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“… As the evil Mr Burns would say: Excellent …

The creators of The Simpsons have finally revealed what Wellington duo Flight of the Conchords will look like when they guest star in the long-running show in the United States this month.

The cartoon of Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, signed by Simpson’s creator Matt Groening, is a Simpsons-style makeover that includes yellow skin and one fewer finger on each hand.

The pair guest star in the first episode of the new season, Elementary School Musical, to be broadcast in the US on September 26.

In it, Lisa enrols at a special band camp where she runs into talented singers, including Lea Michele, Corey Monteith, and Amber Riley from television show Glee.

Flight of the Conchords play two free-spirited, artsy camp counsellors.

A TV3 spokeswoman said the episode would probably air in New Zealand next year…”

go to source/story>>>Bret and Jemaine’s guest turn | Stuff.co.nz

“…I wanted this book to be different from the traditional political memoir.

Most, I have found, are rather easy to put down.

So what you will read here is not a conventional account of whom I met.

There are events and politicians who are absent … not because they don’t matter ….

…. but because they are part of a different story to the self-serving one I want to tell!

No, seriously guys, this is going to be well different.

How many other world leaders use so many exclamation marks!

And it is as a world leader that I’m writing for you about my journey.

And what a journey!

When I started in politics I was just an ordinary kind of guy.

And you know what? I’m still an ordinary kind of guy – albeit one who has become a multi-millionaire and completely destabilised the Middle East!

You know, I had a tear in my eye when I entered No10 for the first time in 1997, though it wasn’t, as the Daily Mail tried to claim, because I was choked with emotion at how far I had come since I was a young, ordinary boy standing on the terraces of St James’ Park, watching Jackie Milburn play for Newcastle.

It was because Gordon had hit me.

Ah, Gordon!

He meant well, I suppose … in his funny little emotionally inarticulate way.

I guess some of you will find it hard to believe … but I never really wanted to be a politician.

But sometimes courage is about taking the difficult decisions and when Cherie said, “God is calling you to fulfil your destiny”, I knew I had to listen.

So it was with a heavy heart that I outmanoeuvred Gordon over the leadership of the party after John’s death –

- and whatever Gordo says there was never a deal struck at Granita where he could take definitely take over after my second term.

Because I had my fingers crossed!…” (cont..)

go to source/story>>>Digested read: Tony Blair A Journey | Politics | The Guardian

“…One of the funniest moments of the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards last night involved Ricky Gervais.

When he came out to present two variety awards, Gervais didn’t leave the stage until he mocked Mel Gibson …

… and gave half the people in the two front rows a tall, cold one.

After complaining that they don’t serve alcohol at the Emmys like they do at the Golden Globe Awards …

… Gervais joked that there weren’t any erratic actors present who would get too drunk … mentioning Russell Crowe and then Mel Gibson.

He stepped back at first, saying he wasn’t going to “have a go” at Gibson because he’s “been through a lot.”

In true comedic fashion, he finished the thought a second later, saying “Not as much as the Jews though.”…”

go to source/story>>>Ricky Gervais Mocks Mel Gibson, Hands Out Beer At The Emmys (VIDEO)

“…Who hasn’t wished for a magic pill or device that could melt away pounds and keep you in perfect shape?

Luckily for us there is always a ridiculous new piece of equipment meant to take the effort out of exercise that really ends up making you look like a fool.

We can’t guarantee you will lose ten pounds after looking at this slideshow …

… but you will work off a few calories laughing at the awesomely bad infomercials and photos…”

go to source/story>>>The Shake Weight, The Hawaii Chair, And More: The Most Ridiculous Exercise Equipment EVER (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

“…On an installment of The Colbert Report this week, host Stephen Colbert lambasted Google for its controversial handling of users’ personal data and its CEO’s remarks about personal privacy.

Colbert warned that a person’s activities on social networking sites “could destroy your offline future.”

He showed footage of Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s infamous 2009 interview, in which the chief executive advised …

…. “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”

“Are you listening, young people?” Colbert asked. “Just don’t ever make a mistake.

How hard is that?”

“The point is,” Colbert continued, “the Internet is one giant resume.

And under “special skills,” yours might list: getting high, keg stands, flashing your boobs … and multitasking….”

go to source/story>>>Stephen Colbert Rips Google For Selling Users’ Private Data To Highest Bidder (VIDEO)

“…After eight seasons and his very own “MacGruber” movie under his belt, Will Forte announced today that he’s leaving “Saturday Night Live” to pursue other opportunities.

While we’re sad to see such a solid cast member leave the show, we have no doubt that Forte will continue making us laugh in other movies and TV shows in the future.

His departure also brings up the question of who will replace him, but before we start speculating over who the new cast member will be …

… let’s take a minute to remember all of Forte’s hilarious ‘SNL’ moments.

So sit back, relax, put on Sarah McLachlan’s “I Will Remember You,” …

… and check out these 9 hilarious ‘SNL’ sketches featuring the one and only WIll Forte…”

go to source/story>>>Will Forte To Leave ‘SNL’: A Look Back At His Funniest Sketches (VIDEOS)

(heh..!..)

rightwing blogger farrar is packing a sad/having a hissy-fit..

over his chosen candidates’ failure to ‘win’ an alcohol-competition…

..that he thought he had already jacked-up/sorted/massaged/played…

..and to find that he won’t be glugging down the champagne..

..(he had already issued (ideologically-themed) invites to the big-rightwing-piss-up..eh..?..)

(as chopper reid might say: ‘harden the fuck up..!..eh..?..’)

go to source/story>>>The NBR Veuve Clicquot competition | Kiwiblog

(heh..!..)

go to source/story>>>YouTube - Gruen Nation - How Do You Make

“…Once again, Lost in Showbiz must take up its well-thumbed copy of the Book of Revelation …

… and search through the apocalypse harbingers for the words:…

… “And it shall come to pass that Jeremy Kyle shall imagine himself a serious thinker . . . ”

Jeremy, of course, has always taken himself seriously.

How could he not?

His job is revealing the results of DNA tests on telly.

That’s the adorable thing about babies: they’re too stupid to have even heard about release forms.

No matter that a judge famously described his programme as “human bear-baiting” …

… or that ITV has had to issue a litany of excruciating denials about how guests are treated before going on air …

… my favourite being their response to accusations that they fired up some of them with booze.

With exquisite indignance, the network chuntered: “Two of the guests were given alcohol to counteract withdrawal symptoms.”

Ah, I see. Do forgive the error.

Now, with a US version of his chatshow in the pipeline … Jeremy’s self-confidence remains undimmed.

You may care to know that the trait he most deplores in himself is “people-pleasing”.

Asked recently what the worst thing anyone had ever said to him was, he revealed: “A rent-a-yob once bellowed, ‘Oi, Kyle, you’re a cunt!’ through my car window as my then teenage daughter sat frozen beside me.”

Can you bear it?

The coarsening of public life must be a particular agony for the steward of shows such as Brother, I’ll Prove I’m the Father of Your Ex-Girlfriend’s Baby.

Indeed, perhaps it is this puritan zeal that is driving Jeremy in increasingly ambitious directions…” (cont..)

go to source/story>>>Jeremy Kyle wages war on idleness | Life and style | The Guardian

“…On The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert tackles the reports of a 22-mile oil plume still lingering under the surface of the Gulf …

… and the kick off of shrimping season …

… despite conflicting viewpoints about the current safety of Gulf seafood.

Mocking the FDA’s report that seafood is safe for being “tested below the level of concern for health risks from petroleum compounds,” …

…Colbert enthusiastically says, “Below the level of concern for health risks…mmm!

..My mouth is watering already!”…”

go to source/story>>>Colbert On Gulf Seafood Safety And Oil Plumes: ‘My Mouth Is Watering Already’ (VIDEO)

being somewhat opinionated on a regular basis…i have succumbed to the lure of twitter…

my twitter-name is vegandogs50

“… We’ll get a double dose of Zach Galifianakis in not one, but two funny flicks (including a follow-up to “The Hangover”- YES!) …

… Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey and Jonah Hill all star in superhero satire …

…and the three queens of rom-com (Rachel McAdams, Katherine Heigl and Kristen Bell) will all be leading ladies this season.

Want to know more?

Check out each trailer below…”

go to source/story>>>7 Comedies Hitting Theaters This Fall: Which Will You See? (VIDEOS)

“…Jon Stewart making fun of Glenn Beck or exposing his contradictory statements is a regular occurrence on “The Daily Show” …

… but Stewart doing his impression of Beck (chalkboard and all) … is a rare and wonderful occurrence…”

go to source/story>>>Jon Stewart Brings Back His Glenn Beck Impression (VIDEO)

“..This week, ChristWire.org published “Is My Husband GAY?,” an article listing 15 tell-tale signs that your man is secretly homosexual.

We’re not sure if this is a satire or not … but from the looks of things no one really knows.

We picked 9 of our favorite “commonly accepted” signs … and paired them with equally ridiculous stock photos ..

…to show our readers how silly this article really was.

Visit the site to see the rest of these hilarious-if-satirical, scary-if-not reasons your husband might be gay…”

go to source/story>>>9 Signs Your Husband Is GAY, According To ChristWire.org (PHOTOS)

“…The following slide show is excerpted from “Palinisms: The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Sarah Palin,”

go to source/story>>>Sarah Palin Said What? The 15 Craziest ‘Palinisms’ (PHOTOS)

“…On “The Daily Show” last night, Jon Stewart skewered Google for flip-flopping on the issue of net neutrality–

– and violating its “don’t be evil” motto–

– by joining forces with Verizon to draw up a controversial policy proposal for managing Internet traffic.

Stewart showed clips of Google VP and “father of the Internet” Vint Cerf emphasizing the importance of net neutrality in 2006.

Cerf expressed concerns that “in the absence of some form of protection…

… broadband service providers will be able to discriminate against the consumers as to which products and services they’re able to reach” …

… and maintained that net neutrality was necessary to “allow new Googles of the world, new Yahoos, new Amazons to form.”

Stewart mocked Google for changing its tune:…

… “In four years Google, the ‘don’t be evil’ empire, has gone from ‘net neutrality will let new Googles and Amazons to form’ to …

… [Stewart begins screaming] ‘net neutrality will allow new Googles and Amazons to form!’

It’s just a change in tone.”

Should we be worried?

Stewart reminded his audience, “Google doesn’t get to write laws.”

But he continued, “They just photograph and post where everybody lives and republish every book ever written and negotiate with the Chinese government …

… while building floating data centers in the ocean.”

He ends by poking fun at the activists protesting Google’s headquarters … concluding, “We’re f–ked.”…”

go to source/story>>>Jon Stewart Rips Google’s Net Neutrality Flip Flop: ‘We’re F–ked’ (VIDEO)

“…Jon Stewart has really been on his game lately when it comes to showing FOX News pundits contradicting themselves.

Last night on “The Daily Show,” Stewart again directed his attention to the debate over the Ground Zero mosque …

… beginning by highlighting the contradictory remarks President Obama made last week before moving on to FOX …

… hitting Glenn Beck particularly hard.

One clip showed FOX News pundits claiming the location of the mosque isn’t their biggest concern …

… but the man spearheading the project Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, claiming “we don’t know what he’s planning to do in that cultural center.”

Stewart didn’t hesitate to show a clip immediately afterwords of Rauf HIMSELF sitting on the FOX News couch talking about exactly that.

But the best part of the segment was when Stewart caught Glenn Beck in a huge contradiction.

The first clip showed Beck doubting Rauf’s “moderate” stance due to statements he made after 9/11 saying America didn’t “deserve” the attacks, but that American policies were “accessories to the crime.”

“What kind of scheming, America-hating, extremist monster would say something so evil?” Stewart asked …

… before cutting to a clip of Beck saying LITERALLY the same thing as Rauf, just three months earlier.

“What will he think tomorrow?”…”

go to source/story>>>Stewart RIPS Fox News For Contradictory Statements On Ground Zero Mosque (VIDEO)

question one of questiontime today is worth looking at for the exercise in existential-angst that is sitting behind bill english….

murray mccully does not look a happy man….

has he done the maths..?

and does he realise that key/national are firmly on course for that ultimate humiliation of being a one-term government…?

..why else would he…chief-strategist in a govt currently way ahead in the polls..(wot some call ‘the rudd-delusion’)…

..why would he be looking so ‘blue’/down…?

.. mccully is slumped in his seat….oozing a black cloud of despair….

..and i was not the only one to notice this….

..’cos after what seemed an interminable time of mccully-reality-television….someone handed him a note…(from someone out of sight)..

..and the note either said..’f.f.s..!..cheer-up..!..or at least pretend..!’…or it said:..’f.f.s..!..sit up straight..!..you’re on the telly..!’

‘cos that is what mccully did…he sat up straight….and tried to paste a sorta-smile onto his dial….

..it didn’t work…!

..obviously the waves of existential-angst are/were too strong….

..(his lips quivered ..and broke…as he tried to force them into his smile-grimace…)

..and to add to his miseries….he was forced to flick his eyes up to the in-house monitors…self-checking…

..as he struggled to both cheer-up….and sit up straight….

…someone give that man a hug….!

..eh..?

(or..its it ‘cos of the torture of afghanis captured by our troops..?..)

“…When Weezer announced last week that their upcoming album “Hurley,” would feature nothing but the face of “LOST” castaway Jorge Garcia …

… we started thinking of all the ridiculous album covers out there.

Specifically, record album covers from the past have had some pretty hilarious album artwork and titles.

With everything from 7-piece family bands with matching outfits … to creepy puppets and gay dogs …

… we searched the Internet high and low to find these baffling vinyl covers…”

go to source/story>>>The Most Ridiculous Record Covers Of All Time (PHOTOS)

“…I wanted exercise and a little peace … not lectures on ethical veganism

(The following is excerpted from the book “Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude” by Neal Pollack).

One afternoon in New York, I found myself on a street corner in midtown … licking salt off a slightly burned soft pretzel.

I gazed about in a wondering daze … transfixed by the LCD nightmare.

Time seemed to stop for me just then … as though I were Dr. Manhattan from “Watchmen,” … only without the continually erect blue penis.

Suddenly, I knew that everything in Times Square — the breeze-blown fliers for some outlier porn shop …

… the vaguely contraband luggage stores … the endlessly replicated advertisements for TV shows that never had a prayer …

… even the tourists from Nebraska — was part of a larger cosmic reality whose boundaries we can’t begin to perceive.

The power of the universe, I realized, is transcendent, infinite, all-knowing, beautiful beyond measure.

I quaked at the awesome kindness of its eternal might.

This, in yoga terms, is called Samadhi, the divine perception of universal consciousness …

… though the realization may have come to me because I was in the middle of a five-day drug bender.

I’d bought some full-melt sativa hash capsules at my neighborhood medical-marijuana dispensary before coming to town …

… had taken two caps before getting on the plane … and had refried my brain first thing three consecutive mornings.

Visions like these were happening regularly now; … my synapses had begun to fray around the edges.

All I needed was to lie down for a couple of hours with a wet washcloth over my face …

… but I’d made plans to meet a friend for an early evening yoga class at her favorite studio.

Once again, yoga had imposed itself upon my life…” (cont..)

go to source/story>>>Die, smug yoga teacher, die - Life stories - Salon.com

“…The latest Amnesty International Comedy Podcast from the Edinburgh fringe 2010 features Jason Manford, Mark Watson, Pete Johansson, Carl Donnelly, Keith Farnan …

… and a trip to The Stand comedy club…”

go to source/story>>>Audio: The Amnesty International Comedy Podcast from the Edinburgh festival: episode 4 | Stage | guardian.co.uk

“…A tall, gangly teenager, bum fluff and a light scattering of spots on his chin, strides onstage, shoulders hunched, carrying a pile of newspapers.

He rips them into shreds staring moodily at the floor, and begins his show: an avalanche of knowingly off-colour gags …

…(”My ex-girlfriend had a weird fetish: she used to dress up as herself and act like a fucking bitch”) …

… interspersed with self-consciously cerebral, frequently un-PC songs delivered deadpan from the keyboard.

This is Bo Burnham, now 19, who became an internet phenomenon four years ago when a song he put on YouTube received a million hits overnight.

He carried on posting films of himself singing his lustily filthy songs at a keyboard in his bedroom in Danvers, Massachusetts.

59m hits later, he is making his Edinburgh debut … and he has become this year’s unlikely, but undoubted, fringe star….”

go to source/story>>>Bo Burnham: the teenage YouTube sensation lighting up Edinburgh | Culture | The Guardian

“…Westie comedian Ewen Gilmour has pulled out of the Super City mayoralty race …

…and thrown his lot behind pro-smacking campaigner Colin Craig…”

i mean now..that reactionary-westie gilmour has ‘thrown in the singlet’ on this race…is non-news enough in itself…

..that he has announced that he is now supporting the reactionary smacking-dude….

(he formerly ‘famous’ for pissing huge amounts of money up against the wall on that ‘biggest protest march in new zealand’…

..which turned into him/his mum…and the family first reactionaries…making a sad/pitiful sight as they marched stoically towards the town halll..

..a march whose participants were almost outnumbered by the atttending media..

..and if you factored in the cops….they were outnumbered…

..after that rousing failure you’d have expected him to sink gratefully back into oblivion….

..a humorous one-line-footnote in our political/social history…

..but no….he’s a tiger for punishment/humiliation that one….eh..?

..(standing for mayor now…well he is if nothing…deluded at/about his self-importance..eh..?..)

..and that gilmour is now supporting him is also such a non-news-news story…

..i am finding it difficult for another story to have such complex layers/weaves of irrelevancies..

so my money is on this one to take out the final ‘non-news-news-story-award’…

…eh…?

go to source/story>>>Gilmour backs Craig for Super City mayor - National - NZ Herald News

“…British police say singer George Michael has been charged with drugs and driving offences after his car crashed into a building in a residential area.

London’s Metropolitan Police department said Michael, 47, was charged on Thursday with possession of cannabis and with driving while unfit through drink or drugs.

In a statement, police say Michael will appear at London’s Highbury Corner Magistrates Court on August 24.

Michael was arrested last month after his car crashed into a building in the Hampstead district of north London…”

go to source/story>>>George Michael nabbed for drug offences - Entertainment - NZ Herald News

“…Arj Barker, Stephen K Amos, Sammy J and Susan Calman …

… feature in the latest Amnesty International Comedy Podcast from the Edinburgh Fringe 2010…”

go to source/story>>>Audio: The Amnesty International Comedy Podcast from the Edinburgh festival: episode 3 | Stage | guardian.co.uk

“…In a time where many Americans are struggling to find work, one person who dramatically quit his job this week has been making big headlines.

But Steven Slater, the jet blue employee who escaped from this job via emergency chute, and even “Jenny,” the actress who yesterday everyone thought was a broker’s assistant who quit via dry-erase board …

… aren’t the only people with creative ideas of quitting.

Check out these other (real) folks who have said “Sayonara” to their bosses in awesome and/or brazen ways…”

go to source/story>>>7 Awesome Ways People Have Quit Their Jobs (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

“…David File, one of New Zealand’s best bowlers, has received a 10-year ban from the sport after he exposed himself at an Easter tournament.

File admitted that he “flopped out my old fella” after a trip to the bathroom.

According to File, he was trying to tell his team they were “playing like dicks.”

“I didn’t hurt anybody. I just made a dick of myself,” File said to the Dominion Post.

“We weren’t going very well … and we’d had a few beers … and we were playing like dickheads.

I went for a piss and when I returned I flopped it out and said to the boys, `That is what we are playing like.’”

File isn’t taking his punishment without a fight.

He plans on appealing his decade-long ban…”

go to source/story>>>David File, New Zealand Bowler, Received 10-Year Ban From Sport For Exposing Himself

“…Reddit, the popular social news site where users post links, comments, and form an interactive Internet community is a great place to find out what’s new on the Web.

That’s why we were so thrilled to see this thread started last week titled “Post The Funniest Thing You’ve Ever Seen On The Internet,”…

… with the description reading, “I’m talking about something that made you cry it was so funny.”

We dug through thousands of comments and chose some of the most popular answers plus a few of our personal favorites …

.. including “Charlie Bit Me,” the “End Of The World” video from years ago, and 27B/6 - one of the most underrated humor sites on the net…”

go to source/story>>>Reddit Picks The Funniest Things EVER On The Internet (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)

“…f you’re like us, you can’t wait for the next season of “South Park” to air.

So, to hold you over until the new episodes begin …

… here’s a little “South Park” trivia in one convenient info-graphic!…”

go to source/story>>>16 Facts You Didn’t Know About ‘South Park’ (PHOTO)

“…He’s the cantankerous lead character in a new CBS sitcom, “(Bleep) My Dad Says,” that is scheduled to air on Thursday nights.

Rather than “bleep,” the title uses a series of symbols that suggest the expletive included in the book title on which the series is based.

The Parents Television Council last week sent letters to 340 companies that advertise frequently on TV urging them to stay away from the show unless the name is changed.

The group argues that the title is indecent…”

go to source/story>>>“$#!’ My Dad Says’ Boycott? Parents Television Council Urges Advertiser Revolt

“…Oh, Dave, no matter how much crap you getting for mocking Sarah Palin … you never ever change.

This week Letterman presented an explanation for what happened after Sarah Palin dropped the “c” bomb on TV.

Let’s just say she and Jan Brewer are no longer amigos.

Jimmy Fallon showed us what it’d be like if he were an “American Idol” candidate from New Jersey…

… and Colbert cracked down on financial reform…”

go to source/story>>>The BEST Late Night Jokes Of The Week: Palin’s Cojones, Colbert’s Safe Word & Justin Bieber’s Movie (VIDEO)

“… Not once, in conversations with thin women, fat women, lonely women, drunk and sober women, pretty women, ugly crones, disabled women, clever women …

… and women of infinite varieties of bewildered …. have I heard one gently sigh …

… “If I could just purchase nooky tonight, life would be worth living”.

A Bottega Veneta handbag, perhaps, might spring to mind; a pair of wacky Prada high heels; pastel-coloured macaroons from France; silk underwear; serious diamonds –

– these are the stuff of understandable desire – but a paid bonker?

Good grief, you can find a dozen of those in any bar just before closing.

They’re eager and undiscriminating … they’re free …

… and they can pretend instant affection and admiration as readily as any professional.

Broadcaster Pam Corkery, whom we’re told plans to open a brothel for women to pay for sex with men, will not agree.

She will offer, she’ll say, a superior experience with a spa pool and a bar … to expedite the paid seduction process.

Yet surely any thinking woman has both a bathtub and a bottle of cooking wine at home.

Is that not sophisticated enough?…”

go to source/story>>>Auditioning now: NZ’s next top gigolo | Stuff.co.nz

(this after that last (unfortunate) ‘noxious-weed’-offering..eh..?..)

…and they seem to have moved from a garden-theme….to one of dining…..(!)..(just why..escapes me for the moment..)

this one is ‘john banks:..less wishbone..more backbone’..

now..i mean..what the f*ck is that all about..?

it seems to be more about his carnivorous dining preferences….than any attempt at a coherent political-message..

..(you can hear the order being called to the kitchen…’a number three…light on the wishbone..heavy on the spine’….)

..i mean..it is an utter meaningless nonsense..

maybe they could wheel someone out with an attempt at explanation..?

..and the ’saddest’ thing about this latest attempt…?

..this was the ‘best’ their seasoned-campaign team could come up with….

once again..’take a bow..!’…

eh..?

(i wonder what ’season’ they are using…?

is it one to cover the odors of something well past its’ use-by-date…?…

..d’yareckon..?…)

go to source/story>>>Banking on a new look - Politics - NZ Herald News

“… A cartoon can be worth a thousand words — or even a book.

For years, those of us in the anti-drug war movement have tried to show folks the harms of drug prohibition.

Last week, “The Flower,” a three-minute anti-prohibition video was released on AlterNet.

It quickly went viral and has already been viewed 300,000 times.

Without using one word, “The Flower” is able to portray the harms of prohibition in an effective and entertaining way.

I’ve always loved short videos that are able to educate and motivate people through animations, music, and popular culture.

I remember the first time I heard Immortal Technique’s song, “Peruvian Coke.”

It blew me away how he could cover our whole issue, from the coca fields in Latin America to the people incarcerated in New York all in four minutes.

He literally took information that could make up a 500-page book … and made it accessible to people rocking out at their desk, or in the club, home, or car.

Below are five videos I love about the failed drug war….”

(if you only check out one..make it number four….)

“..4) Doc Ellis Throws a No-Hitter Game on LSD:

I have always loved the story of how Pirate pitcher Doc Ellis threw a no-hitter game on LSD.

This animation uses an interview with Doc Ellis about the game … and the result is hilarious…”

go to source/story>>>5 Great Anti-Drug War Videos | Drugs | AlterNet

“…You might be apprehensive about watching a video of turtles having sex … but this is so much more than that.

A male turtle seems to be saying “wow” every time he humps his lady-turtle partner.

Are you listening?

A turtle is talking here, people.

Don’t worry about being grossed out because there is a conveniently located row of modesty-logs covering up the turtle sex.

All you get is genuinely ridiculous thrusts … (and accompanying “wows”) … in under 16 seconds flat…”

go to source/story>>>Wow: Turtle Can’t Stop Saying ‘Wow’ While Having Sex (VIDEO)

“….Last night on “Late Night,” Jimmy Fallon had special guest Will Ferrell by his side.

The two reminisced about working together, but not on the show you’d think.

Apparently the two once worked on a Canadian soap opera called “Jacob’s Patience” in which Will Ferrell played a sandwich shop owner.

Fallon admitted that because Ferrell was an “arm model” at the time, working with him was difficult because he and everyone on the show had to use fake mannequin arms.

The two then gave the audience a taste of what “Jacob’s Patience” was like.

The whole thing felt like a “Saturday Night Live” sketch that never made it but totally should have.

Also making it feel like an “SNL” sketch?

Someone’s (we won’t name names) inability to not crack up the whole time…”

go to source/story>>>Ferrell And Fallon Reunite For ‘Fake Arms’ Sketch (VIDEO)

“…Last night on “The Daily Show” Jon Stewart expressed more sadness and frustration than usual, airing a new segment simply titled “I Give Up.”

The subject of Stewart’s aggravation was the killing of a health care bill by House Republicans that would provide almost $8 billion to first responders and relief workers now suffering chronic health problems due to their service on 9/11.

Stewart showed clips of Rep. Dave Camp (R) saying he would vote against the bill because it came with a “fundamentally flawed and job-destroying tax increase.”

“Oh, I didn’t know they were going to try to PAY for the bill?!” Stewart exclaimed.

This led him to wonder what reprehensible tax was needed in order to help the heroic workers.

Actually, the tax would prevent foreign multinational corporations from avoiding paying income tax … on U.S.-earned money stored in offshore banks.

To this, a shocked Stewart simply responded, “you fill my heart with sadness.”…”

go to source/story>>>Stewart On Killing Of 9/11 Bill: ‘I Give Up’ (VIDEO)

“…GLAAD recently released their Network Responsibility Index, and Stephen Colbert couldn’t have been more surprised by the results.

His show wasn’t singled out for intolerance toward gay people, unlike CBS, which will now introduce more gay characters due to a failing grade.

Colbert concludes that his show only passed because someone on the show is gay … and it must be himself.

“Noooo! I can’t be gay! I’m a happily married Conservative just like Ted Haggert and Larry Craig!” Colbert lamented.

He also used his masculine habit of beer drinking, and the Bud Light Lime he’s been relentlessly advertising, as an example.

But soon he starts to doubt himself, saying “I’m here. I may be queer. I might as well get used to it!” …

… and promptly starts preparing for his cover story on People…”

go to source/story>>>Colbert Realizes He Might Be Gay (VIDEO)

“…Russell Brand, John Cleese, Fred MacAulay, Rob Rouse and Danielle Ward all exercise their right to freedom of expression on the inaugural Amnesty International Comedy Podcast –

- the first Edinburgh festival collaboration between Amnesty and the Guardian…”

go to source/story>>>The Amnesty International Comedy Podcast from the Edinburgh Festival: episode 1 | Stage | guardian.co.uk

“…Sometimes you think you’re watching just another video on YouTube with a funny name …

… and then BAM!

It becomes the funniest thing you’ve seen all week … due to an offscreen surprise.

We’ve posted a few of these videos on their own … but decided to compile all our favorite videos with surprise endings for you.

Whether they end with a blooper, the arrival of an uninvited guest, or end up revealing some ridiculous thing going on just out of sight of the camera …

… these videos each had us going ? after every play.

Just make sure you watch until the end to see the surprise…”

go to source/story>>>Didn’t See That Coming! 8 Videos With Hilarious Offscreen Surprises