unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve seen the hilariously adorable charlie bit my finger youtube vid. those two cuties have run up over 198 million views!
but what happens when charlie grows up? late-nighter jimmy kimmel and guest adrien brody have given us the answer!! brody, on his promotional round for new movie splice, joined forces with kimmel to act out a movie adaptation of the viral video.
“gimme yo finga!” love it.
i gotta say, this could be kind of funny. fox is developing a tv adaptation loosely based on the website ‘texts from last night.’ when was the last time we had a comedic sitcom based on the lives of those of us in our 20′s? perhaps this will help fill the void.
writer steve holland (‘the big bang theory’) is set to pen the script with sony pictures & happy madison producing. the tv version of the show will be based on “the whole idea of racy – and sometimes embarrassing – communication, particularly among the twentysomething set.”
while this may be hard to translate into a 30-minute show, it definitely has potential. people tend to do some funny things under the influence! case in point, the ‘texts from last night’ website. readers log on to post texts they’ve sent or received from friends in the midst of intoxication or during a late-night stupor. let’s see if the writers can use the popularity of the website to give fox the hit that they’re looking for.
even after her death people are still vying to be near the legendary marilyn monroe! the burial spot right above marilyn monroe has just been auctioned off on eBay. the owner, a woman from beverly hills, had her husband’s body removed from the prime location so that the highest bidder may take their coveted place.
bidding started 10 days ago at $500,000. crazy, right? well not when you hear what it actually sold for! the winning bid came in at a cool $4,602.100. $4.6 million dollars! who the heck has that kind of money? earth to the bidder… marilyn is dead and ghost are not real. she ain’t coming back for late-night chats in the mortuary!
the name of the winner is not yet known, but we can all just hop on down to the westwood village cemetery to check out the nameplate when it goes up. apparently the widowed auctioneer decided to sell the crypt to help pay off her $1.6 million mortgage. well it appears she’ll have no problem covering that now!
katherine heigl. she was on her way to becoming the next julia roberts – america’s sweetheart. her breakout role as izzie on tv show ‘grey’s anatomy’ landed her some movie roles fit for a queen. ‘knocked up,’ ’27 dresses’ & her latest ‘the ugly truth’ all performed quite well at the box office. then, disaster struck: she opened her mouth.
now it seems people are kinda turned off from the little lady. based upon an article in newsweek, ‘why is katherine heigl so annoying?’, it was her mouth that got her into trouble. first, she refused to submit her name for an emmy nomination because she didn’t feel the writers gave her material worthy of the award. not a good start. people viewed the actress as ungrateful. this started a downhill spiral, which has led creator chandra wilson to reconsider her role on ‘grey’s anatomy.’
the season finale left viewers hanging – will she be killed off? we don’t know yet. but as katherine made the rounds to promote her latest film, she let abc have it once again. she whined to late-night host david letterman “our first day back was wednesday and it was – i’m going to keep saying this because i hope it embarrasses them - a 17-hour day, which i think is cruel and mean.”
abc’s entertainment head steve mcpherson was none too pleased by her remarks. he had this to say in response: “people are going to behave in the way they choose to behave. there are so many people who work so hard on ‘grey’s,’ and all of our shows, without any notoriety and those are the ones i’d be concerned about, people who feel like they’re being criticized or looked down upon.” and there you have it! good luck, katherine.
words cannot express the hilarity of this jimmy fallon bit. the late-night host premiered his latest brainchild last night, a series of parodies called ‘robert is bothered.’ fallon imitates ‘twilight’ superstar robert pattinson in the sketch, and talks about things that bother him. he even got a little website up and running.
complete with shag-a-licious hair and a thick british accent, fallon succeeds in bringing robert to life. have you ever seen a robert pattinson interview? he is just as charming as ever, but you can’t deny he acts just a little bit kooky.
in the video above, ‘robert’ talks about how he is bothered by discovery channel’s shark week because sharks, in some ways, mimic vampires. “sharks bite people when they smell blood,” he says. “sound familiar? oh yeah, wait, they’re like vampires. copy-cat fishes. copy-fishes!”
all i can say is i hope jimmy plans on making this a weekly segment. pattinson has spent all of his fame thus far being utterly adored – let’s poke fun at him a bit!
its happened! finally the cast of 90′s smash hit ‘saved by the bell’ has reunited. don’t lie, you’ve been waiting for it!
people mag got the old crew together to spill some deets on what life was really like back during their filming days. while we don’t have excerpts yet, the cover claims to have the low-down on ”the hookups, the meltdowns, the memories: the cast reveals what was really going on… and what they think of each other now.”
mark paul gosselaar (zack morris), lark voorhies (lisa turtle), elizabeth berkley (jessie spano), mario lopez (a.c. slater), & tiffani thiessen (kelly kapowski) all pose together to remind us how much we miss them in action. but have you noticed yet? absent from the reunion cover is dustin diamond, or as we know him, screech powers. what, did he have something better going on? maybe he was busy making another sex tape. let’s hope not.
in other ‘saved by the bell’ news, late-night host jimmy fallon has been notoriously trying to get the crew to do a taped reunion – as we saw that hilarious clip of mark paul gosselaar on the show a while back. but jimmy hasn’t been able to get through to all of them yet. namely, tiffani thiessen. the actress takes to the ‘funny or die’ stage to announce why she hasn’t been able to participate. she’s just too darn busy! watch below for some laughs.
sir conan has officially taken the reigns from 17-year late night king jay leno. and after much hype, he pulled off a smooth transition. although there were some setbacks: o’brien’s new show suffered a few painful reviews. new york post tv critic linda stasi criticized the rotation of “sketch upon sketch” that were at times “painfully unfunny.”
apparently the viewers didn’t quite agree! conan’s tonight show premiered to the highest overnight draw for ‘the tonight show ‘ since 2005. while we won’t know what the exact viewer count was until next week, we do know that he opened with a 7.1 rating/17 share. pretty decent!
conan should be ready, though, for people to pick apart his first year. while monday’s hefty ratings were celebrated, tuesday’s ran with a 30% viewer drop-off. critics of course are already hounding the funny man for the variance in ratings. it’s been two days, people! lay off ‘em. me thinks he’ll do just fine.
the legendary jay leno finished his 17-year reign on late-night this past friday. jay wrapped up his tenure by welcoming conan o’brien, who is slated to take his coveted spot. but if you ask me, it was all kind of a weird situation. because jay’s still gonna be on your tube! just a bit earlier. so we couldn’t really feel the goodbye sadness.
in any case, the show was everything we’ve come to expect from jay. great banter, funny jaywalking montages & a great musical guest – james taylor. at the end of the hour, with jay about to say his goodbyes, he spoke a bit about the legacy he & his show will leave behind. it was pretty neat, actually. gave me goosebumps! watch the clip above to see jay talk about the 68 kids that were born to the staff of the tonight show over the course of the show’s run.
