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stephe...@my-deja.com
I thought for sure there'd be an annoucement by now of Peyton Manning
and maybe his dad appearing on the show.
>From a CBS press release
02.05.2007 UPCOMING GUESTS ON THE "LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN" ON
THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK Monday through Friday, 11:35 PM-12:37 AM,
ET/PT
(*Denotes changes and/or additions to previous schedule)
*Monday, Feb. 5 Frank Caliendo as John Madden; self-help guru Dr. Phil
McGraw; musical guests Fall Out Boy
Tuesday, Feb. 6 Musical guest Harry Connick, Jr; reality show judge
Randy Jackson
Wednesday, Feb. 7 Actor Chris Elliott; actress/talk show host Kelly
Ripa; musical guest John Mellencamp
Thursday, Feb. 8 Animal expert Jack Hanna; actress Katherine Heigl;
musical guest Patty Griffin
*Friday, Feb. 9 Talk show host/chef Rachael Ray; comedian Brian Kiley;
musical guests The Fab Faux
Monday, Feb. 12 Actress Drew Barrymore; musical guest Rickie Lee
Jones
*Tuesday, Feb. 13 Former Vice President Al Gore; musical guest Cat
Empire
*Wednesday, Feb. 14 Style guru Martha Stewart
*Thursday, Feb. 15 Guests TBA
*Friday, Feb. 16 Comedian Jake Johannsen
*Monday, Feb. 19 Actor Jim Carrey; Daytona 500 winner
Bill Kawalec
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> The Frank Caliendo thing is really being pounded to death.
> I thought for sure there'd be an annoucement by now of Peyton Manning
> and maybe his dad appearing on the show.
I agree. Looks like nothing to make me stay past the first break tonight.
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TheTubbyHubby
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> I agree. Looks like nothing to make me stay past the first break tonight.
Unless, of course, the real John Madden pays a visit as well. The
you'd be riveted like we all would be!
Anthony
dsi...@yahoo.com
deja.com> wrote:
> *Monday, Feb. 5 Frank Caliendo as John Madden; self-help guru Dr. Phil
> McGraw;
> Tuesday, Feb. 6 reality show judge
> Randy Jackson
> Wednesday, Feb. 7 Actor Chris Elliott; actress/talk show host Kelly
> Ripa;
> Thursday, Feb. 8 Animal expert Jack Hanna;
> *Friday, Feb. 9 Talk show host/chef Rachael Ray;
> Monday, Feb. 12 Actress Drew Barrymore;
> *Wednesday, Feb. 14 Style guru Martha Stewart
> *Monday, Feb. 19 ; Daytona 500 winner
Wow. Has there ever been a less-inspired, completely tired array of
guests? And for sweeps? In my mind, the official admission that the
show is creatively bankrupt has just been announced. Add John
Witherspoon, Jimmie Walker, Bob Sarlatte, and Dreesen, and they might
as well turn the lights out and run cartoons.
What the hell happened to this show?
--Dave Sikula
Bill Kawalec
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nah. last week I'd have watched Madden Today I don't care.
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> Anthony
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Brady
You can't imagine a guest lineup 'less-inspired' for the first
week-and-a-half of sweeps than Dr. Phil, Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray,
Randy Jackson, Kelly Ripa and Jack Hanna (et. al.)? Furthermore, it's a
'completely tired' guest list and a sign that the Show is 'creatively
bankrupt?' I'm thinking that you, Dake, may be suffering from post-Super
Bowl Fever malaise, because even *you* aren't usually *this*
hyperbolically cranky. Or maybe you are.
As Marilyn might say I would say: I'm just sayin'.
Brady
dsi...@yahoo.com
That's exactly what I'm saying: McGraw and Dave will go through the
same tired business with the former insulting the latter and acting
smug. Stewart will cook, Dave will make prison jokes, flirt, and
"drink alcohol" after stripping off his jacket. Ray will bray like
the jackass she is, and then we'll repeat the actions from the Stewart
segment. Ripa will tell anecdotes about what a hump Regis is. Hanna
will bring on animals and not known anything about them.
We've seen these segments a dozen times and know exactly what beats
and marks will be hit. Does anyone expect -anything- different from
those segments?
-That's- what I mean about "tired" and "bankrupt," my friend. I wish
it were different, but there it is.
--Dake Sikula
Steve Curtis
>We've seen these segments a dozen
>times and know exactly what beats and
>marks will be hit. Does anyone expect
>-anything- different from those
>segments?
Some of us are comfortable with familiarity.
Brady
Hey, I *like* those ongoing narratives. If I were given the task of
putting together the 'least-inspired guest lineup ever' for week # 1 of
sweeps, it would look something like the following.
Monday: Andy Dick
Tuesday: Ty Pennington ("Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"), musical guest
Chris Dougherty
Wednesday: Donald Trump, Jessica Simpson
Thursday: Johnny Knoxville, a recitation by the cast of "The 25th Annual
Putnam County Spelling Bee"
Friday: Amy Sedaris and that dude with the cowboy hat who won the
lottery and then had a string of really bad luck. (And I *like* Amy
Sedaris.)
I'm just sayin': it sounds hyperbolic when you claim that you can't
imagine a 'less-inspired' lineup of guests.
Brady
R H Draney
>
>Dave Sikula wrote:
>
>> Wow. Has there ever been a less-inspired, completely tired array of
>> guests? And for sweeps? In my mind, the official admission that the
>> show is creatively bankrupt has just been announced. Add John
>> Witherspoon, Jimmie Walker, Bob Sarlatte, and Dreesen, and they might
>> as well turn the lights out and run cartoons.
>>
>> What the hell happened to this show?
>
>You can't imagine a guest lineup 'less-inspired' for the first
>week-and-a-half of sweeps than Dr. Phil, Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray,
>Randy Jackson, Kelly Ripa and Jack Hanna (et. al.)? Furthermore, it's a
>'completely tired' guest list and a sign that the Show is 'creatively
>bankrupt?' I'm thinking that you, Dake, may be suffering from post-Super
>Bowl Fever malaise, because even *you* aren't usually *this*
>hyperbolically cranky. Or maybe you are.
I look at this list and the only thought going through my mind is "where the
hell is Marv Albert?"...r
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"You got Weltanschauung in my Schadenfreude!"
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>
> Some of us are comfortable with familiarity.
As long as it's not Witherspoon, Walker, Sarlatte or Dreesen.
bostonbill41
Hopefully this will be it until next season. Too bad Dave thinks this is
such a great thing to have on all the time.
Bill
R H Draney
>
>>Monday, Feb. 5 Frank Caliendo as John Madden;<
>
>
>Hopefully this will be it until next season. Too bad Dave thinks this is
>such a great thing to have on all the time.
Maybe the thing for Dave to do is produce a sitcom for Caliendo..."I'm Madden
Crazy!" or something...with the guidance and support of Worldwide Pants, the
character could reach a broader prime-time audience and become a beloved icon of
our nation, following the example of the hugely popular series "The Bonnie Hunt
Show"....
Oh, wait...never mind....r
bostonbill41
>Maybe the thing for Dave to do is produce a sitcom for Caliendo..."I'm
Madden Crazy!" or something...with the guidance and support of Worldwide
Pants, the character could reach a broader prime-time audience and
become a beloved icon of our nation, following the example of the hugely
popular series "The Bonnie Hunt Show"....
Oh, wait...never mind....<
:) I still find it odd at times that as much as I love Dave I don't like
alot of personalities that he finds very funny.
Bill
DTSmith
> >Monday, Feb. 5 Frank Caliendo as John Madden;<
>
> Hopefully this will be it until next season.
Hopefully this will be it forever.
DTSmith
Engagement last night, right down to the Late Show theme song at the
end.
Steve Curtis
>(Steve Curtis) wrote:
>>Some of us are comfortable with
>>familiarity.
>As long as it's not Witherspoon, Walker,
>Sarlatte or Dreesen.
Apparently Dave and the LS staff are comfortable with the familiarity of
those guests.
ronnie
Yeah, that was pretty cool. At least there was some payoff for
sitting through an unsufferably putrid sitcom. Ugh. Awful awful
awful.
-ronnie
Traci
> That's exactly what I'm saying: McGraw and Dave will go through the
> same tired business with the former insulting the latter and acting
> smug. Stewart will cook, Dave will make prison jokes, flirt, and
> "drink alcohol" after stripping off his jacket. Ray will bray like
> the jackass she is, and then we'll repeat the actions from the Stewart
> segment. Ripa will tell anecdotes about what a hump Regis is. Hanna
> will bring on animals and not known anything about them.
>
> We've seen these segments a dozen times and know exactly what beats
> and marks will be hit. Does anyone expect -anything- different from
> those segments?
>
> -That's- what I mean about "tired" and "bankrupt," my friend. I wish
> it were different, but there it is.
Dake, dahling, I love ya, but I think you are incredibly off-base here.
One of the things about this guest list is the historically funny and
entertaining segments that have come from the folks who are scheduled.
The week is chocked full of potential 'Daveness' as well. Yeah, the
cooking segments will have the same basic structure as always, but the
interaction between say Dave and Martha is what makes it different and
most times entertaining.
Traci
R H Draney
An open letter to Frank Caliendo....
Frank:
Dave likes your John Madden impression. A lot. Apparently so do a lot of other
people at CBS and "The Late Show". Some here have different opinions, to which
they're certainly entitled, but that's fine. The bit clearly *does* have a
devoted following.
Just thought you should be warned of the dangers of basing too much of your
career on one impression.
Remember Vaughn Meador.
Yours in fellowship,
garycolin...@yahoo.com
Dake, what guests, on the circuit, would you look forward to? What can
the show do really?
Gary
DTSmith
>
> Yeah, that was pretty cool. At least there was some payoff for
> sitting through an unsufferably putrid sitcom. Ugh. Awful awful
> awful.
>
I thought Warburton had some great lines. Too bad the rest of the cast
wasn't as funny.
dsi...@yahoo.com
> dsik...@yahoo.com says...
We must agree to disagree, my dear. While it's good to see old
friends, I'm afraid these tired old eyes have seen some of these
particular old friends a few times too many.
That said, I found Dr. Phil surprisingly refreshing last night --
since he and Dave had an actual conversation, as opposed to trading
insults -- so maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.
At least we didn't have to see "Madden" again.
--Dake Sikula
Traci
> We must agree to disagree, my dear.
What else is new? ;p
> While it's good to see old
> friends, I'm afraid these tired old eyes have seen some of these
> particular old friends a few times too many.
Who would you like to see? Seriously, I'm curious.
> That said, I found Dr. Phil surprisingly refreshing last night --
> since he and Dave had an actual conversation, as opposed to trading
> insults -- so maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.
See, not everything is so terrible.
I love when Dave and a guest can get into a conversation like what went
on with Dr. Phil. So many times the interviews are so damn scripted from
the pre-interview questions it's terribly boring. That's one reason I
enjoy the familiar folks. There is a comfort level that seems to
transcend the script.
> At least we didn't have to see "Madden" again.
On that, you and I completely agree!
Traci
dsi...@yahoo.com
> dsik...@yahoo.com says...
>
> > We must agree to disagree, my dear.
>
> What else is new? ;p
>
> > While it's good to see old
> > friends, I'm afraid these tired old eyes have seen some of these
> > particular old friends a few times too many.
>
> Who would you like to see? Seriously, I'm curious.
I'd have to take more time to think that one out than is probably
worth the time.
I will say I think it's a crime to do a talk show in the heart of a
city with the most vibrant cultural life in the country (if not the
world) and to have guests like Randy Jackson and Rachael Ray (I'm with
Anthony Bourdain on the dubious charms of Ms. Ray). Where are the
actors appearing on Broadway, the authors, the musicians of all genres
who can sit and talk coherently? (Where's Bourdain, for that matter?
There's a guy who could do three segments all by himself.) All the
folks that make New York New York?
--Dave Sikula
Bill Kawalec
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Dave never has been big on authors. Where's Mort Sahl??
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> Dave never has been big on authors. Where's Mort Sahl??
Writing fresh material about the Eisenhower administration.
--Dave Sikula
Bill Kawalec
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> On Feb 7, 12:00 pm, "Bill Kawalec" <billkawa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Dave never has been big on authors. Where's Mort Sahl??
>
> Writing fresh material about the Eisenhower administration.
not true. In fact, he had the best comment ever about why Bush was
re-elected. It was because he ran against John Kerry. Had he run unopposed,
says Sahl, he would have lost.
Bill Kawalec
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> The Frank Caliendo thing is really being pounded to death.
> I thought for sure there'd be an annoucement by now of Peyton Manning
> and maybe his dad appearing on the show.
>
>
when the defense is weak, it's just not that funny, and you might find out
that Drew Barrymore is on that other show.
Traci
> I will say I think it's a crime to do a talk show in the heart of a
> city with the most vibrant cultural life in the country (if not the
> world) and to have guests like Randy Jackson and Rachael Ray (I'm with
> Anthony Bourdain on the dubious charms of Ms. Ray). Where are the
> actors appearing on Broadway, the authors, the musicians of all genres
> who can sit and talk coherently? (Where's Bourdain, for that matter?
> There's a guy who could do three segments all by himself.) All the
> folks that make New York New York?
My opinion, based only on fever dreams and NyQuil, is that the show
thinks the whole of the country wouldn't be interested in the folks that
make New York New York. I've felt for a very long time the LS has been
taking a broader and broader approach to bookings and comedy. I don't
know if it's a conscious effort to not be New York centric or just a
relic of the writers who are in place now. It hasn't kept me from
enjoying the show, I've always watched for Dave and still do, but I
would like to see some of the more eclectic guests and not so many dim
bulbs who can't talk about anything but their latest commercial output.
I try not to make comparisons in my head about LS and LN, but ultimately
I think LN was more about comedy that made the writers and Dave laugh
and betting the audience would be smart enough to follow it. LS, from
the very beginning, has seemed to be much more focused on finding on
making the audience laugh. Both are valid approaches, but the latter
creates comedy that is more broad, less inventive and takes fewer
chances. It can still be funny, but for me it almost always lacks that
edge that makes you squirm in your seat.
Just my 2 cents....
Traci
bostonbill41
>I try not to make comparisons in my head about LS and LN, but
ultimately I think LN was more about comedy that made the writers and
Dave laugh and betting the audience would be smart enough to follow it.
LS, from the very beginning, has seemed to be much more focused on
finding on making the audience laugh. Both are valid approaches, but the
latter creates comedy that is more broad, less inventive and takes fewer
chances. It can still be funny, but for me it almost always lacks that
edge that makes you squirm in your seat.<
I agree with you. I used to love LN because of the inside jokes that
only regular viewers would get. When I watch the show now, I get the
feeling the audience doesnt know what the hell is going on.
LNwDL was more about the opening segment than what guest they had on.
Bill
Bill Kawalec
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> dsi...@yahoo.com says...
>
>> I will say I think it's a crime to do a talk show in the heart of a
>> city with the most vibrant cultural life in the country (if not the
>> world) and to have guests like Randy Jackson and Rachael Ray (I'm with
>> Anthony Bourdain on the dubious charms of Ms. Ray). Where are the
>> actors appearing on Broadway, the authors, the musicians of all genres
>> who can sit and talk coherently? (Where's Bourdain, for that matter?
>> There's a guy who could do three segments all by himself.) All the
>> folks that make New York New York?
>
> My opinion, based only on fever dreams and NyQuil, is that the show
> thinks the whole of the country wouldn't be interested in the folks that
> make New York New York. I've felt for a very long time the LS has been
> taking a broader and broader approach to bookings and comedy.
Broader? Okay. I guess that explains the endless string of great moments in
presedential speeches and Calliendo appearances, etc. I was thinking more
like a borken record, but hey . . .
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"There are eight million stories in the Naked city"
And Dave has Christine Aguilera on the show.
John M.