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Today three of you have have the opportunity to win a copy of the very, very funny Hannibal Buress’s new special, Animal Furnace, on DVD. GREAT! He’s so good! The special airs on Comedy Central this weekend and the DVD and CD are in stores next Tuesday, but TODAY you can watch an exclusive (so exclusive) clip below.
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GUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s unfortunate that Gus, perfect Gus from Breaking Bad, was in such a DUMB episode of Community. I watched that episode — the videogame episode — while a stranger was in the room, don’t worry about it, and this stranger had never seen Community before and kept saying things like, “So you never see their faces? They’re always just cartoons? That’s so weird!” Which is certainly not saying anything good about this person, because the episode was definitely EXPLAINED to them, but let’s lay off that person for a second and realize how yes, that would have certainly been confusing if that were the first episode of Community you’d ever seen. “But why would a show ever make an episode like that?” you might find yourself thinking. “Why waste everyone’s time with nonstop unenjoyable nonsense?” “What…is the point? Especially when they have Gus in this one?” NO THANKS. But the second two Community episodes were good! Very enjoyable. Very much made it seem like you were watching something that someone made with the viewer in mind. When Troy said that thing about the guy going to jail because he was a murderer? Perfect. It’s nice when the gang has to be normal in the face of weirdos. Good jobs all around. I’ll see you guys next season, ON FRIDAYS. 30 Rock‘s finale was also good, I thought! So much of this season has been limited to non-sequitur nonsense, it was nice to finally see a bunch of plots actually getting somewhere, even if they DID all have to be stuffed into one final episode. I’m excited for the final season! I hope Liz has a baby! Do you hope Liz has a baby? What do you hope? What did you think? Did you hate the videogame episode too, even though Gus was perfect in it?
Conan appeared as a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman last night for the first time in 13 years. This clip is all that remains to tell the tale.
I’M THE KING OF THE SOOOUUUUUUUUUP! HAHAHHAHA. Oh man. This photo is great. On the one hand, I detest the entirety of paparazzi culture. It’s violent and grotesque and anti-human. Moreover, I’m disgusted by the re-ification of paparazzi culture as some kind of TRUTH. It wasn’t always this way, you know. There was a time when we had celebrities to be sure but we didn’t chase them through the streets screaming at them to get some kind, any kind of reaction. So when people argue that a celebrity shouldn’t complain about disliking the Absolute invasion of their private lives because that’s what they signed up for, it suggests that this is an immutable fact when in truth it’s just the “best practice” of a terrible, garbage industry. The fuck you need to know when someone buys a frozen Starbucks for? And yet, there are magical moments when you see Leonardo DiCaprio eating soup, which, like, I mean, again, this picture is just funny because THAT’S WHAT WE ALL LOOK LIKE WHEN WE EAT SOUP. Leonardo DiCaprio puts his soup on just like the rest of us, one spoon at a time. There’s no other way to eat soup. It’s not particularly embarrassing or amoral. He’s not drinking soup out of a transvestite whore’s mouth in the middle of the night. And yet it is still so funny. Hahaha. WHAT’S EATING GILBERT’S SOUP?! It is kind of sad that he has to eat it in some weird, darkened, fenced off corner and that no one else is eating soup with him although it does look like one of his assistants is about to DEMOLISH half a grapefruit. Aww, poor Leo! Somebody eat some soup with him! It doesn’t matter if you have an early dinner later, it’s just soup. You’re not going to get that full from a cup of soup. HELP YA BOY! EAT THA SOUP! (Celebuzz via RatsOff.)
Some of us, and it could have been any of us really, were out of town earlier this week so let’s not get into saying who was or wasn’t around when the new Krispy Kreme track dropped because the important thing is that we’re all here to enjoy it now. It features another up and coming hip hop star, Money Maker Mike, who I think is the tough guy in the blue t-shirt who is tough stuff. Song 2 of the summer. (Also, is it just me, or are these songs actually kind of good? I mean, they’re not, but they’re almost not that bad really. Look out, kind of but just kidding, ACTION BRONSON!) (Thanks for the tip, Chris Trash.)
- The first “teaser poster” for the new James Bond movie, Skyfall, was released today, and HERE IT IS! How teased are you right now? Pretty teased, right? I bet you had no idea it was going to be a James Bond movie and that James Bond was going to wear a suit in it. -Movieline
- Here is a Breaking Bad POV supercut. I’m sure there have been supercuts like this before, but here is another. Breaking Bad! So good! And speaking of how good Breaking Bad is… -OHYST
- Here is a New York Magazine feature on Aaron Paul! Beautiful, engaged Aaron Paul. -NYMag
- Uh-oh, NERDS. Joss Whedon says he is “very torn” about doing Avengers 2. Torn between whether he’s more excited for how easy it will be to write a superhero sequel or how much money he will make from writing the superhero sequel? Click to find out! -Ain’tItCool
- The 1000 hour Community season finale is on tonight. It’s going to be a videogame apparently? -Pajiba
- Marc Maron was on Conan last night and he talked about a bunch of weird stuff. Want to watch him talk about it? -TeamCoco
- When Eli Manning hosted SNL, you might remember there was a sketch where he wore a motion capture suit and for his signature move he made a sandwich and dropped it on the ground and then picked it up? It was great. And here it is! Videogame style! -EASports
- Uh-oh, bad news for everyone who ran out to see The Dictator because they thought it would be the only place they’d get to see the Anchorman 2 teaser. Here is a terrible bootleg of the Anchorman 2 teaser! -FilmDrunk
So that’s how you do that. Does anyone have any questions about how you complete that task? If you do have any questions, I’d invite you to simply re-watch the video. It’s all in the video. That’s how you do it. (Via TheDailyWhat.)
File this one under: NO, TOTALLY, I KNOW, RIGHT?! From Variety (via AV Club):
Red Bull Media House has signed on to produce “Twist” for Pure Grass Films and the Salt Co. “Twist,” a 3D retelling of Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist” set in the present day, comes from an original idea by the Brothers Lynch and Simon Thomas.
Story will center around the novel’s Fagin Gang, which will use the physical vaulting art of parkour to carry out a series of art thefts in the film.
Since we all already knew that Red Bull had a production company, and since all the kids are into Oliver Twist these days, and since parkour is THE hottest sport of the ’90s, and since 3D, and vampires, and HBO Go, I’d be surprised if anyone had any questions or concerns about this Perfect News.
