‘SNL’ Recap: Ben Affleck And Kanye West

Written by Josh Kurp / 05.19.13

Last night’s SNL was never really about Ben Affleck, and he knew it. It was an important episode for both the show’s future — definitely no more Bill Hader, probably no more Jason Sudeikis and Fred Armisen — and its present, snagging one of the world’s most famous musicians right before he releases his mega-hyped new album, and Affleck was more than happy to support rather than lead. Even his cold open, in which he shared the stage with Bobby Moynihan and later, his wife, instead of any members of the Five Timers’ Club, subtly acknowledged this.

That’s Affleck at his best, though. Like any good director, he knows it’s best to highlight your strengths, and while he’s not a bad comedic performer, he’s no Bill Hader or Cecily Strong, either, so might as well let them run with it and you do whatever you can to give them a foundation to bounce off of. So, yes, this was a very good, very good emotional season finale of SNL with one major caveat: WHERE THE F*CK WAS MY WHAT’S UP WITH THAT?

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George Takei’s Handwritten Responses To Anti-Gay Protesters Are Delightful

Written by Josh Kurp / 05.17.13
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As much as I love Star Trek, the original series, the acting in Star Trek: Into Darkness, the movie, is about 34,294 times better (number provided by Mr. Spock). Chris Pine’s William Shatner is better than William Shatner’s William Shatner, Zoe Saldana and Zachary Quinto are given more to do as Uhura and Spock then Nichelle Nichols and Leonard Nimoy ever did, and Alice Eve, well, I don’t want to spoil anything, but Alice. Eve.

The one major exception: Hikaru Sulu. John Cho is a very good actor, but no one can play the Enterprise’s helmsman with such delicious delight as George Takei. His slinky “oh my” is a thing of legend, and as we’ve highlighted time and time again, he’s making the Internet a better place to be. BuzzFeed had the wise idea to get Takei, one of the world’s foremost gay rights advocates, to respond to anti-gay protestors who attended the Prop 8/DOMA hearings outside the Supreme Court in March. He’s as good at shaming bigots as he is at fencing.

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Of the hundreds of reasons why NBC’s The Office was so beloved and so great for so long, the one that always stuck out the most was its reliability. We’ve all been there: sh*tty job, sh*tty town, sh*tty boss, sh*tty life. For most of us, life isn’t going to be easy; you have to make the most of a bad situation, a point Jim Halpert brought up during the talking head montage at the end of last night’s The Office‘s series finale. “Everything I have,” he said, speaking as much to the camera crew as himself, “I owe to this job…this stupid, wonderful, boring, amazing job.”

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Written by Josh Kurp / 05.16.13
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I want to enjoy something, anything in life as much as that man loves cotton candy. Earlier today, the GIF you see above made it to the front page of Reddit…and then I was introduced to the wonderful world of /r/reversegif. Things, be they people, animals, cars, or directions in life, going in reverse is just funny. It’s as simple as that. Haha, they’re doing what people do every day, but backwards. It’s wacky AND simplistically funny!

Let’s take a look at some other GIFs in reverse.

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5 Theories On The Significance Of Room 503 In This Week’s Episode Of ‘Mad Men’

Written by Dustin Rowles / 05.16.13
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As you may have noticed, I think way too much about Mad Men, to the point sometimes that it becomes a crippling obsession. After I spotted Room 503 in Sunday night’s episode, in fact, I spent the better part of the next two hours trying to figure out what Weiner was referencing. I had a half-baked theory in my 25 Fun Facts, Callback, and Theories piece, but it wasn’t satisfying. So, I’ve spent maybe another hour or two each day trying to figure it out, and, after a ton of Internet research, I think we’ve found a winner.

But before we get there, let’s look at four other theories that the Internet has come up with.

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