Chris Hardwick interviewing “Weird Al” Yankovic on Attack of the Show (AOTS).

That episode of AOTS was also co-hosted by Veronica Belmont.

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In their episode “The Invasion”, the Renaissance Faire web series comedy All’s Faire deals with the tricky situation of Romulans showing up at a Renaissance Fair.

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Introducing the new Weezer Snuggie. Order now and they’ll throw in the new Weezer album “Raditude” for free.

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“We Are Douchebags”, part of the emerging Douchebag Solidarity movement.

From Wikipedia: A reclaimed word is a word in a language that was at one time a pejorative but has been brought back into acceptable usage—usually starting within the communities that experienced oppression under that word, but often also among the general populace as well.

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“Donald & Sons Hardware” by Liam Lynch

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Jerry Seinfeld made his 1981 debut on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, so young he looks like he’s could have just come from his Bar Mitzvah. You can see where he’s headed, but he’s definitely not there yet.

YouTube has an even earlier clip of Seinfeled on something called “Celebrity Cabaret” in 1977. Definitely in that awkward phase.

Here is a compilation of other comedians making their first stand-up appearance on the Tonight Show. Including David Letterman, Jay Leno, and Eddie Murphy. I think that is Johnny Carson himself that you can hear kinda mumbling along appreciatively (also awkwardly) while he re-watches the video.

It’s fun to see the current comedy old guard in their early days. For one thing it’s a mad fashion slalom course to see what stand-up’s were wearing in the 70’s and 80’s. Leno shows tremendous commitment to a single color there.

And, yes, that’s right, someone hosted The Tonight Show prior to Leno. In fact there was someone before Carson, too.

Lastly, here’s Steven Wright’s first time on the Tonight Show or TV at all. It’s worth seeing the interview with him at the end–it turns out that a scout for Carson just called him out of the blue to invite him on the show.

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Not sure what religion to follow? Holy Taco has created this handy flowchart to help you make up your mind.

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The Twitter account Fake AP Stylebook, a wonderful parody of the AP Stylebook used by journalists, provides humorous style tips for proper writing, with the disclaimer “If you use this you will get fired”.

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In celebration of their 40th anniversary, Monty Python has just released “Monty Python: Almost the Truth – The Lawyer’s Cut”, a 3 DVD documentary chronicling the history of Monty Python, including new interviews with the cast.

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Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer presents 30 years of hip-hop history in five minutes on the banjo in his latest song “Chap-Hop History”.

See Also: Cup of Brown Joy by Elemental & Tom Caruana, A Teacore Rap Song

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It’s still not too late to host your own Windows 7 Torrenting Party.

See Previously: Helpful Tips on Hosting a Windows 7 Launch Party

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CollegeHumor has created a parody of the intro that is shown before Pixar films.

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Before the quintessential quick-cutting and fast-paced techniques overused in television today Shadoe Steven’s Fred Rated television commercials broke this new stylistic ground back in the mid-1980s.  Smashing prices, and expensive audio and video gear was Shadoe’s trademark technique for driving media-crazy customers into the many Federated Group home entertainment stores scattered around Southern California at the time.

It was a race for pace by jam packing three minutes of mundane ad information into edgy, entertaining and explosive thirty second commercial spots.  My pleasure and honor was to have collaborated with Shadoe on these commercials as his director and editor.  Over a three-year period we made over 1000 television commercials together.

Cut to:  PRESENT DAY

A few weeks ago Shadoe approached me about a new advertising collaboration.  Shadoe’s task 25 years later was to sell a wheelchair.  What?  A wheelchair?

Oh, but this isn’t just a wheelchair, the Standing Powerchair is an affordable way to bring dignity to those of us who don’t have the full use of our bodies… and Shadoe’s good friend Mark Shedlin, a victim of MS is one such person.  Mark purchased this Powerchair only to discover it was not well-known by doctors and most insurance companies.  Marks mission soon became to get the word out so more people could benefit, and he enlisted Shadoe to help him.

This time for Shadoe the commercial was personal, and once he introduced me to Mark it became personal for me too.  So of course leave it to Shadoe to wildly entertain while getting his message across.  Once again he smashes the traditional and we created this ad…

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Joe Sabia, with a little help from Pulp Fiction, shows us how to use Google Wave.

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Sarah Silverman has a plan to end world hunger, Sell The Vatican, Feed The World.

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Dylan Moran levels a characteristically petulant critique of California and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wherein the Irish comedian demonstrates his personal aversion for “lifting up heavy things”.

You might recognize Moran from the film Shaun Of The Dead. He also starred in a great, lesser-known (in the US) sitcom on Britain’s Channel 4 called Black Books which he co-created with Graham Linehan (who later created the show The IT Crowd).

Black Books ran from 2000 to 2004 and co-starred Tamsin Greig and Bill Bailey. It’s a great show, worth seeking out if you’re looking for a Brit comedy fix (NetFlix has it). You can see clips on YouTube, and if you are in Britain you can watch episodes online (no access from the US).

Bill Bailey has a very different style, he’s a trained musician who incorporates more than a dozen instruments into his routines and parodies the likes of Jean Michel Jarre and Phillip Glass; he’s also a confirmed nerd who jokes about Doctor Who, LOTR, Star Trek, and hosted a Stonehenge documentary; he’s also fond of making surreal erudite rants with references to literature, science, and philosophy.

Here’s Bailey in action, with a very close reading of the “Acts of God” clause in a car rental agreement…

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Here’s the archived video stream of The Comedy Panel at last week’s 140 | The Twitter Conference which took place in Los Angeles. The panel was moderated by Jason Preston and featured Tucker Max, Loni Love, Chris Hardwick and a surprise, unscheduled appearance by professional wresting champion The Iron Sheik, who recently joined Twitter. Don’t get him started about “that fucking Hulk Hogan”.

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MC Johnson Films presents Twitteleh, a new version of Twitter specifically tailored to Jewish mothers. Twitteleh provides answers to these three important questions:

1. Where are you?

2. What have you eaten?

3. Are you wearing a sweater?

Have you Twitteleh’d your Mother today?

A ten tentacle salute to Michael Lyons for the tip!

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Last Wednesday Chris Hardwick invited me to a taping of his show Web Soup at the G4 studios located at the Comcast Entertainment Group building in LA’s Miracle Mile. On show Chris shares ridiculous videos they find on the web or submitted by viewers, along with the occasional field report. It’s a really fun show and Chris is a great host.

I shot a few behind the scenes photos while at the taping of the show which airs tonight and each Tuesday night at 8pm ET on G4 after Attack of the Show.

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The Washington Post has a hilarious series “Twits” featuring dramatic readings of Twitter updates by celebrities. The videos were created and directed by Liz Kelly who runs WaPo’s Celebrity Blog.

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