Joan Rivers Gets High, Needs Ride From Melissa
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Chalk Joan Rivers up as another Californian using marijuana for medicinal purposes, as seen on "Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?" (Tue., 9 p.m. EST on WE). While parked with a friend, Lynne, Joan partook of some of the drug she's prescribed to for stress. She's also admitted to using it to help with her recovery from her many plastic surgeries. Lynne said she was getting a contact high, which must have been pretty intense as when they decided to leave, she couldn't tell if the car was moving yet or not. It was in park. So Joan decided to call Melissa to the rescue. It must have felt strange for Melissa taking on more of the parental role here, heading off to pick up your kid who's gotten so high they can't drive themselves home. Back home, the two women kept up their shenanigans, laughing and giggling as Joan decided they should take a dip in the hot tub in the middle of the night ... fully dressed. When Melissa came out to see what all the commotion was this time, Joan lured her closer so she could grab her daughter and pull her into the hot tub as well. Catch "Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best," Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. EST on WE. TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.
Three of the fresh new female faces of "Saturday Night Live" sat down opposite Andy Cohen on "Watch What Happens: Live" (Weeknights, 11 p.m. EST on Bravo). Abby Elliott joined the cast in 2008, followed by Nasim Pedrad in 2009 and Vanessa Bayer in 2010. While all three have begun to forge their own identities on the legendary sketch comedy show, one of their most memorable roles has been as a trio. The three comediennes have made numerous appearances on the show as the sisters Kardashian. So Cohen put them to the test, asking each of them questions that they would then have to answer as their respective Kardashian sister. While all three put on similar air-headed personas and nasally voices, they do use different inflections and accents to differentiate the sisters. The women proved they knew some stuff about the people they were parodying as well. Elliott knew Khloe had never graduated college, while Pedrad was able to name Kim's "not-such-a-hit single," as Cohen called it. Bayer was given a tough one, given how disparate the Kardashians are in height and how close they are in age. She had to put them in age order. The women proved that their parody comes from a place of knowing and understanding, rather than blindly just putting on airs and acting the vapid socialite. Catch new episodes of "What Watch Happens: Live" every weeknights at 11 p.m. EST on Bravo. TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.
"Late Show With David Letterman" (Weeknights, 11:35 p.m. EST on CBS) celebrates an incredible 30 years on the air Wednesday, February 1st. Ahead of the big day, host David Letterman was joined by his first-ever guest on the show, Bill Murray, plus Regis Philbin, who has appeared on the show a whopping 43 times. How better to celebrate than for the three showbiz veterans to indulge in some football in honor of Sunday night's big game? The hair may be whiter and more sparse than in 1982, and the knees may have been creaking, but Murray gamely pulled on a uniform to show off his placekicking prowess. As the pipes swirled outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, the irrepressible Reege ran out in his referee's uniform to take charge of proceedings. With a besuited Letterman looking oddly out of place kneeling down on 53rd Street as placekick holder, Murray ran up for three place kicks. The crowd is on its feet ... He hit the upright on the first attempt and misjudged his second kick. However, on the third try, tears in his eyes as he lines up this last kick, Murray scored. The crowd goes wild ... He didn't exactly threaten Lawrence Tynes or Stephen Gostkowski for a place at the Super Bowl, but one from three wasn't too shabby for a 61 year-old. The celebrations continue on "Late Show With David Letterman," Weeknights, 11:35 p.m. EST on CBS. "Super Bowl XLVI" airs Sunday, Feb. 5, from 6 p.m. EST on NBC. TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.
Following on the heels of virtually every sketch comedy that's come before it on Comedy Central, and sharing a similar format as well, "Key & Peele" (Tue., 10:30 p.m. EST on Comedy Central) premiered in the post-"Tosh.0" slot. Featuring comedians Keegen-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, the premiere featured sketches and stand-up material on various topics, including race. Both Key and Peele are biracial, giving them a unique perspective on race relations in this country. But race wasn't all that was on the table, as many husbands can likely relate to the sketch featuring two husbands talking about how they put their wives in place. Only they have to make sure the wives can't hear them talking about it. It eventually takes their hiding from the wives to talk tough to the extremes of outer space. The pair also took a friendly jab at President Barack Obama. Peele proved he does a great impression of the Commander in Chief in a sketch that had Obama hiring Luther (Key) as his anger translator to say those things in plainer language and emotion than the President can. What followed was a typical Presidential speech, interrupted by Key getting angrier and angrier as it progressed. Catch the first season of "Key & Peele" Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m. EST on Comedy Central. TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.
A-list stars, they're just like the rest of us really. Take Ringo Starr, for example. Forever immortalized as a member of The Beatles, yet he loves to kick back and watch "The Price Is Right." Chatting to Craig Ferguson on "The Late Late Show" (Weeknights, 12:30 a.m. EST on CBS) Ringo joked about how musician and producer Joe Walsh talked him out of naming his latest album "Motel California." Of course, because everyone in Hollywood knows everyone else, Ferguson knows Walsh from his regular guest spots playing Ed the guitarist on "The Drew Carey Show." When the talk turned to Drew Carey's post-sitcom gig hosting "The Price Is Right," Ringo said "I love that show! I love it!" He went on, "Drew is now so slimmed-down ... He looks gorgeous!" Fergsuon's robot sidekick Geoff Peterson concurred: "He looks very svelte." "The Late Late Show" airs Weeknights, 12:30 a.m. EST on CBS.
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There's been a lot of talk recently about how Uggie, the canine star of French film "The Artist" should have been nominated for an Oscar. Instead, he's been nominated for a new doggie acting award, The Golden Collar. Veteran actor Christopher Plummer has been campaigning for a nomination for his "Beginners" canine co-star Cosmo, and now Martin Scorsese has launched a cheeky "For Your Consideration" campaign asking for a Golden Collar nod for Blackie, the Doberman Pinscher in his film, "Hugo." As Scorsese told "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (Weeknights, 12 a.m. EST on ABC), even with 11 Oscar nominations for "Hugo" he still feels bad because Blackie was snubbed. Why was he snubbed? Awards voters obviously didn't appreciate his acting skills. He praised Blackie's ability to under-play a scene, "and the muzzle that came out in 3D? It's genius!" So, how, wondered Kimmel, did directing Blackie compare to directing, say, Don Rickles in "Casino?" "Well, the Doberman had more flair to him." Good news for Scorsese: The Golden Collar organizers have now confirmed that Blackie is the sixth nominee for this year's inaugural award. "Jimmy Kimmel Live" airs Weeknights at 12 a.m. EST on ABC. TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.
"Ringer" (Tues., 9 p.m. EST on The CW) returned from its winter hiatus Tuesday night with the twins now both living in the same city. Having broken into her old apartment Siobhan spied on sister Bridget getting hot and heavy with Siobhan's husband Andrew before he went off to work. She couldn't help but overhear how much Bridget loved the new, huge ring he'd bought for her. So, what's a girl to do? When Bridget got in the shower Siobhan stole the ring of course. In a daring move that could have cost her everything, she crept into the bathroom while her sister was showering and swiped it straight off of the soap dish. Tune to The CW for more suspense on "Ringer," Tuesdays at 9 p.m. EST. TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.
Ahead of Mitt Romney's big victory in Florida Tuesday night, Jon Stewart took a moment to break down the GOP candidate's private sector credentials, specifically his time at Bain Capital, on "The Daily Show." Now, just because Bain Capital sounds like a Batman villain doesn't mean it's an evil corporation, right? Giving Romney the benefit of the doubt, Stewart looked at some of Bain's best buyouts, like a contact lens business they revamped and made a $300 million profit from. But not all the companies Bain "helped" were as lucky, such as Dade International, which went bankrupt after Bain bought it out -- and Bain still made $345 million dollars. "They get it anyway?" Stewart said, confused, as he tried to understand and explain leveraged buyouts -- you know, that thing where you buy a company with borrowed money and then use the company's assets as collateral to pay yourself back (more than you owe) and sacrifice the company to the lenders. The whole thing made Stewart pretty uneasy, but that's not really a surprise considering that Romney himself advocated against the same thing (on a smaller scale) at a campaign rally. Stewart was amused by the contradiction: "Mitt Romney's pitch to Americans: Elect me as your President! I have 25 years business experience doing something this country should never, ever do." Watch the full segment above.
Sororities don't exist in the U.K. Until now, that is ... "Sorority Girls" (Tues., 9 p.m. EST on TLC) is a new reality series that follows the fortunes of five eager American sorority sisters as they try to introduce their world to their British sisters. One thing that will be novel for the British girls is the sorority sisters' own made-up language. To avoid giving offence they often speak in code. So, as Devan hopefully explained, if a girl looked "slutty" in her interview they'd say "she's looking like a sluter cahooter." It was a battle of the short-shorts when the girls met journalism student Claudia and asked her to describe her typical day. It mainly consisted of grooming. The sisters looked on politely as she explained the layers of fake tan she applied each morning -- "hair-drying" her skin in between applications -- to achieve that oh-so-natural for England bronzed look. If Claudia could go on a date with anyone at all, asked Hannah, who would it be with? "Probably Simon Cowell," said Claudia. And what attracted her to the multi-millionaire "Idol" supremo? "He's really good-looking, and I like the older man," she gushed. The girls got their biggest surprise, though, when Claudia got up to leave. Her teeny-tiny denim shorts barely covered her embarrassment, and they left the sorority girls cracking up with laughter. Maybe Claudia would do better if she tried out for "Geordie Shore" instead. Follow the "Sorority Girls" on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. EST on TLC. TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.
We weren't really looking forward to this episode, since it signaled the return to one of worst things about season 2 (other than the preachiness and all-around lack of humor): the "theme" episode. And just like last year, when suddenly a bunch of teenagers just could not stop talking about how inspirational and all-around awesome the older-than-their-parents Madonna is, this episode had every teenager in Lima, Ohio, suddenly obsessed with the dead (and also older-than-their-parents) Michael Jackson. It's lame and we couldn't roll our eyes hard enough. There was a time when Glee wouldn't have passed up an opportunity to make a tasteless joke about Michael Jackson, but with this episode it was all reverence, all the time.
"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" with Blaine opened the episode and our fears seemed realized, since not only wouldn't he shut up about Michael, but he sang pretty much a karaoke version of the song; a note-for-note recreation down to every hiccup and hee-hee. We realize this is kind of a silly complaint when it comes to Glee, which has a hstory of producing almost nothing but karaoke versions of popular hits. But sometimes it really jumps out at you and watching Darren Criss grab his crotch may have excited some fangurls still clinging to the dream, but it actually left us a little pre-bored with the episode to come.
Funny thing, though; we wound up enjoying the episode way more than we thought we would. It had its problems and we wouldn't really place it high in the Glee Pantheon of Good Episodes (which has plenty of room for new entries, believe us), but the scripting here was tighter than we would have thought and the songs all had fairly decent lead-ins from the story. That's a trick that all the great musicals have and all the bad musicals lack. Bad musicals -- and far too many episodes of Glee -- take what we call the "I'll sing now" approach. Y'know: two characters are talking, they unnaturally pause for a beat, and then one or both of them start singing something that only marginally relates to what they were just talking about. We didn't think all of the numbers really hit their mark, but several of them really stood out for us because they flowed naturally from the story. Let's run them down, shall we?
Quinn singing "Never Can Say Goodbye." Quinn hasn't gotten a big showy solo in quite some time and there's a good reason for that. Dianna Agron simply isn't all that great a singer. Passable, but nothing that warrants the spotlight. But we thought the scene with Rachel in the bathroom was full of heart and this sense of a real connection between these two characters, one that goes beyond friendship because Quinn won't stroke Rachel's ego, is well aware of all her flaws, and will tell her the truth. We don't particularly buy Quinn's new role as the wise, experienced one in the group (mainly because it happened so quickly), but we like it as a sort of final destination for the character. In other words, Quinn wound up where we would have wanted her to wind up, but we never really got to see the journey there except in fits and starts and then wildly accelerated. Even so, this song was a perfect match for her vocal capabilities and the staging acknowledged her history rather nicely.
Artie and Mike singing "Scream." It was jarring, to say the least, to see Harry Shrum doing his best Janet Jackson, but what made this number stand out was the outstanding lead-in to it. We've seen Artie stand and dance once before, in last season's fantastic "Safety Dance" number, but this time the emotional impact of seeing him stand up in rage was far more powerful and effective. We actually leaned forward in our seats when we realized we were about to get a Kevin McHale/Harry Shrum dance number. We were mildly disappointed because "Scream" actually isn't one of Michael's strongest videos, from a choreography perspective. That's the kind of statement that's going to be answered with a lot of howls of disapproval, but we call it how we see it. "Scream" was more of a special effects video than a choreography video. Anyway, it was still powerful and they looked great together.
Sam and Mercedes singing "Human Nature." We confess, this rendition won't make us forget the original (which happens to be one of our favorites out of the Michael catalogue), but it was sweet and these two have a growing chemistry together. And again, the lead-in gave the song emotional impact as it was both romantic and full of bright hope.
Sebastian and Santana (with 2Cellos) singing "Smooth Criminal." AMAZING. Talk about your lead-ins. From the second these two vicious babygays laid eyes on each other and smelled the threat in the room, the story has been begging for a showdown. We got the one these two characters deserved. And Santana so won that one.
"Ben" was sappy nonsense (and always has been); ditto on "I Just Can't Stop Loving You." "Bad" was exactly what the title says. One major disappointment with this episode was that Brittany didn't get a big dance number. "Black or White" was good, but not amazing-good, which is kind of what the story required of it. As soon as the number started, we wondered if they were going to do the morph thing. Of course they did.
And of course, the rather preachy aspect of it had us pretty bored. Frankly, we were totally behind rage-filled Artie and his need for vengeance, but that's just us.
As for the Rachel and Finn thing, it's actually playing out a little better than it has any right to. We'll give them credit for one thing: both characters are doing things that make sense for them as characters. Finn is desperately clinging to Rachel because he thinks he has no future and Rachel only accepted his proposal once she convinced herself the same thing. Of course they're both going to realize this at some point. Our bet is right around sectionals. Or maybe finals. Prom. Graduation. Whatever. They'll have a heartfelt talk, maybe sing a little, and both come to realize that Quinn was right all along and you shouldn't drag your high school years around as you go out in the world.
Are we bad adults? We were all for Artie's plans to seek revenge and totally behind Quinn's rather cynical take on the importance of high school in the long run; namely that it has very little, if you live your life right. Would you shield your children from us for setting a bad example or giving them bad advice? We're asking. We probably wouldn't like your children anyway.
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