The Media Interview

If you like the semi-improv comedy stylings of The Office (British or American versions) or Christopher Guest and company (Waiting for Guffman, etc.), you’ll love this parody interview with an actual Portland, Oregon commissioner by the name of Randy Leonard. How he manages to not to crack a smile during his feigned homophobia toward a [...]

The folks at Doogtoons may be on to somethng: conduct an interview, then do a cartoon version of it, adding short scenes that “comment” on what the person is saying. They’ve started a couple of celebrity interviews on their site and here are some screenshots from an interview with Weird Al about his childhood. Personally, [...]

After having wrestled one another (literally) in January 2006, Bill O’Reilly was back on David Letterman this past Friday. The encounter is getting heavy play on YouTube (want a quick sense of how polarized America has become? – read the comments on the long list of clips from the interview.) and clips are appearing on [...]

Since fake interviews have been in the news lately, thought I’d look up some real fake interviews – found this on YouTube. Weird Al takes an annoying mannerism from many of the rapper’s answers and goes for the jugular… you know what I’m sayin’? Technorati Tags: Weird Al Yankovic, Eminem, Fake Interviews

I’m always interested in the increasingly serious role that news satire shows are playing in society. Here’s another indication of that increase from Conor Kenny’s Blog on Center for Media and Democracy We at Congresspedia think that [Steven] Colbert’s interviews are frequently hilarious and have created indexes of links to videos of the interviews that [...]