Too funny:

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Great commercial via the Discovery Channel: I Love the World

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Since April Fool's Day is only 2 days from now,  we present what is simply one of the most embarrassing things ever to have an affiliation with the Beatles: "Day in the Decade" Beatles tribute segment from 1977 Rolling Stone Anniversary.

Bleccch!

The author of it writes: 

Beatles tribute from hell! From the Rolling Stone Magazine 10th Anniversary TV special in 1977, found by me on an unlabled Beta tape at a flea market. Featuring Ted Neeley (the guy who played Jesus in "Jesus Christ Superstar"), Patti Labelle, Yvonne Elliman and several others. I'm sure most of them would prefer this never be seen again.

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Dry humor at its finest:

FCC Okays Nudity On TV If It’s Alyson Hannigan

OnionNN vis SlateV

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The Beatles first appearance in America, in the Ed Sullivan Show, February 9, 1964.
(10 minutes, 34 seconds)

Performance:
All My Loving
Til There Was You
She Loves You
I Want to Hold Your Hand

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I didn't even know there was a video for this: One of Zep's best songs:

Led Zeppelin, in "Over the hills and far away", TV Special. 

Simply awful production values, running concert footage of some song (probably not this one) over the studio version of the tune.

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Surprisingly explicit print ads from fashion designer Tom Ford:

click for full story on each

Sources:

Tom Fords A Valley
Copyranter
http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2007/09/tom-fords-valley.html


What A Dildo: Designer Tom Ford's Phallic Fragrance   
Jezebel
http://jezebel.com/gossip/rag-trade/what-a-dildo-designer-tom-fords-phallic-fragrance-291216.php

Through advertising, Tom Ford continues to inform heterosexual men that he doesn't want them buying his products.   
Copyranter
http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2008/02/through-advertising-tom-ford-continues.html

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via limpfish

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Crude, but amusing:

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Seinfeld Reunion Show, 2027

We can only marvel at this virtuosic stunt from comic Frank Caliendo: he flawlessly acts out a promo for a fictitious Seinfeld 2027 reunion show (with sly political overtones) by playing every single character himself. It goes a long way that he already looks like a clone of Jason Alexander and Newman. Wisely, he doesn't include Kramer's Laugh Factory material. (by Rich Bailey)

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via infectious greed

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Another wicked cool Sony commercial:

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Amusing:

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I'll never think of this song quite the same away again

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With the assistance of Christina Applegate, Samantha Who? writer Bob Kushell helps you survive your marriage during the Writers' Strike.

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Funny advert:

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Too funny:

Viewer Voices: Where We Respond To The Opinions Of Our Uninformed Viewers

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Gotta love the Brits!

Her Breasts Confused Him - Funny home videos are a click away

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Hysterical!

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A stunningly revealing interview that Jon Stewart conducted with Easy Al on the 9/18 “Daily Show."  It’s telling that the fin media and Street are ignoring Easy Al’s answers.

Easy Al admits to Jon Stewart:

1) Excess money causes inflation.
2) Fed easy credit favors stock market operators at the expense of savers. 
3) The Fed believes that the market trades more on perception of what the Fed is or will do instead of the actual policies. 
4) The Fed must make the market perceive that the system is sound.
5) The presence of the Fed guarantees there is no ‘free market’. 
6) He still can’t forecast the economy or whether there is a bubble or too much exuberance.

Here's a transcript of the interview (via Dummy Spots):

Stewart: (after Greenspan’s explanation that the market moves on expectations of the Fed move, not the fundamentals of it) So the Fed, or whoever’s leading it, if they wanted to could in fact “goof” on all of us...         

Greenspan: (smiles) You wouldn’t want to.

Stewart: When you say “Open Market,” I always wonder... Why do we have a Fed? Wouldn’t the market take care of interest rates and all that? Why do we have someone adjusting rates if we are a free market society? 

Greenspan: We didn’t need a central bank when we were on the Gold Standard . .  . [Conspiracy theorists note- the Fed was created 20 years BEFORE we decoupled from the Gold Std] . . .  people would buy and sell gold and the markets would do what the Fed does now. . . but by the 1930s most everybody in the  world decided that the Gold Standard was strangling the economy and universally the Gold Standard was abandoned...you need somebody out there or some mechanism to determine how much money is out there because the amount of money in an economy relates to the amount of inflation...

Stewart: So we’re not a free market then - there is an invisible...a “benevolent” hand that touches us...

Greenspan: Absolutely, you are quite correct. To the extent that there is a central bank governing the amount of money in the system, that is not a Free Market, and most people call it regulation.

Stewart: When you lower interest rates, it drives money to stocks and lowers the return people get on savings.      

Greenspan: Yes, indeed.

Stewart: So they’ve made a choice - “We would like to favor those who invest in the stock market and not those who [save]”... 

Greenspan: That’s the way it comes out, but that’s not the way we think about it.

Stewart: Explain that to me. It seems to me that we favor investment, but we don’t favor work. The vast majority of people work, they pay payroll taxes, and they use banks. And then there’s this whole other world of hedge funds and short betting... y’know, it seems like craps. And they keep saying, “No no no, don’t worry about it, it’s Free Market, that’s why we live in much bigger houses.” But it really is, it’s the Fed, or some other thing, no?

Greenspan: I think you’d better re-read my book. 

Stewart: Am I wrong that we penalize work by not making the choice to...

Greenspan: No, what a sound money system does is to stabilize the elements in it and reduce the uncertainty that people confront, and when people confront uncertainty they withdraw and it reduces economic activity...

Stewart: So it’s all about perception then. It’s about making people believe the system is sound. If the stock market is high, people feel confident in spending, and if it lowers, they feel less confident?

Greenspan: Well...uh...I think you have to realize, there are certain aspects of human nature, which  move exactly the way you defined it. The problem is, periodically we all go a little bit euphoric until we are assuming with confidence that everything is terrific, there will be no problems, nothing will ever happen, and then it dawns on us- NO!

Stewart: And then it goes the other way.   

Greenspan: Exactly.   

Stewart: Huge Fear.

Greenspan: I was telling my colleagues the other day...I’d been dealing with these big mathematical models for forecasting the economy, and I’m looking at what’s going on the last few weeks and I say, “Y’know, if I could figure out a way to determine whether or not people are more fearful, or changing to euphoric... I don’t need any of this other stuff. I could forecast the economy better than any way I know.  The trouble is, we can’t figure that out. I’ve been in the forecasting business for 50 years, and I’m no better than I ever was, and nobody else is either.”

Stewart: (Leans back in chair)...You just bummed the sh*t outta me!

And here's something I never thought I would type:  Alan Greenspan on The Daily Show

Video via Comedy Central

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Dove warns parents about their own industry

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Jon Stewart torments Chris Matthews about his book:

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Calling it as they see it:   

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Hilarious clip from Harry Enfield and Chums:

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Watch the kids expression -- and the way he cranks the pen towards the camera and drops his voice

Hilarious. He's dead-on.

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Hysterical clip from the Simpsons:

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Amusing:

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This is too funny. Why don't we have more things like this today?

Part II

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Quite amusing:  SarcasticGamer.com presents a twisted take on one of Microsoft's latest and greatest announcements. Truth be told, We actually WANT a Surface Computer, but since we can't afford one, we thought it might be fun to make fun of it . . .

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Very amusing

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Funny video clips -- US and overseas:

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Too f&%^in' funny!

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Funny:

Swear Jar

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How good is King James? In leading his team to the Finals, he's ALREADY racked up 10 moments worthy of a legitimate greatest hits list. Will he keep going against San Antonio? The prospect of new jams like his throwdowns at plays No. 3 and 1 already has Spurs fans shuddering. (by Cameron Smith) 2:36

King James:

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Very funny:

And it case it gets pulled by Fox:

click for video

via Crooks & Liars

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People will apparently bid on just about anything at EBAY:

Before reading further, let us first establish if either of the following accurately depicts your current state of being:

• I am planning to produce a TV or Internet game show
• I am a complete TV Game show nut with a Cosmo Kramer-esque zeal for visual memorabilia

To further qualify your interest in this anthropological icon, have you at any point been in love with the following people:

• Richard Dawson
• Wink Martindale
• Bob Barker
• Chuck Woolery
• Bob Eubanks

If you answered yes to the aforementioned questions CONGRATULATIONS!  You are qualified to bid for ownership on this one-of-a-kind masterpiece of

Hollywood

game show lore.  
Channel the glorious personas of Richard Dawson, Ray Combs, and Louis Anderson from pop culture's finest familial battleground.  Use it to produce your own internet or TV game show.

I LOVE THE DISCLAIMER: 

**Please note this is a MASSIVE set.  It takes up approximately 2,500 sq ft.
**Please also note this will cost about $5k to move.

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I am gearing up for the post-Soprano, post Entourage summer months. One of the items that will be filling  the HBO void is Not Just the Best of the Larry Sanders Show.

I know that some people were disappointed that the entire show isn't on DVD. But of the television shows I have on disc (Seinfeld, Coupling, etc.) I never watch the full run of episodes. Just don't have time. And, I find the extra material is what makes the sets so much fun. The outtakes from Seindfeld alone are worth the price of admission.

This came in the mail last week, and I cannot wait to watch it.

If it rains all Memorial Day weekend, at least I know what I will be doing . . .

Click for video

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Hysterical:

Wu Tang Financial

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frickin hysterical:   

Is Your Mouth Your Money?

via kottke

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Also hysterical:

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Frickin Hysterical:
(Power Lunch, April 18, 2007)

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A clip from the 1965 episode 'The Chase' where the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki watch the Beatles play 'Ticket to Ride' on the Time/Space Visualiser.

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Too true:

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Another fascinatingly funny set of interviews.

Ricky Gervais meets Christopher Guest:

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

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My friend has managed to convince me of the evils of fur:

We last looked at this pressing issue on February 1

via fur is dead

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Hysterical!

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Another fascinatingly funny set of interviews.

Ricky Gervais meets Gary Shandling:

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VI

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Very funny: 

Part II

Part III

Part IV

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46 minutes of commercial free Extreme Machines:

via smashing telly

Discovery Channel Extreme Machines Million Dollar Motors

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Go ahead -- I dare you . . .

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Sure, half of this is CGI, but its still a lot of fun:

Christopher Walken

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Astounding:

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Charlie Brown Christmas - Performed by the Cast of Scrubs:

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Via nobodyswatching.tv, this is 10 seasons of "Friends" in 90 Seconds

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This is way too funny:

click for video

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The journey of the Knicks from being one of the top teams in the league to the bottom is just one symptom of a dysfunctional ownership. Cablevision is one of the more powerful companies in New York, with a basic cable service with 3.1 million subscribers and lots of revenue. But they are also a family business—with all the myriad problems that come along with it.

Mr. Dolan and his 80-year-old father Charles have publicly butted heads over the direction of the company, and have taken on highly publicized battles with the Mayor’s office over the proposed Jets stadium and competitor Time Warner Cable. Currently, they are under government investigation over a murky stock issue, including an episode reported by The New York Times in which stock options were granted to a deceased vice chairman after he had died.

The same article described a $19.2 billion leveraged bid by the Dolans to take their company private—a move that many speculate is motivated by a desire to avoid scrutiny from investors.

The mystery that has surrounded the Dolans’ basketball decision-making is characteristic of their organization as a whole. Members of the media unfortunate enough to have the task of finding out anything meaningful about them have found this out the hard way.

“This is a terribly paranoid organization from top to bottom, and they do everything they can not to allow anything to be written about them,” agreed Filip Bondy, a columnist for the Daily News. “You’ll find few anecdotes about Dolan because he’s so private. It’s a problem, and the lack of anecdotes is a part of the problem. We live in New York and we live off personality. If we at least had some personality, we could be somewhat distracted away from the team on the floor.”

Source:
Knickleheads: Is Cablevision Dynasty Driving Franchise to Disaster?
Sara Vilkomerson and John Koblin
The New York Observer, 11/20/2006
http://tinyurl.com/ygmf3f

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