TGIF: GOP Mystery Candidate
Posted by Michael Happy on December 9th, 2011
The Onion News Network, which produces perfectly detailed satire on cable TV news, has a report on the Republicans’ new “mystery candidate.”
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TGIF
Posted by Michael Happy on November 11th, 2011httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn0bDM_KBj0
The Daily Show responds to Rick Perry’s debate meltdown with “joy boners.”
UPDATE: The link above has unfortunately gone dead. However, you can find the bit in Canada here, and everywhere else here. You shouldn’t need to search beyond the direct link, but if you do you are looking for the opening segment of the Thursday, November 10th show. If you haven’t seen it already, it is very funny. Stewart is always especially good at bringing satire into pristine focus when it comes smack up against the delusional vanity and incompetence of politicians. Small victories for comedy, therefore, can result in joy boners, as they probably should.
TGIF: Arrested Development
Posted by Michael Happy on October 28th, 2011Arrested Development, almost six years after cancellation, is being resurrected for one more season, and, at long last, there will be a movie.
Arrested Development may the perfect allegory of the Bush years: a dysfunctional American family loses everything through insatiable self-indulgence — and its dealings with Saddam Hussein.
TGIF: NFB, Cont’d
Posted by Michael Happy on September 30th, 2011Yet another TGIF NFB historical vignette, and a pleasant example of what a cheeky popular culture can do very efficiently — in this case, in one minute and three seconds.
An earlier post on Frye on the NFB here.
TGIF: NFB
Posted by Michael Happy on September 16th, 2011“Spence’s Republic”
The NFB has always displayed a typically self-deprecating Canadian sense of humor. American history is world-shaping stuff and is to be rendered chin up. Canadian history, not so much. This is one of a handful of historical vignettes that sardonically reminds us that, for all our good fortune, we didn’t have to work all that hard for it and we’d be wrong to romantisize it too much.
