When Hollywood & Late-Night TV Tackle Health Care, “Funny, or Die?” Becomes an Actual Question

Riese
Sep 22, 2009
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FUNNY OR DIE, srsly: People are spreading lies about health insurance. Olivia Wilde is spreading her hotness. It’s all in this video from “Funny or Die.” That’s right, the title “Funny or Die” finally makes sense.  If the Right-Wing Extremists ever click out of FoxNews.com, maybe they’ll see this video, remember how much they liked Anchorman and Old School, and stop it with the nonsense.

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

OBAMA: Of course it would be even better if they checked out David Letterman’s show, where Obama last night also attempted to parlay the Power of the Media into a victory for healthcare. President Obama made an appearance on Letterman last night and was really cute, and super funny, making jokes about his race and being on Letterman. If you caught the full interview on TV last night, you also saw that he told everyone about the Health Care plan again and how it makes a lot of sense.

Anyone who’s attempted to win an argument with a crazy person (e.g., an ex-girlfriend) by repeating the same logical information over and over again knows how this man must feel, and probably also knows that logic really isn’t the problem in this debate — Crazy is. In the game of rock-paper-scissors, crazy has an advantage. (@cbs)

TWO LITTLE GIRLS GROWING OUT OF THEIR TRAINING BRAS: Will Ani DiFranco be the one to bridge the gay generation gap? Perhaps. With 17 albums and counting, Ani’s drawing a younger audience to her shows in addition to her original fans. (@suburban chicago news)

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE: The quirky low-budget comedy film Little Miss Sunshine” and the 1989 Laura Esquivel novel “Like Water for Chocolate” are this year’s choices to be adapted as stage musicals at the annual Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at White Oak in Yulee, Fla.” (@la times)

Also, obviously … Carlytron’s Tuesday Televisionary is live with Glee, Top Chef, Gossip Girl’s hair disaster, secret gay plotlines on The Office and Parks & Recreation … and the Emmys!

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Riese is the co-founder of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker and LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant. Her work has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York, and now lives in Los Angeles. Follow her on twitter and instagram.

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