Best "If Only..."

...I knew about this earlier:

Writer's strike. Creativity crippled. No new TV anywhere. It's all drying out and soon everything will be in repeats. Where do the writers go? The actors? What do they do now? What do we do?

One Answer:

New "episodes" of Saturday Night Live are being put on at the Upright Citizen's Brigade. This week's host is Michael Cera.

What do I mean?

What I mean is if I had known to know about this, I (or you) could have paid $20 to see a freshly produced and written new episode put on in a basement beneath a grocery store here in New York. What is usually consumed by the millions each Saturday night is now served up for 150.

I don't mean to totally exalt the show...but come on! This is cool.

I've also heard they'll be staging new "episodes" of 30 Rock at the UCB as well. What do you think of that?

PS Let the desperate Craigslist pleadings begin!

Best Creative Solution

Justice on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night.



The Problem: Electronic dance duos, how do they "play" live on tv and make it more interesting than pressing buttons?
The Solution: "This is going to be weird"


video via musicsnobbery.

Best TV Shows: Flight of the Conchords & Clark and Michael

The best TV shows I've watched recently (meaning: in the last 24 hrs) have both been on the internet. And they were really good.

First, last night I received two emails within the same hour encouraging me to watch the first episode of HBO's new comedy series, "Flight of the Conchords", which is available online. Flight of the Conchords are a pair of fellows from New Zealand who sing funny songs and now they're going to have a tv show this summer on HBO about them coming to New York and trying to become famous musicians. Anyway, the first episode (which, I don't think I've yet mentioned, is available online) was really funny.

Here's a song that they sing in the first episode:



Now Click Here to Watch All of It!

(also, by the way, these same fellows have a movie coming out soon called "Eagle vs. Shark" which looks pretty funny, too. Trailer)

Second, this morning I finally watched a very important internet show called "Clark and Michael." "Clark and Michael" refers to two young actor/writers Clark Duncan and Michael Cera and now they have an internet tv show (I think it's through an arrangement with CBS) about them being young actor/writers goint to Los Angeles to sell a show. The first two episodes are online now and I watched them in reverse order and they were great! I cannot wait for more and more episodes from these guys. I'm getting the idea that every character Will Arnett plays post-Arrested Development is going to be GOB and that might eventually get tiresome but I think I could never get mad at Michael Cera for being George Michael. Watching this little internet program I can't help but be astounded by how cool and funny these kids are. It makes me feel like I grew up wrong. I should have auditioned for more Nickelodeon stuff.

Here's a preview montage:



Now Click Here to Watch All of It!

PS I don't want this to be a post that you read (which I know can be hard for you if there aren't any pictures and even if there are pictures you probably don't read many of the words and that's why people think I went to Salt Lake this weekend) and then think "that's nice that Brigham found things on the internet that he liked." NO, I really want you to watch these internet TV shows because I want your days to be happy.

Best Third Time Charm

Andy Richter. Since leaving Conan O'Brien so many years ago, he has gone on to star in two failed sitcoms--one sort of okay one, and one totally awful one. Now he's got a new show starting in a few weeks called "Andy Barker, P.I." When I first saw commercials for this show I was like "Oh great, another doomed Andy Richter show."

Well guess what? Andy Barker, P.I. is GREAT! How do I know this? Because NBC has six episodes of it available online before the show has even aired. I just finished the pilot episode and I really liked it and I bet you'll like it too (that is, if you like funny and/or silly)

This is the Link to the Videos

Also, I'm happy to know that I will soon no longer be told I look like Buster from Arrested Development but instead that I look like Simon from Andy Barker, P.I.

What am I talking about? Watch the show!