Well, isn't this interesting! Here's an advance clip from Welcome to the Rileys, aka the upcoming film that features Kristen Stewart as a wayward stripper who gets rescued by James Gandolfini. Watch as Stewart drops one dirty line after another.
It's not that we don't sympathize with Ryan Seacrest. The Oscar red carpet is a relentless stream of thin-skinned celebrities. But the celebrity interviewer seemed especially cringe-inducing this year.
To counteract in some small way the constant Palin/McCain noise pounding our hearts and minds into buzzing little stews of despair, let's break for silliness. Here is the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain performing Isaac Hayes' wonderful theme song to Shaft.
Tina Fey returned her old home at Saturday Night Live once again last night to portray mind-boggling VP candidate Sarah Palin, opposite Amy Poehler's Katie Couric. In the clip, Palin discusses her whirlwind tour of NYC and the UN, and tells Couric what to do if you stumble upon a Russian on the Alaskan border. Check it out after the jump. Click to view
Granted, this ckip of Late Night With Conan O'Brien star Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's trip to the Republican National Convention is a couple days late. But, hey, it just went up on Youtube yesterday. And besides, as NBC always says, if you haven't seen it yet, it's new to you! The Fox News/Ann Coulter strap-on joke alone is worth watching. Canine comedy after the jump.
The fighting between Russia and Georgia took its toll on Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. Footage of the embattled leader literally putting his necktie in his mouth and chewing on it while taking what was clearly a stressful phone call started making the rounds today. The BBC even used it to illustrate a story on the ceasefire, saying Saakashvili "chews over his next move." See for yourself after the jump.
As a responsible New York weekend blog person I really should find something to say about this Times article about all the poor Manhattanites who can't unload their million-dollar one-bedroom apartments. But oh my God I don't care! Instead, here is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory recut to look like a movie about an evil drug pusher.
As a savvy media person, writer Rob Kutner knows that you can't sell books anymore without making some funny YouTube vids to promote it. Lucky for Kutner, he writes for The Daily Show, so he was able to get the program's Aasif Mandi and Kristen Schaal (who is lovely!) to work on it for him. Oh yeah, the book is called Apocalypse How, and the apocalyptic video is after the jump.
Gorgeous and magical Alanis Morrisette stopped by "The Howard Stern Show" Friday, where she discussed her break-up with loser Ryan Reynolds-who her band, Howard, and Artie Lang all hate-as well her experimentations with lesbianism. Clip after the jump.
While Amy Winehouse is in the hospital with emphysema, her Brother in Crack Pete Doherty is cleaning up. Well, at least he's taking a bath. As part of his "Come to Gig" series on YouTube the drug-filled rocker brings you into his dark, scary, mildewy world as he prepares for a show. Video of a man in trouble after the jump.
As long as the movie studios keep releasing trailers for their giant-budget, crashy, explosion-fests on the weekends, I'll keep posting 'em. This week. it's The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. This one's got Jet Li! Much more importantly, it's got Michelle Yeoh.
To promote their upcoming flick Tropic Thunder, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, and Ben Stiller produced this hysterical clip for the MTV Movie Awards. So why am I posting it now? Because I didn't know about it last weekend and because it features Jack Black having his crotch assaulted again and again and again! See for yourself after the jump!
How does master thespian and Spider-Man star James Franco stir such deep emotions with his craft? The actor, and his adorable kid brother, explain the magic in the following clip.
Good thing President Bush and his merry band of thieves have most of our troops over-extended in Iraq! "A brazen bomb and rocket attack on the main prison in southern Afghanistan has freed more than 600 inmates, many of them members of the Taliban. The destruction is evident following a brazen attack on a major Afghan prison...Using rockets and bombs Taliban militants were able to blow down the front gate of the facility, freeing more than 600 inmates-many of whom, officials say, have ties to the Taliban.The prison is in Kandahar." Video after the jump.
