I’m not sure how many people actually saw my April Fools’ Day joke yesterday. If you went to this website directly yesterday morning, you saw it, but you wouldn’t have seen it if you used some sort of aggregate like Feedly or an RSS reader.
I was all smiles watching the April Fools’ Day episode of ‘The Price is Right’. A few years ago, Bob Barker made a surprise appearance and seemed lethargic and slurred his words, but yesterday, the 91-year-old knocked it out of the park. The show started off with the introduction of Drew Carey but Barker walked out and the crowd went bonkers. He didn’t do the whole show, just the first bidding and first game, and then closed the show with his signature sign-off. And of course he gave away a car. Can you believe it’s been seven years he’s been off the show? Carey took over in 2007.
After James Corden’s first ‘Late Late Show’ I made a comment about how the celebrity guests walked timidly down stairs trying not to trip while high-fiving the audience. On yesterday’s April Fools’ episode, Katie Couric had a stunt double fall down the stairs and the reaction of Corden and the audience was shock and silence. Knowing that it’s going to happen and watching it on video it looks a bit staged, but to actually be there in the moment and not have a good line of sight, I’m sure it seemed real. You can watch the stunt here.
Last nights’ ‘The American’s’ referenced Strat-O-Matic Football twice. I’ve never heard of it, but from how it was described, it sure sounds fun.
Jeff Pearlman recently interviewed Michael Dukakis, who is currently teaching at UCLA. Of course there’s liberal bias in this interview, but it was interesting to hear a man in his eighties reflect on a failed presidential, his time as governor, and his assessment of the current political climate.
Speaking of politics, I’m about to make a contribution to Land Commissioner George P. Bush’s re-election fund as he just banned the use of Comic Sans in all agency documents and correspondence. Nothing screams lack of professionalism than the use of that typeface. Although, I thought he was an odd choice to be the inaugural recipient of the University of Texas Latino Leadership Award, he’s only been working in his first elected office gig for three months and there have been many other Texas Latinos that have done more and lived in the state much longer.
There are only 30 shows left for David Letterman before he retires. Last night, for the first time in a long time, he didn’t have a musical guest booked on the show.
Dr Pepper must have some sort of contract with ABC. The other day I mentioned the obvious product placement of the beverage on ‘Fresh Off The Boat’ and on last night’s ‘Modern Family’ it was specifically mentioned.
Seems like most of the complaints about George P. in that article are that he's not a Democrat. Yet the media fawns all over the Castro brothers even though they've done nothing of consequence.
I think saying the media fawns all over the Castro brothers is an overstatement. Other than Wendy Davis, I doubt anyone outside the state, or even in the state, could name another elected Texas Democrat, so that's one reason why they get a bit of attention. And then just being identical twins is one of those gimmicky things. So they are anomalies, and anomalies tend to get attention. But I will say the Democrats have marketed them well as being Ivy educated minorities, and then becoming mayor of San Antonia and a congressman.
Table top sports games were de rigeur for those of us growing up in the 70's. "Go for the Green" was a great golf game with wax pencils and maps of the greatest holes in golf. And I had a GREAT baseball game called "DODECA Baseball" where you rolled different twelve sided die. Man, I played a LOT of that. It predated D&D's use of multi-sided die.
I thought he was playing Mattel Football 2. At least that's the game they showed him playing on the couch. I missed any name reference. Speaking of The Americans I was happy to see FX just renewed it for Season 4 even though the ratings have slipped badly. Less than 1 million viewers in primetime, even on cable, is a death sentence for TV series. Why this show isn't winning Emmys is a mystery.
The Katie Couric bit looked staged if you looked at it a second time, but I missed the very start and just saw her tumbling down the stairs and Corden rushing to help her. If he was in on the joke, he's a better actor than I gave him credit. But the skit with the double at the end of the show kinda screamed everything was staged ahead of time.
You're right, he was playing Mattel Football 2 when Frank came over, and that's when Frank asked if he every played Strat-O-Matic Football because he played it with his son. I think it was right before he handed over TRON. Later when he went over to Frank's he asked if he could play Strat-O-Matic and Frank mentioned that it's in the basement but he'd go get it.
Seems like most of the complaints about George P. in that article are that he's not a Democrat. Yet the media fawns all over the Castro brothers even though they've done nothing of consequence.
I generally hate April fool's stuff on the web(no offense), but I think Southwest Airline's was great marketing: http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/2015/04/what-k…
I think saying the media fawns all over the Castro brothers is an overstatement. Other than Wendy Davis, I doubt anyone outside the state, or even in the state, could name another elected Texas Democrat, so that's one reason why they get a bit of attention. And then just being identical twins is one of those gimmicky things. So they are anomalies, and anomalies tend to get attention. But I will say the Democrats have marketed them well as being Ivy educated minorities, and then becoming mayor of San Antonia and a congressman.
That Katie Couric bit was really great. Thanks for posting it. James Cordon seemed truly mortified.
Table top sports games were de rigeur for those of us growing up in the 70's. "Go for the Green" was a great golf game with wax pencils and maps of the greatest holes in golf. And I had a GREAT baseball game called "DODECA Baseball" where you rolled different twelve sided die. Man, I played a LOT of that. It predated D&D's use of multi-sided die.
I thought he was playing Mattel Football 2. At least that's the game they showed him playing on the couch. I missed any name reference. Speaking of The Americans I was happy to see FX just renewed it for Season 4 even though the ratings have slipped badly. Less than 1 million viewers in primetime, even on cable, is a death sentence for TV series. Why this show isn't winning Emmys is a mystery.
The Katie Couric bit looked staged if you looked at it a second time, but I missed the very start and just saw her tumbling down the stairs and Corden rushing to help her. If he was in on the joke, he's a better actor than I gave him credit. But the skit with the double at the end of the show kinda screamed everything was staged ahead of time.
You're right, he was playing Mattel Football 2 when Frank came over, and that's when Frank asked if he every played Strat-O-Matic Football because he played it with his son. I think it was right before he handed over TRON. Later when he went over to Frank's he asked if he could play Strat-O-Matic and Frank mentioned that it's in the basement but he'd go get it.
Aaah, I missed that. In fact, I didn't see him go to Frank's. I must have been digging in the fridge.
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