Tag Archives: mtv

Apr 26

The importance of being Snooki

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This will not be for all tastes, and it does contain some foul language (strangely, the standards vary from one segment to the next, with a word bleeped in one part allowed to slip by in another part). But it is so brilliant, and so funny, and I needed a good laugh so much tonight that I had to share it.

Playbill magazine, which functions as the program for various Broadway and off-Broadway shows, has recruited the stars of a current production of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” and had them read transcripts from MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” exactly the way Algernon and Jack would say the lines.

Each segment begins with a quote that suggests Oscar Wilde might have found “Jersey Shore” a guilty pleasure.

If this sounds like something that would interest you, click here to go to the A.V. Club web site, which has conveniently embedded all five segments on a single page. Each segment lasts only a couple of minutes.

Oct 28

They’re always fighting foo

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Like about a zillion other people, I’ve been having fun with MTV’s brand new new music video site:

And, like about a zillion other people, I’ve made jokes about MTV’s suddenly revived interest in its old stock in trade.

Anyway, like Dave Letterman (the source of my post title), I loves me some Foo Fighters, especially the songs that also have funny videos. And this is a supremely funny video, with Dave Grohl playing about 12 different parts and with cameo appearances by Jack Black and Kyle Gass.