Does anyone else get the sense that these Weekend Update Thursdays only work because of YouTube and Hulu and the ilk? Because it's doubtful anyone watches this program on its own, but it is really convenient to have bite-size clips of it ready in the morning. Sort of like SNL itself? Discuss.
Anyway, Will Ferrell gave his promised cameo on the show last night, with a marked return of his President Bush character. It was funny! Especially when he referred to Sarah Palin and Barack Obama as "the hot lady and the Tiger Woods guy."
See for yourself, after the jump:
According to Forbes.com, where rich businessmen gather to discuss how good lying feels, Nicole Kidman was the most overpaid actress in Hollywood last year. On average, Kidman's films earned just one dollar for every dollar she was paid; The Invasion actually lost almost $3 for every dollar in Kidman's salary.
A reminder: a schoolteacher, police officer or AIDS researcher would probably find it difficult to get work if they failed so majorly so consistently.
After the jump, the rest of the top 10.
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So last night was the ESPY Awards, and you're looking at the best part of the evening: The Giants won for "Best Upset." Speaking of upset, we're a little concerned that there were more celebrities than athletes in attendance. Sure, you need some famous people to attract attention to the event, but when Trista Sutter is posing on the red carpet next to Terrell Owens, you know things have gotten out of control.
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Will Ferrell, offering thoughtful parenting advice to former co-star Nicole Kidman:
For me, talk to your children, at least once a week. If you've got time, do it two or three times a week. But otherwise, I find the times where I let weeks and weeks go by without talking to my children, that adds up.
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DUELING SHERLOCKS "Columbia Pictures is betting that audiences will quickly embrace as inherently hilarious the idea of Sasha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell as Sherlock Holmes and his crime-solving partner Dr. Watson, Variety reports. … Based on the famed novels by Arthur Conan Doyle, the comedy is the second Holmes project currently in the works at a major studio, although Warner Bros.' 'Sherlock Holmes' is a drama written by Anthony Peckham to be directed by Guy Ritchie."
In an interview published last week, The AV Club cuts to the chase with actor Will Ferrell, whose number one disappointment, Semi-Pro, premiered over the weekend. Here's the elephant in the room being summarily killed and stripped of its tusks:
AVC: It seems like you're playing a very similar character in a lot of these movies.
WF: Well, I wouldn't… I like how they deal with the same theme. I think all three of the characters from those movies are distinctly different.
AVC: It seems like there's a lot of Ron Burgundy in Jackie Moon, your Semi-Pro character.
WF: Yeah, maybe. But I don't know, though; Burgundy is more officious, and Jackie Moon is a little more loosey-goosey. They're similar in that they're from the same era, and they think they're very sexy.
AVC: Are they?
WF: Jackie, yeah, of course. He's hard to take your eyes off of. Ron is—I don't know if Ron is that sexy, really.
Sexy or not, expect dozens of your local, unoriginal dicks to be in full Jackie Moon costumes come Halloween. Because, as Ferrell himself knows, it's very easy to mimic.
MOST MOVIES SUCK NOW "Lofty predictions for 'Semi-Pro’s' debut this weekend shot well wide of the film’s ultimate haul. Although some folks thought it could score as much as $45 million, the Will Ferrell comedy ended the weekend with an estimated $15.3 million from 3,121 theaters in the lowest opening for a major comedy starring the actor in almost a decade. Still, it ended up in the number one spot…"
It's always stylish to be smart enough to laugh at fashion and its archaic, subjective rules. That's why this outfit works.
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• Handsome! [DListed]
• Will Ferrell to star in Land of the Lost. Yay, right? Or are people over him? Whatever.[PS]
• Posit: I submit to you that it's not "topless" if no nipple is exposed. [HT]
• Wanna dress like Lindsay Lohan? No? Well, know that you can. [INO]
• What's worse, that someone took time to hack Heidi Montag's website or that Heidi Montag has a website? [ICYDK]
• Some whizkid employed the oft-underused "Not a Drug Abuser" tool on Photoshop. [Yeeeah]
• Give your baby soda! Ah, the wisdom of the 50s. [CityRag]
Last evening, everyone from Samuel L Jackson to Dane Cook (yeesh) turned out for the annual MTV Movie Awards, that glorious time of year when the network transforms itself from being simply a constant commercial for bad pop culture into a vastly more obvious constant commercial for bad pop culture.
Highlights of the evening included very high-minded comedy like a fat guy chasing Sarah Silverman (brilliant!) to Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen kissing (I mean, men kissing—can you believe it?).
The most inexplicable photo grouping of the night must be Chris Tucker, Victoria Beckham and Bruce Willis, whose mere proximity to one another must have led to a completely unnecessary picture. I guess it's up to you to name the star, the has-been and the never-was.
PS Megan Fox, the awe-inducing beauty from Transformers, will be the new "it" girl. I'm calling "it."
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• Colored contacts plus the wig means that about 34 percent of Britney's head is now fake. Unfortunately, she's still using her real brain. [PopSugar]
• "Combined drug intoxication. The reaction of the sleeping pills plus the levels of all the therapeutic drugs in her system, is what killed her. Add on a raging flu and a slight infection from the abscess and thus we have Anna Nicole, dead of an accidental overdose." [ONTD]
• Bruce Willis made out with Courtney Love. I'm guessing it had to have been a dare and that everyone was going crazy when he actually did it. [DListed]
• Now she can go back to getting loaded in peace. [TB]
• Aguliera betting it's not going to rain. [TheBosh]
• Hey, Hollywood, I've got the new Will Ferrell script: 1. Dopey but lovable guy's doing great. 2. Dopey guy fails. 3. Dopey guy finds a quirky way to come back and win. Somehow we'll throw in a love interest and a corny villain. Bada bing! [CityRag]
• Going from Heather Mills to the Guinness heiress is the biggest rebound in the history of dating. My hat's off to you, Paul. [ASL]
Mmmmm…man soup.
Lindsay loved the Lakers. You know she was making eyes at Kobe all night.
Despite reporting yesterday that Lindsay Lohan is getting her AA on, Page Six is now recounting some gossip about the starlet from the other night's GQ party:
When the Lohans arrived at the exclusive dinner at the Sunset Tower - joining the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Gore, Jay-Z, Jennifer Connelly and Magic Johnson - she "flipped out" upon seeing Jessica Biel, the luminous star of "The Illusionist," there with her assistant.
Biel's assistant used to work for Lohan and earned the "Mean Girls" star's ire when she quit several months ago.
According to a witness, Lohan started screaming, "If she stays, I'm outta here! I can't look at that girl! I can't believe you would allow an assistant in here - she doesn't belong in here!"
"It was really uncalled for," said our spy. "Jessica and everyone else ignored her."
A rep for Lohan said, "This does not sound like Lindsay." A Biel friend said, "Jess didn't steal anyone's assistant - her assistant stopped working for Lindsay a long time ago. And whatever drama happened, Jess was no part of it. She is not part of [Lohan's] crowd - she is a professional." A rep for Biel declined comment.
Lohan was shunned at the glittering affair by other celebs who are tired of her bratty antics and bad work ethic. Overhearing her tirade about Biel's assistant, Will Ferrell turned to DiCaprio, Gore and Affleck and said, "Who cares about that freak anymore, anyway?" - setting off laughter. Later, Lohan, with a champagne glass in her hand, tried flirting with Leo, to no avail.
Sounds like Leo, Al, and Ben were just humoring Will Ferrell, because his comment wasn't, how do I say this, funny. Unless he was talking about Al Gore to his face, because that, my friends, would be kinda great. Plus, we all know Al Gore's a freak…in the bedroom at least.
I'm not sure when this interview took place, but any time when Will Ferrell belts out Phantom on late night television deserves mention.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan premiered in Hollywood, bringing out the funnies like Sasha Baron Cohen's girlfriend Isla Fisher who wasn't going to let her boyfriend's silly antics stop her from dressing up all pretty at his movie premiere, Will Ferrell, Rainn Wilson of The Office, Cheryl Hines of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Andy Dick with his trophy son he parades around everywhere these days, and Chris Kattan of Corky Romano (in my heart). Kanye West, whose fiance displayed perhaps the worst use of leggings I've seen since my own huskier late-elementary school days, was also out to catch the comedic shit show.
20th Century Fox, in trying to figure out how many eggs to put in Borat's crazy basket and not sure if the Internet hype will lead to box office gold or Snakes on a Plane, is opening the film on fewer screens than expected. Variety reports:
But Fox maintains standard tracking methodology doesn't apply. "This is a new genre of movie," said Jeffrey Godsick, exec VP of marketing for 20th Century Fox. "The awareness is beginning with a targeted audience. When you are breaking a new kind of genre, not everyone knows what to make of it."
And laffers are the hardest films to handicap through tracking: Hits like "There's Something About Mary" and "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" performed better and longer than tracking numbers indicated they would.
Worried that "Borat" could become a phenomenon, rival distrib execs weren't eager to program against it.
The studio is setting up a slower rollout than originally expected. Pic will bow on around 800 screens — fewer than many expected — Nov. 3, and then broaden to a nationwide release as reviews circulate and awareness builds.
A rival studio distribution exec, who attended a recent "Borat" screening that was part of the buzz-building Los Angeles Blackcarpet screening series organized by MySpace.com, described audience reaction as nothing less than manic. Lines snaked around the block. Kids, dressed in Borat garb, took to a mic positioned in front of the auditorium to do their best impersonations.
Some skeptics pointed to the Internet-hyped "Snakes on a Plane" as a reason for caution, but others noted that while "Snakes" was slammed by critics, "Borat" has received glowing notices so far.
Either way, if you are a teenager, know teenagers, have friends who still act like teenagers, expect to get sick of their mediocre Borat impressions very, very quickly.
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Jake Gyllenhaal, Matthew McConaughey and Lance Armstrong are quite the middle-school-girl-style BFFs these days. You know, they meet and get all giddy and want to spend every second together to talk shit about all their other friends or girls and have sleepovers where they stay up all night painting each other's toenails and practicing making out. Last night the three amigos hit up the ESPY Awards where Lance was both the host and a winner.
The talented athletes and beautiful gift-bag desiring celebrities gathered in Los Angeles for the award show. Other ESPY Award non-athlete attendees included Keifer Sutherland in formal (read: black) denim, Janet Jackson, Kathy Griffin, Carmen "Publicity Monger" Elektra, and Ben Stiller. Everyone looked great, and how many other places could Will Ferrell, Danica Patrick and Ludacris get stuck in conversation together?
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