Jon Stewart is back on The Daily Show on Mondays, but we have him right here! Sort of. If you missed it, here's his opening segment from yesterday with a funny piece on Solar Eclipse Mania and and a much less-funny (but still able to find humor) one about U.S. support in Israel-Gaza.
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The James Corden late-night show might be gone, but browsing around YouTube, I cane across one of his “Crosswalk” The Musical” productions that I hadn’t seen or posted before. This was the Crosswalk version of Frozen, and it features all the films stars who provided voices -- Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad & Jonathan Groff. There are some goofy twists in it, and it’s pretty fun. Starting about a month ago, Jon Stewart returned to hosting The Daily Show, though only on Monday nights. However, he is now serving as Executive Producer. It turns out that The Daily Show is posting the main story of the opening segment on the shows that Stewart hosts. And here's his coverage from this past Monday. He talks about the false promises of Artificial Intelligence. It's pretty funny, interesting and smart. This is an great treat, most especially if your lovers of Kukla, Fran & Ollie. But not limited to that. It’s my annual posting of their April Fools' Day program from 1950, over 74 years ago. (I say “over,” because oddly the date of the broadcast is not April 1, but March 31. I have to assume that April Fools' Day that year fell on a weekend, and so they were weren’t on the air that day. This is a particular delight for me because it not only features my favorite Kuklapolitan who is rarely on the show, Cecil Bill, but it’s one of the longest appearances I’ve ever seen for him. He comes on about the 11:00 mark, in costume for April Fools Day. And he even gets to sing a song! Now, that might not sound like much, but you have to realize that Cecil Bill only speaks with the words “Toi-te-toi-toi…” And that holds for the lyrics of a song he sings. Cecil Bill is quite nuts. And when I visited the 50th anniversary tribute to Kukla, Fran & Ollie about 20 years ago at the Chicago Historical Museum, I discovered something that Burr Tillstrom did to reinforce that lunacy, which was quite clever – something I never noticed before through the TV, but finally saw close up in person. That’s because they had all the Kuklapolitan puppets on display. And looking at Cecil Bill (which was a joy for me…), I noticed that Tillstrom hadn’t painted his mouth on where someone's mouth would normally be. Instead, he made it a crescent that was angled a bit and ever-so-slightly off to the side, askew, not centered directly under his nose. So, without exactly knowing why, unless you paid extremely close attention, Cecil Bill would seem somehow…off. And if you look closely in the video, you’ll see what I mean. He jumps around a lot in his song, and is covered with a big coat, so you can’t always see his mouth clearly, but you’ll notice what I’m talking about. Or you can just check out the good fellow here below, second from the left -- Fun, too, in this episode is Fran gets a chance to impersonate Ollie in a song, and clearly is enjoying herself with it. But then, the whole show is fun. Hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild are joined by one of Phil’s best friends and one of the original "Everybody Loves Raymond" writers, Lew Schneider. As they write, the writer, producer, director, comedian and actor “joins Phil and David for a freewheeling conversation about food, comedy, television writers rooms, great music, terrible vacations, Rick Springfied, Don Rickles, good times and even terrible timeshares.
In the news -- So, Trump is now selling the Bible. A practice that doesn’t seem viable. He’s incredibly flawed. Been found guilty of fraud. And for rape he was also found liable. |
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