Tuesday, May 26, 2015

BOOYAH

Found this today at Whole Foods.



SWEET SASSY MO-LASSIE! GET OUT THE CHECKBOOK AND PAY GRANDMA FOR THE RUBDOWN.

STU-POT!

Friday, May 22, 2015

Continue? - Batman

After the show begins on a religious note (?!), the guys at Continue move on to more mundane topics like mechanical forks, the Axis Chemicals on I-95 and being cool in the 90's.

They also play Batman.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Conan - Staff Reviews

Conan conducts the annual staff performance reviews.


I don't understand how anyone can question Jordan Schlansky's work. The guy has various tasks and duties!

The Last Late Show: The Video

There's no way to embed it but you can see the last episode of the Late Show in full here.

I'm posting a couple highlight clips but I can't recommend enough watching the full episode. The whole episode is highlights and besides that, it's kind of historic television.


Given that this is the remote chosen for the last show, I guess this is the one they think is the best remote of all-time. That seems strange to me but I can't think of a better one off-hand... "Dave works at Taco Bell"


This is just amazing.  I can't imagine the amount of work that went into it.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

The Last Late Show: First Take

The last Late Show with David Letterman just aired and I thought it was fantastic. It's hard to imagine a more perfect hour of television. It was amazing how it could be so funny and yet how it could be such an emotional an experience.

From the time I was made aware that David Letterman existed I wanted to watch every piece of television of his that I could get my hands on. I have so many great memories wrapped up in the show - not just watching (alone, mostly in my bedroom), but sharing it with friends and talking about the jokes. It's impossible to see the old clips of the show without remembering where I was in my life when it first aired and what I was doing. For these reasons, I couldn't help but be swept up in a wave of nostalgia and the bittersweet look at an era that is officially gone. As of tonight, it's gone.

Dave is nothing if not unpredictable and so one of the things I've loved to do through the years is "play the Dave" and try to predict things. One of the things I would have predicted about the end of the last show - that I would have predicted wrongly - is that he would end the show sitting on a stool. Jack Paar signed off for the last time while sitting on a stool, Johnny Carson signed off his last show while sitting on a stool, I thought Dave would make that nod to tradition but it didn't happen.

But there was one thing like that, I think. If you read the reviews of the show tomorrow (and, really, why would you?) it's altogether possible that they will cite the "A Day in the Life of Dave" segment as the only weakness and an "uncharacteristic" one at that. But in his final days Johnny Carson did a segment like that and so Dave's doing it too.

Conan - Letterman Goodbye

As anticipated, Conan's on-air goodbye and "thank you" to David Letterman. Very emotional.