This was the image used on the cover of the most recent issue of the Willamette Week. The original image was done by Barry Stock, and is a suprisingly good parody of the Shepard Fairey “Hope” poster. The fact that this can run on the front page here in Portland makes me very happy.
A couple weeks ago, Andy Samberg did a parody of Mark Wahlberg in a throwaway sketch called “Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals.” It was basically just Andy telling various animals “Say hi to your mother for me.”
It was pretty funny, but not amazing, and I doubt anyone would have paid any attention to it except that in an interview with the New York Post, Mark let it slip that he didn’t think it was very funny.
“Someone showed it to me on YouTube. It wasn’t like Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin, that’s for sure. And ‘Saturday Night Live’ hasn’t been funny for a long time. They’ve asked me to do the show a ton of times. I used to watch it when Eddie Murphy was there and Joe Piscopo and Bill Murray. I don’t even know who’s on the show now.”
– Mark Wahlberg interview in the New York Post
Now, here’s where it gets brilliant. In the most recent episode of SNL, Mark storms onto set during the opening scene and demands that Lorne tell him where Andy is. Later in the show, they aired this confrontation where Mark tells Andy his parody is way off, and then proceeds to confirm it.
To my mind, this means one of two things. Either Mark really was annoyed by the sketch, and they asked him on the show to make it up to him, or they planned this from the start, and asked him to complain in his next interview. Either way, totally genius.
“Starbuck: Find
Duran DuranEarth, and use all of your incomparable talents to preserve the security of the stars.”
This photo from GQ is wonderful, but it makes me want a whole series with the rest of the cast. Where Baltar as Duran Duran? Adama as President of Earth? Lee as Pygar? Chief Tyrol as Professor Ping?
To the citizens of the United States of America,
In the light of your failure to elect a President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. Except Utah, which she does not fancy. Your new prime minister (The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.
A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
The guys I work with at Pop Art just launched a site they’ve been working on for quite awhile now, and I’m really excited to finally be able to talk about it. The site is VisitCascadia.com, and it’s a promotional site for the new Freightliner truck, the Cascadia, framed as a site for a city populated entirely by truckers. It’s really funny, and full of tiny little details everywhere you look. Be sure to check out the extra-tall garages on the town map, the movie showing at the drive-in, and the Request-O-Matic, in which a concerned citizen will email your boss recommending that he buy you a Cascadia.
1 Photo originally posted on flickr.