As I speculated in this post, Pauly Shore's racist diatribe a couple of weeks ago was all to publicize his new movie. The video above proves the whole thing to be a hoax (notice the quick flash of Stereohyped's Technorati page — we're famous!), with Charlie Murphy, Katt Wiliams, and Vivica Fox admitting that they were all in on the joke. Pauly Shore seems pretty proud of himself, but let's really analyze what he accomplished here. He got everyone to think he was racist and reaffirmed the generally held notion that he was an idiot, far fewer people will see this "it was all a joke!" video than saw the original, and, most importantly, there's still not a single soul who's actually going to buy his movie. Long story short — the world now thinks he's racist and Katt Williams is still more successful than he is. Well-thought-out marketing plan, this was not.

Party boy and occasional comedian Pauly Shore is taking a cue from bitter hatemongers and blaming his anemic career on his skin color (or lack thereof). "I need to be black," Shore recently told an interviewer, "because if I was black, I’d be doing good." Well, Pauly. You'd be doing well. And no, you wouldn't.

Shore continued: "White people are screwed. Especially in my industry, they’re screwed. White people are going to be picking cotton within, like, literally within three years." Brilliant! How is this guy not getting hired?

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I wasted 30 minutes of valuable time last night watching We Got To Do Better, aka Hot Ghetto Mess, because I didn't feel entirely appropriate criticizing a show I hadn't seen yet. Luckily, I don't have to eat any of my words. It was bad, and not just in the way we expected it to be bad. The production value was terrible, and I can't figure out which was worse, Charlie Murphy's script or his delivery of it. The network changed the name of the show in response to criticism, but they made no move to reshoot Murphy's segments. This was obvious every time he said, "Welcome back to Hot Ghetto Mess."

The clips didn't make me sit back and think, "Wow, we've got to do better." They made me think, "Damn, there are some ignorant, idiotic people in this world. Good thing I don't know them." The social commentary angle is a thinly veiled excuse to air something that should be called America's Ghetto and Redneck Home Videos. Charlie Murphy awkwardly advising the people in the clips not to do those things anymore rang pretty false. And the man on the street segments, where they asked people who Barack Obama is, how many blacks are on the Supreme Court, and what the black unemployment rate is, were interesting for the first few wrong answers and then got really old.

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C-Webb's 2nd annual celebrity weekend went down in Vegas this weekend, and too many people attended the events to name. It's nice to see that celebrities of varying levels of fame can come together for a weekend of charity. And good press. Pics after the jump.

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Men's fashion at an award show such as this is harder to judge, because many of the attendees arrive in the same clothes they would wear to the grocery store, the club, or the annual pimp convention — none of which are good looks. Don Cheadle, who won the humanitarian award for his work in Darfur, looks pretty dapper (and he gave a great acceptance speech). I can't say the same for all of the guys in attendance. See for yourself after the jump.

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