Random stupid things on your mind. Post them.

[albrecht]

Oh they're inescapable. Subways are plastered with them.

And I have 2 pieces of good news on that front. 

Ok!! Another reason to not like public transport....though with traffic sometimes I wonder. Is one allowed to drink on NYC's system? I haven't been up there for several decades. I know it makes other systems much better and almost better than driving. Hell, in Germany they even sell you little flasks of Dopplekorn or Jager if the beers aren't enough to suffice your journey. And they run on time! What with the drink-driving laws and horrible traffic here I wouldn't mind a public transport option....if it went to where you wanted to go and live (and wouldn't allow undesirable types easy access to my neighborhood.)
ps: I await the good news! Want more shows!!!! Dammit!

[bateman]

    With these guests, he thinks Charlie Rose is the competition not the Jimmys on NBC/ABC.

    Pearl Jam next week!!! He must have stolen the upcoming guests list from Ellen.

I'm beginning to think this is somehow a Producers-like scam to create the worst late night show imaginable

http://www.interbridge.com/lineups.html

[bateman]

     Biden is actually an engaging guest who has been on talk shows before and his past tragedies didn't have become a subject. Let him tell some corny, likely apocryphal, stories and be done with it. Death talk on talk shows is DEATH.

Yeah I don't know what they're going for here. A late night TV audience just wants some dumb jokes and a softball interview with some eye candy. I don't mean play to the lowest common denominator, I mean people just don't WANT anything different because they are unwinding after a shitty day at a shitty job and want to get away from their shitty life for a minute. Why the hell do they think Jay Leno was #1 for so many years?

[Eddie Coyle]

I'm beginning to think this is somehow a Producers-like scam to create the worst late night show imaginable

http://www.interbridge.com/lineups.html

    I've saying "let's see what type of guests he has in December"...I was 10 weeks off. That lineup next week is feeble enough, but the third week is even worse. Yeah, more Archbishops to talk about the Pope's visit is what late night craves. And the skeletal Kennedy who married the weightlifter from "Raw Deal". Maybe Andrew Sullivan can talk about his AIDS diagnosis for laughs.

[bateman]

    I've saying "let's see what type of guests he has in December"...I was 10 weeks off. That lineup next week is feeble enough, but the third week is even worse. Yeah, more Archbishops to talk about the Pope's visit is what late night craves. And the skeletal Kennedy who married the weightlifter from "Raw Deal". Maybe Andrew Sullivan can talk about his AIDS diagnosis for laughs.

Also: Malala Yousafzai, The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban! 

[Eddie Coyle]

Yeah I don't know what they're going for here. A late night TV audience just wants some dumb jokes and a softball interview with some eye candy. I don't mean play to the lowest common denominator, I mean people just don't WANT anything different because they are unwinding after a shitty day at a shitty job and want to get away from their shitty life for a minute. Why the hell do they think Jay Leno was #1 for so many years?

   Indeed, it's why Leno and Fallon have had NBC at the top of late night ratings for years. It's grabass, brainless stuff that appeals to a certain audience...who also happen to be consumers. They buy the shit from the sponsors and go to the stupid movies that the guests are pushing.

   

[albrecht]

Yeah I don't know what they're going for here. A late night TV audience just wants some dumb jokes and a softball interview with some eye candy. I don't mean play to the lowest common denominator, I mean people just don't WANT anything different because they are unwinding after a shitty day at a shitty job and want to get away from their shitty life for a minute. Why the hell do they think Jay Leno was #1 for so many years?

Well I obviously am not indictative of the viewing public but I would like interesting guests, who drink themselves silly in the green room, and then come out smoking, incoherent, and funny. Or faking it also at times?  And a host (and/or side-kick if needed) who can spontaneous pan to camera or make a good line and joke. Too much to ask? It sufficed to me in places like hotel on vacation when I was a kid and good see late night tv. Otherwise, just show old monster movies, sci-movies, and charlie chan movies at night. Or the darn flag sign-off and snow. More fun anyway....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msN0A6l5yi4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4EI2fvi_xk

[bateman]

   Indeed, it's why Leno and Fallon have had NBC at the top of late night ratings for years. It's grabass, brainless stuff that appeals to a certain audience...who also happen to be consumers. They buy the shit from the sponsors and go to the stupid movies that the guests are pushing.

In a year (6 months?) when this show's obituary is written, we'll have to hear about how people just didn't "get" it. No, they got it, they just didn't want it.

[Eddie Coyle]

In a year (6 months?) when this show's obituary is written, we'll have to hear about how people just didn't "get" it. No, they got it, they just didn't want it.

    "Ahead of it's time". "Too intellectual to succeed in 2015 America". Yeah, the excuses are probably already being written. They should include this one "CBS didn't want to pay Stewart big bucks to come in third place, so they settled on the JV version"

      Colbert is basically doing at 12:35 show at 11:35, and that's why Conan stiffed in 2009. He never adjusted.

       *One of the funniest things in Stern's Private Parts book in '93 was how he said something like  "by the time you read this, Chevy Chase's show will be off the air". Stern's book was released on October 7(written that summer)...and Chevy was cancelled on Oct 1 after 4 weeks.
     

[pate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD5Z2OTgkT4

[Juan]

Col-BEAR's sister ran for public office in South Carolina.  I had to endure some of her ads.  She pronounces her name COL-bert.

The best 11:30 hosts were entertainers (Carson, Steve Allen) not just comedians.

[wr250]

Yeah I don't know what they're going for here. A late night TV audience just wants some dumb jokes and a softball interview with some eye candy. I don't mean play to the lowest common denominator, I mean people just don't WANT anything different because they are unwinding after a shitty day at a shitty job and want to get away from their shitty life for a minute. Why the hell do they think Jay Leno was #1 for so many years?

well theres noory to noory am for that . and his "internet tv show" beeyund bleef

[CornyCrow]

Col-BEAR's sister ran for public office in South Carolina.  I had to endure some of her ads.  She pronounces her name COL-bert.

The best 11:30 hosts were entertainers (Carson, Steve Allen) not just comedians.

Colbert took the French pronunciation for his persona on his old tv show and it kind of stuck.

[PB the Deplorable]

Colbert took the French pronunciation for his persona on his old tv show and it kind of stuck.

The two I remember are Ross Perot going from PEA-row to Puh-ROW, and Tony Dorsett going from DOR-sit to Dor-SET


Then there was Don Smith, who started pronouncing his name Zaid Abdul-Aziz, but I think that was something different

[Sehnzeleid]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs

[pate]

I believe I narrowly avoided a cougar attack tonight...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGMf4QQdI9c

[CornyCrow]

The two I remember are Ross Perot going from PEA-row to Puh-ROW, and Tony Dorsett going from DOR-sit to Dor-SET


Then there was Don Smith, who started pronouncing his name Zaid Abdul-Aziz, but I think that was something different

I knew someone named Buttor who insisted that we call her Bu-TOR.  Then, there was that British sit-com in which Bucket was pronounced Bu-KAY. 

[zeebo]

For some reason when two people drink two bottles of wine, it doesn't seem as bad as when one person drinks one.

[jazmunda]

Aussies are the real enemy! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


https://youtu.be/zF_1hVYGaJw

[analog kid]

   Indeed, it's why Leno and Fallon have had NBC at the top of late night ratings for years. It's grabass, brainless stuff that appeals to a certain audience...who also happen to be consumers. They buy the shit from the sponsors and go to the stupid movies that the guests are pushing.

   

I think there was Nieslon data that showed a large percentage of viewers tuned out of Leno after the monologue. Yep - people actually wanted to watch that, but the rest of the show was too inane for even them. That was mostly old people. I don't know who Fallon's demo is.

[Eddie Coyle]

I think there was Nieslon data that showed a large percentage of viewers tuned out of Leno after the monologue. Yep - people actually wanted to watch that, but the rest of the show was too inane for even them. That was mostly old people. I don't know who Fallon's demo is.

     Safe bet that Fallon's demo consists largely of young women who are easily amused. The grandkids of Leno fans.


     The overlap of guests is another thing. During that horrible period of modern history where Seth Rogen had a new movie every Friday, that motherfucker would be on Fallon, Kimmel, Letterman etc in the course of a few days. What a treat. And some years before that that hack from hell Dane Cook would also be ubiquitious on the talk show circuit.

[popple]

[wr250]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioZU_T1OIoI&feature=iv&src_vid=dg4rylxSg5c&annotation_id=annotation_1377536699

[b_dubb]

Aussies are the real enemy! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


https://youtu.be/zF_1hVYGaJw

Bill rules! That was hella funny! Thanks for sharing.

[eddie dean]

Do people actually enjoy the fast and furious movies.  Who watches this crap?

[In movie guy voice] "Furious 7 -  The same old tired shit with fast cars. Did I mention the car survives a fall from an airplane? Yeah, we got nothing. "

Gosh, I can't wait for the next one:
Furious 8 - internal combustion engines in space - with lasers.... and  hawt chicks!

[pate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hDo80ddn4Q

[BellBoy]

...internal combustion engines in space - with lasers.... and  hawt chicks!

[popple]

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/643443652346318848

Their honeymoon should be in a trunk at the bottom of the ocean. 

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

my new monday coffee mug.
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Free-Shipping-1Piece-10oz-Novelty-Ceramic-Middle-Finger-Coffee-Cups-Personality-Office-Gifts-Have-A-Nice/504327_32315128392.html

[pate]

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE POPPLE?

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, my dear...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4-2onb62y8