Posted Aug 17th 2008 11:55PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Animation, Adult Swim, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, The Venture Bros.
(S03E12) Firstly, a bit of news. Both Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick, as opposed to a solo Doc, will be attending this year's
Dragon*Con in Georgia, so go see them if you can. Secondly, the guys have done a
video commentary for "ORB" and you can watch it on Adult Swim's website. Not as many off-topic ramblings that we know and love in this one, so if you miss irrelevance and mimed nunchuck skills, revisit the old
"The Buddy System" commentary. And last but not least... This week's episode premiered on the Adult Swim Fix as usual, but this time there's actually bonus footage that was not included in the televised version. It's pretty self-contained, but definitely worth a watch. I've embedded it here, to save you that exhausting trip across teh internetz.
Continue reading The Venture Bros: The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (Part I) - VIDEO
Posted Aug 15th 2008 12:39PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Video, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
"All the Gori Details":
Russia and Georgia's conflict rages on, even though everyone else is playing pool games at the Olympics. President Bush and company seem to think that this sort of conflict is, like,
so old. The show managed to perfectly nail Condoleezza Rice's disapproval of overthrowing government. This was kind of depressing, actually. I would have liked to see more cartoon clips of Michael Phelps swimming against Black Manta.
Continue reading The Daily Show: August 14, 2008 - VIDEOS
Posted Aug 15th 2008 8:04AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Programming, OpEd, Video, Reality-Free
After years of reaching US audiences as only a series of forwarded video clips and teh internetz, the original Channel 4 British sitcom
The IT Crowd is finally coming to American TV. The IFC Channel has picked up the series and will begin airing it September 29.
I had to make an extra point to specify that this is the UK
IT Crowd and not the NBC remake starring original cast member Richard Ayoade and Joel McHale. No, no, that project is still dead. As much as I love Ayoade and McHale, I couldn't help but feel a little relieved that the show didn't take off. I'd rather get my fix from
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and
The Soup than see them attempt to tip-toe through that dangerous territory of American remakes.
Continue reading Original IT Crowd finally comes to America - VIDEO
Posted Aug 14th 2008 2:01PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Video, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
This particular episode of
The Daily Show was super extra Chinese, but you guys get an extra layer of Chinese via this review written by me. That makes you special. The only way to push it even further would be for me to write this completely in Chinese. Consider yourselves lucky that I'm too embarrassed to write like that, as my Chinese vocabulary and syntax reads like that of a five year-old's.
Continue reading The Daily Show: August 13, 2008 - VIDEOS
Posted Aug 14th 2008 8:23AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Project Runway, Episode Reviews
(S05E05) In this episode, Brooke Shields stopped by to have the designers make something for her character to wear in the new season of
Lipstick Jungle. Two things surprised me. A)
Lipstick Jungle hasn't been canceled yet and B) Brooke Shields still looks fantastic. Maybe it's because I wasn't watching in HD, but still.
For the first time this season, the designers were broken into teams for the challenge. Last season, it seemed like the majority of the season consisted of team challenges, so I was surprised that it took five episodes before they got around to it for this group. I guess I was surprised by a lot of things in this episode.
Continue reading Project Runway: Welcome to the Jungle
Posted Aug 13th 2008 12:39PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Video, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
"Anti-Olympic Update": Instead of using sports as a metaphor for war, Russia has been juggling the Olympics and
attacks on neighbor Georgia. I can never get enough of
The Daily Show's graphics department. Just check out that hardcore anti-Olympic intro with the rings of doom. Jon Stewart got a lot of applause for that "Oh, war... It's just God's way of teaching Americans geography." Does it count as stealing if the joke is super, super old and reasonably well-known already?
Continue reading The Daily Show: August 12, 2008 - VIDEOS
Posted Aug 13th 2008 8:02AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Video, Reality-Free
The script for the
IT Crowd's third season has just been completed, and folks from the show are looking for some help to
dress up the set. Calling all geeks with decent knowledge in pop culture! If you've never seen the show before, it's basically the geekiest show about IT guys in the history of British programming. "Did you turn it off and on?" is a recurring joke, so that should say enough.
Continue reading Add some geek love to the IT Crowd set - VIDEO
Posted Aug 12th 2008 12:38PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Video, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
"Super News Blaster Breaking News Update": Reminding grumpy Republicans everywhere that the
Daily Show considers the unfaithful on both sides of the aisle fair game, the show took on the latest sex scandal to rock the Hill. As it turns out, the allegations about Senator John Edwards having an affair with his former videographer were true. True! Over the weekend, I was briefly intrigued, but then found myself staring intently at her
interesting fashion choices. I recall seeing her in a black top with a sequined peace sign at one point. Classy. As for me, superficial? Boy, am I!
Continue reading The Daily Show: August 11, 2008 - VIDEOS
Posted Aug 11th 2008 1:41PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Animation, Adult Swim, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, The Venture Bros.
(S03E11) We haven't seen the entire Venture family really buckle down and do some hardcore adventuring since last season's "Twenty Years to Midnight". This was more of a
Da Vinci Code-esque adventure though, in the sense that it also involved mysterious paintings, secret codes, and weird albinos. This was one of the best episodes of the season, finally setting us on the right path to understanding many of the strange revelations from the flashbacks. Plus, it has set the perfect tone for our inevitably epic two-part season finale, starting next week.
Continue reading The Venture Bros: ORB
Posted Aug 8th 2008 1:38PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Video, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
Last month, the show talked about Iraq's Prime Minister literally
giving money away on the streets. As it turns out, they can afford to do this because the country has a multi-billion dollar budget surplus. Senior Financial Expert John Oliver stopped by to talk about what the Iraqis could do with their money, apart from rolling around in it, Scrooge McDuck style. I believe he made this joke a million times better with that jaunty little bounce. John and Jon proceeded to try and push their products, Alpacas and commemorative First Lady plates, respectively. These guys really need to fight more often.
Continue reading The Daily Show: August 7, 2008 - VIDEOS
Posted Aug 7th 2008 12:40PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Video, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
"Indecision 2008:
To Drill or Not to Drill": High gas prices continue to be a huge problem across the country, as citizens have been weeping into their gas tanks just to get something in there. Naturally, drilling is a hot topic in the current presidential race. The media has also been making a big deal out of Obama's suggestion that citizens check their tire pressures, as adjusting to proper numbers does some nice-nice things to gas mileage. Leave the lolz-making to
Daily Show, Fox News. Also, I don't believe the remark about Oedipus and President Bush created quite the mental image that they intended. I'm having trouble looking at Barbara Bush now.
Continue reading The Daily Show: August 6, 2008 - VIDEOS
Posted Aug 7th 2008 8:42AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Project Runway, Episode Reviews
(S05E04) Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have witnessed the beginnings of a new low in
Project Runway. I don't recall ever seeing a group of designers so completely miss the mark in a challenge. Most of the outfits weren't atrocious as straight-up garments, but in the context of the challenge, all of them were terrible in one way or another.
I think my horror is fully justified, as this is the first challenge in which a freakin' skort was in the top three. A skort. The very thought of a skort makes me want to set a Limited Too alight, so imagine the severe trauma that ensued after I ever-so briefly entertained the idea of America's top athletes representing the country in front of the rest of the world... wearing freakin' skorts. I have a mess to clean up.
Continue reading Project Runway: Rings of Glory
Posted Aug 6th 2008 1:02PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Video, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
Proving once again that the
Daily Show audience is willing to boo at just about anything Bush-related without really thinking about it, they managed to hiss at the mere mention that Bush is now officially our most well-traveled president. Come on, don't make the rest of us look like trained seals too. Anyway, the president tried to beat the rush by
heading out to Beijing a few days before the Olympics and was met with -- hey, what a surprise -- protest and a bunch of angry Chinese people with adorably designed anti-Bush signs.
Continue reading The Daily Show: August 5, 2008 - VIDEOS
Posted Aug 6th 2008 9:02AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Reality-Free, Comic-Con, The Venture Bros.
I was a sad little
Venture Bros. fan at the peak of convention season this year, as I was unable to attend last month's Comic-Con. My pain was somewhat soothed by the presence of the Internet though, for I knew Flickr and YouTube would surely erupt with fan-documented material, with which I could experience the con vicariously.
As it turned out... not so much. Despite scouring the blogosphere, I didn't find much in the following days, apart from a few photos of my friends in Dr. Girlfriend get-ups posing with Jackson Publick and a brief report of one dirty joke from the panel. Well, probably because they could sense my silent fan-sobbing from across the country, the lovely folks from
Adult Swim online have directed us to this video from the panel with Jackson Publick and Mike Sinterniklaas. It's edited down from a longer event, but there are still plenty of good moments.
Continue reading Finally, some Venture Bros. footage from Comic-Con - VIDEO
Posted Aug 5th 2008 12:38PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
I think I want --
need -- to know what Jon Stewart was talking about with his audience during the Q&A. What was that business about kissing with toothpaste in his mouth? Man, if only fangirls kept track of Jon's Q&A stories as closely as the
Stephen Colbert's.
"Indecision 2008": John McCain's getting a lot of attention for his attack ads against Barack Obama. The coverage will never, ever end about the
celebrity ad, because people love talking about Paris, Britney, and Barack, no matter how much they deny it. Talk about over-analyzing this nonsense. There's no doubting that race is an issue in this... race, but the media is definitely reading too much into the small stuff.
Continue reading The Daily Show: August 4, 2008 - VIDEOS
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