Here's the ad that created such a backlash for using various languages singing lyrics to America The Beautiful
Year: 2014
Chimpnology
Please enjoy the greatest video ever. You're welcome.
2 thru 28 still work better than #1
The African American cast members on Saturday Night Live rolled out a blazing parody of Black History Month and its underlying fuel of white guilt. This is very clever, provocative comedy at its best.
Happy 50th birthday to music sampling, sampling, sampling
Enjoy this musical history lesson on the art of clever sampling. Ooh ga sha ga ooga. Ooh ga sha ga ooga. Ooh ga sha ga ooga. Ooh ga sha ga ooga. Ooh ga sha ga ooga. Ooh ga sha ga ooga. Ooh ga sha ga ooga. Ooh ga sha ga ooga. Ooh ga sha ga ooga. Ooh ga sha ga ooga. Ooh ga sha ga ooga. Ooh ga sha ga ooga. Ooh ga sha ga ooga. Ooh ga sha ga ooga. Ooh ga sha ga ooga.
The Bingham family media sales of 1986
This 1986 video shows WHAS-11 News reporting on the sale of the final media properties held by the Bingham family of Louisville. The Binghams dominated Louisville's media landscape by controlling the major daily newspaper, plus the most popular radio and television stations. WHAS-AM and WAMZ-FM were sold for slightly more than $20 million to Clear Channel Communications of San Antonio, the fifth and sixth stations to join its burgeoning portfolio. Clear Channel went on to build a chain of 1,200 stations across America before selling to Bain Capital. At the time of this report, the Binghams had already sold The Courier-Journal newspaper to Gannett; WHAS-11 to the Providence Journal Corp., and Standard Gravure (rotogravure printing) to an Atlanta investor. In
Macho Sochi
Just days before the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, NBC's Saturday Night Live parodied Russia'a anti-gay political structure by offering Heterosexual Figure Skating. Pretty hilarious editorializing, and Papa John's wound up with an inadvertent ad campaign in the show's opening sketch. More on this episode of SNL starring Jonah Hill is here. The opening monologue shown below features a cameo by Leonardo DiCaprio. The oddest offering? A scene involving sensitive hit men.
Breaking Douchebaggery: Beebs in chains
If all news networks delivered stories like this, people would actually watch their shows.
The best golf tips ever
As long as it keeps snowing, please ignore these tips.
The Beasman is a Belieber
THE BEASMAN back from vacation I CAINT BLEEVE YOU COME BACK TO WORK, YOU SLICK RICK BUTTKISSIN LOUDMOUTH LOSERVILLE LOSER. WHEN YOU WAS GONE THEM FEW DAYS AND I HEARED LOCKJAW McCRANE ON THERE I THUNK TO MYSELF—I BETCHA THEY FINALLY FIGGERED OUT THAT LARRY IS A U OF SMELL GASBAG AND THE WH&S NEEDS TO GET A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL REPLACEMENT FOR HIM. SOMEBODY LIKE MATT JONES, A GUY WHO JUST TELLS THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH IS THAT U UH K DOMMERATES AND U OF SMELL IS A MAGNET FOR THUGS. BUT NAW, MATT JONES NEVER TURNT UP. NEXT THING I KNOW, I TURNT ON THE LECTRIC RADIO AND I HEAR A VOICE THAT SOUNDS
You can handle these truths
And two final pearls of wisdom: