No not Tim & Eric Nite Live, but “Night Live” as in SNL. Last night’s opening sequence for the Season Cinco premiere featured a spot-on spoof of the early 90’s SNL opening credits. The credits from back when Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Chris Farley and Adam Sandler were all on the show together.
I think part of the reason I found this quite so funny is because of how often I’m noticing SNL try and take a stab at doing T&EASGJ!-esque skit. For example take “Flags of the World” (clip above) from this past Saturday’s episode.
While I’d love to add a clip from one of those original 90’s SNL opening credits so you could see the similarities, however SNL are absolute Nazis about taking that shit down off any video uploading site that isn’t Hulu and none of that shit is on Hulu. Oh well! ‘Til next week’s T&E…
Has anyone tried watching The WWE recently? Is it me or has it slowly mutated into recruitment propaganda for the Marines? It’s amazing that this thing is still going on! Why are they even trying? There’s nothing in the world that could touch the golden era of the WWF (circa 1985-1990) — not movies, not cartoons, music, comic books, NADA. We fell into a bit of a renaissance with The Rock, Goldberg, Triple H, Stone Cold, et al. But man, the spectacle of the golden age was our generation’s Vaudeville. This was EPIC drama with Meth-addled Barbers, Loud mouthed Scotsmen, Weasels, Pimps, Hitmen, Giants, Hacksaws, Hammers, Commies and Snakes! Now that the best is behind us from the House McMahon, it’s evident that one Swatch sunglassed, sequened robe rockin’, feathered haired man stands as the Greatest Wrestler of All Time.
MACHO MAN Randy Savage.
Come join me in this retrospective in OH YEAH!
Early Years – You can see the impetus of a schtick which will eventually explode into the luminous nebula of Macho Madness!
In my pre-teens, I was partial to Hogan and later Ultimate Warrior — the former being a horrible wrestler with inspiring charisma, the latter being just what a young hessian needed. I loathed Macho Man back in the day!!! That sleazy, scary, abusive, arrogant, rude and crude cretin!!! It would be years until I realized that these very same qualities are what add to his legend of the WWF’s G.O.A.T. Savage owned it all! The charisma, the acrobatics, the gimmick, catch phrase, overall steez, and man oh man, could that dude improv in a promo!
I like to fantasize about Macho snorting a huge rail of coke in the Gold’s Gym locker room with Hogan when he came up with his infamous “OH YEAH!” catchphrase. His Intercontinental Champion era was his finest if you ask me. He jumped the shark as the Macho King with Scary Sheri!
A Goldmine of Macho
It’s no revelation to speak of his rivalry with Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat yielding the most amazing WWF match in history. Now, if you were like me you were down with Team Steamboat and those Chinese Stars and Tiger Claws stuck in your backyard tree were indicative of that. But looking back, Steamboat is such a herb!
OK before this turns into a Tosh flame war; have y’all done the salvia? A few of my friends did it around the campfire and it didn’t really look like fun at all. I guess it’s not really reasonable to expect high schoolers to grasp the deeper and shamanistic herbal qualities of an ancient dried plant, but still, my friends were a bit dumbfounded. The best bit was the three or four guys shouting at another guy deep in a salvia trance “dude, dude, dude, what’s it like? What’s happening?”, while they’re sat there, practically drooling on themselves. Not exactly six-pack fun. Oh and by the way, has salvia jumped the shark if it’s on Funny Or Die? Or does that happen when it’s banned in the USA? [via IsBrave]
Last night Ricky, Julien and Bubbles made their second live appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. I’m not sure how well you guys (who aren’t Canadian) know the hilarity that is Trailer Park Boys, but it’s seriously one of the funniest shows to ever air on TV.
I love just how far these guys take staying in character ALL OF THE TIME. This appearance isn’t unique in that regard, but it’s always funny and all three do it so effortlessly that I’m not really even sure if they’re acting.
If you have DirectTV you can start catching reruns of the show in the U.S. finally… or you could always just track down DVDs of each season along with their first movie or their most recent movie Liquor Day which came out on DVD this week.
It also looks like they’re finally bringing a live Trailer Park Boys performance to the US with shows in Los Angeles and Seattle at the end of this month. I really, really hope they come out east! I think even more so than Pee-wee…
The plot thickens! Here’s a video of Beetlejuice (as we’ve dubbed him) AKA Michael on Wild 94.9 giving his side of the events from last week’s epic bus beatdown with Tom “Tom Slick” Burso AKA Epic Beard Man AKA I AM A MOTHERFUCKER! In case you missed it last week, here’s Epic Beard Man’s vietnam flashback take on what happened.
I don’t know, this dude sort of looks like the guy from the video, but it sure doesn’t sound like him. I don’t remember Beetlejuice being as well spoken as this guy. Regardless my main question remains, what the fuck was up with the I AM A MOTHERFUCKER T-shirt, who made it and where can we get one!?
Back in June of last year I reported that HBO had ordered an animated version of the Ricky Gervais podcast. The result is The Ricky Gervais Show, which features their standard podcast format, but with animated versions of the hosts along with vignettes. And you are forced to use your eyes as well as your ears. The show is co-hosted by Ricky’s long-time collaborator Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington, the funniest man on the planet. He really is, trust me. Pilkington and his massive round head is the show’s pulsating nucleus of life.
Exhibit A: Here’s Karl’s idea for the next evolutionary step in child-birth:
The podcast is fantastic on its own, so I’m not really sure if the show is necessary or if the animation really adds another dimension to it. But I’m not going to bitch critical since I laughed my ass of during the whole thing. In the span of the show’s 23 minute running time, the boys cover: technology’s future, our sixth sense, the first monkey in space, a new form of childbirth, and Karl’s discovery of a pile of dead flies with a condom on top. I would watch a show of Karl reading the phone book.
The Ricky Gervais Show premieres tonight at 9:00pm
I’ve been rereading The Shapes of Things to Come by Greil Marcus – specifically the Laura Palmer essay. It makes me want to rewatch Twin Peaks. I was killing time at work today and came across this SNL skit from 1990 when Kyle MacLachlan hosted. It rules. Kyle plays Cooper (duh), Farley plays Leo, Hartman plays a perfect Leland, a silent Conan plays Andy, yadda yadda yadda Mike Myers plays Little Mike! I lost my shit when Myers came out in the signature Little Mike waddle. Enjoy.
This really deserved it’s own post and not simply relegated to some second rank life as a mere comment. It slays the shit out of the Street Fighter II animated Gif that’s now exceeded it’s bandwidth (effin’ Photobucket!).
Dude gets worked so hard that he looks like Stern Show’s Beetlejuice by the end.
Unfortunately the camera operator wasn’t as efficient as they should have been and missed the apex of Beetle’s beatdown! I feel kinda bad for him at the end, he looks so bummed out.
Thanks to my bud Luke Wahl for breaking this breaking us off to this yesterday before the entire internet showed up to the party!
