comedy

If all lessons about economics were this entertaining, I might not have slept through most of those classes years ago…

From creative director John Papola and creative economist Russ Roberts comes “Fear the Boom and Bust”, a rap song in which legendary economists John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek come back to life and attend a modern-day conference on the economic crisis, but first have a night of wild party.

Here ’tis! And I was laughing pretty hard at this…

Incidentally, that video was passed along this way by good friend and fellow blogger Danny de Garcia II from the Big Island of Hawaii. And he asked me to reprint an e-mail that he sent to all of his state’s legislators…

Greetings Hawaii State Legislators,

As one of the major issues facing the Legislature this session is the question of economic recovery and how to connect the dots

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BioShock 2 finally comes out next Tuesday! Don’t even think of buggin’ me for the next few days after that, ‘cuz Lord willing I will be in line before midnight next Monday evening to get my pre-ordered copy and then spend the rest of the week once again immersed in the sub-Atlantic dystopia of Rapture.

We already knew that 2K Games is coming out with a Special Edition of BioShock 2 and in this video 2K community manager Elizabeth Tobey unboxes the whole package. And then she reveals the BioShock 2 Uber Edition.

Make sure you watch the entire video…

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Awright, what the hell has Twitter done to get the Westboro Baptist Church idiots to picket outside its corporate headquarters?

Whatever the “God Hates Fags” bunch’s purpose in being there was, a lot more people showed up with some extremely clever signs mocking the “church”…

Also said to have been there was a “GOD HATES #TAGS” sign! Hilarious 🙂

Click here and here and here and here and no doubt many other pages popping up documenting the hilarity, which reportedly was enough to drive the inbred progeny of Fred Phelps off the scene!

(‘Course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention my own encounter with the Westboro Baptist loons a few years ago.)...

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I’ve given up on American Idol, and not because this is Simon Cowell’s final season (and if you ask me, Simon is among the most brilliant minds working in entertainment today). So I didn’t see “Pants on the Ground”, the original song performed on last night’s show by 62-year old civil rights activist General Larry Platt of Atlanta.

But having seen it now… I can’t get it out of my head!!

Here it is: “Pants on the Ground”!

If American Idol had allowed more stuff like this (and bumped up the age limit of contestants) a lot of people would probably still be watching it. Anyways, hat’s off to Larry Platt for a great performance!...

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The innuendo in this song is so horribly bad. I have to feel sorry for whoever it was that wrote it. What was Sesame Workshop thinking??

Here is Baby Elmo’s dad serenading his son about “Potty Time”…

“So here is your new potty!
When you have to pee or poo
It’s where you sit to do whatcha gotta do-do!”

You’ve got to wonder: How does Elmo – or any Muppet for that matter – use the potty when someone’s hand is shoved hard up their intestinal tract?...

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It was on December 14th, 1979 – thirty years ago today – that the mostest highest-decibel movie ever directed by Steven Spielberg was released.

I am, of course, referring to 1941.

With a crazy eclectic cast featuring John Belushi, Christopher Lee, Slim Pickens, John Candy and Dan Ackroyd among many others and backed up by a rousing score by John Williams, 1941 pokes fun at the very real paranoia that beset the West Coast in the days and weeks following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. At the time 1941 confused and bewildered critics (who weren’t sure if it was supposed to have been a drama or a comedy) but three decades later, it is now considered a cult classic. 1941 is a screaming movie. The filming was so loud that Spielberg had to fire a prop machine gun into the air rather than yelling “cut” because otherwise the actors ...

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