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Webshort: The Backseatsman by Andy Samberg and The Lonely Island

Before Saturday Night Live‘s Andy Samberg achieved “D*ck in a Box”-inspired infamy, he cut his comedy teeth as a member of popular LA-based sketch/short film trio The Lonely Island (the group’s Internet presence landed Samberg on SNL and scored staff writing gigs for his cohorts). In this quirky, impossible-to-categorize short, Andy stars as (arguably) the most irksome passenger since Del Griffith in Planes Trains & Automobiles.

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Cory Haim: 1980′s Tween Casanova

In recent years, eternally 15-year old pop star Justin Bieber and Twilight vampire/werewolf Robert Lautnerson have dominated the hearts and bedroom posters of tweenage girls. But who were tweens way back in 1989 pining for? Cory Haim of “the two Corys” fame, of course. Here is a video Haim made upon leaving his first rehab stint to ensure his middle school fan base that he was still ready to be their heartthrob throughout the 1990′s, surely. Assuming Jason Priestly and Luke Perry don’t come along, that is.

Adventures of the Pretentious Bum

Every neighborhood has one. That bum that’s always saying pretentious things. Ours lives on the corner stoop and is always going on about how he doesn’t own a TV and only watches documentaries and European cinema.