Clifford The Big Pink Dog

Go here, spend $5, watch the show. Because, as with Ace of Bass, you can never give Louis C.K. too much money, no matter what you do.

Management Tips From A Master

Tina Fey on staying skinny during her Saturday Night Live years:

"I regularly ate health food cookies so disgusting that when I enthusiastically gave one to Rachel Dratch she drew a picture of a rabbit and broke the cookie into a trail of tiny pieces coming out of the rabbit's butt."

More in Bossypants.

Putting Your Finger On It

It's funny 'cause it's true.

Getting It Really Right

Clicking Girl and I love Craig Ferguson. I love Doctor Who. Therefore this weird-ass opening to Ferguson's show with Matt Smith as guest is a glorious tower of win. Extra bonus points for using Orbital's version of the theme music.

With Sam B., It's a Guarantee

Sample from I Know I Am, But What Are You, by The Daily Show's Samantha Bee: "Are you seriously expecting me to jump off this bridge and restrain an erect dolphin?"

One more, describing the type of call she had to make to 90 year-old patients when she worked at a doctor's office that specialized in ED:

"Hello, Mr. Jacobsen, it's Samantha from the men's clinic."

"HEL-LO?"

"It's SAMANTHA. From the MEN'S CLINIC."

"WHAT IS THIS?"

"SAMANTHA!!!! MEN'S CLINIC."

"WHA-A-AT?"

"CLI-NIC!!!! PENIS CLINIC!!!! YOUR PENIS!!!!"

"APPLE?!"

Battle of the Bozos

This is what happens when honkies rumble.

"The Battle of the Bozos" Trailer from Bradley Glenn on Vimeo.

Rick Moranis Has Some Advice, or Something

Pitch-Perfection

Tapping right into the impotent rage-driven psyche of every 8th grader ever, Josh Lieb's I Am A Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want To Be Your Class President serves up 300 brisk pages of hilarious middle school politicking. Oliver Watson Junior suffers a daily 400 blows, all while plotting his grand design.

I guess this could be considered a children's book, but it's way funnier (and less immediately familiar and painful) if you're an adult. Click through for a description, but basically Lieb had me at the title.

Being Thankful

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Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian TV show that's now in its seventh season. As such, it's a highly recommended thing of several moments ago. But since I'm a dumb American and just found out aboot it, it's new to me.

The characters are all residents of the same trailer park, and the show centers on their petty crimes, get-rich-quick schemes, and power struggles. Be thankful you don't live in a trailer park.The show can be a bit hit-and-miss, but the magic is in the details: lead character Ricky lives out of a car and stirs his Kool-Aid with a plastic shoehorn. His partner in crime *always* has a mixed drink in his hand, and they're constantly harassed by a disgraced cop/trailer park supervisor with delusions of grandeur.

What's really great about the show is that it's not just a snobby put-down of trailer trash. The characters have a can-do ethic, and survival skills that work for them within the park, even if they don't completely understand how the world outside works.

A Minute of Smart Art

Insert Coin from vurup on Vimeo.

The Funniest Comedian Alive

There's a rule that says you shouldn't blog something that's had half a million or more hits. Even though Patton Oswalt is moving way beyond "comedian's comedian" status, I'm still going to blog this one. It's had less than 5,000 hits so far anyway, so technically we're still ok.

Basically, I support anything this man does.

Toluca Talk with Patton Oswalt from Patton Oswalt

Trying Not To Get Starstruck

Nine years in NYC left me pretty jaded when it comes to celebrity sightings. At one point, I saw Jennifer Connelly so often I was convinced she was stalking me.

What? I'm stalkable.

I think the only time I truly lost my shit was when I saw Salman Rushdie at a party. I was already hammered and whatever came out of my mouth probably translated as "I am here at last to fulfill the fatwa."

Anyway, my cool will be put to the test tomorrow when I go see Cinematic Titanic live. The site says they sign pretty much anything with a hard surface, so I'll bring some signable schwag.

For those who can't make the show, the crew is doing a signing here in Portland on Saturday at 1pm at the Lombard Street Videorama.

I know we go on and on about Mystery Science Theater 3000 here, but when you make us laugh for 20 years, we cough up the love.

Update

Photos of stuff I got signed, plus bad pics of Joel, Mary Jo, and Frank. The pics of Trace and J. Elvis did not turn out.

A Theater Full of Loooooooooove

I just paid more to see Cinematic Titanic live than I did for my last big concert. I think I'm ok with that.

Granted, I'm not sold on the show yet, but considering the almost 20 years of laughs I've had from Mystery Science Theater 3000, I'll be happy just to be in a theater full of fellow fans as Joel and the Bots/Crew do their thing.

Oh, and suck it, NYC, 'cause they ain't comin' there.

midi remix of songs + goofy video

Lolmidi Star Trek + midi. and then Marvin Gaye saves the day. Seriously.

Almost as good as just jamming out to tracks from SuperNES games played by a live Band:

Minibosses Free mp3s from them if you don't know what I'm talking about. You should definitely check out Kid Icarus.

These guys play tracks from your NES childhood on 2 guitars, bass and drums. Some of the guitar arrangements are umm... megabosses!

Advice for Would-Be Presidents

Should Obama win the general election, he should remember the 9th President of the USA.

Keeping it Short

I guarantee this will be better than that Clone Wars cartoon.

British TV Comedies

I love a British sitcom called the IT Crowd, mainly because I work in IT and it is funny- partly because of that and partly because it has brilliant writing and casting. So the lads I work with got into it and found some other stuff one of the actors had done. And they are strange fellows, and like a bit of the surreal. And because I like the surreal too, now I have to recommend a show called The Mighty Boosh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0S6vL0-u58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J7_QoRyJ30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ6hn_dnF9U

Also for more surreal stuff, Noel Fielding, check out his standup.

Feeling the Taint

This is not, in fact, NSFW. Witch Taint is the fake brainchild of comedian Dave Hill. Dave works blue, but this is basically just the best trolling ever. Using an alias, he calls out a death metal band for being weak, and says he might let them open for him. Over many e-mails, they just do not catch on.

Sidecar

Fearlessly weird and technical sketch comedy troupe. I saw them tonight, doing an extended piece about life in a bunker after Armageddon. The three guys were having the fourth in a series of debates to become President of Bunkermerica, with one guy moderating the other two.

All three had ridiculously long beards. Silly and inspired fun.