Steve Martin Short on Letterman
Two of the inimitable Three Amigos trio were on Letterman last night. And they were in rare form.
“You son of a motherless goat!”
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Triumph Makes Appearance at Chabad Telethon
In wishing all you Meppers a Happy Jew Year, here’s a clip of Mep favorite Triumph the Insult Comic Dog inexplicably performing at LA’s yearly Chabad Telethon.
Star Trek is fun again. Fans are outraged.
Absolutely freaking brilliant…and dead-on accurate.
Ahhhh, just kill the sorry bastard.
I’ll fully admit I’m not a House fan (though I am a fan of Hugh Laurie)–pretty much anything which goes out of its way to be gross at all costs isn’t likely to be a must (or ever) watch for me. But this story cracked me up. Apparently this guy:
Where the hell is Harold?
…is on House, or was (I just know him from the White Castle stuff). He’s killed himself off, you see, because…um…well…the actor is going to work for Barack Obama.
Yeah. Pretty much that’s it. Evidently Kal Penn, who plays the character Kutner on Fox’s mega hit, has been hired to be an associate director in the White House Office of Public Liaison–which Penn describes as continuing dialogue between citizens and their government and which actually means continuing the Re-Elect Obama 2012 campaign. (Hey, I love Obama–was honored to vote for him, have mostly been impressed with him as president thus far–but let’s call a spade a spade, folks.) I’m not sure what’s so tremendous about this job, but hey, working for the prez is a cool gig, I guess. So Penn told the show’s producers about it, and they decided to handle things by having the character kill himself, utterly out of left field. They even called it that:
Mep Report #109
Vegas Baby Vegas!, Vegas sucks!, Vegas is tremendous!,
The Tale of the Poker Highlander, The Tale of the Galaga Highlander, Mentally Challenged Roleplayers, Just Do More Heroin, and Tokenphilia.
Mep Report #108
Lying Mothers and the Babies they Wield, Generic Chieftain Man and the Bear God Puku-Puku, Male Angst as Motivation for Human Sacrifice, Baseball as Religious Methadone, Aztec Hippies, and TMR Defeats MLB Attorneys in Pitched Battle.
Mep Report #99
Message Board Territoriality, The New Segue Sound Effect, THe Price is Right Chop Shop, Fairytale Elves vs. Fantasy Elves, The Last Great Viking Debate of ’07, St. Magnus the Fictional, Sabre-Tooth Tiger Soup, Dentist Holliday, And How Clangy was the Iron Age?
Mep Report #94
Russ Goes Boing Boing Boing, And Subsequently Runs out of “Units,” Speed Readers vs. Auctioneers, TMR Eats a Turkey Sandwich with the Devil, MassiveAwesomeErectionWebsite.com, The Adventures of Flying Buttress Boy, Greg Desperately Wants to Ridicule Navy Football, Force Lightning in a Can, Cows and Terrorists Conspire to Turn the World into a Slurpee, and Clea Ponders Why Tourists Enjoy Reaching Up the Bull’s Ass.
Mep Report #78
Vanilla Christ and Chocolate Moses, It’s Not Unusual for Russ to Be Alone… Because He’s Too Smart for People, the Birth of an ArrogantJerk, the Giant Flying Beaver’s Quantum Leap, Serious Vlogging, the Boston Digg Party, RIAA Puppy-Kicking Stakes, Greg Explains Why the Mep Report is On the Internet, Clea Winnebago-Ho-Chunk, Little-Known Stories of Kokopelli, Naked Hydration Via Torso-Licking, First Do All Harm, 09-F9, Diplomatic Immunity and Movie Threes, Peter Jackson’s Jesus-Gandhi-Buddha Application, We Like to Star-Wars Star-Wars, and Star Wars 255: Death of Chewbacca.
Mep Report #75
Microprofit, No More Mr. McCartney, Cell Phone Disabling Ring-Tone, Making Bounce Houses Out of Nothing at All, Bush Tears His Own Leg Off (by which we mean “Attacks Iran”), Iran Eats the British Hostages, Britain Sends in the Bobbies, Harry Potter Rules Gitmo, Greg Enjoys Russ’ Experience with Gratuitous Nudity, Humbaba Becomes Comfortably Numb, Incoherent Pretending to Sweat, and Russ’ Sumerian-English English-Sumerian Dictionary.