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Chapters: The Tonight Show With Conan O'brien, the Jay Leno Show, Más Sabe El Diablo, Ecw, Nip/tuck, the Jacksons: a Family Dynasty, Victorinos, Deal or No Deal, Niños Ricos, Pobres Padres, American Chopper, Past Life, the Deep End, the Tyra Banks Show, the Opening Bell on Fox Business, Worldfocus, Cnn Tonight, I Want to Work for Diddy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 135. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show that featured Conan O'Brien as host from NBC from June 1, 2009 to January 22, 2010 as part of NBC's long-running Tonight Show franchise. The program's host, Conan O'Brien, previously hosted NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien, which followed The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for 16 years, until O'Brien's brief succession over Leno. Many members of the Late Night cast and crew made the transition to The Tonight Show. The Max Weinberg 7, the house band from O'Brien's Late Night, served as the house band under the new name, Max Weinberg and The Tonight Show Band. Andy Richter returned to the show as announcer, and also began resuming his role as sidekick, shortly before the show's conclusion. The opening and closing theme song from Late Night was also carried over to Tonight, in a slightly altered form. In January 2010, after the show had been on the air for seven months, it was announced that NBC was intending to move Jay Leno from primetime back to his original timeslot at 11:35 p.m., with O'Brien's show starting shortly after midnight. In response to the announcement, O'Brien released a press statement saying that he would not continue as host of The Tonight Show if it was bumped to the next day to accommodate The Jay Leno Show. He feared it would ruin the long and rich tradition of The Tonight Show. It had be...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16774115 ... Read more

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Chapters: List of Late Night With Conan O'brien Sketches. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 236. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The following is a list of sketches which debuted on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on NBC. In response to a recent news story, usually about misconduct, Conan speaks at length about his moral outrage, and his feeling of responsibility to remove this type of behavior from society; meanwhile, the camera occasionally makes brief cuts from Conan to Max. Conan may also speak of a dim-witted accomplice who aids the deviant in his exploits, after which the camera briefly cuts from Conan to LaBamba. Finally, Conan urges the public to expose such people using the show's address which, together with the heading "Shameless Adulterous Weasel" or the like, is superimposed over Max. The sketch is typically performed with Richter participating, but after Richter left Late Night, the celebrity guest would participate (when Richter was scheduled as a guest, he would again take part). Each guest version would usually be titled "The Edition" with "2.0" added for guests who've done the sketch more than once. In 2006, the naming format was changed to simply "The Edition". Its introduction is as follows:Conan: "... It's time, once again, to look into the future."Andy/Guest: "The future, Conan?"Conan: "That's right, Andy/. Let's look to the future, all the way to the year 2000!"During an "In the Year 2000" sketch, O'Brien, Andy/Guest, as well as band member Richie "LaBamba" Rosenberg, each wears a black robe, futuristic-looking collar and hold a lit flashlight to their face. Between La Bamba's high falsetto wails of "In the year 2000...", O'Brien and Andy/Guest alternate delivering jokes, often based on current events, in the form of humorous predictions of what will happen in...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5176810 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has aired on NBC since 1954. Tonight is the longest currently-running regularly scheduled entertainment program in the United States, and the third longest-running.The Tonight Show has been hosted by Steve Allen (1954?1957), Jack Paar (1957?1962), Johnny Carson (1962?1992), Jay Leno (1992?2009), and Conan O'Brien (2009?2010).The longest-serving host to date was Carson, who hosted The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 seasons, from the fall of 1962 through the spring of 1992. The show's most recent host is Conan O'Brien, whose incarnation, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, premiered on June 1, 2009, and ended on January 22, 2010. Jay Leno, who preceded O'Brien as host, is scheduled to return as host beginning on March 1, 2010. ... Read more

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Chapters: Paul Reubens, Phil Hartman, Adam Carolla, Laraine Newman, Tress Macneille, Lisa Kudrow, Conan O'brien, Kathy Griffin, Will Ferrell, Janeane Garofalo, Cassandra Peterson, Phil Lamarr, Jon Lovitz, Pat Morita, Bob Saget, Michael Mcdonald, Kristen Wiig, Jennifer Coolidge, Julia Sweeney, Maya Rudolph, Joe Ranft, Chris Parnell, the Groundlings, Mary Scheer, Cheryl Hines, Arden Myrin, Will Forte, Ana Gasteyer, Annie Mumolo, Michaela Watkins, Chris Kattan, Daniele Gaither, Kaitlin Olson, Eve Plumb, Cheri Oteri, Andrea Savage, Nicole Randall Johnson, Mindy Sterling, Edie Mcclurg, Christian Duguay, Rachael Harris, Dax Shepard, Joey Arias, Mikey Day, Michael Hitchcock, Kathryn Fiore, Stephanie Courtney, Nasim Pedrad, Wendi Mclendon-Covey, Jeremy Rowley, Karl Yune, Abby Elliott, Brooke Totman, John Paragon, Jim Wise, Hayes Macarthur, Susan Yeagley, Kevin Ruf, Alex Kapp Horner, Steve Little. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 347. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld; August 27, 1952) is an American actor, writer, film producer and comedian, best-known for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor. In 1982 Reubens put up a show about a character he had been developing during the last few years. The show was called The Pee-wee Herman Show and it ran for five sellout months with HBO producing a successful special with it. Pee-wee became an instant cult figure and for the next decade Reubens would be completely committed to his character, doing all of his public appearances and interviews as Pee-wee. In 1985 Pee-wee's Big Adventure, directed by the then-unknown Tim Burton, was a financial success and, despite receiving mixed reviews, it d...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23916 ... Read more

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In The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable narratives on public radio's This American Life -- ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting the sites of bloody struggles like Salem or Gettysburg? Why do people always inappropriately compare themselves to Rosa Parks? Why is a bad life in sunny California so much worse than a bad life anywhere else? What is it about the Zen of foul shots? And, in the title piece, why must doubt and internal arguments haunt the sleepless nights of the true patriot?

Her essays confront a wide range of subjects, themes, icons, and historical moments: Ike, Teddy Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton; Canadian Mounties and German Filmmakers; Tom Cruise and Buffy the Vampire Slayer; twins and nerds; the Gettysburg Address, the State of the Union, and George W. Bush's inauguration.

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Sarah Vowels most Engaging Book
I knew Sarah Vowell's voice and style from episodes of This American Life on NPR.However, I picked up this book knowing nothing about it, just on a recommendation from a friend. It took me a few essays in to really start to get into it, but once I did I was hooked.

Sarah Vowell's writing is both precise and conversational at the same time. I found myself devouring essays about political topics I had heretofore had zero interest in. That is the mark of a truly good writer.

After completing this book I plan on reading Sarah's other books of essays.A definate must read for those with a dry sense of humor and a love of all thing pop culture and political.

No David Sedaris
I gave this one star because it was remarkably underwhelming for the witty-sophisticated, short essay genre. I'm liberally minded, and have similar historical interests, yet I can't fathom why anyone would choose to read the questionably glib ramblings of a well-off, hyper-active, depressive, so engrossed in her own attention seeking needs that she writes an entire book relating interesting historical antidotes to her own insecurities and selfish wants.The concept is a modern historian as glib essayist, but that is really just a platform for the author to talk about herself.For example, relating the hardships endured by the pilgrims to her own flight delay is shallow in the extreme, and attempting to make it humorous by developing an "it could have been worse" mantra, is just a catchphrase that enables the author to continue her excessive whining, yet avoid being openly labeled a whiner. Many reviews compared her as the Gen X alternative to David Sedaris, however, Sedaris manages to be both funny and poignant, intellectual but self deprecating, caring but brazenly honest.This book is just a collection of self absorbed ramblings.

And frankly, the sentence structure and word choice makes it painful to read.It's written in the author's speaking/story telling manner, which is appropriate for recitation on NPR.While I can work to "hear" the author's voice, after a few chapters it becomes more irksome than listening to a teenager use "like" to start every sentence.For an author who openly idealizes great speeches and literary works, such as addresses by Roosevelt, and Lincoln, Ms. Vowell's writing just demonstrates how far we've fallen.

A Little Disappointed
I have to admit that I was pretty disappointed. I love Sarah Vowell, but this wasn't her best. Still, it was better than some other commentaries out there, but just not as witty (but always just as insightful) as I would have expected.

Random essays of varying quality
I first learned who Sarah Vowell is, not from her books or from her appearances on NPR, but from a short film about her and one of her books that was on the DVD of "The Incredibles."That film interested me enough to read her books and I have been well rewarded.This book is one of her oldest and is a collection of essays that she wrote for various publications.As you might expect from an author who writes essays about current events, many of her essays have not aged well.

The essays cover various topics including trips to North Dakota to see where Teddy Roosevelt lived during his sojourn in the west, a cafeteria at the bottom of the Carlsbad Cavern, Tom Landry, Canadians, and growing up with a fraternal twin sister.Other topics include the presidential election of 2000 and the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.It is these essays that seem like ancient history now and reading them makes you wonder if Ms. Vowell would feel the same way eight years after writing them.And overall, there is no theme to carry the book along.These are just random essays that Ms. Vowell wrote for various publications in the period from about 1998 to 2002.They vary in quality and, after ten years, interest.Do I really care what Ms. Vowell thought about Tom Cruise ten years ago?

Anyway, there are some good hits among the misses in this group of essays and if you are a fan of Ms. Vowell's writing, this is worth reading while you wait for her next book to come along.

Not your boring history class...
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC from 1993 to 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and stand-up comedy performances. Late Night aired weeknights at 12:37 a.m. Eastern/11:37 p.m. Central and 12:37 a.m. Pacific in the United States. From 1993 until 2000, Andy Richter served as O'Brien's sidekick; following his departure, O'Brien was the show's sole featured performer. The show's house musical act was The Max Weinberg 7, led by E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg. The second incarnation of NBC's Late Night franchise, O'Brien's debuted in 1993 after David Letterman, who hosted the first incarnation of Late Night, moved to CBS to host the Late Show opposite The Tonight Show. In 2004, as part of a deal to secure a new contract, NBC announced that O'Brien would leave Late Night in 2009 to succeed â Jay Leno as the host of the Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon began hosting his version of Late Night on March 2, 2009. ... Read more

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Christmas Classics presents comics adaptations of both holiday favorites and rarities, featuring Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Also included are an early F. Scott Fitzgerald tale, an O. Henry western, a fairy tale by Willa Cather, and a Christmas horror story by Fitz-James O'Brien. Plus, a seasonal Sherlock Holmes adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle, Clement C. Moore's classic poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", and a letter from Santa Claus to Mark Twain's daughter. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on May 27, 2005. The length of the article is 505 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Pender to share the passion.(Entertainment)(Trumpet player known as `The Loveman' will play with UO students)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: May 27, 2005
Publisher: The Register Guard
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