YouTube Gold: Jacob Moon plays "Subdivisions"

Chris Ryall, editor-in-chief of IDW Publishing and friend of the show, shared this video with us a couple of weeks ago and we've been meaning to share it with you. This is musician Jacob Moon standing on the roof of the Staircase Theatre in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (about three blocks from where I used to live) performing a solo and mostly-accoustic version of the Rush song "Subdivisions". It's a well-performed song and it's filmed in an entertaining way. I hope you enjoy the song and the scenery as much as we did.

HGC Radio - Episode 28: They Brought Their Freaking Toys With Them!!!

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ANTHONY KINGDOM JAMES is back this week with another entertaining episode of THE HANDSOME GENIUS CLUB RADIO SHOW. This week, Episode 28 features Filipino-Canadian stand-up comedian RON JOSOL. The award-winning comic is a fan favorite around the the world and he dishes on fame, travel, his family, working with media sensation Russell Peters, getting himself in better shape and much, much more. Plus TJ HABIBI is here, there's NERD NEWS and Uncle Kingdom talks about the busy week he had last week including wedding receptions, street fight wrestling matches and why the finale of Battlestar Galactica STUNK!

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This week's handsome links...
-Ron Josol has an official website.
-Check out TJ Habibi's band: Secret Suburbia.
-Big Daddy Donnie fights off illness and "Your Bro" Dan-e-o blames it on "bust juice" over at Tha O Show.
-Kingdom updates the HGC's Twitter and Facebook regularly.

This week's music:
First break - "Sex On Fire" by Kings of Leon
Second break - "Santana DVX" by The Lonely Island

The Hot Mess: Jack Black, Superman, & The Bible

It's all an EPIC BATTLE: Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper on the X-Box 360; Superman vs. Veronica Mars (I did say epic after all) on the big screen; a battle of the Bible between Jack Black & Michael Cera's 'Year One' against NBC's 'Kings'; and two remakes for the fall television season and their casting for ABC's remake of 'V' and NBC's remake of 'No Heroics'.

Big Al's Trailer Park presents Cat Shit One

According to the fine folks at iwatchstuff.com, Cat Shit One is a new Japanese anime series based on a manga called "Apocolypse Meow". In this trailer, anthropomorphic rabbits do battle in a bombed out middle eastern village with anthropomorphic camels. The violence is graphic to say the least.

Printed Page to Silver Screen No.12

Welcome fellow handsome geniuses to another edition of PP2SS. This time around it's mainly movie news and rumours and the first few are more scheduling changes concerning some of the big Comic releases that are scheduled for the next year or so.

Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures have had a bit of confusion with Micheal bay over the start date for Transformers 3 of July 1, 2011, although the studios have cautioned that the dating of the third installment isn't an official announcement that the project is going forward; rather that the studios wanted to plan a stake in the date.

However Micheal Bay has said that he meant 2012 not 2011, he posted the following comment on his blog

I said I was taking off a year from Transformers. Paramount made a mistake in dating Transformers 3 - they asked me on the phone - I said yes to July 4 - but for 2012 - whoops! Not 2011!!! That would mean I would have to start prep in September. No way. My brain needs a break from fighting robots. -- Michael

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen debuts on June 24 so the life of Transformers 3 may just depend on how 'Revenge' does.

Paramount also has moved up the release of Marvel Studios' Thor from June 17, 2011 to May 20, 2011. This move sets the release for Thor just two weeks after Spider-Man 4 opens on May 6, 2011. I'm not sure how much of this is Marvels idea, considering the bunch of shuffle's they recently made, as covered by Phil in the Hot Mess. I think this is kinda soon between shuffles and Marvel have the release of Spidey 4 two weeks earlier!!

Warner Bros. Pictures is scheduled to begin filming The Green Lantern in mid-September in Australia. To be directed by Martin Campbell, the comic book adaptation is targeted for a December 17, 2010 release.

Now I know this isn't exactly 'movie' news but The Hollywood Reporter says that SCI FI Channel (soon to be Syfy) has greenlighted a fresh take on the comic book "The Phantom." The project will be a four-hour movie from production company RHI Entertainment.

The Phantom will be under consideration for a series order contingent on drawing a large enough audience. This has been adapted a few times without much success, but Halmi said the previous stumbles are a good reason to try again.

"That there hasn't been a successful 'Phantom' leaves the door wide open for us, since nobody has made it their own yet," Halmi said.

It's is expected to hit the channel next year.

New Regency has acquired "Freedom Formula: Ghost of the Wasteland," an adaptation of the Radical Publishing comic book series that will be developed as a potential directing vehicle for Bryan Singer, reports Variety. 20th Century Fox will distribute.

For those of you who haven't read it, the comic book has a futuristic premise in which fighter jets have been replaced by pilots who battle in racing exo-suits. The protagonist is a genetically engineered racer who learns his bloodline has the power to change society.

I am reserving the right to comment on this because of Brian Singer. I think this comic has a lot of potential on the screen but singer is getting pretty bad for comic book adaptations with X-men 2 and Superman Returns not exactly delivering in the action department.

Well thats us for another week Geniuses so until Kingdom marches with Dan-e-o at Gay Pride Do me a HGC!!

George Bush Invades Canada: A Rebuttal

Alan Park, a previous guest on HGC Radio (check out Episode 10) and co-star of Canada's long-running political satire show, the Royal Canadian Air Farce, sent us this video. It's Alan, in animated form, commenting on what he calls "the [recent] illegal entry into Canada of former US President and current War Criminal on the lam, George W. Bush."

Handsome Geniuses vs. Big Idiots #1: The Case of Joe Rockhead vs. Fred and Barney

As everyone knows, the Handsome Genius' only natural enemy is the Big Idiot. Since the very dawn of man, Big Idiots have been ruining the best laid plans of Handsome Geniuses everywhere. Here's a perfect example: Joe Rockhead.

Back in the days when men were men and the sabertooth tigers ran scared, a guy would wake up in his cave each morning, let a wooly mammoth shower him with cold water, shave with a razorclam full of angry bees, eat a hard-boiled terradactyl egg with some toast and start his car with nothing but the soles of his own feet. Then he'd suffer through rush hour traffic just to spend his workday getting yelled at by his boss while breaking big rocks into little rocks in some quarry. Then, he would make his way home, exhausted from a long day's labor and have his wife waiting there for him with a list of chores and some snot-nosed kid for him to watch.

Not very fun at all. What was a guy to do? How could he find time to relax with the pressures of the prehistoric world impeding his evolution from caveman to man?

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One neanderthal rose above his thick-skulled brethren and came up with a plan. A genius plan. Dare I say... a handsomely genius plan! That man was Joe Rockhead and his plan was simple: Joe started the Bedrock Volunteer Fire Department. Every night after dinner, Joe would ring the fire bell and all the men who were in on the secret would rush out of their homes to do their civic duty. Their wives would be so proud knowing that night after night, their husbands were risking life and limb to help stone age families just like theirs.

But being a Handsome Genius, I know that YOU already get the gag here, don't you? Of course you do, but I'll explain it anyways. You know, just in case any Big Idiots happen to be reading this. The Bedrock Volunteer Fire Department was a scam. The entire town of Bedrock was made out of stone. HOW COULD IT POSSIBLY BURN? Joe and the boys could hang out, shoot pool, smoke cigars and watch the fights or the big game on tv without the wives nagging them to help with the housework. It was a brilliant idea and it was working prefectly...

UNTIL... Joe made the mistake of helping his buddies Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble by letting them join the BVFD. Flintstone and Rubble, notorious local retards, wanted to sneak out of their houses because they were too embarrassed to tell their wives they needed dancing lessons before the big fancy dress ball.

Dancing lessons? Fancy dress party? Fruits.

Fred and Barney, the Big Idiots that they were, overplayed their hands at home and it didn't take long for their wives, Wilma and Betty, to unravel their husbands' schemery and almost expose the whole damn VFD scam. Thanks to Fred and Barney, that Handsome Genius of a man, Joe Rockhead was embarrassed, humiliated and almost forced to spend time (*gasp*) with his wife.

Remember, fellow Handsome Geniuses... for your own happiness and safety, it is best to avoid Big Idiots at all times.

Battlestar Galactica finale a big disappointment.

Kids, your Uncle Kingdom just stepped in from his night at CTV Headquarters (formerly known as the MuchMusic Building) here in downtown Toronto where I appeared (but did not actually get to speak) on tonight's edition of Fandom Forum. At 5:30 this afternoon, I was in a meeting room in the building's fourth floor with about a dozen others, getting a special showing of the 2-hour series finale of Battlestar Galactica.

I call shenanigans.

That was a piss-poor excuse for a final episode and I really have to wonder what or even IF, Ronald Moore was thinking when he committed this tripe to paper. The first hour of this final episode was fueled by Adama's "suicide mission" to recover Hera, the half-cylon/half-human child from the hands of Brother Cavil and his evil cylon forces. And with the exception of the flashbacks to life on Caprica before the fall, none of which added a single gods-damned thing to the story of this episode, it was great. It was frenetic and scary and suspenseful. It featured incredible CGI during the firefight between Galactica and the Cylon colony. Hell, it even featured new version cylons having fist fights with classic 1979-style cylons. (And for the record, Cylon Fight Club is cool!) The child was recovered. People were dying left and right. It was really living up to its promise and potential.

And then anything that was good about the show and the series was thrown out the window like Cally out an airlock.

The second hour of this show was unneccessary. They find Earth. Again. Basically, they find a planet (the one you're standing on right now, fellow Handsome Genius) in an early stage of human development (approx. 150,000 years ago). Adama renames it Earth because "Earth is a dream". Everyone decides against building a new city for the almost 40,000 human survivors plus the remaining humanoid cylons in favor of spreading out across the globe and living primative lives. What? Now they're a civilization of Unabombers, all shunning technology and living in makeshift cabins in the woods?

The series finale also features more false finishes than a Rob Van Dam/Jerry Lynn wrestling match. Every time you think it's over, the show fades back in and shoddily concludes someone else's storyline. It was like the end of the Lord of the Rings movie with ending after ending edited together because we need one more look at the frakkin' Shire before the credits roll. The show was already dragging badly when we got to Adama sitting next to Roslin grave. THIS was the logical endpoint for the show. But then we got crap about Helo, Athena and Hera. And Baltar and Caprica 6 with their hullucinatory counterparts. And much worse, the spirit versions of Baltar and Caprica 6 walking the streets of modern day New York City, reading a National Geographic over the shoulder of series exec Ron D. Moore, doing his M. Night Shamalayan-style crowbarred-in cameo.

AND WHAT THE HELL IS STARBUCK? This show wraps a lot of things up without explaining a single thing. All this bullshit we've been fed about scrolls of Pithia and prophecies and NONE of it came true.

There's a ton of nitpicky things I could mention here like why did Adama ditch Apollo? Why did Cavil accept a deal from his sworn enemies and why did he just up and shoot himself? Why did we have to see Adama puking on himself in an alley like a drunken hobo?

It was a let-down, folks. A great series has gone away and it took a dump on our doorstep on its way out.

AKJ to appear on Space's Fandom Forum TONIGHT!

Space's hour long Battlestar Galactica Fandom Forum returns to the airwaves LIVE at 11pm EST tonight following the final episode of the sci-fi sensation. HGC Radio host Anthony Kingdom James will be on the panel discussing the end of the series and the legacy it leaves behind for fans. The show repeats Sunday night at 8pm and several more times next week. We'll get you a full schedule as soon as possible.

HGC Radio - Episode 27: A Rag-Tag Radio Show

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Another incredible episode of the Handsome Genius Club Radio Show, fresh out of the oven for you with ANTHONY KINGDOM JAMES and TJ HABIBI behind the mics. Uncle Kingdom is suffering with a head cold and with the size of his noggin, you just know it has to be a doozy! But a little illness could never keep AKJ from talking to today's special guest: actor DIRK BENEDICT! Dirk, who played Starbuck on the original Battlestar Galactica and Templeton "Faceman" Peck on A-Team, joins the show from his home in Montana where he enjoys a roaring fire and a good cigar while talking to the HGC Crew.

Find out what Dirk thinks of the re-imagined version of Battlestar Galactica, the efforts to remake The A-Team and what he calls "the emasculation of the entertainment industry". Plus, we get a visit from NOAH PANICO with some shocking accusations about CHRIS MAVERICK and Rihanna, a quick look at the NERD NEWS, a peek at Kingdom's busy weekend ahead and a whole lot more...

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This week's handsome links...
-Dirk Benedict has an official website.
-Noah Panico is one of the diabolical villains behind the new Counting The Lights website.
-Check out TJ Habibi's band: Secret Suburbia.
-We can never get enough of Big Daddy Donnie and "Your Bro" Dan-e-o over at Tha O Show.
-Kingdom updates the HGC's Twitter and Facebook regularly.


Noah offers "proof" that Mav beat up Rihanna. Man, that picture sure does look familiar.

This week's music:
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The Hot Mess: Twittering, The Rock, & Michael Bay

The Hot Mess: Twittering, The Rock, & Michael Bay

It's a COURT battle over Twitter featuring Milwaukee Buck's star Charlie Villanueva. But, who walks away from a battle between The Rock's "Race to Witch Mountain" and John Cena's "12 Rounds"? And is Michael Bay and Transformers 3 or Robert Rodriguez and Sin City 2 the more devastating duo?

Check some of what's worth watching online & a special fan-interaction where you tell ME who is The Hot Mess in a cross-over between Bones and Family Guy!

Catch it below or watch in HD and vote for it on CurrentTV!



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HGC Comic Rack Review: Ultimate X-Men #100

As we've spoken about on the HGC Radio Show, Marvel's Ultimate line is coming to, at least, a temporary end. Yesterday, the last issue of the Ultimate X-Men series came out. I've tried to read Ultimate X-Men before. The first three issues, then some issues in the late teens and then somewhere in the 40's. I just didn't get into it. (As opposed to Ultimate Spider-Man, which I fell in love with when I finally gave it a try just last month... and based on that love I'm PISSED that the Ultimate line is been rebooted.)

But Ultimate X-Men #100, as a stand-alone issue, is fantastic.

"Ultimatum", the huge crossover storyline being used to end the Ultimate line, involves Magneto finally nutting up and making a concerted effort to destroy the human race and anyone who would oppose his twisted crusade. This final issue of UXM centres on Magneto using Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man, to make thousands upon thousands of duplicates of himself for use as suicide bombers around the globe.

This is the only benefit to the Ultimates line ending. The realities of war and death involving super-powered beings. In the regular Marvel line of comics we've seen Magneto yap and yap and yap about his war on humanity for 40 years. Shut up and do something about it already! Well, Ultimate Magneto is getting crap done.

Tidal waves killing millions in New York City. Earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes and frost. The world is being assailled. And now this. I don't want to give away anything about the book. I really want you to read this for yourself regardless of if you pick up any other books in the Ultimatum storyline. This is no holds barred action with character being used to both their emotional and their violent potentials. Of course, marketing concerns overwhelm creativity so that characters who "die", return. (Heck, if Elektra hadn't been brought back, regardless of how perfect and poingant her original death was, there's an assload of money Marvel wouldn't have made. Same reason some ass-clown somewhere is probably working on a treatment for Watchmen 2: The Return of Rorshach.)

The issue is wild and frenetic. Knowing that at least a few of the characters you are watching are about to "really" perish makes every page and fight battle something to be anxious about. Will your favorite character die?

Do yourself a favor. Read Ultimate X-Men #100.

It's St. Patrick's Day? Are you drunk yet?

March 17th is here again and everyone knows what that means, right? It means we all have to put up with those damn Irish stumbling up and down our city streets and hugging us against our will as they caterwaul the chorus to "Danny Boy" over and over again because they've forgotten the rest of the words (if they ever actually knew them) until they puke green beer all over us.

And although we're not sure how driving snakes out of Dublin earns a guy the honor of being canonized, The Handsome Genius Club wants to wish all of you, be ye Irish or just wearing a green shirt, a happy, healthy, booze-filled and pinch-free St. Paddy's Day! But for god's sake, don't end up like the girl in the red sweater in this video below.

The Hot Mess: The Rock and Craig Ferguson are #1

Craig Ferguson is back to kick Jimmy Fallon's ass. But what's going on between Trent Reznor and Chris Cornell...and Jesus? But it's also the battle of the The Rock vs. Goku as Race to Witch Mountain takes on Dragonball: Evolution.

Sam Raimi wants a new Evil Dead (with or without Bruce Campbell) and Bryan Fuller (saving heroes) is asking JJ Abrams to allow him to make a new Star Trek series. And believe it or not, the following movies are planned to be made: MacGyver, Stretch Armstrong, Monopoly, Candy Land, and Ouija.

Also, cheap shills for Sam Brisson's Doritos Guru entry & Timmy Aiight's Random Wiki Fact of the Week.

Watch below or catch it in HD over on YouTube. You can also vote for The Hot Mess on CurrentTV.

The Hot Mess: Hayden Panettiere, Mickey Rourke, & a Three Way

It's a three-way dance between a reboot Daredevil, reboot The Fantastic Four, & horrific Ghost Rider 2. Marvel Studios announces upcoming dates, but where is DC?

Meanwhile Mickey Rourke & Scarlett Johansson team up in a handcapt match against TNA superstar Mickey Rourke. Where's Chris Jericho when you need him!? And who is the biggest hot mess between Heroes' Hayden Panettiere and Watchmen screenwriter David Hayter?

And send some input on your online addictions.

Watch below or over on YouTube to view in HD!

HGC Radio - Episode 26: We Watched The Watchmen

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The long-awaited big screen adaptation of the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons comic book classic is out and everyone who's seen it has some strong opinions about it. Today, ANTHONY KINGDOM JAMES allows a pair of very vocal critics to have their say on the film as he welcomes FRANK MOVSESIAN of BamKapow.com and SAM PANICO of CountingTheLights.com to the HANDSOME GENIUS CLUB RADIO SHOW. It's a hilarious and insightful show as Sam and Frank dissect the tale of the darker side of superheroics. Along with the movie review, Frank and Kingdom make an announcement about BamKapow's exciting new FanFilm contest and Sam talks Kingdom into having a roundtable discussion about porn on a future HGC Radio show.

Plus, Kingdom prepares for a busy week next week, gives us the heads-up about HGC t-shirts and delivers all the essential NERD NEWS. And of course, TJ HABIBI is in the house to deliver some SECRET SUBURBIA news and to share a really disturbing kiss with his dog YOSHI.

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This week's handsome links...
-Frank Movsessian is the brilliant mind behind BamKapow!. It's one of the HGC's favorite websites, so go check them out!
-Sam Panico is one of the diabolical villains behind the new Counting The Lights website.
-TJ Habibi's band, Secret Suburbia is a headlining act during Canadian Music Week here in Toronto.
-We can never get enough of Big Daddy Donnie and "Your Bro" Dan-e-o over at Tha O Show. Their new theme song debuts this week and it's sick!
-Kingdom updates the HGC's Twitter and Facebook regularly.

This week's music:
First break - "The Spirit of Radio" by Rush (because Rush is frakkin' awesome).
Second break - "Meow Meow" by RapCat (because because TJ couldn't stop laughing his ass off when I played it for him).

HGC T-shirts are now on sale

The first-ever Handsome Genius Club t-shirts are now available for pre-order. The shirts are 100% pre-shrunk cotton and feature the new HGC Crest on the front and Big Al's Theory of Handsome Relativity ("E=mcSEXY") on the back. All shirts are printed in and shipped from Canada, the ancestral birthplace of Earth's smartest and funniest people. (Shipping costs are added during the checkout process.)

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R.I.P. Rodney Pentland (1968 - 2009)

Rodney Pentland, Canadian stand-up comedian, has died at the age of 41. Rodney may be best known to the general public for a commercial he did several years ago for TSN's SportsDesk featuring Rod's spot-on Robert DeNiro impression. On a personal note, Rod was a friend to me at one of the many times in my life where I had fucked things up and really needed a hand. Rodney was there. I feel a sense of loss but tinged with the guilt of having only made the beginnings of reconnecting with him after losing touch almost a decade ago.

Rodney Pentland was good people.

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From Printed Page To Silver Screen #11

Hey folks and welcome to another PP2SS this time around I’m looking the the recently released Watchmen and any news bouncing around. I intended on this being a normal review however I noticed something on the twitter stream about how bland somebody found the music, I can’t see the issue.

I went to see Watchmen on Sunday with my fiancée. She has never read the novel but she does like a comic or two now and then, we're both hooked on the Stephen King stuff coming from Marvel but that’s a whole other article. I personally got a kick out of the soundtrack. ‘All along the watchtower’ and ‘Everybody wants to rule the world’ being a couple of my favorites. I almost laughed out loud when I heard ‘rule the world’ being played in Ozymandius office. one of the best points of the music didn’t become clear until after we left the cinema. As both Kirsty and I realised that the music had helped us follow the story. Watchmen is a complex story and anything that helps you understand what they crammed into three hours is a major advantage.

I think the soundtrack was one of the best features of the film! That is quite a statement considering I would probably call this one of the best films I have ever seen. I have loved Watchmen for years but have never owned a copy, only read it second hand. I was given a copy for my birthday last year and I have read it three times since then in anticipation of the movie. So to say that I set myself up for a fall was an understatement. I love the book and the characters, what if they killed it?

We will never know because they knocked it out of the park. They stayed as true to the source material as they possibly could whilst carrying each character from one medium to another without damaging their integrity. The emotions that the story conveys, the political and moral messages are as clear and powerful as in the novel. Oh and Silk Spectre is the hottest thing on two legs, Malin Akermin is stunning, ‘nuff said.

One of the biggest points of dispute over this film is the ending and the removal of the Octopus. Whilst I’m not about to go all spoiler on you, I will say that I think the change was perfect and I don’t think it harmed the story at all. I am, however, looking forward to seeing the DVD edit with the big Octopus back!!

Overall I think the best possible with the time constraints and managed to keep the core of the story alive and well. Now on to some news about some upcoming releases.

Hugo Weaving spoke to AdelaideNow about the return of Megatron in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen:

"I've already done it," Weaving says, adding Bay had told him to keep the news hush-hush. "He's over in LA and we were working on the video split sort of thing and I had this strange conversation where he seemed to imply it was all a big secret. So there you go, I've given you the secret scoop."So how is Megatron resurrected?Weaving is coy about revealing too much, but does give a tiny hint."I think in the last one, doesn't Optimus Prime pick up a little bit of, a little shard of the cube, or the thing that's left, and he takes it with him. Maybe there's something there... but I don't know," he laughs.

Director Michael Bay has posted the following on his official site:Okay cat is out of the bag. Megatron is back ---- but you will only get to see him from the long lost past. We go way back in time as this movie explains the mythology of the Primes. He is not a tank like everyone suggests, but an alien vehicle. But sadly he does not has much screen time.

Michael

He has also made this post on his message board in response to pleas from the fans about Frank Welker doing the voice of Soundwave in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, considering he won't have the chance to voice Megatron again (Hugo Weaving is reprising that role):

I think I'm going to pursue Frank on Soundwave.

Michael

Seth Rogen is in Australia to promote Monsters vs. Aliens and he talked to "The Jono & Dano Show" about his big screen adaptation of The Green Hornet. He told the radio show that Columbia Pictures plans to begin filming in June. It will be an origin story but not in the traditional sense. It'll be unlike every other superhero film out there, Rogen said. The film will concentrate a lot on the relationship between these two different cats - The Green Hornet (who Rogen says is just "a normal guy") and Stephen Chow's Kato.

20th Century Fox has released an exclusive new photo of Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson/Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, opening in theaters on May 1st. You can view it below, and if you missed the new trailer, you can watch it here!

If you’ve got any comments on Watchmen or any of the News stories I covered then feel free to leave a comment.

The Hot Mess: Miley Cyrus vs. The Jonas Brothers

What a twisted world we live in - a Marmaduke movie, Octomom gets publicist #3, & now a battle between Disney stars Miley Cyrus & The Jonas Brothers. Meanwhile, the team of Robert Downey Jr. & Jude Law team to face Sylvester Stallone & Mickey Rourke (w/ support from Arnold Schwarzenegger).

Meanwhile, Ashlee Simpson sex kitten role on The CW's new Melrose Place takes on Dakota Fanning as Jane in the upcoming Twilight sequel 'New Moon'.

And one quick soap box wrap up involving Oprah, Chris Brown, & Rhianna. Check it out below or watch in HD over on YouTube.

The 5 Smartest Comedy Sketches Of All Time!

Everyone loves to laugh. You. Me. That weird guy who always seems to sit across from you on the bus in the morning wearing the Hello Kitty t-shirts and singing to himself while highlighting sections of "Mein Kampf" with a pink marker. Even that waste of DNA loves to laugh. But that total genetic miscreant may have trouble appreciating this list, my fellow Handsome Geniuses. So with that in mind, The Handsome Genius Club presents its list of the five smartest comedy bits of all time.

#5 - Most anything by George Carlin
No one has ever dissected the English language with quite as sharp a mind or a wit as George Carlin. The Seven Dirty Words may be Carlin's finest known work, exploring the notion of what is obscene. But that is just the tip of the iceberg with Carlin. Over his career he would investigate our native tongue and the way in which its evolves through our use, misuse and abuse. He also played with words, the way they sound and the emotions they invoke. Here's a great example... watch as Carlin compares the differences between baseball and football.




#4 - The Pre-Taped Call-in Show
Four four seasons in the late 1990's David Cross and Bob Odenkirk spearheaded a sketch-com show on HBO titled "Mr. Show". The show was utterly brilliant and this might be it's shining moment of twisted logic. In this bit, David Cross plays the host of a call-in tv talk show. The problem is, the show is taped one week in advance, so while you're sitting at home watching the episode that was taped last week, Cross is in his studio taping the episode that will air next week. Follow? Neither does anyone else apparently. Watch the clip and you'll see what I'm talking about... last week... (Pay attention to Cross' hair at the end of the sketch.)




#3 - Dead Parrot
Monty Python, the finest comedy troupe to ever visit from across the pond, brings us the simple yet brilliantly executed premise of a man trying to return some unsatisfactory merchandise to its point of purchase. The merchandise in this case: a parrot. The reason for the return: the parrot is dead. The problem: the store clerk refuses to acknowledge that said parrot has gone to meet its maker. It's a coin flip as to whether this sketch or "Arguement Clinic" is their best work.




#2 - The Black White Supremicist
The fame brought on by this one sketch propelled Dave Chappelle to the super-stardom that eventually drove him goofy and yet this is undeniably one of the most hilarious yet insidiously poignant.




#1 - Who's On First?
From the vaudevillian minds of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello comes the greatest bit of all time. Miscommunication at it's finest. Bud Abbott is the manager of a baseball team and his dim-witted friend Lou Costello would like to know the players names so he can meet them and not look foolish. Abbott warns Costello that the players these days have some pretty silly nicknames. (In some versions of this skit they cite brother duo Dizzy and Daffy Dean as examples.) From there it's wordplay hijinx as Lou tries desperately to understand what Bud is saying...

The Hot Mess: Paula Abdul - Michael Jackson, Watchmen - Wolverine

Forget a near universe consuming war between Watchmen's Rorschach and Wolverine in a reality where McDonald McNuggets and Rush Limbaugh take over the news...What about opposites Paula Abdul and Michael Jackson going toe-to-toe? WHAT ABOUT HALO WARS?

And who would win in a special Recession Royal Rumble between General Motors and the United States Post Office? Find out below on today's "Hot Mess" (or head to YouTube to watch in HD).

HGC Radio - Episode 25: I'd Hit That!

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The Silver Anniversary Edition of The Handsome Genius Club Radio Show hits the internet full of sound and fury signifying something special. 25 episodes in the books and your very best source for "pop culture conversation and highly opinionated opinions" keep getting better each passing week.

This week, ANTHONY KINGDOM JAMES and TJ HABIBI welcome their special guest, comedian DAVE HUDSON, to talk about juggling life as a touring stand-up comic and a dedicated family man. (Heck, Dave's kids interupt the interview in search of hot chocolate and marshmellows!) Dave also talks about his nerd interests including his favorite comic books, his idea for a Star Trek television series with a very captain who shops smart (by shopping S-Mart), how much he's looking forward to seeing The Watchmen on the big screen and how much he thinks the new Star Trek movie is going to stink.

Then it's on to a trio of the HGC's usual suspects as CHRIS MAVERICK discusses the Rihanna-Chris Brown situation, WORDBURGLAR gives us his review of THE WATCHMEN after having attended a special screening this past Tuesday and NOAH PANICO pays tribute to recently deceased radio legend Paul Harvey with a salutory "THE REST OF THE STORY". Plus, Kingdom brings us NERD NEWS, an update on HGC t-shirts and discusses a recent e-mail from a listener.

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This week's handsome links...
-Keep track of comedian Dave Hudson's very funny whereabouts, check out his MySpace page
-Check out TJ Habibi's band: Secret Suburbia.
-Kingdom updates the HGC's Twitter and Facebook regularly.

This week's music:
First break - "Right Round" by Flo Rida (because the only rap songs that get massive airplay these days are about strippers).
Second break - "Spit Fresh" by Wordburglar (because 'Burgy is our boy and his music is awesome).

Grandpa Funnybook: Being Italian

Grandpa Funnybook returns to talk about growing up Italian and some of the paisanos that he's worked with along the way.

The Hot Mess: Justin Timberlake, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Fallon & More

Hot Mess: Justin Timberlake, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Fallon & More

It's the battle of Late Night you weren't expecting, involving Colonel Sander's "secret recipe" and Justin Timberlake as the new host of Late Night. Meanwhile, BBC vs. iTV as Being Human battles Demons...and a bad American accent.

Is the next Slumdog Millionaire on the way? Doesn't matter, British Film is all about Shaun of the Dead. And lots of web show-ness on this edition of The Hot Mess.

Check it out below or in High-Def on YouTube.