Karl Pilkington gets together with Ricky Gervais to give his thoughts on Gervais’ latest film, The Invention of Lying, which is out on Friday 2nd October.
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Rocketboom’s Know Your Meme series explains the evolution of the Christian Bale rant.
What exactly is Shirley MacLaine talking about here?
The Simpsons have spoofed the opening title sequence of Mad Men.
Matt Damon was recently on Letterman, where he discussed the back story of that bizarre press conference at the Venice film festival where a journalist stripped for George Clooney.
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Ben Stiller is online
Ben Stiller demonstrates his familiarity with the internet.
Between Two Ferns is a spoof talk show hosted by Zach Galifianakis and the latest episode features Charlize Theron.
Dan Britt has taken audio from The Shining and put it to this strange colouring book-style animation.
The Colouring from Dan Britt on Vimeo.
This A&E reality series featuring Steven Seagal as a cop is apparently not a joke.
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Star Wars Airwolf Mashups
In 1971 Woody Allen guest hosted The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson‘s sidekick Ed McMahon.
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The Best of the Vader Sessions
You may have missed the original Vader Sessions viral video from a couple of years ago, but the premise was brilliantly simple: revoice Darth Vader with audio from other James Earl Jones movies.
Here is a ‘best of’ edit.
> The original Vader Sessions video and the Darth Vader is coming to Alderaan edit
> James Earl Jones at the IMDb
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Virgin Media 50 Meg Broadband Ad
This ad for Virgin Media is a homage to the famous deli scene in When Harry Met Sally… (1989).
It was shot with 50 ‘Megs’ and all the male extras in the diner weren’t told what the ad was about (hence the startled reactions).
The big question is whether it’s as funny as her now infamous appearance on Parkinson.
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Inglourious Basterds lego
Flickr user Doctor Sinister has come up with some Inglourious Basterds themed lego.
[Via Matt]
Comedian Dean Edwards does a very good impression of Denzel Washington.
Here he imagines how a teenage Denzel would ask a girl out to the prom.
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Harrison Ford: Family Man
These clips from various Harrison Ford movies seem to demonstrate that he likes playing characters who love their family.
The films include: Air Force One, Firewall, Frantic, Patriot Games and The Fugitive.
Kate Bosworth made an unlikely appearance on Match of the Day on Saturday night due to a technical hitch.
Viewers of the highlights between Torquay and Chesterfield on BBC1 were surprised to see them interrupted by Bosworth’s character in Blue Crush going to the toilet.
The mishap occurred at around 12.50am on Sunday morning as the 2002 surfer film was screening on ITV1.
A BBC spokesman blamed it on a ‘technical hitch’, which probably means someone flicked the wrong switch and started broadcasting ITV’s output instead of their own.
> Blue Crush at the IMDb
> Find out more about Kate Bosworth at Wikipedia
> Match of the Day
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The following clip is from The Mike Douglas Show in 1969 when James Brown asked Alfred Hitchcock about Psycho (which the singer mistakenly calls ‘Homicidal’).
Hitch was on there to promote Topaz and the panel also features poet and songwriter Rod McKuen and Joan Rivers.
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Shatner Mountain Mashup
Someone over at Fall On Your Sword has done this rather amusing mashup of William Shatner describing Captain Kirk‘s relationship to a mountain.
My guess is that they got hold of the EPK from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier which was directed by Shatner (it’s the one where he fights God at the end) and features an opening scene on a mountain.
[Link via @Veronica on Twitter]
> Fall On Your Sword
> More on Star Trek V: The Final Frontier at Wikipedia
AMC have come up with a website that allows you to create a Mad Men version of yourself.
The third season of the best show currently on TV begins in the US on August 16th.
> Find out more about Mad Men at Wikipedia
> Buy Season One and Season Two of Mad Men on DVD and Blu-ray
10,000 of Japan’s biggest Harry Potter fans recently competed for a chance to travel to the UK and visit the set of the Deathly Hallows films.
A thrilled young girl named Kana was the eventual winner but as it was for a comedy TV show named Sanma Akashiya‘s “Karakuri Terebi”, they planned a few surprises for her.
Little did she know that she was actually going to meet her wizard idols Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger).
First she meets Rupert and falls in love with his eyebrows (“You look so cool!”). After that she gets to meet Emma Watson, who she shares a drink with:
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And then, best of all, she gets surprised by Daniel Radcliffe whilst dreaming of being in Griffindor with Harry (“Amazing! I can hear his heartbeat!”):
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[Link via Amanda Dobbins & Buzzfeed, Japan Probe and David Cho]
Someone rung up the answerphone of a cinema in Navan, Ireland and recorded the manager warning potential customers that Brüno will ‘will offend every prejudice in the book’.
Is it just me or is there a sly tone to the guy’s voice?
(Also note how multimedia this video is – a guy filmed his phone, whilst ringing up a cinema’s answer machine, in front of a newspaper …and then put it on the internet).
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Harry Potter vs Voldemort Rap Battle
This spoof Harry Potter rap battle between the young wizard and his nemesis Lord Voldemort is pretty well done.
[Link via /Film]
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> More on Harry Potter at Wikipedia
> IndyMogul
> The rap battles in 8 Mile
One of the strangest viral videos I’ve come across recently was this combination of the 1982 TV film Desperate Lives (an anti-drug teen drama starring a young Helen Hunt), the video for Hall and Oates‘ 1980 single You Make My Dreams and a keyboard playing cat.
Warner Music Group have gone on one of their periodic YouTube purges which I’m sure is the very reason more people will now be looking for it.
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> Wired and CNET on the story
> The original cat video
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Richard Pryor 1980 interview
This 1980 interview with Richard Pryor from the set of Stir Crazy is probably one of those that never made it to air.
> Richard Pryor at Wikipedia
> Stir Crazy at IMDb
Sacha Baron Cohen stepped out of character to appear on Letterman last night to discuss Brüno.
Here he talks about the scene where he interviewed a terrorist and compared Osama Bin Laden to a ‘homeless Santa Claus’.
N.B. There actually is a Craigslist in Beirut, although it may prove tricky to find terrorists on it.
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UPDATE: He also did the Top Ten list as Bruno.
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Jeff Goldblum responds to his own death
Jeff Goldblum was recently on The Colbert Report responding to reports of his own ‘death’.
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Web Site Story
West Side Story has been transformed by College Humor into this spoof which drops in all manner of references to Twitter, Facebook and a bunch of other websites.
> More on the original musical at Wikipedia
> We Didn’t Start the Flame War
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Greatest Movies Subway Map
David Honnorat has created a cinematic subway map in which all the stations are replaced by films from the IMDb top 250 list.
Download the map as a normal JPG, a hi-res jpg or a PDF.
[Link via Buzzfeed]
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CPDRC inmates do the Jai Ho dance
You might have already seen the inmates of Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) – a maximum security prison in the Philippines – do that famous dance to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’.
They are also the latest group to do the Jai Ho dance from the end of Slumdog Millionaire.
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They have also recently done a tribute dance to Jackson.
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Buffy Summers meets Edward Cullen
This mashup of perky vampire slayer Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and brooding vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) is rather well done.
The visual pallete doesn’t match (for obvious reasons) but the editing is top notch.
> Find out more about Buffy Summers and Edward Cullen at Wikipedia
> Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight at the IMDb
Paula Abdul talks to David Letterman about getting pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen during the filming of Brüno.
> Brüno at the IMDb
> Find out more about the character at Wikipedia
Last night I was walking through Leicester Square and saw that Bruno was having it’s UK premiere at the Empire.
I’m seeing it early next week, so I’ll report back with thoughts on the film then.
Sometimes live TV talkshows can move from the realms of jokey banter into the land of the downright uncomfortable.
Such a thing happened recently on a new show on HBO called Joe Buck Live, a sports talkshow hosted by the aforementioned Joe Buck.
It is the successor to Costas Live and the format features three guests talking about sports.
On Monday they were: Paul Rudd (actor in films like I Love You Man and Role Models), Jason Sudekis (of Saturday Night Live) and Artie Lange (sidekick on the Howard Stern Show).
HBO has pulled all the clips floating around on YouTube, but check out this final bit of the show (filmed as a web only segment right after the regular broadcast) to get a flavour of how things went.
> Joe Buck Live at HBO
> More on Artie Lange at Wikipedia
This performance of the Theme from Shaft by the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain is really rather good.
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The original Oscar winning theme from the 1971 film was by Isaac Hayes.
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Han Solo P.I.
Tom Selleck was the original choice to play Indiana Jones but had to turn down the role because he was in Magnum, P.I. at the time.
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With that in mind, check out this mashup TheCBVee have done which reimagines Harrison Ford (playing Han Solo) as the TV detective.
And check out the frame-by-frame comparison.
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> Magnum, P.I. at Wikipedia
> Star Wars official site
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Christian Bale vs Bill O’Reilly
What do you get when a classic piece of viral audio meets a vintage viral video?
Christian Bale versus Bill O’Reilly.
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This is the trailer for the new Twilight film New Moon.
By the way, it is worth noting that Summit and MTV have been smart in allowing the above trailer to have an embed code.
This means it can be posted to any blog or website, which is a change from the ‘exclusive’ trailers that only show on Yahoo.
In those cases they may get some money to be exclusively shown on one site (even though they usually end up bootlegged on YouTube anyway) but surely the idea is to get as many views as possible all over the web.
In essence, it is better to have the viral nature of the Internet (and legions of Twilight fans) working for and not against you.
New Moon is out at cinemas on November 20th and has already inspired some fans to go a bit crazy.
> More on New Moon at Wikipedia
> Listen to my interview with Robert Pattinson about Twilight