Posts with tag LewisBlack
Posted Mar 19th 2008 12:03PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, The Daily Show, Interviews
In the last twelve years,
Lewis Black has gone from being "that angry guy on
The Daily Show" to a comedy icon. Now, he finally has his own show.
In
Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, which airs on Wednesdays at 10:30 PM ET on Comedy Central, two comedians argue why the pop culture item they represent is "the root of all evil." Last week's premiere episode, for instance, pitted Oprah against the Catholic church. Black plays the judge who controls the proceedings and makes the ultimate verdict. Sounds corny, but the first episode, which featured Paul F. Tompkins and Greg Giraldo, was wickedly funny and just a tiny bit subversive, everything you want in a good comedy.
I spoke to Black by phone last week; he was in Atlantic City on his stand-up tour. We discussed everything from the 2008 election to being on a cable news show with Ben Stein to sharing a jail cell with
Jim Norton. The interview is after the jump.
Continue reading Lewis Black: The TV Squad interview
Posted Oct 10th 2007 10:57AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews
Before we start: Isn't this picture of Tiki Barber and
Dr. Ruth the greatest photo? I have no idea what's going on, but i like to imagine that it captured the split second before Barber crushed Dr. Ruth's hand and flipped her over his shoulder, just to show her who's boss.
Pam Anderson has
married Rick Solomon. Why should you care? Pam Anderson once made a crazy sex tape with Tommy Lee and Rick Solomon is the night-vision fellow from the Paris Hilton tape. That can only mean that the craziest sex tape of all time is right around the corner. I heard it's going to be in 3-D and have Smell-O-Vision. Fancy!
Continue reading The Daily Show: October 9, 2007
Posted Sep 27th 2007 3:19AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews
First of all, the Daily Show team must have been madly in love with that "translating gibberish" joke because that set up was way too elaborate, with very little pay-off. I'll just pretend they did it mainly as a segue to the UN Summit story. Yes. That's it.
"Showdown at the UN Corral": At the UN General Assembly, Bush and Iran's Ahmadinejad had a face-to-face showdown without actually coming face-to-face. Bush also seemed to get some, uh,
interesting reactions from representatives from certain countries during his speech.
Continue reading The Daily Show: September 26, 2007
Posted Jun 28th 2007 4:04AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews
"You Don't Know Dick": First of all, I hope I never hear the phrase "Dick nugget" ever again. Secondly,
Dick Cheney's lair is nothing but a pixelated mess in Google Earth. Maybe it's the sleep deprivation, but I laughed a little too hard at the "very low-resolution spider" joke. I want pixelation powers.
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Clusterfuck to the White House": A member of Rudy Giuliani's campaign team had some cocaine problems, so the cocaine problem guy had his "NAACP equals National Association of Retarded People" daddy take his place. Speaking of inhaling stuff, Former EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman says she's
not responsible for allowing people to work among the Ground Zero asbestos. I really wish some of the big news networks would start using old news clips the way
The Daily Show does. It's depressingly effective.
Continue reading The Daily Show: June 27, 2007
Posted Apr 15th 2007 9:02AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, Video, Celebrities
Normally, any post I wrote up in reference to a video found on YouTube would include the video at the end of the post, but since we try to keep our content at least somewhat family safe, you'll have to check it out over at Dead Frog instead. In case I didn't make it clear, the video is definitely not safe for work.
Continue reading Black and Norton do vaudeville
Posted Apr 4th 2007 7:42PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Celebrities
The Root of All Evil, a new pilot for Comedy Central starring Lewis Black and featuring comedians Patton Oswalt, Greg Giraldo, and Paul F. Tompkins (not Paul S. Tompkins, as this Craigslist ad reads) is taping tomorrow night in Los Angeles, so if you're in LA and looking for something to do, buy yourself some tickets, and then kick yourself for paying money for free tickets.
Continue reading Lewis Black's new pilot taping in Los Angeles tomorrow afternoon
Posted Mar 1st 2007 12:42PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
"
Soulless Plane": The Spirit of Strom Thurmond. Black hangar. There it is. Joke complete. Senior Cheney Chaser John Oliver, wearing what looked like Rob Riggle's massive trenchcoat, stopped by to report on the non-human qualities of Cheney. Thing is... the Cheney we've come to know and love is actually a team of extremely intelligent cyborgs. Of course, John Oliver was hysterical.
"Back in Black": Ah, always good to see Lewis Black, especially when there's Harry Potter involved. Topics of discussion include Daniel Radcliffe's current stage performance in "Equus" (
Hairy Potter!), the KKK (
Mexican is the new black!), and sororities (
ugly chicks!).
Continue reading The Daily Show: February 28, 2007
Posted Aug 17th 2006 1:25PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
"
The Stranger Among Us": According to Tony Snow, President Bush spent his summer reading Albert Camus'
The Stranger. "Now, if you've never read
The Stranger, it's a classic novel about a Westerner who kills an Arab for no good reason and dies with no remorse." HA! Wow, I spent the entirity of last year working on a project about that book and I didn't even make that immediate connection. What a waste.
Continue reading The Daily Show: August 16, 2006
Posted Aug 9th 2006 2:20PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
BP shut down one of their main pipelines, after finding that it was dangerously corroded (higher gas prices on the horizon, kids). Correspondent Rob Corddry elaborated on the situation, live from Alaska and wearing a hard hat. "I feel a little silly walking around with a shiny dome where my hair should be." Awww. Bald joke. Rob had a little trouble explaining the pipe line so he left it up to Alaska Senator Ted Stevens... "It's a series of tubes!" However, Rob had no problem talking about the sealing process, which involves actual seals. Baby seals, preferably. The baby seals are forced into the holes in the pipe line. Really back-breaking work... Meaning they have to actually break the backs of the seals. The audience reaction to this was really funny, especially to the Photoshopped picture of a baby seal stuck in a pipe line. Big laughs for Rob.
Continue reading The Daily Show: August 8, 2006
Posted Jun 21st 2006 4:44PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
At 8, ABC has a repeat George Lopez, followed by a repeat Freddie and two repeats of Lost.- CBS has the premiere of Big Brother: All-Stars, followed by repeats of Criminal Minds and CSI: NY.
- NBC has a new Dateline at 8, followed by the series premiere of America's Got Talent.
- FOX has a new So You Think You Can Dance at 8.
- The WB has a new Blue Collar TV at 8, a repeat ep, then a repeat of One Tree Hill, while UPN has Drew Barrymore in the documentary My Date With Drew.
- At 9, USA has the AFI Life Achievement Award, honoring Sean Connery.
- Bravo has a new Celebrity Poker Showdown, with players Jenna Fischer, Rocco DiSpirito, Mario Cantone, Jordan Peele, and Keegan-Michael Key.
- IFC has one of my favorite movies at 9, Swingers.
- Also at 9: the Travel Channel has a new World Poker Showdown.
- At 10, HBO2 has Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed.
Posted May 18th 2006 3:30PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
"
Leonar-D'oh!": Jon Stewart started with some important news about the upcoming
Da Vinci Code film. He somehow managed to take advantage of the word "Cannes" and work it into a "Khan!" joke. What a geek. Anyway, loads of religious groups are really angry over the film, staging protests and hunger strikes, just like Gandhi did to protest the
Gold Diggers of 1933 (this joke gave Jon an excuse to dance/twitch rhythmically to Indian music). Apparently, some albino groups are pretty irked, as well. Jon said that religious groups always get attention for their huge protests, so it was good to see albinos get their moment in the sun -- um...
Continue reading The Daily Show: May 17, 2006
Posted May 11th 2006 3:44PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
A few days ago, Jon started by poking some fun at the Terre Haute, Indiana's weatherpeople because they were wickedly competitive, airing attack ads against rival stations' weather teams. Well, Terre Haute's locals
caught the jokes (they have cable in Indiana?) and the general manager that helped to make the commercial said that
The Daily Show "must have been pretty hard up for material... I didn't quite understand the point." Jon sobbingly apologized for making fun of their precious weatherpeople and proceeded to show a clip of him doing something more meaningful with his time (he went to a hospital to cheer up a sick little boy by showing him the attack ad... Unfortunately, the little boy -- who looked more like twenty than ten -- died from laughing too hard at the stupidity). What have you done, Terre Haute?!
Continue reading The Daily Show: May 10, 2006
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