"You Can Pry My Guns From My Cold, Dead Hands . . ."
“. . . but that’ll be hard, because they’re attached,” deadpans Sarah Haskins.
While Haskins not actually the same person as Olympic triathelete Sarah Haskins, she is nonetheless a superhero for our age.
Haskin’s show Target Women on Current TV is an answer to ObviousMan. Here’s a lady who can dissect our news media’s obsession with Michelle Obama’s triceps or laundry detergent commercials’ orgasmic cheek-to-fabric moments into their ridiculous components.
Like Tina Fey, she’s a Second-City trained comedian, and her short shows are a necessary breath of fresh air and comic relief in the cloyingly Glade-scented, weight-loss oriented plastic consumer whoredom we’re offered so much of the time. Hat tip to Alisa for the introduction.
Posted: August 15th, 2009 under Comedy, advertisement, advertising, comic, commercial, consumer whore, consumerism, humor, weight loss, woman, women.
Tags: comedian, Comedy, commentary, commercial, consumer, consumer whore, current tv, femininity, feminism, glade, guns, laundry detergent, Media, michlle obama, obviousman, orgasm, sarah haskins, second city, superhero, target women, Tina Fey, triathlete, triceps
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Time March 1, 2010 at 2:29 am
[...] Nutrigrain advertisement (after the jump); which also demonstrates the hyperbolic humor of Sarah Haskins, Arrested Development, or The Mighty Boosh. It’s a shame that there isn’t advertising [...]
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Time September 2, 2009 at 2:28 pm
For real, my sister showed me to Sarah Haskins, and she is the woman (I mean Sarah is the woman… my sister is pretty cool, but not at that level…yet)!!