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Entertainment Weekly’s story about German auteur Uwe Boll’s latest straight-to-video monstrosity, Blubberella, is the funniest thing I’ve read in months. No, I am not referring to fat jokes. I am referring to the hilarious anecdotes and quotes concerning the oddball Boll. Boll, director of such garbage as BloodRayne and House of the Dead, is evidently battling The Room’s Tommy Wiseau for the title, “Ed Wood of the 21st Century.”
Boll, as Hitler, appears in Blubberella
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Moron of the Week Adrian Peterson, above, griped about the players’ relationship with NFL owners: “It’s modern-day slavery, you know? People kind of laugh at that, but there are people working at regular jobs who get treated the same way, too.”
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I’ve been watching a lot of television. I have noticed that two kinds of commercials tend to dominate on cable-news channels: erectile dysfunction remedies for men, and weight-loss pitches for women. You don’t suppose the two issues are related?
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Thanks to these candid shots of bride-to-be Kate Middleton that are flying around the Internet, I am beginning to understand what His Toothiness, Prince William, sees in her.
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I, for one, am ecstatic that Aflac canned comedian Gilbert Gottfried. No more annoying, unfunny duck quacks.
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When a tsunami hit Japan the other night, Fox News went to its ace reporter on the scene, Courtney Friel, who just happened to be staying with family in Waikiki. In a stunning display of courageous journalism, Friel, pictured below in happier times, informed viewers that she and her relatives would be moving to higher ground, lest the tsunami get them.
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The difference between the far left and the far right?
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Quote of the Week: “The little grouchy man that you see on-camera is not what you see off-camera.” — Randy Moss, apparently alluding to Yours Truly.
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