Oil’s Well That Ends Well: Late Last Night
Jay, David and the two Jimmies are still off on vacation somewhere, but the lack of competition hasn’t taken the edge off Jon and Stephen. (Yes, we’re all on a first-name basis now. That’s what happens when you’re a fancy journalist type.)
On The Daily Show, Jon brought some levity to the increasingly depressing news out of the gulf by bringing the whole cast together to mock new Senior Asian Correspondent, G4’s Olivia Munn. Sketches like this always remind me why I love The Daily Show so much, since few other programs can include both biting social commentary and Aasif Mandvi as a ninja. Not to mention the welcome return of the lovely, perpetually pregnant Samantha Bee and her battle to reclaim her role as resident “news bunny.”
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Jon’s guest last night was
Jonah Hill, who was a sad, sad alternative to
Morgan Freeman’s beautiful voice. He’s been doing the promotional rounds for his new film
Get Him To The Greek, but he may have done more harm than good last night by pitching an idea for a much better film.
Sean Combs is already supposed to be the best part of
Greek, so I can see him getting his own spin-off, though making a spin-off film about a character who’s from a film that’s already a spin-off about a character from another film is kind of confusing and meta. But I’d definitely watch a movie about Diddy and his Jew crew. Think of the hilarious cultural misunderstandings!
Stephen also brought up the oil spill last night on
The Colbert Report, to cast his vote for the “nuclear option” of plugging the leak. No word yet if the government is planning on assembling a small, elite team to go down in an experimental craft and set off the nuke. If they end up doing so, I suggest including a gruff yet relatable team leader, a sexy female scientist, a wisecracking and eccentric engineer, and a token black guy to die and establish a sense of risk. It might explain why they’ve been bringing film directors into the relief effort.
Vampire Weekend made a rare weeknight appearance on
The Colbert Report to perform a song from their latest album, wearing outfits that may have been stolen before the show from the homeless guy who lives outside the studio. Stephen turned grammar Nazi on the hipster musicians; he pulled out a copy of
The Elements Of Style and came to the defense of the much-maligned Oxford comma. It was a grammatical smackdown of the highest order; my high school English teacher would be proud.
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