GORDON: Ladies and Gentlemen! It’s the Evan and Gordon Show!
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Starring:
Evan as Evan!
Michael Fassbender as Gordon Brown!
The closest this man will ever resemble me was when he lost 30 lbs to play a prisoner who died on hunger strike….
And guest starring . . .
Gordon’s inflated ego!
EVAN: This is why I don’t like it when you do intros. Continue reading
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Tagged 2 Broke Girls, 30 Rock, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Community, downton abbey, Futurama, GIF, paul giamatti, scrubs, sitcom, South Park, superjail!, The Office, TV, tv show, ugly americans
Ugh, Dane Cook . . .
So earlier this week Gordon showed me this video:
How much I actually enjoy Dane Cook [I typically do not] aside, he really hits on something with this bit. People do get sad when they see these commercials, so they either change the channel as quickly as they can or they watch through the whole thing because “it’s the least they can do” before trying to bury the bad feelings in whatever regularly scheduled programming was taking a commercial break.
He makes the point that people don’t give because they’re being asked too nicely, which probably has some validity to it. I think two main points that people will give in their defence are: 1) I can’t afford it, and 2) it’s too much of a hassle, it’s too much effort. Continue reading
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Tagged CAMH, canvasser, canvassing, charity, Confession Bear, Dane Cook, donate, donations, first world country, fundraising, I am a Girl, money, north america, Red Cross, selfishness, sponsoring, support, third would country, World Vision
While this week we’re trying to take a break from politics here at Culture War Reporters (last week was dominated by the subject), I really wouldn’t be doing my due dilligence if I didn’t give a shout out the protestors currently flooding the streets of Rio De Janeiro, down in Brazil. The Brazilian government has proposed tripling the cost of public transportation, and while that might sound to many like a pretty paltry thing, to the poor and urban working class of Brazil who rely on public transit, that kind of increase is going to be devastating. Brazilian protestors- keep up the good work.
Now on to the focus of today’s Fame Day- internet sketch group 5 Second Films.
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Tagged 5 Second Films, 5 sf, 5sf, best break up line ever, brazil, budget, College, comedic, comedy, dude bro party massacre III, Five Second Films, George Lucas, grown men are talking, Kickstarter, movie, patton Oswalt, Peter Stormare, politics, Protest, resource, rio, sketch, skit, The Phantom Menace, TV, Weird Al, Weird Al Yankovic, YouTube
EVAN: Alright, ladies and gents, tonight Gordon and I are going to talk about a subject that may just help blot out the memory that was Man of Steel, and that is: fat people.
It was his suggestion, so I’m going to pass things off to him and get the ball rolling [no pun intended].
GORDON: More specifically, it’s the treatment we seem to offer the overweight in this country. I’m guessing you’ve seen at least one heftier person riding around the aisles of a grocery store in those little scooter things.
EVAN: Not so much here in Canada, but yes, they are indeed around. Again, no pun intended. Continue reading
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Tagged ad, advertising, airplane, anorexia, anorexic, anti smoking, charge for weight, disability, disabled, elderly, fat, fit, genetic, glandular, health, healthy, Homer Simpson, king size homer, obese, obesity, overweight, poverty, responsibility, scooter, smoking, society, television, The Simpsons, thin, tobacco, TV
GORDON: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Evan and Gordon Talk after our long absence; try to contain your tears of joy.
CONTAIN THEM!
Now our subject for tonight is something Evan and I have had multiple conversation on over the past year or so: homosexuality in television.
EVAN: If you’ve been keeping up with these weekly installments for the past year or so, it should be no mystery what our stance is on homosexuality in general. I like to think that our opinion of what Orson Scott Card chooses to do with his money make this apparent. Continue reading
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Tagged Cam, depiction, diversity, Evan and Gordon Talk, evil gays, gay, gay character, gay characters, Happy Endings, hick gays, Homosexual, homosexuality in television, mainstream tv, Max Blum, Mitch, Modern Family, orientation, orson scott card, poor gays, representation, Silva, Skyfall, television, The New Normal
Meet Mark Dacascos. As of this writing he is 49 years old, and a reasonably successful actor/martial artist. He has also portrayed more ethnicities than you can find in the average neighbourhood in small-town Western New York.
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