"Chelsea Peretti: One Of The Greats" Stand-Up Review

I love when people make me laugh, therefore, I love stand-up comedy. I am the type of person who thinks I am really funny but no one else really thinks I am. Ha. 

So I am a big fan of the show Brooklyn-Nine-Nine with Andy Samburg. I originally started watching it after someone showed it to me, and then when I realized it was on netflix I was all "YESSSSSS" and became quickly obsessed. In the show, there is a character named Gina, who is a very sarcastic type (like myself) so I instantly related with her character. 

Normally when I begin to like a TV show or movie, I like to google the characters to see what other stuff they have been in so I can be like, heyyyy I didn't know *such & such* was in this! It's a real eye-opener, you should try it out sometime. 

From this celebrity google stalking experience I found out that my fav character Gina otherwise known as comedian Chelsea Peretti had a Netflix special comedy show titled "Chelsea Peretti: One Of The Greats". I decided to give it a try.

I watched it.

Then I watched it two more times.

Then I made my parents watch it with me.

Then I watched it again, alone.

Then I told people to watch it.

Then I watched it with a friend.

All in all, I've watched it eight times now and I've laughed throughout it each time, by now even mouthing the words to the parts I have memorized. I really think she is brilliant. 

Now there were some parts I didn't like though... such as the audience cuts where it shows dogs sitting in seats or someone basically having a picnic. 

I also didn't like the parts where she is mocking herself in the clown outfit, where her school picture is talking to her from a chair in the audience, or where the guy starts leaf blowing inside the venue, etc., but I guess she was trying to do something different and to each their own. 

But other then those parts her actual stand-up performance was super funny and the way her jokes transitioned into each other worked together nicely. 

Jimmy Fallon Dropped The Ball with Nicole Kidman

I am never the type of person who watches TV on actual TV... I always watch it online. Whenever I'm having kind of an off day, I will usually go on YouTube and watch clips of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. It is one of my favourite talk shows, partly because I have a huge crush on him. To me, he is definitely up there on my list of funniest guys, next to Kevin Hart. He always has interesting interviews with celebs, and the small segments that are apart of the show are always so funny and this stuff just, you know, keeps me wanting more and more. 

Today I came across a video clip of Nicole Kidman on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where both her and Jimmy tell both sides of their sides of the story of the day they first met. The whole clip was a hoot - I was dying of laughter the whole way through. Half way through they try to get on with the interview but both keep giggling about the memory of Nicole being interested in him, and Jimmy being completely oblivious and not finding out until now!

Check out the video below for a 9 minute laugh you will not regret :)

"Sia - Elastic Heart" Video Review

I just finished watching Sia's new music video for her song Elastic Heart, which featured dancer Maddie Ziegler from the show Dance Moms and Sia's last music video Chandelier, and... Shia LaBeouf.

(No one saw that one coming)

In Elastic Heart Ziegler is smeared with dirt, wears the same leotard she wore in the Chandelier video with it just more tattered and dirty, the signature blonde wig inspired by Sia's hairdo, and LaBeouf wears only a tattered pair of beige shorts to match the leotard - his shorts and himself also smeared with dirt. Both are trapped under a life-size bird cage, and interact in a interpretive dance number that you think is going to be a dance off at first, but turns out to be a beautiful dance between the two of them with the mood switching from anger to playfulness faster than a PMS-ing teenage girl.

A lot of people are going to look at this video and automatically think of how weird it is and be reminded of LaBeoufs' dramatic last few years and assume he's still gone off the rail... When they really should be appreciating the beauty and raw emotion of this video, not to mention the phenomenal dancing executed by the both of them. They should also be appreciating the sight of his hot bod. Just sayin'.

If you think about it though, it is kind of ironic how Sia is known for dancing with her back facing the audience when she performs because she doesn't want to be famous, and how she wrote an article for Billboard calling it "My Anti-Fame Manifesto", and at the beginning of the article has a photo of her with a paper bag over her head. 

And of course everyone has heard of the time when LaBeouf headed onto the red carpet at the Nymphomanic Berlin premiere, sporting a paper bag over his head with "I Am Not Famous Anymore" written on it in black sharpie. This event occurred 4 months after Sia's paper bag photo. BUT, before the movie premiere Shia had tweeted those same words off of the paper bag on his twitter after he had written about retiring from show business and being in the public eye. So him going to the movie premiere, provoked him to do the paper bag stunt saying... he wasn't famous anymore because he had 'retired'.

 

With these nice little similarities of personal feelings toward the public eye and being famous, I can see why Sia chose Shia to be the male subject in her music video, because they can relate to one another. 

The song is supposedly about her relationship with her father growing up. Her father had multiple personalities, one being a great dad, and the other made her scared of him. The emotion shown through the interpretive dance is captivating to watch, having the mood between LaBeouf and Ziegler go from playful and loving one second, to anger and hatefulness the next. At the end of the day, everyone just needs to appreciate Maddie Ziegler and Shia LaBeouf's beautifully done interpretive dance that compliments Sia's songwriting talents and her voice, wrapping it all up in a little bow and delivering it to the world. 

Music Mondays

This monday I am sharing a video that I came across on Youtube. I love covers of songs and seeing what someone else can do with an artists music, how they can make it different in their own way and how talented some people are. The video I am sharing with you is by Alexis Hadefi doing a cover of Jon Gomm's song, PassionFlower. In his rendition, he changes it up by tuning the guitar while he is playing. Check out the video below, I guarantee you will get goosebumps just like I did!

Also, check out the original video by Jon Gomm

On The Net - College Edition

 

In honour of Midterms this week, here are a few links to some online posts about college I enjoyed that I would like to share with you to lighten the mood of the week and to give you a little time to let you chill and have a few laughs:

19 Totally Abnormal Things Made Normal By College

21 Snapchats You Only Send In College

22 Definitions Only College Kids Know

23 Struggles Of Being The Tidiest Person In A House-Share

How Visiting Home Changes During College Years

25 Things Only Broke College Students Understand