A-Rod Seeks D-Balls? October 20, 2009 11:52 AM | permalink

Private to Kate Hudson: Looks like your beau Alexander Rodriguez wants to put a ring in it.  But the "it" he's thinking of might not be what you had in mind...

Twitpic here, via Bill Simmons, an ESPN columnist and podcaster who rather conveniently has a book about basketball coming out next week. 

Rolicking Thursday Roundup October 15, 2009 2:30 PM | permalink

Wait, what?  Bunnies are being used to heat homes in Sweden.  That's hott.  Literally.  Apparently they toss frozen bunnies in the incinerator. Thing is, this might be a smart use of ex-bunnies, but who the heck can approve of burning Bugs?

OK, moving on...the image of Paris Hilton and Bugs Bunny is appropriate to the above story and appropriately bizarre, but it's not new -- it's from 5/11/2006 when she attended Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis' birthday.  But my question is: Where has Paris been?  Is it me or is Paris Hilton's every move suddenly off the stupid radar?

Oh, wait, maybe it's because another highly-connected blonde has stolen her dumb fire?  Like, um, Meghan McCain?  See Meghan's Twitpic at right and read about her Twitter "stir" here, that is, if you aren't stirred enough already.

Related: The night I found Meghan's mom Cindy McCain tweeting about truTV!

Unrelated but excellent: Luggage Tuesdays has wonderful, but disgusting, photo evidence of VH1 and their in-show Burger King logo placement FAIL. 

Kool Keith & His 98-Year-Old Fridgerator Theory October 14, 2009 3:07 PM | permalink

Kool Keith is insane, but even the craziest of crazies has a moment or two of clarity that nobody sees coming.  Case in point, his incredibly lucid method of keeping people away from his edibles, which amounts to teaching your taste buds to like the taste of say, soda water, over Kool-Aid.  Just don't ask me what 'Oak Ridge' cake is... 

truTV on SNL October 5, 2009 3:06 PM | permalink

The truTV parody on Saturday Night Live this weekend?  Yes we saw it! 

You can watch it here.  No, it wasn't exactly up-to-date with our brand...

But who the frack cares? It was nearly six minutes, featured a Forensic Files tune-in and our logo was on the air for a good long while (pictured at left with the faux show title) for free.  So thanks for that, Lorne!

Plus it was funny, IMHO.

We have arrived.  Everybody is talking about us.  Like Lady Gaga and Madonna, we are officially a pop culture phenom. 

Combine this sketch from Saturday Night Live with Jimmy Fallon's drummer tweeting about truTV on Friday night and it's clear, NBC totally has a crush on us.  It's kind of cute. 

Private to NBC: Birthday cake ice cream and mix CDs are the keys to our heart. 

Fallon's Drummer <3's Us! October 5, 2009 1:26 PM | permalink

Frank "Knuckles" Walker, percussionist for Jimmy Fallon's house band, The Roots, gave us a nice shout out on Twitter this past Friday night in prime time:

@twittFKnuckles DAMN!!!!.TruTV got the best reality willdest car chases!!!..love the thrill,the excitement....THE AGONYYY!!! lol

Thanks Frank!  Question for you: How come when I search "Jimmy Fallon house band" or Jimmy Fallon Roots" no official NBC website comes up on the first page?  Did Zucker key Google's car?

But seriously, thanks for watching and tweeting, we are mega honored!

Calling all funky fresh truTV fans -- you can follow truTV on Twitter here. We see and love all of you tweeting about us, for reals.

The Internet Doesn't Know What a Vagina Looks Like October 2, 2009 9:53 AM | permalink

In case you weren't aware of the controversy, the entire internet has its panties (or lack thereof???)  in a twist this afternoon over a millisecond flash of what MAY have been some uncovered lady-parts on a recent episode of So You Think You Can Dance.

By the way, some of these links are not safe for work, unless, you know, they are safe for work.

It's kind of complicated.

Perez Hilton seems to have come out strongly in the "yep, it sure is" camp, whereas The Live Feed is presenting it as a definite "maybe." The Huffington Post has refused to take a stand and has left it up to you, the internet pervert viewer, with a handy poll asking the million dollar question "What are we looking at?" At this writing, "panties crease" is trailing in the polling by more than 30 percentage points.

For it's part, Fox has reportedly contacted TMZ and issued the official statement reading "It is a crease in the young lady's panties."

For our part, we are going to stay out of the entire controversy, and just say thank heavens this didn't happen on Dancing With The Stars, and left us wondering if what we saw was actually Tom Delay's "Republican whip."

Today's Big Dumb Story September 30, 2009 9:39 AM | permalink

Michael Jackson and Madonna: Their petty gripes are revealed in private tapes Jackson made that are being hawked by a schlocky guy named Schmuley. 

Unless aliens land in Topeka and reveal that their advanced society has a cure for the nose freeze you get when you eat ice cream too fast, Madge and Jacks are going to be the main news today.

Earthquakes might get some play, troops moving out of Iraq hardly any.  But mostly, it's going to be a day of hearing endlessly about the "news" that Madonna wanted Jackson to go to a strip club after dinner, and Jackson didn't wanna go with. 

Is the public health care option dead dead after yesterday?  That seems newsworthy. 

No, sorry.  Jackson and Madonna.  That's all yer gettin'.  Deal with it.

McGraw, The Crime Dog September 23, 2009 9:00 AM | permalink

There has been quite a bit of debate on the internet over whether Phil McGraw, popularly known on his daytime talk show as "Dr. Phil," is a real doctor. I'll sidestep that one by saying that he definately isn't a real police officer, but that didn't stop him from hosting a show that led to the arrests of 34-year old Matthew Allan Eaton, and his wife Laura, 26,  on federal charges of e-fencing. 

The couple told the TV audience of five million that they had roamed from state to state shoplifting toys and other items, sometimes bringing their kids along for the heists, and then selling the booty on the internet. Dr. Phil then followed up with "I'm no lawyer or a cop...but isn't that a federal crime?"

As it happens, not only did a federal grand jury watch Dr. Phil, but they also agreed with his conclusions, charging the pair with "moving stolen goods across state lines."

As to why the couple agreed to participate in what seems to be a taped confession on national television, Matthew Eaton told McGraw that "I think it's something to help us stop." Of course, there's another thing that might do that trick nicely as well. 

What's the name for it, again?

Oh, that's right, jail.

Leno Twitter Schtick FAIL September 17, 2009 11:24 AM | permalink

Media Yenta snaps a shot of a Leno bit that aired last night about the classics on Twitter:

If you don't get why this is totally dumb, click here and let the Yenta break it down for you.

PS For a good time, follow us on Twitter! www.twitter.com/truTV

Who Is Stupidist? September 15, 2009 12:57 PM | permalink

If you follow Twitter (follow truTV on Twitter here), you know that the trending topic of the morning was that Terry Moran of  ABC News  tweeted about President Obama's off the record response to the yawnworthy Kanye West-Taylor Swift-non-scandal-scandal by referring to West as a "jackass."

Scandal!

Largely because heath care is too boring to read about, the Twitterati (kill me, please) swung into action and re-tweeted the comment around the world. Realizing that the remark, part of an interview with CNBC, had been uttered during a moment that was off the record, Moran took his tweet down, and ABC apologized. Of course that didn't do any good, and the original tweet can still be found everywhere.

Obviously, there is a lot of stupidity going on here. So we pose the question: In this incident, who is the stupidist? The candidates:

President Obama

As Moran correctly surmised, calling someone "a jackass," is hardly Presidential. On the other hand, Obama had assumed that the remark was off the record, and plus, it was a jackass move on Kanye's part, even if it was a total set up.

Terry Moran

Moran deserves at least as much abuse as Obama here, not only for eavesdropping on an interview being given to another network, but then reporting on an off the record quote. To do it on Twitter  feels sort of extra ugly, like he just overheard the captain of the cheerleading team call the valedictorian a slut, and he just tweeted it to the WHOLE SCHOOL!

Kanye West

Ok, this guy IS a jackass. Still, he is entertaining, and nothing in an entertainer's job description specifically disallows rampant jackassery (See also, Piven, Jeremy; Griffin, Kathy; Top, Carrot).

The CNBC interviewer who asked Obama the off the record question

You work for CNBC, a financial news network, and the President of the United States has visited Wall Street in the wake of one of the biggest financial disasters since the Great Depression, and you're asking him his opinion on Kanye? You think he sits around at work reading Videogum, and wondering if Taylor Swift's feelings got hurt?

Me, for writing this story and perpetuating this entire ridiculous escapade

Where do I get off giving this story legs and distracting people from what's really important in this country?  In my defense, I write for a blog called "Dumb as a Blog" and my other job descriptions include things like diving directly into cardboard boxes, while imitating viral cat videos. So I'm just doin' my job over here.

So what do YOU think?