Archive for July 8th, 2009

Ra-ra-ra-raaaaaaaandy: Aziz Ansari’s Brilliant Balance of Parody

For those of you not yet aware, Judd Apatow has a new movie, Funny People, about comedians in Los Angeles coming out in a few weeks. As part of the promotional material for the movie, the fictional projects of the fictional comedians in the film have become, well, slightly less fictional. Clips from nonexistent movies [...]

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America’s Worst Pastime*: The Pledge of Allegiance

*I’m glad I said arguably the last time I used this title because this definitely takes the crown.
Imagine going to a foreign country and visiting its schools to get a sense of the country’s culture. Now, further imagine that, before class every day, all of the students across the country simultaneously stood up, posed uniformly, [...]

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