We Need Girlfriends

I've had this link on my list since I started writing, but I've never actually mentioned it. It's a series called We Need Girlfriends about 3 recent college graduates who've just been dumped as they begin life in the Big Apple. The series is about their trials as single men, and their desperate search for new girlfriends. It's a good 45 minutes of YouTube watching to see the whole miniseries, so I'll just post the first one in the entry, and give you the links to the rest.



There are 10 more... But they go pretty fast if you liked that one... and they get better if you didn't...

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Episode 11

To be honest it might be a little bit longer than 45 minutes now that I look at it, but perhaps you've already found that out by now.

Anyways, the reason I mention it now is that I just found out from their site that the show has been bought by CBS. I'm not entirely certain, but this has to be one of the first online "YouTube series," as it's being called, to get picked up by national TV. To me, this is just another sign that even major broadcasting corporations are realizing the entertainment potential to be found in online material. I think it's a big step, and I can't wait to see WNG become a popular T.V. show.

The internet's takin over man...

Seth Rogan Signs On For Zack and Miri Make A Porno

Seth Rogan has just signed on as the lead role in the 2008 film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, according to the Weinstein Company and Dimension Films. Elizabeth Banks, who starred alongside Rogan in The 40 Year Old Virgin, will be playing opposite Rogan as Miri. The movie is now scheduled to start filming in January 2008. Zack and Miri Make a Porno’s director, Kevin Smith, said that he wrote the role of Zack specifically for Rogan.

The movie centers on Zack and Miri. Zack and Miri are two lifelong platonic friends who are deep in debt, so they decide to make a porno to make some cash quickly. To make these porno videos, they recruit their friends to help them. But as everyone starts sleeping with each other, Zack and Miri realize that their feelings for each other are a lot stronger than they initially thought.

Zack and Miri Make a Porno is the latest project between Bob and Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Smith, and producer Scott Mosier. The list of movies that these four have collaborated together includes Clerks, Clerks II, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, all of which have been very successful comedy movies. With this track record, how could I not be excited about this movie? Having Seth Rogan in the movie also helps just a little bit. Ever since Knocked Up, Seth Rogan has made every movie that he’s been in into gold. It’s really hard for me to think that this movie won’t be a hit next year.

Get Smart Preview

Another 2008 release that I see becoming a big hit is Get Smart. Get Smart has a big name cast led by Steve Carrel and Anne Hathaway. Other stars include Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (Walking Tall, The Game Plan), Masi Oka (Heroes), Terry Crews (White Chicks, Norbit), and David Koechner (Waiting, The Comebacks). Get Smart is an upcoming action comedy about an organization of secret agents who try to stop a plot to gain world domination.

Steve Carell stars as Maxwell Smart, who is an analyst to the head of a U.S. spy agency called Control, is thrown into action one all of the identities of Control’s agents are compromised after an attack on the headquarters by KAOS, an evil crime syndicate. Being promoted gives Smart a chance to fulfill his lifelong dream and work alongside star Agent 23 (Dwayne Johnson), since there were only two agents whose identities were not revealed. However, Smart ends up being assigned to work with the beautiful but deadly Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway), the only other agent whose identity wasn’t compromised. As Agent 99 and Smart get closer to finding out KAOS’ master plan, they discover that a key KAOS operative and his sidekick are planning on making money off of the organization. With only his limited training experience and a couple of spy gadgets, Maxwell Smart needs to find a way to stop KAOS and save the day.

This sounds like it’s going to be a big hit next year. Like I’ve said I’m a big fan of Steve Carell’s work, outside of Evan Almighty, and this shouldn’t be any different. It’ll be interesting to see Anne Hathaway in a comedic role for the first time since I didn’t see her in The Devil Wears Prada. Get Smart is directed by Peter Segal, who previously directed three Adam Sandler movies, Anger Management, 50 First Dates, and The Longest Yard. There has to be a reason why Adam Sandler worked with Segal multiple times, so I’m not anticipating any problems with the cinematography. Overall this should be a very good movie and well worth the money when it finally comes outs next year.

I Know What Boys Like Preview

One of the movies that I’m most excited about next year is I Know What Boys Like. It has a very promising storyline with a lineup of good actresses. I Know What Boys Like stars Anna Faris in the role of Shelley Darlington. Other cast members include singer Katherine McPhee and Rumer Willis, Bruce Willis’ daughter. The movie is being produced by Adam Sandler’s production company, Happy Madison Productions.

Shelley has lived in the Playboy mansion for the past nine years. She is one of Hef’s favorite playmates and acts like a mother to all of the other playmates. The day of her birthday, Shelley gets thrown out of the mansion for being too old in the eyes of all the other girls. Wandering around Los Angeles without a job and without the skills she needs to get a job, she eventually lands in the sorority house of Zeta Tau Zeta, the least popular sorority house on campus. The seven sisters of the sorority are probably the most socially clueless girls on the planet and they are about to lose their house. Shelley is able to get back her job as a motherly figure to a group of girls, and help them figure out who they actually are rather than who everyone wants them to be. With Shelley at their side, they are set to become one of the most popular sororities on campus.

This sound like the laughs is going to plentiful in this movie. Anna Faris has always been entertaining as an actress in comedies, such as the Scary Movie series and Waiting. The storyline sounds like it’s a good set up into a funny movie. I really can’t wait to see this movie next year even though it sounds like one of the those girly movies, but it’ll be funny as hell throughout the movie…. Hopefully.

SuperPost Wednesday

Well my blog readers, it's been a long while since I have posted, and for that I apologize. So let's start things out with a look back to the past. I am referring the the post I made about the Theory of Comedy, and the topic of pain to one another and the comedy that in sues. I think I gave examples before, but as they say, hindsight is 20-20, which is why I now see that it's not so much funny to people in the classical way of being funny, but that it's more of a nervous humor. Kind of like when you are put in a bad situation and you laugh a little, out of nervousness and fear for your life. It's also just a fascination I think we all have ingrained into our bodies. Look at history books, some of the biggest chapters/sections of the history books is on wars, battles, famines, etc. As humans we also tend to flourish as a society, when there is war or bad times, the United States in general. But I digress. A few the examples I found that have to do with how we find the danger or pain of others funny is found in a few more stand-up comedians. One of them is George Lopez. In his stand-up special, "Why you crying?" he brings up a time at some department store parking lot where a woman is backing up and is about to hit one of those concrete poles you see there. He then goes into the difference between Hispanics and Whites and their reaction to this situation. The Whites would go up to the person yelling, "Oh my god, is your rear sensors malfunctioning? You should take that to the dealership right away." If you have seen Mr. Lopez you know his impression of white preppy people, a kind of surfer yuppie mix, and it is actually quite funny. Now when he switches to the Hispanics, they are pulling other people over saying, "Look at this dumb ass. Quick, quick, get out your camera." He then goes to show the action of people laughing and taking a picture.

My next example is the always well known, but for some reason, the not always well liked Dane Cook. One of his jokes is about car wrecks and the fascination people have with them. The video explains everything you need to see about this example.




So in closing, this is only part one of what you will see tonight, and trust me, there will be more.

Wikipedia and potty words

This week I've found a witty little xkcd comic mocking the popularity of Wikipedia. Enjoy:
















I hate to say it but you may need to click on the image to see what the screen says. Or if your too lazy, it says "Foreplay" and to the left of it is the cute Wikipedia picture.
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Again for those of you lazy types who did not follow the link to the actual comic, the title of this one is "Getting Out of Hand." And when you stop your mouse over the picture, that little manila box comes up saying "Wikipedia's role as brain-extension, while a little troubling, is also really cool."

There's no need for me to explain to our IQ:125+ readers the humor in the joke, but I must say it's rather pertinent. Just the other week, I found myself consulting Wikipedia for some new online humor sites, for a good laugh and a new post. In hindsight, that shure seems like a pretty useless idea, but I'll admit that I myself have taken to consulting Wikipedia for just about everything these days.

There's a lotta hype about whether or not Wikipedia is an acceptable research source for academic purposes. Hype which I feel no need to discuss, as Wikipedia is and has been my first source for both academic and extracurricular learning (those millions of contributors aren't writing all those articles for their own health). But rather, Randal Monroe has made me wonder if there are certain things that Wikipedia shouldn't be used for.

What happened to the days when we had to learn all these slang terms from our friends? When someone would throw the word "foreplay" in a sentence and toss it your way, making you feel like an idiot for not knowing what it is. You'd have to bullshit something or just come out and ask them what it meant. I suppose The Urban Dictionary would make me ask the same question.

I realize this is a very small portion of Wikipedia's use, and that to most people this probably doesn't matter in the least, but I always thought those ridiculously embarrassing childhood moments were somehow important to me in learning how to just suck up my pride and ask something. Perhaps it's good that those moments are now gone, and we just anonymously ask Wikipedia our questions, without fear of what it will think of us.

I apologize for this having nothing to do with the price of tea in China, and for the fact that my posts seem to be stripping every topic of it's humor. These days, the only things I'm finding really funny are those that make me think of things that are not funny.

So here's a simple T-mobile commercial on YouTube. No strings attached, but don't forget to notice the Pulp Fiction reference:

Mall Cop

So umm reaching really far into the future for movies, Kevin James has been confirmed to have a role in the 2010 release of Mall Cop. And even better, he is taking a role as a writer in the movie. Mall Cop is also set to have Nick Bakay as a second writer alongside James. Mall Cop will reunite Kevin James with Adam Sandler and his production company, Happy Madison Productions. Adam Sandler and Kevin James were in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, which just came out on DVD this past week, together during the summer.
Mall Cop is about a shopping mall being overtaken by a group of organized crooks. While the group of crooks runs free among themselves, it’s up to a mild-mannered mall cop to stop them. The rest of the cast still needs to be casted.
Kevin James is a thoroughly entertaining so I’ll be looking forward to this movie even though it’s three years away. I loved him in Hitch, and I expect that his performance will be on the same level as his previous performances.