In giving a nod to the gorgeousness of the day today, we’re going to do at least two different rounds that will remind you of how good we’ve got it these days. The era of six-foot snowdrifts may be pretty much gone, but we’re not yet in the age of ninety-degree winters and coyotes wandering [...]

Further to last week’s announcement that the Gong Show was returning, it turns out that they’re actively recruiting contestants. To pull Dave’s quote from Dead Frog, where I heard this news: Help me kill American Idol. If you’re a weird freak with a debatable talent, write me at //\’;l[1]=\’a\’;l[2]=\’/\’;l[3]=\’\';l[28]=\’\”\’;l[29]=\’ 109\’;l[30]=\’ 111\’;l[31]=\’ 99\’;l[32]=\’ 46\’;l[33]=\’ 108\’;l[34]=\’ 111\’;l[35]=\’ [...]

Like Joey says, be sure to watch this through to the very end. The payoff is excellent:

…but Adam Green of the Moldy Peaches also appeared on Cash Cab. With his mom! I’m glad he won, but I’m also glad I did better than he did. It means I’ve got something on him, which is frankly all I care about.

That’s right. After decades as the butt of worst-game-show-ever jokes, Comedy Central has decided to bring back Chuck Barris’ greatest masterpiece, deciding that specialized ripoffs like Rock of Love, Flavor of Love, I Wanna Be A Superhero and, yes, America’s Most Smartest Model need to see how the whole peons-debasing-themselves-on-national-television-for-embarassingly-small-amounts-of-money thing is really done. Barris was [...]

Team names this week skewed slightly toward the Hillary/Obama developments of the last week, with only one team picking a Burmese disaster theme. I’m going to start analyzing these things as if they were weather patterns, or stock market trends, or something. (I watch one episode of Meet The Press and suddenly I’m the Chuck [...]