Miranda Cosgrove
Everything you ever needed or wanted to know about Miranda Cosgrove.
Just The Facts
- Miranda Cosgrove has become an icon for 8-year-old girls (and boys) everywhere.
- Although she looks like she is also 8, she is actually 16.
- Miranda Cosgrove is a Mexican Grandma
Background
Miranda Cosgrove was born May 14, 1993. Her career began three years later when a talent agent spotted her doing a Shirley Temple routine in some sleazy L.A. restaurant. Unfortunately, there is not much background about her Uninteresting Life, and we're pretty sure you don't want to hear it anyway.
Acting Career
School of Rock
Miranda Cosgrove played the (small) role of Summer Hathaway, a groupie in a movie about a fourth grade rock band. You man know this as the movie where Jack Black tries painfully hard to be Whoopi Goldberg, but epically fails. The result is as creepy as it sounds.
Drake and Josh
In this Nickelodeon classic, Miranda plays Drake and Josh's younger sister, Megan: a creepy/annoying little girl (in other words, she plays herself). Her acting style for this role can be described as mostly arm swinging and eyebrow raising with a little eye squinting for embellishment.
Despite her acting abilities, the show was a huge hit (you could call it her big break) and consequently led to NIckelodeon's latest brain-child...
iCarly
Miranda Cosgrove's first starring role! She plays Carly Shay, a girl with a webshow about all things epically stupid. She does it with her friend Sam, whose name does not appear in the title of the show for some reason. If you started a show with your friends, would you name it after one of you or both of you?
Although this show is supposed to be for children (it's rated Y7), some episodes have had some... questionable content. Now, maybe we at Cracked just have inherently dirty minds, but the most fail episode of iCarly has to be "iHurt Lewbert" (No, that "i" is not a typo, every episode title has an "i" in front of it. Why? We don't know. Because it looks cool, dammit!). Here is a Youtube Poop for your enjoyment. The actual episode is almost exactly like the video. Don't believe us? Go watch the episode. Yes, he really says, "This is serious jizz."
As you can see, her acting style may still be described as awkward arm movements and facial expressions. Much like her singing. Wait, singing? Didn't she learn her lesson in School of Rock?
Singing Career
Apparently not. But now, instead of singing Cats, she's singing... more songs she did not write. The theme song to iCarly was written by Drake Bell, her co-star from Drake and Josh. She has also done covers of Amy Diamond's Stay My Baby and the Sugababe's About You Now. She even did a cover of The Waitress's Christmas Wrapping.
not pictured: Santa Claus
Sources say that Miranda Cosgrove is now in the process of recording a solo album, co-writing her songs with Boys Like Girls. I'm going to pre-order it on Amazon for sure.
The Future
Miranda Cosgrove is a child star, and like all child stars, she will most likely end up like this:
Or this...
Shirley Temple.
Or even this...
In Conclusion
Am I the only one that thinks Miranda Cosgrove looks kind of like Michael Jackson?
look at this fucking love connection.
"Every episode title has an "i" in front of it. Why? We don't know. Because it looks cool, dammit!"
Reply'I' stands for 'internet.' Hence; 'ICarly.' You're welcome... :)
I get why people say she's unfunny, but she has more than one character accurately played[i.e. legit actress]. also if you think someone is unfunny makes sure you are an actuall fan of their style. you were like a mozart fan bitching about why KISS sucks.
ReplyI was watching an iCarly episode once and the brother was trying to convince a blind dude that he wasn't a girl. So the old blind dude felt his chest and was like "Yeah, you're a guy."
ReplyThe show doesn't seem Y7 to me.
Actually they say "chiz" and the webshow was named by the male character who's hopelessly in love with Carly (and gets picked on by Sam), so it makes sense that it'd be called iCarly.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesI do agree that she has NO TALENT though. Plus the premise of two young girls doing strange things on camera (like showing their tongue per some online viewer's request) is more than a little creepy and all the not-so-subtle innuendos make it worse. Plus the "comedy" web show (supposedly a global hit) is rarely funny. Making a show about the minor characters would make more sense since they're responsible for most of the laughs anyway.
Yeah, but 'chiz' sounds a lot like jizz, which is pretty much the only funny thing about iCarly.
noo icarly is so funny. I love it, in a total unironic way. plus now that the girls are legal, I can admit that they are hot.
Nerd.whore- Must we hear about your 'barely-legal' sitcom star fetish? Plus, nearly everything in the Icarly Universe is just a lame, unrealistic attempt at hilarity; their dialogue is silly and childish at most-times, lining itself with humor that seems fit to appeal to an 8-10 demographic,(that is if you don't count the rare, incongruous, and unsettling innuendos Trgr77 mentioned.) They also get themselves into surreal, and equally ridiculous situations. And the Authority figures are either portrayed as total buffoons or unreasonable, stereotypical mean antagonists, (I have no personal issue with these portrayals, but they both would be funny in a children's cartoon) This is even implicitly referenced to in one episode. And the segments of the web show in Icarly that provide occasional humor to it seem to imply that the creators believe that normal teenagers find non-sequitur humor funny. Bottom-line: It's the childish lack of realism that makes the show suck. And no accuse me of obsessing, I'm just a bored kid with a keyboard.