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Chef Sings A Song About Menstrual Cycles
As you probably already heard, singer/actor Isaac Hayes died yesterday at his home in Memphis, TN at the age of 65. The baritone singer/composer was probably most well known for creating the theme song for Shaft…that is, until he voiced the character Chef on South Park. He was killed off the show after Hayes became angry with an episode that made fun of his brother in Scientology, Tom Cruise. But before that nastiness, he had a great run of things and contributed lots of sexy songs, including this one, in which he explains the menstrual cycle to Stan. More » -
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2-Year-Old Girls Give Bernie Mac The Jitters
I don't tend to cry over the deaths of famous people, but, for some reason, the news that comedian/actor Bernie Mac had passed away on Saturday morning was enough to send me back to bed in tears. (I got no sympathy from my main man or my two cats.) Ten minutes later, I got back up again and starting rifling through my DVDs to find one of my two (!) copies of the 2000 concert film The Original Kings Of Comedy, which first introduced me to Mac's work. Personally, I think his entire set is brilliant, but, in the interest of brevity, I cut a clip of the bit in which he talks about taking care of his drug-addicted sister's daughters and son...the youngest of whom, he explains, is an agent of the devil. Clip (language NSFW) above. More » -
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We'd like to think that this — footage from Bernie Mac's appearance on a North Carolina stage in the Original Kings of Comedy — is the sort of reception he got in heaven this morning. More » -
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Original King Bernie Mac, 50, Dies Of Complications Due To Pneumonia
Really sad Saturday news: "A publicist says Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor and comedian Bernie Mac has died at age 50. Publicist Danica Smith says Bernie Mac died early Saturday at a hospital in the Chicago area of complications due to pneumonia. The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but he had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently had been hospitalized and treated for pneumonia." This man made us laugh like no one else and was a constant reminder that "fun is fun, jokes is jokes." An embed of part of his brilliant Original Kings Of Comedy performance — in which he famously breaks down the word "motherfucker" — after the jump. More » -
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Estelle Getty, Thank You For Being A Friend
Estelle Getty, the actress who won our hearts playing Sophia Petrillo — Bea Arthur's salty Sicilian mother — on The Golden Girls died this morning at the age of 84. She'd been suffering for years from severe dementia. We're huge fans of GG (that shit stands the test of time), and we were so sad to hear about Estelle passing, so we put together this clip show of some of Sophia's best moments. We hope that where ever she is, she's found peace, and that the hereafter is nothing at all like Shady Pines. More » -
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George Carlin: "Pro-Life Is Anti-Woman"
George Carlin was able to make so much sense because he looked at each topic from every angle possible, and then whittled his arguments down to common sense. And anytime a man can spit out common sense about a woman's right to choose, he automatically wins us over. (Carlin was also able to recognize that feminists can be as militant and unreasonable as any other group, and that anyone who attempts to censor a person is the party that's in the wrong.) He'll be missed.
Pro Life Is Anti-Woman - George Carlin [YouTube] More » -
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Top 10 Reasons Why I Miss Anna Nicole Smith
One year ago today, Anna Nicole Smith died in a Florida casino hotel of a drug overdose (the toxicology report, incidentally, read like War and Peace). And while it may seem like a really obvious statement, I have to say that what sucks most about her being gone is that she's not here anymore to make me smile by being drunk at awards shows, having babies in lawless countries and then selling the filmed content to tabloid TV shows, and introducing the world to her toothless cousin... you know, all those huge contributions that she made to pop culture. Anyway, after the jump, the top 10 reasons why I miss her. More » -
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Heath Ledger's death has been ruled as an accidental overdose of prescription drugs by the New York City medical examiner's office. The toxicology report shows that Ledger — who passed away on January 22 at the age of 28 — took a lethal combination of six different painkillers and anti-anxiety medication including oxycodone (generic for Percodan), hydrocodone (generic for Vicodin), diazepam (generic for Valium), temazepam (generic for the sedative Restoril), alprazolam (generic for Xanax) and doxylamine (generic for the sleep aid Restavit). [Us]
