from LazlosBasement.com Reality. TV. Gold That’s all we have to say about VH-1’s most recent descent into the stranger-than-fiction subculture of reality television, America’s Most Smartest Model . Divided into equal parts trivia and modeling, the brainchild of producers Cris Abrego and Mark Cronin , who brought us such desperately tacky smarm-a-thons as Flavor of Love: Charm School and the recent Rock of Love , reflects even further analysis into the clandestine tastes of American reality... Read Full Story
from LazlosBasement.com If you live in the eastern half of the United States, you’ve likely just been introduced to a young man named Josiah Leming via ratings kraken American Idol . Josiah doesn’t consider himself homeless, though he lives out of his car. He isn’t campaigning a cause, though any cause will soon be happy to have him. What he is doing is bringing music, real music, to a stage which over the past six seasons has produced several singers, but few - if any - true artists . Season... Read Full Story
KEEP PUCKERIN’ BRET! I’m here to tell ya’ that if you watched Rock of Love but missed the reunion show, you need to warm up that DVR and catch this bad boy. Not Bret. Oh no not Mr. Michaels, he’s not the bad boy in question. The bad boy in question is in fact Bret’s very own Rock of Love, Jes. Quiet Jes. Lovely Jes. Hot Jes. PISSED! OFF! JES! That’s right, Bret’s darling girl wasn’t so thrilled with the way things (or competitors) went down. She made no bones about her feelings either... Read Full Story
from LazlosBasement.com Now how am I going to fit this foot in my mouth, too? Ok, ok, maybe declaring Josiah Leming the winner of American Idol before the judges had even finished selecting contestants was a bit, what shall we call it, premature? Overly optimistic? Asinine? Ah yes, that’s the one. In case you’re the one who didn’t watch last night’s final selections, uh, he got cut. So I’ll be eating these eggs on my face for a while. But I have faith (also known as the triumph of hope over... Read Full Story
It’s here. It’s finally here. The realty mogul of all celebrity reality TV shows. Fast on the heels of The Two Coreys , which scored high marks for Generation X relevance but low marks for actual entertainment delivery (although the impromptu but highly technical “concert” was worth the half hour in number of margaritas it made me want to guzzle), Celebrity Apprentice promises to compel me consider mainlining as a career. The Donald, thankfully, is demonstrating the same gaudy over-promoted... Read Full Story
Political comedian Lewis Black puts pop culture on trial in his new Comedy Central series.
Q. Who wins in a smackdown between North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il and myspace pseudo-celebrity Tila Tequila?
A. When Lewis Black does the judging, we all win.
Forget Judge Judy, comedy’s resident ragemeister Lewis Black ( The Daily Show ) is set to uncover The Root Of All Evil on the new Comedy Central series. The show will feature Black as a Moral Court style judge, but with a definite... Read Full Story
Since TiVo has apparently been our best friend this week anyway, we’d like to take a moment to encourage all of you who are not yet watching Who Wants To Be A Superhero on the Sci Fi channel to tune in and enjoy pop culture at its absolute smarmiest. We have nothing, NOTHING but love in our hearts for this particularly bizarre outbreak of reality tv gold. Once again, Stan Lee is judging a group of ten mentally questionable contestants, all trying to convince him they are worthy of superhero... Read Full Story
~ Burn the land and boil the sea You can’t take the sky from me ~ Crap! We’re late. Sorry, we just heard about this. Which is kinda’ just how these things go. Like most of America, you probably missed Firefly the first time around. And the second. This is your third and we sincerely hope not final chance to catch a cult classic in the making. The show follows the crew of the Firefly-class starship Serenity . Describing it is something of a challenge. Think Gunsmoke meets Die Hard with a... Read Full Story
I don’t know about you, but I for one am looking forward to tonight’s premier of The Two Coreys the way an Oreo looks forward to a dunk in cold milk, and it’s not just because my parents had to paint over the glue marks on my walls from pasting up pictures of Corey Feldman at age 12. It’s because the good news is that while I have managed to accidentally learn a few things since those days, at least one of these guys has not. If you don’t know what I’m talking about but you enjoy the... Read Full Story
Are you suffering from Sunday-itis? This is the acute condition that occurs on Sunday afternoon when you realize that tomorrow is Monday. Fear not- the cure to Sunday-itis lies in realizing that it is still Sunday- and enjoying it while you can. Don't let work worries invade your home on Sunday- it pays the same. For those of you who were not able to make it to the end of Miss America 2008 last night- Miss Michigan was crowned Miss America 2008 - congratulations! Her talent was singing... Read Full Story
