Defamer
The Smoking Gun has obtained an e-mail circulated by picket-line-crossing late-night talk show host Carson Daly, in which he personally petitions friends, family, and co-workers to call in to a "joke hotline," on which they can contribute some pro bono comic material for him to play on the air.
In case the missive left its recipients scratching their heads, Daly then goes to the trouble of scripting out a sample message that might have come from his own father, which we've reproduced above. While Daly's innovative approach to filling up the monologue portion of his show has an almost heartwarming, Amish-barn-raising quality to it, we can't say we approve of a tactic that involves turning friends and relatives hoping to lend a hand into unwitting scabs, leaving them susceptible to nighttime devourings by hungry, striking horror writers.
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Shoulda brought out the knock knock jokes for sweeps, Carson!
I only know "Last Call" from the painful promos that run during Conan, but that pitch appears to be on par with show's regular level of "humor". You're doing just fine without those writers, Cars.
"i used to be on fetal request live! thank you. try the meatloaf!"
The sad part is, now the show's rating will probably go through the roof.
Macrocephalic douchebag...
Well, if his 'friends, family, and co-workers' have any bitter, highly personal material about Tara Reid being a drunk skank, then the show will go on... I mean, the kids tune in to see Carson uncomfortably shuffling around while visibly thinking about how much he sucks, right?
Instead, NBC should be running some of those classic "Later with Bob Costas" episodes sitting in the NBC master vault.
Gold, I tell you. GOLD.
@mr.Man: God love ya, sir. Those Bob Costas shows were so worth staying up for; pearls before swine, I tells ya. Now about all I get are those HBO sports shows...sigh, intelligent and witty discourse and thoughtful reportage, where have you gone?
In fact, can we just start our own network with only shows hosted by Bob Costas, Dick Cavett, Charlie Rose (a little dull, but still qualifies), Keith Olbermann and, to be lured out of exile to Nonnetworkinterferenceland, Bill Moyer, Ted Koppel and Walter Cronkite? And we can have a comedy hour hosted by Graham Norton.
Makes me laugh to think that the guy actually had writers at one stage...
The bit, Daly stressed, was not meant to "make fun" of his striking writers. He added that his goal was to just "play a fun collage of random people trying to 'help me out.'" The bit's set-up, Daly wrote in his Sunday night e-mail was that "the devastating writers strike" led to "A TON of my friends and family...calling me, leaving messages, offering their help with jokes because they know that I don't have any writers working and hosting a latenight show without them will be nearly impossible for me."
uh Carson baby - try fucking believably impossible for you - and it's going to be very painful to watch...
Here's a joke.
Q: What do Carson Daly and Olestra have in common?
A: Pretty much everything.
C'mon, people, crayons down .
Wow. Who's gonna email scab for Carson Daly? End it.
"Okay, so this closeted talk show host walks into a bar..."
"Feel free to call more than once." Clearly, NBC pays Cars phone bill.
Writers should get double-time just to have to write for no-talent, no-clue, "that's really cool" white dudes when they ARE working.
"Knock, knock"
"Who's there?"
"Carson Daly and his hepatitis C."
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