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Watch Ken Cosgrove’s Wonderful Tap Dance From Tonight’s ‘Mad Men’ Over And Over Again

05.19.13 Written by Josh Kurp
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Don Draper has gone insane, the entire Sterling Cooper Draper Last Name Last Name Another Last Name staff is on butt drugs, people are f*cking in the office, grandmas are robbing small children, and Pete’s off planning his next Prickish Pete Plan — and yet all I want to think about is Little Kenny Cosgrove’s dance.

Full Mad Men recap tomorrow, assuming Cajun can stop coughing, but until then, tap dance the night away…

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TV GIFs Of The Week (And The Best Of Tina Belcher)

05.19.13 Written by Josh Kurp
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In the hype surrounding the season finales of The Office and New Girl (and every episode of Game of Thrones), there was a certain TV milestone we didn’t cover as well as we should have this week: Bob’s Burgers. What about Bob’s Burgers, specifically? Well, it just completed one of the strongest sitcom seasons in some time.

Every episode was an A- or better, not only because of the continued genius of H. Jon Benjamin and Linda’s ever-magical songs, but also because of Tina Belcher, voiced to droll perfection by Dan Mintz. (The list of reasons why Bob’s Burgers is great could go on for awhile.) In honor of the coolest 13-year-old dork with a passion for zombies only rivaled by her infatuation for butts, today’s GIFs of the Week is dedicated to “Bad Tina.”

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Stephen Colbert Gave An Inspiring Graduation Speech To UVA Students On Playboy, The Chinese

05.19.13 Written by Josh Kurp
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While most of you suffered through graduation speeches from former deans and, ugh, SENATORS, University of Virginia students were treated to remarks from none other than Stephen Colbert. For over 17 minutes, The Colbert Report host discussed UVA’s high party school ranking in Playboy (“I only read Playboy for the rankings”), the university’s ousted then rehired president (“I want to thank president Teresa Sullivan. You are way better than that last president, Teresa Sullivan, she was terrible”), and self-obsessed millennials (“Your generation needs everything to be about you…and that’s very upsetting to us baby boomers because self-absorption is kind of our thing”).

But Colbert saved his most inspiring material for the end: “I believe we have given you a gift, a particular form of independence,” he said, referring to the Steely Dan demographic, “because you do not owe the previous generation anything. Thanks to us, you owe it to the Chinese.” Haha, we’re doomed. Hear the whole thing below.

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The 7 Best Musical Performances On ‘SNL’ This Season

05.19.13 Written by Josh Kurp
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It’s easy to bag on Saturday Night Live for their musical guests, but just as the “SNL isn’t as funny as it used to be” argument is played out and incorrect, history often looks kindly at the artists the show books. Take, for instance, last year: yes, there was the Karmin fiasco and One Direction should never have performed on the same stage that Fear once did and Lana Del Rey hadn’t yet thawed out of her accidental ice shell, but otherwise, solid. Radiohead, the Black Keys, Robyn, Kelly Clarkson, Coldplay, Jack White, the Shins, Arcade Fire, Usher, the Rolling Stones — even if you don’t like a lot of those bands (*coughcoldplaycough*), it’s not as if they were unworthy of performing on SNL.

In a year, when we look back at season 38 of SNL, which ended last night, how many miscues will we count? Justin Bieber, definitely, and probably Macklemore and Ryan Lewis and fun.; otherwise, not too shabby. Rarely spectacular, usually good, briefly awful, not unlike SNL itself. Here are seven of the season’s best performances.

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An Exclusive Look At Yahoo Agreeing To Purchase Tumblr For $1.1 Billion

05.19.13 Written by Josh Kurp
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Your GIFs and selfies, they now belong to Yahoo. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the “Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the blogging site Tumblr.” All Things D has the specifics:

Yahoo has been mulling a deal with the hip blogging site…Sources said that the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s CEO Marissa Mayer has decided that buying Tumblr was going to be “the stake in the ground of what her strategy is going forward for Yahoo.” And that’s to attract younger audiences with the kind of user-generated content Tumblr has pioneered to huge growth. (Via)

UPROXX has an exclusive look at what Tumblr headquarters looked like the minute the deal went through.

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Canadian Singer Performs Instantly Immortal, Completely Botched Version Of ‘The National Anthem’

05.19.13 Written by Josh Kurp
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What the heck is going on in Canada? First, Rob Ford and now, the video below, taken from the Memorial Cup, in which “some local Canadian female anthem singer had to do both the Canadian and American anthems and BUTCHERED the American anthem, forgot words, made up words, sang words in the wrong places.” It’s painful to get through and a decent excuse if America ever needs a reason to invade Canada.

FYI: the teams playing in the Memorial Cup (a junior hockey tournament): the Halifax Mooseheads and the Portland Winterhawks, because apparently the Saskatoon Denimbeavers were disqualified for OD’ing on maple syrup.

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Jesse Eisenberg Is A Massive, Hilarious Jerk To The ‘Carrot Top Of Interviewers’

05.19.13 Written by Josh Kurp
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Press junkets are awful. The talent has to hear the same questions ad nauseum, while the journalists must construct an entire story out of five minutes of regurgitated talking points. Very rarely does something interesting come out of a brief one-on-one, unless you work for Horse & Hound, and writers often need to think up stunts to get people interested. Pretty sure Romina Puga’s never going to try to do something wacky with Jesse Eisenberg again.

Puga is a multimedia/video reporter for Fusion, a joint venture between ABC and Univision, and one of her recent assignments was to interview Eisenberg about his upcoming magic heist film, Now You See Me. Instead of a simple chat, though, she asked The Social Network star to participate in some games. Here’s what she had to say:

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‘SNL’ Recap: Ben Affleck And Kanye West

05.19.13 Written by Josh Kurp
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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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Relive Stefon’s Emotional Final Appearance On ‘SNL’

05.19.13 Written by Josh Kurp
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We’ll have a full SNL recap tomorrow (well, in eight hours from now), but until then, please feel free to relive Stefon’s final appearance, for now at least. It’s that thing where…Stefon almost marries Anderson Cooper in front of all his best friends, including Menorah the Explorer and Gizblow, but instead runs away with Seth Meyers.

He began as Ben Affleck’s brother, he ended in love with Seth in an episode hosted by Ben Affleck. #america

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