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PassTheRemote: Mar 15, 2007; Number 6 holds The Village record in Duck Hunt.

The first one to kill wins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB-tFLCShyU

It is nice to see Mel Brooks is pushing 90 but still sharp as a tack.

# ? Sep 1, 2016 12:45

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:35

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

PassTheRemote posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB-tFLCShyU

It is nice to see Mel Brooks is pushing 90 but still sharp as a tack.

His son is on the latest Nerdist podcast and has a funny story or two about his dad.

# ? Sep 1, 2016 13:07

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Larry Wilmore on Colbert tonight

it was really good

# ? Sep 2, 2016 07:17

Bucswabe: May 2, 2009

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

Larry Wilmore on Colbert tonight

it was really good

I really liked this interview. Talking about the correspindents dinner, Colbert felt more real and genuine than I've seen him in a long time.

# ? Sep 3, 2016 00:34

anotherone: Feb 8, 2001; Username taken, please choose another one

Eventually a Conan sex scandal is going to break and it will be insane.

https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien/status/772495626193997828

# ? Sep 4, 2016 19:19

Echo Chamber: Oct 16, 2008; best username/post combo

The Book of Mormon guy was James in Pokemon Live?

# ? Sep 17, 2016 00:01

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

anotherone posted:

Eventually a Conan sex scandal is going to break and it will be insane.

https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien/status/772495626193997828

Conan's got a much bigger scandal brewing than that.

http://www.clickhole.com/video/absolutely-beautiful-watch-woman-tell-her-husband--4871

# ? Sep 19, 2016 01:58

Martman: Nov 20, 2006

Knormal posted:

Conan's got a much bigger scandal brewing than that.

http://www.clickhole.com/video/absolutely-beautiful-watch-woman-tell-her-husband--4871

Fame has really gone to his head.

# ? Sep 19, 2016 03:56

pwn: May 27, 2004; This Christmas get "Shoes"

Your old pal Dave will be returning to TV soon

https://vimeo.com/182580586

quote:

It�s been a year-and-a-half since David Letterman stepped down from his Late Show pulpit. In that time, the talk show legend has been remarkably quiet, occasionally popping up at sporting events, chatting with Steve Martin, and mostly just enjoying a well-earned retirement.

But no longer: Earlier this year, Nat Geo (who acquired [Years of Living Dangerously] from Showtime, which aired the first season) announced that it had recruited Letterman as a celebrity correspondent for its star-studded global warming documentary series, Years Of Living Dangerously. Now, the network has released the first clips of Letterman�s contribution to the show�which also recently brought on Jack Black, Sigourney Weaver, and a host of other celebrities to remind us we�re all gonna die�in two clips from the series� upcoming second season.

In the first clip (watchable above), Letterman is in full-on interview mode, talking to the prime minister of India about solar power and coal. It�s a great reminder that�mandatory retired-talk-show-host beard aside�Letterman is still one of the most experienced conversationalists on the planet (and also a guy who still can�t resist cracking a joke every five seconds, at least when he�s not discussing renewable energy with a sitting head of state). The other clip taps into Letterman�s sillier side, as he waxes poetic about solar panels before getting a tad too close to the objects of his affection.

https://vimeo.com/182568014

# ? Sep 20, 2016 00:41

Echo Chamber: Oct 16, 2008; best username/post combo

That Scott Bakula interview reminds me of this.

# ? Sep 20, 2016 14:58

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

Colbert really loving killed it in the first piece last night. Reminded me of angry Stewart.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 04:38

Winkie01: Nov 28, 2004

Flotus owns

# ? Sep 21, 2016 05:13

Sir Lemming: Jan 27, 2009; It's a piece of JUNK!

GreenNight posted:

Colbert really loving killed it in the first piece last night. Reminded me of angry Stewart.

Yeah, I'm not one of those people who insists that Colbert needs to be more brutal and is somehow failing in his duties as a host by not attacking people. But the birther takedown was pretty glorious, on par with most of what Stewart used to do.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 13:28

Spoonsy: Dec 6, 2005; Yeah, life is hilariously cruel.; Grimey Drawer

CBS would like to remind you that P.K. Winthrop is legally not the same person as anyone with the last name of Winsome, but bears a striking resemblance.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 04:53

Vegetable: Oct 22, 2010

Colbert's team is so bad at uploading videos. I clicked a YouTube link to see Michelle Obama do an impression of Barack and it was nine minutes long, almost none of it having to do with Barack impressions. I wonder why they struggle to go viral.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 04:57

Sir Lemming: Jan 27, 2009; It's a piece of JUNK!

Vegetable posted:

Colbert's team is so bad at uploading videos. I clicked a YouTube link to see Michelle Obama do an impression of Barack and it was nine minutes long, almost none of it having to do with Barack impressions. I wonder why they struggle to go viral.

But you still watched it! :iamafag:

# ? Sep 22, 2016 12:52

Vegetable: Oct 22, 2010

now i'll never watch a colbert youtube video again though

# ? Sep 22, 2016 13:02

DJ Pauls Gimp Arm: Mar 22, 2004; M-E-M-P-H-I-S

While everyone was analyzing the debates spectacle, this was happening on Conan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqDAS4B-2I8

# ? Sep 27, 2016 21:36

algebra testes: Mar 5, 2011; Lipstick Apathy

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

Wow Stephen's monologue last night was pretty good.

# ? Sep 28, 2016 06:49

pwn: May 27, 2004; This Christmas get "Shoes"

Tonight is (well, was... it took a while to finish this phone post) the 62nd anniversary of The Tonight Show and, for that matter, the birth of all late night talk shows. September 27 1954, Steve Allen went national with his hit WNBT (now WNBC) show, rebranded as "Tonight," after "Today" in the morning and "Home" in the daytime.

Big thanks to Bobby Ellerbee over at EyesOfAGeneration.com for the following writeup and photos. And check out his Facebook page if you've a bent to learn new stuff every day about television and broadcasting history.

"Bobby Ellerbee posted:

September 27, 1954..."Tonight" Debuts On NBC (2 Video Links)

Below is a rare NBC operations log from October 4, 1954. This log is from one week after the debut, and reveals the origin of "the first 15 minutes", which confounded both Jack Paar and Johnny Carson until January of 1967, when Carson demanded an 11:30 start time.
Notice at the bottom of the sheet, the show at 11:15, just before "Tonight" is..."The Steve Allen Show"!

Prior to the debut of "Tonight", Allen's local late show on WNBT, was very popular and it was thought best to ease the very large local audience into this new show with 15 minutes of monologue on local, NYC topics.

Now we know that this 15 minute lead in was actually designated "The Steve Allen Show" (just like the old WNBT show) and was not "officially" part of the "Tonight" broadcast, but this remnant was a pain to everyone but Allen, until 1967.

This very odd 15 minute opening window had allowed stations to join either at 11:15 or 11:30. Back in 1954, if there was local late news, it was a 15 minute cast at most. In the early sixties, many locals newscasts moved to 30 minutes, which was a problem for the hosts.

The problem Paar and Carson had with this "loving 15 minutes" (as Carson called it) was that, when most stations joined at 11:30, the monologue was over and done! Only the guest part of the show was seen in the 11:30 markets.

Over the years, both Paar and Carson used different methods to fill the 15 minutes. Early on, both Paar and Carson started their monologues at 11:15, which may explain why there is so little video of the early Parr and Carson monologues. These 11:15 - 11:30 segments were most likely, again for the local NY audience.

Later, both opted to use their sidekicks and the band to fill that time, so they could begin the monologue at 11:30. But even then, both the studio and home audiences were left in limbo waiting for the star and his guests.

At this link is a rare 1965 "first 15 minutes" from 11:15 - 11:30 on New Year's Eve from the Carson era, with Ed and Skitch doing the honors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn5NvC2-zQY

Also seen here are two debut ads from New York and Chicago. Notice that in Chicago, only the the last hour of the show as broadcast from 11-12 local time, which would have been the 12-1 hour of the NY show. At the link below is part of the first night's monologue. -Bobby Ellerbee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8AYUfBt1dE

Operations log, Oct, 4, 1954...notice the bottom of the page

Hi ho Stevearino!

The Hudson Theater, 2014

Steve leaving The Hudson

The late shift waiting to get in

NY Times ad, the day before the debut. Notice at the bottom the note to "join Steve 15 minutes early", for "The Steve Allen Show"

Debut ad from Chicago...they took only the last hour of the show as their 11 PM was midnight in New York.

And one final random thought: I realized tonight that, for a little over a year - Feb 24 2014 to May 20 2015 - all four Late Night hosts were on TV every night: Letterman at CBS, Conan at TBS, Fallon on Tonight, and of course, new host Seth Meyers.

# ? Sep 28, 2016 08:15

DaveWoo: Aug 14, 2004; Fun Shoe

Edit: wrong thread

DaveWoo fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Sep 28, 2016

# ? Sep 28, 2016 15:21

DaveWoo: Aug 14, 2004; Fun Shoe

Edit: wrong thread

# ? Sep 28, 2016 20:55

Baronash: Feb 29, 2012; So what do you want to be called?

I'm confident you'll get there eventually.

# ? Sep 28, 2016 21:28

pwn: May 27, 2004; This Christmas get "Shoes"

Re: Wednesday night's Conan: Now I finally get why The Basic Cable Band always sounds the same. I'd been wondering for the last six years why they suddenly got so boring after moving to TBS. They're just as good as ever; the show lost that sweet network budget, is all.

# ? Sep 30, 2016 13:12

DJ Pauls Gimp Arm: Mar 22, 2004; M-E-M-P-H-I-S

Holy poo poo, just now caught this on my DVR. Another location piece with Conan and Kevin Hart. Fuckin hysterical:

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

# ? Sep 30, 2016 20:13

Steve Vader: Apr 29, 2005; Everyone's Playing!

pwn posted:

Re: Wednesday night's Conan: Now I finally get why The Basic Cable Band always sounds the same. I'd been wondering for the last six years why they suddenly got so boring after moving to TBS. They're just as good as ever; the show lost that sweet network budget, is all.

It's always The Basic Cambpell Band in my head. Because I love how Andy mocks that guy.

# ? Sep 30, 2016 21:06

algebra testes: Mar 5, 2011; Lipstick Apathy

DJ Pauls Gimp Arm posted:

Holy poo poo, just now caught this on my DVR. Another location piece with Conan and Kevin Hart. Fuckin hysterical:

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

Oh my god. Dying.

My all time favorite thing ever is the Ice Cube/Kevin Hart ride along when Conan goes "Was it a G thing?"

# ? Oct 1, 2016 05:57

Echo Chamber: Oct 16, 2008; best username/post combo

Watching last night's Colbert.

I never been to a taping, but I've been to that store. :haw:

# ? Oct 5, 2016 00:03

DJ Pauls Gimp Arm: Mar 22, 2004; M-E-M-P-H-I-S

So, I was watching Fallon tonight, since everyone else is reruns. They did a bit with Jon Hamm where they were showing clips from a fake soap opera that they starred in together and this little derpy rear end fake turtle on a remote control car would interrupt the scene randomly while they tried to continue to play straight. It was surreal, absurd and actually quite funny, but I kept finding myself screaming in my brain because for each of the three vignettes, they literally explained what was going to happen word for word before each scene.
It drove me crazy because that's essentially the difference between Fallon's show and Conan's show. This was absurd enough it could so easily have been a Conan bit, but Conan wouldn't have broadcasted the punchline before it actually happened. They would have given you just enough info to know something was going to be awry, and then when the toy animals actually appear on screen, it's a million times funnier. Anyone who saw it will understand what I mean.
I enjoyed the bit for it's surreal goofiness, but in turn almost hated it because it shot itself in the foot by turning what would have been a brilliant bit into something more pedestrian by removing all the subtlety from it.
Sorry for the rant, that's just my penny in the well for the moment.

EDIT: drat, Tonight Show gets their links up quick, don't they?:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvPGMHpn1qI

DJ Pauls Gimp Arm fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Oct 15, 2016

# ? Oct 15, 2016 06:57

Echo Chamber: Oct 16, 2008; best username/post combo

Alright, I laughed really hard when Stephen pulled out his two Emmys.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 14:50

Jack's Flow: Jun 6, 2003; Life, friends, is boring

# ? Nov 2, 2016 17:15

Space_Butler: Dec 5, 2003; Fun Shoe

Conan has been on fire all week. Making out with Ryan Reynolds in the rain is just pure bonus at this point.

# ? Nov 3, 2016 08:06

egon_beeblebrox: Mar 1, 2008; WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

Jack's Flow posted:

I've had nightmares like that.

# ? Nov 3, 2016 11:00

TVGM: Mar 17, 2005; "It is not moral, it is not acceptable, and it is not sustainable that the top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent"; Yam Slacker

4 segments with Mel Gibson on Colbert felt so forced. I get that the movie has critical buzz, but the audience seemed wary of being excited for him even after he made fun of himself.

# ? Nov 3, 2016 15:52