Yeah, yeah, okay, some fancy comedian friend of ours just told me that over IM. I think it's a lot funnier if it's lies, but fine, fine. Strip joints have bus boys.
Actually, diagnosed, for over 20 years. And that was an inside joke. (We have those too!) I know insensitivity and ignorance have happened a lot of places, but, coincidentally, not on this blog, not at this time.
Dear Australians, love y'all to the point of slight obsession. My wog-research (wogsearch) erred on the side of thinking it not to be a wonderful thing to call a human being, but if this term has been reclaimed I'm all for it. And this clip is still funny without the tension of a potential slur.
If it helps, and it won't, because it only sort of "solves" one little problem (the bored kids), I think the mother is dead and they asked to hear about her so grown up Ted is telling them. Yay, upper!
I don't know if it was a chain or a scam or what, but there was a Good Ole Tom's in Tallahassee in the '80s in the Northwood Mall that ran commercials just like this. I used to buy bags of old stamps there during my stamp-collecting phase, before I realized that my prettiness-based stamp value system was not shared by the American Philatelic Society. Good Ole Tom!
I can't believe nobody has mentioned that this is basically a bad remake of the 1989 Kirk Cameron Abortion Debate Team movie "Listen To Me." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097756/ Except I can because I saw it on a church youth group field trip and it's not really famous. But it's this!
We're all going to wait and see, but this is how Disney chose to introduce it for the first time...and it just looks really cheap and slapdash, like it didn't have to be as good.
The Leno ads are obviously much worse, but Conan's web video is not good. It's condescending to the internet (if such a thing is still possible) and feels forced, not fun or funny. Part of the success of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon is attributed to his web videos, and they're clearly trying to repeat that with Conan, but there's a big difference: Jimmy Fallon acted like he knew and liked the internet already. I don't think Conan is going to fail or anything insane like that, and everyone still loves him, blah blah blah, but he needs to do more if he's going to make me believe he actually understands how important the web is to his success. (Longest most boring comment ever, sorry.)
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