how to shame the American news media, Daily Show style
I am blown away by the segments in which Jason Jones travels to India to cover their recent election.
Comedy Central
Larry Wilmore taking Colbert’s timeslot with The Minority Report
This is very cool. Late night will still be a sausage fest, but at least it won’t be all white.
Stephen Colbert to replace David Letterman on Late Show: I haz a sad
The terror at change that characterizes what passes for American entertainment has finally overstayed the welcome it never had.
question of the day: What actors would you ban from working in Hollywood, and for what offense?
Of course, we have no power to ban anyone, and we’re not even calling for anyone to actually be banned. We’re just daydreaming about those people we’d like to think could no longer enjoy their fame and fortune.
Will Smith as Robin Hood?; a Wolverine with depth?; ‘Narnia’ upsets Jesus-y types; more: leftover links
Plus: a whole ton of stuff about Wikileaks and Julian Assange…
“God hates nags”: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert bring it…
…in a nice, nonconfrontational way. I confess that I wasn’t sure whether more than a handful of rabid Daily Show/Colbert Report fans would turn up for the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, but the Mall sure looked really packed on TV this afternoon.
question of the day: Was Stephen Colbert’s in-character testimony before Congress last week inappropriate?
Did Colbert’s right-wing gasbag routine have a greater impact than it otherwise would have if Colbert had testified as himself?
question of the day: Who should replace Larry King? Who deserves his or her own high-profile talk show?
Larry King Live is dead. Long live Larry King Live… without Larry King? Larry King has announced that his long-running (25 years) talk show on CNN will end sometime this fall, because the 77-year-old wants to spend time with his kids going to their Little League games. Seriously. Most men of his age are going … more…
Mickey Rourke as Genghis Khan, Ridley Scott returns to ‘Alien,’ deliver us from Breck Eisner, more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
question of the day: Did Comedy Central do the right thing in censoring ‘South Park’?
South Park depicts Muhammad — allegedly — in a bear suit. (Turns out it was actually Santa disguised as a bear.) The organization Revolution Muslim threatens South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, suggesting that they will suffer the same fate as Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, who was murdered in 2004 over his … more…
