While You Were Sleeping, Sesame Street Did Homeland Better Than Homeland

Dami Im (the good one) won The X Factor

So, this was a pleasant if-not-exactly-surprising surprise. In a grand final featuring live performances from Katy Perry and Fall Out Boy, Dami Im — the 20-foot tall, Korean-born, Brisbane-based piano teacher with a cool haircut, nutcase clothes and a likable personality — won The X Factor last night, beating out Pretend Justin Bieber and Weepy Country Kid.

For her troubles, she wins a recording contract with Sony Music, an instant iTunes hit, and a tedious national tour with her losing fellow contestants. Ah, ’tis the stuff dreams are made of.

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Sesame Street‘s Homeland parody is much better than actual Homeland

The new season of Homeland hasn’t exactly been well-received by formerly enthusiastic fans, what with its missing protagonist, cheap twists and unnecessary emphasis on the internet’s most hated TV character, Dana Brody. Thankfully, Sesame Street is here to fix all that… It’s time for Homelamb!

From perennially exasperated Carrie to Saul’s excellent beard, the spoof gets a lot right. Also, “on the lamb” is the greatest/dumbest sight gag I’ve seen in a while. Yeah, I’d watch a whole season of this.

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Someone uncovered a long-lost Star Wars blooper reel

Approximately 36 years ago, Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher goofed around on the set of the original Star Wars film (now sadly known as ‘Episode IV’). Oh, how much fun they had forgetting their lines, stumbling over pronunciations of “supernova”, and dropping their props during key scenes. I imagine after all these years they never assumed anyone would see their casual cock-ups, but such is life: these clips are so old that some of them don’t even have sound.

More importantly, though, think of all the other long-lost blooper reels that may be floating around Hollywood backlots, like Marlon Brando giggling uncontrollably while delivering his “I coulda been a contender” monologue from On The Waterfront or Toto taking a casual dump on the yellow brick road in The Wizard Of Oz. Someone needs to find these, please.

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Britney Spears has an important Halloween message for you…

And that message is basically the spoken word intro to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’. The following video was shot with BBC1 Radio’s resident host Nick Grimshaw, and it’s delightfully weird.

“It’s Britney, witch!” is clearly something that should’ve happened years ago already.

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