The Totally Biased!/Daily Show/Colbert Report Late-night House Party 05.09.13

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Thursday May 09, 2013 · 7:55 PM PDT

2013/05/09 · 19:55

Tonight on Totally Biased!, Melissa Harris-Perry; on TDS, David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls; and on TCR, Baz Luhrmann, Director, The Great Gatsby.

Tune in tonight at 11pm ET when I join @totallybiasedfx with @wkamaubell! #nerdland flip.it/VDoJJ
— Melissa Harris-Perry (@MHarrisPerry) May 9, 2013

Tonite's @totallybiasedfx has 1 of my favorite street pieces ever, features 2 defenses of Charles Ramsey, @mharrisperry, & @janinebrito.
— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) May 10, 2013

Tonight! A horrible woman at an Arizona courthouse is exposed for what she really is. Also, Jodi Arias convicted. #DailyShow 11/10c
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) May 10, 2013

Revealing:NYT's A.O. Scott so scared about saying kind things about 'Gatsby' he links to pans at Rotten Tomatoes! bit.ly/10tiZAE
— Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch) May 9, 2013

The Great Gatsby is #Rotten at 42% with 53 reviews. bit.ly/1077JwNSorry about that, old sport.
— Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes) May 9, 2013

TONIGHT: Director Baz Luhrmann talks about movie, “The Great Gatsby”(@gatsbymovie), and Stephen introduces the new Colbert Book Club read.
— The Colbert Report (@ColbertReport) May 9, 2013

Stephen kicks off his first #colbertbookclub read, “The Great Gatsby,” with @egangoonsquad and #CareyMulligan. @comedycentral, 11:30/10:30c.
— The Colbert Report (@ColbertReport) May 10, 2013

#cOlbertsBookClub 2nite! We'll be talking about THE GREAT GATSBY in detail: p.30, p.71, p.143--nothing's off limits! @colbertreport, 11:30pm
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) May 9, 2013

watch my @thedailyshow piece 2night2 find out y should do some thinking before deciding to go to college. Not "critical thinking" though.
— aasif mandvi (@aasif) May 9, 2013

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— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) May 10, 2013

Hey guys, @totallybiasedfx is back TONIGHT!That and other big news in this month's mailer. #TotallyBiased fburls.com/82-DcvRWSNa
— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) May 9, 2013

Love how about half the guests on cable TV say "antidote" when they mean "anecdote." Listen for it next time.
— Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch) May 9, 2013

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— Audra McDonald (@AudraEqualityMc) May 9, 2013

Just try explaining to your children that The Fonz was a sex symbol. Just. Try.
— Samantha Bee (@iamsambee) May 10, 2013

The Daily Show
Mon 5/6	Christiane Amanpour (CNN’s chief international correspondent and anchor of Amanpour, a nightly foreign affairs program on CNN International)
Tues 5/7	Mindy Kaling promoting show “The Mindy Project”
Weds 5/8	Carey Mulligan promoting movie “The Great Gatsby”
Thurs 5/9	David Sedaris promoting book “Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls” wikipedia Davidsedarisbooks.com previously at TDS at The New Yorker Amazon goodreads B&N has Kirkus David Sedaris's new essay collection: big sales, mixed reviews David Sedaris's Sorta-Secret Side Career as a Speech Writer for High Schoolers AVClub: The good news about Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, the latest from David Sedaris, is that it’s not a collection of modern comic fables about talking animals. (Readers of Sedaris’ previous book, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, might be forgiven for taking the new book’s title as something between a taunt and a warning label.) Instead, it’s a mopping-up of all the New Yorker casuals and other magazine and newspaper essays that Sedaris has published in the last few years. The not-so-good news is that it’s the sixth time Sedaris has done this since 1994’s Barrel Fever... Sedaris is still funny, but there’s a considerable difference between his early essays—which revealed the lengths to which an American who has sacrificed his credit rating to dedicate his life to art has to go just to make his rent—and this book’s many descriptions of the indignities and misunderstandings that Sedaris and his boyfriend, Hugh, have to endure in their former adopted home of Paris and their new adopted home of London. It’s nice that he’s made good, but Sedaris still insists on weighing in on the foibles of American life, something that he may no longer be especially qualified for. The most incisive observation about the changing state of the U.S. economy comes when he recalls that his domestic book tours used to find him visiting independent and chain bookstores, but that the most recent one “started and finished at a Costco.” (Sedaris hits a Costco at the start of his tour and loads up on condoms, so that he can dispense them as thank-you presents to fans who take the trouble to come to his readings. This adventure in contrived wackiness says a lot about how much harder he has to work these days to find his material.).. ...Aside from those monologues, most of Let’s Explore Diabetes isn’t bad. It’s about on the level of an early-’80s Ramones album—the work of an inspired beginner who’s now a professional, with enough craft to almost make up for the fact that he has to keep turning out new product, even if he’s no longer particularly inspired. It should probably be read by any Sedaris fan, at the right time—i.e., after they’ve already read all his earlier ones.

The Colbert Report
Mon 5/6	Robert Caro - Author, “The Passage Of Power: The Years Of Lyndon Johnson”
Tues 5/7	Douglas Rushkoff - Author, “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”
Weds 5/8	Dr. Richard Besser - ABC News' Chief Health And Medical Editor
Thurs 5/9	Baz Luhrmann- Director, “The Great Gatsby” wikipedia imdb Bazmark.com moviesite Gatsby at RottenTomatoes Gatsby (film) wikipedia The Great Gatsby: Baz Luhrmann's film opens to mixed reviews in the US: Australian's characteristically lavish treatment of source material divides critics The Great Gatsby: The Video Game offers hopeful 8-bit commentary 'The Great Gatsby' Review: How Many Flappers Make a Flop?

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