Fremde Frau

I want him to ask Tim Burton to do something about Johnny Depp (or, perhaps more accurately, to stop doing whatever he's doing about Johnny Depp), but I don't know how to find the words that express this particular blend of nostalgia, regret, embarrassment, and exhaustion that I feel whenever I catch a performance by Depp now. Chris Rock is the only interview I'm looking forward to.

Isn't that about 90% of what they already do to Fox, though? It never sticks, except sometimes with O'Reilly, who seems to relent for a while when TDS breaks down his logic in a particularly devastating fashion. Jon is terrible at receiving compliments. Sometimes, it's endearing, and other times, it's just awkward.

I join you in your minority opinion, trow125. I know that I'm a little hopeless and transparent in that regard. Not that I think about it on a nightly basis, but every once in a while either on the show or in other interviews, there will be some moment where I think, "I can see why he's a fake news anchor on TV." The appearance on Bassem's show in Egypt was one of the first things I saw of him, and I always wish he'd bring that look back. Just that, though; not the full beard he later grew. I still need to catch up on his old movies. I know y'all have said that he wasn't too bad, but I still cringe in anticipation. I saw The Faculty long ago when I didn't know who he was, but, thankfully, there was enough in that godawful movie to distract me from thinking too much about anyone's acting ability. He knocked it out of the park so well that I'm in a mild state of panic that he'll get offered the moon and leave the show.

I like that he doesn't hit on every beautiful guest of the opposite sex, the way some TV hosts do. He only hits on or gushes about the beautiful women he knows well. Actually, he does that with the beautiful men he knows, too (and some that he doesn't). Maybe he just enjoys playing up the fact that he's friends with some very beautiful people. Depending on how the friend plays it, it can come across as really cute or really awkward. The best moments are when they feel comfortable enough to give it right back to him. For that reason, I can't hate it when someone like Gervais or Williams comes on the show; it's almost always a flirtfest. His gushing about every new movie as the best thing ever is tiresome, but I can't hold it against him after reading the recent interview where he admits to being one of those people who is awestruck by every movie they see. At least he comes by it honestly.

Not as long as corporations are people.

Here are Trevor and Jon, from Trevor's twitter account. Based on his previous work that I've seen and that segment last night, I'm ready for him to take over for Jon whenever he retires, or as early as January. Next week too soon? Trevor or Jessica. Trevor and Jessica. One of them, both of them... Any one of these options would be quite excellent. At the very least, Jon should go make another movie next summer, perhaps a "Stephen Colbert" biopic, and let another of his progeny run the show for a while.

What a fantastic debut. Damn, I wish he were a correspondent, not a contributor. I'm already missing him in anticipation of the weeks (or months!) in between his appearances. Their coverage of the Eric Garner case has been superb. Jon's comments last night were beautiful, and I'm so glad they came back to it tonight, with more direction but no less outrage and humanity. I hope they stay on it for some segments next week.

He just announced on the show that President Obama will be the guest on Monday!

Shep Smith being successful at Fox makes me question natural selection. We know that the environment there doesn't select for decency, but how could it possibly be a neutral trait? It should stand out like the peppered moth. (Damn Fox and its war on science.)

I wonder if O'Reilly will be his last guest. I hope not. I don't think I could take him dancing and waking up after a night with "Papa Bear." Leave that enmity alive, I say.

15 years of near-constant award-winning quality is a pretty phenomenal streak, though.

I remember when he was first going on about it with her, everyone thought it was absurd. Then, a few months later I think, blogs were posting this video of Helen Mirren in Herostratus (probably NSFW), and people started talking about how they are similar, after all. I'm not sure if that's an argument for the power of suggestion or if Jon just saw it before anyone else did.

I hope Napolitano stayed around for the MOZ and inadvertently educated himself. ...Probably not. He's explained it in interviews, but the more I see him in these conversations, the more I'm convinced that Jon's family gatherings are very similar to mine: full of people who consider O'Reilly and Napolitano "too liberal." It's no wonder he's managed to fine-tune the art of gently telling them they're full of bullshit; I'm still at the stage where I can only debate so long before the obstinacy destroys my ability to articulate my thoughts. It's probably very familiar to most people, and the question at the heart of Jon's approach seems to be: do we just cut people off at some point, or do we keep trying to communicate and educate? I keep trying, although it's like talking to myself at times. (The problem with cutting them off, of course, is that they're still there and we still have to coexist in the same country (and planet) together. Not that they care, which makes us not care, so the answer seems to be to cut them off. But then what? We're all still here together. There is surely a philosophical law for this sort of situation, but I don't know what it is.)

In 17 seconds from 1977, Richard Pryor explains privilege and racism to white America. MOZ could not have been more perfect. The best moment of the night.

I missed the interview, but, otherwise, fantastic show last night.