On one hand, it’s pretty admirable that Ben Stiller has stayed in good shape. On the other hand actors only work like 3 months a year, and Stiller made $53 million last year, so it’s not like he doesn’t have a spare hour or two or a ride to the gym. So if anything he should be in even better shape than he is. Basically he’s done the absolute minimum, much like the people who write his movies.
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With just two shows left on his run as host of ‘the Tonight Show’, Conan O’Brien is introducing a few new characters to join beloved favorites like Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, PimpBot 5000, and the Masturbating Bear.
This new character is a racehorse who rebroadcasts NFL games without the expressed written consent of the commissioner. Hopefully there will be more tonight. Another funny character would be someone in a diaper and big foam cowboy hat, and he throws red diamonds into the studio audience. And then he goes to New York and buys the condo right next door to NBC chairman Jeff Zucker and starts a prostitution ring.
It should have seemed suspicious when Ben Stiller did something funny at the Academy Awards Sunday night, because I don’t have a time machine, and going back to 2001 would be the only way to see something like that live. Page Six says…
Ben Stiller … had "a meltdown" at (Oscar) rehearsal on Saturday "because he was unhappy with the script and decided he could do better," said an insider. "Ben refused to tell them what he planned until he arrived at the Kodak Theatre, and then he did that Joaquin Phoenix bit." But points were deducted because director Frank Coraci had donned identical sunglasses and beard Saturday at the Independent Spirit Awards.
It’s essentially impossible that Stiller didn’t hear what Coraci did 24 hours earlier at a major awards show 15 minutes away. Stiller might as well have shown up with a penguin and said those were his idea too.
If anyone was gonna boycott "Tropic Thunder", I thought for sure it would be the blacks, but the retards struck first. Checkmate! Reuters says…
"We are asking people not to go to the movie and hope to bring a consciousness to people about using derogatory words about this population," said Peter Wheeler, spokesman for Special Olympics, one of 22 disability groups nationwide protesting the satire.
The groups plan to picket the movie's premiere on Monday evening in Los Angeles's Westwood community.
He said the groups are particularly offended by the film's repeated use of the word "retard" regarding a character, Simple Jack, played by Stiller in a subplot about an actor.
I don’t know what they’re bitchin about because from what I can tell "Simple Jack" is one of those magical retard movies. Where the retards simple goodness teaches everyone a little about life and a lot about love. But it’s not like that in real life. I threw a baseball to a retard one time thinking his childlike innocence would inspire everyone with awe, but he just sat there and let it hit him in the teeth. Then he rolled around on the ground screaming in pain, probably just to make me look bad. That guy was a real jerk!
