A while back, Web Watch told you HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO BOOK THE DAN BAND, as seen in The Hangover. Or, if you really want to relive the entire HANGOVER movie trilogy, Web Watch mentioned how much it would cost you to BOOK ZACK GALIFIANAKIS or KEN JEONG.
But maybe, just maybe – you’re a bit more sophisticated than that.
Maybe you have $20,000 burning a hole in your pocket and you don’t know what to do with it.
Continue reading HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO BOOK A BAND?
So you know how you’re sitting around, watching TV, and you see a commercial come on that has that really hot chick in it?
Doesn’t it make you wonder, sometimes, just who the hell that girl is?
The Academy Awards are an interesting concept.
It’s not unusual for participants in an individual industry to receive awards for outstanding work in their respective fields. Web Watch is no stranger to this, having received a few well-deserved (if we do say so ourselves) awards ourselves over the years.
But the Academy Awards – the Oscars – and its brethren the Emmys, Tonys, and to a lesser extent the Grammys – that EGOT quad-award — are as unique an award presentation as any.
Not because there is such a thing as recognition of an acting job done better than others, but it’s the sheer over-the-top spectacle of a single industry celebrating the “art of making movies” (or TV shows, or Broadway productions, or music) where they believe that the entire world wants to see them present each other with awards for being able to cry convincingly on camera under a set of hot lights.
Continue reading EVERYTHING YOU’VE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE OSCARS
Thanks to all of you who took the time to visit WEB WATCH in 2012.
For those of you who weren’t able to read Web Watch every day, here’s a quick look at what everyone took a look at while they were here.
Continue reading YEAR IN REVIEW: 2012′S MOST POPULAR WEB WATCH ARTICLES AND SEARCHES
Game shows can run the gamut from educational (Jeopardy) to family challenge (Wheel of Fortune) to just plain silly (Double Dare).
And game shows have led to a number of common catchphrases that we still use today in other aspects of life:
Yet while we’re sitting at home watching and playing along with the contestants who are competing under-pressure, we KNOW that we always get the answers correct.
But under the pressure of the TV cameras, sometimes the contestants on the shows just get things a bit wrong.
Here are some of 2012′s best Local TV News Bloopers of 2012. Watch, and enjoy!
Continue reading VIDEO FUN: THE BEST LOCAL NEWS BLOOPERS OF 2012
Filesharing on the Internet often gets a bad rap.
There are tons of legitimate – legal – reasons to use filesharing software programs and services such as BitTorrent to distribute gigantic files across the Internet.
Are you watching the current BRAVO TV program LOLWORK?
It’s a reality TV program that allegedly shows the real-world behind-the-scenes workings of how the Cheezburger Network — home toLOL CATSand millions of other funny animal pictures and videos — does business.
While most the show appears to be purposefully driven to make what is supposed to be good TV, there are specific business-aspects that get aired that really for-real give a reasonable peek behind the curtain of what it takes to run a popular content-driven website.
Watching LOLWORK will give you a good reminder that it’s always hard work to create good, compelling CONTENT for your website, but that it’s that same content that also brings eyeballs to your site in the first place. Focus on the content, let everything else fall into place later.
Continue reading WHY EVERY OFFICE SHOULD BE FILLED WITH KITTENS AND PUPPIES
Have you ever had the opportunity to interview a Muppet?
If you did, what would you ask?
Continue reading RICKY GERVAIS ASKS ELMO THE MOST IMPORTANT MUPPET QUESTION, EVER
How many times have you sat down to watch a TV show and say to yourself, “These people are idiots – even I know that [fill in the blank] will never work!”
Web Watch sees this all the time, where some character goes on and on about some topic that Web Watch happens to know everything about, and the writers just get it all wrong!
We get it – TV is meant to be entertainment, but sometimes some basic research can make the script just that much more believable to those of us at home who actually do know what we’re talking about.
What’s the toughest job in the universe?
Being a red shirt-wearing character on the classic TV showSTAR TREK.
Countless stories, articles, and jokes have been written about the high mortality rate of those ill-fated crew members who always seem to find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time on planetary excursions.
Web Watch would chalk this up to mis-management by the ship’s captain and his commanding officers, but Captain Kirk would never see things that way. He was on a five-year mission, dammit.
How many people listen to the radio?
If you were to pay attention to technology pundits and the general news media, you would come away with the conclusion of, “well, practically nobody”. According to them, all those people who used to be radio listeners are bypassing that “old” technology for new offerings that the Internet has brought to bear, such as Pandora and Spotify. Cellphone playlists. Satellite radio, even, still makes a claim for being a popular alternative to traditional radio listening.
Continue reading RADIO DOMINATES IN ADVERTISING IMPACT SURVEY
By now, Web Watch is sure you’ve seen the trainwreck of a reality TV show on TLC, HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO.
We thought it would be a perfect time to tell you how to DRESS LIKE HONEY BOO BOO as the Perfect Halloween Costume for this year.
Continue reading HOW TO DRESS LIKE HONEY BOO BOO (AND OTHER HALLOWEEN IDEAS)
Ask pretty much anyone about their birthday, and we can be fairly certain that the person you’re asking will be able to tell you about any number of famous people who share birthdays on the same day.
“Harrison Ford!”
“Abraham Lincoln!”
“King Henry VIII!”
“Miley Cyrus!”
A lot of this will be printed in the paper, and the information doesn’t really change from year to year. Astrologers really have it easy, don’t they?
Continue reading WHICH FICTIONAL CHARACTER DO YOU SHARE YOUR BIRTHDAY WITH?
Web Watch has told you about DIRTY HOTEL ROOMS before.
And you all know people who travel with a Ziploc bag in their luggage, specifically to use with the TV remote control, as Web Watch has mentioned that the TV remote in a hotel room is pretty much germ central.
But it ends up that the hotel room TV remote is NOT the dirtiest item in your dirty hotel room.
Continue reading THE DIRTIEST ITEM IN YOUR HOTEL ROOM IS NOT THE TV REMOTE CONTROL