I haven’t paid much attention to the 2012 Republican debates because I promised myself earlier this year that I would work on becoming a more likable persona and stop talking about politics so much. Also, I’d much rather pretend that I live inside the moon and I’m unaffected by the efforts of any politicians and laws. Smoke peyote in my underwear while watching “Pop-Up Video”? Don’t mind if do!

For those of you that do pay attention to stuff like “elections” and “voting” and “paying taxes,” Funny or Die released a parody of the Republican candidates – in case you weren’t getting enough of the 8 million other parodies – and the highlight is without a doubt Mike Tyson awkwardly delivering the most uninspired Herman Cain impression we’ll ever see. I don’t know, I think the joke is that he’s being terrible on purpose, but I at least laughed at the ending because after all these years Tyson is still such a remarkably odd human being.

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So far this week we’ve shared with you Tinyballs, Saturday Night Live’s parody of Moneyball, and College Humor’s Too Much Moneyball, but it’s not over yet — I guess the comedic possibilities of that “fifty feet of crap” speech are too enticing, because Funny Or Die has chimed in with their own version about Matt Millen’s run as general manager of the Detroit Lions. I also would’ve accepted Millen Dollar Baby, especially if they killed him at the end.

The video has its high points (Patrick Willis being good at football as “the same old nonsense”, somebody stealing my “judge players solely on how good they are in video games” style) and its low points (knocking the WNBA, because seriously, who still thinks that’s funny) but is worth it almost solely for the The Dugout-style representation of Joey Harrington as a scarf-wearing piano player who can only throw the football behind him.

That all being said, man, somebody release another movie of worth so we can keep “fifty feet of crap” from being this year’s Bullet-time.

Remember the glory days of 90s basketball, when Michael Jordan was stretch-dunking over Monstars, Larry Johnson as a basketball-playing granny was showing up to help Urkel on “Family Matters” and the true mark of sports celebrity was that you had animated friends or a weird alter ego or a living toy familiar? It’s one of the only things we remember about Penny Hardaway, who tragically passed away sometime in 1996 (if I’m remembering correctly).

Anyway, hot off the never-ending presses of Funny Or Die comes this clip of Blake Griffin trying to film a commercial and being terrorized by a clandestine albino puppet that’s supposed to look like him. Blake won’t win any acting awards, and I’d consider this a step down from leaping a tiger to try to get into a first-person shooter, but there’s an undeniable joy in watching people and things murder Jerry O’Connell. I still haven’t forgiven him for what he did (or didn’t do) to Tara Reid in Body Shots.

Check out the video, and join me in hoping that the NBA lockout goes on forever, and Kevin Durant has to make a career out of wearing a curly gray wig and dunking on the Devil.

[via Funny Or Die]

You know that girl on the left has her fingers crossed.

By all accounts, Blake Griffin is the perfect athlete. He’s incredibly talented, charming, intelligent, funny, and he doesn’t say idiotic things that get him into trouble. In fact, if I had a sister, I would try to organize a scenario in which she could trap him into marriage with a fake pregnancy. But I don’t, so I’ll have to settle for this wig and pillow under my shirt. Now, Griffin is taking the charm a step further by putting his talents and spare NBA lockout time to good use as an intern for Funny or Die.

Which reminds me, Kate Upton has yet to answer our invitation for her to be our With Leather intern. I know that she probably has a busy schedule, but she could at least respond to my letter. Those magazine letters don’t cut themselves out.

Back to Griffin… According the Associated Press:

“Just to get an inside look at how things are run here is exciting to me,” Griffin said by phone Tuesday. “I don’t know what interns at Funny Or Die are like, but I’m about to find out, I guess.”

Mike Farah, president of production at Funny Or Die, pledged that Griffin will be treated like other interns. He noted that the 22-year-old Griffin is, after all, about the same age as most of the site’s college interns. (The others, of course, may not be able to dunk over midsize sedans.)

“We’re going to put him to work,” said Farah. “He’s shooting a series of videos, and he’s also coming to meetings. He’s basically doing everything that an intern does.”

Griffin has been on the job for a few days now, and while he hasn’t starred in any of the site’s trademark videos yet, he has been taking his duties pretty seriously.

First, he brought everybody lunch.

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It looks like Funny Or Die has officially embraced the longstanding Tosh.0 tradition of cramming your funny video full of sports celebrities to get it covered everywhere on the Internet — just a week after they recast Dennis Haysbert as Terrence Mann in a Twilight-flavored Field of Dreams sequel, Funny Or Die has revisited the Kenny Powers K-Swiss endorsement by having him take over the company and stock it with everyone from Matt Cassel to Rey Mysterio.

Watch the full video below, with two major warnings:

1. It is extremely funny, and
2. It features Kenny Powers, so please anticipate the foul language and adult situations that result.

This includes boob mugs and high-fiving dead animals.

Because this is also television related, be sure to head over to Warming Glow and watch all the awesome follow-up and behind-the-scenes videos that go along with it. Who knew you could bottle the scent … of boner?

[h/t Cajun Boy]

Funny or Die has a knack for cramming as many celebrities as possible into three minute video, and today they’ve outdone themselves — watch in amazement has Ray Liotta, Kevin Costner, Dennis Haysbert, the Were-llama from Twilight and half of professional football bring you a Lockout-flavored sequel to the greatest baseball movie of all time, Field of Dreams. I’m guessing Haysbert is here because when the Funny or Die guys showed up at James Earl Jones’ apartment he attacked them with an insecticide sprayer and told them to go back to the sixties.

Watch the video below, but I have to warn you: the football players are all better actors than Taylor Lautner.

It’s weird, I know this is supposed to be a joke, but it still looks like a better movie than that remake of Footloose.

I love Kevin Costner at the end. He gives as little a sh** as possible, and he’s a good sport, but his voice and the look on his face say “I can’t believe you guys are making fun of this”. Lautner just stands there smirking, thinking about how awesome of a Crash Davis Robert Pattinson would be.