Internet. Serious Business.

Is this show still on? I’m really not sure. I saw it on Hulu the other day, but I didn’t look at it because of how insanely awful it was. I’m a HUGE fan of stand-up comedy. Absolutely love it. What better time is there than to go to a comedy club at 7-8 PM on a weekend and get drunk, or on a night I probably had to get up early the next day, baked out of my gord, and laugh my ass off? Perfect start to a long drunken evening out and puts you in a festive mood. There are some amazing no name comedians out there.

Anyways, when I heard about a show called “Last Comic Standing” I figured, hey they might actually have funny comedians on here and do a screening process like American Idol where we only had to watch one excrutiating episode. False. The show wasn’t even really about being funny. They may have had a handful of decent comedians show up, or pass their screening process, but they made the show to appeal to the idiots that like stuff like The Real World. Most of the comedians should ahve been selling health insurance in nc rather than competing as a comic.

Let’s see…I like comedy. I like to laugh. Do I give a rat’s ass about people living together and fighting? I want to laugh, not be pissed off.

They did actually let the better comedians knock off the token a-holes, but they still tried to manufacture drama with people that just weren’t into it. You know comedians that actually were trying to make it as COMEDIANS.

Has there ever been another TV show that was created based on COMMERCIALS!?

Everyone loves GEICO commercials. They are clearly some of the most creative over the last decade. From the Cavemen, Gecco, and many other random funny ones I always enjoy them. Great ad team they have. Did I really want a TV show based on any of these things? No, not really.

When I heard Cavemen announced, and saw ads for it, I thought it was just another joke GEICO commercial. I bet most people didn’t realize it was going to be a series either. It was, and it lasted for only 12 episodes before it was cancelled. The series was placed on hiatus during the Writers Guild of America strike, and cancelled before the strike ended.

The premise of the show was basically the same as the commercials. Cavemen living in modern society and everyone thinks they are dumb. Trying to fit in an live like Homo sapiens. Getting into everythign they do including dating and worrying about quick weight loss.

The original pilot was never aired because it was said to be “racist” because some critics thought the Cavemen were being used as a metaphor for blacks and other minorities. The series subsequently underwent a major creative “retooling”, which included changing the show’s venue from Atlanta, Georgia to San Diego, California.

The unaired pilot can be viewed on Youtube here. In fact the entire series can be viewed there if you are interested in this piece of history.

Description of video:

“Joel, Andy and Nick are invited to a private BBQ which Kate’s parents are having. Joel attempts to get Kate’s father’s blessing for him and Kate to marry. This pilot has different actors than the show that aired. Most notably Joel’s brother Jamie. Sam Hunnington was brought in and his name was changed to Andy. Also the show was changed to being in San Diego instead of the southern United Staes. Also aspects of joels job changes. Norksbild has different colors as well. Comidian Nick Swardson is in the pilot as well as the first episode.”

Well…it looks like a whole plethora of memes should be finding their way to Youtube and the internet in general soon.

Follow the trail…poor kid…hurr durr father

Perfect lesson for not being an idiot on the internet.

Oh and this is great:

(Short tutorial on How to rip audio from Youtube videos is below the vids.)

Just saw a pretty awesome remix of the double rainbow guy posted this week and figured I may as well show the original some love too. The song is awesome even if you have never seen the Double Rainbow OMG video first, but to have the full context you May as well.

Some guy is whacked out on shrooms, or something and is camping out when he sees the glorious DOUBLE RAINBOW FULL ON ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SKY. HE then feels the need to start crying from the intensity. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN!? IT’S SO BRIGHT! OMG IT’S SO BRIGHT AND VIVID. IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL.

WHERE DA GOLD AT!? I WANT DA GOLD!

The original from Hungrybear9562.

Hungrybear9562 is a rainbow hunter I guess. He has a bunch of videos of being blown out and filming rainbows instead of sitting around writing diet pill reviews here. Pretty awesome actually…lol

Now this is The Double Rainbow Song! Even has a shout out to the men of Miracles ICP and their Magnet fad.

EDIT: I see a TON of people wanting this song in .mp3 format in the comments on Youtube so I figured I’d give you guys an easy way to pull audio from Youtube videos.

I just did it with this song and it was quite easy. Just go to FLV2Mp3.com and post the link of whatever Youtube video you want to rip the audio from and it will walk you through the rest. You will need an e-mail address to get the file, but just make a new one in Yahoo! Mail or something just for the file.

Basically, this is how you rip audio from Youtube videos. It’s called FLV to .mp3 is what you are doing. There may be a program to download out there you can use, but the one everyone used to use Tubetilla isn’t free anymore that I can find. All you can do is rip the video, but not convert it to .mp3. IF anyone knows of one let me know. That site is pretty great anyways so no need really.

Now the hard part, but not too bad. This video has some annoying talking at the end so you are going to probably want to edit the .mp3 file somehow to cut that talking out. Yuou are going to need two more downloads to do this. (THIS IS JUST FOR EDITING. YOU DON’T NEED TO DO THIS.)

First you will want to go download Audacity here. This is a free mp3 and audio editor. Read the tutorials to see how to do it. I never used it before and it took me only about 10 minutes to figure it out.

Then when you are done you need to save it as an .mp3, but the first time they will say you need the LAME .mp3 Encoder to do it. Just go read this here for the info on that, but you do NEED this if you want to edit and save the .mp3 files because Audacity doesn’t encode them as .mp3s with their software alone.

Then you are good to go. Just drag it into your .mp3 player and you have yourself some Youtube audio.

If you didn’t hate “Reality TV” enough by 2003, the ridiculousness of it all was really coming into form with shows like Joe Millionaire. While I didn’t watch the show myself regularly, I did have a girlfriend that DID watch it, and it really showed me that I had lost the battle of keeping this kind of crap out of my home.

Joe Millionaire was broadcast on Fox beginning in January 2003. It was broadcast in the UK that same year. There was even a sequel, The Next Joe Millionaire later in October 2003.

The premise of Joe Millionaire is that bachelor Evan Marriott has inherited millions of dollars and is searching for a potential bride. He takes a group of hopeful women on several dates to exotic and luxurious locations, eliminating women at the end of each episode until only one woman remains. The main gimmick of the show is that the entire “millionaire” premise is actually an elaborate ruse. He isn’t a millionaire at all, but just a construction worker. Apparently he was also found out to have utilized his ab workouts as an underwear model previously as well, but he certainly was no millionaire.

The show ended with a reveal and the woman had to decide if she would stay with the guy anyways. Since she did they really DID get a million dollars.

If you are into this stuff I can see the appeal. I can definitely see the appeal for women because they love to watch other women make fools of themselves and get embarrassed. This show certainly did that since these are all gold diggers that are getting fooled on national TV.

This show may not be the worst of all Reality TV, but it was discussed around me, and I hated it so much that it is memorable. This was the show that I had to accept that television had been ruined forever.

Here’s just a little taste of how moronic this show was: