…and he’s without a shadow of a doubt, a cool dude.

Before you get all upset on his behalf: he’s grand. You can hear him laughing at the end.

Ray

I’ve been watching a lot of American telly in the past week via Hulu, America’s closest cousin to the BBC’s iPlayer. Pretty much all of the major networks are there (‘cept for CBS) and you can subscribe to your favourite shows, which will just add themselves to your queue as soon as they’re aired stateside.

For more, see www.hulu.com and get the Hulu desktop application.

You’ll need to do a bit of dicking around with VPNs before you get the full value of the service. I’ve paid for my VPN from the site UK Proxy Server. But shop around - I just picked the first site I landed on. I’m told Hotspot Shield is a free option. I’m sure you’ll find more if you Google around a bit.

Anyway, tonight I’ve been watching how totally random the quality control seems to be on the extremely hit-and-miss Saturday Night Live. Coming from outside the US, I’ve always been given the impression that SNL is the international big daddy of sketch comedy. Not so. Even some of the weaker BBC stuff trumps it.

Take, for example the opening monologue from last week’s show, fronted by Jennifer Lopez. Ignore the awful opening Haiti parody sketch and skim on to her monologue at 5.38

But Zach Galafianakis had a pop at it this week. And he was just gold. Imagine being Vampire Weekend? Poor bastards. Skim in 6.50

And the video that made me cry laughing tonight – the end scene is spectacular:

Jimmy Kimmel Handsome Club - Watch more Funny Videos

Ray

The new Iron Man 2 trailer is out.

Wooo! Deep breaths…

Ray

According to iTunes, when it's connected there are playlists and
podcasts on there.

I just can't see 'em.

Looks like I’m not the only one:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11178149

Any notions?

Ray

Update: It’s Heavy Rain by the way.

Ray

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