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In 1999 Offer released the Underground Comedy Movie to scathing and extremely negative reviews. Lawrence Van Gelder of the New York Times described the movie as “a series of sketches built around subjects like masturbation, defecation, alienation, urination, necrophilia, voyeurism, casual brutality and mockery of the unfortunate.” He added that Offer “makes the common mistake of equating the recognition of comic potential for comedy itself. For the successful, talent bridges the gap, but here it is absent.” DVDs of the film were marketed via television infomercial.

Read his (very brief) biography here. And if you haven’t seen either infomercial before, check them out below.

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Happy Holidays everyone!

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Few have been spared the satire of Matt Groening’s long running animated sitcom. Last night, The Simpsons took on Apple, or uh, Mapple for a full 6 minutes of lampoonery — a pretty harsh ride at a two-joke per minute pace. It all starts when the Springfield mall gets its very own Mapple store, “it’s so sterile,” gasps Lisa upon entering. Perhaps the best exchange comes from Bart’s dubbing of a Steve Mobs’ product announcement in front of a crowd of gaping nerds, “You think you’re cool because you buy a $500 phone with a picture of a fruit on it. Well guess what? They cost 8 bucks to make and I pee on every one!” A Mapple store employee then angrily responds, “Who dares question the boss we fired 10 years ago and then brought back!”

Click here to read the rest and see the videos.

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There’s really no good way to spin this. If you’re so messy that it can be considered your defining characteristic, is that really something to brag about? And if you’re really committed to the whole alliteration thing, and using the awful name Marv as an anchor, can’t you think of some better M words? Marvelous Marv? Masta’ Marv? Magnificent Marv? You could even be hard and go with Murda Marv. Hell, be funny and use Starvin Marvin. Anything is better than what you’ve got now.

Read the hilarious list here.

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Election day is less than 24 hours away and this Halloween weekend, we ran into two different election posters that seek to get your vote by dressing the candidates up in a different skin color. The first, sent to us by a reader and designed by Tor Myhren a Creative Director at Grey Advertising in New York, asks you to imagine what the issues would be if Obama were white and John McCain were black.

Read the rest here.

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And at the very end, when our heroes finally get trapped and face instant death by chlorophyll, nothing happens. Marky Mark and Co. step in to the killer wind and there’s literally no explanation why they don’t bite the big one, except when someone says, “Oh, I guess the event must’ve ended.” That’s like having Freddy Kreuger come out at the end of NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and say, “You know, I don’t feel like murdering you kids anymore. I’m gonna go jump on a pogo stick.”

Read the rest here, and don’t forget to check out their video countdown of the 10 best moments in said film.

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