Sarah Silverman Effs Obama Too

I’ve made no secret my distaste for the stale humor of Sarah Silverman, but she did recently win an Emmy for spouting vulgarities at Matt Damon, so apparently the chick holds some mass critical appeal or is one very lucky gal. In this video clip below, here she is telling us why we should all vote Obama. You know…In case there weren’t enough Hollywood celebrities wearing their status like a piece of chintzy Obama shwag these days.

Falling Forward To A Sunday of Great Season Premieres

I’ve been looking forward to the end of September ever since the beginning of May when I was left wondering just why Charlie may or may not have been killed off the island, how many new Fall shows the Heroes phenomena would spawn, and who would be the next cast of D-list celebs breaking onto the Dancing With The Stars scene.

As it turns out, September is here and the season doesn’t hold better TV than what’s airing today and tomorrow. Tonight marks the return of two of my favorite shows on TV-Simpsons and Family Guy. For those of us who got some sort of interim Simpsons fix this Summer having watched the Simpsons movie, we were left with ravenous appetites which only called more attention to the lingering gap left behind last season after Homer saved Mr. Burns from a fatal mall accident involving a fountain. So now we’re on to this season, Mr. Burns debt of gratitude to Homer and Mr. S taking stock of his life with the help of life coach, Stephen Colbert. (yeah, we’re not kidding) And all this in the first episode of the season…

Tonight’s Family Guy has patriarch Peter Griffin enlisting the help of the Star Wars saga to entertain his family when their power goes out. Brian the dog as Chewbacca and Quagmire as C-3PO have my head spinning already. Not to mention the juxtaposition of life sabers and Darth Vader (Stewie). Well, who better to destroy the Griffin household than Stewie, after all…And while the Curb Your Enthusiasm premiere aired a few weeks ago already, tonight is a new episode in the unfolding dramedy involving Larry, Cheryl, the Dansons, and the Blacks (the family they adopted from the Hurricane).

Conflicts/Footnotes to Sunday night premiere week: Cold Case is back as well tonight and personally, for me, this show is compelling enough (if I can drown out the slow-mo soundtrack of your life anecdotes coupled with the morally righteous preachy ending long enough). One thing this show is a testament to is the power of the band Coldplay. As long as this show is around, that band isn’t going anywhere.Tomorrow night is perhaps one of the most exciting TV premiere days of the week. With the return of Dancing with the Stars and the premiere of the much-anticipated show Chuck, be sure to check back here tomorrow for more of a preview of the two hottest shows of the season.

Till then, get your comedy on for Sunday night! It will help you get thru the work week, or at least put your attitude in the right place.

There’s Nothing Harder Than Being A Black Jew?

Sarah Silverman is everywhere in entertainment news as of late. Headlining a Vegas show, starring in some lame arthouse flick, and now, with the return of her show on Comedy Central, The Sarah Silverman Program. I’d respect Sarah a bit more if her act/humor didn’t solely rely on her ability to provoke without any comedic substance or wit of any kind. That, and I couldn’t help but notice that every article that made mention of Silverman’s latest movie I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With mostly alluded to words such as “striptease” and “skivvies” when describing the movie. That can’t bode well for the remaining hour and half of the film.

Sarah is already making waves these days for the controversy surrounding the premise of the season premiere of her show.  The racially-charged episode features Sarah donning a black face after she is denied entrance (for being Jewish, according to her) into a club and runs into a black waiter who makes the comment, “Try being Black for a day.” Well, you get where the plot goes from there. After all, I wouldn’t wanna ruin the surprise.

The Sarah Silverman BS

As unbelievable as it may sound, Sarah Silverman is now  filming a new season for her wannabe show The Sarah Silverman Program. I find it hard to understand why a channel like Comedy Central that bring us a masterpiece like South Park can also produce such a shitty show, but hey, everybody has to eat no? Or as the Stranger said in The Big Lebowski:”Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, well, he eats you.“

Live Al

An Inconvenient Truth, Now The Musical!!

Comedians Aren’t Funny In Newsweek

I happened to read the same Newsweek article mentioned in the previous post. I don’t dig “The Simpsons” so much so I can’t share Ariel’s enthusiasm, but I can share some of my insights about this summer preview article Newsweek unveiled on its unsuspecting readers.

Ok, so I read it twice, maybe three times. I kept thinking maybe I was missing out on the point of the piece? It’s a summer preview of all the comedies coming out this Summer. A lot of these movies star my favorite funnymen: Seth Rogen, Steve Carell, Robin Williams, Paul Rudd (questionable w/out Ferrell and Carell alongside), Adam Sandler, etc. And yet…And yet…

Why did Newsweek pay these guys to do tongue-in-cheek type reviews of their own films “in character”? The premise was just a little too weird for my pea-sized brain to wrap itself around.

Case-in-point: Paul Rudd is starring in “The Ten“-an anthology-based flick loosely based on the actual Ten Commandments in which each characters’ story somehow relates to one of the commandments.

So here’s what Rudd (as “Jeff“)writes for Newsweek:

Though it’s debated, many people believe that there was a first set of commandments that Moses smashed in a fit of anger (because the Israelites chose to worship the golden calf. Great!). Through extensive research (i.e., Wikipedia), a few of the originals have been unearthed. Drumroll, please:

• Thou shalt not get a tattoo of an Asian proverb if you’re a lame white guy.
• Honor small, medium and large. Tall, grande and venti are for jackasses.
• Thou shalt never try and live with bears.
• Thou shalt not go back to Rockville (specifically for R.E.M.).
• Thou shalt never, never, never, ever buy a Hummer.

Huh? Maybe it’s just too obscure to have comedians pretending to be actors acting “in-part” pretending to be writers describing their pretend roles to readers.

Can the equation work when only one of its component is actually real?

I Fart Therefore I’m Sarah Silverman

Every year, I quasi eagerly await the annoucement of the host of the MTV Movie Awards. It’s akin to the anticipation I feel at the announcement of the Oscar’s host.  I haven’t been all that into the MTV hosts in forever. Justin Timberlake and Jessica Alba in recent years didn’t do much for me. At least JT can sing and dance, but still. Is he or isn’t he “with” Scarlett Johansson? Who cares. At least, she’s funny… 

Anyways, this year’s MTV host is someone who is definitively NOT funny. She may have her own show on Comedy Central, but Sarah Silverman’s irreverent I’m a pretty girl and can fart act is as irritating as my upstair’s neighbors moving furniture at 11:50 PM on a weeknight. Then again, why did Comedy Central give Michael Ian Black (nee Michael Schwartz) his own show? Doesn’t he have enough gratuitous exposure over at VH1’s ”Best Week Ever”?

Boo on you MTV. So very, very unoriginal. And tsk, tsk to Comedy Central while I’m at it.

Immune To Kindler’s Shtick

I’m not sure who comedian Andy Kindler knew to get him a relatively steady gig over at Comedy Central, but I want names!! While there are plenty of comedians I don’t find funny, I can usually discern where their humor stems from and who it appeals to. Well, apart from Jimmy Kimmel… Speaking of which, how did Kimmel end up with his own late night talk show and why hasn’t Adam Sandler usurped that position yet? And furthermore how did Kindler land “Letterman”? After reading about Andy Kindler on Comedy Central and yes I’m only mildly obsessed with its blog, I checked out Kindler’s comics (yawn), read his blog (accessible thru his site), and even hit his None of The Above page seeking some sort of comedic relief in the form of non sequiturs. At the very end of which I was left with these words from his March 1 entry.

Hi friends. It’s March already. Can you believe it? Just yesterday it seemed like February 28. If the Roman Calendar is so great, why is one month out of whack? If the Romans were so fantastic, they would still be in charge. Obviously I know nothing about calendars or history or anything, but that doesn’t stop me. Things are really picking up. I sold all of my winter inventory, and am getting ready for the spring line. My chain of fast food cold cereal restaurants are spreading like things that spread. Stay tuned for more fake announcements. If you can’t stay tuned, join the club. The out of tune club.

So I’m assuming this blurb from his April 2 post about his “secret” falls in the realm of fake announcements, but I’ll post it here anyways:

Soon I will be releasing the Comedy Secret. Do you want to be a world famous comedian? Just close your eyes and say over and over to yourself: “I’m hilarious. I’m hilarious.” Now visualize yourself performing your act in front of thousands of people in an inappropriately huge stadium. The crowd is laughing uncontrollably and slapping their knees. You must have just told a knee slapper. Now write yourself a check for ten million dollars and stick it in your pocket. Don’t cash it yet. You don’t have sufficient funds. Then go enter a “Last Comic Standing” type contest, and wait for the money to pour in. If it doesn’t pour in, give up.

I enjoy “Last Comic Standing” way too much to qualify this last statement. I will say this though: Kindler’s comedy has me starting to believe that Dane Cook might actually be funny even if the majority of his routines are simply aimed at appealing to the lowest common denominator.

Attending The Ivy League’s White Castle

Actor Kal Penn, most recently seen in “Van Wilder 2: The Rise Of Taj” (we’re serious) and soon to be seen in “Harold & Kumar 2″ (again, no joke) is taking his experience as an Asian American and his film expertise to bank, teaching two classes at University of Pennsylvania for the Spring 2008 semester. Penn is in the process of getting a graduate degree in International Security from Stanford (who knew?). So when does the guy have time to act in 24?

UPenn is not the first Ivy League school to employ the funny man actor method to lure students. As CC Insider mentions, actor John Cleese (”Month Python”) is an adjunct Professor at Cornell.

Who’s That Girl?

You’ve probably seen those commercials with the fabulous looking brunette (with the equally killer body) who looks oh so familiar and yet you can’t quite place her. The ad spots are for RGX and the mysterious brunette is an aspiring actress (quelle choque!), soon to star in Comedy Central’s “Not Another High School Show.” Hey, we all got to start somewhere, right?

Life Is Lice

South Park kick ass, always.

Proof That Sarah Silverman Is Just Another Pretty Face

I don’t know how many of you have watched “The Sarah Silverman Program” on Comedy Central. This past weekend, after ten minutes of agony at watching Silverman TV surf with her remote and proceed to converse with a dead woman, I switched the channel. I’ve never found the comedian all that funny. Nor understood why a hot girl saying “fart” was just so damn hilarious.

After reading Sarah’s memorable quotes from the show off the Comedy Central discussion board today, I can further substantiate my claim that only is she not funny, but she is indeed unfunny. Anyways, I’ll let you judge by reading the scatological shit joke humor below:

“You car smells like farts.”"Not even if I was in a coma with double namona.”

“Awww…your tears smell like eggs.”

“Awww…No crying retard!”

“Now go out there and have the abortion of your dreams.”

I think my work here is done for now.