"KILER BEES! You Forgot About Them, Didn't Ya?"

Oh man. So now we know where Glenn Beck got his shtick from.

That's America … To Me

Another Bruce monologue. Have a safe and sane Independence Day, kids.



Also, don't forget that if you share my latest mix, I'll send you a bonus mix, which could come in handy this weekend.

Have fun. Don't blow off any digits.

"Pruppets Are Little People Who Can Talk."

"It’s as if it’s 4:30 in the morning he had snuck into the studio to make this show without getting permission. It’s bare bones. Lots of technical problems. Just a mess. The whole thing is a big mess. A big beautiful mess." – Tim Heidecker to Entertainment Weekly

You wanna know what show I love to bits? Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule, that's what. It's like the most bizarre, depressing and hilarious thing ever. For example, here's the good doctor interviewing his "brother," Stan Brule, who loves "preetzas," and has 500 skateboards:



And is also just a fantasy because Dr. Brule always wanted to know what it would be like to have a brother. Funny and kinda dark, right?

This show, it speaks to some sick part of me. I love it like a lot. You should too. It's a lot more focused than it's parent show, Tim & Eric: Awesome Show, Great Job! which started off as bizarre/kinda wrong/hilarious and then ventured off into bizarre/makes you wanna barf/is unwatchable. You can watch all six episodes of Check It Out! over at the adult swim site. You won't be sorry, you dingus.

Here's A Non-Bruce One

"So it's uh, it's uh, in no way poo-based?"
"So there's no reason to see a doctor!"

I think I could just post a Kids In the Hall sketch every day and be satisfied. But I won't. Probably.

This One's A Close Second

Why are they all weirdo-surrealist Bruce McCulloch sketches? I have no idea.

Periods. Period.

I only caught about a half-hour of Tina Fey on SNL last night because I am a total featherweight and can't stay up past midnight anymore. (Plus, we drove down to Akron to hear Obama speak and waited in line for a while which left us a little tired.) Oh, the joys of bring in your 30's.

Candace and I did manage to catch this sketch though (before I passed out on the couch only to wake up around 4 a.m. all sore and disoriented) and both came really close to peeing ourselves.

Enjoy:

Bowlful Of Funny

Patton Oswald has finally eaten a KFC Famous Bowl and it's all documented by him over at the Onion AV Club. I laughed, I cried, I became disturbingly curious as to what one of these so-called "sadness bowls" tasted like. Don't worry, I won't actually do it. But I am curious.

It's A Numbers Game

From [adult swim's] Tim & Eric: Awesome Show! Great Job!, which is just weird. In a good way. Here's another one, For Your Health!

Happy Monday, Internets. I hope it doesn't totally suck and in fact rocks the rainbows out of a unicorn's behind.

I Had No Idea It Did All Of That

Wow. Hand grenade? Really? I might just have to get one of those.

Saturday Night Is Alright For Sleeping

So, I finished posting last night and decided that I wasn't all that tired. So, I decided to stay up and watch Saturday Night Live. I figured it had been a while, so... why not?

Bad call, man.

What happened to this show? Now I don't want to get all "back when I was a kid," on you, but man, SNL, well, it sucks now. I know that I was probably spoiled by the amazing mid-to-late-90's cast (which were filled to the gills with some seriously heavy hitters), but come on, this is just... it's just not good comedy. It's not even good drama.

It made me feel like some ancient dinosaur person because not only was I getting pretty tired as I was watching it, but I just didn't get any of the skits. It was like they were speaking in Esperanto or Martian or something. I flipped through the channels during commercials and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation gave me more chuckles than the entire episode of SNL did. And it made more sense, too, which is saying something, because that movie is batcrap insane.

I am leaning toward laying blame at the feet of head writer Seth Myers (he's like a mini-Jimmy Fallon, all teeth and smarm with no comedic chops to back it up, always too willing to laugh at his own jokes) because it's not like there aren't funny people on the show: Poehler, Armisen and Forte are all very funny people, but man, this is just some dreadful stuff. It's like a caricature of a caricature of a caricature of SNL. Depressing.

Breaking News

This one's for Chris:

Ain't science grand?

I Love Red Meat

The incredibly disturbing comic strip, that is, though a nice steak every now and then is also appreciated. I have a Dashboard widget that displays all of the strips and I flip through them when I get bored. I also have a Whoopie Cushion one. I am so classy it is unbelievable. Anyway, here's a funny strip:

Now, why didn't I think of that? Here's another one:

Funny!

Before I (Finally) Go To Bed

I've had this panel stuck in my head for a week or so. So therefore, I must scan it and post it here before I go to bed despite the fact that it is ever so late. It's from volume 2 of the Scott Pilgrim saga, Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World, which I have mega-ultra-love for. It's Scott yelling out the window of a slowly-pulling-away bus at his "cool gay roommate" Wallace Wells:

It goes on from there with the bus driving away and Scott yelling ridiculous/hilarious retorts ("If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!!" is the rest of the one in the bottom left) as the bus and type get smaller and smaller. Funny!

Fun With YouTube

I was looking on YouTube for this horrible "Visit Detroit" ad I saw the other day and found this gem instead. WARNING: This will scar you for life. You have been warned.

"I Saw It And Wanted To Try It."

I found these last weekend when I volunteered to help move books from a local junior high. I love the fact that their first question for the first man on the moon isn't: "So, First Man On the Moon, huh? How was that?" It's "Did you fight in any wars?" Genius.

I'm assuming they got an "A."

"I No B*stard! I Bruce Lee!"

I was skimming the Onion (which, I feel it fair to warn you, is incredibly hit-and-miss) this morning while waiting for my computer to open a file (which it's still working on) and stumbled on this little nugget:

Why Was I Not Informed About Bruce Lee?

I am going to try to remain calm and keep in mind that you purport to be decent, rational people. As my parents and peers, you supposedly have my...

Click it. You will laugh.

Inappropriate!

I figured this fit with yesterday's post, so...

Obey the Rules

The following announcements are provided as a public service by Big Red Robot, Inc.: "Where Your Health Is Our #1 Concern. Well, #2 concern. Our #1 concern is that dinosaurs will be brought back to life and eat us all. That's what keeps us up at night. But you, you're a close second. We're really concerned about you, too. We are also concerned about Martian invasions, robot revolts and missing the season finale of Lost. But you're definitely on the list. Because we care. Like, a lot.":

It's for your health!

There Is Nothing That Makes Me Smile More Than This Clip

I've had this clip sitting in my drafts section for a while. May as well publish it. Why? Because it freaking rules the Multiverse:

The Batusi. Sweet sassafrass, that is some classic stuff. My nerdiness was cemented when, sitting in the theatre watching Pulp Fiction all those years ago (I was a senior in high school, just to date myself), I knew, immediately, the name of the dance the Uma and His Royal Sweathog-iness, the Travola, were alluding to in their swanky dance-off. Ah, Sir Adam West, when will the world be ready for your genius?

D.I.Y. Talking Heads Concert On Big Red Robot!

If you know me at all, you know that I love David Byrne/Talking Heads. They're probably my favorite band in the history of history. So imagine my excitement as I was cruising YouTube and stumbled on this footage from a 1980 Talking Heads show in Rome. I was going to embed all these links, so you could watch them all here on Big Red Robot, one after another, but YouTube wasn't letting me, so, I'll link to them instead. In true punk fashion, it's a Do It Yourself concert. You'll figure it out. You're smart like that.

This is some primo stuff. The band was touring in support of the classic (their best?) Remain In Light album and with an all-star lineup that includes members of Parlaiment Funkadelic and guitar god Adrian Belew. This line-up (most of it at least... I think?) can also be heard on the amazing live double-album, The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads and would later be seen in the Jonathan Demme-directed Stop Making Sense tourfilm (one of the best of the genre), but as Light is a superior album to Speaking In Tongues, which Sense was in support of, this stuff, this stuff is gold. Seriously, I'm getting excited just looking over the track list. It includes songs from their first four albums - :77, More Songs About Buildings and Food, Fear Of Music and the aforementioned Remain In Light.

Like I said: gold.

So, pop some popcorn, sit back and get ready to get funky. Here's Talking Heads: Rome 1980:

01 Psycho Killer
02 Stay Hungry
03 Cities
04 I Zibmra
05 Drugs
06 Take Me To the River
07 Crosseyed & Painless
08 Life During Wartime
09 Houses In Motion
10 Born Under Punches

So, how was it? Awesome, right? Man, I love the interwebz.