Notes of a Defeatist

In 1979 the television gods smiled down and gave us Legends of the Super Heroes!

Taking a team of some of DC Comics’s greatest superheroes Hanna-Barbera’s producers pitted them in a race to stop a villainous team’s plot—and to also have the occasional roast hosted by Ed McMahon.

Robin Crashes the Batmobile



Ghetto Man Roasts The Super Friends



Aunt [...]

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“I have no interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting, or adding to what is there. People get the impression that you’re trying to (mess) with them, and it’s not true. You’re trying to entertain them. Anybody who wants to watch it, it’s all there.”

—David Chase, Sopranos creator and man responsible giving many viewers an aneurysm after [...]

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30 Rock’s over for the season and thankfully it’ll be back next year even if Alec Baldwin has to pretend to troop through it so his public doesn’t have to concern themselves any longer with his parenting abilities.

Let’s be honest Thursdays have been lonelier and a lot lighter on laughs without Tina Fey & Co. [...]

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tags technorati : Conan O’Brien, pardoy, satire, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Aaron Sorkin

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While it’s a sketch that ran in the last half hour of SNL, there’s still something amusing about it.

Well, maybe because I loved Black Snake Moan and was just glad somebody else paid it some attention.

tags technorati : Saturday_Night_Live, Rainn Wilson, Black Snake Moan, trailer, satire, Kenan Thompson, parody, comedy

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As one of the three people who reluctantly admit to liking Way of the Gun,its shortcomings and all I got excited when I heard about this exchange between Jimmy Kimmel and a sheepish Ryan Phillippe.  It appears Phillippe has been dodging Kimmel after a little onset incident involving himself and Sarah Silverman.









Here is the [...]

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From Penny Arcade:



Inspired by this   hard hitting news story.

tags technorati : T.V., news, Fox, WITI-TV, Milwaukee, Catastrophe

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