Top 7 Reasons Obama Is A Celeb

The controversy continues to boil around the McCain ad that labels Sen. Obama a celebrity with pictures of Britney and Paris in the background.  Here are my top reasons Barack is a celebrity:

1) His students labeled themselves his “groupies.”

2) He draws enormous crowds of obsessive, lonely, creepy fans.

3) On his way to a nightclub, he was once caught by the paparazzi getting out of his limo in a miniskirt sans panties. 

4) He is eloquent onscreen, but is not quite as articulate without a script.

5) He preaches sacrifices for the environment while being whisked around in SUVs and private planes.

6) Page Six once claimed he was canoodling (in this case, the word means emailing) with Scarlett Johansson.

7) Did blow.

If This Is Your First Time, Take My Hand

As Conway Twitty once sang, I can tell you’ve never been this far (on my blog) before.  There have been many new visitors to this blog in the last few days, and I want you to know it’s okay to be nervous.  To make you more comfortable, I will tell you a bit more about this site and myself.  First, I’ve had quite a few jobs before I started blogging.  I am a man of many talents, and have often been hired to teach others new skills.  I have given ski lessons to Sonny Bono, flight lessons to John Denver, locution lessons to George W. Bush, driving lessons to Ted Kennedy, and taught Hunter Thompson how to aim a gun.  I have also been involved in some things I’m not proud about: I gave Barack Obama his first line of oratory, Jerry Nadler his first doughnut, Barney Frank his first lollipop, and introduced Lindsay Lohan to some dude who is a deejay.  I was once a nude centerfold for The Nation, but I was young and needed the money.  That Katrina Vanden Heuvel is very persuasive.  I hope that let’s you know a bit more about me and my blog.  Please no jokes about this post being shorter or quicker than you expected.  Please check in to the website as often Britney Spears checks into rehab.

But enough about me.  For the history of the website, click here.

The King Of Canadian Comedy

Television Review: Corner Gas

One of the funniest television shows around was created by the king of Canadian comedy. Okay, done laughing? I know, I didn’t even know that Canada had a sense of humor until I saw Rick Moranis in Strange Brew, and that didn’t get funny until my fifth beer. Each night, on WGN America, Canadian comedian Brent Butt stars in Corner Gas, a show about how his life would have turned out had he not left his very small Canadian home town for the bright lights and big city living of Saskatchewan. (Or Ottawa or Newfoundland or whatever; I’m American so I don’t know much about Canada.) Butt’s Corner Gas (snicker) manages to be both simple and clever, original and familiar. It avoids shocking and offensive humor, instead finding laughs in a PG but still lighthearted adult manner. The show is produced in a traditional, but nowadays rarely used (at least successfully), style, but still manages the occasional postmodern turn, such as an absurd cutaway or odd pop culture reference. I would say Corner Gas is old school television: it attempts thirty minutes of witty, easy laughs, and actually delivers.  Now, maybe Canada will be known for more than hockey and . . . uh … their bacon … and, uh ….