President Obama apparently wishes he could “go Bulworth,” though apparently without the awkward rapping (New York Times) Since the Stefon character has never even sustained a sketch, you’d think it wouldn’t ever be part of a movie, and Bill Hader confirms that in an interview (GQ) The Office finale had about 50 people in the more »

Late Wednesday night, National Review writer/conservative talking head Kevin Williamson posted a ridiculously self-congratulatory item about an unpleasant experience he’d just had at a live theater performance. Apparently, if his narrative of the events is to be believed, he was seated at close quarters next to some fellow theater goers, whom he oh-so-charmingly describes as “ “two parties more »

Yes, How I Met Your Mother‘s entire ninth season will take place around the wedding weekend. Just when we were getting our hopes up… (Deadline) How Cristina Milioti was chosen (Entertainment Weekly) Lindy West takes on sexism and comedy (Jezebel) In the worst idea of all time, a movie theater owner had “armed” men dressed more »

The final countdown for the highly anticipated fourth (and likely, but hopefully not) last season of “Arrested Development” starts now. The entire Bluth clan is back for the thing’s trailer, which runs for about a minute and a half, or enough to last you an hour or so of repeated replays. I for one watched more »

Billy Joel turned 64 this week (Tablet) Do women hate Game of Thrones? (The Frisky) Remember the ’80s band OMD? Apparently they were more influential than we remember  (New York Times magazine) Yes, the “Donna Martin Graduates” episode of Beverly Hills 90210 is 20 years old (Vulture) 20 overused movie shots that should be retired more »

Why kids are obsessed with Elmo (Slate) The TV news aggregator TVTattle is back, as part of Hitfix (TV Tattle) It’s Spock vs. Spock in Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto’s Audi commercial (YouTube) The five best songs about Jerusalem (Heeb Magazine) The last original show on the Fox network, Cops, has been cancelled but has more »

The most New York-centric episodes of Seinfeld (NYCgo) Why “Star Wars” is overrated (Bad Ass Digest) After Kris Kross’ Chris Kelly died, a lot of people erroneously thought it was Christopher Cross who passed (Twitter) Speaking of which… a ranking of the best jumping-related songs (Slate) My old film professor Thomas Doherty, with a book more »

No one could blame PepsiCo for instituting a “no using rappers to promote Mountain Dew” corporate policy. It dropped Lil Wayne due to a controversial rap lyric that made light of the beating death of Emmitt Till. An online ad directed by rapper Tyler The Creator immediately hit a raw nerve with viewers. The ad more »

The John Hughes/hockey connection (Grantland) The many, many unanswered questions of Saved by the Bell (Pajiba) An opinion piece arguing that The Big Bang Theory is an offensive minstrel show about nerds (Sick Chirpse) A real-life quirky lady resents the “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” trope (Rookie Mag) Speaking of which, the creator of MPDG, Nathan more »

EntertainmentTell recently told you that Chris Hardwick’s nerdy star is on the rise. He already hosts Talking Dead, a wrapup show for AMC’s flesh eating hit The Walking Dead. The TV version of his podcast The Nerdist debuted on BBC this spring. Now he’s jumping into the intensely competitive world of late night talk shows on more »