Friday, November 07, 2008
MTV Awards surprisingly awesome
Here is a list of things that were amazing about last night's MTV Europe Music Awards:
1) Everything except Jared Leto
2) Although even Jared Leto was great when he called Katie Ting Ting a witch.
If you didn't see the show, set your Sky+ to record the repeat on MTV tonight. As a taster, here's The Killers playing Celebrity Squares.
TRIVIA: What happens in the auditorium when the viewers at home see adverts? Kylie Karaoke! Amazing.
1) Everything except Jared Leto
2) Although even Jared Leto was great when he called Katie Ting Ting a witch.
If you didn't see the show, set your Sky+ to record the repeat on MTV tonight. As a taster, here's The Killers playing Celebrity Squares.
TRIVIA: What happens in the auditorium when the viewers at home see adverts? Kylie Karaoke! Amazing.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Will Ferrell back on SNL
"Four months ago I declared the Oval Office a bummer-free zone"
Labels: humour, tina fey, TV, will ferrell
Monday, October 06, 2008
Bullseye!
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Attention Ladyhawke, Keane, et al
This is where your uncritical revival of the 1980s will inevitably lead:
You have been warned!
You have been warned!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
This actually happened
At Sunday night's Emmys, Josh Groban sang a medley of 26 TV theme tunes in four minutes.
It is the most mesmerisingly shit piece of television in all of the history of everything ever.
It is the most mesmerisingly shit piece of television in all of the history of everything ever.
Labels: TV
Friday, August 08, 2008
AMAZING!
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
LL Cool J ruins childhood for everyone
Now, this is simply not on.
While every other guest star on Sesame Street uses their performance to spread good will, basic maths, triangle recognition and, er, footwear to the masses, LL Cool J goes and spoils it all with needless profanity.
All Elmo wanted him to do was add one and one together.
Oh, wait...
Watch the clip on Youtube (youtube)
While every other guest star on Sesame Street uses their performance to spread good will, basic maths, triangle recognition and, er, footwear to the masses, LL Cool J goes and spoils it all with needless profanity.
All Elmo wanted him to do was add one and one together.
Oh, wait...
Watch the clip on Youtube (youtube)
Labels: muppets, sesame street, TV
This week's Sesame Street clip
You know, that muppet blog idea I had last week is seeming better and better as the Sesame Street posts stack up... This week, Neil "Doogie Howser MD" Patrick Harris pops up on the puppet show playing a singing, dancing shoe fairy. (Yes, you read that right.)
The clip's on Youtube (youtube) - but embedding has been disabled, so you'll actually have to click on a link to watch it. The horror.
For those of you who can't bear to leave the site (we understand), here's an equally brilliant clip of Harris on US chat show Regis and Kelly:
Labels: muppets, sesame street, TV, video
Monday, July 07, 2008
Bert & Ernie throw down
What is it with muppet mash-ups at the minute? After last week's unecessarily censored Sesame Street, here's Bert and Ernie crunking it up, gangsta rap-stylee.
Bert and Ernie - Hip-Hoppotamus and Rhymenocerous
The soundtrack is Ante Up by MOP, fact fans.
The soundtrack is Ante Up by MOP, fact fans.
Labels: humour, muppets, sesame street, TV, video
Friday, July 04, 2008
David Tennant is a fistful of amazing
I'm a bit of a sci-fiphobic (what's so great about lasers anyway?) but I have found myself sucked into watching the latest series of Doctor Who. This is largely, but not entirely, due to mrsdiscopop's crush on the perma-gurning hunkalove that is David Tennant.I have to admit that (a) he is quite hot, and (b) makes the show entirely. He's one of those rare people who can deliver utter bollocks ("hypersonic sound waves to destabilize the cell structure!") with a sense of purpose and, furthermore, he handles the series' massive swings between drama and comedy with awesome ease.
But he's just gone up even further in my estimation with this out-take - from Family Of Blood, in the last series. The plot saw The Doctor making himself human in order to hide from aliens (?). This entailed forgetting who he was entirely, and entrusting his life to faithful companion Martha Jones… In the episode we see Martha receiving instructions from The Doctor on a video screen, but the sound is muted.
Here's what Tennant really said.
Labels: doctor who, TV, video
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Sesame Street censored
I can't think of anything in advance of this video that wouldn't dilute and ultimately spoil the comedy. Except that last sentence, of course.
And that one.
Jimmy Kimmel - Unnecessary Censorship on Sesame Street
And that one.
Labels: humour, sesame street, TV
Friday, June 27, 2008
Oooh, oooh, oooh!!
Two of the best television moments of the last ten years:
1) Joss Whedon's musical episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer
[here is a terrible clip on Youtube (youtube)]
2) Nathan Fillion's fantastically grumpy performance as Captain Malcolm Reynolds in Joss Whedon's cruelly cancelled sci-fi western, Firefly
[here is an equally terrible clip on Youtube (youtube)]
So, what if Joss Whedon wrote a three-part musical about a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to. And cast Nathan Fillion in it. Alongside the guy that used to play Doogie Howser.
It would be fucking amazing, that's what.
(Oh, and here's the trailer)
1) Joss Whedon's musical episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer
[here is a terrible clip on Youtube (youtube)]
2) Nathan Fillion's fantastically grumpy performance as Captain Malcolm Reynolds in Joss Whedon's cruelly cancelled sci-fi western, Firefly
[here is an equally terrible clip on Youtube (youtube)]
So, what if Joss Whedon wrote a three-part musical about a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to. And cast Nathan Fillion in it. Alongside the guy that used to play Doogie Howser.
It would be fucking amazing, that's what.
(Oh, and here's the trailer)
Labels: TV
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Buy this DVD box set
If you only make one merchandising purchase decision this week, then make it this merchandising purchase decision:
Absolutely Everything - DVD Box Set trailer
For the uninitiated, Absolutely is probably the only worthy successor to Monty Python in the pantheons of British (well, Scottish) sketch comedy. Beautifully surreal, laugh-out-loud funny - this shit is bananas.
The 8 disc DVD comes with extra features, containing features that are extra.
For the uninitiated, Absolutely is probably the only worthy successor to Monty Python in the pantheons of British (well, Scottish) sketch comedy. Beautifully surreal, laugh-out-loud funny - this shit is bananas.
The 8 disc DVD comes with extra features, containing features that are extra.
Labels: absolutely, humour, TV, video
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
World's biggest foam party
Following the bouncing balls and exploding paint buildings, Sony Bravia's latest crazy TV ad floods the streets of Miami with ninety tons of dirty dish water a 16-foot-high wall of foam.
Party like it's 1996!
Sony Foam advert
There's a great making-of film, here. But does anyone recognise the music? It's lovely.
Party like it's 1996!
There's a great making-of film, here. But does anyone recognise the music? It's lovely.
Drop that clitoris!
Here is Cameron Diaz* talking about her harrowing new movie, That Terrible Time Of The Month.
*May actually be Tracey Ullman
*May actually be Tracey Ullman
Labels: cameron diaz, humour, tracey ullman, TV
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Flying penguins!
This film from the BBC is obviously an April Fool's prank, but it's very well done...
Amazing Penguins
Friday, March 28, 2008
Click this, it's Friday evening
I'm really going to stop posting things today, but only after this collection of links...
:: George Clooney on plastic surgery
"I did get my balls done, though. I got them unwrinkled. It's the new thing in Hollywood -- ball ironing."
[Esquire]
:: Tina Fey on Paris Hilton
She has "the hair of a fraggle", and left "nasty wads of Barbie hair on the floor" from her "cheap weave". Ouch!
[Cityrag]
:: Wombat rape
"A New Zealand man who claimed he was raped by a wombat and that the experience left him speaking with an Australian accent has been found guilty of wasting police time."
[Daily Telegraph]
:: Go Fug Yourself on Girls Aloud
"Cheryl Cole: By law, one of us has to look hootchie and also wear a misguided hat."
[Go Fug Yourself]
:: Peter Robinson on Nickelback's Rock Star
"Its most terrifying feature is in its first millisecond, in that Chad's vocals appear completely without warning."
[The Guardian]
:: Estelle's bitter hatred of Ribena in cartons
"Why does the pre-mixed stuff always taste watery? It's irritating! They should let you do it yourself - sell it with the water and let you do it yourself." (conflict of interests disclaimer: I wrote this in my "real job")
[BBC News Website]
:: A man tries to lose weight for his wedding using Wii Fit
"As I get to a certain point with things like push-ups or “plank” exercises, my arms will begin to involuntarily twitch."
[4 Colour Rebellion]
:: Newsreader corpses on air
Charlotte Green goes bonkers on Radio 4's high-falutin Today programme, recreating the incident eight years ago when she fell about laughing after reading out the name "Jack Twat".
[BBC News Website]
:: Actress forced to dye her hair by idiots
Judy Greer, who was in Charlie Kaufmann weirdfest Adaptation, was ordered to go ginger by film producers in case people confused her hairdo with co-star Jennifer Aniston's hairdo.
Please note that, depending on your level of testosterone, you will either find Greer endearinlgly cute or irritatingly ditzy in the following clip.
Judy Greer on David Letterman
Have a great weekend!
Mrdiscopop
:: George Clooney on plastic surgery"I did get my balls done, though. I got them unwrinkled. It's the new thing in Hollywood -- ball ironing."
[Esquire]
:: Tina Fey on Paris Hilton
She has "the hair of a fraggle", and left "nasty wads of Barbie hair on the floor" from her "cheap weave". Ouch!
[Cityrag]
:: Wombat rape
"A New Zealand man who claimed he was raped by a wombat and that the experience left him speaking with an Australian accent has been found guilty of wasting police time."
[Daily Telegraph]
:: Go Fug Yourself on Girls Aloud
"Cheryl Cole: By law, one of us has to look hootchie and also wear a misguided hat."
[Go Fug Yourself]
:: Peter Robinson on Nickelback's Rock Star
"Its most terrifying feature is in its first millisecond, in that Chad's vocals appear completely without warning."
[The Guardian]
:: Estelle's bitter hatred of Ribena in cartons
"Why does the pre-mixed stuff always taste watery? It's irritating! They should let you do it yourself - sell it with the water and let you do it yourself." (conflict of interests disclaimer: I wrote this in my "real job")
[BBC News Website]
:: A man tries to lose weight for his wedding using Wii Fit
"As I get to a certain point with things like push-ups or “plank” exercises, my arms will begin to involuntarily twitch."
[4 Colour Rebellion]
:: Newsreader corpses on air
Charlotte Green goes bonkers on Radio 4's high-falutin Today programme, recreating the incident eight years ago when she fell about laughing after reading out the name "Jack Twat".
[BBC News Website]
:: Actress forced to dye her hair by idiots
Judy Greer, who was in Charlie Kaufmann weirdfest Adaptation, was ordered to go ginger by film producers in case people confused her hairdo with co-star Jennifer Aniston's hairdo.
Please note that, depending on your level of testosterone, you will either find Greer endearinlgly cute or irritatingly ditzy in the following clip.
Have a great weekend!
Mrdiscopop
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Payback
Last month, Sarah Silverman admitted to her boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel that she was fucking Matt Damon by putting together a music video and showing it on his US talk show (I blogged about it here.)
In his post-Osars show on Monday, Kimmel got his own back. Big time.
Jimmy Kimmel - I'm F*cking Ben Affleck
I've spotted Don Cheadle, Harrison Ford, Cameron Diaz, McLovin and Robin Williams in that clip. Who else can you see?
In his post-Osars show on Monday, Kimmel got his own back. Big time.
I've spotted Don Cheadle, Harrison Ford, Cameron Diaz, McLovin and Robin Williams in that clip. Who else can you see?
Janet Jackson videos galore
Janet Jackson continued her comeback campaign by "taking over" Times Square yesterday (i.e. she appeared on two TV shows that are filmed nearby and signed some records at a Virgin Megastore).First off was breakfast show Good Morning America, where she revealed plans for a tour in September - her first live dates in six years. She also performed new single Feeback and career highpoint That's The Way Love Goes, and taunted Simon Cowell by pulling a pair of grey trousers above chest height.
I'm not sure what was going on with ABC's cameras, but all those people holding up cameraphones in the audience probably got better shots of the show than the national TV network broadcasting it.
...Meanwhile, MTV has lifted its four-year-long, post-Superbowl ban on Janet and made her "artist of the week." This seems to involve putting her on TRL and getting her to shoot some spoof commercials for its top programmes - My Super Sweet 16, Making The Band, A Shot At Love, etc, etc,
The girl can act.
Labels: Janet Jackson, Music, TV, video
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
R.I.P. Madge Allsopp
Actress Emily Perry, better known as Dame Edna Everage's long-suffering mute bridesmaid sidekick, has died at the ripe old age of 100. She will be sadly missed.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
I hate Sarah Silverman, but...
...this clip from Jimmy Kimmel's talk show made me do a great big LOL. (For context, Jimmy Kimmel is Silverman's real-life boyfriend).
Sarah Silverman - I'm F*cking Matt Damon
When chat turns ugly*
Late-night US talk show lynchpins Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien and Stephen Colbert have engaged in an increasingly bitter feud over the US Presidential race. Last night, it all kicked off when Stewart and Colbert stormed the set of Conan's show... to the tune of the Arctic Monkeys' Brian Storm.
*Or, a look at how television shows are struggling to come up with ideas during the Hollywood writers' strike.
*Or, a look at how television shows are struggling to come up with ideas during the Hollywood writers' strike.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Attending a Jools Holland taping
Jools Holland's perennial late-night music show recorded its 200th episode tonight, and I was lucky enough to be there. It was my first time watching the show being committed to tape (a computer), and it's quite an interesting process. Here's what I learned:
Watch the 200th episode on BBC Two this Friday, and use this information at dinner parties to make yourself popular.
PS Someone is bound to ask what Radiohead played. They did Bodysnatchers, Weird Fishes and 15 Step for the main programme, and House Of Cards for the website.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Can You Tell Me How To Get To...
Why is it that you can't see Sesame Street on UK television any more? How will future generations cope with the real world if they haven't been taught how to count by a large yellow bird and a man who lives in a bin? Also, Sesame Street introduces children to future life-skills such as sending back cold soup in a restaurant, sharing an apartment with a man shaped like a banana, and distracting vampires by encouraging them to count the number of flowers in a vase (works every time, that one).
Most importantly of all, Sesame Street features some of the funkiest goddamn music in the history of the planet. Witness below Stevie Wonder's appearance on the show from the mid-70s (episode 514, according to Youtube). You just wouldn't get this on Balamory.
Stevie teaches Grover to sing
Stevie Wonder - Sesame Street jam
Labels: Music, sesame street, stevie wonder, TV
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Pass the time by watching these
Here are three videos from the internet in ascending order of amazing-ness.
NUMBER ONE: NEW FUTURAMA
Good news, everyone! Having already won an Oscar (it was featured in Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth) the cast of Futurama reunite for their own movie. It's back, back, BACK! from the intergalactic space dumper orbiting Vorgon 5.
Bender's Big Score - Trailer
NUMBER TWO: REMI NICOLE
Imagine a gene-splicing experiment where you combined one-third of Lily Allen, one-third of KT Tunstall, and one-third of Corrine Bailey Rae. Remi Nicole would be the result. NB: Not as repulsive as it sounds.
Remi Nicole - Rock and Roll
NUMBER THREE: A KANGAROO
On a racetrack, in the middle of a race. Eeeek! And, latterly, phew!
Kanga in Danga
NUMBER ONE: NEW FUTURAMA
Good news, everyone! Having already won an Oscar (it was featured in Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth) the cast of Futurama reunite for their own movie. It's back, back, BACK! from the intergalactic space dumper orbiting Vorgon 5.
NUMBER TWO: REMI NICOLE
Imagine a gene-splicing experiment where you combined one-third of Lily Allen, one-third of KT Tunstall, and one-third of Corrine Bailey Rae. Remi Nicole would be the result. NB: Not as repulsive as it sounds.
NUMBER THREE: A KANGAROO
On a racetrack, in the middle of a race. Eeeek! And, latterly, phew!
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
High School Musical 3?!
The producers of the real HSM3 (as the kids are calling it) will have to work really hard to top this:
Saturday Night Live - High School Musical 3
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
The most beautiful girl I have ever seen with a kebab
Were you among the 0.003% of the population who watched BBC Four last night at 9:30pm? If so, you will know that quirky new Kiwi comedy Flight Of The Conchords is superbrilliant.
The show is centred around two New Zealanders who have moved to New York to break into either (a) the music business or (b) sexy ladies underpants... whichever comes first. The actual comedy bits are hit-and-miss, but the show's songs are so funny you will laugh your leg off.
For example:
If you weren't among those 161,000 curious viewers with impeccable taste on Tuesday, you can catch a repeat on Friday at 11:00pm. And its probably on that BBC iPlayer thing too, if you can work out how to use it.
The show is centred around two New Zealanders who have moved to New York to break into either (a) the music business or (b) sexy ladies underpants... whichever comes first. The actual comedy bits are hit-and-miss, but the show's songs are so funny you will laugh your leg off.
For example:
If you weren't among those 161,000 curious viewers with impeccable taste on Tuesday, you can catch a repeat on Friday at 11:00pm. And its probably on that BBC iPlayer thing too, if you can work out how to use it.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Apropos of nothing
It's a four-day weekend. The sun is (allegedly) coming out. I have ample supplies of chocolate and coffee, and a pair of tickets to see Girls Aloud on Monday.
It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time!
See you next week!
It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time!
See you next week!
Labels: family guy, humour, TV, video
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Pop on the box: A comparative history
People keep asking why Top Of The Pops, CD:UK, Popworld, and all the other decent pop programmes have died and gone to telly heaven. I think I have a theory...
Exhibit A: Otis Redding performing I Can't Turn You Loose on ITV pop show Ready Steady Go, 1966.
To gee himself up for an appearance on national TV, Otis burns his hand on a stove, licks a car battery and shoves a frog up his bottom. That's why he dances like an epileptic windmill. It's invigorating stuff:
Exhibit B: Gnarls Barkley on chin-stroking muso wankfest Live from Abbey Road, 2007.
The biggest moment of drama in this performance comes when someone turns the volume knob on their keyboard from four to slightly louder than four.
Cee-Lo may have the voice of an angel, but it would have been better if, just before the director called "action", someone had slapped him with a kipper and called his mum a slag:
I put it to you, the jury, that music television went wrong when we stopped making singers flail around like demented baboons and decided that exhibiting any sort of enjoyment somehow "devalued" the "music".
I blame Oasis, myself.
Exhibit A: Otis Redding performing I Can't Turn You Loose on ITV pop show Ready Steady Go, 1966.
To gee himself up for an appearance on national TV, Otis burns his hand on a stove, licks a car battery and shoves a frog up his bottom. That's why he dances like an epileptic windmill. It's invigorating stuff:
Exhibit B: Gnarls Barkley on chin-stroking muso wankfest Live from Abbey Road, 2007.
The biggest moment of drama in this performance comes when someone turns the volume knob on their keyboard from four to slightly louder than four.
Cee-Lo may have the voice of an angel, but it would have been better if, just before the director called "action", someone had slapped him with a kipper and called his mum a slag:
I put it to you, the jury, that music television went wrong when we stopped making singers flail around like demented baboons and decided that exhibiting any sort of enjoyment somehow "devalued" the "music".
I blame Oasis, myself.
Labels: gnarls barkley, Music, otis redding, TV, video
Friday, July 27, 2007
Some distracting materials from the internet!!!1
Because Fridays are all about mucking around on the web and waiting for the moment you can run out the office door and go to the pub. Don't forget your jacket.
The Spice Girls are (still) back! They have all put on something black and lined up in front of a man with a camera, who pressed a button and took a photo, which he sent to their record label, who asked the Spice Girls to approve it, which they did, and then the proof was scanned and given to a press person, who sent it to journalists, who put in on the internet. And then I copied it and pasted it here. Look:
While appearing on Conan O'Brien's US chat show to promote his new comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry, Adam Sandler was asked to introduce a clip from his new movie. Conan then played a scene from a gay porn film, featuring men who get off on fattening each other up. Nice:
Play your favourite 1980s aracde game here. Paperboy is still a work of unfettered genuius.
Uberblog Pop Star Poetry imagines Ray Winstone meeting up with Amy Winehouse:
To The Ivy for lunch
With Quentin Tarantino
We rap about political
Subtext in The Beano
Onetime discopop fantasy figure Mary Louise Parker bares (almost) all to promote the upcoming season of Weeds. But is that really her bottom?
"Angelina Jolie is the best woman in the world because she is the most famous woman in the world". Esquire magazine writes the worst celebrity profile in the world.
Listen to the fantastic remix of Justin Timberlake's Lovestoned by dance supremos Justice. A gazillion better times better than the original, I swear.
Take a look at this clickable map of Lindsay Lohan's slow-motion self-destruction and ask yourself the following question: "Is this the future of interactive reporting, or just sickening voyeurism?"
What are Tom and Katie doing in this photo?
With Quentin Tarantino
We rap about political
Subtext in The Beano
Labels: amy winehouse, angelina jolie, Games, Justin Timberlake, Katie Holmes, links, spice girls, Tom Cruise, TV, video
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