Will Ferrell

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Burt Wonderstone vanishes what Steve Carell's best at.

Christmas Past: The Lost Sinatra Group Christmas Episode

While we celebrate the holidays, Rocks Off is resurrecting a few of our best Christmas-themed blogs from the past few years. (Wait... resurrecting is Easter. Never mind.) This blog originally appeared December 22, 2010. Through the magic of Christmas, Rocks Off has received a copy of the transcript ... More >>

Saturday Night: Red Hot Chili Peppers at Toyota Center

Red Hot Chili Peppers Toyota Center October 20, 2012 The Red Hot Chili Peppers have stuck around long enough -- through drugs, overdoses, creative strife and changing musical tides -- to have 30 years of hits they can knock out into the nosebleeds at any given live show. Saturday night's Toyota C ... More >>

2012 Summer Guide: Summer Movie Preview

Super Bowl XLVI: M.I.A.'s Bird Is The Word

On its best day, you can say the musical portion of the Super Bowl ranks somewhere below the fifth time you see the latest Go Daddy commercial and somewhere above that pre-game segment featuring an offensive lineman and his mother. I mean, who really looks forward to a halftime show, post Nipplegate ... More >>

From Rapper To Actor, Chingo Bling Goes to The Sundance Film Festival

When you think of the big, international film festivals, Sundance is definitely one of the first that comes to mind. Held annually in Park City, Utah, the festival showcases new work from American and international independent filmmakers. Movie lovers flock to the city to catch the next Academy Awar ... More >>

Top 5 Worst Foods To Take to the Gym

As a self-confessed "gym rat," I have come to appreciate my fellow patrons who exercise good sense, especially with regards to food and drink in the workout areas. There is no explicit rule banning, say, eating limberger cheese, in the aerobic studio but (most) people at my facility understand witho ... More >>

Five Rappers Who Should Be Actors

Acting. You're doing it wrong.​Sometimes it's fun to see some of our favorite rappers take on acting roles outside of their music videos. At other times, rappers taking on movie roles can end up being horrible idea. Not every rapper can be a convincing drug dealer like DMX is in Belly. The big ... More >>

Watch The Throne: Two Self-Appointed Supermen, Acting Normal As Can Be

​Kanye West is a rapper from Chicago and Jay-Z is a rapper from New York. They made an album together and they called it Watch the Throne and DAS CCRRAAAZZZYYY!!!! It's silly to pretend like Throne isn't good, or at least interesting. Or at least rich. Or at least contemplative. Or at least i ... More >>

Perry's Prayerapalooza: Let the Downsizing Begin (Also: Worst Fast Ever)

The responee to The Response has been underwhelming.​Rick Perry's famous call for the nation's governors to come to Houston this weekend to pray and fast is looking more and more like a mistake to all but the religious right. Of course, if he's looking to win a GOP primary, he may just get by ... More >>

Rappers: Which NBA Player Would You Be And Why?

Some rappers happen to be thoughtful, intelligent people. Every Monday that isn't the day after a gigantic local music festival, Rocks Off will have some of them here discussing issues relevant to their culture. Photo illustration by John Seaborn Gray​This Week's Panel: Bun B, Zavey, Kyle Hub ... More >>

French Beatbox Master Spits American Hip-Hop History in Four Minutes

​Damn the French. After seeing French rapper and human beat box, Eklips, deliver America's hip-hop history in a little over four minutes through a beautifully executed tirade of amazing vocal percussion and imitation of musical sounds, it reminded Rocks Off of the 2006 movie Talladega Nights ... More >>

Last Night: Becoming Kinky At The Mucky Duck

Photos by Jason WolterJesse Dayton​Becoming Kinky: The World According To Kinky Friedman McGonigel's Mucky Duck March 28, 2011 Check out our a slideshow from the play's opening night. What a smooth, hilarious thing the opening and world premiere of Becoming Kinky: The World According To Kink ... More >>

Top 10 Musician Movie Cameos

Rocks Off has no idea why Mick Jagger might prefer Performance to Ned Kelly.​Over recent years, Rocks Off has been repeatedly surprised by the quality performances of musicians in films. Naturally, there are some duds in the mix; even Mick Jagger himself, who starred in 1970's Ned Kelly, disow ... More >>

The Lost Sinatra Group Christmas Episode

​Through the magic of Christmas, Rocks Off has received a copy of the transcript of the "Sinatra Group" sketch that was filmed in an alternate reality last weekend, one in which Phil Hartman never died, and Saturday Night Live is currently in one of its funniest seasons to date. What else cou ... More >>

Ricardo Coulston: Blowjob In Kiddie Flick Lands Lufkin Teen In Jail

Ricardo Coulston REALLY enjoyed Mastermind, until the cops showed up​When you think of movies that could inspire people to commit acts of public lewdness, Megamind, the new Will Ferrell-, Brad Pitt- and Tina Fey-voiced animated children's superhero flick doesn't immediately spring to mind. Bu ... More >>

Justin Bieber: Why Are We Going Saturday?

dailyhaha.comWill Ferrell: Not a fan.​Justin Bieber is much more than a Twitter phenomenon and the most-copied hairstyle since Jennifer Aniston. He's also a living, breathing, 16-year-old human being who will perform at Toyota Center Saturday night. From what we can tell, tickets are still av ... More >>

Life Is Beautiful

Attractive female seeks ­attractive sperm donor in ­attractive comedy The Switch.

FAIL: Wyclef Jean, Richard Ashcroft, Mark Wahlberg, iTunes

Photo illustrations by John Seaborn Gray​Wyclef Jean's Latest Vanity Project: President of Haiti: Wyclef Jean is best known for being the member of the Fugees who quite improbably enjoyed the most solo success. We would have bet on Lauryn Hill, but unfortunately, she went crazy. Crazy may be ... More >>

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Five Graduation Speeches Better Than What You'll Hear This Year

It's Graduation Season, and that means it's time for commencement speeches.Usually delivered by someone you at best only vaguely have heard of, they all start with rueful self-deprecation about how "Once, long, long ago, I too sat at a graduation ceremony and listened to some long-winded boring spe ... More >>

Airing It Out

The patio is the place to be at Washington Avenue lounge Brixx.

NBC's Thursday Night: Chicken Fingers and Self-Loathing

​I'm trying something different this week, thanks to a suggestion from my editor, who noticed that each successive episode of The Office was pushing me into a darker corner of the world inhabited only by hateful characters with no hope in sight. Rather than just blog about that show, I'm takin ... More >>

Elf

No, most elves aren't as clumsy - or as hungry - as Buddy

Get Lit: Neil Diamond is Forever: The Illustrated History of the Man and His Music by Jon Bream

​Neil Diamond's hipster cachet has increased greatly in the past few years: The Rick Rubin albums, Saving Silverman, ultimate Neil tribute band Super Diamond and Will Ferrell's deadly funny SNL impression, in which "America" is presented as an anti-immigration number. But his fans have long been a ... More >>

Violent Miscreants and Power-Tripping Sociopaths

Mall cops on parade in Observe and Report.

Yes Man Repackages Jim Carrey's Greatest Hits, Which Maybe Weren't So Great to Start With

Just Say No

Not to Be: Hamlet 2

Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, this movie is simply tragic

Twelve Best Sports Books of All Time

Spring Training: Milo Hamilton, Harry Caray, Drayton McLane, Roger Clemens and Ria Cortesio

The Year In Film

Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Sending up the biopic, this film sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox

Fred Claus

Vince Vaughn tries to attract a different set of underage babies with Fred Claus

Veh-Ree Theen Pancakes

Don't be self-conscious — enjoy a crepe or two at CoCo's

Men Behaving Badly

Bad Santa meets Napoleon Dynamite in tepid man-child comedy

Tortilla Flat

Nacho's funnier than Napoleon, which isn't sayin' much

Idle Curiosity

Curious George is so timeless, you might wish it were more timely

Leaving His Mark

Love the Sin

Mr. Saturday Night

Darrell Hammond makes a good impression at the Laff Stop

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise.

Half Baked

It's his 45th movie in 40 years, and you're not likely to remember it

Bead It

The lowdown on where to see and be seen at Mardi Gras Galveston

Vote No

Silver City plants a shrub where it wants to dig up a Bush

Hutch Ado About Nothing

No obvious joke goes untouched in this so-so TV show remake

Fallon Fast

Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

Back to School

Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks grow up, more or less, and move to a dorm

Fanboy Theater

Jay and Silent Bob feeds the addictions of Kevin Smith junkies

Redneck Mystery Theater

Sneeringly funny Drowning Mona sleuths around backwater America

Shaggy Dog

The insipid Austin Powers is a total waste