Who's the tall co-star?

I noticed a lot of pot references. Not exactly thrilled about that.

Death by chocolate had me rolling.

The news opinion guy whose joke is that he can't tell jokes was, as usual, unfunny.

I could've done without the cougar sketch.

Please come back soon, Tina Fey.

In other words, Asstown Kootcher isn't the producer of Punkt, MissGuided or that other thing he said, he's not the guy from "Dooed, My Car's Gone in 60 Seconds", he's not that boytoy who married the Brat Pack. Kootcher is Kelso "and that's all he ever will be".

Kootcher = Kelso. Period.

1.) he parodies the observational comic. As I mentioned this dates back to Mort Sahl, Berman, Lenny riffing off his own obsceniity trial transcripts. And maybe that stuff wasn;t always funny, but it connected with a hip audience by having someone on stage express their points of view which were rarely heard in the media.

Today various chat show hosts spin variations on the themes. Letterman does his "Small Town News". Conan has "True items" which are obviously not genuine. and Leno reverses the gag with a bit so far from the original premise that it should be called "headlines, article excepts, ads and wedding announcements," and he seems to miss that the clippings are funny and his "joke" commets are lame.

So the first joke is that Fehn's beliefs and views are so filmly held that he seems to belive that "No way!" or "As if!" is a valid commentary.

2.) His second bit is the run-on sentence fragments. For an excellent example of this listen to the Shatner track "Still In Love" from the Ben Folds "Fear of Pop" album. Much like speed-freak Lenny, his thoughts are runing so fast that his mouth can't keep up with them.

3.) Gotilk did a good Fehn impression above, but left out the 3rd key element: the non-sequitor segues. Sometimes Fehn's stream of consciousness takes such leaps of logic that you have no idea where he's going or what he's goping to say next.

I mean, consider if you will...mom, dad, baby sister...the government view...looking back...aqueduct theory...seen from that way...what I'm getting at...Now THE DINOSAURS!...

4.)Admittedly, the usual Fehn chunk consists of some combination of those three elements. This last one did add a fourth joke: Poehler's question "Is this actually going any where?" That was so multi-leveled. Was she addressing Fehn or Armisen? Speaking on behalf of herself, Lorne, Update, SNL or the audience members? Was her comment aimed at his specif tirade or the character's very existance? It was not a usual part of the bit, but it was a very strong punchline just the same.

THAT should have been in the article title. He was also in a pretty good comedy with Brittany Murphy. He CAN act.

Men Behind The Son is a tad sicker than that, IMO. Not to mention it really happened.

Since you could take MBtS, perhaps I can persuade you to watch the excellent 'An American Crime' that is premering on Showtime May 10. It's the real story of the Sylvia Likens torture and murder, but unlike the exploitation film 'The Girl Next Door', it tells the facts as best they are known.Much of it is based on the actual court transcripts. Ellen Page stars as Sylvia. I saw a screener of it and it's absolutely horrifying. And it's no where near as gruesome as men Behind the Sun.

How this film isn't getting a theatrical release is beyond me, especially with Ms. Page's star rising. I think it's on DVD in the UK already.

The only parts worth watching are bits at the beginning, digital short, the news, maybe the musical act if I care about them. Then it's fast forward until I see good production values with guest stars like the Couger bit which was amoung the first. I can watch this in less than 20 min usually.