Posted by Lex Friedman on Sep 30, 2009
I’ve gotten a bit lax at posting daily jokes for Jimmy, as you’ve seen. Once we crossed the hundred show barrier and I still hadn’t heard from Mr. Fallon or his team, I got a little less optimistic.
That said, I’m continuing to run JimmyFallon.com, and I will continue to pump out joke ideas for Jimmy here, but I’m going to have to give up on the daily thing — until and unless Jimmy starts paying me to do it!
- Now that Jon has been fired from Jon and Kate Plus 8, and the show’s been renamed simply Kate Plus 8, we’ve learned that Jon has his own new show debuting next week right here on NBC: Jon Minus Dignity.
- Conan’s ratings on the Tonight Show climbed up for his first show after his concussion when he hit his head last Friday taping the show. Tune in tomorrow, when Conan sets himself on fire!
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Posted by Lex Friedman on May 19, 2009
- The passengers from that plane that landed on the Hudson River finally got their luggage back — which is actually faster than most passengers on US Airways.
- Patrick Swayze is perfectly alive, in spite of rumors spread on Twitter saying that he wasn’t. But the fact that Patrick is still alive is no surprise: Nobody puts Swayze in the coffin!
- Deal or No Deal was cancelled today by NBC. It’s bad news for Howie Mandel, but worse for pretty women whose only talent is holding briefcases.
- The satellites that power GPS receivers in the United States may fail as early as next year. Some are fearing that it’s a — wait for it! — lost cause.
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Posted by Lex Friedman on Apr 1, 2009
- UC San Diego accidentally sent out emails welcoming 29,000 high school seniors — whose applications the university had, in fact, rejected. As an act of good will, the Dean of Admissions told affected high schoolers that now they COULD attend the school. He added, “NOT!”
- CBS has cancelled long-running soap opera “Guiding Light” after 72 years and 16,000 episodes. I KNEW they’d never last!
- President Obama gave the Queen of England an iPod during his visit with her today. I wonder what songs are on it, though. I’m guessing, “Dancing Queen.” That’d be fitting.
- ER will air its final episode on NBC tomorrow. Which is ironic, since now the entire network needs life support.
- And, of course, it’s April Fool’s Day, a day when we laugh at the easily fooled, gullible people around us. Or, as former President Bush calls it, Wednesday.
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Posted by Lex Friedman on Mar 12, 2009
- Yesterday on the show, we conducted The Twitter Experiment, where got a random audience member more than 20,000 followers on the website Twitter.com. As an added bonus, that audience member — Bryan Brinkman — got 100,000 nerd points. Which I think are worth something in Dungeons and Dragons.
- Bernie Madoff is now in jail, after pleading guilty to running a Ponzi scheme. He actually showed up to court today in a designer leather jacket and say “Aaay” a lot. Yeah, apparently he was trying to convince the judge he was running a Fonzie scheme.
- The International Space Station got dangerously close to some orbiting space junk. But I learned a new pick up line: “Hey baby… Want to get your International Space Station dangerously close to my space junk?”
- ER is getting closer to its final episode here on NBC, after four thousand seasons. They’re thinking of doing a spin-off now, without all the emergencies and stuff. Yeah, they’re just going to call it R.
- The Iraqi guy who threw a shoe at former President Bush was sentenced to three years in prison. You throw a shoe at him, they throw the book at you.
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Tags: Bernie Madoff, ER, Fonzie, George W. Bush, International Space Station, NBC, pickup lines, Twitter