1. BustedTees.com
It’s safe to say (thank God!) the T-shirt has replaced the bumper sticker as the individual’s personal billboard. Now, people wear their feelings on their sleeves, literally. BustedTees.com, started by the team from collegehumor.com, sells T-shirts sporting hilarious sayings, puns and pictures. My current favorite is a replica of the “Suits Suck” red T-shirt that Billy Walsh wore on “Entourage.” BustedTees even takes a walk on the political wild side, with a “President Bush has Aides” T-shirt and a “Stewart – Colbert 2008” campaign design. The company even tackles global warming, with a tee featuring a cartoon drawing of a sweating planet earth, surrounded by the words, “This is why I’m hot.” New designs are constantly being added to the site, which charges around $15 per T-shirt.
2. “Sex and the City: The Movie” image released
I just about fell off the couch when I heard the news this summer that Sarah Jessica Parker and the rest of the cast from “Sex and the City” were finally reuniting to reprise their roles as Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda in a movie version of the TV show. I had the same feeling of euphoria when I saw that a promotional photo for the movie had hit the Internet. The picture is a simple shot of Carrie and Mr. Big leaning up against a parked car on a New York City street, looking fabulous and dapper, respectively. The photo doesn’t reveal much about the movie’s plot, but it does solidify the fact that there will be “Sex” in my future.
3. “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
It was a sad day for the world when “Seinfeld” went off the air almost 10 years ago, but it was a pretty happy one for the cast and creators of the show who went on a multi-million dollar syndication vacation. Luckily, Jerry Seinfeld’s co-creator, Larry David, started his own show, “Curb Your Enthusiasm” on HBO in 2000. The show is like “Seinfeld” for grown-ups with two giant handfuls of neurosis mixed in. The show looks like a reality program, as it is mostly unscripted, with David supplying the cast with an outline of plot, allowing them to fill in the script. David’s real life as a former “Seinfeld” producer, and his relationship with his famous friends like Richard Lewis, Ted Danson and Wanda Sykes, and his wife, Cheryl, adorably played by Cheryl Hines. And while some of David’s antics might make you want to strangle him through the TV screen, the perfectly-routed writing of “Seinfeld” is present in “Curb.” In the season six premier last Sunday night, Larry and Cheryl decide to take in a family, the Blacks who have been displaced by a hurricane. After meeting the Blacks, who happen to be black, Larry classically tells Mrs. Black, “That’s like if my last name was Jew-Larry Jew.”
4. Soulja Boy’s “Crank That” Dance
During the tailgating festivities before the SMU-UNT game, one of the worst songs ever written, “Crank That” by rapper Soulja Boy came blaring out of the Fiji tent. Almost immediately about 12 UNT fans came running over, and like straight out of a bad teen movie, began dancing in unison to the song. It wasn’t long before a couple of SMU kids joined in too. It seems like you can’t go to any party without hearing this impossibly popular song and its accompanying choreography. I hope everyone thinks this dance is funny, because when anyone dances to it, I laugh. It’s like the 21st century version of the “Macarena” with a couple of extra dance steps thrown in. The song is just as bad.
5. “Weeds”
Showtime’s comedy “Weeds” is well established as one of the best shows on television right now. The series began when Nancy Botwin (Mary Louise Parker, who won a 2006 best actress Golden Globe award) became widowed, and began selling, what else, but weed to the people in her Pleasantville-like California suburb of Agrestic, to support her two kids and brother-in-law. Nancy’s business flourished in the second season when she began growing her own strand of pot called “Milf Weed.” “Milf Weed” was so distinctive that Snoop Dogg recorded a song about the product when Nancy made a delivery to his recording studio. Nancy began by just selling to neighborhood dads, but finds herself this season with a trunk of heroin in her laundry room. Each episode leaves the viewer hanging off a marijuana plant-covered cliff, anxious to know what happens next in Nancy’s sometimes dangerous, but generally comical, dope-dealing world.
6. WWTDD.com – What Would Tyler Durden Do?
The world of celebrity entertainment has reached new lows in popularity. WWTDD.com takes a look at the over-exposed world of celebrity with a comical approach, poking fun of the rich and famous and their not-so-important lives. This blog, written by a man named only as Brendon, pays homage to Brad Pitt’s character Tyler Durden in ‘Fight Club.’ Instead of pretending like the lives of Paris, Britney and Lindsay are at all worthy of attention, WWTDD brings their scandals into the spotlight and then rips them to shreds. In the last couple of days, Britney Spears’ custody battle has been the highlight of WWTDD’s entries. One of yesterday’s items showed pictures of the singer frolicking around in her bra and underwear and then made fun of her for doing it. WWTDD is updated daily with the scandalous and ridiculous happenings of Hollywood and its hangers-on in the most unserious of ways.
7. TMZ on TV
The highly popular tabloid-style Web site, TMZ.com has recently premiered its daily show, “TMZ,” on Fox at 10:30 p.m. during the week, and at 11:30 p.m. on Saturday. After only about a week on air, the television program, which airs celebrity dirty laundry through paparazzi video and photography, already has about 1.8 million viewers and is the No. 1 new show in syndication. “TMZ” is hosted by television personality Harvey Levin, who presents the show’s content with a slightly sarcastic, sour-tinged outlook on the Hollywood lifestyle.
8. “Knocked Up” on DVD
Hands down the funniest movie of the summer, and probably in a long time before that, “Knocked Up” is finally making its way into my DVD player next week. The beyond hilarious “unrated and unprotected” version of the Judd Apatow film, starring Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen, transcends the traditional goofball-bathroom-humor montage that generally attracts the 16-24 audience. The story of Alison (Heigl) and Ben (Rogen) is pretty simple: After a drunken night at a club, hot Alison and sloppy Ben sleep together and Alison winds up pregnant. However, “Knocked Up” goes above and beyond the simple humor that we might expect, giving the audience a realistic look (surrounded by uproarious laughter) at the lives of Ben’s pot-smoking buddies, Alison’s neurotic sister and mushroom-taking brother-in-law.
