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Bob Barker Really Likes Pretty Little Girls

Back in the day Bob Barker was able to get away with sexual harassment like it was his job.  In fact this video here featuring a collection of the game show host doing his thing in the 70's almost seems to indicate that it was his job.  Then people started getting lame and all of the sudden you have a lawsuit on your hands.  Either way lots of pretty little girls. 

At first I thought Barker was a creep, but after a while this video really makes you start and think if we as a society have lost the boyish charm so prevalent in the young Bob Barker.   You have to remember sweet tits, that steak sandwich isn't going to make itself.    [via gawker via four four]

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The Price Is Right

A Lost Intro That Would Make Hasselhoff Proud

My main complaint with Lost aside from the whole not making sense thing is that they don't have a kickass opening credits thingy.  Luckily we do have the internet which means that someone somewhere has done their own awesome version.  Here we have scenes from the show cut to the Baywatch intro which obviously means we have a healthy serving of awesome. 

Apparently Sophie makes a lot of these Lost videos.  If you're in to Miley Cyrus or Lost you might enjoy the video below which features Hurley doing stuff set to Party In The USA.   [via warming glow]

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Lost
Baywatch

Ultimate Mustache Fighter 5: Selleck Vs Reynolds On Fallon

Somehow I've managed to miss Ultimate Mustache Fighters one through four but if there was ever a perfect storm for me to start following the UMF league, 80's Selleck vs 70's Reynolds is definitely it.  And it's stormy as shit.

There's a lot of greatness in the video but it's hard to oversell the animation and graphics.  Good times.  Of course adding all time SHA legend Charlie Chaplin to the mix helps, even if you are pretending that it was really just Hitler's mustache in disguise.  Not saying I like Hitler or anything but I would imagine his mustache would have a similar career trajectory to that of Rowdy Roddy Piper.

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Tom Selleck
Burt Reynolds
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

Craig Ferguson Is Getting A Robot Sidekick

Well this is all sorts of awesome.  Grossly underrated late night host Craig Ferguson has no sidekick, unless you count his accent.  Grant Imahara of the television show Mythbusters is a bio robot builder, so he sought out to get them wrongs corrected by offering to build Ferguson his very own robot sidekick.  The asking price?  100,000 Twitter followers.  Awesome.

@CraigyFerg I hear you are looking for a robot sidekick. I think I can help... for a price: get me 100,000 followers. If you can!  [via twitter]

One thing I have learned in all my time on this planet is that if someone ever offers to build you a robot sidekick and they have the chops to do such a thing, you do whatever it is you can to make that happen.  Ferguson agrees with the philosophy and has since enlisted his army of Skeleton Robots and accomplished the task, thus we have the following tweet via CraigyFerg, complete with name.  

The Skeleton Robots are at your door @grantimahara. Do not anger them. Commence the build of Geoff Peterson. (robot sidekick)

 

Obviously we will keep you updated on the awesome that ensues in Geoff Peterson's future.   [via the live feed]

 

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Mythbusters

Sexist Jay Leno Hates Pat Morita

More fantastic work from the folks over at Everything Is Terrible, this time of the joyous three minute movie variety.  Here we have the 1989 classic Collision Course featuring the legendary Pat Morita and The Incredible Blah.   You really see what kind of person the Blah is as it takes a sick twisted type of individual to hate Pat Morita.  He was a kind gentle soul who also happened to have a kickass meerschaum pipe.  [via warming glow]

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Rich Jackass Will Arnett Pilot Sounds Promising

While it's not news about the eagerly anticipated long rumored Arrested Development movie, this does deal with some of the key ingredients, at least enough to get the big fans excited.

No deals are finalized, but a single-camera project from Emmy-winning series' creator/executive producer Mitch Hurwitz, co-star Will Arnett and co-executive producer Jim Vallely is expected to receive a pilot order from the network pending a switcheroo on the studio side.

Sony TV, which originally developed the show with studio-based Tantamount and Principato/Young, pulled out, with Lionsgate TV stepping in to back the high-priced comedy.

The untitled half-hour, originally picked up by Fox in August with a script commitment, was written by Hurwitz, Arnett and Vallely. It stars Arnett as a rich Beverly Hills jackass who falls in love with a charitable tree-hugging woman who can't stand his lifestyle or values.  [via the hollywood reporter]

Jackass Will Arnett is my favorite type, and rich Beverly Hills just gives it a fertile breeding ground and an excuse to not have to waste time on employment.  I'll try to tamper my expectations a bit but this certainly sounds promising, kinda like this dancer Chloe at Showgirls, she keeps looking at me and winking.  I'm thinking about asking her out. 

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New Jay Leno Promo, First Guests Announced

I don't really feel like talking about The Incredible Blah, but there is a television section and it's newsworthy, and I actually really like the new promo they are using, which while admittedly risque, is also exactly how the people of America feel.  And isn't the Tonight Show all about the people?  Who knew Dennis Leary could be so prophetic?  

The good news here is that NBC has just released the schedule of guests for the first two weeks of The Incredible Blah's return to late night.  Why is that good news?  Because it's comically terrible that's why.

Monday, March 1 – Guests include Jamie Foxx, Olympic Gold Medal Skier Lindsey Vonn and a musical performance by Brad Paisley

Tuesday, March 2 – Guests include Sarah Palin, Olympic Gold Medal Snowboarder Shaun White

Wednesday, March 3 – “Jaywalk All-Stars” with the Cast of “Jersey Shore,” Chelsea Handler, the most decorated American Winter Olympian of all time Speed Skater Apolo Anton Ohno and a musical performance by Avril Lavigne

Thursday, March 4 – Guests include Matthew McConaughey and Jason Reitman

Friday, March 5 – Guests include Morgan Freeman and Meredith Vieira

Monday, March 8 – Guests include Simon Cowell

Tuesday, March 9 – Guests include Christoph Waltz, Animal Expert Dave Salmoni and a musical performance by Joan Jett and The Blackhearts

Wednesday, March 10 – Guests include Kristen Stewart and Guy Fieri

Thursday, March 11 – Guests include Dana Carvey and Kim Kardashian, with a musical performance by Colbie Caillat

Friday, March 12 – Guests include Dakota Fanning and Judd Apatow    [via the live feed]

Having Jamie Foxx as the first guest back is an incredibly potent platter of terd sandwich, so much so that I enjoy just thinking about the awfulness contest that will ensue.  It is after all a giant night for The Incredible Blah so we can only assume he will be bringing the heat.  

It's pretty great how terrible that list of guests is right?  I can hardly stomach most of those people let alone plan to tune in for them.  At least there will be Jaywalk All-Stars!  *fart sound*  [via warming glow]

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The Tonight Show With Jay Leno

The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret Is Online

As a warning there is quite a bit of swearing in this, but if you like laughing, Will Arnett, and David Cross it is definitely worth checking out.  The three videos here form the complete pilot episode of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret.  How about some synopsis?

US comedian David Cross plays Todd Margaret, a hapless office drone who flukes his way into a top management job heading up the British division of a US multinational. All he has to do is sell a dozen container loads of dodgy Korean energy drinks before his psychotic boss, played by Will Arnett, visits in a week’s time. It doesn’t help that he knows nothing about the UK or selling things. What’s more, he only has one very unhelpful employee, played by Russell Tovey, to assist him. Needless to say, it doesn’t go well and Todd’s spectacular failure to impress beautiful café owner Alice, played by Sharon Horgan, only makes things worse.

I have a personal policy not to judge pilot episodes too harshly as exposition tends to be quite boring in sitcom form, so I can forgive the slower parts.  Fortunately the first five minutes or so are amazing.  The show was recently picked up for a full series run, but no word yet on when it will hit American airwaves.  Check out the pilot if you're into that kind of thing.   [via warming glow]

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The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret

Shit My Dad Says TV Show, Dad Is William Shatner

I guess this is the American dream in 2010.  In the world of twitter there exists a funny Shit My Dad Says thing that is very appropriately named as the content consists of shit his dad says.  Now it's going to be a television show because there's only like three people in Hollywood that come up with their own ideas and they are all busy doing awesome stuff.  Fortunately they have decided to cast the best weird dad I could think of, William Shatner.

The pilot, executive produced by "Will & Grace" creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, was originally set up at CBS with a script commitment in November. Now, with Shatner on board, it has been greenlighted to pilot.

Halpern co-penned the script with Patrick Schumacker. Halpern and Schumacker co-exec produce the Warner Bros. TV-produced project whose title is expected to change if it goes to series.

Halpern, 29, had moved back in with his parents in San Diego, and on Aug. 3 he launched Shit My Dad Says, a Twitter feed featuring colorful -- often profane -- comments made by his 73-year-old father during their daily conversations.  [via the hollywood reporter]

It's a pretty awesome story and a breeding ground for funny material.  With the addition of Shatner presumably playing a role not too disimilar from his spoken word appearances on talk shows, I could actually see this working out.  Just get prepared for the lame title change like Stuff My Dad Says. 

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Shit My Dad Says

Gary Coleman Needs To Chill Out

My favorite part of this besides the general awesomeness is that Gary's first claim is that he doesn't have a volatile relationship with anybody, and then he proceeds to get into what some might consider a volatile relationship with the person next to him 30 seconds later.  To be fair to Gary though, that lady badgering him is what one would consider unenjoyable, and little people are scared of badgers, as they should be.  She also certainly knows how to push Gary's buttons, granted he seems to be made of 98% buttons.

Then he starts talking about different ways she could die and how he wouldn't care.  He does this more than once, and also plays the I'm smaller than her card.  I don't think Mr. Coleman should represent himself in court.

Luckily I figured out the the best anger management Gary could get, he would be sent on a month long surfing trip with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.  He'd come back way groovy bros.  Way chill.  [via funnycrave]

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The Insider

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