This is boldly beyond brilliance.

CNN’s Jessica Yellin appeared to Wolf Blitzer via hologram last night. It was literally like something right out of Star Wars.

“Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you’re my only hope.”

Sunday, August 3, 2008
After placing second Friday and despite predictions that it would finally fall from its perch atop the box office, The Dark Knight buried The Mummy over the weekend, bringing its three week cumulative gross to $394.9 million.

The Dark Knight, which is currently the eighth highest grossing film of all time, will pass the $400 million mark sometime Monday. By this time next week it will surpass Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, E.T., and Shrek 2 to become the third highest grossing film of all-time, falling behind only the original Star Wars ($460,998,007), which it will overtake within another week, and Titanic ($600,788,188).
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I don’t know who made this parody or how, but it’s well done and rather convincing.

Someone has brilliantly mashed up Star Wars and the Eddie Murphy movie Coming To America, which also stars James Earl Jones. A HA!

In a disturbing twist in an otherwise meaningless presidential campaign, CNN reports (on what Lynne Cheney told MSNBC) that while researching the Vice President’s genealogy for her new book, “Blue Skies: No Fences on the Dark Side” she discovered that Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama and her husband share an ancestor eight generations ago. This revelation certainly makes Barack appear more American to those who fear that, if elected, he would immediately martyr himself at his inauguration.Cheney broke the news himself to a devastated Obama at a press conference today. Obama’s response was simply, “That’s not true! That’s impossible!”

After a mediocre season premiere last week, The Simpsons was back in top form Sunday night with an episode about Homer becoming an Opera singer – a storyline they haven’t done yet. A cameo by famed tenor Placido Domingo, or P. Dingo as he prefers, was put to good use and not contrived like most of their celebrity cameos in recent years. Maya Rudolph also had a cameo as an opera fan obsessed with Homer.

Family Guy on the other hand is barely tolerable these days. I constantly find myself staring at the screen for 22 minutes realizing that I’m not laughing. Everything they do has been done before. By them. The random jokes unrelated to the plot, and drawn out, endless routines just aren’t enough anymore. Last week’s Star Wars episode stirred up a few laughs but not enough for the hour-long running time. At least half of the episode was lifted directly from the film. It was quite the let down. Sunday night’s episode was a slight improvement but was still overflowing with the usual been there, done that. When Family Guy is funny, it’s a treat. But when they fail, it’s rather painful to watch.

SNL on the other hand was quite refreshing Saturday night. Lebron James was the host. While he can’t act worth a damn they did put him to good use in most of the sketches. He played himself at least half of the time. The opening of Hillary Clinton, with Bill peaking around the corner, was classic, and not one of the rest of the sketches induced boredom. Weekend Update though seems more irrelevant than irreverent these days. Seth and Amy are great together but with The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and the Onion News Network do we really need Weekend Update anymore?

The Simpsons B
Family Guy C-
Saturday Night Live B-

Some guy named Rich Cando (not Lando) has made a Star Wars version of The Simpsons intro.

I’m not sure who made this picture but I want a giant one to put in my dining room. I would also like a dining room. I particularly like Yoda’s little salad bowl.