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Late night TV has its own take on Chanukah and yesterday Conan and Jimmy Kimmel Live brought back their Festival of Lights favorites.
After a year off, the Human Centipede Menorah was back and Sarah Silverman lit the fifth candle. Before she lit the candle, she got the menorah all lit up by the feeding the head some greasy Latkes and poopy inducing coffee. That made everyone behind him growl like their stomachs. Because nothing says Chanukah like a bunch of people attached a$$ to head.
Well maybe the Chanucorn, a Gospel Choir and the Dreidel Dog sing it even louder than that. Gary Greenberg brought back Chanukah’s favorite character with a twist, or maybe that was just the Dreidel Dog spinning his way into our hearts.
Either way Chanukah is lot more special this year thanks to late night keeping the holiday alive with characters that future generations can enjoy. When was the last time the Jewish holiday got a much needed up upgrade? Not since the oil stayed lit for 8 whole days and nights. So these two additions are very much appreciated.
It’s a Chanukah miracle!
Justin Bieber has been on The Late Late Show a lot. In fact, I think he has been on the show the most since James Corden took over earlier this year. I guess that made the singer feel that since he has been on the show so many times, why doesn’t he just host it. That is exactly what he tried to do yesterday.
While the CBS late night host was in the shower getting ready for the show, The Beebs had the band play him out, so that he could start the show with his monologue. As he was telling jokes, Corden came onto the stage and yelled at his friend. He told him to get off the stage and that he couldn’t host the show. Well the audience didn’t like that, so James said sorry, made nice and let him throw to the opening credits.
Meanwhile, CBS is thinking, maybe we can buy Corden out and let Bieber host the show. Craig Ferguson did a similar stunt with Drew Carey and we know how that ended. Hopefully, this time it will end better for Corden than it did for Ferguson.
Bruce Willis was on The Late Show yesterday and Stephen Colbert asked him if he still does his own stunts at 60. John McClane told him that he does, and the CBS late night host didn’t believe him and wanted him to prove it. Then the two of them got into a fight that was so epic, they were willing to die hard in order to prove that he was right. When it was over they showed us that it is much better to leave the stunt work to the stuntmen. That and what a Family Guy fight would like between Peter and the Chicken in real life.
Yippie Ki Ay!
There is thing called Video News Releases where PR companies send out videos with a news release that can be written as a scripts to local news stations. On busy days, producers will take that VNR and use it on their show without changing any of the words that were handed to them. Recently, there was a VNR that one or two or ten stations around the country used and Conan O’Brien compiled their broadcasts into one mashed up news segment.
And now we will have, “It’s OK! You can admit it. If you’ve a bought an item or two or ten for yourself,” forever etched into our memories. Dang you, Conan!
