There needs to be a new, better word to articulate just how incredible this is. Hyper-brilliant? Super-genius? Indescribable supernova of awesome? But none of these do this, and the superb work that Late Night has been doing, justice.
Doesn’t it speak volumes, though, that Stephen Colbert chose to do this performance not on his show, but on Jimmy Fallon’s? Even Colbert knows that Late Night is the most fun, inventive, irreverent game in town these days. So, supreme kudos all around.
Serial misanthrope Greg Kelly of Good Day New York struck again this morning, refusing to grant Rosanna’s request that he flash Spock’s “live long and prosper” hand sign in honor of George Takei’s upcoming visit later in the show. Lighten up, Greg! Just because it’s not Sulu’s trademark gesture doesn’t mean you can’t patronize Rosanna for one measly second. Also, we didn’t realize you were such a Trekkie (Trekker?). Somebody loves Star Trek!
We’re dying to know what Greg said after “So…” as they went into the commercial break. DYING.
In addition, it dawned on us that Greg an Rosanna are like our grandparents (well, we guess more accurately these days they’re like our parents), constantly trying – and failing – to explain to us something that we already know far more about. It would be like us trying to explain relativity to Einstein, or drunken hookups to Snooki (take that, Snooks!). But God bless Greg and Rosanna for always giving it their best shot.
Before we start this Survivor: Redemption Island recap CBS would like us to visit www.cbs.com/jeffprobst. Normally we’d demur that kind of blatant and heavy-handed promotion, but we love Probst too much to complain in this particular instance. So go, now, and then come right back here.
Back? Okay, good! You got back just in time to listen to Stephanie list every food item ever, which, as any survival expert will tell you, is the best way to stave off the hunger of being by yourself in a sweaty jungle for two weeks. Right, Matt? Isn’t she helping? Isn’t Stephanie detailing every flavor of Pop Tart just melting your hunger away? But Matt totally wins us over by quoting The Sandlot, telling Stephanie “You’re killing me, Smalls.” GREAT REFERENCE. You know what, Matt, you’re okay by us. Just don’t start talking about how God is on your side again and how your faith will help you succeed in this reality TV competition. Oh, no, there you go. Nevermind. That didn’t last long.
It was a long, long winter, and a long six weeks spring training. But luckily for us we didn’t have to endure the disgusting, far too personal musing of George Brett while we prepared for the new baseball season. Cause, let’s be honest, that guy is gross. And we’re pretty certain he should steer clear of steak dinners at Kokomo’s for a while.
So Happy New Baseball Season! May your team win any game in which they don’t play the Mets! (unless your team features one or more awful human beings, in which case we’re indifferent)
Oh, and if you just can’t get enough of Brett, The Remix.
We now return to your regularly scheduled pop-culture focused snark.
So this week we entered the post-Russell Hantz era. And for those of you who complained that Russell was a sneaky, nefarious player who only made it to the finals because he had no chance to win, and that his dominance was a product of editing, and that he was a bore and boorish, well, do you miss him now? Because, say what you want about the guy, there’s no denying that he made things interesting. Which is perhaps something you can’t say about last night’s Survivor
Okay, well, we guess there is (not that Late Night will win an Emmy anytime soon), but they should create a special one for just Jimmy Fallon, an award for Excellence in the Field of Pop Culture Brilliance. Because, once again, Late Night gives us something absolutely brilliant:
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Seriously. It’s like we fell asleep on a plane one time and our minds were extracted by Jimmy Fallon and AD Miles and Higgins (now that’s a movie we’d watch!). Can’t wait to see what other random pop culture phenomenon from our youth they tackle next. Can we recommend Just the Ten of Us?
If we show up in your list of Gchat contacts (which, we admit, is unlikely) you may have noticed that our icon (or avatar!) is a green, more Irish-looking, version of the McDonaldland character Grimace (who himself is the icon (or avatar!) for our personal website (which, we admit, is in dire need of a revamp). That roly-poly green creature (also seen in our header above) is, of course, Uncle Grimacey, Grimace’s uncle (on his father’s side, obviously), who was trotted out by McDonald’s in the late 80s to promote their minty St. Patty’s-themed concoction, the Shamrock Shake. So in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, and the Shamrock Shake (and the end of the March holiday blitz), we bring you Uncle O’Grimacey at the height of his fame:
And, yes, we got a Shamrock Shake today. Duh.
We once spent no joke two hours going down the Wikipedia-YouTube rabbit hole reading about and then watching the classic McDonaldland characters (and then reading about and watching (and then reading about and watching (and so on (and so on)))), and we recommend you do the same. Just start here and we’ll see you in the morning.
(and we think we just broke the record for most unnecessary parenthetical digressions in a 200-word post (congrats!)).
A quick one tonight because we need to get to the Survivor: Redemption Island recap straight away.
Looks like some of you have gotten to our little site from using the term “last supper imagery.” We’re assuming this contingent was a mix of bible scholars and Lost fanatics. But our post tonight is going to address neither of those groups (and possibly offend the former). Tonight, this one’s for people who like to dip their balls into things.
We like to think that Jesus would find this sketch pretty funny. Because if you can’t laugh at one of your apostles betraying you and delivering you to crucifixion, then what can you laugh at?
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