Cookie Monster: C is for cantaloupe ... and Colbert
Our hearty chuckle of the day — here's an appearance by Cookie Monster on Thursday's episode of "The Colbert Report," setting the record straight about his new, healthy-food, non-cookie agenda, and dishing about those "crazy" years in the ’70s and ’80s when he was "the Robert Downey Jr. of cookies."
'Battlestar' mid-season finale delivers nuclear 'Revelations'
A promo for the half-season finale "Revelations."
So Sci Fi's "Battlestar Galactica" concluded the first half of its final season with a bit of a shocker. Was it worth it? What will happen in the final episodes?
John Cusack this morning on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" show.
Evanston native John Cusack appeared on MSNBC this morning to chat about his new MoveOn.org ads — in which he makes the argument that it's difficult to tell the policies of George W. Bush and John McCain apart — as well as his new Iraq war-related movie. He takes a hearty swipe at cable talk fiend Bill O'Reilly in the process.
Cusack returns to MSNBC tonight, on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" at 7 p.m.
Seth Rogen (left) and James Franco pretend to light a joint while presenting the award for "best movie so far" Sunday night at the MTV Movie Awards.(Mark J. Terrill/AP)
Like the stoners they play in the upcoming ‘‘Pineapple Express,’’ Seth Rogen and James Franco stumbled unkowingly into trouble Sunday at the MTV Movie Awards.
And of course, the weed was someone else’s.
Early on in the show, Rogen and Franco took the podium to present the award for best summer movie so far, joking that MTV chose them because only ‘‘two potheads like us’’ would be willing to announce such a strange category. Then they pulled out a bag of ‘‘fake weed’’ and a ‘‘huge fatty joint’’ — and proceeded to light it.
Felicity Huffman (from left), Eva Longoria Parker and Marcia Cross are seen in "The Gun Song," the season finale episode of "Desperate Housewives," that aired on Sunday.(AP/ABC)
In the closing moments of its season finale Sunday, ‘‘Desperate Housewives’’ flashed ahead five years.
And while there were no hints to the White House’s occupant or the state of the economy in 2013, viewers got a few clues about Wisteria Lane’s future.
Spoiler alert: Read no further if you haven’t yet seen this episode and want to preserve its surprises.
So Shia Labeouf shows up last night on Letterman. He's there to, duh, promote "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," the big bruhaha out next week in which he stars with ye olde Harrison Ford. But nearly the entirety of his visit is a long narrative of what happened to him last November when he was arrested in a Walgreens in the Loop.
Watch the video from YouTube below and enjoy as he simultaneously tells a pretty funny story while showing himself up to be a true ... well, a fellow editor advises me against using this word, a two-syllable moniker that rhymes with whoosh and rag.
Enjoy his punchy inflection of the phrase "pimple cream," which he utters approximately 3,451 times. Enjoy him referring to alcohol as "special magic sauce" (duuuuuude!!!). Enjoy the thought of receiving a scolding phone call from Steven Speilberg. Says Dave: "It sounds as if you were behaving as a dope." Yup.
Shia Labeouf on "Late Night With David Letterman" Monday night.
When Edie packed up and left Wisteria Lane at the end of Sunday’s ‘‘Desperate Housewives,’’ viewers were caught by surprise.
The sudden exit of the neighborhood’s blond troublemaker has fans wondering how this plot twist will affect the ABC hit series, and whether Nicollette Sheridan, who has played Edie during its four seasons, will be back.
Edie, played by Nicollette Sheridan, in the "Desperate Housewives" episode "Mother Said" that aired last night.
As reported last night, Cristian de la Fuente suffered an injury while performing the samba with his partner Cheryl Burke on Monday's "Dancing With The Stars" on ABC.
"In the very beginning of the dance, I fell back into his arms and I heard something crack," Burke told TV Guide, who was in tears after the show. "I thought it was my dress making that sound. I didn't think it was anything else."
"They have rocket launchers, sure, but if we bar the door with this bookcase, we'll be safe as kittens!" Locke and Ben assume a defensive position in "The Shape of Things to Come."
Do we really need Ben to go all Indiana Jones on us? In tonight's return of "Lost," Ben — previously a maniacally creepy, holding-all-the-cards brainiac — zapped all over the world and all over the timeline ... kicking ass. In the end, he sets up the rest of the show (the episode was, after all, titled "The Shape of Things to Come") as a showdown between two power-hungry obsessives. Yup, he's one of them.
A while back, we reported on "As the World Turns" fans who were angry over the platonic nature of the relationship between young hotties Luke and Noah on the soap. Well, our long national nightmare is over. The campaigned-for kiss finally happened yesterday ...
Today Show host Ann Curry (left) and co-host First Lady Laura Bush on NBC's "Today Show" this morning.(Peter Kramer/AP)
As guest host of ‘‘Today,’’ first lady Laura Bush proved she can be as chatty and genial as the broadcast pros.
Even better, she demonstrated how to keep it under control Tuesday. In the company of the NBC morning show’s fawning, overeager veterans, Bush brought a welcome air of restraint — while much of the time, her on-air companions might have seemed to the former teacher like schoolchildren on a sugar rush.
‘‘You did that so well, it’s obvious that WE are overpaid,’’ news anchor Ann Curry marveled after Bush did a brief voiceover announcement.
‘‘Well, it’s been obvious we’re overpaid for a long time,’’ co-anchor Matt Lauer chimed in. ‘‘It didn’t take Mrs. Bush to prove that.’’
Bush and his hopeful successors shill themselves all over the airwaves tonight
'Twas the night before the Pennsylvania primary, and all over TV were presidential candidates — and even the president himself — denigrating their station by pandering to google-eyed couch potatoes.
Everywhere you surfed tonight, there they were — on CNN, on Fox, on "Deal or No Deal," even the WWE.
President Bush is happy to be anywhere with good ratings.
Clinton troubleshoots equipment probs on 'Colbert Report'
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton played up her image as a tireless problem solver — this time for laughs — when she visited Comedy Central’s ‘‘The Colbert Report’’ last night.
Not to be outdone, Sen. Barack Obama, her rival for the Democratic nomination, showed up via satellite to poke fun at what he called the media’s fixation on gaffes and trivialities.
Barack Obama declined to appear on Stephen Colbert's news-parody show "The Colbert Report," taping in Philadelphia this week (its first remote outing), but his wife, Michelle Obama, faced Colbert's singular wit last night.
Colbert began the interview by "grilling" her about her "silver spoon" upbringing on Chicago's South Side. He even serenades her at one point. Eventually he asked: "Why would you want to be first lady? You’d never get any sleep because I understand the phone keeps ringing at 3 a.m."
Hillary Clinton is scheduled on the show tomorrow night.
Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper figured prominently on last night's "Top Chef: Chicago," getting to enjoy (mostly) tasty concoctions and help render a verdict as to which chef was too bland to stay.
