Well, it looks like Green Lantern might just be the worst-reviewed comic-book movie this summer. Rotten Tomatoes has given it a 21 percent fresh rating, relegating it with the likes of Priest and Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer.
And now, mere hours after its official release, it’s already started to be a punchline. The Onion pulled no punches, making fun of its aggressive marketing:
While seeing Darth Vader playing the trombone and dancing to salsa music wasn’t quite the sign of the apocalypse we’d thought, it did lead us on a search for other musically inclined Star Wars characters.
We didn’t have to go far. Ladies and gentlemen, Chewbacca dancing to “Welcome to the Jungle”, also starring an Ewok Slash:
OK, look, no question the Betty White-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live was funny.
But for me, the best episode of the season last year was when Zach Galifianakis was host. He definitely had the season’s best monologue (HERE COMES THE CHOO-CHOO!), and I still quote some of the skits from the show.
So I was pretty happy to hear that Galifianakis was returning to host this week. As you can see, if you’re into Zach’s humor, even these promos are funny:
Mere hours after telling radio talk-show host Dan Patrick he has given his last interview, Charlie Sheen has decided to continue his assault on our consciousnesses.
The recently fired star of CBS’ Two and a Half Men pokes fun at himself and his situation in a new Funny or Die video – “Winning Recipes”:
Coinciding with his hosting gig on the Academy Awards, James Franco is making a quick cameo on General Hospital, where last year he played a psycho killer in a quick but memorable arc.
Here, Franco returns and makes sly comments about both the Oscars and 127 Hours:
As Oscar, the garbage-can-dwelling curmudgeon of Sesame Street, puts it, “Hollywood puts out some of the greatest trash I’ve ever seen.” And he loves trash:
I’m a huge Jim Cantore fan — when the Weather Channel’s on-the-scene weather reporter isn’t in Palm Beach County during hurricane season. He’s got such great enthusiasm, and yet also that ‘I’ve seen everything’ style about him.
But apparently, he hasn’t really dealt with “thundersnow”, as you can see during the Weather Channel’s coverage of this week’s mammoth winter storm: