Earlier this week, Ashton Kutcher was spotted in his bad idea jeans on his way to the set of a Steve Jobs biopic we’re sure will be just fantastic and not hilariously terrible at all. Little did he know that last night Sony and Columbia would be announcing a screenwriter was hired for their own Steve Jobs biopic.

So which of these dueling bios has the advantage? Well, let’s see. One has Ashton Kutcher and is produced by a guy who’s never produced a movie before. The other has Sony and Columbia’s backing, is based on the best-selling authorized biography Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, and did we mention the screenwriter who just signed on to the project is freakin’ Aaron Sorkin? Yes, the guy who won the Oscar for The Social Network and also wrote The West Wing and A Few Good Men. Don’t break the news to Kutcher — he can’t handle the truth.

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This weekend, Redditor IanL27 posted an image macro which kicked off the hilariously inappropriate “Almost Politically Correct Redneck” meme. Most of the macros open with a statement that’s civilized, then finish with something absurdly offensive or creepy. Often he’s arriving at the more empathetic outlook for the wrong reason. In other words, it’s “GOLD, JERRY, GOLD!”

Part of its quick popularity is likely a response to North Carolina’s Amendment One. Brett Ratner told me that Almost Politically Correct Redneck did not vote in favor of Amendment One . . . because voting is for f—gots. (I’m allowed to say that because I’m a center fielder for the pink team. Assume I made a pitcher/catcher joke here and we’ll move on.)

All of the pictures below are courtesy of Quickmeme, and man did these take a while to find. There are over 600 image macros for this, and yet I had to wade through several pages of unusable pictures and click the frowny face all over the place because so many of them were filled with over-the-top slurs preceded by a set-up which wasn’t even a politically correct statement. In other words, trolls be trollin’.

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Have you ever wondered what kind of elementary school student the Lazy College Senior was? Luckily, Quickmeme answered the question on Saturday with a spinoff: the Lazy Primary School Student, and he’s here to embody the same can-do-(it-later) attitude of the college senior. All of us either were this kid in school or knew this kid in school (and are still angry about that group project we had to do ourselves).

Our 42 favorite image macros are in the gallery below. All pictures via Quickmeme. (H/T: Pleated-Jeans)

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When we first heard about Ashton Kutcher portraying Steve Jobs in a biopic, we assumed it had to be a joke. But then the producer of JOBS: Get Inspired — which is the working title of this atrocity — Mark Hulme gave an interview in which he said:

Since our film covers the early years of Apple, when Jobs was in his 20′s, we needed an actor who could carry not only the youthfulness of Jobs at the time but also the psychological complexity. Because of that, and Ashton’s physical similarities to Jobs, he’s perfect for our film. [Neowin]

Ashton Kutcher. Psychological complexity. Of course. We’ve already seen that psychological complexity on display in Pop Chip ads and outlandishly stupid tweets. So psychologically complex, you guys.

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To celebrate their 100th Digital Short, the SNL crew premiered a music video bringing back several celebrity guests and referencing some of their most popular shorts. Special guests included Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber, Usher, Michael Bolton, Will Ferrell, Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer, and Jon Hamm’s enormous piscine friend.

My favorite moment? When awesome advice giver Jon Hamm reprises one of the greatest SNL characters ever, Sergio (based on Greasy Sax Man). Natalie Portman throwing a baby to let us know she’s still hardcore was a close second, and we also welcome a Justin Timberlake appearance any time. My least favorite moment? An absence of Chris Parnell rapping about the Chronicles of Narnia. Don’t ever forget where you come from, SNL Digital Shorts. That’s a Mother’s Day weekend lesson for you.

Check out the video and relevant GIFs below.

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A few days ago, Redditor ramzie posted an adorable picture of two cats looking in the same direction while one appeared to be holding back the other. The picture reminded some of us of the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote, “Love is not two people gazing at each other, but two people looking ahead together in the same direction.” Or maybe they’re just cats, and the one doing the “hugging” is about to go for the jugular.

Anyway, there’s no time to get sentimental about relationships when we could be making jokes about misanthropic, scheming cats instead. Redditor ssimoll quickly captioned the photo with the joke above, and that spawned several more funny image macros. Many of them refer to the calico as “Carl” even though calico cats are almost always female. So . . . Carla, then? Regardless of the names we ascribe to them, these cats are adorable, and the image macro possibilities seem endless.

Check out our 28 favorites (all via Quickmeme) below.

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Dave MacDowell “Lord Of The Lebowski’s”

Two artists we love will be exhibiting their work tonight at Gallery 1988‘s Venice location in Los Angeles starting at 7 PM. We’ve already featured Dave MacDowell‘s work at Gamma Squad and Film Drunk, and the painting above is a good representation of his skilled caricature mashups of beloved works. We’ve also been meaning to feature the pop culture family portraits of Kirk Demarais for awhile. His colored pencil drawings evoke the awkward formal portraits we all had to sit for with our families at some point, but he uses the awkward family photo style to pay tribute to the families in our favorite TV shows and movies.

Our favorite works from the show are below. These and the rest can be viewed at Gallery 1988 and may still be available to buy.

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After Adam “MCA” Yauch’s passing last Friday, tributes have been showing up everywhere, like these and this. Now Virgin America made their play to be the early frontrunner for today’s best tribute to MCA of the Beastie Boys. Even though they haven’t performed the song live in about 25 years, a “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)” reference is sure to be recognized and appreciated by the average person seeing the sign at an airport. This is a sure shot.

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Have you ever wanted to see a young movie critic who is less scripted than Lights Camera Jackson and also less slavishly fanboyish and less likely to misuse the word literally than the poster-quote-whoring Pete Hammond? Thankfully, Redditor evilxeslana‘s son is just such movie critic. The picture of her son eagerly waiting to see Barney Live caught on at Reddit this Monday, spawning a popular image macro and then its own Quickmeme page. Now we have a critic who tells us exactly what he’s thinking, dropping truth bombs like Armond White without all the word-a-day calendar phrasing.

Our favorite Movie Critic Kid image macros are collected below. All pictures via Quickmeme.

(H/T: Crushable)

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