Stephen Colbert

Since the summer I have been watching Stephen Colbert's TV show "The Colbert Report" on ifilm.com. For those who haven't seen it, it is a parody news programme similar(ish) to The Daily Show with John Stewart. On it, Stephen Colbert (in character)impersonates right wing news personalities like Bill O'Reilly. About a month ago on his show he announced that he would be running in the Presidential Nomination race for both the Democrat and Republican parties - but only in the state of South Carolina (where he's from). A couple weeks later, the Democrats announced they wouldn't be letting him run.

The reason I'm writing about him isn't because his show is so funny (which it is), but because as a result of his announcement, he started doing a lot of TV interviews in character. This brings me to my point: while on his TV show he has writers, the interview situations are off-the-cuff and I love his ability to improvise and keep a straight face. He never gets stuck!

Here is an interview that I really liked on a serious show called "Meet the Press". Even thought Stephen Colbert is in character, the interviewer tries to treat it like an interview with any other political candidate. Its so funny, check it out, there are 2 parts:

Part 1


Part 2

Flight of the Conchords

I've been meaning to make a post about Flight of the Conchords for ages. They are 2 music playing comedians from New Zealand. Last year they were given their own show on U.S. TV which I watched while we were in Canada. After the first few episodes it went a bit downhill but there were some really funny songs in the first few episodes, check them out:

This is the very first song in the first episode and still the greatest:

You're So Beautiful


I've picked a live version of this song because on the TV show they cut too much funny stuff out of it:

The Humans are Dead


Think About It

Before rap was black

A few weeks ago Macka posted the Paul Brogan video on his blog. It's just about the funniest thing ever. Well I found out the guys who made that have this site called BenandEric.com where they post their videos. Here is another funny one:



Also, that funny or die website that the video is hosted on is good.

Flagrant Censorship

The idea censorship can be a controversial subject. Used by the conservative as a means of protecting innocent minds; the stereotype goes that, as students, it should offend our liberal sensibilities. But what if we reversed the idea of censorship, and rather than hide the bad things, we use it to create offense and vulgarity where there was none before. I think it would be ingenius because it would please neither the conservative or liberal, but create laughs for the flagrant like you and me.

Click to play:


P.S. FUCK YOUTUBE! They remove one of their own 'director' movies?!

Double entendre?

This comic book panel is supposedly from a more innocent age when the writer was unaware of what other meaning the word "boner" would take on in the future. I'm not sure if I believe that or not, but the fact that it was published is fucking hilarious.

I wonder what gadget Batman has on his batbelt to deal with the Jokers boners...

I found these pictures in an article called the "Top 15 Unintentionally Funny Comic Book Panels". Check the rest of them out here.

Entourage

Some of you guys may have heard me talk about this TV show Entourage recently. Anna had been telling me about it for ages, but I only started watching it in the last few days and now I'm fucking hooked!

Entourage is about an up and coming A-list actor and his 3 best friends who work for him and live off of him. Its really really funny, I cannot understand why no channel is showing it over here. The cast are all cool, but Jeremy Piven and Kevin Dillon are just fucking hilarious.

Whats cool is that in real life Kevin Dillon is Matt Dillon's brother and his character in Entourage is the older brother of the movie star, so there are loads of semi-inside jokes about how shit he is compared to his brother.

There is a guest celebrity in nearly every episode, the women in the show are usually incredibly hot, and the show is a good example of how go about living a truly flagrant lifestyle. I can't think of a reason why you wouldn't watch this, so just go and fucking do it!

You can easily watch all the episodes here: http://www.tv-links.co.uk/show.do/1/28

*NOTE* There is a continuous story so start at the beginning.