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Fur and balanced
I’m back. I wish I could say I was busy with comedy or a screenplay, but honestly those don’t slow me down. I tend to just use stream-of-consciousness and steal the rest from Myron Cohen.
In reality, I’ve just been reading and rereading Mindy Kaling’s old blog for the last three weeks. I almost don’t want to share it but, it would be withholding something too wonderful from the world. I won’t be the Fox to your Arrested Development.
With my return also comes the start of other great things: American Idol is just about ready to stop torturing us with Youtube videos and put us in a nice studio with a/c, Friday Night Lights Season 4 finally has a network premiere date (April 30th), and The Winter Olympics sent me a facebook friend request alerting me to the fact it exists.
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Sno my goodness!
Snow fell in Miami, Florida. According to Wiki, it is the only time in the city’s history that snow fell. So take that, everyone complaining about the cold. That’s right even you, strawberry farmer’s! Quit griping and tend your crops. I can’t sprinkle your frustrations on my summer salad, so stop growing them.
The Aleutian Low was to blame in ’77, though at first many assumed Steve Martin was shooting a movie in the area. See below right for what Steve Martin did to Pasadena during “Father of the Bride”.
There's snow business like show business who has no business in snow
Why do I know all of these facts? My mother was a weatherwoman. Was she a better weatherwoman than Sam Champion? Yes. But was she a blonder weatherwoman? I doubt there will ever be. That gal should be shilling toothpaste in her breaks on Good Morning America.
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January 14, 2010 · 1 Comment
Comedy's Whitest Whale
The past few days have proven without a doubt the country is split into two distinct groups: Wheel of Fortune Watchers and Jeopardy Viewers. It is widely known that Jeopardy Viewers pretend not to watch any other television shows. However, it is even more widely known that the higher Conan O’Brien’s hair wave: the fuller the moon, the funnier his monologues, and the more he satisfies his audience—one that includes 85.4% of all Jeopardy viewers. (The remaining 15% of Jeopardy Viewers intend to watch Conan as well, but they are fast asleep in book carrels by 8 p.m.)
Yet the widest known fact of all, is the long-time feud Pat Sajak has had with comedy (and Goosebumps writer R.L Stine or as Sajak calls him, RLSTNE). Clearly, Sajak is behind this whole late night mess. I would refer to it as a “debacle” but Sajak overcharges for vowels, so for now I’ll call it a “clstrfck”.
What does all this mean?
Conan is the best. Leno is the worst. Sajak owes me $50. (And I’m still under legal obligation not to mention Trebek.)
****Update: Mr. O’Brien is taking a deal at Fox News (but for some reason he had to promise not to bring Max Weinburg.) Former Govenor Palin will take a gig on the Tonight Show at 12:05 a.m. She’s gonna use it to keep her eye on terrorists. And Russia. ****
Snippets of her monologue forthcoming.
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