It’s your favorite YouTube viral video meets The Daily Show, or perhaps a South Park version of The Office. SuperNews is a new half-hour animated sketch show on Current TV that features hilarious political, entertainment, and technology satire. It also has one of the best vocal impressions of Barack Obama that I have heard to [...]
Archive for the ‘tv’ Category
7 Apr
One of the Best Things About HBO’s “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency”…
… is Jill Scott’s amazing figure. Is she gorgeous or what? I can’t stop marveling over how great she looks in those beautiful print dresses, a crown of thick natural hair floating above her multicolored scarves. It makes me realize how rare it is to see a full-figured black women represented with such dignity on [...]
11 Jan
Frodo, Prejudism, and “Flight of the Conchords”
The second season of “Flight of the Conchords” premieres on HBO this Sunday, January 18 at 10 pm! Woohoo! My DV-R will be working overtime to catch new episodes of “24″ and “Lost,” but I’m most excited about the deadpan hilarity of New Zealand’s “fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo” as they try [...]
29 Dec
3 Things I Learned From “The Real Housewives of Atlanta”
Thanks to a four-hour flight to San Francisco this weekend, I got hooked on Bravo’s marathon of The Real Housewives of Atlanta! A few pearls of wisdom: 1. The affluent of Atlanta also feed their children microwavable “Gerber Graduates.” (Catch Lisa Wu Hartwell feeding her little one in Episode 7.) This observation alone soothes months [...]
12 Dec
Lost & Found: For the Santa in All of Us
A few links, videos, and other online ephemera from our favorite sites this past week: TBoH has discovered Twitter! Honestly, though, beyond posting blog updates and reading what others are doing, I still don’t know how to make this high-tech time-waster useful. (Do you really want to know what I’m eating for breakfast?) If you [...]
