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The Sacha Baron Cohen Favorite Character Poll
1 day ago
Sacha Baron Cohen is coming up with a new movie, “The Dictator,” this weekend, and in case you were living under a rock for the past few months, promotion for the film has been very intense in a way only Baron Cohen can do it.
We decided to look at Baron Cohen’s three most popular characters — Ali G, Borat and Brüno, edit their favorite moments into a video and let you decide: Which Sacha Baron Cohen character is your favorite? Don’t forget to comment and tell us why you picked yours.
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Netanyahu on the cover of next week’s Time Magazine
1 day ago
by Jew-Jew Barea
in Israel
Apparently the only way to top a breast-feeding baby is with Bibi.
And of course, we had to make a parody of it.
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NY brothel ‘madam’ tried to appoint Uri Geller’s son as her lawyer
2 days ago
by Jew-Jew Barea
in Crime
Daniel and Uri Geller (Uri Geller's official website)
Remember Uri Geller? The Israeli guy who lives in London, bends spoons and used to be BFF with Michael Jackson?
Apparently his son Daniel did not follow his father’s steps and chose a different (but perhaps equally tricky?) profession — lawyer. However, the younger Geller was not able to use his genetic powers to convince a New York judge to allow him to represent Anna Gristina, aka the “Scottish Madam,” who is accused of running a multi-million dollar brothel in Manhattan.
Gristina has already tried nine different lawyers, a move that left Judge Juan Merchan “unimpressed,” and apparently Merchan was also unimpressed by Geller’s lack of experience as an attorney in New York, so he decide to reject the appointment.
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Howard Stern is… nice?
2 days ago
by Jew-Jew Barea
in Reality
Check out this compilation video from BuzzFeed. Apparently Howard Stern has been kind of the “nice judge” on “America’s Got Talent.” Last week when Stern was on the “Today” show he told Matt Lauer that he thinks that he will be the judge eveybody loves, and in addition he shouldn’t be criticized prior to the show airing. I guess now we know why he said that.
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Charlie Sheen releases new trailer for ‘Anger Management’
2 days ago
by Jew-Jew Barea
in Television
And this time, as if he didn’t get himself in enough trouble, Sheen causes a pretty catastrophic train crash in his newest promo for his upcoming FX show “Anger Management.”
Sheen will portray a therapist who specializes in anger management, and it will co-star Selma Blair, Shawnee Smith and others. It premiers on Thursday, June 28.
Does anyone else see the symbolism here? Charlie Sheen? Train wreck?
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Awesome kids make tribute vid of Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’
3 days ago
According to the creator, James Winters, he worked on it with his family all week long as a tribute to MCA.
My favorite part is the fake mustache. Anything with fake mustache is automatically more hilarious.
Beastie Boys – Sabotage / MCA tribute from James Winters on Vimeo.
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Gilad Shalit visits ‘Homeland’ taping in Israel
3 days ago
Photo by Meir Partush/FLASH90
Since Israel looks a whole lot like all those countries with the terrorists in them, the second season of “Homeland,” the award-winning Showtime show that is based on the Israeli show “Hatufim,” is being filmed there (in Yafo, to be exact). Today the cast (which includes Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin) had a chance to meet a special visitor — Gilad Shalit.
Shalit, the IDF soldier who was abducted by the Hamas and was kept in captivity for more than five years, and whose story helped inspire the creation of the show, met the the show’s stars. He admitted that he has watched the entire first season (in case you were wondering what he’s been doing since being released).
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‘Battleship’ director yells at Israeli reporter for not joining the IDF (VIDEO)
3 days ago
by Jew-Jew Barea
in Israel
Director Peter Berg sat down with Israeli reporter Jason Danino-Holt last week, for a promotional interview for his upcoming film “Battleship,” which features Liam Neeson, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker and others.
The “Erev Tov” (Israel’s “Entertainment Tonight”) reporter asked Berg standard production-related question, when Berg took his interview to an unusual direction — the Iran-Israel conflict. And Berg was not afraid to say what he feels, and he used some explicit language to show it. After Berg explained his somewhat-apocalyptic analysis of the developing crisis, he turned his guns on Holt.
Berg asked Holt whether he joined the IDF, and when Holt answered no (he was exempt for medical reasons, he has previously said), Berg said, “What?! How did you get out of that? Are you a draft dodger?” and added, ”You better join the army motherf**ker!!!”
Watch the awkward interview (explicit language):
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Natalie Portman is back for SNL’s 100th Digital Short
4 days ago
by Jew-Jew Barea
in Funny Jews
And as always, it was hilariously disturbing. In fact, the whole video was. But should we expect anything different from Andy Samberg and co?
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10 TV Jewish Mothers We Love (or Hate)
1 week ago
A Mother’s Day special! Because if you’ll put all of them in a blender and add some guilt, you’ll get your mom! And you love your mom, don’t you? Well it wouldn’t hurt you to say it more often.
1. Sylvia Fine (“The Nanny”)
In a show that turned an eccentric Flushing-Jewish stereotype into an art form, Sylvia Fine, portrayed by Renée Taylor, was the queen. Constantly visiting the princess, Fran, and the Queen-mother, Yetta, Sylvia Fine (née Rosenberg) was a New York Jewish mother in a nutshell – overbearing, loud, hungry and mostly dominant. Oh, and loud too.
Continue reading “10 TV Jewish Mothers We Love (or Hate)” »
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Howard Stern’s hyperactive “Today” interview
1 week ago
The controversial radio host, who is about to debut as a judge on “America’s Got Talent,” sat down with Matt Lauer in NBC’s “Today” show. As expected, Stern delivered a quirky, hyperactive interview, and a very dynamic interaction with Lauer.
Stern said he thinks it’s a “crazy idea” to put him in a family show like AGT, however he testifies that he is the judge that “everybody loves.” He also spoke against critics of the decision to place him in the show, since the show has yet to air.
In addition, Stern said he “liked Al Roker better fat,” and ended the interview sitting on Lauer’s lap.
Worth a look.
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Lena Dunham answers criticism of lack of diversity on ‘Girls’
1 week ago
by Jew-Jew Barea
in Television
It has been almost a month since the HBO show “Girls” premiered, and it continues to stir controversy.
At first it was talk about nepotism, with each cast member of the show about four 20-somethings having a parent who was prominent in the media/cultural spheres. Then it was the blunt sexual content and critics saying the show is “narcissistic, lacks racial diversity and showcases whiny, privileged millennials complaining about topics only relevant to whiny, privileged millennials.”
Show creator Lena Dunham, who rose to prominence by winning the best narrative feature prize at the South by Southwest Film Festival at only 23, addressed the criticism on NPR’s “Fresh Air.”
“I take that criticism very seriously,” Dunham said. “This show isn’t supposed to feel exclusionary. It’s supposed to feel honest, and it’s supposed to feel true to many aspects of my experience. But for me to ignore that criticism and not to take it in would really go against my beliefs and my education in so many things.”
In addition, Dunham attested: “But I am a half-Jew, half-WASP, and I wrote two Jews and two WASPs. Something I wanted to avoid was tokenism in casting. If I had one of the four girls, if, for example, she was African-American, I feel like — not that the experience of an African-American girl and a white girl are drastically different, but there has to be specificity to that experience [that] I wasn’t able to speak to. I really wrote the show from a gut-level place, and each character was a piece of me or based on someone close to me.”
“Girls” airs every Sunday at 10:30 p.m. on HBO.
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