Simon Cowell is renegotiating his American Idol contract this week, and rumors are starting to circulate about how much he is going to make. Last year he made $36 million for making teenagers feel bad about themselves (something that most... CONTINUE READING SIMON COWELL GETS PAID THE EXACT RIGHT AMOUNT»
Posted on June 30, 2009 in Behind The Scenes (9 comments)
Tags: American Idol | C.R.E.A.M. | Simon Cowell
gabe: i cannot believe that adam lambert lost American Idol gabe: since he is the person that i have arbitrarily decided to have been rooting for lindsay: adam lambert did not get as many votes as my person, "Kris Allen."... CONTINUE READING FRIDAY FIGHT: TWO PEOPLE WHO DON'T WATCH AMERICAN IDOL FIGHT ABOUT AMERICAN IDOL AGAIN»
Posted on May 22, 2009 in Friday Fight, Reality TV (20 comments)
Tags: Adam Lambert | American Idol | Kris Allen | Paula Abdul | Randy Jackson | Simon Cowell
American Idol is "one of the most popular shows on American television." --Wikipedia So then what was Steve Martin doing on last night's season finale playing the banjo? Who wants this? Do you want this? Even your mom doesn't want... CONTINUE READING HOW LONG WILL AMERICA CONTINUE TO INDULGE STEVE MARTIN'S BANJO PLAYING?»
Posted on May 21, 2009 in Awkward Live TV, Music Related Content (33 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Banjo | Steve Martin
According to an Adam McKay blog post on Funny or Die, Will Ferrell was scheduled to sing a song on last night's American Idol, but at the last minute they pulled the bit. Because of how that show is serious... CONTINUE READING AMERICAN IDOL IS A JOKE»
Posted on May 21, 2009 in Reality TV (2 comments)
Tags: Adam McKay | American Idol | Will Ferrell
Paula Abdul does a fucking ton of drugs. We know that. But now we really know it, because she's admitting it. From People: "I could have killed myself," Abdul, 46, tells Ladies' Home Journal in its June issue. "Withdrawal -... CONTINUE READING DUH AFICIONADO MAGAZINE: PAULA ABDUL IS ADDICTED TO DRUGS»
Posted on May 6, 2009 in Behind The Scenes (26 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Drugs | Paula Abdul
Hot off of covering Lykke Li, American Idol's remaining hairstylist victims Adam Lambert and the Not Adam Lamberts kept it indie for this week's Ford commercial challenge with New Magnetic Wonder's "Energy." Watch it here. Next week: "Two Weeks"?... CONTINUE READING AMERICAN IDOLS COVER THE APPLES IN STEREO»
Posted on April 30, 2009 in Commercial Appeal, Video (8 comments)
Tags: American Idol | The Apples In Stereo
This week (disco week) Lil and Anoop were eliminated. Sorry Lil and Anoop, pack your knives and go to graduate school. Before the curtain fell they hammed it up with Adam, Allison, Kris, Danny, and Matt in a contractually obligated... CONTINUE READING AMERICAN IDOLS COVER LYKKE LI IN A FORD FUSION»
Posted on April 23, 2009 in Commercial Appeal, MP3, Video (18 comments)
Tags: Adam Lambert | American Idol | Lykke Li
Because Quentin Tarantino was a "mentor" to the contestants on American Idol last night, whatever that means, some new footage from his upcoming Inglourious Basterds aired. Sure. Of course new Inglourious Basterds footage aired during what is basically a children's... CONTINUE READING INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS SNACKE PROVIEW»
Posted on April 15, 2009 in What America Wants (17 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Inglourious Basterds | Mike Myers | Quentin Tarantino
Wait a second, Quentin Tarantino is going to make a guest appearance on American Idol AGAIN? As in THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED? It is totally fair and legitimate to fire me, but unfortunately you cannot, because I quit. Then again,... CONTINUE READING OVERRATED VAMPIRE BULLY TO REAPPEAR ON AMERICAN IDOL»
Posted on April 9, 2009 in Cameos (12 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Quentin Tarantino
On Law And Order: SVU this week, the guys took their chance to get in an unexpected dig at Ryan Seacrest. Well, better late than never: I just imagine all these older people in their easy chairs being like "That... CONTINUE READING LAW AND ORDER: SVU'S BIG RYAN SEACREST ZINGER»
Posted on April 2, 2009 in SNAP! (8 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Christopher Meloni | Law And Order: SVU | Ryan Seacrest
American Idol is stupid. Bob Odenkirk and Natasha Leggero's Funny Or Die series, American Contestant, is not. The point of American Contestant is to impress the judges with your ability to ask to go to Hollywood, because life is just... CONTINUE READING OPERATION WATCH THIS: BOB ODENKIRK'S AMERICAN CONTESTANT»
Posted on March 19, 2009 in Operation Watch This, WebJunk (5 comments)
Tags: American Contestant | American Idol | Bob Odenkirk
Well, everyone's favorite show, American Idol, is about to become everyone's favorite outmoded novelty product. From the AP: "Idol" production company FremantleMedia and trading card publisher Upper Deck are launching a new line of trading cards featuring images of past... CONTINUE READING AMERICAN IDOL TO LAUNCH LINE OF UNWANTED ANTIQUATED GARBAGE»
Posted on March 17, 2009 in Dream Merch (3 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Paula Abdul | Randy Jackson | Ryan Seacrest | Simon Cowell | The Other Idol Judge?
As Simon Cowell likes to say, American Idol "is a singing competition." It's a show where four judges who are varying degrees of witty, clueless, lucid, and the dawg pore over the minute inflections in tune and tone of thousands... CONTINUE READING KANYE DOES THAT THING HE DOES THAT RESEMBLES SINGING ON AMERICAN IDOL»
Posted on March 12, 2009 in Video (35 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Kanye West
So, there was some "hilarity" this week when American Idol decided to create a top 13 of finalists rather than the customary top 12. SOME RULES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN. The thing is, the 1-800 numbers for people (people... CONTINUE READING OH PHEW, THE AMERICAN IDOL NON-EMERGENCY IS OVER»
Posted on March 10, 2009 in Behind The Scenes, Reality TV (10 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Paula Abdul | Randy Jackson | Ryan Seacrest | Simon Cowell | The Other Idol Judge?
Date: February 17th Time: 8PM Location: American Idol Couch Description: Contestant provides the TWSS. Host (Ryan Seacrest) is awkward and does not know how to react. Assumes all of America is thinking TWSS. Classic case of drawing attention to TWSS... CONTINUE READING THE TWSS ARCHIVES: THE AMERICAN IDOL COUCH MOMENT»
Posted on February 18, 2009 in Awkward Live TV (7 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Ryan Seacrest | TWSS Archives
A tipster who watches American Idol alerted us to George Ramirez, the bearded, earnest (or is he?), honest American Idol contestant from Tuesday's show. The show was clearly trying to paint George as an odd nerd who didn't belong there,... CONTINUE READING GEORGE THE PHYSICS MAJOR HUMILIATES THE AMERICAN IDOL JUDGES»
Posted on January 29, 2009 in Reality TV, Science (20 comments)
Tags: American Idol | George Ramirez | Paula Abdul | Randy Jackson | Simon Cowell
(A note about American Idol: this kind of shit is the only American Idol shit we're going to cover. Meaning: "funny shit." So if you see something, say something.) Well American Idol premiered last night, and a pretty cool-seeming blind... CONTINUE READING AMERICAN IDOL: RYAN SEACREST TRIES TO HIGH-FIVE A BLIND GUY»
Posted on January 14, 2009 in Reality TV (9 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Ryan Seacrest
Which hasn't and will never happen, but this would be exactly it. In fact, Tina would even be wearing this shirt and this amused, yet really uncomfortable, smile: It's not as good as The Tragic Events Of May 21, 2008,... CONTINUE READING THIS GIRL MEETING DAVID ARCHULETA IS ME MEETING TINA FEY»
Posted on December 1, 2008 in Music Related Content, Viral Video (5 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Crying | David Archuleta | David Cook
Best Video 4evs. (via Unique Daily) It's easy to laugh at the "misfortune" that's plaguing these girls and chalk it up to the inflamed emotional state of pubescent enthusiasms, but I can say with absolute certainty that there would be... CONTINUE READING NEVER FORGET THE TRAGIC EVENTS OF MAY 21, 2008»
Posted on November 20, 2008 in Caught On Tape (19 comments)
Tags: American Idol | David Archuleta | David Cook | Election 2008
The young woman, Paula Goodspeed, was found dead in her car outside the celebrity judge's house last night. She appeared on the show in 2005 as one of the unwitting contestants who's used for comedic relief in the audition episodes.... CONTINUE READING AMERICAN IDOL CONTESTANT COMMITS SUICIDE AT PAULA ABDUL'S HOUSE»
Posted on November 12, 2008 in Video (12 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Paula Abdul | Vampire Weekend
All day, the gossip has been unfolding about the woman found dead in her car outside of Paula Abdul's house last night of an apparent suicide. As more and more details have made into the press, the sadder and sadder... CONTINUE READING AMERICAN IDOL IS A MURDERER»
Posted on November 12, 2008 in Death, Reality TV (28 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Paula Abdul | Paula Goodspeed | Randy Jackson | Simon Cowell | Vampire Weekend
BREAKING NEWS today on the American Idol front. They're adding a fourth judge! NEW YORK - Scoot over, Simon Cowell. "American Idol" is adding a fourth critic to its panel of judges. Grammy-nominated songwriter Kara DioGuardi will sit alongside Cowell,... CONTINUE READING KARA DIOGUARDI JOINING AMERICAN IDOL AS FIRST NON-ADDLED FEMALE JUDGE»
Posted on August 25, 2008 in Behind The Scenes, Casting Calls, Reality TV (0 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Kara DioGuardi | Paula Abdul | Randy Jackson | Simon Cowell
gabe: did you watch the american idol finale? lindsay: No gabe: me neither lindsay: who won? gabe: david cook. lindsay: boo! archuleta should have won! gabe: no way, david cook totally deserved to win gabe: did you hear him sing?... CONTINUE READING FRIDAY FIGHT: WHO SHOULD HAVE WON AMERICAN IDOL ACCORDING TO TWO PEOPLE WHO DON'T WATCH IT»
Posted on May 23, 2008 in Friday Fight (11 comments)
Tags: American Idol | David Archuleta | David Cook | Paula Abdul | Randy Jackson | Simon Cowell
Well, David Cook won American Idol last night, just as Simon said he would last week, so he will probably be too busy for the County Fair tour of Plain White Tees Nuts this summer. A record 95 million votes... CONTINUE READING DAVID ARCHULETA CAN SEE THE FUTURE»
Posted on May 22, 2008 in Reality TV (2 comments)
Tags: American Idol | David Archuleta | David Cook | Death | Simon Cowell
So tonight is the American Idol finale, and while I think we can all agree that there are two noble and worthy competitors up for the prize, it's impossible not to be partisan. I hope the guy I like best... CONTINUE READING YOU'RE GOING DOWN, DAVID»
Posted on May 21, 2008 (0 comments)
Tags: American Idol | David Archuleta | David Cook | Simon Cowell | Team Shirts
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