Last night, we had the rare situation of two Hollywood A-list superstars appearing on late night talk shows to promote their upcoming summer blockbusters while also making fools of themselves. Of course I mean that in a good way, as both Channing Tatum and Brad Pitt were in on the jokes when they showed off their softer sides on Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, respectively.
First up, Pitt and Fallon did a little rooftop yodeling while dropping a plug for World War Z.
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Great episode of the Frot this week. We welcomed San Francisco comedian Matt Louv, The Museum of Comedy, live in the frotquarters. He told us about his trip to Facebook HQ to hear Deepak Chopra (Deepak being an obsession of Matt’s), read a few more OKCupid emails, discussed arguments about and critical reactions to Django Unchained, and the self-help phenomenon in general. In the midst of that, we did a phoner with Jessob Reisbeck of KMPH Fox 26 (my hometown news station, as a Fresno County native), the guy who got the first interview with Kai the Hitchhiking Hatchet Hero and continues to bring us exclusive updates (such as the one above). Humorous, exciting, informative – you know, just the usual stuff we do. Naturally, we also covered the story of the couple addicted to coffee enemas and a guy afraid to poop at his girlfriend’s house.
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While I’m mostly convinced that the Kai the Homeless free Hitchhiker story is eventually going to end in tragedy or at least mundane depression, a la the Golden-Voiced Hobo, for the time being, it’s still fairly uplifting. Kai went on Jimmy Kimmel last night, and in a six-minute segment (you can watch below), proved to be just as compelling as he was when he was delivering positive messages and smashing a guy with a hatchet. Besides the fact that Kai is basically a foul-mouthed, surf-bro version of the Incredible Hulk, a drifter who goes from town to town hiding from his demons while fighting crime and enforcing his own moral code, he seems suspiciously educated. For instance, in the original video, Kai described the victim of his hatchet justice as “haole, got no breath in him, you know what I’m saying?”
“Haole” being a Hawaiian term for foreigner, which some people think means “breathless,” stemming from Hawaiians’ observation that foreigners didn’t use a Polynesian greeting that includes breath sharing. It’s not crazy that a surfer might know something like that, but this time around, Kai also quotes Greek (25 seconds into the second video – something about “fileo towards sofia”) and mentions a story about the queen of England locking two ravens in the Tower of London (1:35 of the second video) - a reference to the legend that the kingdom would fall if ravens ever left the Tower of London, specifically the two ravens born there in May 2012. So, if Kai isn’t educated, he’s at the very least a hobo who reads a lot. Oh, but that’s not all.
I hate the obsolete late night show vaudeville format, and I wish Jimmy Kimmel’s show could just be a collection of bits like this, a genius segment where he sends a man on the street down to ask people about fake movies they just made up, that people then lie about having seen. Amazing what people will do just to avoid having to admit they haven’t seen a movie, isn’t it? I blame every person who’s ever yelled “YOU’VE NEVER SEEN TAXI DRIVER?!?” at someone for this. Myself included, though almost always in reference to The Big Lebowski.
Questions include:
Do you think Eddie Murphy deserved an Oscar nomination for his role in Ninja Nights?
Are you excited that elephant party 7 got five Oscar nominations today?
Do you think Chris Christie received an Oscar nomination for his role in Life of Pie?
Do you think Eddie Murphy deserved an Oscar nomination for his role in Ninja Nights 3: The Reckoning?
Do you think Eddie Murphy deserved an Oscar nomination for his role in Ninja Retreats?
The big question here is, does the Jimmy Kimmel Show only invent fake movies with Eddie Murphy in them, or do people only lie about having seen Eddie Murphy films? Also, you may come away from this believing that human beings are gullible, insecure dunces. I’m not sure if that’s true, but people who visit the Hollywood walk of fame in the middle of day and are thrilled to be man-on-the-street interview subjects are almost certainly gullible, insecure dunces.
Unless they told the people beforehand “just go along with everything I say,” which would just be mean.
Not that anyone was disagreeing, but in his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel last night, Mel Brooks explained that the movie that gave us “where da white women at?”, “Kansas City fagg*ts“, and “you said rape twice,” probably couldn’t have been made today. Yeah, no kidding. But what do we care? We’ve got Seltzer/Friedberg now.
When we had a preview [of Blazing Saddles], there were two guys, there was John Calley, and there was a guy running the studio. Ted Ashley – who was in charge of Warner Bros. We had a preview, and the crowd went crazy, everyone loved it. And afterwards, he grabs me by the collar and shoves me into an office. And he says, “Okay, here’s a legal pad, here’s a pencil, take these notes.” He says, “N-word, OUT! We don’t say it. No punching a horse. Around the campfire, cut out the farting… You can’t punch an old lady. Lily von Schtupp and the black sheriff… you can’t – OUT. ”
So, I said “Yes, sir, it’s gone. You come here tomorrow, and it’s all out of the movie.” He leaves, and I crunch it up, and I go all the way across the room and I put it in the waste basket. John Calley says “Nice filing!”
I had final cut, so what did I care?
And that, kiddies, is why Mel Brooks is one of comedy’s greatest heros. You can take our n-words, farts, and horse punching when you pry them from our cold, wanking hands.
Meanwhile, said YouTube:
We’ll take that, I suppose.
