Watch "Party Down"
If you have not seen the Starz catering comedy "Party Down" I implore you to watch the first season on DVD (Netflix has it) before the show starts up again on April 23. It was absolutely the funniest new show of 2009, and I say this as someone who really enjoyed "Eastbound and Down." Kristen Bell's guest spot in the finale alone made the whole thing worth viewing. I've seen a few advance episodes for the next series and it looks like it's going to be just as good, even if it does seem slightly darker. (I was dubious about Megan Mullally as a replacement for Jane Lynch and Jennifer Coolidge, but while she brings a different, less flat-out wacky, vibe than her predecessors, it seems to work.) There is sad news, however: The prospects for a third season look dim, with much of the cast getting picked off for other projects. The latest is the lovely Lizzy Caplan, whose great talent is to make the deeply selfish Casey an irresistible charmer.
Caplan, who will star in a CBS pilot about "four New York friends looking for love," was the subject of an Observer piece last year which noted that "screencaps of her many topless scenes" from "True Blood" were all over the Internet. Which for some reason-probably because it's Friday-made me think that what the world really needs is a song by the Magnetic Fields about topless Lizzy Caplan. So I wrote one. Third verse is the bridge, try to imagine a ukulele atop a very simple orchestration:
If I were Lizzy Caplan's tits I wouldn't feel so blue
You'd look for me on Google and you'd image search Yahoo
You wouldn't rest a second ‘til you somehow tracked me down
But I'm not Lizzy Caplan's tits; you don't know I'm around
If I were Lizzy Caplan's tits I'd surely make you smile
You'd stare at me each morning and you'd save me to a file
You wouldn't once forget me, you would seek and you'd persist
But I'm not Lizzy Caplan's tits; you don't know I exist
I could be Sienna topless
Or the vag that Britney flashed
But I'm certain once you searched for those
They'd only end up trashed
No, if I had it all to do again here's what I'd be
The one thing that I know for sure would make you look for me
Instead of this pathetic creature lacking looks and wits
I would be so happy to be Lizzy Caplan's tits
Um, yeah. Anyway, watch "Party Down." It's really great!
Party Down, Eastbound & Down, & Lizzy Caplan's tits! three of my favorite things about 2009 (some of the only great things that happened in that shit-tay-ass year).
also – she's great in Hot Tub Time Machine, just for being her – the role is written for a cardboard cuttout – but she makes me smile.
That show is funny, but has some seriously reality-TV level production value.
I owe Balk for enlightening me that there were Lizzy Caplan topless pics out there.
Seriously, I love Party Down. It's pretty much perfect. And Eastbound is the shit.
Where's the like button on this thing?
If this show is as good as that imitation, I will watch it.
Adam Scott makes suicidal self-loathing incredibly sexy.
This. You don't even want to fix him, just wallow naked in misery and self loathing.
Party Down is great. It is also the "Everyone who was ever on Veronica Mars" show. Dick, Vinnie, Logan, the creepy predator teacher with the black satin sheets, Veronica — and I think I am forgetting others.
That's because Rob Thomas (not the Matchbox 20 guy) created both shows.
FINALLY someone gives Capguns her due. She IS the working-man's Zooey Deschanel/Emily Blunt/Katy Perry. THX BALK
Working man's, thinking man's, unemployed man's, rational man's, Spinozan acolyte man's . . .
I dream of having a Magnetic Fields song written about me.
Huh. It actually never would have occurred to me to look for pics of Janis Ian's tits. But now I have. And they are truly fantastic tits.
So, um, thanks, Balk!
I thought we were all avowed homosexualists here. What's this about tits now?
Jane Lynch is amazing in this show…