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What You Missed Last Night: CNN will have to leave it there
I've never noticed how often the hosts at CNN - almost all of them - say the phrase "we'll have to leave it there" when they run out of time when interviewing a guest. But The Daily Show noticed it, and last night they were all over CNN about it.
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Subtle Subtitles: Joan Rivers
If you haven't seen our game before, we give you a picture from a recent episode of a TV series and you provide the caption! Last week's winner is Scott with this:
"All of them, Anderson.
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Subtle Subtitles: Live with Regis & Kelly
If you haven't seen our game before, we give you a picture from a recent episode of a TV series and you provide the caption! Last week's winner is Man with this:"Yes, I'm staring at the spinach stuck in your teeth. That is effing amazing since all you made today was brownies."
This week's picture is from Live with Regis & Kelly. Anderson Cooper guest hosted and caused some controversy with his questions for Bachelorette Jillian.
Anderson Cooper gets real with The Bachelorette
Bob Sassone already did a post on how the amazing Anderson Cooper caused a little bit of an accident on the set of Live with Regis and Kelly yesterday morning when he subbed for the Reege. As funny as that -- and really, the entire "host chat" segment was -- it was not my favorite thing that happened on the show yesterday.
That honor goes to Cooper's interview with The Bachelorette's Jillian Harris. Harris was on the show with her "fiance," doing the post-finale press tour and shilling for the jeweler who provided the diamond ring that Ed bestowed upon her on Monday's season-ender.
While Kelly stuck to the script and asked the common, "when did you know he was the one?" questions, Anderson wasn't having any of it. He's Anderson freakin' Cooper, and as he demonstrated with his swift takedown of the Lohan clan, he doesn't have time for the shenanigans of D-list reality stars (except Kathy Griffin). So Cooper, always trying to get to the bottom of the story, flat-out asked Jillian how many dudes she boned in the Bachelorette mansion.
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There's way too much stuff on Regis & Kelly's desk
When a guest host subs for the regular host on a talk show, it's often a real letdown. But that's not the case when Anderson Cooper sits in for Regis on Live with Regis & Kelly. You can be guaranteed at least one very funny moment. Like yesterday, when he made Kelly laugh so hard something terrible happened. (He's co-host today, too.)
News/documentary Emmy nominations announced
This isn't just the week for prime time Emmy nominations, we also have the nominations for news.Here's the list of news and documentary Emmy nominations. There are many categories, including several for the cable news channels, but a few of the big nominations include Charlie Gibson's interview with Sarah Palin for Outstanding Interview (really?), NBC Nightly News coverage of Tim Russert's death for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story, 60 Minutes taking three of the four nominations in the Outstanding Feature Story in a News Magazine category (Primetime took the other), and three nominations for The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.
[via TV Newser]
A quick note to CNN's Larry King
Dear Larry,FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP WITH THE SHOWS ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON?!
Honestly, what else can you possibly say? You've already interviewed every Jackson lawyer (past and present), interviewed his dermatologist, talked to his friends, talked to Jermaine Jackson, given a live tour of Neverland Ranch (complete with ghosts), had Marlon Brando's son on almost every night, interviewed Jackson's former nurse, and you actually went to the memorial service itself and reported from there. What else can you possibly do? Are you going to have an exclusive interview with Michael Jackson's nose? Talk to his mailman?
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Anderson Cooper gets surprised on his birthday
All that white hair and he's two years younger than I am.
Anderson Cooper's birthday was June 3 (mine's June 9 - I like money and DVDs!), and he was surprised on the set the other night by two special guests: Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly. Just kidding! Actually, it's a woman who hasn't made the A-list of celebs yet and a woman who is sure you can't afford anything.
Cooper always seems embarrassed by these things.
Anderson Cooper's birthday was June 3 (mine's June 9 - I like money and DVDs!), and he was surprised on the set the other night by two special guests: Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly. Just kidding! Actually, it's a woman who hasn't made the A-list of celebs yet and a woman who is sure you can't afford anything.
Cooper always seems embarrassed by these things.
[via TV Newser]
What You Missed Last Night: The Daily Show dumps on CNN
Of all the networks, CNN probably had the stupidest election coverage trickery (unless you count all of the stupid things people said on MSNBC). For example, will.i.am being interviewed via hologram (that wasn't even really a hologram) instead of just appearing via satellite or in the studio, and that goofy hologram graphic that Anderson Cooper had to hold. The Daily Show took that on in their "Moment of Zen" last night, while talking about CNN's Peabody Award win. (Video also here or here.)
What You Missed Last Night: Anderson Cooper fast forwards through Paula Abdul
Anderson Cooper is not only an intrepid reporter, traveling to the ends of the earth to report on war, environmental issues, and famine, he also likes to watch American Idol. He knows Simon Cowell and likes him, and he doesn't know Paula Abdul and he...well, he fast forwards through her inane judging comments whenever he watches the show. Cooper is a funny guy. I always have thought he should get his own morning or late night show, but then again maybe his humor is more effective because he has another life as a news guy, like Brian Williams. (If this video doesn't work try here.)
Where in the US is Anderson Cooper?
The silver fox has been popping up all over the continental US this week for his CNN show, AC360. Two nights ago Anderson hung out with some do-gooders in New Orleans, profiling the efforts of volunteer groups rebuilding Katrina homes. Last night, he made an appearance in Warren, Michigan, right out side Detroit to talk to hard hit auto workers. Now, I enjoy it when they take him out of the studio and dump him among the commoners, since that's when his real talent of connecting with people comes through. But, as a viewer who might actually be interested in the news, it's getting hard to hear him over the whoops and hollers of his live audiences. It really hit a sour note last night while he was reporting on the death of Natasha Richardson.
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Stewart, Colbert return from Vacationland with a cornucopia of cable news cameos - VIDEOS
If you're anything like me (first of all, you have my deepest sympathy), you haven't been able to sit still since The Daily Show and The Colbert Report went off the air for the holidays. It also may be because my body has absorbed more sugary fat from the holidays than one of Tyler Durden's homemade soaps. Both shows returned to the airwaves Monday with new episodes. Both also had cable news celebrity cameos so big, no lightning fast news ticker announcing an accidental nuclear missile launch could draw your attention away from them.
The Daily Show returned with another appearance by CNN's gray-haired uber-anchor Anderson Cooper and an interesting interview with new Meet the Press moderator David Gregory. The Colbert Report picked up former Hannity and Colmes pushover Alan Colmes and wound things up with an interview with CNN reporter John King.
Breaking News: OMG, those weren't holograms on CNN! - VIDEO
I think one of the weirdest things that happened on election night were the hologram thingies that CNN used. It was OK when they showed an image of a building, but it got really strange when Anderson Cooper interviewed will.i.am (almost as weird as me having to write someone's name as will.i.am). Cooper was standing there in the studio, looking off to the side, waiting for am (is that his last name? Or is he one name, like Twiggy?) to pop up in front of him like on Star Trek. The whole thing looked kinda cool but also kinda cheesy, and it was funny when Cooper introduced the interview by saying "we're joined now via hologram..."Now comes the scandal: they weren't even holograms!
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Election Night: CNN (Part 2)
The continuing adventures of Anderson Cooper, Mr. Magoo and the magic board.10:20: They've moved out to the lawn in Phoenix. The atmosphere there is quite a bit more, uh, subdued than in Chicago.
10:19: Yikes. Dana Bash looks more and more depressed each time they show her. She's reporting that McCain's camp has given up.
10:08: Wolf Blitzer: "Arkansas. Put that in John McCain's column right now." Is it wrong that that made me snicker? It doesn't even make sense!
9:59: Iowa was just called for Obama, and Anderson Cooper just asked what they're going to do when he gets to 270 electoral votes. "We leave!" was the reply. We'll see if that actually happens. Could we have an empty eleciton center soon? Check back for more coverage!
9:55: Roland Martin compared the Obama supporters in Grant Park to Lollapalooza. Meanwhile, back at the Biltmore, an unidentified old man is wandering around aimlessly on stage.
Continue reading Election Night: CNN (Part 2)
Election Night: CNN (Part 1)
Election night! Election night! Let's check out the folks at CNN. Is Wolf Blitzer going to lose his mind? Is Anderson Cooper going to be pretty? Is John King going to lovingly stroke the magic board? Let's find out.9:00: That's what we've got for now. I'll be back shortly with more updates-- and maybe we'll have a new president. Not that CNN will project that.
8:59: Soledad O'Brien is looking at demographic information with Mr. Magoo. Poor Mr. Magoo can't work the touch screen because he's not tall enough. Hilariously, this comes at the point in which they're talking about how age is a factor in the way people vote.
8:57: Drink. They're not even making a projection in Arizona.
852: Can someone tell me what is up with these clean coal commercials? This is the 7,000th one I've seen today.
8:48: James Carville looks more and more like a reanimated corpse every day.
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