Malcovision Scraps

Gathering all the clips from late last week and the weekend, today it's a Malcovision threefer.

First up is Stephen Colbert gushing over his favorite American Idol contestant, the limits of offense, the curious timing of Republican gay marriage politics, and the crushing disappointment of the Village People as career role models.

[Watch video – 4:16, WMV format, high bandwidth]

[Watch video – 4:16, WMV format, low bandwidth]

Saturday saw the premiere of comedian Robert Wuhl's "Assume the Position" on HBO, a take off on college lectures with Wuhl playing university professor. The series intends to highlight the myths of American History through the prism of popular culture, centuries old media spin, and live demonstrations. In this first episode, Wuhl explores the practical complications of the colonial quicky, a history of queer anthems, the first gay bar, and America's first transvestite governor. You'll never listen to Yankee Doodle the same way again.

[Watch video – 7:15, WMV format, high bandwidth]

[Watch video – 7:15, WMV format, low bandwidth]

Last, but certainly not least, is Wednesday's episode of South Park. After the citizens of town scramble to buy hybrid cars in a flurry of smug satisfaction, the meteorological effects of "smug" on the atmosphere threaten to engulf the region in a catastrophic storm. What follows is a prolonged mocking of self-righteous San Franciscans, Hollywood, environmentalists, and loud-mouthed progressives who cannot drive a car without taking a long whiff of their own . . . moral superiority. Come for the moonbat bashing. Stay for a Cartman forced to enter San Francisco - a place wrought from his nightmares.

[Watch video – 7:37, WMV format, high bandwidth]

[Watch video – 7:37, WMV format, low bandwidth]

Comments

[louis]

I just saw a rerun tonight of Aces's real life girlfriend's show, "Half&Half," on which Ace had a featured acting role as a professional baseball player who was wrestling with his aspirations to become a...(drumroll please)...pop singer. He exclusively chose to stick with his baseball career in the end. (he was the pitcher)

[Toto]

South Park is still on tv? If anyone is suffering from "smug" its that lame ass shows creators for thinking they are still somehow funny.

[Worth Repeating]

'Assume the Position' is brilliant. Very educational. Cool find. Thanks guys.