His 1996 portrayal of the mentally impaired landed him an Academy Award…. not sure why BBT reprised the role of Karl for this Canadian radio interview.

He and his band The Boxmasters were supposedly on the live broadcast to promote their tour and new album.

Ahh the dick.

No other male organ has been revered, reviled, envied and cast in plaster as much as the dick. In ancient times dicks were treasured so much that civilizations actually went out of their way to construct strikingly handsome 120-ton versions from stone. Called ‘obelisks,’ most had noticeable girth and stretched into the sky while it wasn’t all that uncommon to come across one that was stumpy and cute.

Some obelisks were surrounded by manicured lawns. Others stood dead center in dense thickets of brush. Thousands were erected and the cost to construct just one obelisk was ridiculously enormous. Ask any historian and they’ll tell you the only time a Mesopotamian hooker felt badly about herself was during the obelisk pledge drive season. And whenever one was in the works the lucrative prostitution industry as a whole fell to its knees. Yes, even then it was hard to be a pimp.

The dick took a turn for the worse in AD 390 when a wacky Euphrates-based comedian inadvertently tanked his career after having heckled a few members of his own audience during an uncharacteristically ‘weak’ stand-up routine. In an unprecedented backlash, the funny man’s fans turned against him for such crass behavior and began to ironically associate him with something which was considered rather popular—the obelisk—by calling him a dick.

But with his ever-sharp wit at the ready the comedian in turn began to refer to them as ‘dicks’ for naming him a dick in the first place. This exchange would launch the paradoxical “I know I am but what are you?” argument as well as its succinct counter, “I’m rubber and you’re glue.”

Profanity was thus born and the connotation of ‘being’ a dick became synonymous with rubbing people the wrong way (yet incongruous in an of itself given how a dick usually doesn’t care ‘how’ it is rubbed, just that it is rubbed.)

Two millennia later and those who are dicks, or who are alleged to be dicks, have become so prevalent in  society that Dickipedia, a free online content encyclopedia project with information about people who are dicks, actually exists.

A silver-headed dick, a comeback-kid dick and the world’s deadliest dick, after the jump. Read More

I would be a fool to compare Jason Alexander’s most famous lovable character to a sandwich, but after stumbing upon his commercial for McDonald’s McDLT, I’d be a bigger one not to.

For starters, both enjoyed tremendous popularity then years later after falling into near obscurity, were featured on VH1’s Where Are They Now? The actor was recently spotted alive and well in Los Angeles. The burger was last seen at a Czech Republic Mickey D’s, where it now goes under the name ‘Big Tasty Cheeser.’

In case you’re not familiar with the McDLT, it was pretty friggin’ awesome. Sold in a specially designed container with two sides—one to keep the burger hot, hot, hot and the other to keep the lettuce and tomato cool, cool, cool—the sandwich was the biggest thing to come along since HandiSnacks in part because some assembly was required.

In case you’re not familiar with Jason Alexander, he played George Costanza on Seinfeld.

According to Thomas “Tip” E. Day, Jason Alexander’s unauthorized biographer, the hot side of the McDLT’s  styrofoam container represents the actor’s nine seasons on Seinfeld, and the not-so-hot side his five episodes of Bob Patterson.

The bigger question is this: Which came first for Jason Alexander, his role on Seinfeld or his role as the song and dance man in the McDLT commercial?

The first correct answer that lands in my inbox wins a McDonald’s gift card valued at a whopping $5! Email your answer to moodmonster@me.com

Good luck!

It’s a little bit Lord of the Rings, a little bit Austin Powers and with the slightest hint of The A-Team.

Of course I’m talking about Comedy Central’s new show Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, the soon-to-be holy grail of live-action cable TV fantasy spoofs.

After watching the first episode at last night’s premier party I got the impression that this is going to be big, big like “you got your chocolate in my peanut butter” big. The show has the ability to achieve cult status and if more people were to watch cable, it just might.

With its band of characters like the reluctant hero Kröd Mändoon, its lovable villain Chancellor Dongalor and the beautiful pagan warrioress Aneka (who is woman enough to go commando), it won’t be long before the Comedy Central merch machine rolls out the beer steins and chess sets—though beefing up its Wikipeida page might be a good start.

The party had great food, the drinks were on the house and the girls were interested in every guy but me. But the night wasn’t a total loss, I did manage to walk out with a few lovely Kröd Mändoon comic books under each arm.

The first three Zazzers to send in a photo of themselves dressed as a famous hero/heroine or villian/villainess gets a comic of their very own. Keep the photos under 900k and email them to moodmonster@me.com

Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, premiers on Comedy Central Thursday, April 9, 10pm/9c

Hey Zazzers, if inner beauty is your thing then you might want to check out Pretty Wicked on Oxygen, the network’s first competition reality series.

At first the ladies are rude as rude can be but soon are in for an equally rude awakening. The show is unlike other reality shows in that the contestants are challenged to confront their mean spirited ways.

Although Botox and bosoms are abound the ladies are challenged to ‘beautify’ their insides—it’s not so much about prettying-up their pancreases as much it’s about challenging them to eat the occasional carb so that their pancreases actually have something to do other than break down Red Bull. Skinny girls can be pretty but there’s nothing pretty about a skinny girl who’s mean, though it’s always wicked funny when a sneeze knocks them off their feet.

I’m not sure if that actually takes place in the series but with any luck the contestants will find that inner beauty, which in this case, translates to $50,000 for the winner.

Pretty Wicked on Oxygen, Tuesdays 10/9c.

Pronunciation: \twat-ə-ˈhȯ-lik\

Function: adjective

Date: 2009

1 a: of, relating to, or caused by Twitter b: an addiction to tweets

2: affected with twattoholism

<Hello my name is Bill and I’m a twattoholic>

Not since The Funniest White House Correspondents’ Dinner Speaker himself dropped ‘truthiness’ onto the turntable of sociolinguistics has there been a word that captures the essence of the times so eloquently: Twatted is Colbert’s latest entry to the lexicon of life. A twattoholic, therefore, is a person addicted to reading tweets which have been twatted.

If you’re addicted to Twitter, rejoyce. Otherwise check some of my fav flavs, along with a shameless plug, after the jump. Read More