I have a decade-long love affair with Jimmy Fallon. I first fell in love with him back during his run on Saturday Night Live; sure, he ended up collapsing into fits of laughter during every sketch he was in, but it always made me laugh, anyway….
My fiancé turned me onto Jonathan Coulton’s music. I’d heard the comedic singer-songwriter’s stuff a few times before; his song, “Code Monkey” was familiar to me, as was his acoustic cover of Sir. Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back”. But when my fiancé and I started dating,…
I don’t know why I keep trying with The Lonely Island. The comedy trio’s first album, Incredibad, had a few great songs, but it was mostly filled with clunkers. Their follow-up, Turtleneck & Chain, suffered from the same dilemma. While the guys of The Lonely Island (Andy…
I have a confession to make. I am a closet Weird Al Yankovic fan. I first discovered Yankovic’s song parodies at the wee age of eight; I became a huge fan, saved my allowance to buy his cassette tapes, and even saw him in concert…
‘Why would a middle-aged, wealthy white woman in the suburbs ever need to sell weed?’ …is pretty much what I thought every time I heard the unbelievable premise of Showtime’s half-hour dramedy, Weeds. I’ve heard of the show since it’s debut in 2005, been recommended to watch it…
Thanks to the success of TV shows like Glee and The Sing-Off, the world of competitive a capella singing and choir has gotten a lot of media attention lately. I was a choir nerd for most of high school and college, so I’m always intrigued by these…
A “first world problem” by definition, is a frustration or complaint only experienced by privileged individuals in wealthy countries. This phrase is most commonly used as a joke amongst my fellow Generation Y-ers, while we’re moaning about our irrelevant problems on Twitter (i.e. “The soda…
I’ll admit to enjoying The Lonely Island’s debut album, Incredibad. The comedy trio (made up of Saturday Night Live comedian, Andy Samberg, and his two friends, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone) was able to create an entertaining- albeit, uneven- album; though some of the songs…
Saturday Night Live has been really iffy in the past few years. I’ve grown up watching the show, and have loved it since I was old enough to really have a sense of humor. I always preferred it over shows such as Mad TV, because…
High school: for some it’s the best time of their lives, and for others, it’s the worst. As clichéd as it may be, high school is an experience that can either make or break you during adolescence.