"Many parodists and satirists go for the jugular, but I’ve always gone for humor that was a little less biting and derogatory. I like to say that my parodies are more of a poke in the ribs than a punch in the face."
- Weird Al to Fast Company in a delightful and detailed interview about his song-parodying process.
Nick "Ron Swanson" Offerman stopped by Letterman last night and broke out the ol' acoustic guitar to show everyone the song he used to woo his lady, Megan Mullally, on her birthday. As with most great romantic ballads, it does contain the word "impale."
Here's footage of Paul F. Tompkins and cartoonist/humorist David Rees hosting a karaoke night on a cruise ship. It's not just any cruise ship, though. It's one of musician Jonathan Coulton's JoCo Cruise Crazy cruises. As Tompkins put it, they "hosted the shit out of that night." The video proves it, and, if you're having doubts about watching, I assure you it's 1000 times better than every video of karaoke or a cruise ship event in history.
"I didn't know anything about the a cappella world. I didn't even know it existed until my first year at 30 Rock. There was a joke about the character Toofer being part of an a cappella group in Harvard. I thought that was such a funny joke. My boss, Robert Carlock, said, 'It's not really a joke. It's a real thing. That world exists.' I'm from Chicago, and it's not really popular there — or at least back in my day it wasn't super popular; I think it might be more now. When I heard that world existed, I actually said in the writers' room, 'Someone needs to write a [...]
A few weeks ago, Jimmy Fallon wrote his own Rod Stewart song, "Dancin' With You All Night Long by Rod Stewart" (Stewart's name is part of the title), and recorded a public plea to the influential musician to perform the song with him on his show and Rod Stewart responded with a YouTube video of his own, and last night, the UK rock singer did Fallon's show. The two performed the song together, with Jimmy Fallon doing his best Rod Stewart impression alongside the man himself. Hopefully, this won't be the end of Fallon and Stewart exchanging YouTube videos back and forth.
