Archive for 'Comedy'
"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 [...]
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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Celebrity Deathmatch: Feminists vs. A Sense of Humor
I totally dig jazz singer Nellie McKay, and especially her song “Mother of Pearl”, which combines the classic tempo of Broadway standards with some wonderfully ironic lyrics about feminism: “Feminists don’t have a sense of humor, feminists just want to be alone . . .” I don’t want to spoil it for you, so you [...]
Posted: January 5th, 2008 under Comedy, Nellie McKay, PETA, broadway, classic, doris day, feminism, feminist, humor, irony, jazz, mother of pearl, music, rap, sense of humor, singer, standard.
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America, I Love You, But I Think We Should See Other People
Ok, so the funniest part, to me, is that I found this video with this comment: “would this tick you off? [] thinks it’s hilarious. clearly, it’s mostly funny because of a stupid american stereotype. it’s mildly clever and funny, but don’t you agree that the stereotype is a big part of it?” What stereotype? [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2007 under American, Bush, Canada, Canadian, Comedy, Earth, United States, americano, americans, citizen, estadounidense, funny, humor, i love you, idiot, intelligence, other people, register, spanish, stereotype, stupid, vote.
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Meta-Hipsters and the Effectiveness of Ironically Self-Mocking PopCulture
So, in between waiting for episodes of 30 Rock to download, I got to thinking. Why is it that I so love this TV show about a woman making TV shows, written, produced, directed, and starred in by a Tina Fey, a woman who makes TV shows? Is there perhaps something especially entertaining about entertainment [...]
Posted: June 17th, 2007 under 30 Rock, Andy Warhol, Comedy, El Chombo, El Mundo, Eminem, Macarron Chacarron, Magritte, Mia, Stick Figures on Crack, TV, Tina Fey, bloods, cartoon, clothing, consumer, cool, crack, cultural movement, culture, economics, entertainment, fashion, gang sign, hip, hipster, humor, irony, knife, meta, music video, old school, parody, pop culture, producer, psychology, reality, reality TV, retro, self-mocking, skinnycorp, slapstick, stereotype, stick figures, suburbia, subversion, t shirt, threadless, video game, violence, white kid, youtube.
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Rapist Bags! Hilarious!
As Shakesville puts it, “Note to Timbuk2: If a man “steals” a woman’s virginity, it’s called rape. Even if it is “prom night” or whatevthefuck an underage-looking girl in a tacky party dress is meant to represent.” Ok, so I am thoroughly disappointed in Timbuk2. I really thought they were about something beyond the [...]
Posted: May 30th, 2007 under Comedy, Timbuk2, advertising, advertising copy, bad boy, blogging, casual sex, double standard, exploitation, fashion photography, fucking, gender, hipster, hymen, love, rape, rape victim, virginity.
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Don’t Call Me Bitch, I’m a Grown Man!
This is Will Farrell’s skit “The Landlord” (thanks, Nicole!). [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEqPyxOOD-U] I want to talk about the ways in which the use of a female toddler as an authority figure becomes comic, but I also know that it’s going to become less funny from here on out. So if you loved the Landlord, just watch it [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2007 under Comedy, Madonna, The Landlord, Will Farrell, abuse, alcoholism, authority figure, baby, bitch, effeminate, femininity, homosexuality, rent, role reversal, toddler.
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Talking (male) Heads
Since the advent of television, the News has been presented by a figure in a suit, sitting behind a desk. As the medium through which the news is conveyed, and as the only visible member of the production team responsible for creating the news, this person embodies the inner monologue of the news. The [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2007 under Comedy, Female Sexuality, Mitch Hedberg, Sarah Silverman, Self Objectification, Stephen Colbert, The Media, Tina Fey.
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