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It’s been a while since we’ve addressed the severe lack of Community on TV right now, but Donald Glover did this Public Service Announcement with MTV Canada to draw attention to the continent’s plight. Won’t you help? (Not that there’s much you CAN do, but still)

Six seasons and a movie. Because it’s the right thing to do.

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1. Channel 101 program Intimate Indiscretions gives you a look into the sexy annals of American History (NSFW) that also involve time travel and lasers.

2. Whatever you think of Bobcat Goldthwait’s stand-up, there is no denying he is a dark comedy genius with his films. Just watch the red-band trailer for his latest film, God Bless America.

3. Every once in a while, there are interview segments with people who aren’t comedians that make people think, “They need to do comedy in some way or another.” Stephen Colbert’s interview with author Maurice Sendak on The Colbert Report is such an interview.

4. Here’s a very funny music video with a bunch of really funny people (Alia Shawkat, Maria Thayer, Kurt Braunohler, Gabe Delahaye, and more) that ISN’T directed by Tom Scharpling: Hospitality’s “Friends of Friends”, directed by Scott Jacobson.

5. Jon Stewart proves that goofy chases and obviously fake wigs are still a solid combo for comedy.

The only time I feel my age is when icons from my childhood pass on.  Today, Don Cornelius, the creator and host of Soul Train, died.  I remember many Saturday afternoons watching cartoons, Creature Double Feature, and Soul Train.  Soul Train was a large part of my musical development.  It also taught me cool dance moves; these moves have served me very well in marching.

Soul Train was a very important show for mainstream culture as well as music.  Don Cornelius was a genius!

Thank you Don Cornelius for the years of Soul Train.   …and as always in parting, we wish you love, peace… and SOUL.

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The Jingle Punks Hipster Orchestra is pretty adept at getting attention for their musical stunts, like string-heavy orchestral-style renditions of everything from the Black Keys to MGMT to a whole Nirvana covers EP, and for their recent offering of a hip-hop “lullaby” for the newborn Blue Ivy Carter. This time, they’ve posted their medley of TV themes, five minutes of songs you know by heart, and they’re wearing matching track suits, so you know they mean business. You get The Office, The Simpsons, Friends, and several others, and it’s also a reminder that the art of the TV theme is one that’s been diminished over the years (to the point where some shows barely have any music at all) but really should be preserved. Unless you don’t think the theme to Doctor Who (or, for that matter, Gilligan’s Island) is art, in which case I don’t know you anymore.

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The Walking Dead returns to your picture box on February 12th, and AMC released the midseason teaser for the next episode, Nebraska.  Guns, check.  Zombies, check.  Rick screaming, check.  Looks like a great season of The Walking Dead is about to happen!  Hopefully they leave that farm sooner than later.

via [AMC]

Chunk tearfully “confessing” to the Fratellis is one of the more memorable scenes in The Goonies. Tyrion’s “confession” of a series of youthful indiscretions in Game of Thrones followed a similar strategy. Great minds, it seems, think alike. Someone — Rym DeCoster of the GeekNights podcast — thought to take the audio of confession A and match it to the video of confession B and the result is this mash-up.

It works. Woulda been cool if there was a shot of Peter Dinklage miming puking, but you can’t have everything.

HT:Wired’s GeekDad

What would The Walking Dead be like if it took another direction, say, in the direction of… Growing Pains? Maybe like this “alternate title sequence” from the folks at MovieWeb. Because what the world needs now is a heartwarming family show with zombies.

HT: Rodney Ho, Atlanta Journal-Constitution