https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFWhtUac9sQ The last time that Lea DeLaria was on Conan, she taught us all how Lesbians f*ck! Yesterday, when she was on, she taught us that she can really sing.
The TBS late night host heard that she has an cover album out of David Bowie’s songs reimagined in the style of Jazz, and he wanted to know more about it. So she asked him to be the baseline as she sang Bowie’s Fame. As soon as she belted out the first note, I was blown away by how beautiful her voice is. You’d just don’t expect to hear that coming out the Orange is the New Black star’s mouth. I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t that.
Now, I am spending my day listening to the music from her 5 Jazz albums. Her version of Patti Smith’s Dancing Barefoot and Chicago’s All That Jazz are true works of art and I am not really a Jazz fan; but I am just listening to her melodic voice. Just wow!
Jeff Garlin was on Conan yesterday and he told the TBS late night host about his first son’s circumcision.
Shortly after Garlin moved to Los Angeles, his first son was born. Since he is Jewish, they had a Bris for his heir. When the Mohel was done, he gave the star of The Goldbergs his son’s foreskin wrapped in foil and told him to bury it somewhere special for good luck.
Since Garlin was new to LA, he didn’t know where to go. Then he decided to go to Disneyland and do it there. He wanted to make it special, so he was going to eat all of the food in the “crappy lands” and then go throw that little piece of his son off at the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. That was his plan and plans don’t always go as planned.
As he walked around the park alone and eating, people were looking at him funny. At that point, he felt he needed to get out of Fantasyland and go home. So he looked over, saw Sleeping Beauty’s Castle, picked up a rock, attached the foil pouch to it and threw it. Maybe one day his son will date a woman, who is put into a deep sleep by an evil witch, and he will kiss her to wake her up. What else could happen to a boy whose foreskin was thrown towards the castle of one of Disney’s Princesses?
Garlin has another son and yesterday he revealed to everyone what he did with that foreskin. No, it is not as Disneyland with his brother’s. Instead, it is at the fountain in The Grove shopping center. I feel bad for the person who went looking for quarters and found Garlin’s son’s foreskin instead. Talk about bad luck, but then again if you are taking quarters out of a fountain, you are pretty much screwed.
I wonder what his kids are going to get him for father’s day, now that they know where daddy got rid of their foreskins?
Every since last week, when Rachel Dolezal, the President of the Spokane, Wa chapter of the NAACP, was outed as White, people have wanted to hear from her. Today she finally broke her silence on Today. Matt Lauer asked her if she is African American, and she told him “I identify as Black.”
Then he asked her when she started identifying as a Black woman, and she told him even as a child she saw herself that way. When she was 5 years old, she would use the brown crayon to draw herself.
So even though she was White, when did people start describing her as Black. She told Matt Lauer that when she was working in North Idaho, she was written up as Trans-Racial then Bi-Racial and finally as Black, and she never corrected them.
Even though people wondered her about her identity for years, it was a surprise to her the timing of being outed last week.
So would she do anything differently, for the most part no.
This is a hot topic that has gotten the whole country talking. Now that you have heard from her, how do you feel about it all?
UPDATE: Here’s Deon Cole talking about Rachel Dolezal on Conan yesterday, and he had some really good points.
Chris Pratt was on Conan yesterday to talk about Jurassic World and O’Brien asked him how he was able to look so scared throughout the movie about killer dinosaurs. The actor told him, “The face that you give, really is, you should do nothing.”
Then after some chit chat, Pratt demonstrated the TBS late night the three faces he made in the movie. They were fear, love and joy. The three of them were so different, I don’t know how he doesn’t have already have an Oscar on his mantel. He’s such a thespian!
Conan O’Brien found out that Bryce Dallas Howard can cry on cue, so he decided to test it out on his TBS late night show yesterday. Did he do it by calling her Jessica Chastain? Nope, he did by telling her a story about shopping at Home Depot. The story was so long drawn and out, that anyone who was watching the show, felt tears come to their eyes. While we felt it, Ron Howard’s daughter actually did it.
Once the water works were in full effect, Andy Richter said something that made everyone shed tears of laughter. That’s because he reminded Conan that their sponsor is another hardware store, Lowes. They are not going to be happy when they find out that the show mentioned the competitor 10 times. How will they get out of that one? The star of Jurassic World found a way! That proves not only is she fast with the tears, she is also quick with the wit!
