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letterman and seinfeld talk comedians, cars & coffee.
game of thrones is relentless in ensuring that no one has a storybook ending.
its the one youve been waiting for, a "star-studded" panel discussion celebrating the 35th anniversary of wkrp. streams live at 1030 est.
alice doesnt live here anymore.
the night cassavetes, falk and gazzara terrorized dick cavett.
last comic standing, don rickles, gets roasted of sorts by some leading lights in comedy. next week on spike tv.
Jicks on Letterman
you kind of knew comedy central and jon stewart wanted to have either a woman or a minority take over the colbert slot so its not too much of a surprise that senior black correspondent larry wilmore got the nod. i thought perhaps they might go with john hodgman but among the daily show stable id say this is a pretty solid selection. still unfortunate about that the john oliver timing as he was best suited for the job.
a reprint of a 1978 profile of martin mull.
two eddie murphy post back to back. does that constitute a trend?
just flipped on the tv and trading places was on comedy central so i figured id check in on it for a few minutes. in the first scene i watched they removed the word "nigger" from the text. you could still see he said it but they scrubbed the word out of the audio track. kind of defeats the purpose of expressing how odious the characters are if you lose that context. here is the quote. score one for political correctness?
Mortimer Duke: Do you really believe I would have a *nigger* run our family business, Randolph?