Will Ferrell talks to Lynn Hirschberg of NYTimes.com/TMagazine. At one time in grade school Ferrell says he wanted to be a professional soccer player and a comedian in the off-season. He also says he working on a great Lynne Cheney imitation.
The Write News reports that the Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoons are being animated.
After years of being posted in cubicles and distributed from coworker-to-coworker by email, Scott Adams' Dilbert is adding a daily animated version.
RingTales - the producers of The New Yorker Animated Cartoons and the creative team behind Dreamworks' Over the Hedge - have signed an exclusive deal with United Media, Dilbert's licensing and syndication company, to produce and distribute daily animated versions of the Dilbert comic strip. The deal includes yet-to-be produced strips and over 7,000 comics in the Dilbert library.
You can find the short animated cartoons on YouTube. There is also a seperate Dilbert show (from 1999) available on Hulu.com.
Here's one of the funny Dilbert animated cartoons from the YouTube Dilbert channel.
McCain Jokes About Killing Iranians With Cigarettes
Funny or not jokes aren't always a wise move for a presidential candidate. Reuters reports that Presidential candidate John McCain recently joked about killing Iranians with cigarettes.
Presidential candidate John McCain, who once sang in jest about bombing Iran, on Tuesday reacted to a report of rising U.S. cigarette exports to the country by saying it may be "a way of killing 'em."
McCain, known for acerbic comments and for sometimes firing verbally from the hip, was responding to a report that U.S. exports to Iran rose tenfold during President George W. Bush's term in office despite hostility between the two states.
A rise in cigarette sales was a big part of that, according to an Associated Press analysis of seven years of U.S. trade figures.
"Maybe that's a way of killing 'em," McCain said to reporters during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh. "I meant that as a joke, as a person who hasn't had a cigarette in 28 years, 29 years," he added, laughing.
There's no question that cigarettes certainly do kill people but some will likely see McCain's joke as insensitive. It was obviously a joke since a cigarette isn't really a very effective war weapon. It isn't easy for the candidate who are covered indepth by the press for every single word they say.
