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What a trooper that Jonathan Charles is. After 20 years of torture, he manages to compose himself enough to reveal his darkest experiences without breaking his Cliched Anchor’s News Tone. Now that’s professionalism.
Apparently, Goldman Sachs (or the Great Vampire Squid) has decided to come out of its subterranean sea lair and loose a torrent of economic ruin upon us all. At least it was thoughtful enough to disclose this plan in its newest ad campaign…
“Your future hasn’t happened yet, but when it does, rest assured that Goldman Sachs will be there to suck any possible warmth, wealth, or happiness out of it.
Here’s the other potential contemporary comedy heir to the throne, Patton Oswalt. While neither Oswalt nor Maron are transcendent figures right now, both carry with them the comedic lineage that goes directly back to Richard Pryor.
Link via Philosophy Monkey.
If you don’t think the US government is flawless, Republicans don’t want you in the administration. Except, you know, if we’re talking about government programs.
Discovered a treat on Vimeo last night. It’s a full 70-minute stand up routine of Carlin and Hicks disciple, Marc Maron.
This routine, filmed a couple weeks ago at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade theater, will give you a good sense of Maron’s plodding, dark, self-loathing, intellectual style. He seems equally depressed as the Patron Saint Bill Hicks would be having to face a media world as over commercialized and sold out as ours is.
As the nation’s health care debate/debacle (debatecle?) crescendos into to a high-pitched whine, one champion’s advances threaten to trump all the efforts of the medical community, pharmaceutical industry, and lobbying covens. And this champion, this potential savior, is an unlabeled, off-brand, non-invasive, patent-free, discount store sugar pill.
According to Wired magazine, placebo effects have dramatically increased over the past few years, making it monumentally tough to get new drugs approved by the FDA.
Mike Judge recently resurrected his dynamic duo of Beavis and Butthead after a dozen years out of the limelight. They seem a bit rusty, though commercial endorsements were never really their thing.
This week, Asylum.com released a piece on the greatest baseball broadcasting bloopers of all time. Hidden among the collection is some eye-opening play-by-play by pop-star and talented paper weight, John Mayer…
Elba Reinshocker embraces her mother, Hilde, after being discovered in a basement where she was chained up for 22 years as a sex slave. Hilde said she “could not comprehend how happy she was” to learn that this was her daughter’s fate.
