Whoops we missed it! Senator John McCain was on Leno last night for his first post-election appearance. And hey, he's pretty funny! Now that the election is over and Sarah Palin is somewhere bubbling up toil and trouble, we can honestly say we find John McCain way more tolerable. No one ever said the man didn't have a sense of humor about himself.
Some clips of McCain comparing himself to a baby (and not just because he wears Depends, zing!) after the jump.
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Not only are late-night comedians harder on John McCain than Barack Obama, but so are daytime talk show hosts.
But daytime and late-night shows have been an underrated factor in this campaign, and an undeniable advantage for Obama. Ellen DeGeneres, David Letterman and panelists on "The View" all confronted McCain, while Obama has basically joked and danced his way through such appearances, including a "Daily Show" stint last week in which Jon Stewart asked him about "the whole socialism/Marxist thing." If anyone doubts there is a liberal entertainment establishment, it has been vividly on display.
Maybe the truth of the matter is that Barack Obama would just be a better president, and it doesn't matter which softball show the candidates are on, John McCain just won't come off nearly as likable as his opponent.
Or maybe that Ellen character has something to hide from a McCain administration. Hmm…we haven't seen her with a boyfriend for awhile…
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After a brief tryout, Wendy Williams' daytime talk show on Fox is getting picked up for a full season to debut in the middle of next year. It's one small step for sass, one giant leap for our theory that blacks and gays own daytime TV.
Could Ellen DeGeneres gentle, self-deprecating air be nothing more than an elaborate act? Possibly, says today's Page Six. Their evidence? Not only has DeGeneres refused to go on record in support of the WGA strike, but one time, in the late 90's, she was kinda/sorta mean to some of the writers on her crappy sitcom Ellen. Says one still-bitter anonymous source:
We'd watch her in rehearsals, smiling and winning us over with her charm and comic timing. Then the director would yell cut, her face would fall, and she'd level a glare at the writers. 'Why do you keep writing these unfunny jokes?' she'd hiss.
In DeGeneres' defense, the show really wasn't showing off her A-game, but still. Where was the compassion? Where was the empathy? Is this truly the very same woman who wept openly on her show because the authorities repossessed her hairdresser's dog, or whatever?
"I'm so happy that you have this because it makes it cute. And sweet. And not scary. It's like a stuffed animal. You know, nice and friendly."
Yep, as most of you have, undoubtedly, already guessed, that's Tyra Banks thanking "Dr. Debbie" for bringing her custom-made "vulva puppet" along to the extra special all-vagina episode of The Tyra Banks Show.
Because if you haven't watched a member of the live studio audience squirm uncomfortably as a licensed medical professional (brandishing a giant, satin vajayjay) lectures her on how to properly "care down there" then brother, you haven't lived.
How easy is it to go from being a forgettable Christian radio host and Top 40 DJ to signing a five-year deal worth $50 million to continue hosting your own conservative cable talk show? Apparently, very!
And so, in the interest of jogging your memories and ours, we've decided to peruse the archives of Cable Quotables and take a look back at some of the valuable contributions that millionaire pundit Glenn Beck has made to the cultural stratosphere. Read on, then ask yourselves one very important question:
Seriously?
And speaking of ratings boosts, Ellen DeGeneres has enjoyed a nice spike in her daily viewership as well ever since her on-air breakdown last week (supposedly over her abandoned mutt, Iggy, but probs actually about her maybe-breakup with Portia de Rossi). Way to break out the waterworks, Ellen! Thanks to the televised cryfest, her preliminary numbers reflected a remarkable 10% increase overnight.
Based on those projections, we can hairdly wait to see what heart-wrenching outpouring of emotional distress she (and her producers) come up with in time for Sweeps Week. [P6]
Rebecca Romijn Stamos O'Connell apparently isn't so much into the unrehearsed ad-lib. The supermodel turned X-Men lust object is back on the talk show circuit, ostensibly promoting some boring new project her marital bliss.
And never one to under-prepare, O'Connell came equipped with the perfect wedding anecdote, complete with zany (and totally spontaneous!) hand gestures! Personally, we think she told it beautifully. Both last night on Letterman and this morning on Regis & Kelly. Although we personal thought the cutesy-slash-impromptu hand gesticulations looked a bit sharper the second time around.
Apparently not every girl wants to grow up to be just like Paris Hilton. During a recent appearance on The Tyra Banks' Show, presidential hopeful Barack Obama revealed that his own daughter is taking a prepubescent stand against the heiress.
"This isn't a Hilton hotel, is it?" he said his 9-year-old daughter, Malia, will ask as the family tours the country – because the little one keeps up with the news and does not approve of Paris Hilton, he says.
Because, as Obama says, "parents have to realize, kids want limits, they want structure…If we had more parenting, then the kinds of influences we see on television don't matter."
For now, however, the kinds of influences we see on television do matter, so Malia (and, of course, American voters) should respectfully disregard the fact that all of this was said during an appearance on The Tyra Banks' Show. [People]
For some odd reason, NBC has decided to give Bonnie Hunt an hour a day to corrupt the dwindling talk show viewing audience.
Being Jumanji fans, we believe she has what it takes to last at least a few episodes, but what do the experts think?
To find out, we dispatched Intern Whitney to consult body language expert Dr. Lillian Glass (author of "I Know What You Are Thinking") in order to learn about the intangibles and discover what exactly it is about hosting an afternoon gabfest that separates the richest woman in Forbes magazine from the still-unemployed Will & Grace castoffs
Thanks to a helpful tip from the Inside Edition marketing team, we were privy to this excerpt from an incoming sit-down with everyone's favorite red-glasses wearing former talk show host.
"One of my finest moments was always that I was able to fool the paparazzi and get to my daughter's funeral in disguise without them knowing it was me," legendary talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael tells Inside Edition regarding her daughter Allison's death in 1992.
Neat! Meanwhile, a veritable lowlight for Sally occurred approximately fifteen years later, when she accidentally referred to her daughter's funeral as "one of [her] finest moments."
