Anderson Cooper reports for Sesame Street

I love this!  I had a friend show me this and I couldn’t help myself from passing it on.  Anderson Cooper is great for playing along with this Sesame Street bit.

SNL mocks Goldman Sachs for access to vaccine

 

Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler made fun of Goldman Sachs in last week's episode of SNL.

I know this had nothing to do with Athens, but I saw this SNL weekend update bit with Seth Meyers, reunited with former co-host Amy Poehler, on their segment, “REALLY?!? With Seth And Amy” last Saturday and I couldn’t help but laugh.

 

They are funny… and unfortunately true. Sometimes I wish that in the news business we could just say some of these things out loud. So many times I have done interviews where I just wanted to ask, “REALLY? Are you serious?” I have bit my tongue, and managed to ask that same kind of thing in a more polite way, I hope.

In this segment, Poehler and Meyers mock Goldman Sachs for securing swine flu vaccines for employees at a time when hospitals are struggling to offer enough of the high-demand vaccine. It puts a funny twist to this all too true scenario.

The stupid stuff we buy

Have you ever been watching a commercial and thought it was so over-the-top it had to be fake?  Or ever wondered, “who would buy that?”

And there are just too many…The “Bump It”?  Hysterical.  The “Tiddy Bear”? Are you serious.  The “Facial Flex”? Is that really necessary.

The "Tiddy Bear" is another great invention that I am sure many Americans are jumping to buy.

 

Well, The Huffington Post has compiled a list of the “15 Stupidest Products Of All Time” and I must say this had me laughing and only confirmed that Americans create and buy some pretty dumb stuff.

Enjoy!

Jon Stewart mocks CNN’s fact-checking

Jon Stewart of The Daily Show poked fun of CNN after they fact-checked an SNL skit on the Oct. 12 show.

When CNN did some fact-checking on an Saturday Night Live sketch, Jon Stewart appropriately made fun of them on the Oct. 12 episode of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Check it out.

The Office mimics YouTube wedding dance

Sometimes I wonder if I should just remake my blog about The Office, as much as I talk about it…but I just couldn’t help myself from blogging about last night’s fabulous episode that captured Jim and Pam’s wedding.

The episode had many memorable moments, but one of the best was when, unannounced to Jim and Pam (John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer), the wedding party commenced with a spin on the “JK Wedding Entrance Dance” made famous on YouTube.  Now I know that I may be a little biased in the fact that I absolutely love this show, but I think this, once again, shows some brilliance in NBC‘s writing by tieing a recent pop culture phenomenon with the show.

As I mentioned in a previous post, Jim and Pam’s wedding was much anticipated by fans and their use of an actual wedding Web site only heightened the thrill.  NBC capitalized on the fan’s interests and used online media as a way to satisfy viewers’ wants.  By mimicking the wedding entrance dance, complete with Chris Brown’s music, it only reaffirms that online media is everywhere and so much a part of our lives that it can be referenced in a major network’s prime time show and still be successful.

Now maybe not everyone knew about the JK wedding entrance and felt out of the loop.  My roommate had never seen the YouTube video and I promptly logged onto the site to show her the humorous wedding dance, only to find that it was painfully slow to download–no doubt because many other people were trying to access it at the same time.  So what I may see as a ubiquitous video, may not be as common with some populations as I think.  What was the funniest part of the episode to me, may be have lost some others.

Regardless, the Halpert-Beesly wedding was all that I hoped it would be and only reaffirmed the brilliance of NBC’s use of online media.

The Office’s Jim and Pam are getting married

The Office's Jim and Pam are getting married!

Okay, I know this sounds like soap opera drama and yes, I am aware that I am sucked into the lives of two fictional characters, but I can’t help but smile when Jim and Pam launched their own wedding Web site last week.

The wedding is part of the NBCs show, The Office, which has told of the trials of the relationship between a salesman and a receptionist at a Pennsylvania paper company.  The Web site has foax engagement picutres reveals wedding details as they are mentioned in the show.  There is currently a section about the couple and guest information and location tabs after Pam disclosed that information in the Sept. 24 episode.  Other unknowns on the page are the video blog and the registry.

This Web site is just  one more of NBC’s genius ways of getting fans involved in the show.  NBC launched Dunder Mifflin Infinity to encourage fans to play social networking games relating to The Office.  Even the show’s page on the NBC Web site offers interactive features such as photo slideshows, games, message boards and a twitter feed to keep fans intersted and involved.

I may be a little biased–this is one of my favorite shows, but I applaud this show’s efforts to attract more fans and keep the die-hard viewers.