The Phightin Philadelphia Philadelphians

The Phillies won their second pennant in a row last night. I, of course, didn't see the game since every darn NL game has been on TBS (Thank you Earnie Johnson for being horrible). Anywho, the Phillies look to be going against the Yankees in the World Series. This video has nothing to do with that, but it's awesome.

FAIR BALL HOME RUN, DICKIE THON!

Best
Phillies
Game
Ever and best
Ending
Ever

You might think that my acronym-making is terrible at this point. I've been watching baseball and I'd say I'm actually about average.

Last night's game was amazing. If you didn't see it, you didn't see it, I'm not going to try to describe it. I had an interesting experience... I don't have cable so I watched it over the internet except the sound wasn't working so I was basically watching the game on 'mute'. A strange way to watch a walk-off double (and post-game interviews for that matter). But I did and it was incredible.

Drop Pants, Fire Rocket

Don Rickles was on the Late Show yesterday night. Classic stories and quips as always.

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Classic Roots Choice #8: Introduced comedian Eddie Izzard with "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed.

And Now For Something Completely Different

Yesterday night when Jimmy Fallon mentioned who would be on the show tomorrow, I did an audio double-take. "I think he just said... what did he just say?" Rewinding and watching it again confirmed that he just said that tomorrow night he would have "the guys" from "Monty Python". "What does that mean?", I thought. "Ooh, probably from the musical on Broadway."

The reality of the situation is what I dismissed in my mind automatically. He was going to have - in one show - John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Eric Idle (all living members of Monty Python except Michael Palin).

The show was amazing. A particular highlight was "Wheel Of Carpet Samples" where the usual Pythonesque silliness was joined with an appearance by John Cleese himself. Then Fallon and Cleese were unable to keep it together and giggled like school children midway through.

Other highlights: The Roots performing "I'm a Lumberjack" and backing Eric Idle on a live performance "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life". And the first 5 minutes of the "interview" is about the zaniest 5 minutes you'll see in any interview ever. They even started the show with the old man climbing out of the sea routine ("It's...").

Wheel Of Carpet Samples 1 + 2:

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"Interview": Parts 1-4. Note: The members were introduced and came out one at a time. John Cleese, being introduced first, quickly hid one of the chairs before the others came out. The last one out, Terry Gilliam found that he didn't have a chair. That's the situation we find ourselves at the beginning of the clip..... Let's watch..... 

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"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" 

The Tom Hanks Button

The Late Show - Following his monologue, David Letterman went to his desk only to discover a strange device that he doesn't remember seeing before. Lying there is a black box with a red button and no label or information of any kind. Out of curiosity, Dave presses it a few times. Momentarily, Tom Hanks bolts on stage and sits down at the desk, out of breath and ready to chat. Dave apologizes and explains that he already has a booked guest, he only pressed the button out of curiosity. Annoyed, Tom Hanks walks away to thunderous applause.

Having been away for a while, Letterman giggles to himself and explains that now he really wants to press the button. He does and an out of breath Tom Hanks runs on stage and sits down. A false alarm again.

When this happens a third time towards the end of the show, Tom Hanks is fed up. He scolds Dave, violently rips the Tom Hanks button off the desk, throws it into the audience and storms off. This move backfires later when an audience member presses the button and Tom Hanks has to run back in.

That's Ajay Bhatt, He's So Hot Right Now

In a classic interview, Conan talks to the real co-inventor of USB, Ajay Bhatt. Topics include emerging technologies such as the bleeding edge Jub Jub Port.

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