Rihanna plays a bank robber in the Ronnie & Clyde skit. Riri ditches shy Ronnie when he can’t help her rob a bank and escapes with Jon Hamm as her love slave/hostage.
Musical guest Rihanna teamed up with Andy Samberg‘s timid alter ego Shy Ronnie once again for the digital short “Ronnie & Clyde,” playing Prohibition-era bank robbers. Rihanna rocked a vampy, cropped suit jacket and fedora, busting up the joint as Clyde while Ronnie, awkwardly dressed in a flowing skirt and beret, bashfully hung by her side.
“Hands in the air, it’s a stick up,” she belted. “If you don’t want to end up dead, you’ll do anything Shy Ronnie says!” As a reserved robber, Ronnie is ineffective, mumbling his commands as the bank attendees look confused and Rihanna gets irritated. “No one in the back can hear you,” she said. “Use your outside voice!” Rihanna tried to instill some confidence in her reticent partner and suggested he picture everyone naked. But then Ronnie got a little too excited and prompting Rihanna to proclaim, “Boner alert!” Rihanna ditched Ronnie after he shot himself in the foot, but having the floor to himself gave him a confidence boost, and he began to kick rhymes with gusto. “Ronnie, mother—-er, and I’m back from the dead!” he spit, until Rihanna returned for more cash and a hunky hostage played by Hamm.
Hamm annoyed Bill Hader’s Vincent Price as horny Senator John F. Kennedy, alongside Fred Armisen‘s randy impersonation of glitzy piano man Liberace, in a ’60s Halloween special. Hamm also turned up in a skit about two bumbling ’70s cops fighting crime with feathered hair.
The cast paid homage to the ’80s sci-fi classic “Back to the Future” throughout the show, reenacting fake screen tests for the flick by some of the biggest stars of the era. Highlights included Jay Pharoah as an energetic Eddie Murphy, Kenan Thompson has a inarticulate Bill Cosby and Armisen as a brooding Prince. [MTV]
ONLY GIRL IN THE WORLD
What's My Name
Rihanna tried to hit the right notes during her live performance but not everyone in the audience was pleased with what they heard. Our friends at “That Grape Juice” offered the following critique of Riri’s vocals on the show.
What's My Name', while marginally better, still sounded like construction noise – between her ear-drum slaying vocals and the busier than needed band. McFenty gets two gold stickers for trying to get her faux-'Rude Boy' on with the choreography, though. Yet, she still had me splashing engine oil at my screen in hope that she'd stop looking so damn stiff. [THAT GRAPE JUICE]
Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity drew a crowd of more than 200,000 to the Mall in Washington D.C.
The Daily Show host spoke to pundit Billy O’Reilly about the goal of the public gathering at the nation’s capitol. Conservative Glenn Beck held a rally in “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington last August to help Republicans gain a majority in Congress.
The company AirPhotosLive.com based the attendance at the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” on aerial pictures it took over the rally, which took place on the Mall in Washington. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 10 percent
CBS News also commissioned AirPhotosLive.com to do a crowd estimate of Glenn Beck‘s “Restoring Honor” rally in August. That rally was estimated to have attracted 87,000 people. Amid criticism from conservatives that the estimate was low, CBS News detailed the methodology behind it here.
TBD reported that because of the high turnout many would-be rally attendees retreated to bars to watch the event. The National Park Service does not estimate crowds. The New York Times’Brian Stelter wrote on Twitter during the event that the Park Service privately told Viacom there were “well over 200,000″ people at the rally, according to an executive.
Stewart joked during the rally that there were ten million people present and, in reference to the difficulty of making crowd estimates, solemnly promised to “count them all.” Comedy Central’s permit for the event said it was expecting 60,000 people, though, as the Wall Street Journal notes, it ordered enough port-a-potties for 150,000. [CBS]
When Dave Meyers sat down to write his treatment for Katy Perry’s “Firework” video, he says he wanted to “play with [her] image a bit … sort of demystify the candy-colored pop icon that she’s become.”
So you can imagine his disappointment when, as soon as he finished his first draft, the director caught the premiere of Perry’s “Teenage Dream” clip, which stripped KP of her “California Gurls” candy coating and, in the process, sent him back to the drawing board.
“I had written the treatment already with the idea of deconstructing her a little bit, and then ‘Teenage Dream’ came out and deconstructed her all the way,” Meyers said, laughing. “So I had to switch gears a little bit. But really, it was easy, because I connected with the song. I felt ‘Firework’ was very personal, and I was very drawn to that. … We wanted to articulate the meaning of that song: what it means to be an underdog and have the courage, if you’re on the outskirts of society, to be your own person.”
With that goal in mind, Meyers headed to Hungary (Budapest, to be exact) to shoot “Firework,” his first-ever collaboration with Perry. From the very beginning, both he and KP were on the same page about one thing: They wanted the video to be totally, 100 percent real.
“We were both very into the idea of getting away from Hollywood and featuring real people in the video,” Meyers said. “So we featured real people; they weren’t actors. Finding two gay guys in Budapest was a challenge, because it’s not as accepted there as it is in West Hollywood. I found an actual, real couple. [MTV]
FEFE DOBSON STUTTERING
Canadian rocker Fefe Dobson has a drunken case of mistaken identity in her music video for the song “Stuttering”.
Real Housewives of Atlanta star, Kandi Burress, is making a comeback to the music scene. The RHOA cast member was devasted after the tragic death of her fiance.
Kandi – Leave U [Official Video]
Look for a cameo from actor Pooh Hall who stars on ‘The Game’.
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