The Remote Island : Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

Mary-Kate Olsen Gets Her "Full House" Fix

Lindy Parker — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Obviously, life has a bit since Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen were splitting scenes on Full House, but it turns out those days aren't completely forgotten...

Mary-Kate Olsen admits she sometimes catches a rerun of her classic sitcom Full House.
"Full House is on all the time. Really. I see that it's on," she told March's Interview. "But last year, Ashley spent the night at my place and I woke up to the theme song at seven in the morning. I was like, 'What are you doing?'"
Asked to sing the show's catchy theme song, Olsen says, "I don't know the exact words. It starts off like, [sings] 'The milkman, the paperboy . . .' [laughs] There you go. That's my singing for the day." (Us Magazine)

Idea for a reality series we would watch: Get a bunch of ex-sitcom stars to karaoke the theme songs from their shows American Idol-style. Each week the winner could donate the prize money to a charity of his/her choice. Can you just imagine Mario Lopez giving his all to a rendition of "When I wake up in the morning...." This could be genius.

TV Soundtrack: "Band From TV" Performs on "The Tonight Show"

Lindy Parker — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:00:00 GMT

We like to think it went like this: Back in 2003, Greg Grunberg got home from a busy day on the set of Alias, settled onto his couch with a tube of pringles to watch the karaoke episode of The Bachelor, and thought to himself, "You know, that Bob Guinney's a fun-loving guy, and we have the same face shape -- we could almost be brothers! Let's start a band!"

So he called his friend Jesse Spencer who, of course was just wrapping filming on the set of straight-to-video romantic comedy, Winning London, starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (actually we think this was earlier than 2003, but we just like bringing it up).

"Why not?" thought Jesse. "I can play guitar. Also, I just finished shooting a medical pilot with the guy from Blackadder and you should've heard him on the piano the night we got blitzed on tequila." So then Hugh Laurie's like, "Look here, Old Son, I've written down the names of everyone I know on little bits of paper and I'm going to draw two of them at random out of my pocket and those will be the remaining members of our band. Wait for it, wait for it...Teri Hatcher and James Denton. Oh, bugger. He'll probably want to wear his toolbelt."

And so Band from TV was born. Ha. Get it? Because all the band members are from TV shows. Truthfully, we didn't even know they existed before today, and we've never actually heard their music, but we're thinking about ordering a T-shirt just 'cause the name is funny. Maybe we'll wait until after their performance on the The Tonight Show.

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Why Is Norm Macdonald Funny?

Ben Kallen — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:25:00 GMT

Sure, everyone else at Comedy Central's recent Bob Saget roast may have worked blue, delivering Full House incest jokes and Olsen-twin sex jokes and other filthy material that wouldn't have been out of place in The Aristocrats. But that's not Norm Macdonald's style. For some reason, the former Saturday Night Live and sitcom star went full-bore in the other direction, with the sort of tired old gags and dopey puns that wouldn't get you thrown out of fifth grade. Yet for reasons we really don't understand, he was hilarious.

Watch the clip above and you can see for yourself.

Previously:
How Rude! Bob Saget Roast Full of Olsen-Twin Sex Jokes

Mary-Kate And Ashley Olsen On The Outs???

Bryan Christian — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:56:00 GMT

When Full House's Michelle Tanner is at war with herself, it doesn't matter who wins: everyone loses!

Could the world's most profitable set of twins be no longer of one mind and one under-nourished body? The answer, according to Elle, is maybe.

“We don’t agree all the time. The way we go about business or designing or making a decision is that we come at it from two completely different angles that at the end of the day, even when we don’t think we’re agreeing with each other, we are agreeing. We’re just getting there in different ways. Unless you’re a twin, you honestly can’t know how close twins can be. There’s such a strength, but that also makes it…” Her voice trails off. “When there’s that much love there’s…” Again she stops. She gives me a wan smile. I attempt to help her explain: When twins grow up and go their separate ways, is it like an amicable divorce? “Well, there’s the opposite of everything, but it stems from love, and it stems from passion. We’re driven people. I do know I can’t work in an office. Ashley, on the other hand, loves going to an office.”

And "there's the opposite of everything" means...?

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