British shows: Lost in Translantic

Another mere reason why British shows should not be remade for the American public. Coupling failed. I predict that The Office will fail despite Steven Carell starring in it. Also, I predict that Kelsey Grammer Presents: The Sketch Show may do so, too.

This sounds like fun but why did it just come to my inbox this week? The Joe's Pub event, Heeb Storytelling, from December 24, 2004 featured the following: The evening will be hosted by Saturday Night Live-writing duo Slovin & Allen, and feature stories by singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, literary-rock band One Ring Zero, author Peter Hyman, Michael "Soybomb" Portnoy, The Daily Show's Eric Drysdale, VH1's Bex Schwartz, eclectic musician/writer Dana Kletter and hilarious creator of girlcomic.com Becky Donohue.

Somebody hates Jon Stewart. Dude, where's your sense of humor?

I smell the irony here because I want to pitch a similar show this fall and I will invite Kentucky politicians as guests as well as non-celebrities. Just a matter of getting that live audience at a commuter school!

Barberi also is talking to KUED, the public television station, about launching a weekly mock news program like Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. Barberi would script and anchor the program, which would poke fun at recent events in Utah news. (How would he ever find enough material?)

I would host and produce the program.

Washington Post article on Jon Stewart and W.

Help save two decent shows from cancellation. American Dreams features the family values of red states and the anti-war movement for the blue states. It's a great show and I always watch it.

You can add C-SPAN to the list of channels I will no longer watch after this incident.

Yesterday (3/15), leaders from more than 40 nations gathered in Jerusalem to dedicate a new, expanded Yad Vashem Holocaust museum.

Yet at the very time that this monument to Nazi evil was inaugurated, the American cable network C-SPAN planned to give a notorious Holocaust denier a broad audience to promote his ideology that the murder of six million Jews never occurred. This, in the name of "journalistic balance."[...]

C-SPAN, that is, sought out an 'opposing view' to Lipstadt's confirmation of the Nazi Holocaust. Lipstadt refused to be cast side-by-side with Irving, on the grounds that Holocaust denial does not merit public debate. Cohen asks the appropriate question: "For a book on the evils of slavery, would C-SPAN counter with someone who thinks it was a benign institution?"

Shame on C-SPAN!