Last night, Jim Carrey raised the bar for multitasking by conducting an entire interview with Jimmy Fallon while keeping a steady pace on the treadmill. Elsewhere, Craig Ferguson finally premiered his Doctor Who cold open, Seth Rogen and David Letterman smashed things with a big gavel, and Jesse Eisenberg told Jay Leno all about his bubble of delusion.
We're big on '90s comebacks at Movieline. You can tell because we rooted hard for Step by Step alum Christine Lakin on Craig Kilborn's failed Fox show. Nice to know cable TV concurs: A few major teen stars from the '90s are cropping up in the upcoming cable season, and at least one of them seems like a hit. Let's rank their chances of a post-laughtrack comeback.
At Thursday's TCA press conference in Pasadena, Piers Morgan announced that the first guest on his new CNN show will be OWN sorceress Oprah Winfrey -- and that newspapers won't exist soon. "There will be no newspapers in 20 years. Deal with it," he said, adding that he feels sorry for Scandinavian paper factories that will soon go down in flames. Fine, but he should have assured us that America's Got Talent won't be around in 20 years either. Soften the blow, Piers!
Commercials are adorable little movies that need you to care, and on that note, let's enjoy SNL champ Bill Hader's new ads for Volkswagen's 2011 lineup. They're full of Hader's reptilian drollness, making him the most sinister VW spokesman since -- well -- Hitler. Laughs ahead!
Librarians and literature critics may be furious about a new edition of Huckleberry Finn that is being censored, but not Stephen Colbert. The comic used his Comedy Central show to defend this decision, and subsequently made the best joke of the night. Elsewhere, Paul Shaffer explained the iPad to David Letterman, Jon Stewart talked Caddyshack theft and Snooki told Jimmy Kimmel about the next season of her apocalyptic non-fiction series Jersey Shore.
Guys, The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection is great. Iman melts mortals in a way Heidi Klum will never achieve, and Isaac Mizrahi gives spot-on critiques every single week. Following last night's "wedding" episode featuring a trio of gay couples (Hooray!), we're checking in with Isaac to discuss guest judges Johnny Weir and Rachel Zoe, that hideous menswear, and the greatest Shakespearean metaphors you'll read all month.
(If you have yet to watch this week's episode of How I Met Your Mother and you plan on doing so, then, yes, spoiler alert!)
How I Met Your Mother went down a road rarely traveled on Monday when they, quite surprisingly, killed off Marshall's dad. Even though the nature of sitcoms is supposed to be lighthearted (hence, not a drama), death sometimes seeps its way into the narrative for a number of reasons. The most sad, obviously, is when the actor portraying the character dies during production and has to be written out of the show. Other reasons, though, from contract disputes to -- as in the case of HIMYM -- a darker narrative have been a good enough excuse to kill off a sitcom character. Here now a brief history of sitcoms and how they deal with the death of a character.
Maybe everyone in Movieline HQ's luxury apocalypse bunker is just paranoid, but there have been an awful lot of bizarre signs that could mean that the end of time is near. Like the 2,000 dead birds falling from thy sky in Arkansas, or the hundreds of thousands of dead fish that washed onshore just miles away, or the Australian flooding. And now, in another eerie coincidence that seems to have been designed by God -- or Jacob -- Himself, Hurley's winning numbers on Lost have gone on to win an actual mega millions lottery.
The Ed Sullivan Theater was not safe from apocalyptic birds during last night's Late Show -- just ask anyone sitting within throwing distance of David Letterman. Elsewhere, Craig Ferguson starred in an Andy Griffith rap video about Ford Explorers, Chelsea Handler talked to a Social Network star and Kevin Spacey treated Jimmy Fallon to his Johnny Carson impression.
Slow news day, but seriously: Is Joseph Fiennes, the star of Starz's ten-part Camelot series, mocking Glee when he talks about the reasons you should watch him play Merlin?
I mean, watch the premiere tonight on CBS with your breakdancing friends, if you must -- but Paula Abdul's new reality show Live to Dance is set to be a lukewarm medley of disappointments, backflips and septuagenarian hoofers.
What is the one thing worse than sitting through a three-hour opera while sick? Watching an overweight sitcom character sweat through a three-hour opera while he's sick. Hence last night's episode of Mike & Molly, "Mike Goes to the Opera," in which Mike caught a virus and his friends and family missed no less than ten opportunities to make fat jokes at his blubbery expense. "Don't they just put animals your size down when they get sick?"* Hey-oh?
This explains all of the "Paltrow to duet with Cee Lo" reports from yesterday: NBC has confirmed to Movieline that Paltrow will host Saturday Night Live on Jan. 15 and, yes, the musical guest is Cee Lo Green. (This news was originally reported as a duet to occur this weekend, which made little sense considering that Jim Carrey is hosting.) And, yes, the smart money would concur that we will see a duet between these two on Cee Lo's smash hit "F*ck You," whose sanitized version Paltrow covered on Glee. [NBC]
Last night, Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow kicked off 2011's late night programming -- and prepared for that imminent Cee Lo duet -- by putting on a pair of flip shades and crooning suggestive lyrics to Jimmy Fallon. Elsewhere, David Letterman revealed that he once cried during a McDonald's commercial, Jon Stewart proved that Barack Obama is actually Luke Skywalker, Stephen Colbert talked Spiderman, and Paula Abdul acted crazy.
Just days after Cee Lo revealed that he would gladly team up with Gwyneth Paltrow, despite her work covering "F*ck You" for Glee, the Country Strong star says she might appear with the Grammy-nominated singer on this weekend's episode of Saturday Night Live. "We're sort of emailing each other, we don't know where that's gonna go," said Paltrow. "But I am such a big fan of Cee Lo, he is so gorgeous and talented and amazing." Whatever that means. For reference, Jim Carrey is hosting this weekend with musical guest The Black Keys. Stay (unfortunately) tuned. [NYP]
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