Zach Galifianakis’ SNL Promo.
Zach Galifianakis is hosting SNL this week and the promos are LOL.
The last promo made me snort while in my office. I'm pretty sure I scared the dude in the office next to me. Enjoy!
HEAVY.
Has anyone seen this new reality show on A&E called Heavy??
It is... fantastic. It's sort of like Intervention— from the way it's shot to the interviews with the people involved— but it all centers around 2 morbidly obese people per episode, and their journey into slimming down.
To be fair, I am obsessed with shows about addiction and transformation. Programs like Intervention, Tabatha's Salon Takeover, and Wife Swap have always appealed to me. There's something about watching a person struggle, and then realize something important about themselves that I rather enjoy, and sometimes they FAIL, and that's cool too (as horrible as that makes me sound).
Heavy is no different! It follows two people, who are then paired up and brought to what is, for all intensive purposes, a fat camp. Together they work out with trainers, struggle to eat the vegetables and grilled proteins they're fed, and vent to each other about the perils of weight loss.
A few of my favorite highlights from the show include last week's episode where "Big Kev" broke down and started yelling, "I'm not going to eat the salad! I can't take anymore salad!" That was great.
I was a fat kid, the type where my pediatrician had to sit me down and have talks with me about what a grim future I'd face if I didn't lose weight. Eventually, when I hit puberty and grew and my metabolism sped up, I did slim down. So, in a way I get a bit of what these people go through. Losing weight sucks, no doubt about it, and being fat is just a shitty card in life to be dealt.
And, I feel badly about it, but I watch this show and eat snacks and it feels good. I don't know if I snack because watching them stresses me out, or perhaps I eat while I watch because it makes me feel closer to them?
I have no idea, but it has become a little sick ritual for me that I take great pleasure in.
I dunno, has anyone else had a similar experience watching these reality shows? Perhaps you've taken up heroin after a particularly draining episode of Intervention?
Check out a clips from the show here (I need someone to talk about this with)!
Katie Couric And Bryant Gumbel Don’t Know What The Internet Is.
Behold, a clip from the Today Show circa 1994 in which Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric try to understand what the Internet is, how to pronounce that pesky @ symbol, and why anyone would possibly want to communicate over a computer.
Enjoy.
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
How many potential fathers WON'T Maury test to find out who the real baby daddy is?
Okay, I cannot get over last nights episode of DEXTER.
I've watched it three times now in a 24 hour period.
Dexter and Lumen? Michael C. Hall shirtless and gently stroking Julia Stiles forehead? I didn't think I had any daddy issues, but now I do. I really do.
I loved this episode, I never want this relationship to end, I've been waiting for Dexter to get sexed up again.
Thank you, Showtime.
I've now officially been added to the cc column of two republican propaganda email lists, and been signed up for a libertarian and republican newsletter (none of which, was my own doing or wishes).
I take this to mean that either I've done a good job of putting out liberal vibes and my more conservative family friends have taken note and are thus trying to convert me, or that these "friends" are actually entangled in a plot to slowly drive me insane, in which case it's working! Bravo conservative friends!
As such, this slow trickle of insanity has led me to relish moments like on last night's episode of The Simpsons where they took a quick opportunity to make fun of Fox News.
They still got it, those Simpsons.