Comedy

genders.wtf is an outstanding use of this thing we call the World Wide Web. It’s nice that it takes a hot divisive topic and makes it genuinely human and funny.

He really was the best: P. J. O’Rourke on Israel. I could excerpt any damn paragraph, but here’s just one:

There was no sign of war. Plenty of soldiers were to be seen, carrying their weapons, but this is no shock to the frequent traveler. For all that the world looks askance at America’s lack of gun control, foreigners love to wave guns around. Nothing about the Israeli Defense Forces is as odd as Italian carabinieri brandishing their machine pistols while grimly patrolling that flash-point Venice.

Scit-scat and a motherfuckin’ scats. “Tenacious D’s “You Never Give Me Your Money” with music vid by Taylor Stephens. The End.

Fun fun fun, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jim Carrey, Don Cheadle, Henry Winkler & Timothy Simons talk shop.

Joseph Epstein has a book to review on the semi-colon; that is, an excuse to treat us to a treatise on punctuation. It is “the art of rhythm, for punctuation’s second function, after its first function of helping to establish clarity, is to set the rhythm of sentences. Rhythm in prose, it turns out, is highly individual, for nearly everyone not only marches but writes to the beat of a different drummer.”

“Respected journalist” Joel Golby has pulled off a rather spectacular series of mini-essays for Vice in Choose Your Own Adventure: Friday Night Edition!. More relevant perhaps for people say a quarter of a century younger than me, but one can appreciate.

Vincent Gallo Sings by one Vincent Gallo. “I know what I look like. It’s certainly not how I would have made myself look. Don’t blame me.”

Drew Pierce, Iron Man 3 co-screenwriter with director Shane Black, discusses the writing of the Trevor Slattery reveal in this Vulture article. There’s also a jpg of the screenplay! This is one of my favorite Marvel movie scenes. And jeez, I just discovered All Hail the King ⁠— where have I been?

Casting President Trump ⁠— The Movie.

Now this you should see. Via Andy Serkis the motion capture king, Gollum reads a couple of Trump tweets as his own. Ah, excellence. [via motherjones.com]

Just the insight I was seeking on Jim Carrey as a performer.

“Yesterday we had a fight about whether I’d been dismissive about him saying his feelings had been hurt by my dismissing his feelings during a previous fight…” From the amusing but very dark Narcissism: a reflection by Laura Kipnis in Spiked.

Turns out we’re happier watching funny cat videos online and unhappier logging in to Facebook.

He has to have his China.

If you were troubled by the song persuading Ariel to remain under the sea, here’s why.

Four masters ⁠— Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Ricky Gervais and Louis CK ⁠— discuss their craft.

Good fun mashup of David Cameron and Alex Salmond Scotland speeches from the BBC’s Charlie Brooker’s 2014 Wipe.

Everybody, everybody, you’re gonna love this account of the making of Boogie Nights, long enough to read like a small book. My only qualm is that they totally should have put Michael Penn’s final comment at the end.

The New Yorker review of Zero Motivation wherein the writer, herself a deeply unimpressed Bogeret Tzahal, notes the film’s homage to The Breakfast Club.

Why, by the William Shatner School of Toupological Studies.

Saxondale tells The Sun how it is ⁠— an in-character interview.

On second thoughts, let’s not go to Camelot, said Captain Kirk. It is a silly place.

The internet is… any number of silly things.

Patrick Swayze, 1953-2009, with Chris Farley auditioning at SNL for Chippendales.

Shatner recites Palin’s resignation speech, Shatner-style.

Old dogs are funny in new and unexpected ways. But, above all, they seem at peace.

Caddyshack is a Marx Bros movie, Ramis explains.

The Office, UK vs US.

Dharma Initiative magazine ads circa 1977.

Great for Lost fans: a compilation of characters saying “What?” Similarly, Fucking Midnight Run (loved the movie but hadn’t remembered the preponderance of the term). Fuck it, see the original post of video collections at the brilliant Waxy. Also, Fucking Pulp Fiction. With this one you can almost follow the plot of the movie!

P. J. O’Rourke is funny again: print journalists need a swift infusion of federal aid.

I’m Paris Hilton and I approve this message “because I think it’s totally hot.”

The Tale of Gore-Al.