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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 [...]

I get it. You’re a sweet and caring dude who loves giving presents to his girlfriend. Nothing wrong with that. But do you have to be so weird about it?

“I’m right here….and I always will be.” Good effort, I guess. Shows that you’re loyal and that you can come up with some quick quips. But [...]

Another QuickHits edition!
Don’t Buy: The Jonas Brother Engagement — This is what happens when you make a 21-year-old wear a promise ring.
Buy: Sarah Palin’s Resignation — Two reasons: 1) She went out on top with a resignation speech that was full of the folksy sports metaphors and rhetorical nonsensicals that make a Palin speech a [...]

Chuck Grassley is a United States Senator from Iowa. He has been in politics since 1959. He is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Finance Committee, of which he has twice been the Chair. He is also a grown man capable of expressing himself like an [...]

Aziz Ansari is a comedic actor. You know him from “Human Giant” and “Parks and Recreation.” But like many comic actors, he also does stand-up comedy. His stand-up comedy is funny, as proven by this clip right here:

In the new Judd Apatow film Funny People, Ansari apparently plays ‘Randy,’ a Dane Cook-style terrible comedian who [...]

Somehow, the video for Coldplay’s “Life in Technicolor ii” escaped my notice until today:

Is it bad to find the puppet-Chris Martin more interesting than the real one?

A couple months ago, star David Tennant announced that he would be leaving “Doctor Who” after the 2009 season, leaving the show’s producers to hunt for a new Doctor. Chiwetel Ejiofor and other names were thrown around. As I am American, I did not know who most of these people were. However, after an intense [...]