So I’m watching the Season 2 DVD of Chappelle’s Show. And the third disc is entirely extra material. Really funny stuff.
The entire unedited Rick James interview session, complete with the interviewers’ questions, in included. Nearly twenty minutes in length, its at times funnier than the sketch itself. Rick has an absolutely god-awful impression of Charlie Murphy that he busts out every time he’s telling his side of the story. What had me laughing the hardest was when Rick tells a story about Charlie being, in his words, “a gigantic pussy”, and getting schooled in basketball by an “androgenous midget human being whose name I won’t tell. Actually he doesn’t even have a name anyway, so it doesn’t matter. Just a symbol or some shit…Charlie and his boys get beat and then the androgenous person made them pancakes.” This of course would be Prince, and apparently this confirms the validity of the basketball game story shown later in the season. Even the pancakes part. I lost it at that point. Rick James is just hilarious. The DVD is worth $25 just for that.

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You cannot underestimate my level of disappointment at the debut of Hit Me Baby 1 More Time. All you need to know about this show can be summed up in two succinct statements.
1) The show is hosted by an overly-eager Brit with an accent thicker than the Thames in winter
2) The artists are forced to play 2 minute truncated versions of their songs
Although it was pretty hilarious to see Arrested Development get all riled up, dancing around, singing, imploring the crowd to sing along, and then having to abruptly end the song midstream as the 2-minute limit approached. Awkward to say the least.
By 8:30 I was out the door and headed to Super Target. No way I was going to watch Loverboy cover Enrique Iglesias’ “Hero”. If I wanted to hear someone butcher a song I hate to begin with, I’d go to Buffalo Wild Wings for Karaoke night.

Dude, I’ve got Yankee fans giving me hell today because they’re playing my Twins tonight. And I’ve got Husker fans giving me crap because the Jays play in the NCAA baseball regional in Lincoln this weekend. I’m a man without a country. They’re coming at me from all sides. The following will be my official statement on the situation.
The Yankees, eh? Nice job getting swept by the worst team in baseball this week.
Huskers? Come talk to me when you guys actually win a game in the College World Series.
Oh, snap.