The Daily Show‘s crack British correspondent, John Oliver, tells Jimmy Fallon about his first visit to Las Vegas and his first time shooting a rifle. And below that is an hilarious and surprisingly insightful recent report by Oliver from The Daily Show. Enjoy.
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In the continuing series of remarkable commercials, Honda chips in.
It wouldn’t be Christmas in Texas without taking a moment to listen to Texas singer-songwriter and Houston native Robert Earl Keen‘s classic Texas Christmas carol and video, Merry Christmas from the Family Keen is playing the House of Blues at 8 p.m. on Monday.
Have a restful, joyous and safe holiday!
Below is another in the continuing series of commercials that represent some of the most creative product on television.
As noted several times over the years, some of the most creative product generated for television are commercials. And as this Rice Krispies commercial from the 1960’s reflects, creativity in commercials is not a new phenomena.
Robert Duvall — in his classic role of former Texas Ranger Gus McCrae in Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove — reminds a bartender the importance of good customer service.
Andrew Ferguson is not impressed with Bob Dylan or his new Christmas CD:
The production and packaging are professional. The band is competent in a midnight-at-the-Nashville Hyatt sort of way–maybe a little heavy on the tremolo but still. And the songs themselves are fine, of course. The arrangements, though, are jarringly slick, with sleigh bells and gossamer strings and cooing girl singers–as if Dylan had chosen to lift the backing tracks from an Andy Williams Christmas special circa 1968. Oozing just beneath his asthmatic croak, the arrangements give an effect of overwhelming creepiness. His voice gets worse with every track. You wonder whether someone left the karaoke machine on in the emphysema ward at the old folks’ home. He doesn’t sing notes so much as make exhausted gestures in their general direction, until at a break he falls silent and is rescued by the backup singers, who reestablish the melody in the proper key. But then he starts singing again.
Yeah well, maybe ol’ Bob blew the Christmas CD. But even at the age of 50 in the video below from almost 20 years ago, Dylan could still rock with the best of them — Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton and the late George Harrison. Enjoy.
Before Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, there was Jonathon Winters. Enjoy.
