Now that HBO is in a coma, this is probably my favorite show:
May 9th, 2008
Chuck Burgundy
April 6th, 2008
Hillary’s parellel universe
Sounds like Hillary Clinton has a story in her latest stump speech that is not exactly true:
Over the last five weeks, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has featured in her campaign stump speeches the story of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care by an Ohio hospital because she could not come up with a $100 fee.
The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two weeks after her baby boy was stillborn at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the care of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was never refused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured.
“We implore the Clinton campaign to immediately desist from repeating this story,” said Rick Castrop, chief executive officer of the O’Bleness Health System.
When people make up stories like this it seems to distract from the real problem. Like in this case it makes it seems like people are routinely being turned away in emergency situations, in reality that is not what happens. Most people can get treatment when they have an emergency, like Bush said “poor people have the emergency room”. the problem comes when you try to get preventative treatment or when you are forced into bancruptcy due to medical bills from your trip to the emergency room. Or in the case of people with insurance some of the unneeded or ineffective treatment they are given by doctors trying to make a quick buck.
Hillary by trying to dramatize health care seems to just be muddying the water without examining the real problem.
The article can be seen here
December 3rd, 2007
Extras - 80 minute finale
Here are the details. Another one bites the dust…HBO really knows how to murder a good thing. In this instance it probably wasn’t their fault. Either way, this will be a classic. I’ll try to get some clips posted later on. If anyone has a favorite, leave it in the comments and I’ll get it posted. Here are some clips (High on that Pats game! Can’t sleep…)
Posted by Al Swearengen as Comedy at 7:19 PM MST
December 2nd, 2007
The IT Guy
October 29th, 2007
Keith’s Performance Review
October 23rd, 2007
Carl
October 21st, 2007
Teletubbies & Sublime
This could very well be the best thing that ever gets posted here.
Posted by Al Swearengen as Comedy, Music, Video at 3:02 AM MDT
October 12th, 2007
Colbert on the Overcrowded Prisons
October 9th, 2007
How to Conduct a Book Interview
I had to share these two clips from last week’s Daily Show. The first is Stewart interviewing Chris Matthews, whose book is a waste of money apparantly:
Then the show’s take on Bush’s SCHIP veto:
Posted by Al Swearengen as Comedy, Video, Politics at 2:14 AM MDT
October 2nd, 2007
Letterman interviews Paris
Since porn was the topic of my last post, today I’ll also include this funny video of David Letterman interviewing Paris Hilton on 9-28-07. He keeps the “jail” zingers coming for more than half of it. The “legacy” question is my favorite.
September 25th, 2007
Read This Sentencing Memorandum
(Harpers) From a February 26 sentencing memorandum by Judge Gregory R. Todd, in the case of Montana v. Andrew McCormack. In 2006, McCormack was arrested for stealing beer. After entering a guilty plea, he received a sentence of probation, community service, and a fine.
Mr.McCormack, to the question of “Give your recommendation as to what you think the Court should do in this case,” you said, “Like the Beatles say, ‘Let it be.’” If I were to overlook your actions and let it be, I would have to ignore that day in the life on April 21, 2006. Evidently, you said to yourself, “I feel fine,” while drinking beer. Later, whether you wanted money or were just trying to act naturally, you became the fool on the hill. As Mr. Moonlight at 1:30 A.M., you did not think for yourself, but just focused on I, me, mine. Because you didn’t ask for help, wait for something else, or listen to your conscience saying, “Honey, don’t,” the victim later that day was fixing a hole in the glass door you broke. After you stole the eighteen-pack of Old Milwaukee, you decided it was time to run for your life and carry that weight. But when the witness said, “Baby, it’s you,” the police responded, “I’ll get you,” and you had to admit, “You really got a hold on me.” You were not able to get back home because of the chains they put on you. Although you hoped the police would say, “I don’t want to spoil the party” and “We can work it out,” you were in misery when they said you were a bad boy. When the police took you to jail, they said, “Hello, goodbye,” and you became a nowhere man. Later, when you thought about what you did, you may have said, “I’ll cry instead.” Now you’re saying, “Let it be,” instead of, “I’m a loser.” As a result of your hard day’s night, you are looking at a ticket to ride that long and winding road. Hopefully, you can say when I’m sixty-four, “I should have known better.”
September 17th, 2007
LEAVE BILL BELICHICK ALONE!
Watching the pile-on this weekend, I finally understand how it must feel to be a Republican right now. The only comment I have on all of this is…who the hell signed Emmitt Smith up for Sunday Countdown? Did they notice that he’s barely able to speak at a 4th grade level? I assume there’s a producer scratching their head somewhere at ESPN, getting the “he knocked the interview out of the park, honestly”, mantra cued up. Next to Keyshawn Johnson, the Emmitt Smith contract looks worse than the one they gave Rush Limbaugh a couple years ago. But anyways - here’s the third adaptation of that crazy Britney video I’ve found ‘post-worthy’ in less than a week:
Posted by Al Swearengen as Comedy, Video, Sports at 5:49 PM MDT
September 14th, 2007
LEAVE ________ ALONE! (it begins)
To coincide with the post a bit further down from a couple days ago, the “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!” video, we now have the first parody.
September 11th, 2007
Eric the Midget Returns!
Howard: “Eric, you’ve got to know that it’s not proper to be calling Diana Degarmo’s mother at her house and constantly asking to meet with her daughter.”
My brother emailed me earlier today with a message titled - HE’S BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK - which read, “Make sure you grab the show tomorrow, Eric was back on today. He’s apparently been stalking another American idol chick but has been calling the ladies mom all day trying to get through to her… it’s a riot!”
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Eric the Midget, and his participation on Howard Stern’s show, I’ll try to fill you in. He’s a tiny guy in a wheelchair who loves American Idol, and has a tendency to get roped into bit after bit when he calls in. The song parodies they’ve churned out using his voice are all hillarious, but the genius of all this is how he’s compelled to call in, usually pissed off and ready to cut all ties, only to get diverted onto another topic, always funny…like one time he called in after not showing up for an Idol taping, where Howard had reached out to Jimmy Kimmell to score tickets for him and a friend. The explaination of why he didn’t show up, and how it’s bad for Howard to be asking for favors only to Eric make him look bad, is a great 15 minutes of radio, and then while that’s going on, a porn star who runs a web site that Eric pays $30 bucks a month to be a member of is suddenly on the line, and she has phone sex with him…the bit is only funny if you can hear his voice, but this is a scenario that will play out in real time over the radio.
He’d finally had enough a month or two ago and posted on the message board that he wasn’t ever going to call in again. The guy cracked, and it’s all over the fact that he’s suddenly decided to become a writer and has been stalking an American Idol contestant, hoping they’d agree to host Eric and his parents down in Atlanta for some kind of an interview. The point in posting this here, is that for some reason today and yesterday I’d been in a very un-creative mood, which is frustrating. A lack of sleep is part of it, but not the sole cause of it. Anyways, I started listening to the show tonight, and almost immediately I’m back in business. My mood has done a 180. Comedy is medicine in times like these.
Posted by Al Swearengen as Al Swearengen, Comedy at 11:42 PM MDT