Best Friends No More

Jimmy and Stephen Colbert agreed to be Best Friends for Six Months but just recently the six month friend lease expired. In this segment, Jimmy and Stephen contemplate where to go from here...

I was trying to remember where "Somewhere Out There" first appeared. I remembered it was a Disney-like film from way back but which one? It's from "An American Tail". That's way back there.

According to wikipedia, it was co-written by James Horner. There's kind of an odd bit o' trivia. Also according to wikipedia, this clip is part of a "multi-episode arc". Let's hope they find a hatch.

Ricky Crashes the Monologue

Yesterday's monologue on Late Night saw a cameo by an unexpected star:

The Third Guest

For two weeks Conan has scheduled 4 guests every night and made absolutely no effort to try and fit them all in. Every night, after the musical guest, Conan's saying, "My apolologies to (third guest) - we ran out of time." Meanwhile, I'm wondering what they were thinking.

I wasn't paying much attention to the opening credits but the situation becomes much clearer when you do. Here's the run down of the third guests for the last two weeks:

8/18 - Ghost Doctor Steve Zampanides

8/17 - Sandwich King of Cincinnati Steve Zampanides

8/16 - Shark Whisperer Steve Zampanides

8/15 - Gargling Expert Steve Zampanides

8/11 - Animal Impressionist Steve Zampanides

8/10 - Billionaire Matchmaker Steve Zampanides

8/09 - Font Expert Steve Zampanides

8/08 - Hot-Sauce Expert Steve Zampanides

Slow Jam The News: Debt Ceiling Edition

It's a serious issue, it's only getting worse, and it deserves to be slow jammed.

Lost: Deleted Scene

Recently at some "Comic Book-style Convention" the creators of Lost revealed a "Deleted" scene. Frankly, I think a deleted scene from "Lost" should be a "Lost 'Lost' scene". But this lost "Lost" scene was found.

Anyways I thought it was a pretty good "Lost" find...

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Local Commercials: The Next Generation

Who doesn't love crappy, low-budget local commercials? I know I probably like them more than most. With the rhythm of bad editing, the stilted acting, and the strange "character" spokespeople, bad commercials get deep into your head like a catchy song. Not to mention that one of the other things that bad commercials may also have IS bad songs. You watch it once and it's stupid. You see it again and you start picking up on things. You see it 200 hundred times and it's an addiction. The commercial's in your blood stream and you need your fix. Sometimes I still quote word-for-word the 80s-style commercials that aired during reruns of "Gilligan's Island" when I was a kid. The large majority of which are the "Call the accident lawyers today" and "Join truck driving school" varieties.

It was therefore a great pleasure and a great surprise to see that the art form is not dead and has been taken into the next millennium through the magic of youtube.

Local Commercial Kings, Rhett and Link discuss their company which continues the tradition:

OH, IT LOOKS GOOD!