Just for stupid kicks: 14 Naked movie posters October 15, 2010 10:44 AM | permalink

Our friends at The Frisky compiled a hilarious list of a dozen plus two movie posters with nekkid people on them. Many are much sexier than Leslie Nielsen, pictured here.

But since we're the dumb blog, and I'm a comedy dork, this one of Leslie Nielsen is my personal fave.

See the whole gallery now: 14 Naked Movie Posters

Elmo attacked at Guitar Center September 27, 2010 11:46 AM | permalink

A man hired to wear an Elmo costume for a promotional event at an Orlando mall was attacked inside of a Guitar Center.

When Elmo took a break from the promotional event that was being held at Winter Park Village, he wandered into a nearby Guitar Center in full regalia to look at some instruments.

Out of nowhere an unprovoked male attacked the Sesame Street character because, according to police, he felt threatened.

Several punches were thrown but ultimately, Elmo won the tussle, breaking two of the assailant's fingers.

The man was taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries and also receive a mental evaluation.

Elmo walked out of the incident unscathed.

 

photo: [buycostumes.com]

 

Exclusive: Comedian Todd Barry answers dumb questions about his new promotion scheme September 3, 2010 2:36 PM | permalink

Comedian Todd Barry (pictured) has been seen and heard on so many cool film and TV thingys it makes me sleepy trying to boil down his career in this intro.  So not gonna.  And although he's now a succesful actor & V/O dude, you can still scope him doing standup comedy from coast to coast.

Wikipedia says Todd's all BFF with comedian Louis C.K., but somebody may need to change that to the past tense after Louis sees what Barry is promising potential audience members via posts on Facebook.

I asked him about his recent morally-suspect marketing tactics in an exclusive in-depth three-question interview.  Enjoy!

You say if people come to your 9/8 show in St. Paul, MN you will make sure Louis C.K. leaves show business. Is this true?

I couldn't legally post it on Facebook if it wasn't true.

You say if people buy tix to your 9/7 show in Madison, WI you will give out Louis C.K.'s cell phone number. True?

Yes, and I encourage you to call him at all hours. He'll chat with each and every one of you.

If people want to see you in Kirkland, WA on 9/10 & 11 you say, "Use code 'save5' to save $5!!" What exactly does that does that have to do with Louis C.K.?

It doesn't. I wanted to "back off" from him a bit.

Susie's PS: Todd is performing tonight in the Catskills at some wild show at Kutsher's, a venue I thought was as dead and gone as Grossinger's (which I photographed a while back for a Dumb Spring Break feature).

Image: Photo by Francene Daveta

Please make it Staub! August 25, 2010 7:31 PM | permalink

Like a  bad case of genital warts, Danielle Staub just won't go away. I purposely try to ignore all Danielle Staub-related content, yet there she is in my face releasing dance singles with her alleged girlfriend Lori Michaels and performing live on television. 

Legitimately gifted musicians have trouble catching a break while these two knuckleheads butcher an already bad song that hints at their publicity stunt lesbian affair?

Watch this clip, replete with a flying circus of gay back-up dancers, courtesy of our buddies over at Tosh.0.

Barefoot everywhere but the park July 27, 2010 11:56 AM | permalink

We were all mortified when Britney Spears was busted by photogs making barefoot treks into a public toilet: definitely a dumb move.

Perhaps to prove no publicity is bad publicity or that Hollywood heavyweights are often doltish our pals over at The Frisky have put together a photo gallery of 20 Celebrities Gone Barefoot in Public.

Ew.

An Idea For Saving The Gulf That Blows More July 1, 2010 11:21 AM | permalink

Move over Kevin Costner, a Brooklyn artist has come up with an amazing plan on how to save the Gulf and it will only cost $2,000, not $20 million.

Adam Quirk, the founder of Wreck & Salvage art video collection, started a campaign on kickstarter.com, raising dough to play 100 vuvuzelas  outside BP Headquarters in London for an entire day in an attempt to encourage the company to get a move on cleaning up the oil spill.

OK, it might not be the "lifesaver" Costner has promised, but if you've played the vuvuzela game, you'll be encouraged.

Yay vuvuzelas may be good for something other than Excederin after all! But here are 10 reasons why they actually suck.

BREAKING: Blake Lively, 'Werewolf's Guide To Life' Authors NOT Posing for Playboy. February 17, 2010 3:25 PM | permalink

If you've been poking around the celebrity websites lately, you likely saw that shapely Gossip Girl star Blake Lively might be willing to strip naked for Playboy for 2.5 million dollars. Of course, this"rumor" was almost immediately debunked, leading to a two-day orgy of free publicity for Ms Lively, in which she not only didn't have to take off her clothes, she didn't have to do, well-  anything.

We are not so cynical around here to suggest that the entire story was created and denied purely for the publicity, which is why we are unafraid to tackle a similar breaking news story, mainly that Ritch Duncan and Bob Powers, the co-authors of The Werewolf's Guide to Life: A Manual For The Newly Bitten will not be posing nude for Playboy either.

Duncan put the final kabosh on the idea in a blog post, specifically this one, written for truTV's Dumb As A Blog, where he works as a writer.The rumors were initially fueled in an email written by Powers, who wrote: "I'd do it for five grand, and final approval on the airbrushing." But why would Playboy magazine even want to publish naked pictures of two men whose claim to fame is writing a handbook that sci-fi blog io9 called "a must-have for fans of fur and fangs, (and) you don't need to be obsessed with werewolves to be charmed by its impressive thoroughness and oddball humor?" 

We're not really sure, we didn't call them. Of course, I didn't see an official response from Playboy on the Blake Lively thing either, so I think we're cool.

In other breaking news, other Dumb bloggers Susie Felber and Tara Lipinsky also have no plans to pose for Playboy, a story we will go into in greater detail the moment they too have a project to shamelessly plug anything develops.