Everyone in New York Has a Nanny, Why Not One For the Whole Damn City?

So it's official:  the illustrious Fran "Bringin' Nasal Back" Drescher is throwing her hat (hair?) into the ring for Hillary's soon-to-be-absent senate seat. I don't know why everyone is having such a field day with this: yeah she's got a voice that could peel that smug smile off of Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich's face, but — dare I say it? That woman is more qualified to take care of New York than Hillary ever was.

She's from Queens for Yahweh's sake!  The Aqua Net, leopard-print, why-can't-you-marry-a-doctor lifestyle wasn't just the premise of her 1990s sitcom "The Nanny" — she was raised with plastic-covered couches and "I asked for the centah-cut tongue!"  She went to high school with Ray Romano!  She was in Saturday Night Fever!  Put that into your Yale-Law-issue pipe and smoke it, Hillary.  And really? Everyone keeps bringing up Drescher's laugh?  What's wrong with that?  How quickly we forget:

If "The Nanny" is any indication, Drescher's gonna slap a little eyeshadow on New York, teach it how to know if a boy likes it, and cover up its hickey with some oil-based concealer.  New York will fall in love with her just like the Sheffields and Space Ghost (after the jump).  Listen for the laugh… it's charming. 

(more…)

Comments (0)

Stooges for a New Century

The Farrelly Brothers, keepers of the keys to modern slapstick, are opening up the vaudeville vault and dusting off the Three Stooges.  Coincidentally, I am glad for three reasons:

1. Physical comedy is back, and MUST be taken all the way to its eye-poking, prattfalling, ear-steaming, belly-punching, mallet-thumping, 2×4-swinging, whoop-whoop-whooping extreme.




2. The Stooges will allegedly be placed in a modern-day situation?!  Fine with me, as long as they still find a reason for someone to wear drop-seat long johns.




3. They are doing a talent search for the role of Curly.  Because as

   incredible as the Farrellys’ past stars may be (Ben Stiller, Jack Black,

   Bill Murray), few of them have the physical comedy chops (and castrativocal range) of the original Curly Howard.  Jim Carrey could do it… but he doesn’t quite have the physique.  Take a look:

(more…)

Comments (2)

At Long Last, A-ha Get Video Justice

Ladies
of the 80s.  You know who you are.  You know how those asinine songs
of the 80s with the nonsensical and utterly useless lyrics somehow became brilliant when supplemented by the dance moves of you and your too-sexy friends?  And you know how literal
choreographic interpretations of those same asinine lyrics somehow — by some bizarre paradox of the universe — somehow infused those lyrics with
meaning enough to make them important to your life forever…? (Tubular examples of good lyrics to interpret literally: "We’re living in a powder keg and giving off sparks," Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler; "I reach out from the insiiiide," In Your Eyes, Peter Gabriel; "Everybody look at your hands," Safety Dance, Men Without Hats.)

In an inverse sort of way, this video accomplishes the same thing.  Only in this case, the song started good, was made far worse by the video, and now, these many years later,

has become

brilliant

again.

Tags: art from the outside of a woman’s power-suit pattern; important hair; the old lady from The Goonies

Comments (1)

Legotrocity

To commemorate their 30th anniversary, Lego has come out with a line of limited edition “celebrity” figures including Mr. and Mrs. Posh Spice, Brangelina and Amy Winehouse. Okay sure. What?!

Sure, celebrities have clamped their little pincers into every other aspect of our lives, but did they really get the 5-11 year-old boys too? Are the little brothers of America having pirate vs. submarine battles with Madonna and British TV personality Alan Titchmarsh?

Or maybe this is a sign that Lego is still pure, at it‚Äôs core. Because the way I see it, the big Lego CEO with his painted on suit and desk made of custom ‚Äúmahogany‚Äù and ‚Äúcherrywood‚Äù bricks, sent down a little Lego memo about the Lego celeb project (a Lego memo‚Ķ you know, like on a little half-depth two-holer that‚Äôs smooth on top with the slick glossy letters painted on), and when it reached the obviously radical Lego Factory, the Lego design team ‚Äì- or ‚ÄúFungineers‚Äù as I believe they are called — were like: ‚ÄúHuh? What‚Äôs a celebrity?‚Äù And they Googled it and used the first six names they saw. It‚Äôs the only reasonable explanation I care to think of.

Hang in there, Fungineers. We‚Äôve got a totally bodacious Lego-copter comin’ to your rescue.

[Via Best Week Ever]

Comments (0)