perfect reporting! (Thanks for the tip, Michael.)

Posted by Gabe at 10:15 AM in Local News
Tags: Australia | Bill Murray | Groundhog Day | Punxsutawney Phil

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Open Your Lazer Eyes, Sheeple

This is just a very solid political ad. It really gets to the issues Californians are facing in the next election, especially around 2:26:

You have been putting that sheep up on the CGI dildo pedestal for too long, California! But now the hilarious lightning has knocked him back down to Earth. Because maybe he is not a sheep after all (sheep are the best?) maybe he is in fact a fumbling human being wearing a terrifying "sheep" costume that his mom made for him! Maybe he has Christmas lights for eyes, and he likes to pretend to drink from a stream but he is not really drinking from a stream, he is actually just waiting behind a tree for his chance to...EAT CALIFORNIA?! OR SOMETHING I'M NOT SURE HOW THIS METAPHOR WORKS?!

Obviously, there are a lot of great things about this campaign ad, but my favorite part is the very end, after all of the Nightmare Man Sheep stuff, when the ad is just like "maybe California needs someone else? Could be anyone! There is no way to know who we are talking about. Are they behind this door? Who is that man talking to? The point is, it would be great if there was someone super good to elect." What a sharp political ad. Almost makes you wish that you were living in California right now, just so you could vote against BOTH of these bozos. (Thanks for the tip, @lindsayism and Maura.)

Posted by Gabe at 9:30 AM in Politics
Tags: California | Carly Fiorina | Senate | Tom Campbell

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Hey, What's Up With Topher Grace?

[In this feature, we periodically check in to see what is up with Topher Grace.]

As the world spins inexorably towards its looming conclusion in the year 2012, we continue to see signs that perhaps the crushing tsunamis and torrential fireballs will be a welcome reprieve from what is obviously an already hopeless fate. For example, today it is being reported that Miley Cyrus's younger sister, Noah Cyrus, is launching her own line of lingerie. Oh, that is nice. WHOOPS, SHE IS NINE YEARS OLD. Sure, (not sure), nine-year-olds are just as susceptible as the rest of us to the waning heat of our youthful sexuality, and find themselves turning towards erotic play and heightened sensuality in order to keep the flame of passion alive. But surely children should be eating animal crackers and drinking juice, and not designing crotchless pants "that can be worn with sweet ballerina slippers, funky sneakers or paired with lace stockings and boots for more of a rock and roll look." (P.S. we are definitely going to need a bigger World's Best Dad mousepad for Billy Ray Cyrus. That guy is just killing it in the Dad Dept.)

But it is not 2012 yet, and as humans it is our duty, until that day comes, to remember that WE ARE STILL HERE. We will never give up or back down, no matter how disgusting and honestly just kind of straight-up depressing we things get!

Speaking of human beings who are still here: what's up with Topher Grace?!

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Posted by Gabe at 6:00 PM in What's Up With Topher Grace
Tags: Topher Grace | Valentine's Day

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Taking One For The Team: Madea's Big Happy Family Live!

[Ed. note: Joe Mande, stand-up comedian and the creator of the popular blog Look At This Fucking Hipster (soon to be a popular book!) is forced to do things that we don't want to do, for our education and amusement. If you have a challenge/suggestion, submit it to t14tt@videogum.com.]

Like most of the people I know, I have no real idea who Tyler Perry is. I mean, I know he's a zillionaire and I know he runs some kind of Media Empire making a bunch of self-help Martin Lawrence movies or whatever. But that's pretty much where my knowledge of Tyler Perry ends. So, last week, when I found out that Tyler Perry was coming to New York City to perform a brand-new live show, Madea's Big Happy Family, I took one for the team and went. By myself. Yeah, that's right. I spent over $100 on a ticket and went by myself to a Tyler Perry stage show. Because I'm a journalist (I brought along a notepad) and wanted to get to the bottom of just who this Tyler Perry guy really was. Sadly, after sitting through his three-hour extravaganza, there was one glaring question that I felt needed an answer: "Who the fuck does this Tyler Perry guy think he is?"

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Posted by Joe Mande at 5:00 PM in Taking One For The Team
Tags: Madea's Big Happy Family | Theater | Tyler Perry

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