Brian Williams Raps "Gin and Juice" (and it is GLORIOUS)
Jimmy Fallon and co. love taking Brian Williams' NBC newscasts and editing them to make it look like he's rapping various classics. In this installment, Brian Williams raps "Gin and Juice"—and it is a...
View ArticleHBO GO: For When Your Parents Won't "Go" Away
In an entirely successful attempt to promote their HBO GO service, HBO has produced a series of verrrrry funny ads which not only lets young people know they can watch TV away from their parents, but...
View ArticleInside Amy Schumer: Couples Counseling
As a recently converted Inside Amy Schumer superfan, I've been increasingly impressed with this show's ability to take not-completely-original ideas... and yet still knock 'em out of the park. CASE IN...
View ArticleSneaky-Peeky at Season Two of Orange is the New Black!
The hit Netflix series Orange is the New Black is coming back around for its second season (on June 6), but this time around? Things are going to be considerably bleaker, and more... more... umm......
View ArticleStephen Colbert "Won Television"
Stephen Colbert dropped by The Daily Show to say adios to his old friend Jon Stewart, as well as give a touching video goodbye to himself. After congratulating the "fat guy" who will be replacing...
View ArticleTonight's Parks and Recreation Season Finale Features the Decemberists
We'll be appearing on the @ParksandRecNBC season finale this Thursday night, April 24, at 8/7c on @NBC, tune in! pic.twitter.com/ptFBjbtXon— The Decemberists (@TheDecemberists) April 22, 2014The...
View ArticleTonight on TV: Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends
Tonight on Adult Swim at midnight, you might want to catch what could be the weirdest, darkest comedy special you've seen in quite some time, Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends. The...
View Article"Welfare Queen in a Cowboy Hat"
Now that Fox News is doing a reverse 180 power slide away from former "American hero" (now just regular old hillbilly racist) Cliven Bundy, CNN has happily agreed to provide Bundy with his public 40...
View ArticleTom Peterson Has Parkinson's (Gloria's Doing Great)
If you grew up in the Portland area, you remember Tom Peterson's commercials. The always-hustling furniture and appliance salesman gave out free haircuts at his stores and plastered his face on...
View ArticleA Dramatic Recreation of a "Legless Lizard" Crawling Inside a Man's Penis
On the TLC show Sex Sent Me to the E.R.—why is this a surprise to you that TLC would broadcast a show like this?—tomorrow night's episode recounts the horrifying tale of a hippie who shows up to the...
View ArticleJohn Oliver on Cover Oregon's "Violently Adorable" Ads... Yeah, We Deserve This.
Cover Oregon was officially scrapped on Friday, so in the first episode of his new show Last Week Tonight John Oliver cleverly rewrote one of the ads for us. I don't like it when people make fun of...
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Game of Thrones Recap: Ser Pounce Edition
A bunch of things happened on Game of Thrones last night, but none of them were as momentous or memorable as the on-screen introduction of Ser* Pounce, Tommen Baratheon's cat.More on the episode, and...
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Lunchtime TV: Watch Last Week Tonight with John Oliver!
You saw Alison's earlier post about former Daily Show correspondent/now host of his own HBO version John Oliver, and his takedown of Cover Oregon... and well, everything Oregon. So how's the rest of...
View ArticlePatton Oswalt on Shakira on Billy on the Street
Longtime Billy on the Street fan Patton Oswalt finally makes an appearance on Billy Eichner's hilarious G4 show, and boy! Does he ever get the full Billy treatment. After a lengthy (and justified!)...
View ArticleEmma Stone Murders Jimmy Fallon (in a Lip Sync Battle)
Sweet Jesus, Emma Stone is a radiant goddess and we should all bow down before her... especially after this EPIC lip sync battle with Jimmy Fallon in which she wipes the goddamn floor with him. (She's...
View ArticleR&B Slow Jam of the Day: The DuckTales Theme Song
Fans of the '80s classic kid cartoon DuckTales (and '90s-style R&B) line up! Because this rendition of the DuckTales theme performed as a R&B slow jam is just the thing you need to lure the...
View ArticleThe Best Spider-Man Shorts from The Electric Company... RANKED!
In preparation for this weekend's debut of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (read my review of it later today in the Mercury!), our friends at Screen Crush have ranked the best episodes of Spider-Man that were...
View ArticleDonald Sterling: Also an Accidental Racist
Conan "discovered" some more audio tapes from racist Clippers owner Donald Sterling that proves that, even when he's not being racist... he still sounds like a honking big racist![ Subscribe to the...
View ArticleThe New Trailer for The Simpsons: LEGO Spectacular
The Simpsons have now been on the air for 25 years—and, according to the Mirror, last week's episode reached an all-time ratings low . Now, I'm not saying they're desperate... I'm just going to show...
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Another Reason to Hate Lampreys
The Animal Planet network dips its toe into the terrible-movies-usually-shown-on-Syfy pond with this new flick from the crazed minds of Asylum (the proud papas of Sharknado), called Blood Lake: Attack...
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