mel gibson-related stories
Posted Sep 19th 2009 12:24AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, Talk Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
Yesterday, Leno mocked "Cash for Clunkers" by mocking up a "Cash for Flunkers" video. Tonight he tapped the same well with a "Cash for Chunkers" joke. I guess that's common in the late night arena, but I've never been a fan of using the same exact set-up on different nights to get a different joke. Unless you acknowledge how weak it is when you do it.
Tonight's correspondent was
The Hangover's Rachael Harris, who came on to show us the lost art of bartering in this tough economic times. Like most of the other correspondent segments, it had some funny moments, but it just seemed to go on forever.
Continue reading The Jay Leno Show: Drew Barrymore
Posted Aug 22nd 2007 2:01PM by Will O'Brien
Filed under: OpEd, Eureka, Episode Reviews
(S02E07) From the preview, the opening was pretty much just what I expected. A cryogenic facility at GD is being torn down and someone is discovered frozen in one of the chambers - Fargo's grandfather.
Continue reading Eureka: Family Reunion
Posted Mar 22nd 2007 7:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: ABC, Desperate Housewives, Celebrities
Britney Spears went there, and so did Lindsay Lohan. Mel Gibson did too, and I even think that Isaiah Washington went there to cure himself of homophobia, or whatever the reason was. Yup, it's celebrity rehab, and there's another person who has joined the club: Desperate Housewives star Jesse Metcalfe (though he's not on it that much this year).
Metcalfe's publicist has announced that he entered a rehab on March 19 to "deal with alcohol issues" and he "hopes that the media will allow him the privacy to deal properly with his treatment."
I'd like to take this opportunity to announce that I too will be going into rehab. I've been addicted to television and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups for far too long and it's time I did something about it.
Posted Feb 20th 2007 10:29AM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: News, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
This week Ray Liotta was arrested for drinking and driving. With so many stars getting taken in for DWI's it makes you think that maybe Hollywood is suffering from a severe alcohol problem. But upon closer look, it's clear that folks like Ray Liotta, Nicole Richie and Mel Gibson enjoy paraphrasing the popular bumper sticker... They get drunk, they drive, their expensive lawyers and publicists get them off the hook and do damage control...no problem!
Continue reading Celebrities + drunk driving = news?
Posted Jan 11th 2007 4:27PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Saturday Night Live, Watercooler Talk
The comedy website Stash Wax has declared war on Lorne Michaels and
Saturday Night Live. The site accuses Michaels of ripping off its joke about Mel Gibson's anti-semitic tirade over the summer. In fact, it has sent an official
cease and desist order to
SNL and NBC to take the spoof off its website.
Stash Wax has links to both
its NSFW parody and the
SNL one. Stash Wax recut Gibson's trailer for
Braveheart back in July when he was
arrested for drunk driving. They dubbed over the voices to make it look like a war movie against the Jews. The
SNL parody of Gibson was a recut of the
Apocalypto trailer to make it look like an extermination of the Jews. I have to admit that I laughed harder at the
Apocalypto one. Is it a rip-off? I'm not convinced. I think the
Apocalypto trailer was an obvious target for comedians at the time.
Watch the two spoofs and sound off in comments.
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Posted Dec 15th 2006 3:26PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, PVR Wire
What do you think was the #1 TiVoed (yeah, it's a verb now) moments of 2006? Was it an episode of Lost? Was it an episode of Grey's Anatomy or CSI or Desperate Housewives? How about one of the World Series games or the Super Bowl or maybe the finale of American Idol?
After the jump check out the list of the top 10 recorded moments according to TiVo. I guarantee a couple of them will be a surprise to you.
Continue reading The Top 10 TiVo moments of 2006
Posted Nov 20th 2006 8:32AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, Family Guy, Animation
(S05E06) The story for this week's episode was more involved, which is a good thing. A little plot goes a long way. When the plot gets too thin everything rides on the gags, and it is hard to pull off an episode with just gags. While the sex-ed story has been told many times, I liked the
Family Guy take on it.
It gave them a good reason to bring out slutty Lois, and slutty Lois is usually pretty funny, like when she was trying to explain the wonders of sex to Meg. Or showing up for role-playing night dressed as Grimace? Good stuff.
Continue reading Family Guy: Prick Up Your Ears
Posted Nov 3rd 2006 12:05PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Law and Order
Regis just asked Chevy Chase if tonight's Law and Order episode was based on the Mel Gibson case. First of all, dumb question. Second, Chase said it was kind of inspired by the case.
Right.
Continue reading Tonight's Law and Order: ripped from the headlines (again)
Posted Sep 26th 2006 7:36PM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Law and Order, Celebrities
Chevy Chase
has started shooting an episode of
Law & Order in which he plays a celebrity who is stopped for drunk driving and whose "religious prejudice" comes out -- okay, he's playing Mel Gibson. Since this is
Law & Order and not, say,
Reno 911!, Chevy's fictional character will also be found with blood on him, making for a major-crimes angle.
Count on Jack McCoy and the rest of the gang to have this one neatly sorted within forty-three minutes as usual. Win or lose, next week they'll be on to another story distilled from some other headline. One episode, one case, the end.
Posted Aug 6th 2006 9:22AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Programming, Animation, South Park, Comedy Central
When celebrity news happens,
South Park is ready! We all saw them make fun of Tom Cruise last year but now Comedy Central is digging up an older episode to go along with this whole Mel Gibson thing. On Wednesday, the network will air 2004's The Passion of the Jew, which poked fun at Mel Gibson back when
The Passion of the Christ was all the rage. In it, Mel acts crazy and Cartman's actions suggest that Mel may be an anti-semite.
Coincidentally, the network also published
full-page ads that show the
Park kids in front of a celebrity Scientology center and says, "C'mon, Jews... show them who
really runs Hollywood." It has nothing to do with Gibson, and everything to do with that infamous Tom Cruise/Trapped in the Closet episode that has been nominated for an Emmy.
Posted Aug 2nd 2006 2:42PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
Before undergoing surgery, Cuban leader Fidel Castro
ceded power to his half-brother Raul. Bureau Chief de Havana Rob Corddry joined in to elaborate. The "Hollaaaaaah!" thing made me laugh because I know I've had occasions when I've accidentally read "Hola" that way. And although the "ceremonial passing of the beard" thing was great, Jon being caught off guard by Rob's sexiness was the best part. Mild flirtation between the
TDS boys makes me happy (there really hasn't been enough of it since Stephen Colbert left).
Continue reading The Daily Show: August 1, 2006
Posted Aug 1st 2006 11:08AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
"
Capitol Records": Uggh. The Bush/American Idol photo-op. There's a throw-down in Lebanon, but Bush wanted to chill with Taylor Hicks. Well, the man gets what he wants. Elliott Yamin arrived a bit late for the event, but he had a good excuse (he was in a meeting with the president of Syria).
"Prime Ribbing": The only other guy that Bush has been spending quality time with is Prime Minister Tony Blair. That's been doing less than amazing things for Blair's standing in the UK. He's been getting teased in the House of Commons ever since Bush greeted him in public with "
Yo, Blair!" Newbie European Correspondent
John Oliver elaborated on the situation. Apparently, Bush didn't use "yo!" but "yeaux!", an old greeting dating back to the days of English knights. For example, one might have said, "Yeaux, Arthur! Nice joust!" John Oliver's timing was much better and smoother than that of the other recent English in-take, Dave Gorman (whom we haven't seen for a suspiciously long time). I guess the Daily Show folks are in a scramble to find some new folks now that Ed Helms is
possibly on his way out.
Continue reading The Daily Show: July 31, 2006
Posted Aug 1st 2006 8:46AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Talent, Industry, Programming, OpEd, Celebrities
After Mel Gibson allegedly let loose an anti-Semitic rant while he was being
arrested for DUI last week, many were speculating to what degree the tirade was going to hurt the Oscar-winning director's career. Well, the first piece of evidence may be in: ABC has
decided to drop the Holocaust-themed miniseries it was developing with Gibson's production company.
When pressed by the
Wall Street Journal for a reason why they decided to end
the project, which was based on the diaries of a Jewish woman from the Netherlands who was sheltered from the Nazis by her non-Jewish boyfriend, a network rep told the paper that they're dumping the project because they haven't yet received a script after two years of development. But the timing is interesting, isn't it?
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Posted Jul 31st 2006 7:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, ABC, Talent, Celebrities
And I'm not talking about those PSA's he filmed for the L.A.P.D. that are now popping up after his arrest for drunk driving over the weekend, nor am I talking about Lethal Weapon. I'm talking about a couple of episodes of the short-lived ABC sitcom Complete Savages a few years ago. Gibson appeared as an L.A.P.D. officer in funny fake PSAs for the department, talking about motorcycle safety, wearing the right equipment, etc. Gibson produced the sitcom too.
Anyone have those spots on tape or DVD and can upload them to YouTube?
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