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This weekend was a nice calm before the storm… that’s still coming this whole week. My mom flew into town and man were her arms tired… ba dum bump. Anywho, since she was going to be watching little J-man, the misses and I decided to catch one of those moving picture shows that the kids are calling “movies” nowadays and saw “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” by the always wonderful and talented Apatow gang. Was this one worse or better? Well I have to say I nearly died crying with tears of laughter. This movie continues their wonderful streak of hits (even if you count Walk Hard) with a beautiful mash-up of Superbad meets Knocked Up! I have to say that all the parts were cast to perfection and even seeing Billy Baldwin in his pseudo CSI role was straight up genius casting. Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother) and Kristen Bell (Heroes, Veronica Mars) are wonderful and a delightfully genuine in their parts and Russell Brand as Aldous Snow the European Pop Star is so obnoxiously hysterical and definitely has one of the best lines in the movie. I highly recomend this movie to fans or anyone unfamiliar with the whole Judd Apatow crew because when funny is this good it’s hard not to tell people.

So Saturday was pretty much studying for finals and getting things done around the house day. But once that was finished Karen and I got all spiffied up and headed out to Melrose to the Hollywood Improve where we saw Joel McHale the host of the E network’s “The Soup” do his stuff on stage and what a night it turned out to be.

The first two guys up decided to go right for the Billy Idol look-a-like (me) and cracked a few good ones at my expense (something to do with heroin, cocaine, and eating… I won’t go any further for under 18 readers). Anyway, after the first three guys on stage Joel took the spotlight and hammered it home. Just like his show except on speed this guy tore into all the usual suspects and a favorite of many of my tirades… Reality Shows! It was just awesome!! Everything from American Idol to any one of the million and one soul sucking so called reality shows out there he found a way to make it even more ridiculous than they already are and tell some wonderful insider stories related to his own network’s sister shows like the Kardashians. They actually met for the first time last week for a promo E photo shoot and the mother, Kim and the sisters all came up to him and said how much they enjoyed his show! Joel’s response… REALLY? Even though I tell my audience every week that you are all dead behind the eyes? Well then it’s very nice to meet ya. and when mother Kardashian said “listen you can talk about Kim’s big ass but could you please not talk about “the” sex tape.” Joel whispered into her ear “But that’s what she’s famous for and correct me if I am wrong but didn’t YOU sell the rights to the tape and continue to profit from it without a dime going to Kim who made the tape?” Needless to say he will be continuing with her two famous titles on the Soup. AWESOME! I’m happy to see someone like Joel wonderfully stepping up on a weekly basis and ritualistically verbally slaying these sad soulless wonders and continuing his weekly bashing of Ryan Seacrest. And Joel I will feel your pain the day I see you on the E red carpet asking any of these “reality stars” who you are wearing? Keep the faith funny monkey boy. Afterward Karen and I met Joel outside the club in a dark alley…