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Obsessed: Jay-Z, Battlestar Galactica, and Inaugural High Fives

By Bradley Portnoy - Jan 23rd, 2009 at 6:14 pm

Inaugural high-fives. Extra points to Sen. Feingold for letting FunnyOrDie film in his Senate office.
- Dylan Matthews
Michelle Obama’s ball gown. Forget what the…

If You’re in Springfield, Make Sure to Hit Up the Municipal House of Pancakes

By Jesse Singal - Jan 8th, 2009 at 11:46 am

Via reddit, this hypothetical map of Springfield (which was apparently created seven years ago) is worth checking out, if merely to reminisce about The Simpsons‘…

Gossip Girl Gay Eunuch Watch

By Bradley Portnoy - Jan 7th, 2009 at 10:32 am

Twice now.

What Video Game Narratives Can Do

By Ned Resnikoff - Dec 12th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

Like Daniel says here, it is cool that some video games let you choose to be whoever you want, but from a narrative standpoint, I…

Is Gossip Girl Afraid to Go Gay?

By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 9th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

I’ve been a pretty long-term fan of Gossip Girl–what other show packs as much into each hour as Josh Schwartz’s totally fake (?) drama about…

Welcome To Another Episode of “Willfully Ignorant Old Guys Rail Against Cultural Phenemona They Don’t Understand”

By Jamelle Bouie - Dec 8th, 2008 at 9:30 am

Jazz critic Stanley Crouch pens another curmudgeonly missive against hip-hop, this time making the breathtakingly idiotic argument that Barack Obama’s election will somehow “greatly diminish the…

Entourage’s Siren Song

By Jesse Singal - Dec 5th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

In his latest ESPN.com column, Bill Simmons spends a paragraph mercilessly–but lovingly–demolishing Entourage, a show I should probably be ashamed to admit that I’m a…

Robert Downey Jr. on “The Avengers”

By Jamelle Bouie - Dec 4th, 2008 at 11:20 am

Robert Downey, Jr. recently gave his thoughts on the upcoming Avengers movie:
MTV: You know that “The Avengers” movie is the one every comic book…

South Park Leans Right

By Daniel Strauss - Oct 21st, 2008 at 3:06 pm

I always wondered where Republicans got their political satire fix. Every Democrat I’ve met goes to Comedy Central’s nightly hour of Stewart and Colbert to…

Chill Out, Marky Mark

By Jesse Singal - Oct 17th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

Check out Mark Wahlberg’s response to Andy Samberg’s brilliant impression of him:

He’s got to be joking. He can’t actually be this humorless and this…

Maddow Does Leno

By Jessica Hillyard - Oct 14th, 2008 at 9:54 am

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow recently appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. As a newbie to the “pundit world,” as she calls it, her…

See Matt Dance (Again)

By Daniel Strauss - Oct 10th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

It’s Friday, and you know what that means? A three minute YouTube break! (Via Ezra a long time ago.)

(Apparently it’s some sort of prequel…

Daytime TV Delves into Politics

By Kay Steiger - Oct 9th, 2008 at 3:15 pm

The fabulous Rebecca Traister has a great article in Salon about how the election is playing out on more than just the cable news networks.…

SNL Removes Offensive (and Boring) Skit from Website

By Rob Anderson - Oct 8th, 2008 at 11:35 am

On Monday, I argued that a skit on Saturday Night Live last weekend was in poor taste because it suggested rich, powerful, money grubbing, Democrat-supporting…

Obsessed: MadTV, High Street Fashion, and FiveThirtyEight

By Bradley Portnoy - Oct 3rd, 2008 at 6:10 pm

The stock market may have freaked out this week, but we were keeping calm with these, our latest obsessions:
My roommate showed me this MadTV…