You can try to avoid television advertising with your fancy DVR, podcast downloads and Hulu streams. But Don Draper types will just repeat annoying ads like these, endlessly, until you're insane.
When a tipster told me that workers at eBay France had created a lip-dub video, my hopes were high. But I should never have expected great things from eBay.
How is it Joy Behar has escaped our attention as a masterful interviewer for so long? Subbing on Larry King Live last night, she had her way with a prickly, pushy Alec Baldwin.
It's also really terrible, in a way that veers on high camp, but doesn't quite cross the border.
Jay Leno has been saying his 10pm show will be hot, because going to bed early is suddenly hot, among the kids. Someone finally checked, and of course Leno is totally wrong.
This clip of Tom Cruise on David Letterman later tonight, in which he laughs about his fear of psychiatry and his insane, megalomaniacal tendencies, is one piece in a set: Scientology Prince asserts normalcy.
The only people who can get jobs in media now are small children who can sound and vaguely look like obnoxious TV personalities, while swearing. Lil' Gordon Ramsay will go far.
Though the idea of Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres caroling together may sound cute in concept, it's hard to believe Spears would perform even "Frosty the Snowman" sans lip-synching or Autotune.
Fred Armisen finally did a politician impersonation that made everyone laugh! But immediately someone was offended: New York Gov. David Paterson went after the Saturday Night Live cast member for mocking the disabled.
Need more examples? Here are commercials from MSN, Yahoo, and Ask.com. (I found them using Google and YouTube, a Google-owned video-hosting site.) Do any of them articulate a reason to switch search engines?
Royal Tenenbaums director Wes Anderson doesn't typically work with two-time Sexiest Man Alive winners (keep trying, Schwarzbaum!), so to imagine what the director could do with Brad Pitt doesn't come easily.
