Thursday Night Video – Marc Maron Roasts Chevy Chase

Given the recent brouhaha over Chase’s behavior on the set of Community, I thought of Marc Maron’s occasional references on his WTF podcast to having worked on the Chevy Chase Comedy Central roast, and how it was one of the most unpleasant gigs of his career. Apparently Chase was a royal bastard and that was actually why he had to be boasted by a bunch of unknowns — because Chase didn’t have friends who would show up.

Maron has also mentioned how he (Maron) kept changing his hair style over the years in a desperate tryout of identities, and I gotta say that this hair style says “desperation.”


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The Daily Show on Personhood

I really think I’m going to love Al Madrigal’s tenure as a Daily Show correspondent. He’s already getting some choice interviews in his field reports, including his segment yesterday on the lunacy surrounding personhood laws. You know, the legislation that equates a fertilized egg with an actual baby.

Madrigal went to Oklahoma, where State Senator Constance Johnson combined politics and satire to make a point.

JOHNSON: I put forth an amendment that outlaws the depositing of sperm anywhere other than a woman’s vagina.

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TV in Review: Modern Family, “Election Day”

It’s a new episode of Modern Family this week, and they do politics local-style, with Claire Dunphy running for council.

JAY: Claire likes to win. When she was eight, a little Girl Scout friend of hers bragged that she could sell the most cookies. Damned if Claire didn’t walk the neighborhood till she got blisters on her feet and won by ten boxes. Best part is, Claire wasn’t even a Girl Scout.

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