Posts with tag HillaryClinton
Posted Sep 15th 2008 8:24AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Saturday Night Live, Ratings, Reality-Free
Getting Tina Fey back to appear as Sarah Palin wasn't the only big thing to happen to Lorne Michael's little show this week.
The season premiere of Saturday Night Live netted the largest audience for a premiere since 2001. It was a 64% increase over last year's premiere. It was also its largest total audience since Al Gore and Phish were the host and musical guest in December 2002.
It's just too bad that beyond the opening sketch the
premiere itself wasn't any good. I won't go into the details of what specifically was and wasn't bad because Annie covered that pretty well. The problem is that when you take away the curiosity factor of Michael Phelps and the incredible buzz of Tina Fey's return, what are you left with?
Continue reading SNL has best premiere since 2001 ... in ratings at least
Posted Aug 28th 2008 2:20PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: News, Video, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
Watching the coverage of the Democratic convention has caused my old carpel tunnel syndrome to act up. I've been doing so much channel surfing; going from channel to channel to find just the right coverage has been a chore.
Good luck finding a balance between astute punditry, quality reporting, over-hyped production and clear coverage of the activities on the floor and stage by the political party. It's not easy. Here's some things, good and bad, that I've noticed in these first three days:
1) The Obama family are the Huxtables After Michelle Obama's speech on Monday night, her two daughters -- Sasha and Malia -- rushed onto the stage and Barack appeared via video hook up to speak with them and Michelle, congratulating her for the speech. It was a perfect TV moment. As good as her speech was, the image of the family was even better. In a voice that reminded me of Rudi Huxtable, Sasha talked to her father and chirped, "I love you, Daddy." The Obama's became
The Cosby Show. If that doesn't connect to the TV audience, nothing will. (Check out the video below.)
Continue reading Thoughts on coverage of the Democratic convention - VIDEO
Posted Aug 4th 2008 6:23PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: News, Interviews, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
When I spoke to Keith Olbermann at the press tour a few weeks back, I mainly wanted to get his thoughts about the
comments that Fox News' Chris Wallace made earlier in the tour. Essentially, Wallace said that MSNBC isn't objective in its election coverage because they have commentators like Olbermann -- who are perceived to be "in the tank" for Barack Obama -- serve as anchors.
Olbermann's remarks in response were pointed, to say the least.
But while I had Keith poised in front of my voice recorder, I wanted to ask him some questions about the origin of his Special Comments, how he thinks people determine their perception of each of the news networks, and what it will be like to sit down and do highlights with his old
SportsCenter partner Dan Patrick on NBC's
Football Night in America. The remainder of the interview is after the jump; we pick up with Olbermann talking about Wallace's "In the tank" line.
Continue reading More from Keith Olbermann: Special comments, and reuniting with Dan Patrick
Posted Jun 4th 2008 10:39AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
Spoiler alert:
Barack Obama has scored the Democratic nomination. Of course, with
The Daily Show taping around 6:00 in the evening, none of this was addressed in this night's episode. Just, you know, keep that in mind for maximum awkwardness while watching the proceedings.
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Anarchy Under The UK": After London's mayor banned alcohol, rowdy drunkards without cars took to the Tube and got wasted. Yeah, way to show the man that you guys are responsible enough to handle alcohol. Senior Mass Transit Analyst John Oliver drunkenly explained the beauty of subterranean drinking and then promptly urinated on the spot. Well done, good sir.
Continue reading The Daily Show: June 3, 2008 - VIDEOS
Posted May 2nd 2008 12:23PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: News, OpEd, Video
There's another Bill in Hillary Clinton's life now. Talk show pundit Bill O'Reilly, who interviewed Clinton on his Fox News show,
The O'Reilly Factor this week. The interview covered a lot of territory, including the economy, high gas prices, illegal immigrants, the war on terror, and foreign policy.
All the presidential candidates have their strengths and weaknesses, but Clinton made a smart move towards unifying her platform by agreeing to the O'Reilly interview. Although they're on opposite ends of the spectrum politically, O'Reilly and Clinton showed that two diverse personalities can sit down together and have an intelligent debate about the issues without resorting to a screaming match.
Continue reading Hillary Clinton and Bill O'Reilly: chemistry? - VIDEO
Posted Apr 18th 2008 10:05AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
What in the hell happened last night on
The Colbert Report? Or perhaps I'm really wondering why I attended
Monday's taping of TCR in Philadelphia and not the final and certainly most epic one.
In true Colbert fashion,
TCR ended its four-night run in the City of Brotherly Love with a big ol' Democratic bang. Thanks to Chris Matthews' big mouth, the nation expected Hillary Clinton's "surprise" appearance, but little did we know both Barack Obama and John Edwards would be appearing as well... On the same night! Despite the fact that this was all a blatantly desperate attempt to get a little Colbert Bump action (Edwards knows it's too late, right? I mean, what with him dropping out of the race and all), there really is no better way to seem hip to that all-important youth vote.
Continue reading Colbert, Clinton, Obama and Edwards take on Philadelphia - VIDEOS
Posted Apr 17th 2008 1:26PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Video, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
Back on the night that Stephen Colbert announced that he'd be hitting Philadelphia, taking the show on the road for the first time, I had decided to go to bed early and just catch the rerun in the morning. My friend called me just as I began to doze off and immediately told me that she had gotten tickets for us to see Colbert in Philadelphia. I had no idea what the hell she was talking about, so when I hung up, I just shrugged it off as a late-night half-dream. The next morning, I watched the episode and it finally made sense: We were about to go on another
Colbert Report adventure.
Continue reading The Colbert Report in Philadelphia: Annie's adventure - VIDEOS
Posted Apr 15th 2008 1:36PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Celebrities, Talk Show
There's Must See TV this Thursday night and it's called
The Colbert Report. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be Stephen Colbert's guest that night. At least, that's the word according to MSNBC's Chris Matthews. He sort-of blurted out the news last night before Colbert's or Clinton's people had a chance to make the formal announcement.
Variety contacted a source with Colbert's show and confirmed the news.
Of course she's appearing on the show as part of her push for votes in next week's Pennsylvania primary, but damn. That's gonna be good. Hillary Clinton is considered the devil by many conservatives such as Limbaugh and O'Reilly, and will probably be treated as such by Colbert. But she's a sharp woman and will probably take him down pretty swiftly. If she does well, it could give her a bump just like hear appearance on
SNL did.
Colbert is in Pennsylvania for the primary. So far, Clinton's opponent, Barack Obama, has denied Colbert's request to appear on the show. Instead, Obama's wife Michelle will be a guest tonight.
Posted Mar 5th 2008 8:33AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews
Jon started off by talking about Monday night's interview with Hillary Clinton. The satellite delay was an obvious problem, and Jon pointed out one of the more awkward moments of the night, that little "No, go ahead" part.
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Mortal Kombat '08": Senior Political Correspondent Rob Riggle, wearing his best sleeveless suit, took the "do-or-die" aspect of the Tuesday showdown a little too seriously. The "Cam-Pain Trail" commercial must have been so much fun to make. Only on Daily Show would someone need to make a graphic of sh*t in people's necks.
Continue reading The Daily Show: March 4, 2008 - VIDEOS
Posted Mar 3rd 2008 10:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Late Night, Saturday Night Live, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
It wasn't April 1st so it couldn't be April Fool's Day. It was March 1st. Still, there she was, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton saying those famous words, "Live from New York, It's
Saturday Night Live."
In an unannounced and potentially savvy political move,
Senator Hillary Clinton, appeared on the NBC late night comedy and showed that she can laugh at herself. This surprise appearance, coupled with her agreeing to be on Monday's
Daily Show with Jon Stewart, can only help her in Tuesday's primaries in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont. It's pretty much desperation time for the Clinton candidacy and if Hillary wants to make it to the Denver convention with a chance to beat Barack Obama, she must win Texas and Ohio -- the big states -- decisively.
Continue reading It's Hillary, Live from New York, on SNL
Posted Feb 21st 2008 11:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Lost
Lost is perhaps the ultimate in TV fiction. The storytelling is the stuff of vivid imaginations and it's gotten millions watching and wondering and tuning in for more. Of course, in the midst of all that fantasy, some things we've taken as fact, like most of the technology. For instance, I don't know about you, but I believed those
satellite phones they've been using since Naomi parachuted onto the island last season were the real thing. Well, guess what, it's no more of a reality than Mr. Spock's tricorder on
Star Trek!
Continue reading Big shock - Lost uses fictional phones
Posted Feb 20th 2008 11:41AM by Jay Black
Filed under: OpEd, TV 101
Like a lot of writers, I have an idea folder (it's manila, but I have it covered in puffy rainbow and unicorn stickers, so it's
beautiful). As each week progresses, I jot down all my ideas -- for columns, for stand-up bits, for ransom notes -- and at the end of that week, I take stock of my creative output.
This week, I noticed that there were a lot of ideas that I wanted to share, but that weren't quite big enough for a full
TV 101 column. I attached them to the end of my last column in a section called "Dribs and Drabs." It was a good thought, except that it took an already bloated piece (my writing makes the Unabomber's manifesto look like a dream of concise thought) and puffed it up into a 3000 word monstrosity. My editor suggested I break up the Dribs and Drabs section into its own piece, and that, dear readers, is what I did. Dribs and Drabs, after the jump...
Continue reading TV 101: Dribs and Drabs (or, stuff that wouldn't fit in my last column)
Posted Feb 12th 2008 8:17PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: News, Daytime, Music and Variety, Celebrities, Talk Show, Dancing With The Stars
As the race between Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barak Obama heats up for the Democratic party presidential candidacy, here comes news that should throw the spotlight onto Hillary...if she's savvy enough to say yes. During a recent visit to
The Tyra Banks Show, Hillary revealed that "if (paired) with one of those really good partners" she would someday like to compete on
Dancing with the Stars. When the powers that be at
Dancing heard that, they wasted no time in sending the former first lady a formal invitation. While they acknowledge that the show is not currently in production, dancers from the show are performing around the country in
Dancing with the Stars - The Tour. They invited Hillary to choose any one of the dancers and take a try at a cha cha, pasa doble or tango. Or, if she prefer, she could always call on hubby Bill for a pas de deux.
Continue reading Shall she dance? Hillary invited to Dancing with the Stars
Posted Jan 22nd 2008 8:41AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews
Jon kicked off the episode by running a few rounds of paper football. Not that I'm a big paper sports enthusiast, but I couldn't help but notice that he wasn't holding the football quite right. Jon, your story just doesn't add up. He then flubbed a gag with a toy robot, which was pretty precious, even though it didn't make much sense. What can I say? I like satirists and robots.
"Indecision 2008": The Democrats took on Nevada and the media took on the world's most cliche Las Vegas metaphors to cover Hillary Clinton's win. However, Jon had them all beat with his "bet on black" comment. Of course, Hillary's win was met with criticism and Bill Clinton defended her like he's already the First Laddie. And then that drew even
more criticism. So it goes.
Continue reading A Daily Show: January 21, 2008
Posted Jan 17th 2008 9:00AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews
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Indecision 2008:" Mitt Romney passed John McCain and Mike Huckabee for the win in Michigan, that one place that looks like a mitten. Also, "Mitt Romney" in German is "With Romney." Fun Fact courtesy of Mr. Stewart.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards and not Dennis Kucinich sat around a table and had a
fun discussion. Same hand-holding may have been involved. The media has also been having fun, throwing around the phrase "
the gloves are off" in reference to Clinton and Obama's fight for the top. Also, here's some other super-fun news: Wow, race is still a
relevant issue? People are spreading
false rumors on the Internet? How strange.
Continue reading A Daily Show: January 16, 2008
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