"ONLY people in glass houses should throw stones." I was hoping the other videos would be as funny, but they weren't. Still, imagine Demetri Martin in the "Only One October" ad campaign from last year. He would have crushed and I wouldn't have wanted to throw my remote at the TV every half inning when Dane Cook came on.
To recap, here is a list of 2 people who ARE better than Dane Cook in those commercials, followed by a list of people who WOULD BE better than Dane Cook in those commercials:
Stewie Griffin
That guy at the Desk during the TBS broadcasts
Everyone
One strong voice that's been notably absent over the last several years is Terry Tate, office linebacker. So it is a pleasure to see him get back into the swing of things with such a compelling message during the election season.
An article about pranks, in the Wall Street Journal of all places, introduces 'The Man' to the New Pranksters (Improv Everywhere, etc) and comes replete with an old prankster deriding the young whippersnappers.
There's a lot in here lumping together flash-mobs-with-a-purpose (pillow fights, zombie marches, subway station freezes) and what seem to be actual pranks (a protest of 40 redheads at a Wendy's). That might happen because the participants and engineers take part in both, though.
I think WSJ is interested because the creator of Improv Everywhere has begun to commercialize his talent. Obviously his first fans hate that and think he's selling out.
It's basically American Pie, isn't it, with the gross-out humor replaced with awkwardness humor? Still, I laughed. It's fun to see Michael Cera playing a role that isn't basically just George Michael.
On our drive up to New Hampshire this weekend, Rachel and I found ourselves on Rt. 3 driving behind a car with the vanity plate TOTNKOPF. For a while I considered the possibility that it meant something else: maybe the driver had a young kid and was a police officer with a wacky sense of humor whose last name began with "F." Then we pulled along side and saw the red SS decal on the driver's side door. Creepy! (And of course, the car was a Volkswagen.)
In the Esquire article about Roger Ebert a few weeks back, Ebert mentioned his interview interview with Lee Marvin as one of his favorites, and now they've republished it online.
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