Peter Alsop is like some morbid version of Raffi. In his video for “Where Will I Go When I’m Dead and Gone,” Alsop sings about the afterlife with young moppets while they all ponder existential thoughts that might be better suited if Big Bird were somehow involved and it was about hanging out with Gordon and Luis.
The real genius behind the annual White House Correspondents Dinner is the fact that it has been President Obama’s chance at doing a somewhat well-written, if not slightly rough, open mic stand up routine. Like in past years, Obama doesn’t really pull any punches and makes a nice reference to Hilary Clinton’s celebrity meme status.
There’s something rather foreboding when the person who runs the United States says that he finished paying off his student loans less than a decade ago; on the flipside, however, is Ann Romney’s claim to hard times because she and Mitt were unemployed and living off of stocks. While the President has been fighting tooth and nail for affordable higher education, who can resist financial advice from a grown man named Mitt?
Chuck from the Bronx takes no shortcuts when it comes to answering the call of challenges. Like most bros, he’s willing to show off his manly prowess by owning a collection of sleeveless Tapout shirts and eating raw onions with jelly, chocolate syrup, and tears as condiments. Masculine Tim Allen-esque grunts give way to watery eyes in this feel bad video.
Hunger Games actor and professional teenager, Josh Hutcherson, had to learn the hard way that when you’re famous, you can’t waltz into a grocery store to buy booze, despite being a minor, and think that the world will not know — but he did it anyway. Not to say that minors don’t drink alcohol (probably shouldn’t), but since Peeta didn’t get hit with a “Minor in Possession” charge, he just proved that celebrities can pretty much get away with most petty crimes.
University of California San Diego renamed itself “Conan O’Brien College” recently. To O’Brien’s chagrin, however, the name change was only for 24 hours. Still, that didn’t deter him from going to the campus and cracking wise (and perhaps heads, off-camera).
In a story that can be adapted for another Flipper sequel or reboot, rescuers are trying to save a dolphin that’s stranded in wetlands along the California coast. It’s difficult to tell whether the dolphin just doesn’t know how to get back to the open waters of the ocean, or if it’s trying get a plum role in an episode of How I Met Your Mother.
Both Mitt Romney and President Obama spoke at universities this week and received some very different reactions from the student voters. This tidy little side-by-side comparison shows exactly how stoked young voters are for Obama, while the students at Romney’s event seem like they’re catching up on their sleep.
This guy was on the receiving end of a taser and an all-around police beatdown and obviously lost. When the case went to trial, the Portland city attorney, representing the arresting officer, tried using the reasoning that the suspect owned a kung-fu movie collection, so the brutality was justified. The jury wasn’t convinced and now the city is paying out $250,000, which should buy some decent self-defense lessons in addition to new kung-fu DVDs.
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