Have you seen these revamped tabloids floating around?
These awesome rewrites were prompted by a recent challenge that Vagenda Magazine gave on Twitter:
It’s a Twitter campaign I love for two big reasons. Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, feminism, internet, media
Tagged #thevagenda, anger, Any Adams, equalism, equality vs. equity, feminism, funny, George Clooney, gossip, humanism, humour, issues, Lena Dunham, magazines, news, rant, sexism, tabloids, Twitter, twitter campaign, Vagenda Magazine
Saturday Night Live is a very White show.
This isn’t news for almost anyone who has been watched the late night sketch comedy mainstay at any point in the last four decades. Still, this fact was made all the more apparent when they announced the six new cast members that would be coming aboard last September. In case you didn’t know, they amounted to five men and one woman, all Caucasian.
Given the fairly sizable [and reasonable] amount of outcry over this, Lorne Michaels and the powers that be ushered in Black comedian Sasheer Zamata. Given the speedy response to their complaints the internet quieted, content with SNL and how it was dealing with race for the time being. That ended, of course, this past Saturday.
While Zamata’s casting was lauded by many, something else occurred concurrently which was less publicized, though arguably just as important: LeKendra Tookes and Leslie Jones, both Black women, joined the show’s writing staff. Ideally such a move would help the show to broaden its comedic range given life experiences that differ vastly from that of a White person, male or female, living in the USA. That particular perspective was showcased front and centre when Leslie Jones made her on-camera debut during the most recent episode’s Weekend Update-
Posted in Comedy, Fame Day, feminism, race, television
Tagged aesthetics, African-American, beauty, black, comedian, feminism, funny, Leslie Jones, Lupita Nyong'o, race, racism, Saturday Night Live, slave, slavery, SNL, standards, strength, strong, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, TV, W. Kamau Bell, Weekend Update, white
“America whispers the word Alzheimer’s because their government whispers the word Alzheimer’s, and although a whisper is better than the silence that the Alzheimer’s community has been facing for decades it’s still not enough.”
Those make up some of the closing remarks from a man who starred opposite James Franco in a hilarious parody of Kanye West’s “Bound 2” music video. An actor who portrayed a disgruntled barista whose get-rich-quick idea scheme was to create the adult film Swallow My Cockuccino. He’s the one responsible for co-writing a film that starred Jonah Hill being anally violated by a demon [spoilers for This Is The End, my bad].
Seth Rogen is all of those things, but he is also an Alzheimer’s disease activist. Continue reading
Posted in celebrity, Comedy, Fame Day, health, media, news, politics
Tagged activist, actor, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's Association, C-Span, Congress, dementia, disease, Fame Day, forgetfulness, funny, Hilarity for Charity, illness, lazy self-involved generally self-medicated manchild, mental-health, Seth Rogen, shame, stigma, U.S. Senate
For Christmas my lovely sister-in-law gave me this book:
I then proceeded to read pretty well the whole book over the next few days. Some of my favorite stories focus on her childhood shenanigans, including the time she ate an entire cake,
and the time she thought dressing in a dinosaur costume gave her special powers-
Posted in comics, Fame Day, health, internet
Tagged 7th Day Adventist, Allie Brosh, blog, Christmas, comics, Darkness, Depression, Dr Nedley, Fame Day, funny, humor, Hyperbole and a Half, mental-health, triggers, writing
I once had a friend tell me that, in her opinion, being a teenager didn’t stop until you were 23. And that made me feel a little bit better, because teenagers do a lot of dumb things. In general, a lot of dumb things that don’t take into account how they can and will affect the lives of others. For example, the following “prank”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzfQqt5q0Ak
From one angle, I guess the idea of freaking out shoppers with an over-the-top pratfall, pushed further by an explosion of the liquid of your choice, is kinda funny. From another, more empathetic viewpoint there’s the unavoidable fact that the people working at these supermarkets are going to have to clean up your mess. These people don’t make a lot of money, why are you making their lives more difficult? I mean, dang. Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, internet, morality, Shame Day, Youth
Tagged attack, bombing, death, empathy, entertainment, funny, jewish, knockout, knockout game, knockout king, milk gallon prank, polar-bear hunting, polar-bearing, punching, shame day, teenagers, viral video, Youth
Mark from Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23! Mark from Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23! Mark from Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23! Mark from Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23! Mark from Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23!
I could care less about anything else right now, but I suppose I have standards to maintain, so let me begin by stating that last week’s episode, “And the Pastry Porn”, could have easily been a mid-season finale. It ushered in a new era of 2 Broke Girls episodes that rounds out the cast, changes up the premise, and feels like an entirely different sitcom. Continue reading
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Tagged 2 Broke Girls, acting, And the First Day of School, Bebe, beefcake, Beth Behrs, Caroline, Cast, CBS, characters, chef, Chef Nicolas, Current Total, Deke, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, Earl, Eric Andre, fan service, fresh, funny, Gilles Marini, Han, Jennifer Coolidge, Kat Dennings, Luis, Mark, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Matthew Moy, Max, new, Oleg, pastry school, physical humour, review, S3E10, Sophie, television, TV
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