Remember When Prince Made Pancakes For Zooey Deschanel On ‘New Girl’?
Did…that happen? I remember there being a bowl, a super bowl, as it were, and a lot of loud commercials, then a 30-minute blinding purple light followed by a new episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. But...
View ArticleLast Night’s Best Super Bowl Commercial Is Two Minutes Long And Only Aired In...
The commercials that aired during Super Bowl XLVIII were an uninspired bunch — way too much earnestness and FIZZY SUGAR WATER RABBLE-ROUSING; not nearly enough Anna Kendrick or deception and cover-ups...
View ArticleBruno Mars: Good At Dancing, Bad At Super Bowl Halftime Shows
Unless you’re a Seattle Seahawks fan, or the leader of the Verve fan club, Super Bowl XLVIII was not a memorable experience. The game: one-sided. The weather: not snowing. The commercials: already...
View ArticleClear Eyes, Full Hearts, You Can’t Lose Reading Aziz Ansari’s ‘Friday Night...
Back in 2008, Aziz Ansari began publishing Friday Night Lights fan fiction. “The Chronicles of Smash” starts, “Its Monday morning and Brian “Smash” Williams is getting ready to go to school. There is...
View ArticleRatings For The Super Bowl Were Down From Last Year
Turns out, a record-setting number of people didn’t want to watch a game that was practically over midway through the second quarter: according to Deadline, the pre-show for Prince on New Girl, a.k.a....
View ArticleMiley Cyrus On The Cover Of ‘W Magazine’ Is A Naked Photoshop Disaster
If W Magazine was a surgeon and Miley Cyrus their patient, we’d be reading about a botched procedure lawsuit any day now, because good golly: what happened? Yeah, yeah, “I can’t tell any difference...
View ArticleAmerican Apparel Has Hired A 62-Year-Old Underwear Model
In an attempt to appeal to the booming hipster grandma market, and to get us to stop talking about this, American Apparel has picked 62-year-old Jacky O’Shaughnessy as their newest underwear model....
View ArticleWatch Uncut Rehearsal Footage Of Nine Inch Nails, QOTSA, And Dave Grohl’s...
Before Pharrell’s hat, before Trent Reznor’s “f*ck you” tweet, before Macklemore apologized to Kendrick Lamar, even before Taylor Swift got kicked in the face by Ryu, there was a bunch of guys playing...
View ArticleMeet The Most Hated Man In ‘Jeopardy!’ History
Except Will O’Fortune. People liked that guy even less, for some reason. But Jeopardy! folk aren’t exactly enamored with current three-day winner Arthur Chu, who plays the game unlike any other...
View ArticleWhat’s On Tonight: The Beginning Of Best-Of Week On ‘Late Night’
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC, 12:35 a.m.) — This week is dedicated to the Best-Of Late Night, beginning with the finest musical sketches over Fallon’s nearly five-year run. How I Met Your Mother...
View Article‘How I Met Your Mother’ Creators Reveal The Actress Who Was Supposed To Play...
It’s hard to imagine How I Met Your Mother without Cobie Smulders. So much of Robin is based on the actress, including that whole being Canadian THING. Beside, if Smulders hadn’t been cast, the world...
View ArticleAnd The Greatest ‘SI’ Swimsuit Issue Cover Ever Goes To…Not Kate Upton
No man, woman, or child is better suited to reveal the greatest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover of all-time than Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler. That’s because the Swimsuit Issue makes the biggest impact...
View ArticleWatch Action Bronson Fight With Security After Lighting A Joint During A Show
Rapper Action Bronson learned the hard way that Oregon ain’t Colorado or Washington, and an overzealous security guard learned it even harder. At his concert last night in Portland, Bam Bam lit a...
View Article12 Classic TV Shows You Can Watch For Free On YouTube
Since 2010, the Time Person of the Year has gone to Mark Zuckerberg, “the Protestor,” Barack Obama, and Pope Francis. Terrible choices, all of them. The real Person of the Year, hell, the Person of...
View ArticleRingo Starr Helped Broken Bells Cover ‘And I Love Her’ In A Unique Way On...
This Sunday, February 9th, marks the 50th anniversary of the Beatles playing The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. So all this week, David Letterman, the current occupant of the Ed Sullivan...
View ArticleIt Was True Love When A Musician With A Bill Murray Tattoo Met Bill Murray
Bill Murray on Friday’s Late Show with David Letterman was a big deal for TV (PETER PAN), but an even bigger deal for Leeds-based punk band Eagulls, who were booked as the musical guest that night. To...
View ArticleThe Best Of Will Ferrell’s Reddit AMA
When you get a chance to ask Will Ferrell to name your band, you take that chance. That’s exactly what one Johnny-Come-I-Need-A-Band-Name did during the Anchorman star’s Reddit Ask Me Anything session...
View ArticleThe Key To Finding Love On OkCupid: Mention ‘Homeland’ And ‘Archer’
Mention Homeland on your OkCupid or Match.com profile, and you, the Carrie Mathisons of the world, are guaranteed to find your Brody, hopefully minus the passion for terrorism. Unless that’s your...
View ArticleHow To Make A Bad Pitbull And Ke$ha Song Sound Great: Doo-Wop It Up
A visualization of how the two versions of Pitbull and Ke$ha’s “Timber” make us feel: The original Postmodern Jukebox‘s doo-wop cover Don’t stop the doo-wop.
View ArticleDMX Will Take On George Zimmerman In A Boxing Match, Possibly Pee On His Face
In the latest development entry in our now recurring series (!) People Whose Faces DMX Wants to Pee On, DMX wants to pee on George Zimmerman’s face, and he’ll get a chance to soon, in addition to...
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