Hello, I'm Dr. Ronald Chevalier

Viral marketing does it again. Gentlemen Broncos.

I must say, I'm excited to see the boys from FOTC branching out. A clip, if you are not familiar:


(Note: That HBO commercial at the end of the video is a year out of date - so don't worry, you already missed it.)

Freaks!

1933, is there nothing you can't teach us?

Thanks Internet Archive.

A Devastated America

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

Thank the gods for The Onion.

Fireworks Day Safety

Happy Fireworks Day everybody! Since those devilish little explosives can be so dangerous, I thought I'd share a little safety video with you - courtesy of our friends at Red vs. Blue.

The Only Acceptable Response to a Kansas Joke

When you tell people you are from Kansas, they often respond with some pretty stupid comments. Among the worst are those derived from "The Wizard of Oz." It is never funny. Rob Riggle (The Daily Show) demonstrates that for us here on The Jeannie Tate Show, which is quite funny in its own right. I would definitely recommend checking out the other episodes.

Anyway, around 4:53 into this thing the shit goes down. Riggle provides a textbook response.



HT: UCBcomedy.com

The Internet Has Funny

This is what you watch now.

The Michael Showalter Showalter:



Mr. Showalter (of The State, Stella, and Wet Hot American Summer) has himself a little program over at CollegeHumor.com. It takes the form of a talk show, with spliced in "off-camera" bits. The above video features a young Andy Samberg. Other guests have included Michael Cera, Paul Rudd, David Cross, Jack McBrayer, Michael Ian Black, David Wain and Zach Galifianakis. Watch them.
_____________________________________________________________________________________

Clark and Michael:


Michael Cera ("Superbad" and "Arrested Development") and his best friend Clark Duke bring us Clark and Michael - a story about the two friends' attempt to get their show on tv. The series clocks in at ten episodes, at about ten minutes per episode. The series picks up steam as it goes along, so give it a chance if it doesn't resonate with you right away. I hope this doesn't represent the beginning and the end of this show - I'd come back for more. Here is a little preview for the show, which should give you an idea of what you're missing:



Giggles.

Weekend Update with Norm Macdonald . . . Almost.

In what I consider a sweet pickup, SuperDeluxe has added Norm Macdonald to their roster of talent. Norm is doing an animated news show, called The Fake News. Below is the first episode of the show. I think it's okay, but I'm hoping that things will pick up as Norm starts to find his groove. I'll definitely keep watching.

Norm joins the likes of Bob Odenkirk, whose work on SuperDeluxe has been highlighted in this blog before.

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

I have just discovered a called Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, and it is probably the best 6 episode show I have ever seen. I first saw the show on adultswim.com, and at the time I thought it was an adultswim production. In fact, it originally aired in the UK back in 2004. All of the episodes are available on youtube, and adultswim is continuing to air them.
Matthew Holness (second from right in the photo) plays Garth Marenghi, a horror writer. Garth wrote, directed and starred as Dr. Rick Dagless in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, which was supposed to have originally aired in the 1980's. Now the show has been resurrected by the network, and spruced up with commentary from Marenghi, and two other members of the cast. Marenghi is a very David Brent-esque type of character - so you'll probably like this show more if you think that's funny. The show features a lot of intentionally bad acting and editing, which are all pretty enjoyable. A few of my favorite features of this show are:

• that all the characters seem to carry guns, even though they are doctors working in a hospital
• the male characters thoroughly berate the lone female character, frequently driving her to tears
  
• Dr. Dagless inexplicably drives a Knight Rider style golf cart around the hospital grounds
  

After just moments of watching the show, I thought that there was something familiar about Marenghi/Dr. Dagless. It turns out that he played the computer geek in an episode of BBC's The Office, which he was quite good in. I have included the show intro to Darkplace (which I think are pretty funny on their own), and a clip from The Office.

The Show Intro:


A clip of Darkplace star, Matthew Holness, as the "computer geek" from BBC's The Office:

Comics For The Mathematically-Minded

Below are a selection of web comics I enjoy, specifically focusing on math related entries. You've got to be smart and funny to keep us coming back. (Click on each for the full size version)

The Perry Bible Fellowship (previously honored in this blog)


xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.


Dinosaur Comics

Do You Understand This Blog?

[HT: Look At This...]

FreeRice Update

Last week I posted links to several games that I like to play online. FreeRice is definitely one of the better games. Anyway, what I didn't realize was that FreeRice had just been started about two weeks before my post. Anyway, they've started to release the daily totals of donated rice, and I've got to say I'm impressed. I did a quick search to find out how much a grain of rice weighs, and found this (from here):

Rice grains vary widely. Mostly they weight 20-30 mg, although experimental breeding has produced them as large as 78 mg.

So, let's use 25mg per grain. How much has been donated so far? Let's look at the totals:

Total Donations by Day

Date	Grains of Rice
7 October 2007	830
8 October 2007	5,670
9 October 2007	76,020
10 October 2007	287,960
11 October 2007	4,584,100
12 October 2007	3,541,350
13 October 2007	3,194,630
14 October 2007	4,343,350
15 October 2007	6,403,920
16 October 2007	6,645,520
17 October 2007	12,157,010
18 October 2007	26,703,160
19 October 2007	40,373,060
20 October 2007	16,175,550
21 October 2007	13,276,900
22 October 2007	26,881,930
23 October 2007	30,423,770
24 October 2007	37,670,700
	__________
	232,745,430

So, 232,745,430 grains x 25 mg = 5,818,635,750 mg, or 5,818,635.75 grams, or 5,818.64 kg. Not a bad haul over three weeks.

How many people will this feed? As of right now, I don't have numbers to use to answer that. I'll try and figure that out later. If anyone has the answer, or disagrees with the rice grain weight used, let me know.

I'd also like to point out that my first post on this was on the 19th, which also recorded the highest daily donation total so far. I'm going to go ahead and take credit for that - and pass some along to you. Way to go!

Sweet Tits

So, if you haven't checked out Derek & Simon: The Show on SuperDeluxe.com, you are missing out. These little shorts are good, and I've embedded one of my favorites here, featuring Michael Cera from Arrested Development, and is produced by Bob Odenkirk(imdb). Enjoy this.