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Fitness Celebrity Ricky Gervais Wants You F**kheads to Lose Those Pounds!

January 5, 2009 AT 05:15PM | Comments (1)

180px-RickyGervaisBAFTA07 I'll admit -- I'm a product of our instant gratification, no responsibility quick fix culture, and when I get sick, I want to get better fast. And the fastest way to get better from any disease is surgery. For a cold -- a 10-hour noseoscopy usually does the trick, after which I want my doctor to really dig into that throat and eliminate any residual laryngitis with his naked palms. So I really don't get this outburst from Ricky Gervais:

The Office and Extras star said people who have liposuction and gastric band operations "lazy f---ing fat pigs".

Gervais, 47, launched his tirade on his new audiobook, The Ricky Gervais Guide To Medicine, which was released on iTunes on Thursday.

He said: "I really don't know why a doctor under a hippocratic oath takes the risk of something going badly wrong, sometimes with general anesthetic, because someone can't be bothered to go for a f---ing run.

I especially disagree with that last point: It is relatively easy to bother fat people to go for a f---ing run.  Assuming that one can't is regrettably natural, because the act itself is so highly erotic.

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Posted by Eric March

Tags: eric march, Ricky Gervais, The Office

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The Women of Saturday Night Live

January 5, 2009 AT 04:59PM | Comments (1)

82872063 Over the past few days, The New York Times profiled all the women currently on SNL, first in an interview with Kristen Wiig...

With the departure of Amy Poehler last month, Ms. Wiig has become, during only her fourth season, the most veteran female cast member on the show. Aside from standouts like Gilda Radner, “SNL” has not been known for developing female comedy brands until the Tina Fey era. In the last live broadcast, in December, Ms. Wiig appeared in every sketch but one...

For regular SNL viewers, Kristen Wiig's rise to prominence comes as no surprise. Over the past four seasons, she's increasingly poised herself to become the current cast's breakout star. What is surprising about the article is how it draws some attention to the idea of competition between female cast members.

“The world of lady comedy is a small circle sometimes,” Ms. Poehler said, “and there’s always the thing that there can be only one female at a time in the top seat.” She added, jokingly: “I would like to send Kristen Wiig a shiny new captain’s hat because she’s taking over the captain’s position.”

The New York Times recently also profiled the remaining female SNL members, all added to the cast over the past year.

Inevitably there’s an adjustment for any newcomer to a late-night television institution like “SNL.” “It’s certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper, as opposed to in a basement with your friends,” [Casey] Wilson said. This winter two new cast members, Michaela Watkins and Abby Elliott, will have to suffer through a similar learning curve.

While Wilson, Watkins, and Elliot have not yet made as strong of a mark on the show as Wiig, it's pretty awesome that SNL is putting such an effort into developing a strong female cast. Hopefully this time around it won't be just one female at the top seat, but rather a whole slew of them.

One of the worst things is reading profiles and not being able to connect the face to the name, so, as a favor to all of you, I've found clips of all the ladies discussed in this post. Click after the jump to watch all the clips.

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Tags: Amy Poehler, gonzalo cordova, Kristen Wiig, SNL, Tina Fey

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This Blog Post About a Joke for Sale Is for Sale

January 5, 2009 AT 04:44PM | Comments (0)