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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Stewart/Colbert recreate New Yorker cover
Back in July, when the New Yorker published Barry Blitt’s notorious cover illustration of Barack and Michelle Obama — an illo that played up every negative stereotype whispered to date — lots of people (including the Obama campaign) thought that average Americans wouldn’t get the joke. Even alluding to stereotypes, they argued, reinforced them.
Entertainment Weekly wants to know if its readers are smart enough to figure this kind of subtle stuff out for themselves, so they used a spoof of the New Yorker cover to promote the inside interview with our main sources of news and information — Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart.
In the article, Colbert and Stewart talk about how absurd spectacle has hijacked the election coverage (not recognizing, perhaps, that they’re a major part of the problem). EW is also hosting an online message board for folks to weigh in on the value of parody in such incredibly scary, scary times.
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“The View” ticks off Paris Hilton
We love it when those “View” girls get riled up, and it doesn’t take much. When Paris Hilton appeared on the gabfest this morning (Thursday, Sept. 25) to promote her new MTV reality show, things took a turn for the nasty after they aired her presidential commercial.
“Too bad you can’t vote … because you were in the slammer,” co-host Joy Behar cracked. “My friend was in the slammer and couldn’t vote.”
Looking shocked, Hilton shot back, “I can vote.”
“Oh, it was just a misdemeanor?” Behar asked.
“Yes, I drove with a suspended license,” said Hilton.
Not a big story, but it passes the time.
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Heaven help us: Ed McMahon’s a rapper
It’s a sure sign of the Apocalypse: Ed McMahon got a job as a rapper.
The 85-year-old former Tonight Show star will appear in two viral rap videos for FreeCreditReport.com.
In the videos, a tracksuit-clad McMahon gets chauffeured around L.A. in a Cadillac Escalade golf cart and waxes lyrical about his financial woes. (McMahon has been fighting foreclosure on his Beverly Hills mansion after falling $644,000 behind on mortgage payments. He recently agreed to deal with a private buyer.)
“When I retired, I was famous,” he raps. “I had money and glory/I bought a house for 6 mill/I thought nothing could touch me/Until my credit went south, and debt started to crunch me/Next thing I know, instead of playing gin rummy, I was scrambling just to make ends meet/It wasn’t funny.”
After being joined by two scantily clad women, McMahon goes on: “Got a bump from the media chumps, but that was temporary/Wife with bad credit was scary, so I got wise/I may have fallen, but I got back up/Now I’m back on the attack, like a ninja swinging nunchucks/I told the haters, ‘Go on, take a hike’/It’s my show now, and I can do what I like.”
