However, all of that was trumped by a Youtube clip forwarded to me by my mother-in-law. Generally, that stuff gets deleted on sight, I’ll be honest. (Sorry, mom!) But this one’s title grabbed my attention. “Meshugene Men” is a Jewish-flavored spoof of Mad Men and it’s a damn clever three plus minutes of parody. Even if some of the “Jewish humor” goes over your head, you just need a passing acquaintance with the original show to laugh. If you get all of it, then it’s that much more awesome. Plus, blink and you’ll miss Amy Sedaris! Please, eat this clip. You look a little thin.
The Most Awesome Thing I Saw Last Week: Hamm-O-Rama
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Even without Lost, this was still a satisfying week. 24 really rebounded from the disappointing Season Six, with an over-the-top action sequence and beginning of the season’s third major arc. (After years of taking exactly 24 hours to beat the bad guy, it’s surprising when Jack Bauer wraps things up earlier and goes off in a new direction.) Michael Scott continued to implode, reminding us once again of how absolutely shallow he can be. On Burn Notice, Michael Weston learned that it wasn’t a vendetta or a grand plan that ruined his life. Instead, he was randomly chosen so that somebody else could further their own career. Jon Stewart got surprisingly serious when interviewing Jim Cramer. We got to see two former professional athletes continue to self-destruct, both of them severely self-obsessed and nearly sociopathic in their inability to acknowledge the feelings of any other human being. One of them was the fictional Kenny Powers on Eastbound & Down, the other was the not-fictional Dennis Rodman on Celebrity Apprentice. (It’s only a matter of time until both of them destroy themselves and everybody around them.) The Amazing Race brought us racers jogging in their underwear, several of whom clearly did not plan to have random Russians see their skivvies. And Tracy Morgan hosted the heck out of SNL, reprising his greatest characters and even playing his current TV wife.
