This past weekend I suffered the doppelganger effect. It’s that moment of television watching when, just as the sofa threatens to ingest your lumpy physique, your whole body surges forward violently, propelled by sudden realisation. Kevin Pietersen met the Cable Guy in my mind’s eye.

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Past KFM listeners can take a stroll down memory lane this morning as Seth Rotherham and Rich Hardiman find themselves on-air with none other than the former ‘voice of Cape Town’ – Nic Marais. We’ll also be chatting to Crazy White Boy about their music success, as well as Kate and La Muse about this […]

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The time has come.. NPA Submits Dewani Extradition Papers – The National Prosecuting Authority has submitted papers for the extradition of British murder-accused Shrien Dewani to the SA justice department. “The papers that we submitted to the department of justice as the central authority, we believe are in order and have all the information that […]

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I was always under the impression that cricketers weren’t the best-paid sportsmen on the planet. Well our very own Proteas Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers are set for ‘mahooooosive’ paydays come next year’s IPL. There are 19 others in the highest reserve price and believe me, they’re being paid quite a bit of Tom! Good form chaps.

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Due Date is delivered to screen by Todd Phillips, who is the quintessential frat house comedy director with The Hangover, Road Trip, Old School under his belt and The Hangover Part II in the works. If it were a baby, it’d be a poison dwarf: ginger-bearded, brutally funny and pretty darn mean. However, it’s not […]

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These photographs were shot in 1969, and were uncovered in some inocuous storage unit just last week. They’re a pretty fascinating documentary of a brief period in 1969 when the United States Army Engineer Corps dammed up the falls slightly upstream. It was the first time in thousands of years that the falls had run dry.

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SA’s union-in-chief has threatened strike action against the US retail giant before a single Walmart brick has been laid. That’s the way we do it here, Yanks. You don’t come to our country with your big ass shops and just put them up everywhere. We have rules. And Cosatu.

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This is the third installment of the weekly Sex In The Mother City series. After enjoying the attention of Julian in Episode 2, our antagonist Kira discovers the attention that comes her way at three parties across the mother city. Where does she fit in this scene, and why is she so in demand? Sex In […]

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There’s a pun in there, but if I’d been the one to write it I’d be forced to punch myself in the face, and that’s relatively difficult. Photographer John Mason has released a series of colour photos depicting Sophiatown’s destruction in ’59; they’re worth checking out on your lunch break. Pretty colours, historical relevance…take your pick.

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If someone had told you that the creator of the Simpsons, Matt Groening, and late night talk show king, David Letterman had parodied ANCYL[biters] president, Julius Malema, you would not have believed them.

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Walt Disney will be clicking his heels in his grave. Japanese scientists have, by promoting the miscopying of DNA from mice to their progeny, randomly produced a mouse that sings very much like a bird. So what are we aiming for here? Mouse servants? Mouse message couriers? No, not even remotely.

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The Associated Press, bless them, voted Betty White as top entertainer of the year because she starred in a Snickers ad and stays on longer than an iPad. Look, I love tannie Betty but if you put entertainer and 2010 in the same sentence you kind of want to throw these names in there too.

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Richard Hardiman managed to squeeze a lunch meeting with Jacques Kallis yesterday afternoon following reports that he had crashed his Audi R8 into his neighbours’ front gate at 02h30 on Tuesday morning. An obviously fatigued Kallis was kind enough to give us a few minutes to chat.

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Another Actor Injured In Broadway ‘Spider-Man’ Musical – After an actor performing in the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” was injured during a performance Monday night, the show will postpone its scheduled matinee on Wednesday and resume performances on Wednesday night, according to a statement from a spokesman for the production. The actor, […]

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Let’s be honest – you don’t read this website all day. Half a day, tops. So how else do you keep entertained? Not by watching DStv, that we know. They’re showing Jetsons: The Movie and we’re smack in between two cricket tests. Desperate times, indeed. Here’s help.

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This is a cautionary tale. You get new hair, and your life will change. This is the news: Jacques Kallis crashed his Audi R8 (excellent taste, JK) supercar into his neighbour’s gate at 02h30 this morning. Now let it be known, hair implants will increase your self-confidence to dangerous levels.

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Irish people are generally funny. And I’m allowed to say that, because my mother is Irish. So when someone tells you that you have funny irishmen on your hands, you know that something special is in the offing. Presenting the Rubberbandits, an irish comedic duo from Limerick. And they have a horse outside.

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I think we can safely say that the Howard Centre in Pinelands is as exciting as waiting in the queue at Home Affairs, so when this old chap appeared infront of me at Pick n Pay I was stunned. Have we found the hive leader?

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Man, I don’t want to sound like your grandpa complaining about saggy pants, the violent youth and how terrible television is now that they don’t have sexist cigarette advertisements anymore, but god damn I am not a fan of saggy pants. It’s like walking through soup. Made of pants.

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Our readers send a ridiculous amount of rubbish, some of it newsworthy, some of it funny. Some of it just lame. But when a reader sends a link, with just the words ‘You’re Welcome’ – you kind of take notice. That takes confidence – he or she is putting their balls on the line head on a block.

Such was the case of one David K.

He did good.

Watch this video. As a complete sideshow, it features Jessica Alba. No spice.

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Ernst & Young To Be Prosecuted – Ernst & Young faces being charged with civil fraud by New York prosecutors for allegedly helping Lehman Brothers Holdings to mislead investors, reports said yesterday. The state’s attorney-general was ready to file the charges, which were based on alleged transactions by Lehman meant to make the bank’s liabilities […]

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Checkers have made well-known South African socialite, fashion designer and aspiring chef (that’s kok in Afrikaans, I’ll have you know), Nataniel their go-to guy for meat-product advertisment. As you can see, they like to push it pretty hard.

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Afrikaans has been the du jour global parody language of 2010, sonder a doubt (we’re looking at you, Die Antwoord).

So it’s only fair that we round out the year with an Afrikaans parody of The Lonely Island’s beloved Dick In A Box SNL skit.

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First she tries to bite his head off but her flimsy little jaw can’t manage then she puts him under her stiletto and rams his fluffy head into the stage. Getting emotional here. Everybody’s cheering then the Gaga woman screams ”I hate the Holidays!” at the top of her lungs. Full on tears now. I’m crying.

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American reality TV and sex-tape star Kim Kardashian poses for fans at the Rand Club in Johannesburg. Kim and her sister Khloe are in the country for the launch of Brutal Fruit’s new flavour called ‘Cherry Porn Cranberry.’ (Photo by Gallo Images/City Press/Lucky Nxumalo)

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I have feared this for years. What happens if one day you switch off the television, but the McDonalds logo is still burnt into the back of your corneas, and it won’t go away until you buy the Biggest Mac that there ever was? Well, that day is today friends. Sort of. Once in a theatre in Germany.

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I wanted to ease off telling you about all the amazing things my new MINI Countryman can do, as I didn’t want you to get MINI-lash. But damnit it’s hard to do that when a music video started playing on my iPhone (I had it on random) and it appeared on the dashboard. Come on […]

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The Silly Season is no better on display than in the hub of silliness, Camps Bay. Our brothers and sisters from the north have arrived, with their vests and muscles and costume jewelry. It’s quite beautiful to watch, my china! I took a little video clip of the action and you just won’t believe what I caught on tape, cycling past.

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Kim and sis Khloe were stranded in Cape Town on the weekend and tweeted about it throughout their ordeal. There were talk of peeing, cries for help and a surreal tubular reference.
A Christmas reunion on someone’s dad’s side hanged in the balance as sad faces flew all over the place. It was a wild, wild ride.

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Well, obviously. It does most weekends. Mostly it talked about don’t-ask-don’t-tell being repealed, which is splendid – but I was focusing more on what was being said about bikes. Bikes and cars. Bikes and cars and pedestrians, and their relationship to one another. The word ‘prawn’ was implied, but not quite stated.

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