If American game shows kicked ass like this, I might actually watch them. I cannot even begin to describe how much I want to play on those courses.

2007-01-29, Bill Gates: 4/10. Didn't make a fool of himself (much), or need Stewart to bail him out of answering a "tough" question (which I've seen before), but sounded kind of like a marketroid a number of times. Worth noting that he got up and walked off at the end of the interview before the cut to commercial, which rather surprised Stewart ( ( Read more... )

Captain Obvious pontificates on television shows: "The key is to make serials ... that viewers want to see on a weekly basis."

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Maureen Dowd interviews Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for Rolling Stone.

Tonight's Heroes had one of the best episode-ending scenes I've seen since the first season of Alias.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone give a shout-out to Battlestar Galactica in their Peabody Award acceptance speech (complete with followup one-liner from MC Jon Stewart).

Jamie Hyneman (of MythBusters) saying, "... and we're going to need a JATO unit..."

Scott Wilson, who plays casino owner Sam Braun in CSI (the fourth season of which I'm almost finished watching), played the recently deceased Scott Crossfield (the first man to fly faster than Mach 2) in The Right Stuff. Who knew? (Well, IMDb, obviously.)