You Should Be Watching Current's "Target Women" - More Great Deconstruction & Mockery of Marketing B.S.

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Another great recurring segment on Info Mania is
Target Women. This week's is particularly sharp. Really does make you wonder what people who conceive and approve these commercials were thinking (similar to the Viagra nonsense).

Mitchell & Webb's BBC 2 Skit - What I Reckon - brilliant

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As I have written previously, these guys are hilarious. Latest skit I caught last night mocks the mainstream news media's sometimes overzealous pursuit of man-on-the-street (or person-at-the-keyboard?) reactions. I couldn't find an embeddable version of the clips, so I'll direct you here to see it.

For my money, this excerpt is some of the best, dead-on satire I've ever seen:

"What possible reason could there be for you to not email us? Certainly ignorance shouldn’t be a bar. You might not know anything about the issue, but I bet you reckon something. So why not tell us what you reckon? Let us enjoy the full majesty of your uniformed, ad hoc reckon by going to bbc.co.uk/meandmyimportantthoughts (all one word), clicking on ‘What I Reckon’ and simply beating on the keyboard with your fists or head."

More Good Comedy from Current, Plus a Lookalike

Sergio's White Hot Top 5 makes me laugh again. This time with their top 5 patriotic songs edition:



Also, it has finally dawned on me who Sergio looks like. He's kind of the modern day hipster version of Jim Croce.


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Lookalikes: Ed Begley Jr. = Boomer Esiason + Beano Cook

I'm watching a little bit of Living With Ed when it dawns on me that Ed Begley Jr. looks like some kind of cross between Boomer Esiason and Beano Cook.

UPDATE: (7/20/08) - This comparison really works best if you actually hear Ed speaking and know what Beano sounds like.


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More Solid Observational Comedy from Current's Info Mania

This one starts a little slow but finishes decently. The Southern Living joke is in 'no they didn't' territory, but funny (at least it made me laugh).



This one speaks for itself



"That's a lot of popcorn, Magic"



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This is pretty wild. Will be interesting to see how this whole thing takes off in the coming months / years.

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You Should Be Watching: That Mitchell & Webb Look

You Should be Watching 'That Mitchell and Web Look'.

E.g. - a few sample clips found on YouTube

The Bad Vicar



Jump Off a Cliff - 2 Quid



The Snooker Commentators
(the riffs on 'Chris Lester' remind me of listening to Chip Caray waxing on about how strappingly handsome various Cubs players were)

Lamenting the Fact that Hip-Hop Sucks Now

Just saw this on current and hearing 5 awful hip hop songs in a row made me sad. I guess it's like most everything else in society - the most popular stuff is lowest common denominator crap. But it seems to me like hip hop just continues to devolve into lower quality sh*t year after year. Will we one day look back at the past 15 years of hip hop and wonder, WTF? It's like when rock music went into the abyss in the 80s? (See exhibits A, B and C below if you forgot how bad that sucked).

Aside from that, 'Sergio' has a couple of nice lines in this Current clip

- "she appreciative when he buys her a luxury car"

- "this thing is like the Mulholland Drive of rap videos: no idea what's goin' on"

- "attention Sergio, parentheses: burp jurp"



Exhibit A: While Lion - Wait



Exhibit B: Stryper - Calling on You



Exhibit C: Huey Lewis and the News - I Want a New Drug

More Current: Viral Video Film School - Campaign Videos

"You're welcome, bitches". Brilliant.

Beans and Rice ... is nice

As Schoolhouse Rock regains relevance, I'm glad someone has made room for this lesser known clips, which was my personal favorite:

Toyota Yaris VCAM on Current

Amusing - "Not my kinda space" on Current

The "orgy of ill-advised vanity" line is nice. As is the "OMG. That one's from Jesus."

Lookalikes: Kate Walsh & Ben Katz, from Dr. Katz

I've been doing my lookalike thing for years now, but this is one of my all time favorites.

Kate Walsh, of Grey's Anatomy fame ...


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... Bears a striking resemblance to Ben Katz, from Dr. Katz


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The 24 Effect: David Palmer & Barack Obama

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This thought occurred to me on February 9th, but apparently I was waaay behind on connecting these dots. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. But I did a search on it this morning to see just how wide spread the thinking was. Here's what I found:

* An article at TheSimon.com by Lucia Bozzola, dated 1/30/2007


* And now 84,200 search results for Obama David Palmer


* Including a Newsweek article dated 2/11/08

I'm not sure what to make of this yet.

Giving Cougars a Bad Name

Some observations about this pod:


1. Nothing wrong with the whole Cougar lifestyle -- if that's what you're into --- but these d-bags and the unfortunate women they roped into the clip give it a bad name.

2. The 'director' looks like the runt cousin of David Faustino

3. What do you call the dudes who acquiesce or succumb to cougars? In this particular clip, I think Wikipedia gets part of it right:

"it hunts species as small as insects and rodents"

Extreme Sustainability - as seen on Current

This is ridiculous.



Maybe it was edited out of the clip that aired, but why aren't these two processing their own urine into drinking water? Or using their own feces as garden fertilizer? And they claim to be pursuing sustainability? Hah.