Owen
Kali
LeightonFiled under: TV | Tags: 11:30, colbert report, conan o'brien, daily show, jay leno, late night, nbc, tonight show
Dear Conan,
Last night was Jay Leno’s return to the Tonight Show. I didn’t watch it. Not out of solidarity to you, or a vindictive grudge. I just didn’t care much. I saw a bit of his monologue on Hulu this morning, and he didn’t mention you. He was charming and comfortable and it was like he had never been off the air. The transition was so smooth that in a few years it’ll probably seem like you never hosted the Tonight Show. And I wanna apologize for that, because it’s partially my fault.
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So with the passing of the Grammys, the Oscars are left as the only major award show left for 2009. Which means it’s high time for our own Year-End Awards. I know you’re thinkin’ it’s late, but really we’ve had more time for 2009 to sink in. Without further ado, here are our picks for the best and worst of 2009.
Entertainer of the Year: Stephen Colbert
This was a tough category, but really there aren’t many professions in the entertainment industry where you even have the opportunity to deliver all year long. In that respect a late night talk show gives you a bit of an advantage, but even then Colbert beat out tons of competition. Put simply this was a year fro politics. It was the first year of the first term of the first black president and the country was in a pretty shitty state. Thankfully we had Colbert’s unique brand of satirical punditry to guide us through. Without it, all of the ridiculous political posturing would have been infuriating instead of hilariously frustrating. Highlight of the year: Colbert’s gets his head shaved.
Film of the Year: District 9
My favorite kind of film. Intelligent, entertaining, unconventional, probing and badass. This is the kind of film I hope to make on day. You come for the action/coolness, stay for the social implications, and leave with questions. And it’s real as hell.
TV Show of the Year: The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien
There were better shows this year. There were certainly shows I watched more often. But in the wake of everything that’s happened at NBC over the past few weeks, it seems only right to hand this honor over to this now defunct incarnation of the Tonight Show. It was very good, and it could have been great with a little more time. That said the seven months we got were still entertaining as hell.
Album of the Year: “Only Built For Cuban Linx Part 2″ by Raekwon
If anyone was still wondering if Wu Tang was forever, here’s your answer. Raekwon delivers the best Wu album in basically a decade, and an instant classic. What’s so extraordinary about the second Purple Tape is that it’s this good without a signature cut. New Wu is the head nodder but really the whole album unravels like one intricate tapestry, songs interwoven together. It’s truly a singular piece of art.
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Filed under: Food, TV, Web | Tags: America, Bell, Commercials, Diet, Drive Thru Diet, Exercise, Fat People, Fine Print, Food, Nutrition, Obesity, Taco, Taco Bell, Taco Bell Diet
With the amount of sports that I watch, I’ve seen this commercial an exorbitant amount of times. At first I thought it was a joke but I’m still waiting for the punchline. Until then, I would be remiss to not rant about the disgust that I feel when I see this aired. Not just with Taco Bell, Christine Dougherty and whoever else decides to participate in this idiocy. It makes me feel dirty that I live in a country where something like this is promoted.
