Tuesday, October 14, 2008

More celeb sightings:

Amanda Bynes--couple of times now: once near the (ex) Plaza Hotel & again in Columbus Ave (in City Diner?) having dinner late one Sunday night.
Bernadette Peters, yesterday, at 68(9)th & Columbus. Didn't realize she was so petite! But, she looks amazing!

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Some new SNL skit titles/ideas:

o Keeping up with the Lehman's!
o Countrywide Auctions: "Iceland, Iceland, I got a nice Iceland here. She's a beaut folks, 100% pure Iceland, that she is. Goin' once, goin' twice, GONE!!".
0 Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, pepsi, pepsi: A re-make of this classic. The setting is a street-side vendor's stall in war-torn Iraq. People come in & order (dishes with especially Arabic-sounding names) but always finish up with a (clearly enunciated) , "And oh, also a WMD please!". The 'waiter', who's been diligently taking the customer's order up until the last statement, stares at him/her completely expressionlessly for about 2-seconds, then turns around and calls in to the 'kitchen/chef' the standard 'Cheeseburger, pepsi' order.
o BFDs: Bush Financial Derivatives. Ben & Hank are up @ the White House to try to bring Bush & his gang up to speed on the current financial crisis. A Blackberry RIM--from the 'spoils' of the Iraqi invasion (or, perhaps funnier still, from an "Operation Pinpoint Strike" al-Qaeda operation that's been pinpointing for the last however many years) and which Bush proudly displays to Hank & Ben--keeps upstaging Bush with the correct answers and keeps correcting him of his 'nukyulerosity'. Somewhere else (maybe in the White House itself), Cheney is undergoing successive heart-transplants--Rumsfeld himself oversees the task of tearing out the still-beating hearts of Iraqi/Afghani POWs to provide for the transplants while pontificating arrogantly, adamantly & complacently that this was not torture in any shape or form and that the CIA, NSC, FBI, ABC, NBC, FOX, the army, navy, airforce, the CICs, Harvarders, Yaleans, Stanfordites, all past & future Nobel laureates, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, the world, the known universe, were all utter and complete morons. Limbaugh comes in to confess that he's been 'self-medicating' himself! Meanwhile, Cheney's daughter is making out with Condoleeza Rice or maybe one or both of the Bush girls. The Obamas and McCains start a bidding war over the White House--Barney Frank, Freddie's, Fannie's & Merrill's CEOs assure & re-assure the Obamas & McCains that, of course they don't need any income verification & that of course they can provide any type of NINJA, Karate, Kung-fu and Kamakazi loans: btw, the estimated, BASEL II, SOX-compliant 'market value' of the White House is, naturally, 700 gazillion, ba-jillion, ka-drillion dollars!!

The whole skit should have the frenetic self-importance and pomposity of a super-ultra-uber West-Wing episode.

(And Tina Fey should be a shoo-in for a Sarah Palin lookalike--who should also be in there somewhere--sorry Tina :)