As we all know by now, Bag of Hair has been inexplicably tapped to replace Conan O'Brien in 2009 when Conan moves to California to take over the Tonight Show from Jay Leno (AKA Bag of Chin). But news comes today of an unusual training program for Hair, conceived by Lorne Michaels: a nightly webisodic talk show? From the NYT:
Mr. Fallon has been named as the replacement for Conan O'Brien when Mr. O'Brien takes over the "Tonight" show from Jay Leno next year, and Mr. Michaels, the long-time boss of NBC's "Saturday Night Live," who also serves as executive producer of "Late Night," told television reporters here Sunday that he wants Mr. Fallon to work out as many of the rough spots in his presentation as possible in performances on a website.
Mr. Michaels said he did not know yet which site he will use to post the shows with Mr. Fallon, but he was sure of several of the plans:
The web performances will likely begin in the fall, long before the transition from Mr. Leno for Mr. O'Brien is set to take place. The entries will not constitute anything like an entire hour-long show. "I expect that we'll do something like five or 10 minutes," Mr. Michaels said.
But he said they most likely will be on every night, to try to establish the rhythm of a nightly show. And he said, "I'm going to post them at 12:30 every night, so people will begin to look for Jimmy at that time."
Aw, poor Bag of Hair. Even Craig Ferguson wasn't asked to work out the kinks of his show in a Vlog before he started. Maybe that's because even Craig Ferguson has a demonstrated history of talent and entertainment value. So, you guys, we only have one way to stop Bag of Hair...
Kristen Schaal is quickly earning a reputation as the funniest correspondent on The Daily Show. Last night, she talked to Jon about cougars, and even brought a live one on stage so Jon could touch its shiny coat:
Hopefully the legacy of this segment will be "Redenbacher" and not "Queefnugget."
So yesterday I posed the rhetorical question: would recent Sarah Silverman mutual-breakup participant Jimmy Kimmel look sad, or perhaps cry, when his live TV show returned last night? It turns out, yes, one of those things happened! In fact, a careful examination of Jimmy's monologue (even in the poor-quality medium of YouTube because someone forgot to DVR it), is like a guide to the seven stages of grief.
Yesterday, Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman's reps announced that the comedy power couple had broken up after five years. Hopefully the breakup was mutual and the two are mending their broken hearts by making separate scrapbooks of their relationship in happier times, doing yoga, and perhaps reading Eat, Pray, Love. Last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live was, disappointingly, a repeat, but he comes back live tonight and the question on everyone's (my) mind is this: Will Jimmy talk about it? (Probably not.) Will he look sad? (We can probably find facial expressions that approximate sadness) And oooh, oooh, what if he totally cried, how crazy would that be? Either way, I'm DVRing it. Here's an interview with Sarah from that Michael Eisner show where she talks about meeting Jimmy for the first time:
I can't wait for some crazy person to make the inevitable Jimmy/Sarah YouTube relationship tribute video.
In a field piece with Senior Military Analyst John Oliver about Iran's ability to use photoshop to make Jon Stewart look like "Stephen Baldwin's embarrassing drunk exhibitionist friend," Oliver catches Jon off-guard and Rick Rolls the shit out of him. This also marks the first time Jon Stewart has ever had to say "But I don't have a vagina" on his show (probably):
"Now all your coworkers think you're a big, gay Rick Astley fan."
Jimmy Kimmel Live's long-running bit, The Week In Unnecessary Censorship is such a part of our culture at this point that it's the second Google result for the word "unnecessary." And kids' shows, for obvious reasons, are especially funny/disturbing when needlessly censored. On Friday, Jimmy paid tribute to Unnecessary Censorship all-star Sesame Street with a special "Come And Play Edition" of the segment:
While it's amusing to imagine a parental watchdog group making a confused attempt to go after Kimmel for this, it's also just so totally extra-wrong that it's hard to believe it was actually on TV.
Mary Kate Olsen was on Letterman last night, and after some light banter about her recent trip to Bonnaroo and her new movie The Wackness, Letterman deftly shifts the conversation around to his favorite new obsession: Spencer Pratt. As skillfully as Matlock leading an unsuspecting witness down the path to confession, Letterman elicits ant-Spencer details from Mary Kate, such as the fact that he wasn't a good sport during sports games as a child. Suddenly MK finds herself in the midst of a Spencer slam session, with Letterman asking her repeatedly to agree with his insults. "What a little worm that guy is. Don't you think he's a little wormy?" "How did he get so oily at such a young age?"
An email came in last night right after The Colbert Report:
"Did you see The Colbert Report tonight? Stephen is definitely on painkillers. He slurs his words several times, most noticeably in the intro."
Oh no! If you watch it with that in mind, Stephen does slur (twice) in this intro, and not the way he normally flubs a line or two. In a painkiller-y way:
It's just speculation, of course, but could he be taking prescribed painkillers for the damage done to his face in a rumored boating accident this weekend? As a country, we need Stephen to be in top form. Hopefully he'll downgrade to Advil soon. Painkillers are so Limbaugh-league.
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