This is how I imagine every Chevy Chase interview goes

Will Leitch ask Joel McHale and Chevy Chase about their new NBC show Community:
Had you met before this show?
Chevy Chase: We live together.
Joel McHale: We hadn’t met, but when I heard Chevy Chase was onboard, I said, ‘Somebody please pinch me.’ Acting is what I’d always wanted to do; hosting The Soup was [...]

The greatest wine hoax ever

This story further confirms my suspicions that most wine “experts” are full of it.

Premier League and La Liga on ESPN 2

Really gets you pumped up

FX picks up Louis CK series

FX has picked up 13 episodes of Louis CK’s sketch show “Louie”. Hurray! Found out about this via his twitter page which I only recently found.

Kind of Blue. No homo.

I read two articles about music today from Slate that I thought were worth sharing. First, from Fred Kaplan, comes an appreciation of Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” which comes on the 50th anniversary of its release. I first heard, and loved, “Kind of Blue” while taking a History of Jazz class in college and [...]

I think we can guess who’s getting voted off first

“Dancing With The Stars” announced the new contestants for their upcoming season this morning and, for some reason, former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is one of them. Just when you thought you’d heard it all. I hear DeLay has been a longtime fan of the show but still, I would have thought he [...]

USA Today has a terrible dietitian

How is it possible for a so-called “dietitian” to go on the Today Show and recommend McDonalds, Burger King, KFC and Taco Bell as “healthy” food choices for road trips? Thats what USA Today’s Elizabeth Ward did. Eat some fruit people. Maybe make and bring your own food too. Don’t listen to Ward or The [...]

President Obama’s reading list

The Daily Beast did some research and came up with the books President Obama has read since the start of the 2008 campaign. Not a bad list, though I might have expected better. Tom Friedman AND Fareed Zakaria? Thats more then enough stale conventional wisdom.

Bill Maher: Smart President doesn’t equal smart country

Ladies and gentlemen, Bill Maher: “New Rule: Just because a country elects a smart president doesn’t make it a smart country.”. Good but maybe lets retire the whole “New Rule” schtick.

Neal Brennan in the NY Times

Neal Brennan, younger brother of the great Kevin and co-creator of “Chappelle’s Show”, gets a profile in the Times brought on by the release of his directorial debut “The Goods”. Some good behind the scenes on the Chappelle stuff.

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