He’s been one of the standouts the last few years as a guest host on SNL (he brings the funny, and doesn’t just read cue cards – I’m looking at you Jonah Hill) and here he is on the ESPYs:
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Justin Timberlake Should Do Comedy
July 21st, 2008
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What I like about him is that he doesn’t care if he does stuff that is totally ridiculous and is willing to make fun of himself. When that “Dick In A Box” thing came out, I laughed like crazy. There’s a lot of artists that would have never done that simply because it wouldn’t have ‘looked’ good.
Justin Timberlake= Giant tool.
I really don’t care how hard they try to force him down the publics throat, he was part of a boy band which begs that you must be a media whore. Justin is no different. I hope he can act seeing as much of his music career has been a giant act. Not to completely hate, but “Dick in a Box” was funny or an otherwise unfunny show(SNL is slowly dying with Seth Myers writing the stuff). I can’t join Oliver in his “mancrush” for the bubble gum boy.
Justin Timberlake= Giant tool.
Hey, he was funnier on the few times he’s hosted than Norm Macdonald ever was.
The kid can act, too. He was very good in Alpha Dog.
I usually hate on boy bands, too, but I do think Justin is an exception to the rule.
last time he was on I was struck by how the two best Non-Walken hosts the last few years have been Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera (although I base much of her success on the great “sex and the city” sketch). They were both well prepared, able to act well, willing to make fun of themselves, and not “cue card readers”. Maybe the Mickey Mouse Club is good for something..,
The best SNL guest host of the last couple years was hands-down Peyton Manning.
Now THAT is awesome!LMFAO… Justin Timberlake is still a Uber-Tool. He got a pass with Janet Jackson Superbowl fiasco, “talking black” after he left the N’Sync, and will be singing country when he career starts to tank,(Hello Jessica Simpson). He is an attention whore and is regularly paraded out that everyone should love him, but I am not drinking the Kool Aid. I have little respect for boy banders and how they destroy music. Just my view on things:)
Don’t forget that Pepsi ad. I still laugh when the HD TV arrives. “Hey, you,” indeed.
Sure, for a bit of TV comedy to become a “classic” needs a good script and great direction. But in order to create a bit of slapstick physical comedy that holds up even after months and months of steady exposure, you’ve gotta have the right star for the piece. I think that Timberlake has a real talent for this sort of comedy. (But I doubt if it could financially compete with the other aspects of his career.)
“Justin Timberlake Should Do Comedy”
As long as he stops singing.
On a side note, the man is getting a reputation for being box office poison.
uh oh he was part of a boy band. thus tainted forever. grow up? even mark wahlber was part of a lame early 90 rap ensemble and featured in a lot of dumb ck ads. never would have guessed back then that he would be oscar nominated. that dick in a box video showed he could be really funny.
The video showed a comedy writer could come up with something funny and Justin could act it out. That doesn’t make him a comedian. Have you seen the Love Guru? Worst comedy ever… Mark Whalberg made one song…hardly makes him a music artist or a part of a popular boy bandLOL. I am not a fan him either, but he hasn’t been a part of something that has killed good music. The proof is in the pudding, Justin Timberlake=Tool.
Okay, not Mark, then…his brother Donnie was one of the New Kids, and I think he might actually be a better actor than Mark is…he was outstanding in Band of Brothers and Boomtown, and he’s often one of the most naturally charismatic character actors onscreen in larger films.
Also, Timberlake co-wrote (and won an Emmy for) “Dick in a Box” with Samberg.
I can take or leave his music, even though I find it catchy at times. But this is just blind hate, Whale.
Spider, I agree with you 100% about Donnie Wahlberg. It’s a shame about ‘Boomtown’ as that was one of the most original television series I had seen in a long time.
One of my favorite scenes in ‘Band of Brothers’ with Wahlberg was the one with Speirs and Lipton after the battle at Foy.
YouTube has it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JhIFd-iKz8
Mark Wahlberg was awesome in “The Departed” and I don’t care that he used to hang with C C Music Factory.
Just to add that in the part where Speirs is talking about a good leader, Wahlberg is able to convey without a word and just his eyes that Lipton has no clue who Speirs is talking about. That’s a subtle form of acting that is often not appreciated as much as it should be.
There’s that slow smile Wahlberg gets as he watches Speirs run towards the enemy fire…and then run back…that to me encompasses the greatness of the series in its entirety.
Boomtown deserved to be picked up by F/X or another basic cable outfit that would have been willing to stick with its original, perspective-shifting premise. The NBC suits made the creators tone down or get rid of that central conceit for their second season, and the show just wasn’t the same without it (which is also part of why it only lasted four or five more episodes).
Other noteworthy Donnie Wahlberg moment–as the psycho who shoots Bruce Willis at the beginning of The Sixth Sense. Scary, scary stuff.
” But this is just blind hate, Whale.”
Can anyone name the difference between Donny Wahlberg and Justin Timberlake? I don’t recall Donny Wahlberg being rammed down the throat of the public sans NKOTB. And even then NKOTB didn’t last that long. I have seen Justin act in Alpha Dog and the Love Guru and it was awfull. You can say that Donny was good in Band of Brothers(he was), but it is apples and oranges. When it comes to music I prefer true music and not processed garbage. I hated NKOTB(which NOW they are shilling again!!! to the public) and all the boy bands. If you like your music produced in a board room and groups assembled like toys, then more power to you but as a someone who also plays music, Justin was part of something worse than disco. Boy bands and corporations have killed the music industry. Call it hate, call it what you want, but I am not on board with you guys, and that is alright. I just don’t adore these people like 8 year olds.
On a side note, I obviously have a far different opinion than the rest of the regulars at OW.com, so I’ll stop and not make this a pissing match:)
Boy bands and corporations have killed the music industry.
Aha! So the truth comes out!
I actually kind of agree with you. And it is kind of disheartening to see Donnie Wahlberg slumming with NKOTB when he (unlike the rest of them) has a career.
I don’t care what band he was in, the ESPYS were frickin Hilarious!!! As for Mark Wahlberg the guy is a genius – Entourage is an awesome show…