Media Digest presents: “The Mo Show” [season 2, ep 2]. The team tackles Kony2012, Bully, and Elmo in our documentary special, and Gabe goes cara a cara with John Hamm over Kim Kardashian. Although we’ve responded to the explicit request of our viewer to do shorter shows, we’ve responded by doing longer shows. To compensate, we’ve spaced out the punchlines.
Mo Show: Season 2, Episode 1
Anthony Jeselnik, pt. 2 [on “Conan”]. Besides the Baudelaire analogy, one could compare Jeselnik to a baseball player known for throwing curves, the way his jokes “break” at the last possible moment.
Anthony Jeselnik, pt 1. when Jim Norton says that Anthony Jeselnik is “one the most exciting new stand-ups working today,” I not only think that he’s being sincere, but I also agree. Things are perfect up to the penultimate joke, which, while perfect in construction, is better-realized in performance on the Comedy Central special. By using the darkest elements of the human condition and devising very intelligent and elegantly structured jokes, he’s like the Baudelaire of comedy (think Fleurs du Mal). But that is, perhaps, what you can expect from one whose comedy album is entitled Shakespeare.
Guy Laramee looks at the erosion of culture in his varied body of work. These sculptures - from a series called The Great Wall - play with the idea of re-envisioning current cultural trajectories. Read the text associated with them on his site:
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Bernie Mac, Debut on Showtime…at the Apollo.
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Yoga Girl - Music Video [HD] (by FogandSmogFilms)
Lana DelRey, “Video Games”. For the Later… with Jools Holland performance, click here.
Katt Williams, “Insurgents”. I like this bit because it makes use of the same thesis behind two very academic works: “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell and The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams. All three works explore how words are used to disguise, instead of illuminate, their referents.
the Netherlands. “Split the Atom” by NOISIA.
Spain: “Bombay” by El Guincho.
