thought this was pretty funny. Jon Lajoie plays Taco on 'The League.' He's funny as fuck, and he's hilarious on the league. the show's about a fantasy football league, and that sounds like a shit premise for a comedy show, but it's incredibly funny. it's on FX. the first season was only 6 episodes, but it got picked up for a second season and it comes back on september 16th. i can't wait. His character on the show is sort of a um... sexual creature. at one point he thinks that he's lost his mojo because he fails to have sex for ten days or something and he travels to exotic, magical Chinatown to obtain Three Penis Wine to restore his virility.
It's a show about this loser-y coulda been/never was chemistry wunderkind named Walter White (Malcolm in the Middle dad Bryan Cranston in a remarkable multi-award winning tour de force performance) who lost his shot at wealth and scientific prestige YEARS ago, and is now just a middle class high school chem teacher with a marginal amount of personal dignity in his life. Bad gets worse when he's diagnosed with almost certainly terminally advanced lung cancer. Thinking of his pregnant wife and teenage son who has cerebral palsy being left with less than nothing after the exhorbinant expense of his unlikely to succeed treatment, he of course realizes what he has to do:
Manufacture a new strain of blue SUPER-METH, obviously.
with his gangsta wannabe super small time dealer/z tier cook of a former student, he sets off on a very jacked up course.
Season Three is airing now (next episode will be the 4th of the season). Seasons One and Two are out on DVD. Netflix it, buy it, whatever it. it's a bleak, funny, twisted, visceral show with a heart... however that works, but it's true!
Fair warning, though- if you were ever into meth, this show will make you grind your teeth a little bit. Still, it's worth the discomfort. The drug stuff doesn't make it look fun or cute in any way shape or form.
ps: my friend rob wants to bang the teenage son who has cerebral palsy. at least he LOOKS legal, i guess? stay classy, rob!
They posted this thing on the Flight of the Conchords HBO page saying that they won't be coming back for a third season, "but the real Bret and Jermaine will continue to exist."
For his watershed interview of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. If you watch this and still don't get why Craig Ferguson is the most compelling presence in late night television, then i'm pretty sure that i don't want to know you. I love tv... so much of it is trash, but it really can be transcendant sometimes, and this is an example of that.
Above is the complete episode, in order. it's worth the 38-40 minutes of your time, i assure you.
as soon as i saw this episode, i knew EXACTLY which picture they used, lol.
I kind of like SJP (Honeymoon In Vegas, LA Story, Ed Wood and also she was really funny tormenting Bette Midler in First Wives Club) but Sex in the City is a straight up slice of DIRTY ASS and i can't believe how many people (gay men and women that DON'T live in New York and probably DON'T live in an urban area at all) LOVED that show, including my boyfriend. he secretly rented "The Ugly Truth" the other day, though, so who knows what darkness lurks in the heart of Germone.
PS:
Like the shark, the Sarah Jessica Parker has millions of teeth, which it uses to cut through bone, candy and fences.
The news came out last week and everybody knew about it i think, but Betty White is hosting SNL on May 8th- the mother's day episode.
They're pulling out all the stops to make this as EPIC as possible.
Tina Fey, Amy Poelher, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and Molly Shannon (not pictured, but you all know what she looks like) will all be backing up our girl Betty. It should be pretty fucking good. i'm hoping that all the guest stars will have a role in writing the episode's material- not that Seth Myers and Co aren't more than capable, but there are some real comedic luminaries here, and all of them female, and it could be that they'd have a little extra insight when it comes to writing sketches for a woman like BW.
OH! they should TOTALLY get Maya Rudolph's boyfriend Quentin Tarantino to write a sketch! can you IMAGINE?
Jennifer Tilly was on Craig Ferguson relatively recently, and first instinct would be to be like "um, who cares?" BUT holy crap, she's FUNNY! she talks about her boyfriend cheating on her, how nobody loves a brunette, talks shit about Pay-Less shoes, tears craig a new one for giving her a "generic welcome back to the show card," tells a story about how she tries but always FAILS to get discounts on designer clothes, and reveals the secret of "what Craig smells like."
You know, i was so busy with being angry/traumatized by the bullshit with lu last week that i totally forgot to celebrate the 1st anniversary of Still Life With Monkey And Cigarette and to thank some people that have contributed to its success- what i consider to be success, at least.
I started writing it because my friend Jason started a blogger blog, and at the time i lived in a different city than he did, and i thought it would be a good way for us to interact more, and just keep up. Jason let his blog just sit, empty save for one entry until MAY, while i began writing in mine immediately (which he DID read and comment on even though he wasn't writing in his... just to be fair). since then, i've moved to his area, jason moved away, jason moved back, and jason's moving away again on thursday, but the blogs and the highly valued friendship remain.
I have also greatly enjoyed keeping up with my old english teacher from the alternative school trailer that i got my GED prep from some THIRTEEN years ago. She, too, moved away- to portland, with her husband where she's had two beautiful... um, precocious children- but i always used to write her drunken, drugged out emails for years and years and she's so much fun to talk to and she's so clever and just a good, nice, unwaveringly supportive influence in my life. Her blog is pleasant and fun to read, too, but it's a pale shadow of the level of sass she TRULY has (her conservative family reads it, and she has to dumb it down a bit for them)... i guess i shouldn't expound on that any further, but ANYWAY, i love her and she's awesome and that's that.
Lastly, i guess i need to thank David Mason of House of Vader, because HALF of my readers have cross-pollinated from his site, where he has me linked on his blogroll... a privelage i am not sure i understand, but am very grateful for all the same. In the same vein, thanks to Donny from Hip Like Me, for similar blogroll linkage. Your patronage is also unexpected but appreciated :-)
To all of my ghosty readers that i don't know in real life, and follow my blog but never comment, thank you too! Feel free to jump in and say hi or commiserate with me or bitch me out if you disagree with something, or to express enthusiasm for media stuff i put up that you like, or, you know... if you want to interact at all or what have you. you're more than welcome, i appreciate your presence and would welcome participation... no pressure, though.
to my friends in REAL LIFE who VERY RARELY or NEVER comment, thanks for loitering, you worthless bastards! i expected a LITTLE MORE out of you. (just kidding!)
this probably seems a bit self-indulgent for what is essentially just an ALREADY self-indulgent personal blog that (to date) 11 people openly follow (including myself!), but all the same, writing SLWMAC has been fun, therapeutic and surprisingly non-chore-like for the most part. I get to keep up with some of the people in my life that i love, and i have met new people that i like very much and find to be creatively brilliant, wildly entertaining and clever as well as excellent human beings... it's pretty cool, and so THANKS, you guys. I consider my life enriched!
i thought i'd close with one of my heroes, Craig Ferguson and Company, closing the 1000th episode of his hosting run on The Late Late Show. You should download that while it's still up on the torrent sites. Craig Ferguson 1000th episode. it's a GOOD ONE.
The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson is an official Still Life With Monkey And Cigarette "Shows That I Like" Selection. One of the reasons that i like this show are the graphics. they are often very funny. Also, he often opens his show with puppets and a man-gimp. That's a winner by itself right there. Finally, he has the great BETTY WHITE on FREQUENTLY. One time, betty brought a leather man-slave with her... ON A LEASH! and yes, i have looked for the clip, to no avail. Anyway, he joined Twitter, which i find personally repugnant. I mean, to me Twitter is kind of like, 'HEY! let's squeeze ANY AND ALL meaning out of our personal interactions, and then MAKE THEM VIEWABLE for third parties!' It's like the stupidity of the nature of myspace, but in concentrate form.
BUT, I FORGIVE CRAIG because he at least made a good graphic about it.
If you're only going to watch one of these videos, i suggest the one at the bottom of this entry. it's a greatest hits compilation of the "what did we learn on the show tonight, craig?" kitten. If you have time for TWO, i recommend the last TWO on this entry. check 1:26 and 2:26 on the 'email' one!
So there's a new season of Important Things With Demetri Martin, which is an official STILL LIFE WITH MONKEY AND CIGARETTE "shows that i like" selection. Even "Taking Woodstock" (directed by the great Ang Lee) was good, even though it A.) didn't feature the trademark ang lee thanksgiving scene and B.) was about 1960's counterculture, which is almost ALWAYS toxic-bad subject matter.
I kind of have a little bit of a crush on Demetri Martin- he reminds me of this jewish dude i was in a halfway house with in 2004 named Ari who was really sweet and funny. he sort of looks like him, and they have the same voice, so maybe Demitri Martin isn't even funny, maybe he just reminds me of this pill head that i wanted to fuck who probably isn't even alive anymore.
Demetri Martin is (one of MANY) [a] good example(S) of "the guy i will never get" because he's TOO soft spoken and TOO gentle natured- while i find him attractive, he would almost certainly think i was too much of a dick, probably immediately, but almost certainly over time. I mean, Demetri Martin is straight, famous and i don't know him so it's a non-issue, but as a 'type' this (gay counterpart) kind of guy NEVER goes for me.
ps, i don't particularly like sarah silverman, but the promo she does with DM is pretty great, and her whole "thing" is the perfect foil for DM's super mild mannered/benevolent vibe.
Season One, Episode One. Even if you don't like sitcoms, or if you're some obnoxious snob who has a fundamental problem with "anything with laugh-tracks," you would be doing yourself a profound disservice by not watching at LEAST the first episode of Black Books. If you're bored enough to waste your life reading my blog, then you're MORE than bored enough to spend 22 minutes giving this BBC comedy a fair shake. Take me at my word and reap the reward. it's that easy.
go to Hulu- the entire 3 season series (18 episodes) is available at the moment. C'mon- No lagging!
