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It is one of the quirks of film history that the man who made Citizen Kane ended up appearing in the 1986 animated film Transformers: The Movie.
> Transformers The Movie at the IMDb
> Find out more about Orson Welles at WIkipedia
> The infamous outtakes from the peas advert with Orson Welles
Sarah Palin has been the subject of many Saturday Night Live sketches recently, so it only seemed natural that she would appear on it as herself.
The Republican VP pick took a break from the campaign trail to appear in two sketches, where she watched Tina Fey (play her) in a bit about Palin’s first press conference alongside SNL honcho Lorne Michaels.
Alec Baldwin and Mark Wahlberg also made appearances in the opening sketch.
Later in the show, she popped up during Weekend Update which featured the ‘Palin Rap’.
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Let Her Go by Rocket Sausage
My friend David is in the above video by the comedy collective known as Rocket Sausage (he’s the doctor).
You can vote for this video (and others) at the MySpace Trident Comedy Awards.
> Rocket Sausage at MySpace
> Official site for the MySpace Trident Comedy Awards
See more Hayden Panettiere videos at Funny or Die
In another Funny or Die campaign spot Paris Hilton gets advice on how to be a great fake president from Josiah Bartlett (aka Martin Sheen) of The West Wing.
> Find out more about President Bartlett (aka Martin Sheen) at Wikipedia
> Listen to our interview with Funny Or Die co-founder Adam McKay
> The previous Paris Hilton Funny Or Die spot
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SNL spoof the VP debate
This is the Saturday Night Live version of the recent VP debate with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, Jason Sudeikis as Joe Biden and Queen Latifah as moderator Gwen Ifill.
Bill Maher gives us his thoughts on the VP debate on his HBO show Real Time.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler do their version of the now infamous interview Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin gave to Katie Couric of CBS News.
This is the original:
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Sarah Silverman backs Obama
Sarah Silverman urges Jewish voters to back Barack Obama in this video called The Great Schlep.
> Sarah Silverman at Wikipedia
> US Election coverage at BBC News
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The Daily Video: Head of Skate
Matt Damon’s fears of a ‘really bad Disney movie’ have been turned into this spoof trailer.
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David Letterman catches out John McCain
Republican presidential candidate John McCain was supposed to be on Letterman last night but couldn’t make it because…, well, the reason he gave the show was because he was ‘heading back to Washington’ to help respond to the economic turmoil.
Well, it turns out he was still in New York and had actually snubbed Dave for his CBS colleague Katie Couric.
Defamer have posted a breakdown of the video:
:01 – 3:27: Letterman takes fairly tame shots at McCain mixed with genuine praise for the man’s heroism.
3:27 – 6:34: Dave starts getting testy!
6:35 – 9:11: Fill-in guest Keith Olbermann (haha, amazing choice) is interrupted when Letterman finds out about McCain’s Couric interview, conducted at that very moment down the street. Letterman then plays live footage of McCain getting powdered by a makeup assistant before Couric goes on the air.
Check out Defamer if the YouTube video gets pulled.
> John McCain at Wikipedia
> Official site for The Late Show with David Letterman
Hot on the heels of questioning his own reviews, Roger Ebert has responded to a fan of Disaster Movie in the ‘Answer Man’ section of his website.
The question (which I’m guessing is reprinted verbatim) from S.J. Stanczak in Chicago read:
Q. Yo dude, u missed out on “Disaster Movie,” a hardcore laugh-ur-@zz-off movie! Y U not review this movie!? It was funny as #ell! Prolly the funniest movie of the summer! U never review these, wat up wit dat?
To which Ebert replied:
A. Hey, bro, I wuz buzier than $#i+, @d they never shoed it b4 hand. I peeped in the IMDb and saw it zoomed to #1 as the low$ie$t flic of all time, wit @ lame-@zz UZer Rating of 1.3. U liked it? Wat up wit dat?
Stanczak is ownd.
> Roger Ebert’s site and blog
> Reviews of Disaster Movie at Metacritic
Comedian and actress Tina Fey already bore a resemblance to Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, but in this recent Saturday Night Live sketch, the likeness is really quite uncanny.
> Tina Fey at the IMDb
> Find out more about Sarah Palin at Wikipedia
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was recently at the Republican National Convention.
The new Guy Ritchie film Rocknrolla is out this week which sees the director return to the Cockney Gangster genre.
But do you remember this Fast Show sketch from 2000 which parodied Lock, Stock… and Snatch…?
> Guy Ritchie at the IMDb
> Find out more about The Fast Show at Wikipedia
Jack Nicholson being interviewed on a golf course by Gary Garver of The Howard Stern Show.
> Jack Nicholson at the IMDb
> Gary Garver’s official website
> The Howard Stern Show at Wikipedia
A strange promotional/instructional video for Windows 95 starring Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston, who had just become big stars in Friends when this was made.
A sweded version of Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
> Terminator 2: Judgement Day at the IMDb
> More about Sweded Movies
I never thought I’d see the day when Brett Ratner (director of the Rush Hour movies and X-Men 3) would be compared to Michaelangelo (the Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor behind The Sistine Chapel Ceiling and Statue of David) but today is that day.
> Brett Ratner and Conrad Palmisano at the IMDb
> Find out more about Michaelangelo at Wikipedia
An amusing mashup of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and 300 by YouTube user Grantly Pantyy.
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The Daily Video: Baracky II
Barack Obama‘s presidential campaign meets Rocky II.
> The Empire Strikes Barack (previous viral video about the Democratic primary campaign)
> More about the 2008 presidential campaign at Wikipedia
These two posters accurately reflect the frustration of anyone who has legally bought a DVD and put it in the player only to be confronted with a patronising advert (that you can’t skip!) which informs you that piracy (the very thing you just haven’t done) is both bad and wrong.
[Posters via Broken TV]
> Read more posts on piracy at Broken TV
> Spoof anti-piracy mashup from The IT Crowd
This video of a 3 year old discussing the plot of Star Wars has had over 8 million views on YouTube since it was uploaded in February .
> Fist of Blog – The blog where it all started
> Find out more about Star Wars at Wikipedia
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Barack Obama vs Rick Astley
You may have seen the rather tacky ad the John McCain camp issued recently, equating Barack Obama to a Paris Hilton-style celebrity unfit for the US Presidency.
Well, now Paris and the folks at FunnyOrDie have hit back with this response:
See more funny videos at Funny or Die
> Barack Obama and John McCain YouTube channels
> More on the 2008 US presidential election at Wikipedia
This is an interesting appearence by Woody Allen on The Dick Cavett Show from 1971.
What’s nice is that both of them take questions from the audience and have an easy rapport with one another.
> Woody Allen at the IMDb
> Dick Cavett’s blog at the New York Times
Imagine Michael Mann‘s 1995 thriller Heat with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro recast using characters from Disney’s Ducktales.
Matt Damon does a great impression of his old friend Matthew McConaughy, as this Letterman appearance from last year demonstrates.
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Bert and Ernie try Gangsta Rap
A YouTube user named Stian Hafstad has created an amusing Bert and Ernie gangsta rap video:
During the making of Stanley Kubrick‘s Dr. Strangelove (1964) Peter Sellers did a series of phone interviews to promote the movie and demonstrated his amazing ability to mimic British accents:
If you are wondering why he is doing this in make up and costume, back in the 60s actors would give generic answers to pre-scripted questions.
They were actually talking to someone on the set and the media outlet would then edit these into the final interviews.
> Peter Sellers at the IMDb
> Find out more about Dr Strangelove at Wikipedia
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Darth Vader is Coming to Alderaan
There have been previous Darth Vader remixes but this one takes the character James Earl Jones played in Coming to America (King Jaffe Joffey) and dubs his voice neatly into Vader’s opening scenes in Star Wars.
[Link via The House Next Door]
> Check out the Vader Sessions (an ingenious remix of using clips from James Earl Jones’ career)
> Coming to America and Star Wars at the IMDb
> Find out more about James Earl Jones at WIkipedia
If, like me, you grew up watching films on video in the UK you might remember this VSC infomercial with Simon Bates (the former Radio 1 DJ) which explained to viewers why a film had a certain certificate.
What is amusing about them now is the dry way in which they discuss sex and swearing like it was a scientific experiment.
> Find out more about British film ratings at WIkipedia
> Simon Bates at Radio Rewind
Will Smith was on The Late Show with David Letterman recently to promote Hancock and the film star and talkshow host got unusually close!
> Will Smith at the IMDb
> Find out more about The Late Show with Dave Letterman at Wikipedia