Of Course I Have To Bring You Bad Lip Reading For The Super Bowl

This year's NFL Bad Lip Reading is totally worth the watch and listen.

It's Super Bowl Sunday, and I suppose I have to celebrate the occasion somehow, though I'm not the most rabid NFL fan out there.

I'll do so by giving you "A Bad Lip Reading Of The NFL"  

There's a whole YouTube channel in which they "put words in people's mouths" by dubbing in silly statements into videos of people who are often out of earshot.

The schtick is these are revealing videos of what was really said, except the lip reading is so awful that they what they people "say" is hilariously absurd.

They've done NFL lip reading for each of the past several years. This year's NFL one is excellent.  For instance, we have a sideline coach exclaiming, "In my bag! Poetry and French art!

In those NFL clips in which NFL players say something about themselves, one says. "I sleep on the happiness tree." Another says, "I melted a lot of people." One more says, "Humans shouldn't go into the labyrinth."

Yeah, everything they say is out of left field, if I may interject a baseball cliche into a football story.

Out on the field, "spoiled" New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady barks remarks like, "I'm an icon!" "Poke his eye!" "I'm the star!" and, "He's a spy!"

Another exchange:
Reporter to player: "I hope you feel good."
Player replies: "Not you, I hope you fall on a machete later."

Well, football is a violent sport, right?

I only gave you a small taste. Here's the full eight minutes of NFL bad lip reading that will convince you that people are strange:

Super Bowl Melissa McCarthy Ad Is Just The Distraction We Need

Melissa McCarthy distracts us in an incredible stupid,
and incredibly welcome Super Bowl Kia ad. 

The world seems ponderous and depressing these days.

Even a seemingly innocuous Budweiser Super Bowl ad, turned out to be fraught, which really tells us we're in trouble.

We need a seriously, very STUPID distraction.

So the the world turns its weary eyes to you, Melissa McCarthy.

Which brings us to another Super Bowl commerical.

It's stupid. It's slapstick, It's silly. It's unimportant. It will not change the world. At all.

It's McCarthy shilling for Kia

There are no consequences that will stem from this commercial. It's just McCarthy "saving the environment" in her Kia Niro.

But maybe it will change the world. Because it gave me a belly laugh because it was so inconsequentially funny. I hope it does the same for you, because this is what we all need right now.

So thank you, Kia and Melissa McCarthy, for turning us into two year olds who will laugh at anything. No matter how gloriously stupid.

Watch:

More Bad Lip Reading For Super Bowl Weekend

:What to NFL players, coaches and refs really say to each
other during a game? Find out with Bad Lip Reading

I know, I know, I  just offered up a Bad Lip Reading video for the Trump inauguration a week or so ago, but I can't resist another one.

Bad Lip Reading is a YouTube channel where the makes take clips of something that was going on, without the sound.

They judge the way the lips of the people in the videos move to come up with lip reading of the action.

The lip reading, though, is hilariously off kilters, strange, absurd and just plain wacko.

NFL action is totally low hanging fruit for the makers of Bad Lip Reading videos, so in honor of the Super Bowl this weekend, we have a special NFL edition of Bad Lip Reading.

I just wish the people in the video really said what they're purported to be saying in the video.

Watch, because I know you need a good laugh:

Budweiser Super Bowl Ad Kind Of A Slap Against Trump

An image from the Budweiser ad the company plans
to air during the Super Bowl 

The ad Budweiser plans to air during the Super Bowl was conceived, filmed and produced many months before President Trump did his stupid "Muslim ban" executive order over the weekend.

But the ad was produced as Trump the candidate was spouting anti-immigrant rhetoric.  

Which makes the Budweiser ad, which you can view at the bottom of this post, all the more interesting.

Budweiser is abandoning the Clydesdale horses and the cute puppies in favor of the story of Adolph  Busch, the co-founder of Budweiser, who made a tough journey as an immigrant from Germany to America in the 1800s.

The ad tells the story of how hard it can be for an immigrant making his or her way to America, and how ambition, and hooking up with other ambitious people, can build immigrant success stories.

Like Budweiser.

Seems to be a poke at Trump to accept well-vetted immigrants because many are ambitious enough to create those good paying American jobs Trump wants us all to have.

Budweiser says the ad is not political and just wants to tell the story of an immigrant's experience. True, but it's telling the rest of us some things, too.

"This commercial shows the start of Budweiser's journey, and while it is set in the 1800s, it's a story we believe will resonate with today's entrepreneurial generation - those who continue to strive for their dreams," said Ricardo Marques, Budweiser's vice president of marketing, according to the Today Show. 

See for yourself. Here's the video:

Brady Bunch-Like All Star "We Are The Champions" Is Pretty Fun.

Ann A-List bunch of singers did this
Jimmy Fallon video. Pictured in this
screen grab: Fallon, The Roots, Carrie Underwood,
Ariana Grande, Sam Smith.  

In honor of the Superbowl, the Brady Bunch Jimmy Fallon, The Roots and a bunch of celebrity musicians decided to make a fun little video of the Queen classic "We Are the Champions"

For those of you with post Superbowl hangovers, the a capella dity is fun to watch.

Heck, even for those of us who don't have hangovers, it's fun to watch. It's set up like the opening credits to "The Brady Bunch" which makes it cool.  

(Is that a sly congratulatory nod to winning New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady? Hmmmm.)

The A-listers on the video are Carrie Underwood, Sam Smith, Ariana Grande, Blake Shelton, Usher Meghan Trainor, One Direction and Christina Aguiler, who of course tries to steal the star power.

No matter if you're bumming over the Seattle Seahawks loss or the New England Patriots' win, you'll be humming this for the rest of the day.

Loving Beyonce Because She Does the Diva Thing the Right Way

Beyonce yesterday answered the critics who complained that she sort of lip synced the National Anthem at the Obama Inaugural a couple weeks back.

She's going to perform in the Super Bowl, and she was at one of those dog and pony show press conferences that lead up to the Big Game.

There she was, looking splendid and glowing like a good diva does, in a stunning white mini dress and flowing brown hair.

She explained, as many professionals already have, that performers typically sing along with a recorded track of themselves during live shows under iffy conditions, like during the cold, outdoor inaugural.

Of course, that she sang along to a track essentially lip syncing last time, does she have the chops to really sing, with no help.

She decided to answer that question at the press conference by singing the Star Spangled Banner a capella for the assembled scribes at the presser.

Well, she nailed it, doing a better job than at the inaugural. And like the best divas anywhere, she finished her command performance, looked at the reporters with a confident smile and said, "Any questions?"

Perfect. See for yourself with this clip from YouTube.