The Mr. Kitteh Talk Show

by Meg on January 15, 2008

[Talk show host Mr. Kitteh] "Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome a very funny man, and great friend of the show, Mr. JIMMY KIBBLE ladiesandgentlemen!"


Max, originally uploaded by Tante Bluhme’s.

{ 51 comments }

1 Serena 01.15.08 at 6:21 am

hurrah! cute kitty :) so fuzzy!

2 M. 01.15.08 at 6:22 am

The vivid pink colour of those jelly beans… O_O

Alarmed or entranced or both?

3 Serena 01.15.08 at 6:22 am

on closer inspection, looks very very photoshopped, doesn’t it?

4 Karo 01.15.08 at 6:29 am

Hmmm, not sure about the PhotoShopping…

Kitty definitely appears to be squinting to read his cue cards :)

5 fish eye no miko 01.15.08 at 6:46 am

Yeah, I’m not liking the INTENSE COLOR, either…

6 soxfan 01.15.08 at 7:06 am

I had to go check out the kitteh’s flickr pics. Some of ‘em show the normal pink nose we’d expect.

He’s apparently a Norwegian Forest Cat. I know nada about them. I know there are certain breeds of dogs that “blush” so maybe cats can too?

Either way, if the pink is enhanced or not, he is prosh. Lookit those enormous feets!! Eeep!

7 Hon Glad 01.15.08 at 7:13 am

What a beauty, if he’s a Norwegian forest cat be prepared for lots of presents, evicerated mice squirrels birds worms etc.

8 Sammys Mom 01.15.08 at 8:45 am

Did you mean >^..^< Mr. Jimmy Kibble?

9 Aubrey 01.15.08 at 8:53 am

“be prepared for lots of presents, evicerated mice squirrels birds worms etc.”

Hmm. Only a Norwegian wood.

If you’re good.

10 Ruby Tuesday 01.15.08 at 11:08 am

Whether or not the pads are enhanced “EXTRA COLOR” (hugs to all who get the reference), I’m entranced by the floofy head fuzz! That is one kitty that is just begging for a face rub/snorgle…

11 gail 01.15.08 at 12:10 pm

@Aubrey–love the reference!

Does look like the color is slightly “faux”

12 rabble 01.15.08 at 12:25 pm

i wants to neeble some of those cherry flavoured toesies!

13 mariaS 01.15.08 at 12:39 pm

Jimmy Kimmel should be so cute! That lovie expression isn’t “shopped”!

14 snoopysnake 01.15.08 at 1:10 pm

Zoooooooooom in to snorgle kitteh’s face!

15 metsakins 01.15.08 at 1:11 pm

peeps, peeps, calm down.

in an effort to settle said color conterversy

*slips kitten in pocket*

I’m off to do some research. I’ll report back next week.

16 Sheenanana 01.15.08 at 1:38 pm

Oh wah, someone enhanced a photo’s color and now I’m going to bitch about it for approximately eternity! Waaaaambulance!

Just enjoy the kitten, peoples. LOOK AT EET. How can you not enjoy? I ask you, how?! So fluffy!

17 Theo 01.15.08 at 1:50 pm

LOL, Sheenana. Na.

You know I bet the photo was taken in ambient indoor light, without flash, and then level-corrected, sorta like I did with this…
http://teho.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2252668128e1d00e398d2813c0005.html

…though Tante did it perhaps a bit more professionally.

18 Holy Cuteness 01.15.08 at 2:07 pm

I love the soft pink feet…

19 chanpon 01.15.08 at 2:10 pm

I’m much more of an ear-cruncher. I’ll take those ears and you guys can have the feet and jellybeans.

20 Beth 01.15.08 at 2:17 pm

Oh the fuzzy goodness, with the gi-normous feets. I want to moosh his floof down, and then floof it back out.

21 Momof2kitties 01.15.08 at 2:18 pm

I dunno you guys, when my kittehs get hot & sweaty their jelly beanz can get vewwy deep pink as well, almost like this bebeh’s. Nosicles too! I think a 24 hour snorgle test is in order to check for sweaty pawsitude. I’ll bring him back tomorrow. Promise!

22 Babs 01.15.08 at 2:19 pm

Mr. Kitteh has a very relaaaaaaaxed talk show. No desk for him. Just leecks and snorgles.

23 jen 01.15.08 at 2:48 pm

cute kittie. would be just as cute without color enhancement of the nose and pads.

does anyone see the ‘m’ on his forehead? i want to kees!

24 charliewabba 01.15.08 at 3:52 pm

Make up? Make up? Get out here. We need to tone down the color on Mr. Kitteh’s nose. Where’s that powder puff? Oh, wait – him IS the powder puff. Nevermind.

25 indigoreiki 01.15.08 at 3:57 pm

I’ve never seen a kitteh with such delicous PINK toe morsels.

26 Kiragirl 01.15.08 at 3:58 pm

I’m getting verklempt, tawlk amongst yaselves.

27 sockmonstersarai 01.15.08 at 4:13 pm

Kitteh toes, kitteh toes! Must nomnomnomnom the kitteh toes! With a few nose doinks on the way! I luuurve me some nose doinks!

28 shanchan 01.15.08 at 4:43 pm

I knew he had to be a Norwegian cat- he’s laying inside one half of a traditional giant paper mache Easter egg. The one I got for Easter only had chocolate and marzipan. I got cheated!!

29 Meow House 01.15.08 at 4:46 pm

I use Photoshop on photographs all the time to make them prettier: better color, more vivid, etc. Nearly all photographers do this, and it’s done for every single commercially produced shot you will ever see. If his beans were made pinker, I don’t have a problem with that. I personally prefer minimal changes (I don’t change eye color or expression but I’ll remove goop around the eyes, for instance). Anyway whether totally natural or not, this kitteh is eatable. I shall bake him into a pie. xoxoxo

30 Theo 01.15.08 at 4:49 pm

I gather that’d be a Cutie Pie, Meow House?

31 berthaslave 01.15.08 at 5:12 pm

I must be getting old. 1) I did not for a second think the photo was shopped because that seems dishonest (and so much work, isn’t it?) 2) I know who Jimmy Kimmel is but I don’t know how this refers to him. 3) I know that the hovertext refers to an old slogan for 7-Up but don’t get what it has to do with the photo. 4) The funniest comment was Aubrey’s — isn’t it good?

Still, the cat is anerable (I dreamed I had got a new kitteh last night!).

Back to mah rockin’ chair…

32 Theo 01.15.08 at 5:20 pm

BSlave — re: #3 — it’s the bowl. Looks like the wicker chair.
http://adage.com/article?article_id=116484

33 Meow House 01.15.08 at 5:45 pm

Theo: but of course! All kitteh pie is Cutie Pie.

Berthaslave: I don’t know what the Jimmy Kimmel reference is either. I think kitteh gives more of a Dick Cavett vibe myself.

34 Way Cool Groovy Chick 01.15.08 at 5:47 pm

Kitteh’s all “get that camera out of my face. I’m trying to sleep in this egg.”

35 Annie 01.15.08 at 5:49 pm

Regarding the enhances color… hehehe you are all so into your digital cameras and who wouldn’t be but a more simple way to enhance would be to use a filter on the camera lense and thats what it looks like to me… A filter was used to enhance the orange of the fur and in the process it added a bit more pink to ears, paws and nose .. Well I am not sure but it really looks like a filter was used.

Also regarding the 7up commercial I loved that commercial.. he was so cool..
And really that kitty exudes crisp and clean.

Goes over and sits in my own rocking chair, cause I remember when you used filters on cameras to enhance photos and not fancy computer software.

36 Meow House 01.15.08 at 5:53 pm

Annie – true re filters, but there was quite a lot of editing done in the darkroom. Many Photoshop effects are replicating what used to be done by hand by touch-up artists. Dodge, burn, sharpen, blur, airbrushing, color-correction, and many more, all used to be done by hand. It’s only the method that is different now.

This particular kitteh has the filter of CUTE on him!

37 CheshireCat 01.15.08 at 6:56 pm

OMG, hot pink Jelly beans! Nawm, nawm, nawm…

38 Paunchie 01.15.08 at 9:23 pm
39 Leslie 01.15.08 at 9:26 pm

I dunno, I had a kitteh with pink feet n nose and after tearing around the house he would flop onto whatever he decided was comfortable and gaze at me contentedly. His nose and feet would be a bright, deep, glorious pink.

BTW–Anyone with MS picture editor can click on autocorrect and get wierd colors. That’s why good ’shoppage is not something to be snarked at. You think the Nat Geo photos are shot so perfectly that they’re not enhanced–hmmm? Ya gotta start somewhere peeps, and if it’s color enhancing your kitteh’s feets, go for it.

40 anner 01.15.08 at 10:05 pm

omg. a kitteh that young should NOT be wearing lipstick. especially on her nose and paw pads!

41 Annie 01.15.08 at 11:00 pm

MEow House as I have done both I understand what you are saying also have a Father in Law who makes some of the most beautiful pictures and he is an amateur Photographer. One of his favorite tricks is reflecting this golden light on a subject to enhance the colors. His tool, is one of those window shades you put to keep the sun off your front seat. makes reds really brilliant and oranges too.
Most pictures get enhanced one way or another. BE it when you take them into the lab to get printed or by doing it your self on your computer.

42 caitlin 01.16.08 at 12:45 am

cute!!! >^..^<

43 Kimski 01.16.08 at 3:26 am

I was enjoying this picture ’till I came here and read all the photoshop nuffage! Aaaaarrrrrrrrhhhhhhhh.

Kitteh says take filtez ov own eyez. :/

44 bananasforbunnies 01.16.08 at 5:35 am

That’s a very content “Pink” kitten, soooo cuterolah.

45 Subhangi 01.16.08 at 5:56 am

Pink and orange candy kitteh!

46 berthaslave 01.16.08 at 6:23 am

Hmmm….I certainly remember the Geoffrey Holder commercials, and that big wicker chair, but it just didn’t register with this image, Theo. Still, I respect the attempt. I think I got more of a “Venus Emerging” kind of thing.

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/862/20155889.JPG

P.S. If it was photoshopped, then how come there are still eye boogers? Huh? How come?

47 Too Late 01.16.08 at 2:06 pm

OMG the pawsies!!!! Who cares if it’s ’shopped or not, as long as it’s cute!

Really can’t get over the pawsies! They’re so big and nummabehls! Almost like a baby taiguh…

48 Juno 01.16.08 at 2:18 pm

DAYAMM! His paws are as big as his head! He’s gonna be a BIG kitty!

49 kathleen 01.16.08 at 5:09 pm

That would be Mr. Jimmy KIBBLE!

Kathleen

50 John Salmon 01.16.08 at 10:16 pm

“A great entertainer, a great humanitarian, and my closest personal friend for 3 months, Mr. K!”

51 Theo 01.17.08 at 7:00 pm

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;-)

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