Hurry Here, Hustlin' There, Nobody's Got the Time to Spare
Congratulations to Mr. Joey Halbert for correctly naming "Brighter Than Sunshine" by Aqualung as the Tuesday Song of the Day. Remember kids, as Joey said, "You should never put this song on a CD for a girl. It's bad luck." I'm sure there's a story there, and if we're lucky, we just might hear it one of these days.
Thanks to the good folks over at Deadspin, I learned today that representatives for John Madden and Charles Barkley are threatening imminent legal action over the DISH TV advertising campaign which features Frank Caliendo and his ubiquitous impersonations of prominent* celebrities including Madden, Barkley, Dubya, Dr. Phil, Al Pacino, et. al.
As someone that is in training to become an attorney, you would probably expect for me to provide salient legal analysis on the relative merits of the potential claim. That's reasonable, I guess, but it's not on tap today. Instead, you're getting a quick recap of what has become perhaps my favorite response to a commercial in the last 5** months.
Thanks to the good folks over at Deadspin, I learned today that representatives for John Madden and Charles Barkley are threatening imminent legal action over the DISH TV advertising campaign which features Frank Caliendo and his ubiquitous impersonations of prominent* celebrities including Madden, Barkley, Dubya, Dr. Phil, Al Pacino, et. al.
As someone that is in training to become an attorney, you would probably expect for me to provide salient legal analysis on the relative merits of the potential claim. That's reasonable, I guess, but it's not on tap today. Instead, you're getting a quick recap of what has become perhaps my favorite response to a commercial in the last 5** months.
After the commercial finished, instead of making a statement that representatives for DISH TV should be standing by for the incoming call from the offices of Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson for a blatant and ham-handed use of blackface, one of my fellow viewers made the following statement:
[Person whose name has been removed to protect his/her identity]: "Wow, Charles Barkley has really let himself go."
That, my friends, is transcendent comedy.
*I use that term loosely
**Arbitrarily chosen number.
[Person whose name has been removed to protect his/her identity]: "Wow, Charles Barkley has really let himself go."
That, my friends, is transcendent comedy.
*I use that term loosely
**Arbitrarily chosen number.
Labels: Charles Barkley, Deadspin, Frank Caliendo, John Madden
posted by Justin @ 3/19/2008 10:04:00 PM
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1 Comments:
Haha...you're not vain to ask that question, but it's very good and un-ignorant of you to realize that some might consider it that way. :) Actually, that's a topic I've been meaning to post about for a while. It's interesting to watch my country's election through the eyes of others. Generally, since November, everyone asks me "so, who will you vote for? Hillary or Obama?" It wasn't until recently that people started learning that there was this other guy, McCain, in the mix. That shows you who has been stealing the spotlight. Most people are pretty interested in it because what happens to the economy there affects the economy here. And the biggest generalization of all is that they pretty much all hate Bush. Cheers.
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