My Poor Brain

I don’t watch too much TV. I mostly get my shows on DVD but hope to break that expensive habit, basically hoping for the future of when you can watch anything free on the internet without any ads for a small flat fee. That my friends IS the future.

But while I am stuck in the now, I will stick to my DVR. The two shows I watch every episode of on late night TV is Late Night with Conan O’Brien and SNL.

Let’s start with the “Cone Bone”.

When I decided back in October that I loved Conan O’Brien, the writers went on strike. I was stuck with repeats for a month. But I was happy that those repeats included The White Stripes performance. When Conan came back on the air without the writers, I was super excited. His show was one hundred times better than it had been before, no offense to the writers but Conan had it going good. I mean EVERY skit, gag, joke and outburst was hilarious. I kept every episode.

When news of the writers strike being over came out, I felt sad. But i had a glimmer of hope that maybe everyone at Late Night saw how much better the show was and would adjust things. Nothing changed. It all went back to the normal formula and I was left bored again with most of the episodes. He has his moments in each episode but not like the Strike-era. Those were by far the best episodes of Conan O’Brien ever. When he soon takes over The Tonight Show, I hope things change. I’d hate to see the same ol’ format take over.

The format I’m referring to is: ten minute monologue, skit, maybe another segment, guest, possible skit/segment, guest, music performance. When the writers were gone the format was for the most part thrown out the window and it was tons of Conan shenanigans. I miss the beard.

The second late night show I love is Saturday Night Live.

Now I KNOW most of the show is crap most of the time. But when it has its moments, it HAS it’s moments. And I’ve noticed that things have been getting better as the years of this cast has gone on. I miss Tina Fey, and I really miss Jimmy Fallon. Those were probably my two favorites when they were on.

Of the current cast, my favorites are Andy Samberg and Bill Hader. I wasn’t always the biggest Hader fan until last night’s brand new episode back from the strike. Bill Hader did this SPOT ON impression of Daniel Day-Lewis’s character from There Will Be Blood. It was one of the funniest sketches ever. It also had a joke on . Unfortunately those two movies weren’t seen by a lot of the general viewers and it may not have been found funny by everyone. But if you did see There Will Be Blood you will laugh your ass off. Bill Hader does a whole play on the “I drink your milkshake” speech from the movie.

I’m also a huge Tina Fey/30 Rock fan, so I was thrilled that she was hosting and actually going to be in a bunch of the sketches. She is every fanboys crush and I am a bit of a fanboy myself.

I will tread on through the disappointment of most of the Conan episodes and the obvious dead parts of SNL. But the funny parts are so worth it.