Archive for November 21st, 2006

Schizophrenia

Compare and contrast:
 
Story #1

Forget the anti-Semitic jokes, it’s the racy publicity for the film “Borat” that bothers Israel’s censors.
 
Posters showing comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s boorish Kazakh alter ego in a skimpy posing pouch were scrapped in the Jewish state on the grounds of decency, the newspaper Haaretz reported on Tuesday.
 
Instead, the star will be shown [...]

Future of the Israellycool Podcast

My gradual podfading has taken its toll, with the podcast failing to make Lair’s Ten and Only Ten list for the first time in over a year. Can’t say I disagree with him either.
 
I am finding it extremely hard to find the time to do a podcast these days. Sure, it isn’t too hard to record [...]

Just Call Him Cosmo Gibson

Updated with video of apology
 
Question: What do you get when you cross a former Seinfeld star doing stand-up, with some heckling African-American audience members?
Answer: This.
 

Update: You can read more here. And here’s a CNN segment on the incident.
 
Update: Kramer Richards apologizes on Letterman.
 

Brief Statement on TomKat Wedding

To those of you who may be wondering if I have anything to say on the wedding of Tom Cruise to Katie Holmes, I have two words for you.

Platform shoes.