Quotation Marks – Icicles, cartoon pilots and bongs
We started this week off with the Super Bowl, which, despite having some of the worst commercials in recent memory, yielded some pretty great quotes. In fact, between that, The Office, Leverage and 30 Rock, this was a great week for quotes. Below are some of our favorites — feel free to post yours in the comments.
The Super Bowl
“The entire Office cast is assaulted by a strange Xerox repair man played by Conan O’Brien, and it becomes a special Law & Order SVU.” – Rainn Wilson explaining the special episode following the Super Bowl
“Not only has she never been to the Super Bowl, apparently she’s never been to Tampa.” – Bob Costas on seeing Hayden Panettiere’s ridiculous fur-lined boots.
“Stop Drinking!” – Duane Johnson to Al Roker after he screws up the name of the movie again.
“It turns into a car!” – President Obama, telling Matt Lauer just how tricked out his Blackberry is now.
Matt Lauer: “You got replaced [on the cover] with Jessica Simpson….”
President Obama: “Who is in a weight battle apparently.”
“You know they say TV will rot your brain? That’s absurd. TV only softens the brain, like a ripe banana. To take it all the way, we’ve created Hulu.” – Alec Baldwin in the best commercial of the night.
Was Neil Patrick Harris the best SNL host this season?
I know that everyone was really excited about NPH hosting SNL, and I certainly thought that it paid off. Expectations are hard to meet, especially when you’re talking about Saturday Night Live, but I thought that this week’s episode was one of the best of the season. Between rocking out the Doogie Howser theme on a keyboard, slapping on a horrible wig and some massive press-on nails, and delivering a great monologue, NPH gave a great performance. Because we like to speak in hyperbole, and arbitrarily rank unimportant things, I have to ask the question: Was Neil Patrick Harris the best host yet this season?
Daily Show/Colbert Report – Rob Riggle goes home, Huckabee is cuddly, Stephen crushes on Michael Phelps
(Week of December 8, 2008)
Hey, kids! It’s time for a quick round-up of highlights from this week’s episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. This was an extra-special week, as we won’t be getting any new episodes until 2009. We also said good-bye to a few old friends, the weirdly scary Rob Riggle and Alan Colmes, who’s kind of scary in his own way. Here’s a fun fact about this photo of Rob Riggle: It’s actually what people see before they die.
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