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		<title>&#8216;Law and Order&#8217; Newcomer Anthony Anderson Chats with Conan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Kilts and Wacky Tobacky Tonight&#8217;s &#8220;Bogeyman&#8221; marks the first episode of Law &#38; Order sans longtime presence Ed Green, played by recently departed Jesse L. Martin, and with Kevin Bernard, played by former SVU temp Anthony Anderson. On Monday night, Anderson visited Late Night with Conan O&#8217;Brien to talk about all sorts of stuff, [...]]]></description>
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<h4 class="center">On Kilts and Wacky Tobacky</h4>

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<p>Tonight&#8217;s &#8220;<b>Bogeyman</b>&#8221; marks the first episode of <a href="http://www.nbc.com/Law_&#038;_Order/" title="NBC Website for Law &#38; Order"><b><i>Law &#38; Order</i></b></a> sans longtime presence Ed Green, played by recently departed <b>Jesse L. Martin</b>, and with Kevin Bernard, played by former <i>SVU</i> temp <b>Anthony Anderson</b>.</p>

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<p>On Monday night, Anderson visited <b><i>Late Night with Conan O&#8217;Brien</i></b> to talk about all sorts of stuff, including kilts, holistic medicine, and wacky tobacky.</p>

<p>The highlight of the chat comes at the very end, though, when Anderson reveals what happened to him during a ride along with law enforcement.  I bet not too many people can recount an event like that.</p>

<p>Check out the interview below to learn more about <i>Law &#38; Order</i>&#8216;s newest addition.</p>

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<h3><a href="http://www.tvjots.com/2008/04/law-and-order-newcomer-anthony-anderson.html#video" title="Late Night with Conan O'Brien - Anthony Anderson Interview">Anthony Anderson &#38; Conan O&#8217;Brien</a></h3>
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    <h3>Related Posts</h3>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://www.tvjots.com/2008/04/comings-and-goings-in-law-and-order.html" title="Comings and Goings in the 'Law and Order' Universe">Comings and Goings in the &#8216;Law and Order&#8217; Universe</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.tvjots.com/2008/04/law-and-order-who-said-chivalry-was.html" title="Law and Order: Who Said Chivalry Was Dead?">Law and Order: Who Said Chivalry Was Dead?</a></li>
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  <p class="nb"><i>Law &#38; Order</i> currently airs Wednesdays on NBC at 10pm EST</p>

  <p class="credits">Photo courtesy of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/misocrazy/121132081/" title="Monday Surprise!">misocrazy</a></p>
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		<title>&#8216;Battlestar Galactica&#8217; Cast Members Do Letterman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And Give Ten Great Reasons to Tune In As publicized, ten prominent cast members from Sci Fi Channel&#8217;s stellar Battlestar Galactica delivered the Top Ten list on last night&#8217;s Late Show with David Letterman. The theme was the Top Ten Reasons to Watch the New Season of Battlestar Galactica. I don&#8217;t know about everyone else, [...]]]></description>
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<h4 class="center">And Give Ten Great Reasons to Tune In</h4>

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<p>As publicized, ten prominent cast members from Sci Fi Channel&#8217;s stellar <a href="http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/" title="Sci Fi Channel Website for Battlestar Galactica"><b><i>Battlestar Galactica</i></b></a> delivered the <b>Top Ten</b> list on last night&#8217;s <i>Late Show with David Letterman</i>.  The theme was the <b>Top Ten Reasons to Watch the New Season of <i>Battlestar Galactica</i></b>.</p>

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<p>I don&#8217;t know about everyone else, but I&#8217;m going along with <b>Katee Sackhoff</b> (Starbuck).  The best reason to watch <i>Battlestar</i>&#8216;s upcoming last season is because we can count on more life-and-death battles against those evil Cylon robots &#8230; although the prospect of seeing <b>Michael Hogan</b> (XO Saul Tigh) naked is mighty darn tempting, too.  :-D</p>

<p>Check out the cast&#8217;s entire <i>Late Show</i> appearance below.  Also, if you require closed captions, you can enable that feature on the video player by clicking the <b>CC</b> symbol in the top right-hand corner.</p>

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    <h3>Related Posts</h3>
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      <li><a href="http://www.tvjots.com/2008/03/battlestar-galactica-17-days-and.html" title="Battlestar Galactica: 17 Days and Counting">Battlestar Galactica: 17 Days and Counting</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.tvjots.com/2008/03/caprica-battlestar-galactica-prequel-go.html" title="Caprica: 'Battlestar Galactica' Prequel a Go">Caprica: &#8216;Battlestar Galactica&#8217; Prequel a Go</a></li>
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  <p class="credits">Katee Sackhoff/<i>Battlestar Galactica</i> photo courtesy of Sci Fi Channel</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Star Jones&#8217; Debuts with Guest Isaiah Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former &#8216;View&#8217; Cohost&#8217;s Court TV Series Courts Controversy for Premiere I don&#8217;t cover daytime television often since it&#8217;s all about primetime and late night to me. But, today, things are a bit different. That&#8217;s because Star Jones, the attorney and suddenly skinny former co-yakker on The View, has scored a very newsworthy guest for the [...]]]></description>
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<h4>Former &#8216;View&#8217; Cohost&#8217;s Court TV Series Courts Controversy for Premiere</h4>

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I don&#8217;t cover daytime television often since it&#8217;s all about primetime and late night to me.  But, today, things are a bit different. That&#8217;s because <b>Star Jones</b>, the attorney and suddenly skinny former co-yakker on <i>The View</i>, has scored a very newsworthy guest for the premiere this afternoon of her new Court TV talk show.  Creatively titled <a href="http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/star_jones/index.html" title="Official Web Site for Star Jones"><b><i>Star Jones</i></b></a>, the series marketed as featuring &#8220;the day&#8217;s top stories along with guests from the world of law, news, pop culture [and] entertainment&#8221; will welcome former <i>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy</i> star <b>Isaiah Washington</b> during its first episode.  Washington, of course, was deep-sixed from the popular ABC medical drama at the end of last season following his ill-advised decision to publicly utter a homophobic slur in reference to costar <b>T.R. Knight</b> twice.  The actor has since gone on to join the cast of NBC&#8217;s highest-profile freshman fall series, the modernized and reimagined <i>Bionic Woman</i>, under the auspices of new Peacock bossman <b>Ben Silverman</b>.</p>

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<p>The Court TV Web site for <i>Star Jones</i> seems to downplay the heavily publicized reasons for Washington&#8217;s recent notoriety while taking care not to ignore the situation outright.  The episode description states:</p>

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<p>You know him from Grey&#8217;s Anatomy and for throwing around that infamous F-word. He&#8217;s Isaiah Washington. And he&#8217;s got a new show. But that&#8217;s not even half his story. Isaiah Washington shares his most personal experiences. And for the first time on television reveals perhaps the most painful episode in his life. One that helped make him the man he is today.</p>
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<p>According to an <a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20052259,00.html" title="Star Jones to Interview Isaiah Washington">Entertainment Weekly</a> article from last week (subtitled &#8220;The fired <i>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy</i> actor will sit down with the fired <i>View</i> cohost on Court TV&#8221;), Washington is expected to discuss both <i>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy</i> and <i>Bionic Woman</i>.  And for those who might be scratching their heads trying to figure out why lawyer Jones would want to inaugurate her show on a law-themed network with Washington as a guest&#8212;other than to lock in the almost guaranteed good ratings such controversial figures customarily deliver on the talk-show circuit, and to commiserate with someone who&#8217;s been even more openly lambasted than she has of late&#8212;when asked, the host focused on <i>Bionic Woman</i>, responding that &#8220;there are ethical considerations [there] because we in our technology right now are moving to replacing limbs, and we&#8217;re moving in the whole area of stem cell research, we&#8217;re moving in the area of cloning and whether or not it can actually be done with a human. And in reality, that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re doing with <i>The Bionic Woman</i> [<i>sic</i>], you&#8217;re playing God.&#8221;</p>

<p>Well, I don&#8217;t know about all of <em>that</em>&#8212;it&#8217;s just a TV show to me.  But, the interview should still be pretty good.  In fact, just seeing the two erstwhile pariahs onscreen together sounds worth a quick peek.  That is, if I can remember to turn on my television that early in the day.</p>

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    <b>Related News</b>: <a href="http://tvjots.blogspot.com/2007/07/greys-anatomy-castoff-isaiah-washington.html" title="'Grey's Anatomy' Castoff Isaiah Washington Snares a 'Bionic' Gig">&#8216;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8217; Castoff Isaiah Washington Snares a &#8216;Bionic&#8217; Gig</a>
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  <p class="nb"><i>Star Jones</i> will air weekdays on Court TV at 3pm EST</p>

  <p class="credits">Star Jones photo courtesy of WireImage.com</p>
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		<title>Whoop-De-Do: Whoopi&#8217;s Coming to &#8216;The View&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which Surprises Absolutely No One It&#8217;s official, daytime TV fans (of which I am not one), Whoopi Goldberg is replacing her fellow comic-actress Rosie O&#8217;Donnell as co-host of the popular female-slanted talk show The View. In case you&#8217;re among the three people who didn&#8217;t already know, guest moderator O&#8217;Donnell hastily left the show in May [...]]]></description>
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<h4>Which Surprises Absolutely No One</h4>

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It&#8217;s official, daytime TV fans (of which I am not one), <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000155/" title="Whoopi Goldberg Bio"><b>Whoopi Goldberg</b></a> is replacing her fellow comic-actress <b>Rosie O&#8217;Donnell</b> as co-host of the popular female-slanted talk show <a href="http://abc.go.com/daytime/theview/index.html" title="Official Web Site for The View"><b><i>The View</i></b></a>.  In case you&#8217;re among the three people who didn&#8217;t already know, guest moderator O&#8217;Donnell hastily <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18868354/" title="Rosie O'Donnell Won't Return to 'The View'">left the show</a> in May after a fiery run that brought sizable ratings gains <em>and</em> controversial on-air clashes with co-host <b>Elisabeth Hasselbeck</b>, who has opposing political beliefs.</p>

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<p>Respected co-host <b>Barbara Walters</b>, the show&#8217;s resident matriarch and co-creator, made the <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117969549.html?categoryid=14&#038;cs=1" title="Whoopi to Replace Rosie on 'View'">big announcement</a> this morning during a live installment of the series.  Rumors ran rampant about the new gig on Goldberg&#8217;s resume for days. They were given special credence, too, since the Academy Award-winning entertainer is widely considered a funny, engaging, and opinionated addition capable of attracting viewers without alienating large portions of them at the same time, unlike you know who.</p>

<p>I say, &#8220;Good for Whoopi!&#8221; because I just like saying her first name.</p>

<p class="nb"><i>The View</i> currently airs weekdays on ABC at 11am EST</p>

<p class="credits">Whoopi Goldberg photo courtesy of WireImage.com</p>

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		<title>Vote for the Worst Founder Dave Della Terza on &#8216;Letterman&#8217; Tonight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Man American Idol Lovers Love to Hate Set to Sit in the Hot Seat On tonight&#8217;s installment of the Late Show with David Letterman, along with fellow talk-show host Craig Ferguson and musical guest Avril Lavigne, David Letterman will chat up 24-year-old (yes, he&#8217;s just a babe in the woods, not some old broken [...]]]></description>
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<h4>The Man <i>American Idol</i> Lovers Love to Hate Set to Sit in the Hot Seat</h4>

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On tonight&#8217;s installment of the <a href="http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/" title="Official Web Site for the Late Show with David Letterman"><b>Late Show with David Letterman</b></a>, along with fellow talk-show host Craig Ferguson and musical guest Avril Lavigne, David Letterman will chat up 24-year-old (yes, he&#8217;s just a babe in the woods, not some old broken and depressed hatemonger) <b>Dave Della Terza</b>, the controversial founder of the alternatively adored and reviled <a href="http://www.americanidol.com/" title="Official Web Site for American Idol"><b>American Idol</b></a>-busting  Web site <a href="http://votefortheworst.com/" title="Official Web Site for Vote for the Worst"><b>votefortheworst.com</b></a>.  Although <i>Idol</i> executive producer <b>Nigel Lythgoe</b> claimed in a March 26 conference call with reporters that he&#8217;s not worried about the influence of the anti-<i>Idol</i> site, many fans definitely are given the unexpected popularity of <b>Vote for the Worst</b> poster boy <a href="http://www.americanidol.com/contestants/season6/sanjaya_malakar/" title="Sanjaya Malakar Bio"><b>Sanjaya Malakar</b></a>, roundly considered by hordes of viewers to be the cause of the show&#8217;s impending downfall.  In fact, I bet there&#8217;ll be more than a few vehement protestors in the <i>Letterman</i> audience tonight, just waiting to give Della Terza a stern word or two.</p>

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<p>Whether or not Della Terza gets a taste of New York&#8217;s world-famous &#8220;politeness,&#8221; what will the two Daves discuss?  The young entrepreneur is certainly not a fool, if the answers he gave during a <i>Chicago Tribune</i> <a href="http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2007/04/the_founder_of_.html" title="The founder of Vote for the Worst talks about Sanjaya and 'American Idol'">interview</a> this month are any indication.  For instance, responding to Fox network&#8217;s claim that votefortheworst.com is mean-spirited, Della Terza says:</p>

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<p>I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re mean-spirited. We&#8217;re just having fun with the show. The thing is, they sit there and in bring these people on the show, these bad singers that audition for the show &#8211; they&#8217;ve gone through three auditions before they get to Simon, Paula and Randy. At that point, the producer have been building them up and telling them, &#8216;You&#8217;re so good. We love you.&#8217; Then they see the judges, and it&#8217;s, &#8216;You&#8217;re terrible.&#8217; It&#8217;s like, wow, that&#8217;s awful.</p>

<p>All we&#8217;re doing it helping these people they&#8217;re sticking on the show on purpose for ratings. Like Sanjaya, they knew he would suck eventually, and they knew he would be in over his head because he&#8217;s only 17 and he didn&#8217;t have much background singing. So they throw him in there, he&#8217;s going to mess up and then everyone will boo him off the stage and laugh at him. So we say, &#8216;Let&#8217;s help that person out,&#8217; because that&#8217;s more fun for us to watch. You could call us mean-spirited, but I think the producers are more mean-spirited than we are.</p>
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<p>As painful as the reality may be, the dude&#8217;s got more than one valid point.  I think it would be wild if either Malakar or Della Terza&#8217;s other BFF, radio shock jock <b>Howard Stern</b>, showed up for a surprise late-night freak-out.  Whatever happens, anxious <i>Idol</i> lovers should rest assured that Della Terza has no desire to cause the &#8220;transparently fake&#8221; show&#8217;s cancellation, although he does predict both a &#8220;riot&#8221; and a &#8220;giant celebration&#8221; if Malakar actually wins.  With the teen wonder still in the running this late in the season, anything obviously goes.</p>

<p class="nb">The <i>Late Show with David Letterman</i> currently airs weeknights on CBS at 11:35pm EST</p>

<p class="credits"><i>Late Show with David Letterman</i> photo courtesy of CBS</p>

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		<dc:creator>Chandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Springer Bouncer Steve Wilkos Recruits for His Own Forthcoming Talk Show In my earlier college years, there was nothing I liked more than to waste my scarce free time on delightfully ridiculous daytime talk shows, such as those hosted by Phil Donahue, Geraldo Rivera, Sally Jessy Raphael, Jenny Jones, Montel Williams, and the most [...]]]></description>
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<h4><i>Jerry Springer</i> Bouncer Steve Wilkos Recruits for His Own Forthcoming Talk Show</h4>

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In my earlier college years, there was nothing I liked more than to waste my scarce free time on delightfully ridiculous daytime talk shows, such as those hosted by Phil Donahue, Geraldo Rivera, Sally Jessy Raphael, Jenny Jones, Montel Williams, and the most audacious one of them all, Jerry Springer.  If you haven&#8217;t already heard, Springer&#8217;s longtime bouncer and professional &#8220;sit-your-ass-down&#8221;er, famously bald retired Chicago police officer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0929506/" title ="Steve Wilkos Bio">Steve Wilkos</a>, gained his own talk show to replace Sony Television&#8217;s <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3if50b735b5191e26b69e42e012d3a2ec3" title="Read More About the Cancellation">recently canceled</a> freshman failure <i>The Greg Behrendt Show</i>.  I don&#8217;t know about everyone else, but I&#8217;m really looking forward to Wilkos&#8217; outing because he&#8217;s always been my favorite thing about Springer&#8217;s fight club, I mean talk show, after the stupefyingly &#8220;out there&#8221; guests. That&#8217;s why I laughed aloud when I came across the <a href="http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/tfr/268408065.html" title="Read the Full Job Post, If It's Still There">following post</a> in the TV/Video/Radio Jobs section of craigslist.com&#8217;s Boston subdomain:</p>

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Are you in a MAJOR CONFLICT with Someone &#8211; and can&#8217;t work things out?<br />
FAMILY FEUD<br />
OUT OF CONTROL TEEN<br />
SPOUSE or LOVER PROBLEMS<br />
A LOVED ONE in CRIME, DRUGS or PROSTITUTION<br />
BABY MAMA or DADDY DRAMA<br /><br />

Let Steve help you work things out!<br /><br />

Springer Security STEVE Wilkos has his own show now<br /><br />

He will get TOUGH with the BAD GUY &#8211; so you don&#8217;t have to!<br /><br />

Email your name, ALL phone numbers and write us about your problem.
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<p>The best part about this &#8220;job&#8221; is the compensation, &#8220;FREE All expense paid trip to Chicago.&#8221;  That&#8217;s not bad for the lucky chosen few, especially since the writer was nice enough to leave out the worst part&#8212;get to make a fool of yourself on national TV and the Internet (due to the marvels of sites like YouTube) for the enjoyment of all throughout the rest of eternity.  I was anticipating the show before, but now I&#8217;m downright antsy, both of which are unusual considering that I haven&#8217;t been eager about a daytime talk show since waaay back when Oprah got all Hallmark-y and celebrity-obsessed.</p>  

<p class="credits"><i>Steve Wilkos</i> photo courtesy of Jon Najarian</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wanda Sykes Shares the Perfect Pastime I just caught the tail end of Wanda Sykes&#8216; most recent appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Based on the little birthday montage that the hilarious Emmy-winning actress and comedian put together for her fellow funny lady (Happy 49th, Ellen&#8212;you look great!), it seems that Sykes is a fairly [...]]]></description>
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<h4>Wanda Sykes Shares the Perfect Pastime</h4>

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I just caught the tail end of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843100/" title="Wanda Sykes Bio">Wanda Sykes</a>&#8216; most recent appearance on the <a href="http://ellen.warnerbros.com/" title="Official Web Site for the Ellen DeGeneres Show">Ellen DeGeneres Show</a>.  Based on the little birthday montage that the hilarious Emmy-winning actress and comedian put together for her fellow funny lady (Happy 49th, Ellen&#8212;you look great!), it seems that Sykes is a fairly frequent guest.  As people who tell jokes for a living often do, the pair spent a lot of time discussing recent events in the entertainment industry, such as <i>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy</i> actor Isaiah Washington&#8217;s difficulty refraining from uttering homophobic epithets in public and the surging 15 Minutes of Fame experienced by 23-year-old <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/arts/television/19idol.html?ex=1326862800&#038;en=bd4557f606c427fc&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss" title="Read More About Kenneth Briggs' Audition">Kenneth Briggs</a>, the (un)lucky Seattle auditioner who was called a bush baby by <i>American Idol</i>&#8216;s resident jerk, Simon Cowell.</p>

<p>Of course, discussion of Fox&#8217;s mega popular talent competition eventually led to mention of its other infamous judge, Paula Abdul.  Sykes summed up her opinion of the beverage lover&#8217;s questionable behavior perfectly when she described the drinking game she plays while watching the show: Whenever Abdul takes a sip, she takes a sip.  Now I know exactly what I&#8217;ve got to do to take the nasty edge off when I tune in to <i>American Idol</i> again next week.  Thanks for sharing, Wanda.</p>

<p class="credits"><i>Wanda Sykes</i> photo courtesy of Steve Granitz, WireImage.com</p>
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