"Haha, Patches loves the Red Sox!"

FilmDrunk favorite and butterscotch sundae Ryan Gosling was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night to promote his new film Crazy, Stupid, Love, in which he plays loser Steve Carrell’s playboy bachelor friend. But more importantly he brought his dog Patches with him to the show, and Patches was wearing an adorable red sock, so this is clearly the most important news of the day. Of course, his dog’s name isn’t really Patches, but I think we all agree that it should be. Haha Patches, you’re the best!

Anywho, Gosling told Fallon a rather candid story about a recent trip to a Turkish bath house that involved him licking a hairy man’s stomach. It’s pretty gross if you think about it, but since it’s Baby Goose, he probably said please and thank you, and the fat, hairy guy just giggled and blushed and said, “Oh OK, but make it quick.”

Video of Gosling’s Late Night appearance after the jump, as well as the latest edition of MTV’s Josh Horowitz asking Gosling to read “Hey Girl” lines.

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At long last we have a trailer from Whip It, Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut about a girl (Ellen Page) who doesn’t want to be in beauty pageants so she joins the roller derby.

Bliss (Page) tries out as Babe Ruthless for a team named the Hurl Scouts, where she hopes to skate alongside the likes of Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig) and Smashley Simpson (Drew Barrymore). The movie also features Marcia Gay Harden as Bliss’ disapproving mother, and Jimmy Fallon as a hungover announcer named Hot Tub Johnny [if the name sounds familiar it's because Andrew Dice Clay used to talk about a guy named Hot Tub Johnny West a lot].  [via /Film]

Anyway, you can tell it’s about teenage rebellion because all the girls wear plaid skirts, and plaid skirts = subverting the dominant paradigm.  “Find your tribe,” reads the title card. Because that’s what rebellion is; you find some people you think are cool and then try to dress and act just like them. Like when I used to rub dirt on my face and yell “Look, I’m Mexican!”  Okay, bad example.
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As of last week, the possibility of a movie based on ‘MacGruber,’ was just an insanely stupid idea, something that was being “looked at.”  But now it looks as if it’s about to become insanely stupid reality.

Will Forte tells Jimmy Fallon that the film based on the “SNL” sketch has been written [by Forte, John Solomon, and Jorma Taccone (of The Lonely Island)] . “We’re going to make it in Albuquerque,” he says. “It’s me and Kristin Wiig and cast to be determined.” But he was quick to point out: “It’s maybe a little different than what people are thinking.”

And by that I can only hope he means “not incredibly lame”.  They should make it an origin story.  It could be two guys sitting on a couch, and one says, “Hey, dude, remember MacGuyver?”  It would be… rather short.

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Jimmy Fallon has been releasing daily video blogs lately, leading up to his debut on Late Night when he takes over for Conan O’Brien next year.  At about the 1:20 mark of this one, he addresses allegations of douchebaggery, which, as videogum points out, were kind of the elephant in the room.  The rest of the video is pretty much a complete waste of time.  Is he being serious?  Is he trying to be funny?  Are we supposed to care about what he’s talking about? I can’t even tell.

I actually enjoyed him on SNL before he decided breaking character all the time was the cool thing to do, and he’s undeniably talented as an impressionist, but dude clearly has some love-me-daddy issues.  He was on Howard Stern around the time this deal was announced and Stern asked him who he’d voted for in the 2004 election and Fallon kept giggling, “Oh haha, I don’t even remember…” and Stern pressed him on it and he just kept going “No seriously, haha, I don’t remember, hee hee…”  He couldn’t give a straight answer to anything. My point being: You’ve been rich and famous for quite some time now.  For the love of God, grow some balls.

This is the trailer for The Year of Getting to Know Us (no word on why the title in the trailer is Rocket), starring Lucy Liu, Buster from Arrested Development, and Jimmy Fallon. I like seeing Jimmy Fallon in dramatic roles, because it means he probably won’t be breaking character to giggle and smile at the camera like some Love-Me-Daddy A-hole during every goddamned sketch.

Jimmy Falon [sic] stars in what Sundance describes as a “darkly comic exploration of the classic dysfunctional-family dynamic” and “a quirky exploration of how the people in our lives make us who we are.” (premiering at Sundance 2008)  – [/film]

I’m not gonna lie, the guy’s done some funny stuff in the past, but I can’t escape the memory of Howard Stern asking him a simple question like who he voted for in the presidential election and him answering, "Hehehe, I don’t remember hehehe…"

Call me old fashioned, but I like it when comedians aren’t enormous pussies terrified of pissing anyone off. Yeah, that’s right, Fallon, you just got called out by a semi-anonymous guy on the internet. WHAT’S UP NOW?? God, he must be so embarrassed. Sucks to be you, bro.