10.01.2009 5:07 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Things like this make me proud to have grown up on “Sesame Street”: a “Mad Men” parody.
From E! News (via CeleBitchy.com):
With all the smoking, drinking, sex and lies on Mad Men, you’d think it wouldn’t exactly be kid-friendly. To a tiny extent, you’d think wrong.
The Emmy-winning AMC show is getting the Sesame Street treatment on fictional network EMC (E is for emotional). That’s right, Jon Hamm’s Don Draper dons a felt suit.
The mysterious ad hero is hard at work coming up with a campaign for the Happy Honeybear account. He’s working with two “sycophants,” but we’re not quite sure which one�

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05.18.2009 4:39 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
E! is expanding its popular “The Soup” franchise to its G4 channel with “Web Soup,” which will highlight the best of viral videos. The series will begin June 7.
Here’s more from the press release:
From the producers of E!’s hit series “The Soup” comes the new series “Web Soup,” which gives G4 viewers their viral video fix in a fast-paced, no-holds-barred format. Host Chris Hardwick offers a fresh look at the best – and worst – moments from the week’s Internet mayhem and presents topical web videos and viral classics with sarcastic tongue-in-cheek commentary. “Web Soup” debuts Sunday, June 7 at�

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03.27.2009 2:43 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
This one from “Chelsea Lately” is from a couple of years ago, but I just stumbled across it on the Interwebs.
(My coworkers probably wish I would stop LOL’ing.)

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02.19.2009 12:44 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
My apologies for not being here to entertain you these past several days. I’ve been busy with a number of projects lately, including working on our entertainment channel’s exciting redesign, which launched yesterday. (Have you checked it out yet? Do that now. I’ll wait. … See? It is exciting.)
But, to make up for my absence (What? The fabulous website isn’t enough?), I also have a video of my own to share with you.
And there are monkeys in it.
On Friday and Saturday, Gail Pennington and I hung out with the cast and crew of the Style network’s “Clean House,” who filmed�

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11.04.2008 4:44 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
We learned today that Ryan Seacrest — host of “AT40,” “On Air with Ryan Seacrest,” “American Idol,” “E! News” and whatever else he wants to host — also hosted a show called “Gladiators 2000.” It was like “American Gladiators” for kids.

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