Karl's Only Goal

Although I shan't make a habit of deriving blog posts from old emails sent to me, this one seems to make sense.

"The Ricky Gervais Show" on HBO is halfway through its first season and has been successful enough to earn a second season.

But before there was a show on HBO, there was a podcast. And before there was a podcast there was a radio show on XFM, a London radio station.

After recommending the shows to my friend Justin, I shortly thereafter found two new emails in my inbox. Showing trademark enthusiasm, both emails were from Justin, both were about the same subject and both were sent within a span of 8 minutes. Having just started the "fifth" episode, he sent a link to the audio used in the video below. He said, "You gotta listen to it again, I think it's my favorite clip."

Late Night Charades

If I was a writer for a Late Night talk show and someone proposed to me that they were going to have a "Charades" segment, I'd smile politely and wait for the police to arrive and drag that person to a sanitarium using one of those giant nets. It sounds crazy but somehow it works as a fun mixture of comedy and game show.

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Part 2:

CLASH OF THE TITANS.

Olivia Munn: Apathetic Dancing

We're going to keep this on a professional level. We're all adults here - there's no reason to devolve into "laddish", bawdy language or any types of ribald innuendo. One can express admiration without blue language or prurient, coarse suggestions or even any type of libidinous sentiment. We don't need to resort to salaciousness. There's just no call for it....

Olivia Munn is nice.

With that out of the way, she recently appeared on Jimmy Fallon to promote her new book, the tv show "Attack of the Show", the movie "Date Night" and "Iron Man 2". In addition to another funny interview she also unveils a new style of dancing which I'm calling "Apathetic Dancing". I like it. I hope it catches on.

See the interview here (embedding disabled, waah waaah). Be warned: this is not an Alan Thicke-Free discussion.

The C.O.B. on TBS?! Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday?!

It's official: Conan is not going to Fox, like most expected, and instead going to cable station TBS. WHAT?!

Read the article here.

I'm not a fan of any network nor do I really hate any (oh, MTV is an exception) so I don't care as far as that goes but this is particularly tragic to me in that he's going to cable and I don't have cable. My only hope would be that the episodes would be available online (like the previous hulu deal) but I can't see that possibility as very likely as they want people to have to subscribe to cable to watch the cable content.

The other weird thing is that it's going to only be 4 shows a week. Huh?! That doesn't really make any sense.

Conan? 4 shows a week on a cable channel? I don't like it. Do it over.

Japanese Train

The brochure for this train reads (in Japanese): "Your day is stressful but your commute shouldn't be. This spacious, luxurious train includes full-size leather seats and adjustable foot rests. It's an oasis of comfort in the middle of your day. If half the magic work you do, step away with loud report."

Avatar II Trailer

I wasn't a huge fan of "Avatar" - I found it to be a good movie but not quite as amazing or revolutionary as a lot of other people found it to be.

But judging by the early teaser trailer, "Avatar II" is looking like something to get excited about.