Michael Phelps is an American champion who has made sports history, and nothing can take that away from him. NOT THAT HE HASN'T BEEN TRYING. But in the case of his new Subway commercial, I'm not even sure what is... CONTINUE READING MICHAEL PHELPS WOULD LIKE A FOOTLONG PANCAKE WITH SLICED PANCAKES, CHOPPED PANCAKES, EXTRA PANCAKES, AND PANCAKE SAUCE»
Posted on July 7, 2009 in
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Tags: Food | Michael Phelps | Pancakes | Subway
You know, the one where Weekend Update was basically entirely devoted to defending him? That one. Apparently Michael Phelps and his mom loved it and sent it to everyone they knew (last paragraph.)... CONTINUE READING MICHAEL PHELPS AND HIS MOM ENJOYED THIS WEEK'S SNL»
Posted on February 10, 2009 in
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Tags: Green Day | Michael Phelps | Saturday Night Live
Last night, Anderson Cooper interviewed Michael Phelps for 60 Minutes, catching up with the 23-year-old phenom, who won a bunch of medals and -- BLAH BLAH BLAH Anderson Cooper in a bathing suit!: Now if it had been Andy Rooney... CONTINUE READING ANDERSON COOPER IN A BATHING SUIT.»
Posted on December 1, 2008 in
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Tags: Anderson Cooper | Andy Rooney | Michael Phelps
Vincent Chase is an asshole. Yes. Duh. But last night's season finale provided an unmitigated look at what a shithead this guy is. First, there's the historical precedent of being such an asshole. For five seasons Vincent Chase has cruised... CONTINUE READING ENTOURAGE: VINCENT CHASE IS AN ASSHOLE PLUS MICHAEL PHELPHS'S STUPID CAMEO»
Posted on November 24, 2008 in
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Tags: Adrian Grenier | Entourage | Jeremy Piven | Jerry Ferrara | Kevin Connolly | Kevin Dillon | Michael Phelps
This Guitar Hero ad touches me in the bathing suit area of my mind. Yikes. I'm going to give Tony Hawk a free pass because he just seems like a fun-loving goofball dad these days, and he's spent all his... CONTINUE READING WHO SHOULD BE THE MOST EMBARRASSED BY THIS GUITAR HERO AD?»
Posted on October 27, 2008 in ,
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Tags: A-Rod | Guitar Hero: World Tour | Kobe Bryant | Michael Phelps | Sports | Tony Hawk
In this preview of Jimmy Kimmel's Emmy special, Jimmy uses his Barbara Walters-esque interview skills to coax a secret out of Michael Phelps heretofore only speculated about on Yahoo! Answers: he does, in fact, pee in the pool: (Also, Jimmy... CONTINUE READING MICHAEL PHELPS PEES IN THE POOL»
Posted on September 19, 2008 in
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Tags: Jimmy Kimmel | Michael Phelps | Pee | Tracy Morgan
And does anyone care? The first Michael Phelps sketch of the SNL premiere was allegedly the same as a Peyton Manning sketch from last season (not online), only with swimmers instead of football players. Update: the coach is a recurring... CONTINUE READING DID SNL RECYCLE A SPORTS PLAYER GUEST STAR SKETCH?»
Posted on September 15, 2008 in
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Tags: Michael Phelps | Peyton Manning | Saturday Night Live | Vampire Weekend
Did anybody notice that there was a new Saturday Night Live on Saturday? JK! Everyone's talking about Tina Fey's Best Impression Ever of Sarah Palin, but there were actually three other amusing parts! Here they are in their practically Phelps-free... CONTINUE READING SNL: JUST THE FUNNY PARTS»
Posted on September 15, 2008 in
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Tags: Amy Poehler | Andy Samberg | Kristin Wiig | Michael Phelps | Saturday Night Live | The Decemberists | Tina Fey
Probably even worse than the image quality on this video (zing? self-deprazingtion?): That's the worst! That's not even a good joke and Phelps still can't help but snort and grin through it, hoping that this 10,000th take will be the... CONTINUE READING JUST HOW BAD IS MICHAEL PHELPS GOING TO BE ON SNL THIS WEEKEND?»
Posted on September 12, 2008 in
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Michael Phelps's third appearance in as many days has been confirmed, this time on the HBO series Entourage. Says Us Weekly: The Olympic swimmer shot a cameo appearance for Entourage with Kevin Connolly in NYC Thursday, HBO confirmed to Usmagazine.com.... CONTINUE READING MICHAEL PHELPS TO GUEST STAR, BOMB ON ENTOURAGE»
Posted on August 29, 2008 in
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Tags: Entourage | Michael Phelps
Michael Phelps walked into the writers' room at 30 Rock and sat down in a swiveling office chair. He opened up his backpack and took out 700 pancakes, three dozen egg and bacon sandwiches, a gallon of heavy whipping cream,... CONTINUE READING YOU CAN MAKE IT UP: MICHAEL PHELPS VISITS THE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE WRITERS' ROOM»
Posted on August 28, 2008 in
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On the heels of yesterday's news that Michael Phelps will be hosting the season premiere of Saturday Night Live comes today's announcement that he will be a presenter at the MTV Video Music Awards. The swimmer who took home a... CONTINUE READING MICHAEL PHELPS TO PRESENT, BOMB AT THE VMAS»
Posted on August 28, 2008 in
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Tags: Michael Phelps | MTV Video Music Awards | VMAs
UCB's peek into the high-pressure world of the Snapple cap facts writer's room: Though it owes a lot to Mr. Show (in that way that anything that involves a sweaty boss screaming at his employees owes a lot to Mr.... CONTINUE READING "DIANE YOU BEAUTIFUL ASSHOLE YOU JUST SAVED ALL OUR JOBS"»
Posted on August 28, 2008 in
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Tags: Death Cab For Cutie | Michael Phelps | Saturday Night Live | St. Vincent
Michael Phelps is hosting the series premiere of Saturday Night Live on September 13th. If you don't know who Michael Phelps is, MOVE BACK TO RUSSIA. Now, last week, Alex Blagg at the homepage Best Week Ever Dot Com posed... CONTINUE READING MICHAEL PHELPS TO HOST, BOMB SNL PREMIERE»
Posted on August 27, 2008 in
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Tags: Michael Phelps | Saturday Night Live
gabe: did you watch any of the olympics? lindsay: Well, this morning I turned on The Today Show to see if Barack Obama had announced a running mate, and there was a team of ladies in China dancing to "Everybody... CONTINUE READING FRIDAY FIGHT: WHO WON THE OLYMPICS?»
Posted on August 22, 2008 in
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Tags: Michael Phelps | Olympics | Special Olympics | Tiki Barber