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UN Recommends Bugs For Protein; Colbert Report Objects!

There was news that the U.N. suggested that insects are one way to solve world hunger problems (mmm, chapulines!). They're a good source of protein, the U.N. report says, referring to bugs as "minilivestock." Stephen Colbert, in a biting, if only satiric segment on his show last night lambasted them ... More >>

Inmates Have Been Reviewing Prisons On Yelp!

Yelp is many things to many people: a bully pulpit or simply just a bully to businesses barely trying to make it. It's been ridiculed, parodied, and satired...but this next story is so surreal, even the people at Yelp probably didn't see it coming. The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com ... More >>

Eric Burdon to Play The Coach House Friday Night

This Friday night, Eric Burdon, one of the last standing icons from the golden age of rock, will be hitting the stage at The Coach House, one of only a handful of shows the singer has planned in 2013. Over the past few years, Burdon has experienced a revival of sorts. At last year's South-by-Southw ... More >>

John Pinette

Irvine Improv

Comedian Brad Williams Proves That Sometimes Humping a Chick's Leg Can Lead to a Career

I'll admit...I feel good about talking to someone that I might actually be taller then. It's few and far between in my life. As they say, good things come in small packages and when it comes to comedian Brad Williams, don't let his miniature frame fool you because this guy is supplying gigantic laug ... More >>

Bill Bellamy

Irvine Improv

Long Beach Comic Con

Long Beach Convention Center

Tom Colicchio Debuts YouTube Fishing Talk Show

Have you heard of the Reserve Channel? It's a YouTube-only network that features full-length shows by respected people who usually appear on regular TV shows but aren't exactly the Anthony Bourdains or The Oprahs of the world. Eric Ripert has a show on there called On The Table. Now Tom Colicchio do ... More >>

Milo Greene

Fingerprints

Esteben Colberto v. Minuteman Jaime Gilchristo on Tonight's Colbert Report?

Jim Gilchrist's Minuteman Project--think the American Revolution, only the British have been replaced by desperate brown people looking for work--makes an appearance on tonight's Comedy Central masterpiece, The Colbert Report.Can we expect an appearance by Esteban Colberto?

Rebecca Black Is 2011's Most-Searched Subject on Google

​The most-searched subject on Google for 2011 was not Steve Jobs, nor Casey Anthony. Occupy Wall Street? Psh. Didn't even make the list. According to the Google Zeitgeist, the device that tracks how often something is searched and how fast the search catches speed, the OC's very own Rebecca ... More >>

Get on Jimmy Fallon for Anthrax's Performance!

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​When Anthrax takes the stage on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, Sept. 7, they want fans to fill the show's band benches. And yes, you can win a chance to do it by clicking on http://www.fallonbandbench.com--that will take you to "Late Night's" "Band Bench" ... More >>

Rita Rudner

Laguna Playhouse

Manny Pacquiao's Love Ballad Hits The Charts

​Manny Pacquiao can knock a dude out, but can he hit falsetto? The Filipino boxing champ and congressman has long moonlighted as an amateur crooner--check out these five YouTube videos--but now he's turning his passion into a full-fledged third career. This week, his single, "Sometimes When W ... More >>

Archers of Loaf to Tour

​North Carolina's 1990s noise rockers Archers of Loaf are touring, marking the band's first tour since 1998. The band saw significant airplay on alternative radio, and was perhaps best known in indie circles for their 1993 debut album Icky Mettle, which featured fuzzy, guitar-driven rock with squa ... More >>

Montel Williams Opening Sacramento Marijuana Club

​The longtime host of the Montel Williams Show is opening a medical marijuana dispensary in Sacramento, according to various news outlets including Village Voice Media's very own Toke of the Town blog. Williams, who suffers from multiple scleroris, has been an outspoken advocate of medical cannabi ... More >>

How to Book Rammstein: A Cautionary Tale

​ Bringing joy to grown men who collect action figures, the German shock rock band Rammstein is touring North America for the first time since 2001. Although they play a generic strain of industrial metal, Rammstein makes up for their sonic deficiencies with an outlandish stage show of blinding ... More >>

An Open Letter to The Daily Show's Jon Stewart RE: Taco Bell

The Daily Show - Back in Black - Meat EditionTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on FacebookDear Mr. Stewart,First of all, big fan. I am one of those who believe you are indeed "The Most Trusted Man In America." If I had a few hundred bucks and vacation ... More >>

[UPDATED With Concert Info and Jimmy Kimmel Live] Cold War Kids Get No Love From Spin Magazine

Myspace.com​UPDATE, 6:52 P.M., Jan. 19: The Cold War Kids will have time to redeem themselves and prove they still have the talent. The band will perform at the Bootleg Theater on Jan. 24 and inside Amoeba music store in Hollywood on Jan. 25. These, along with an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on ... More >>

Before It Gets Old: Josh Groban Sings Kanye West's Tweets on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

​In a move that raises him 50 gazillion cool points, Josh Groban appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday night to promote his latest album, The Best Tweets of Kanye West. In the must-see spoof, Groban crooned, in beautiful operatic form, the gems of the rapper's Twitter stream, including "Do you know ... More >>

Proof: Social Distortion on TV for the First Time in 30 Years

​Last week Social D announced that they were going to be performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live!--yes, a TV show--for the first time in their 30-year career. Last night, it finally happened. (Like we said before, this probably means American TV, since they've been on other European TV shows before.)The ... More >>

Comedy Juice College Night

Irvine Improv

Pacific Hurt

Detroit Bar

Confucius Says, "Be Wary of 'Daily Show'"

flickr user elkitBreaking the news.​The campaign against a public school's "Confucius Classroom" by the Chinese-American activist who last September organized demonstrations over the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum's Mao Tse-Tung statue is about to get national media exposure--f ... More >>

Man Hater from Irvine Nudist Dr. Phil = Lawsuit!

Hitspinner @ FreakingNews.com​Irvine resident Shirley Rae Dieu wants to sue the pants off of Dr. Phil and CBS Television for making her face a pants-less man--and a Superior Court judge in Los Angeles is all for it.Today, Judge Elizabeth Allen White rejected a defense motion alleging Dieu's lawsui ... More >>

Tweets From the Park!

Flickr user katutaide​Time for Tweets From the Park, where we gather the funniest, weirdest, grossest and most interesting tweets from Disneyland Resort for your reading pleasure. Follow us on Twitter @OCWeekly!IamAlbeezy: @CeeDana I went to Disneyland on a Tuesday too in the Summer, shit crowded ... More >>

Gettin' Made: Team Conan

When something big hits the news, it's always interesting to see how that translates on Etsy. Take the big Jay Leno / Conan O'Brien controversy on NBC right now. It seems that the Etsy community leans more in favor of Conan (and rightfully so!) - do a search for Jay Leno and ... More >>

OC's Something Corporate Reunites to Headline Bamboozle

​Alt-rockers Something Corporate, one of the biggest band to come out of Orange County in past decade, has confirmed they will reunite following a five-year hiatus to headline Bamboozle California 2010. The festival takes place March 27-28 at Angels Stadium of Anaheim. No offical word yet on what ... More >>

See Dick Run . . . Away From Indoctrination Into the Gay Vegan Godless Proletarian Revolution!

​Katharine DeBrecht, a Fox News favorite who has already foisted onto young minds Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!, has written a follow-up titled Help! Mom! Radicals Are Ruining My Country!, an anti-Obama screed she boasts is "a hilarious and entertaining way ... More >>

On-Sale Saturday: All Time Low, Paramore, More

​All Time Low are currently experiencing an all time high (I'm sorry, really) amount of exposure through their new album, Nothing Personal--which defied expectations by debuting #4 on Billboard and got them an appearance on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. Ride the wave of their success on Nov ... More >>

Jimmy Fallon

The Grove of Anaheim

[CD Review] Elvis Costello, 'Secret, Profane & Sugarcane' (Hear Music)

Album Review: Elvis Costello, 'Secret, Profane & Sugarcane'

This album review runs in OC Weekly this week--summer guide issue!--but why wait until then? The record's out now! Yeah!Elvis CostelloSecret, Profane & Sugarcane(Hear Music)In this phase of his career, Elvis Costello seems determined to convince people he can do just about anything--jazz (2003's ... More >>

Nixon Apologist Remembers Bill Hicks' Ultimate Letterman Snub

Following Friday night's airing, 15 years after the fact, of Bill Hicks' 12th appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman, which was originally censored by the host himself that October 1993 night, a touching remembrance of the late, great, politically charged comedian comes from an unlikely so ... More >>

John Campbell <3 Obama, Says Colbert

Ha, our South-County U.S. Rep (and, apparently, fledgling beardo) gets a shout out on last night's Colbert Report. For some reason, he's labeled "Jim Campbell," but nope, that's John.Around the 2:20 mark: .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/ass ... More >>

Gosh Darn Funny

Clean Comedy Night

Stephen Colbert on This Fall's New Albums

From last night's "Colbert Report": Stephen takes on Evolver by John Legend, That Don't Make Me A Bad Guy by Toby Keith, and of course, the once-elusive, now-ubiquitous Chinese Democracy. Sure, it's just a thinly veiled plug for his Christmas special on Sunday, but it's worth it for the iTunes cover ... More >>

Tonight: Neil Hamburger at Alex's Bar!

Why did NASA send a titanium copy of the latest Linkin Park album to every planet in our solar system? Well, to kill off any interest that the aliens may have had in invading earth. That's one of the many jokes in the considerable arsenal of Neil Hamburger, "America's youngest comedian." For those ... More >>

[Sprawl of Sound] Bethany Owen's Vocal Impressions Will Flip Your (and Her) Wig

Eddie Who?

Charlie Murphy

Dat Phan Begins

Dat Phan and Friends

Repeat Offender

A second, slimmer Capote movie fails to improve on its predecessor

!Ask a Mexican!

'Why do assimilated Mexicans lose their language and find Spanglish acceptable?'

Diary of a Mad County

June 21 - June 27

Donde Estan Mis Chicas? Hola, Gustavo Arellano!

Apparently Clockwork Coker and the typists of this infernal blog have nothing better than to post about my appearance on the Colbert Report every other fucking post. So here's my take: Schwag like you won't believe: Tres bottles of vodka (promptly drunk after the show with my agent, his assistant a ... More >>

Commie Girl

Imagine Me on a Bus!

Stop us if youve heard this one before . . .

First Person

Truth and Fiction in John Wayne's America
James Frey and Me

The Presidents Conservative Critics

Strangers With Pokin Sticks

Wigfield mocks literary journalism and small-town life

Coxs Flaccid Report

Vaunted Chinese Spy Report Unravels