Each week, I post the five funniest videos from the past week's Gotcha Media right here for you to enjoy. If I missed anything good, please don't hesitate to correct me in the comments below.
This past Sunday night, the comedy world descended on Washington, D.C. to
the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Tina Fey. Her acceptance speech was a definite
of the night, though it turns out PBS cut out the funniest part in which she made some
comments about Sarah Palin. All of Fey's famous friends and colleagues showed up including Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels and Betty White. The one conspicuously absent person was Alec Baldwin (of Wegmans Grocery
), who instead appeared "via Satellite" as Mark Twain himself,
his disgust that a woman could be receiving a prize bearing his name.
For the
week in a row, Jimmy Fallon managed to steal the late night comedy spotlight
Conan O'Brien when he had Bruce Springsteen dominate his entire show Tuesday night. Springsteen's two performances featuring the Roots were certainly special, but it was his
with Neil Young on Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair" that had everyone talking the next day. I'll never hear this song the same way again.
This week's winner for
humor (or at least I don't they meant it to be funny in the way that I think it's funny) is the PSA by Bristol Palin and The Situation for The Candie's Foundation. Most PSAs take a stance on an issue and stick with it, but here we have Bristol making her questionable case for abstinence while The Situation hits on her and talks about condoms. If teenagers are as confused after watching this as I was, I'm not sure how successful it will be. At least it's not as
as what Willow Palin was up to this week.
Meanwhile, Sarah Palin spent this week raking in the added attention brought on by the debut of her new reality show. She was emboldened enough to start talking more seriously about 2012,
Barbara Walters that she "believes she could beat Obama." Joe Biden's
on
Morning Joe
was priceless. The "lamestream media's" reviews of
Sarah Palin's Alaska
were not too positive. Stephen Colbert was inspired to
the name of his show to
Stephen Colbert's Report
and alter his opening credits accordingly. On
The Daily Show
, Jon Stewart gave Jason Jones the honors to
his own version,
Jason Jones' Bayonne
, that takes viewers deep into the heart of New Jersey.
Both George W. Bush and Kanye West were probably ready to put their
feud behind them this week, but everyone else wasn't quite ready to let it go. Not only did
Saturday Night Live
have them
face to face on Weekend Update, but the Gregory Brothers also
their own auto-tune the news video summing up the events of the past week. "I'm not a hater!"
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