httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-WJO0YQLOs&feature=related
I was fortunate enough to see Billy Connolly perform in Hamilton this week. Here’s something for those of you who weren’t so lucky.
Jeff Mahoney’s review of Connolly’s Hamilton performance here.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTJANr7SCeU
Irish dancers Suzanne Cleary and Peter Harding expand what it means to dance. The song is “We No Speak Americano” by the Australian duo Yolanda Be Cool.
(Thanks to Stacey Clemence for the tip.)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjIfaMwIFxU
The ill-fated “conservative” “comedy” show, The 1/2 Hour News Hour. Even though the show had the inexhaustable resources of Fox News working for it (as well as a vast, angry and ill-informed audience), it was only good for fourteen episodes before being cancelled.
Is this really comedy or is it just hack work, an astonishingly unfunny rip-off of SNL’s classic Weekend Update, not to mention The Daily Show and The Colbert Report? Is it possible that it is unfunny because it was running an ideological agenda first and attempting comedy second? And could it be that the witless surliness of it derives from the fact that its targets — unlike SNL, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report, which take on all comers — were exclusively on what it assumed to be the “wrong” side of the political divide?
We report. You decide.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2ozuCXpVJY
From Gawker:
Justin Bieber is very popular. Lots of people love her songs! One of Bieber’s most popular tunes is called “U Smile.” But what happens when one slows it down by 800%? Well, it becomes a haunting, 36-minute Enya-like thingy. Seriously.
“Her songs.” Funny. But the audio is, as unlikely as it sounds, the best stoner music probably since Pink Floyd’s “Echoes” — you know, side two (as it was then) of Meddle. The magic can be heard here.
The actual song above.
An earlier post, “Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber,” here.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1zvhJRIM7M
Liam Lynch, alpha geek: “My United States of Whatever.”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8
“How not to get your ass kicked by the police”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMKrAR6YBDI
30 Rock season one compilation: “I have been sexually rejected by not one but two guys who later went to clown college”; “I’m not one of those girls who does weird stuff in bed because they think they have to”; “Standing up? What? How does that even work?”
More Tina Fey (the woman who conceived the reality series MILF Island: “Twenty-five superhot moms, fifty 8th grade boys, no rules”). 30 Rock season four DVD release September 21. Season five premiere September 23.
After the jump, a couple of brief but wonderful clips of Liz Lemon dancing.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__M7G3qxCcE
“The Sarah Palin Network”
You know how people always say that they find intelligence and a good sense of humor sexy, but then it turns out that they don’t?
Here’s some much needed proof that it can happen. Tina Fey. She has got to be, on any given day, one of the funniest, smartest writers and performers drawing breath and delivering the goods. (Fifth season premiere of 30 Rock — easily the best comedy on network television — is September 23rd.)
Above is her latest incarnation of Sarah Palin, which is still very funny, and while the performance does not include Palin’s cold misanthropic glare, it captures the goofily entitled and unendearing self-assurance of someone who needs to do some serious self-examination.
After the jump, Tina’s classic SNL commercial parody, “Mom Jeans.”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jG2Vp9XKDc
SNL alum Sen. Al Franken challenges a representative of the Hudson Institute during the recent health care reform hearings on her claim that reform will lead to more medical bankruptcies.
This is our Friday comedy slot. But it’s also a good occasion to see what happens when a very funny man becomes a senator whose primary interest is serving his constituents rather than big business.
After the jump, Al Franken uses humor to show up someone who only thinks she is funny, Ann Coulter — although her ongoing effort to rehabilitate her “hero” Joseph McCarthy is chuckle-worthy.