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While the inclusion of Josh Groban was comic genius, I believe that Sarah and Matt won this contest, by Obama-like margins. |
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Part of what made the Damon thing work is that Damon is so widely known as just a nice guy that the transgression is funnier. Affleck, at least pre-marriage, was known as more of the cad, which makes it work less well. |
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I liked the original better. I also think the words in the original song are more melliflous. |
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Not quite as funny...but Don Cheadle? Genius. |
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And now Kevin Smith, with help from Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen, joins the fun. (Unbleeped and thus decidedly NSFW.) |
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Winner! Oh, that's good. |
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What truly makes this genius is the dedication to Norman Mailer.... Hee! |
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Brilliant. |
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For me, it was Harrison Ford's brief cameo which rewarded Kimmel extra pts for one-upmanship. If it had been Tom Cruise, I would have given it to him. But Matt Damon's sheer exhuberance still rocks in comparison. |
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There's nothing like the first time Damon sings, then the look she gives him after he completes the refrain. It gets me every time. |
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jeesys, i have to read about this thing yet again? thanks for alerting me to an internet phenomenon that might have slipped through the cracks were it not for the other fifty odd posts i've seen elsewhere on the subject |
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Cassie, obviously I can't speak for ALOTT5MA, but, you're welcome! |
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Very funny - though I think the Silverman/Damon video tops it. As others have mentioned, it's such a surprise to see Matt Damon in something like this - and he's so enthusiastic about it - that the result is just way funnier. |
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Kimmel is apparently a big Huey Lewis fan. He wrote the liner notes to the Huey Lewis and the News greatest hits album. |
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The Seth Rogen thing was, well, sick. But funny. |
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The part of the Rogen video where he starts talking about "40 Year Old Virgin" is hi-larious. |
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FWIW, I don't have the time to read 50 other blogs, so please keep on keeping me posted on this stuff here! |
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Russ and Cassie bring up a point I, and I assume my co-Bloggers also, question, which is, do we post widely circulated items like this because a portion of our audience comes here first/exclusively for all things pop culture? |
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We are not selling for less than $25 a share! Hear that, NBCUniversal? |
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[How many shares do we have?] |
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I thought that this was the time of the year when y'all negotiated in terms of packages of peeps? |
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Without suggesting what you do and do not post, I'd just like to point out that less than 50% of your posts qualify as lists. |
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Gotta say, the Groban bit killed me. |
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I come here (first and most days exclusively) for my pop culture info, but I'd like to point out that's also because of the TYPE of pop culture you all post about it. It fits my sense of humor, and what I find important in pop culture -- therefore I deem it the perfect blog and worth many peeps. Personally, I was not aware of this particular piece of news before I came here, and now I'm happy to know it. Plus, good to know about my coffee options this afternoon. |
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Josh Groban was the one playing piano (and cursing). He is generally known for uplifting sort of songs, like The Prayer, some with somewhat operatic tendencies and known with cursing. Also, some members of the ALOTT5MA have stated that they find themselves mentaly choreographing ice skating routines to his songs. |
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Thank you. |
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I think the point of posting something that is readily available elsewhere here is not necessarily to inform but to provide a place to discuss said item with this group of people... |
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I don't remember how many peeps I offered last year, but I'm willing to triple it. I can also offer salaries of Pop Rocks and Fun Dip leftover from Halloween. 1 per blogger per quarter. |
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I agree. I do often learn of things via this blog, which is great, but I also like hearing what this group of people has to say about things. |
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This year, I will offer up not only a large collection of left-over-from-Halloween-fun-size-Snickers, but also a small but valuable collection of "glasses I have worn over the years." I am contractually obligated to keep my last (and hopefully I do mean last) pair of (distance) glasses, which my daughter insists we keep forever "to remember how daddy used to look." |
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NY Mag is a stick in the mud. It's enough when it stops being funny. Which is, scientifically speaking, around the 17th iteration. We've yet to see it with puppets, cartoon characters, home videos of babies, and mashups of Obama and Clinton. It will stop being funny when Hoops and Yoyo do it. Then we'll start to see the spinoffs: like "I'm driving a ****" and "I'm cooking **** for dinner" and "I'm planting *****" and "You're invited to ****" wedding invitations. After about 50 of these it will start to be funny again. There's some unknown 16-year old who, in about about 13 months, will create a website that is so stunningly obvious, Gawker.com will buy it 5 days later for $1.3 milllion. |
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Russ, your glasses story reminds me of a similar story about my dad- until I was 4 my dad had an early 80's style mustache. When he shaved it off he insisted that he had never had a mustache and that the guy with the mustache was his "evil twin". To this day he maintains that all photos of him with a mustache are of his evil twin. |
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Sorry--I should have been clearer. The part that makes me feel like this is time well spent (and me not getting dumber) is reading the discussion about the posts, which are so above and beyond most places. |
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My dad merely threatened to regrow his mustache. No claims of evil twindom. |
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My father, being French Canadian, held onto his mustache until such time it became medically necessary to shave it off due to the large hazardous deposits of tar and nicotine located just inches (sorry, centimetres) from his nose and mouth. |
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I will never forget the first time I saw that my dad had a face under his beard, when I was in 6th grade. I screamed my head off. Evil twin indeed. |
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I like the daddy stories! I may have mentioned this, but my daughter is EXTREMELY nostalgic -- she still occasionally weeps (weeps!) for the sofa we got rid of about a year ago (when she was 3 1/2). When I told her a month or two ago that I was going to have my eyes fixed and wouldn't wear glasses anymore, she burst out crying. |
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Oh, I'm sympathetic for your daughter, Russ. The first time my dad came home beardless I started crying. And I didn't have the excuse of being 3 and a half. |
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isaac recently switched from glasses to contacts, and after nearly 11 years, I had a similar reaction to Russ's Daughter/gretchen's. Now I'm used to it, though, and isaac in glasses looks like "smart isaac." |
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i'm leaning toward getting LASIK in the near future, and am a little concerned that given that I've worn glasses for over 20 years (never contacts), I will look like my evil dumb twin. |
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Russ, if I remember correctly, your wife is an L.M. Montgomery fan. Has she read Pat of Silver Bush? Pat is nostalgic in the same way, and gets terribly upset every time they make a change in the house. |
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Genevieve -- we'll have to check that out. |
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One more story, with a possible "TMI" alert. |
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(And, since this was last Friday, Mrs. Russ said, "You're missing your IQ, because every school system is closed on account of ice and you're about to drive 30 miles on your brand-new eyes, you moron." Ok, she didn't say it (in those words), but she was thinking it.) |
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I have to say that I think Jimmy's video wins outright. I feel the Matt Damon is just reprising his role from 'Eurotrip' where he played Donny the punk rocker and sang 'Scotty Doesn't Know...'. |
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Ironically, after all of this talk of glasses and contacts and such, I went and scratched my eye today ON MY CONTACT (hard contacts here), such that now I have to wear glasses for three days. Having worn contacts for 20 odd years now, I worry that I look ridiculous in my glasses. I am heartened that maybe I will just look like "smart" Kate. |
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so i didn't come out of the woodwork |
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I also prefer the Sarah/Matt song. For me, what does it is when you first see Matt Damon. I just totally wasn't expecting to see him. And I have also had the song stuck in my head since watching that post, which says something too. It's just catchier than the rebuttal. |
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When I was 2, I told my father to shave off his moustache. He complied. I was really cute. He hasn't had one since. |
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