Our mistress of the dark, TiaRachel, is on vacation this week. I hope you will accept this poor substitute in her stead.
Who picks these guests?
Tonight on The Daily Show Jon will be hosting Judd Apatow while on The Colbert Report we will have John Legend, Michael Nutter, and Chris Matthews.
Apatow is going to get the asskissing treatment from Jon. He's a former Stand Up and worked with Daily Show alum Steve Carrell on The 40 Year Old Virgin.
Expect to NOT talk about stuff like this-
New York Magazine noted that Mike White (long time associate of Apatow and writer of School of Rock, Freaks and Geeks, Orange County and Nacho Libre) was "disenchanted" by Judd Apatow's later films, "objecting to the treatment of women and gay men in Apatow's recent movies," saying of Knocked Up, "At some point it starts feeling like comedy of the bullies, rather than the bullied."
Apatow has claimed to strive to avoid marginalizing women in his work and to develop authentic female characters. In early reviews, both Slate's Dana Stevens and the Los Angeles Times' Carina Chocano wrote articles noting the sexist attitudes propagated by the film Knocked Up, a topic which was the primary focus of a Slate magazine podcast. Following many of these accusations, in a highly-publicized Vanity Fair interview, lead actor Katherine Heigl admitted that though she enjoyed working with Apatow, she had a hard time enjoying the film itself, calling the movie, "a little sexist," claiming that the film "paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight." In response to accusations of sexism by Katherine Heigl (star of his own movie, Knocked Up) Apatow did not initially deny the validity of such accusations, saying flippantly, "I'm just shocked she [Heigl] used the word shrew. I mean, what is this the sixteen-hundreds?" Likely in reference to Heigl's conservative religious beliefs as part of the Mormon church. |
John Legend is a noted R&B singer (helpful to know if you want to look him up in Wikipedia because there are lots of other hits). His connection to Pennsylvania is that he went to The University of (among other notable graduates are Doc Holliday who received the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1872).
Another graduate is Michael Nutter. He's a HillShill so expect that. What Stephen may not cover is that he's a DLC faux Republican Grover Norquist Club for Growth tax cutting fool.
Nutter supports reducing or altogether repealing the city's Business Privilege Tax and Wage Tax. Using the information and recommendations developed by the Tax Reform Commission, Nutter has pushed for a gradual elimination of the Business Privilege Tax (BPT) since 2004. On four occasions, bills were approved by City Council, but vetoed by the mayor. He also drafted legislation that reinstated reductions to the city wage tax after the Mayor introduced a budget that would have halted them. |
He also advocates-
... having the City of Philadelphia declare a "Crime Emergency" in selected areas of Philadelphia. This would station more officers in certain areas of Philadelphia, limit the ability to gather on public sidewalks, impose a curfew for all residents, and limit the ability to travel in certain areas. The proposal includes a warrant-less police search technique known as "stop-and-frisk." Nutter claims that this approach is sufficiently similar to one that was found to be Constitutional by the United States Supreme Court in 1968 in Terry v Ohio, but it still has not been determined if this specific exercise is in violation of Fourth Amendment privileges. |
Nice guy. Reminds me of Frank Rizzo.
With any luck (and considering all the other guests we have tonight) we won't spend much time on Chris Matthews.
The Aria of Chris Matthews
By MARK LEIBOVICH, The New York Times Magazine
Published: April 13, 2008
Nothing illustrated Matthews’s discordance with the new cable ethos better than an eviscerating interview he suffered through last fall at the hands of Stewart himself. Matthews went on the "The Daily Show" to promote his book "Life’s a Campaign: What Politics Has Taught Me About Friendship, Rivalry, Reputation and Success." The book essentially advertises itself as a guidebook for readers wishing to apply the lessons of winning politicians to succeeding in life. "People don’t mind being used; they mind being discarded" is the title of one chapter. "A self-hurt book" and "a recipe for sadness" Stewart called it, and the interview was all squirms from there. "This strikes me as artifice," Stewart said. "If you live by this book, your life will be strategy, and if your life is strategy, you will be unhappy."
Matthews accused Stewart of "trashing my book."
"I’m not trashing your book," Stewart protested. "I’m trashing your philosophy of life."
Matthews told me that the interview was a painful experience. Not only did Stewart humiliate him, but the interview exposed an essential truth that people by and large don’t want to hear advice from politicians, a breed that, in many ways, has defined Matthews’s value system. "I think Stewart was right in that he caught the drift of antipolitics," Matthews said. |
I can only hope tonight's experience is just as painful for this assclown insider who epitomizes everything that is bad and wrong with our incestuous Beltway buttkissing media culture.
Matthews is a prejudiced bigoted moron. A preening fool who spits on you when he talks. A groping leering misogynist sexist pig who smells old and rubs up against the young chicks at the office because even Viagra won't get it up for him any other way anymore.
He's a pathetic loser with no talent at all except reading a teleprompter. A plastic drone dreading the day (which looks like it will come soon) that NBC decides his puny audience is no longer worth the princely $5 million he's getting now and finds a replacement who's younger.
And smarter.
And hipper.
And cheaper.
A sad sorry shell of a man who never accomplished anything worthwhile in life and is now doomed to fade into obscurity like Norma Desmond constantly pining for the last close up of his flushed, pockmarked, spittle-flecked face.
But it's not his fault! Oh no, it's yours for not being smart enough and connected enough to recognize "his true greatness."
Have you seen his Rolodex? He goes to all the good parties and you don't.
If for no other reason for his enormous insufferable unjustified aristocratic arrogance I hope every waiter he ever has spits in his orange juice. Not everybody loves you babe.
Tomorrow night I am expecting captainlasar to find some charitable things to say. casperr had said that she might like a turn but didn't commit.
I would actually like another crack at this spot later this week so I can publish my The Daily Show/The Colbert Report Anniversary Thread, but at the same time I recognize that we may have some potential diarists who would like the opportunity to get their feet wet with a long standing and hugely popular community diary.
I will not stand in your way, my ego is self sustaining.