Dave Letterman Dresses Jen Garner's Wounds

'Cause I love Jen Garner.

Huffington Post:

Garner said she took a header out on a run one day.

I wasn't even making an action movie or anything. If you do it when you're making an action movie, you feel cool. When you do it when you're just running on a beautiful day in front of a lot of people, you don't feel so cool. You think you're anonymous and suddenly everyone's like 'Jen Garner just fell down! Jennifer, do you need help?!'

With that Dave whipped out some ointment and started dressing her wounds.

Alias was a fun show. Sydney Bristow ROCKS.

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Kattie and Dave Talk Palin Interview

From the interview:

I started by asking her who most impressed her as Vice President and why, what was the best and worst things Dick Cheney had done as Vice President, why was Roe v. Wade an ill-conceived or a bad Supreme Court decision.

"And I think she really hadn't anticipated those kinds of questions, so I think it might've thrown her off a bit. And then we got into foreign policy -- because, after all, she was at the UN meeting with world leaders -- and clearly she was struggling with some of those answers.

"We we were doing one of these walk-and-talks, it was a casual part of the interview, and I just said, 'I'm curious, what do you read? What has helped you shape your worldview? What do you read to stay informed?'

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Letterman On The Election

Letterman On The Election

As Evan and I have remarked before, you do not trifle with David Letterman. (Trifle is not the particular word Evan used, but it carries a cultural punch here in the South that works just as well.)

I was looking forward to Dave's take on the election outcome. Sure enough, he was ON FIRE. You can watch his monologue for November 5 here, but below are my favorite lines from it:

"Welcome to the Late Show. Attention, passengers: The Straight Talk Express is no longer in service.

"Ladies and gentleman, Barack Obama is our new President (waits for wild applause), yep, and I think I speak for most Americans when I say, Anybody mind if he starts a little early? Would that be a problem? (More wild applause and laughter, and Paul Schaffer shouts "Not at all!")

"I would like to say one thing to Senator John McCain: Listen, Senator, you don't show up for me, America doesn't show up for you.

"And then at the end of the evening, the electoral vote count was 349 for Obama, 148 for McCain, or as Fox News says, 'Too close to call.'

"Republicans had a bad night all around, everywhere you looked. Even the crooked voting machines in Florida broke down. That was tough.

"Right about now, Joe the Plumber is meeting with his transition team. They're going to help ease him from obscurity back to oblivion.

"Sarah Palin, right now on her way back to Alaska...And I'm thinking, whoo, I wouldn't want to be a moose now.

"And did you see the concession speech last night? John McCain was generous, he was gracious, he was statesmanlike...And I was thinking, well, he should have tried that earlier."
(Photo of supporters at rally with Michelle Obama in Las Vegas, New Mexico on 29 October 2008; photo by Adrienne Booth)

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Why You Don't F*ck With David Letterman

Because he will shred you!

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How Many Sarah Palins Can You Fit Into A Lenscrafters?

How Many Sarah Palins Can You Fit Into A Lenscrafters?

It was a bumper crop on David Letterman last night. He reprised a stunt he does regularly, sending large numbers of people dressed in particular costumes into a business near his recording studio and filming the reactions -- i.e., how many Spidermans can we fit into a Jamba Juice? But this time, it was how many women dressed as Sarah Palin can we fit into a Lenscrafters?

Usually nobody notices or reacts. Which is the joke.

Last night, however, after sending in three different Sarah Palins, all of whom stood primly in the front glass doorway facing the camera across the sidewalk, Dave sends in another two Sarah Palins at once. At this point (up to 5 Palins in view), people on the street start pointing it out to each other. One guy stops to take a photo of his own. An employee of Lenscrafters, an uptight-looking white guy in a suit, is moved to action. Instead of talking to the Sarah Palins, however, he comes out, notices the guy with the camera, and goes to him, apparently thinking he must be behind he stunt. Amazing, how sexism works: It must be the nearest man in charge, not the phalanx of women actually doing the action themselves.

As this is going on behind the manager's back, Dave sends in seven more Sarah Palins. The guy with the camera apparently argues "Hey, it's not me", and the manager notices another bystander also taking a photo. Agitated, he finally turns to go back into Lenscrafters and discovers there are now 16 Sarah Palins clustered in the front of the store.

Dave has now run out of Sarah Palin costumes. He sends in a dog and two space aliens. The manager disappears into the back of the Lenscrafters. Dave sends in the remaining eight folks, dressed as (among other things) a cowboy, a football player, Jesus, Superman, Ironman, and a fat Spiderman.

Enjoy it while you can. Dave also had Alec Baldwin as a guest last night, who talked about his recent appearance on Saturday Night Live and meeting Sarah Palin. He called her Bible Spice. You can watch that segment here.

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Barack Obama on Letterman Show 10 September 2008

Barack Obama on Letterman Show 10 September 2008

Barack Obama was a guest on David Letterman's show night before last, and I really enjoyed watching the two of them interact. David was profoundly respectful but also drew out a lot of humor from Barack. (Not that this is hard to do.) It was an extra-long segment, cutting in the time of the next guest, Kobe Bryant, who made it clear he did not mind A BIT giving his time to Obama. After Barack left, David commented to Paul about what a smart, smart man he was. He had also made the point during his opening monologue that Sarah Palin was refusing to appear on his show. Subtle, but effective.

All of the interview is now up at YouTube in three segments. I'm copying them in below, for those of you who missed it. Enjoy the future President of the United States.

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