Murphy's Blog

ADELE won Best Album at the U.K.'s BRIT Awards last night . . . then FLIPPED THE BIRD during her acceptance speech. She was angry because the host cut her off.  Apparently, her speech was running long . . . and he had to introduce the band BLUR, who was performing to close out the show. Afterwards, Adele apologized, and said the middle finger was for the show's producers.  She said, quote, "I was cut off during my speech but I wanted to thank the British public for all their support. "I was held up with my voice and troubles but the album kept walking without me.  I flipped the bird for the suits at the BRITS who cut me off.  Sorry if I offended anyone but it was for them, not for the fans."

Turns out there's an upside to posting videos of your adorable kid on YouTube after all -- at least if your adorable kid just happens to be incredibly talented. Case in point: Three-year-old Christian Haupt, a preschooler whose advanced baseball skills prompted his parents to do the whole film kid/upload footage for the world to see thing. A casting director for the upcoming Adam Sandler film That's My Boy stumbled across Christian's clip on YouTube while searching for someone to play the role of a young ballplayer ... and the rest, as they say, is history. The movie, which also stars Leighton Meester and Andy Samberg, hits theaters in June.

If you want to get some good footage next time you go to the zoo, here's how to do it:  Some guy used the front-facing camera on his iPhone to film monkeys up close, because they were using it like a mirror.  Then he went a step further.  He drilled a hole in the middle of an ACTUAL mirror, just big enough for his iPhone camera to film through.  Then he put it up against the glass at the orangutan enclosure, and they loved it.

This is either the most misinformed sorority girl in the country, or just some wannabe model who's just trying to get famous online:  A girl named Angie at Florida State University posted a video on YouTube asking Knicks star JEREMY LIN to her formal. But she called him JERRY, said he plays for the GIANTS, and topped it off by admitting she's really into BLACK GUYS.  As we all know, Lin is Asian-American.

Grandparents never give good birthday gifts, but this is just straight up EMBARRASSING.  Some guy and his wife wrote an original blues song for their grandson's 18th birthday.  Then they recorded it and posted it on YouTube. It's called "18-Year-Old Birthday Blues", and the best part is the goofball grandmother dancing in the background.

A 4-year-old from New Berlin fascinated by toilets is the star of a video produced by fixture-maker Kohler that has more than 100,000 hits on YouTube. Dustin Kruse, who first started showing an interest in toilets when he was only 18 months old, came to the attention of Kohler when he visited the company's Design Center in Kohler with parents Jim and Michele Kruse and his mother later sent the company a letter asking about a possible demo model of the boy's favorite toilet, a $380 dual-flush toilet. The company decided instead to send the family a free toilet with a company plumber to ensure it was properly installed.

Earlier this month, Volkswagen released a little teaser for their Super Bowl ad, which hinted that it was going to be about DOGS . . . and "Star Wars".  And to follow this year's trend, they've now released the whole thing EARLY.  It's an "extended version," which is over a minute long.  The first part is about a dog who works out to race a Volkswagen . . . and the second has "Star Wars" characters debating whether or not it's better than last year's Darth Vader kid commercial.

KRISTEN BELL who is possibly the cutest thing going, is a HUGE fan of sloths.  And yesterday on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", she revealed that she FINALLY got to meet one over the summer.  For her 31st birthday, Kristen's fiancé DAX SHEPARD arranged to have a sloth attend her birthday party. She didn't know about it ahead of time, but when there was a knock on her door and Dax told her that it was her present, she somehow knew.  She told Ellen that she thought, quote, "There's a sloth near."  But Kristen got so overwhelmed with emotion that before she could even meet the sloth, she just laid down in her bed and burst into tears.  Luckily for us, Dax taped her meltdown . . . and she showed the footage on "Ellen".  Then Ellen almost made her cry again.

There's an Acura commercial featuring JERRY SEINFELD, the Soup Nazi from "Seinfeld", and JAY LENO.  In the ad, Jerry finds out he's second on the waiting list for the new Acura, and tries to bribe the #1 guy to give up his spot.  It's pretty great.

Last Thursday, a 10-second teaser for a Super Bowl ad was released online, in which MATTHEW BRODERICK appeared to be reprising his "Ferris Bueller" role. Over the weekend, word got out that it was a Honda ad.  Initially, they denied it . . . but then they gave in, and decided to release the whole thing early. It's not the exact ad that will air during the Super Bowl, it's a two-and-a-half minute "extended cut."  And it's pretty amazing. Matthew plays a Ferris Bueller-like version of himself, who calls in sick to a movie shoot so that he can enjoy a day off . . . slacking around in his Honda CR-V.

"The Greatest Spelling Bee Fail Ever."  It's a county spelling be where a kid was asked to spell the word "heron," and he asked the person to repeat the word multiple times.  Eventually he got it right.  Might want to get that hearing checked.

I don't want to give you nightmares if you're a dog owner, but imagine this:  You just took your dog for a walk, you get back to your apartment, you get in an elevator, and the doors close. Then as soon as it starts moving, you realize the dog is still connected to the leash you're holding, but it's standing OUTSIDE the elevator. Well, that's exactly what happened to some idiot who wasn't paying attention, and the security camera footage from the elevator AND the hallway is up on YouTube. Don't worry, the dog's okay.  But it got lifted about seven feet off the ground when the elevator went up.  Then apparently something on the leash snapped . . . otherwise it would have broken its neck or choked to death.  Meanwhile, the guy in the elevator got his head slammed into the door when he didn't let go of the leash.  Plus, he had no idea if he'd just killed his dog or not.