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January 9, 2010
December 17, 2009
Colbert ft. Alicia Keys – Empire State of Mind (Part 2) – the Conn. Remix
We knew Stephen Colbert could sing. We knew he could dance. We even knew he could convince hoards of viewers to rewrite the history of the elephant. But did we know he could rap? Oh right, we did. Well, he still can. In fact, he should probably just always rap everything he says from now on, because he’s awesome at it.
Yeah, I love New York, it’s the king of all the cities
I lived up by the guggenheim till I got myself some kiddies
Moved to Connecticut, bye George Pataki
Volvo to the dry-cleaner pickin’ up my khakis
Now my shopping mall is closer, my community is gated
My shorties are all private school educated
Home theater system, 60-inch plasma
Clean suburban air much better for my asthma
Still hit the city, Times Square I keep it real
Hard Rock Cafe for their appetizer deal
M&Ms Store, Disney Store, I’m in heaven
I own this town from 41st to 47
Got tickets to The Lion King, that show is fantastic
Leave half an hour early so I can beat the traffic
I can get home really fast, driver rocks an EZ-Pass
To the land of cheaper gas and the upper middle class
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August 13, 2009
May 12, 2009
Colbert Report Alpha Dog
Saw this on The Colbert Report last night. There’s nothing I like doing less than counting the wrinkles on a dog’s balls. And apparently this dude in Montana agrees – with one exception:
New Wrinkle On Avoiding Jury Duty – April 30, 2009APRIL 30–There are probably better ways to avoid jury duty than the approach recently taken by a Montana man. After Erik Slye, 36, received a jury notice earlier this year, he filed a notarized affidavit seeking to be excused from serving on a District Court panel in Gallatin County. Slye’s caustic affidavit, which he prepared with help from his wife Jennifer, can be found below. The document, of course, did not sit well with court officials and led a judge to threaten to jail Slye. But after being summoned to court, Slye apologized for the affidavit and avoided being cited on a criminal failure to appear rap. And he also was excused from serving on a jury.
I’d like to see him try that in New York!
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April 1, 2009
We Are The World
The author of this book was on Colbert Report last night
In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.
In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined—and millions continue to suffer. Provocatively drawing a sharp contrast between African countries that have rejected the aid route and prospered and others that have become aid-dependent and seen poverty increase, Moyo illuminates the way in which overreliance on aid has trapped developing nations in a vicious circle of aid dependency, corruption, market distortion, and further poverty, leaving them with nothing but the “need” for more aid. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world’s poorest countries that guarantees economic growth and a significant decline in poverty—without reliance on foreign aid or aid-related assistance.
Dead Aid is an unsettling yet optimistic work, a powerful challenge to the assumptions and arguments that support a profoundly misguided development policy in Africa. And it is a clarion call to a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.
I have no idea if any of this is true, but the author of the book was tasty looking. I’d like to give her my foreign aid.
speaking of the world – Ali G is a comedy genius. Big ups to DJ Panos from the Thessaloniki Massive for passing this along. I believe it was from Christmas of 99.
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March 10, 2009
Dana Carvey Show?!? I had NO idea!!
1990s Sketch Comedy – Top 9 Sketch Comedy Shows of the 1990s – Sketch Comedy in the 90s
8. The Dana Carvey Show
A sketch comedy with an even more abbreviated run than The Ben Stiller Show, The Dana Carvey Show premiered on ABC in the summer of 1996. Eight episodes were produced, but the network canceled the show after only six due to low ratings. Still, with a talent roster that also included Steve Carrell, Stephen Colbert, Dave Chappelle, Robert Smigel (better known as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog) and future Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), it’s impossible to argue that the show didn’t have an impressive comedic pedigree. The show isn’t available on DVD, but all eight episodes can be found on Hulu.com.
amazing what you dig up while cruising the internet. Dana Carvey leaves SNL for this show on ABC Primetime (even managing to take the Church Lady with him) and the first sketch he does on the first episode is one of Bill Clinton breastfeeding a baby, a kitten, and several dogs with multiple surgically added breasts. Apparently people were upset and wrote in – so what do they come back with in week 2? What must have been the first occurance of The Ambiguosly Gay Duo
Mary Hart, OJ Simpson, Ed McMahon – oh the 90’s will never die!
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February 27, 2009
October 21, 2008
Real Americans vs Fake Americans
The GOP’s divisiveness as so sad it’s hilarious. The Daily Show says it best:
Small town values – hah! What a laugh.
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October 7, 2008
September 25, 2008
Best. Satire of a Satire. Ever.
I might just have to go out and buy this edition.
Stewart & Colbert: Exclusive Q&A
In the midst of re-creating the controversial New Yorker cover illustration of Barack and Michelle Obama for the cover photo that graces this week’s print edition of Entertainment Weekly, Jon Stewart stops briefly to pose a taste question. As he stands by the catering table in ‘’secret Muslim” garb, he ponders, ”Would it be weird to be dressed like this and have a bagel, salmon, and a schmear?” Pseudo-blowhard Stephen Colbert has his own worries. Striking his best Michelle-as-Black-Panther pose, he glances at the original cartoon and realizes that he’s ”hippier” than the potential First Lady. Gesturing at his own waist, he moans, ”I could drop a baby like a peasant.”
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