‘Love Guru’ wins three Razzie awards
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‘The Love Guru’, a 2008 movie featuring Stephen Colbert as a drugged-out sportscaster and Jim Gaffigan as his ever-tortured sidekick, has made one final splash onto the scene – as a three-time Razzie winner. The Razzies are a set of awards given out the night before the Oscars that nominate the worst of the worst of the movies of the previous year, in a tongue and cheek fashion of course.
‘The Love Guru’ took home the Golden Raspberry award for Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Actor. While not the winningest movie ever – that would go to 2003’s Gigli who won in the top five categories at the Razzies (Worst Picture, Actor, Actress, Director and Screenplay) – it definitely shows a special talent to be grabbing three of the five top honors. While the sting of a Razzie may hurt for some, this award is something this blog can take in stride, as Stephen was mentioned in multiple reviews as the funniest thing about the entire movie.
If you’d like to watch the best part of the DVD, feel free to enjoy this hilarious montage of outtakes by Stephen and Jim Gaffigan (WARNING: Video is NSFW). I think most of the jokes will make sense even if you haven’t seen the movie. And sadly, many of the jokes in this video are actually quite a bit funnier than what actually made it into the movie.
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February 22nd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
I wish there was a special DVD release of just Stephen’s and John Oliver’s parts of the movie. Thanks for sharing! And I’m happy that your job prospects are looking better!
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February 22nd, 2009 at 3:49 pm
my favorite thing is how on The Bugle podcast, Andy (Zaltzman) is always teasing John (Oliver) for being in this, mentioning his “Hollywood debut” or something similar. John said that indeed he and Colbert had sold their souls by doing the film!
(don’t tell anybody but I thought it was kind of funny. my taste is clearly atrocious.)
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February 22nd, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I agree about the film. It’s by no means great, and some of the biggest jokes fall very flat, but it had lots of little funny bits sprinkled throughout it ( which the audience failed to notice–for the most part)…Mariska Hargitay…ha!
But yeah, some of those Colbert out-takes were hysterical.
I cannot be burned or drowned!! DD Colbert lol
Thanks for putting those on Daily motion.
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February 22nd, 2009 at 4:09 pm
I got around to watching this a while back and had the observation that everything in the movie was pretty funny as long as Mike Myers wasn’t on the screen. Really quite an incredible phenomenon. I’ve never seen a star have that ‘black hole of comedy’ effect before.
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February 22nd, 2009 at 7:31 pm
BOOOOO…
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February 22nd, 2009 at 9:20 pm
LOVED that behind-the-scenes thing with Stephen! I didn’t see the whole movie, but judging by the commercials, he was probably the funniest part.
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February 22nd, 2009 at 9:44 pm
He is so, so ridiculously funny.
“What if I drew your mom?”
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