Buy Or Don’t Buy

I owe Jay Leno an apology. For much of my life I’ve thought of him as a complacent old hack on the wrong side of history, with nothing better to do than spent his time telling humorless and mean-spirited jokes to an audience that thinks predictability breeds hilarity. I was making the cardinal sin of [...]

Last April in Comedy class I was given the task of performing a five-minute stand-up comedy routine. Being the groundbreaking envelope-pusher that I am, i was determined to fill my five minutes with what i deemed ‘anti-comedy’: jokes that were so purposefully unfunny that they circled back around to become funny again.
But as I performed [...]

I like cheesy things, so it’s no surprise that I love the obnoxious, eyeroll-inducing sequel titles that go beyond sticking “2″ or another number behind it.
This morning I read about a sequel for Marky Mark’s”Four Brothers,” . Guess what they are calling it? “Five Brothers!” Or how about The Chipmunks’ “The Squeakquel?” It’s annoying but [...]

Another QuickHits edition: Because why write paragraphs when you can write sentences?
Don’t Buy: NBC - This is getting sad. Jeff Zucker: To paraphrase Kanye, you need to run your business like you have some type of respect for yourself.
Don’t Buy: The Facebook Bra Meme - I am Facebook friends with my mom and my grandma [...]

Hey, remember when “Avatar” made lots of money? Let’s use that as an opportunity to learn all the wrong lessons!
From USA Today:
This week, ESPN announced plans to launch an all-sports 3D [television] network on June 11, starting with World Cup soccer and eventually including the Summer X Games (extreme sports) and college basketball and college [...]