My favorite Harvey Korman sketch (that he wasn't in)

Yesterday comic legend Harvey Korman died at the age of 81 from a brain aneurysm. Over at this thread on the news, I talked about my favorite sketch of his from "The Carol Burnett Show", which I had been unable to find on YouTube. Luckily, a saint reading the thread named PattyAnn found this link and emailed it.

In true moron form, I was describing a skit that Korman wasn't even in. It was Lyle Waggoner*. But, since it's my blog, I'm going to post it anyway.



For skits that actually feature Korman, head over to the above link or the Moron-in-Chief's.

He'll be missed, even if I am too much of a 'tard to remember which skits he was in.

*In my defense, I wasn't even born when the show was on, and the last time I saw it was a rerun on ABC Family about 12 years ago.

Shocka! Portland Hipsters Love the Obamessiah (oh yeah, and free music)!

Earlier this week, he had a crowd of 75,000, and I was not shocked that so many hipsters came out to see the Obamessiah. Turns out I was right to not be shocked, as right before Obama came to the stage, hipster-doofus band The Decemberists played a free 45-minute concert for the crowd. I'm shocked, shocked, that the media failed to report that.

The Decemberists, if you don't know, are a popular, well received Portland-based band. I (somewhat) liked their album Picaresque, but haven't really listened to them since one of my friends made me listen to them almost non-stop on a road trip. That kinda thing usually puts me off a band for a long time.

I, like Jim Geraghty, wonder if they played their song "Sixteen Military Wives":

The video depicts a bully named "Henry Stowecroft" (Kissinger and Brent?) representing the United States in a grade school model United Nations who declares war on Luxembourg. I kid you not when I tell you the video begins with the bully putting on a flag pin.

The lyrics:

Sixteen military wives
Thirty-two softly focused brightly colored eyes
Staring at the natural tan
of thirty-two gently clenching wrinkled little hands
Seventeen company men
Out of which only twelve will make it back again
Sergeant sends a letter to five
Military wives, whose tears drip down through ten little eyes

Cheer them on to their rivals
Cause America can, and America can't say no
And America does, if America says it's so
It's so!

And the anchorperson on TV goes...
La de da de da

Fifteen celebrity minds
Leading their fifteen sordid wretched checkered lives
Will they find the solution in time
Using their fifteen pristine moderate liberal minds?

Here is the video in question. I was able to watch it 30 seconds before finding it too obnoxious to finish. You could have a drinking game to go along with all the half-brained dKos talking points presented therein.

I thought Republicans were the ones who trampled on the Constitution, Sean...

As goes Sean Penn, so goes the nation...

Asked if he would be joining other Hollywood A-listers in pledging support for Obama, Penn gave him a less than ringing endorsement and warned that he has an awful lot to live up to.

"I don't have a candidate I'm supporting and I'm certainly interested and excited by the hope that Barack Obama is inspiring,” he said, but went on to accuse him of a “phenomenally inhuman and unconstitutional” voting record.

Wow. Sen. Barack Obama has taken the liberal position on every issue that has come before the Senate. If the liberal position is "inhuman and unconstitutional", does that mean that Sean Penn thinks the GOP position is "humane and constitutional"? (It's my guess that he considers the Green Party's positions the constitutional ones, but in reality their platforms aren't that much different.)

All those clothes have been weighing her down.

Lindsay Lohan is going to appear nude in a low-budget indie flick to prove that she's a serious actress:

The actress is said to have agreed to strip down for just £40,000 for the indie film Florence to prove herself as a "mature actress".

The 21-year-old, who previously played a pole dancer in the box-office flop I Know Who Killed Me, has reportedly agreed to "full frontal" nudity in her role as a nymphomaniac waitress in the drama.

An insider told The Sun: “Lindsay doesn't care she's getting paid peanuts. She wants to remind people she can act and that she is worth hiring.”

With the possible exception of Mean Girls, (which I haven't seen, but am told I would love) she has never been a good actress.

If she wants to be taken seriously as an actress, maybe she should try having a personal life that doesn't land her on the cover of the National Enquirer ever other week. Or perhaps she could start by actually behaving like a professional during production, instead of being so consistently late and "irresponsible" that the producers have to chastise her via letter.

I've got nothing against actors appearing nude for roles, but doing so doesn't make one a talented or serious actor. That comes from a love of, and devotion to, one's profession that requires one to think about the task at hand, rather than how much fun she's going to have at Les Deux that night.

It's Springtime for Hitler and Tom Cruise...

It seems that the evil lord Xenu is once again conspiring against Tom Cruise. His Nazi movie, Valkyrie has been pushed back from an Oscar-friendly opening date of October 2008 to February 2009, just in time for Valentine's Day. The movie is also plagued with post-production troubles:

As of last week, director Bryan Singer still expected to shoot four more scenes with a disbanded cast including a big war/action sequence that sets up the film but still doesn’t exist. "Valkyrie" already has cost $90 million and should hit $100 million before it’s done. That doesn’t include the marketing costs, which will add on a good $50 million.

The money is another issue. United Artists’ deal with MGM and Merrill Lynch called for making four to five films a year. So far they’ve made and released one, Robert Redford’s "Lions for Lambs."

By many industry estimates, that gallant effort probably will lose a total of $50 million when all is said and done. It cost $43 million to make, grossed $57 million worldwide, and that doesn’t count marketing and prints. And it’s not like today’s DVD release will help much: Amazon.com lists it around No. 50.

In case you missed the very laughable trailer a few months ago, here it is again.


And speaking of Nazis, they are alive and well in modern Israel, according to a UN Human Rights Council investigator charged with monitoring Israel. Your tax dollars at work.

Link Round-up: RIP, Charlton Heston edition

Ed Morrissey eulogizes the great actor and gun rights advocate over at HotAir.com.

"We won't let them grab the guns, Mr. Heston, not even from your cold, dead hands."

Some of the man's greatest hits, and some predictable lefty hatred...already.

Gateway Pundit has some links of his own, and more predictable nutroots reaction...

Michelle Malkin has some good youtube of Heston, as well as a statement by the Heston family.

The editors of PowerLine share their thoughts. Best passage:

In the last chapter of his autobiography Heston tells a story deriving from his appearance in Minnesota on behalf of Grams. In the course of his remarks on behalf of Grams, Heston said: "We have to get back to the values and perceptions of those wise old dead white guys who invented this country." Grams's hapless opponent and her friends in the media tried to create a brouhaha out of the remarks, as Heston recalls, branding him with what he calls "the familiar P.C epithets." Heston had moved on to appear on behalf of another Republican candidate outside Minnesota after the controversy erupted, but he took the time to tape a response:

"Let's see now," I said, "they were wise, they were old, they're dead, they were white guys, and they invented this country. Which word in that sentence don't you understand?"

I think it's fair to say that we shall not look upon his like again.

Karl notes that the AP can't keep it's bias out of it's obituary.

Take your fakey British accent and go home.

Madonna wants to remake Casablanca, setting it in Iraq instead of Morocco. For someone often touted as a marketing genius, she sure is stupid.

(h/t Betsy Newmark)

Whose Spleen is it Anyway?

Drew Carey wants me to be free to sell my kidneys.

shocka!

director and screenwriter david mamet says that he is no longer a "brain-dead liberal". in addition, he is also questioning the efficacy of government:

What about the role of government? Well, in the abstract, coming from my time and background, I thought it was a rather good thing, but tallying up the ledger in those things which affect me and in those things I observe, I am hard-pressed to see an instance where the intervention of the government led to much beyond sorrow.

But if the government is not to intervene, how will we, mere human beings, work it all out?

I wondered and read, and it occurred to me that I knew the answer, and here it is: We just seem to. How do I know? From experience. I referred to my own—take away the director from the staged play and what do you get? Usually a diminution of strife, a shorter rehearsal period, and a better production.

my guess: mamet will identify himself publicly as an "independent", since thats the cool thing to do right now, and it will allow him to keep working in hollywood. but he'l probably be voting for more republicans.

quote of the day

I watched the original "Dipdive" video after reading numerous hysterical reports on blogs about how the video was so moving that it made them cry. And yet, I watched the same video and its Riefenstahl-meets-Gap-ad aesthetic made me want to perform an impromptu lobotomy on myself with a screwdriver that's accidentally been dropped in the toilet.

- mark hemingway on the pro-obama music videos i posted earlier.

björk calls for tibetan independence

at the end of a concert in shanghai, china:

"We will further tighten controls on foreign artists performing in China in order to prevent similar cases from happening in the future," the Ministry of Culture said in a statement on its website.

"We shall never tolerate any attempt to separate Tibet from China and will no longer welcome any artists who deliberately do this."

A video on the Internet site Youtube shows the Icelandic singer closing out her concert in China's financial hub last Sunday with the song: "Declare Independence", during which she yelled "Tibet" several times.

glad she made it out safely. she gets to be the song of the day for that.

"pagan poetry" by björk (live on david letterman):



(h/t hotair)

another day...

...another creepy video/lyric love letter from will.i.am to st. obama the messiah.



buh....

and for reference, here is the first video. also creepy.

in keeping with today's theme...

...of people doing my work for me, here is an old article from cracked: the 20 best "that guys" of all time.

my favorite is number 13 on the list. (although he has been nominated for 2 oscars.)

and the oscar for best truther goes to...

...marion cotillard, this years best actress winner, is a confirmed 9/11 truther:

"I think we’re lied to about a number of things," she said, singling out September 11.

Referring to the two passenger jets flown into the World Trade Centre, Miss Cotillard said: "We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes, are they burned? There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours.

It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed."

no wonder they gave her an award.

americans have officially ran out of things to worry about

the washington post finds enough people upset about a white man playing barack obama on "saturday night live" to justify writing an article about it.

UPDATE: here is the video...

he just wants your extra time and your.....hips.

there's been too much partying like it was 1999, i fear. prince is only 49 years old and already needs a hip replacement.

anti-war: what is it good for?

our precious left-wing american musicians are all contributing to the soundtrack of an anti-war documentary called "body of war", about an Iraq War veteran who gets paralyzed in the battlefield and is now against the war.

that's fine, but here is what i find really troublesome:

The 30-song, two-disc album "Body of War: Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran" will be released March 18 via Warner Music's Sire Records label. All proceeds from the sale of the album will benefit Iraq Veterans Against the War

so, basically, the idea is to use a paralyzed veteran as a front to raise money for an anti-war group.

i've got an idea. if you're really concerned about paralyzed veterans in america, how about having all proceeds go to the disabled american veterans charitable service trust or to army emergency relief?

another obama endorsement

maybe sen. obama promised him he'd create a department of hatin' whitey.

you stay classy...

...jane fonda.

chain of foolishness

seriously, aretha. we all love you. we even get excited when people (successfully) cover your songs. no need to get stupid on us after all these years.