I don't talk about Daily Show and Colbert much on here because they are good at what they do and I try to only post things that I have more to say about than just "This is fucking rad" but this was too good not to post:
This is so fucking rad.
Check out this article for more on the awesome satire* of our election season from the Colbert Super PAC including the video of Mario Batalli being paid by with Super PAC money to feed John Stewart eggs.
Footnote(s):
*I can't see that word now without think of Andy Zaltzman's pun "I'm sa tired after that joke."
So everyone on earth saw that double rainbow viral video back in July, except for me. I only became aware of the awesomeness that is a stoned (sounding) guy describing for the camera a rainbow with another rainbow on top if it a few weeks back when my co-worker Zena showed me both flavors of it. The original recipe, and the extra krispy the GregoryBrother'sautotuned song version of it of it. I've been unable to get either out of my head since then.
They guy is awesome. He is so excited about that rainbow, and I'm so happy for him.
Apparently I wasn't the only one who didn't see this video until August, because someone at Microsoft apparently saw it a few weeks ago too, and then that person immediate filmed two commercials starring the famed Double Rainbow photographer and narrator, who is apparently name "Bear."
These commercials are okay, but not amazing, the first is him pretty much Bear reenacting himself getting excited:
Its just what you would expect, but still cute.
The second is a pretty boring 1 minute and sixteen second long interview were bear talks about trees and Windows software. It really needs a lot more B-roll, one can only look at a guy talking about trees for so long, and this video is 1 minute and fifteen seconds longer than that amount of time. I wouldn't really recommend watching this unless you forgot what a guy walking looks like.
These may not be the best commercials ever, but I'm writing about them because I'm genuinely happy for Bear. I bet doing these commercials is a lot more lucrative for than his previous careers of: guy who does drugs in the woods,** andlooking like the "If they mated" answer for Willie Nelson and Horatio Sans.
BONUS ROUND!
This video is only tangentially related but I thought that the opportunity to post one of those classic Conan "If they mated" videos should not be passed by.
(I'm with Coco. and so is slash***)
footnote(s)
*I shouldn't be too hard on the guy. He made me so happy by being so excited for that rainbow, and he appears to be a nice person, even if the second video proves he is a terribly boring interview subject. (at least when not high)
**For legal reasons I should point out that I have no evidence that bear does drugs I just assume it. Look at or listening any single second of Bear in any of the posted videos to discover why I hypothesized this theory.
*** If you haven't seen this about slash preforming on Jay Leno wearing an I'm with Coco Pin and the show's director almost never showing slash on camera in an effort to keep the TV viewers from seeing the pin you should check it out at Gawker.
Double Rainbow Microsoft ads discovered via URLesque, which is a site that, based on their name, likes to write "esque" at the end of things as much as I do (See: Michael Cera-esque earlier this week)
P.S. I'm obviously super pissed Conan got fired from Tonight Show but I really think TBS will let him relax and be his awesome funny self, which is something NBC never let him to do on in the 11:35 time slot.
