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Kelly Ripa; Steve Coogan; and Spiritualized. PLUS:The "Today" Show; Brett Favre Starts a Trend; Tickets to the Olympic Opening Ceremonies; Great Moments; a Top Ten List; and Alan Kalter's Olympic Update.
" . . . and now, Russian fertilizer king . . . . . . . David Letterman!"
ACT 1:
The Summer Olympics are to begin this Friday in Beijing, China. Apparently, torturing dissidents is one of the requirements of being awarded the Games. Monday morning, the ‘Today' show began broadcasting from Beijing for the duration of the Olympic Games. NBC is reluctant to admit it, but Dave thinks the quality of the air is going to be a problem. We see a clip of Matt Lauer's report from this morning. Halfway through his first sentence, Lauer gasps and coughs and wheezes from the polluted smog that drifts in and surrounds the handsome Matt Lauer.
Brett Favre is back with the Pack. Dave is still a bit steamed at the future Hall of Famer who was on this show after the season and said he was retired . . . sort of. Now he's not retired. Brett Favre's return to the Green Bay Packers has started a trend. We take a look at this odd announcement. Announce: "The decision by quarterback Brett Favre to come out of retirement is an inspiration to all professionals who fell they stepped aside too early. Therefore, as of today, former President Richard Nixon is coming out of retirement and getting back into politics.
Richard Nixon: All you need is a dollar and a dream."
Dave is then interrupted by a ticket scalper behind him in the skyline. "Dude . . . psssst, Dude. Dude!" Dave finally notices the bad element. The guy reveals two tickets. "I got two tickets to the Olympic Opening Ceremony in Beijing." Though impressed, Dave won't be in China on Friday and won't need tickets to the opening ceremonies. Not to be defeated, the scalper comes on with a new come-on. He gets Dave's attention again and shouts in a whisper, "Hanna Montana . . . . LIVE!" This gets Dave's attention and he quickly gets up to purchase the hard-to-get ducats. Unfortunately, just at that moment the ticket scalper notices the fuzz approaching. He yells "HEAT!" and quickly runs away.
A still-shaken Dave returns to the desk and wonders how the ticket scalper could have gotten Opening Ceremony tickets. Paul wonders how the scalper got Hanna Montana tickets.
That was me playing the ticket scalper. It was scripted for me to get Dave's attention by saying, "Psssst, Dude," but quite a few time while running it through my head I found myself saying, "Pssssst, Dave." I decided to start out with "Dude . . . Dude . . . pssst, Dude." I figured this would ensure the "Dude" and not the mistaken "Dave."
And my girls were up last night to watch me on the TV. They enjoyed it, but said I should have had tickets for the Jonas Brothers instead of Hanna Montana. They told me the Jonas Brothers are now better than Ms. Montana. Everybody's a critic.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES. We see the President: "I can answer your question beyond . . . beyond that . . . . people . . . . just need to be . . . ."
Dave says you can see the President think in 3 steps.
Step 1: he comes to a small hump and fights to get past it.
Step 2: he comes to another hump, a little larger than the one before it. He struggles to get past that one.
Step 3: He now goes laterally. He can't get past what's ahead of him so takes a different route to avoid the hump, but never gets past it.
ACT 2: TOP TEN: Signs Your Airline is Cutting Costs -- JetBlue announced this morning it would now charge $7 for the pillow and blanket they had previously given for free.
Other airlines are cutting back to make ends meet, such as eliminating flights; going to fewer destinations, and charging for water and extra check-in luggage.
Signs Your Airline is Cutting Costs: 8. Plane has a ‘Hyundai' hood ornament. 7. When you arrive, Hawaii looks suspiciously like Detroit.
The Olympics are just a few days away, so we decided to allot some time to our announcer Alan Kalter in something we call "Alan Kalter's Olympic Update." Alan: "Thanks, Dogmeat. The 2008 Summer Games begin this Friday and I'm happy to report they're shaping up to be the best Olympics in decades. But don't take it from me . . . . take it from one of the official Olympic mascots, Ying Ying the Antelope."
(Alan holds up the palm of his hand where an animation of Ying Ying the Antelope sits . . . . is supposed to sit. There is no animation. All we see is Alan holding up his palm. There is obviously a glitch in the Control Room. Unfortunately, Alan doesn't realize it . . . . yet.)
"Hello, Ying Ying, or should I say, "Ni Hao."
(Alan listens for response and reacts as if spoken to) Alan: "Well, thanks, Ying Ying. Your English is very good, too. Now tell me, what are you looking forward to at the Olympics?"
(Alan listens for Ying Ying's response. Meanwhile, we see Alan receiving some kind of message off-camera) Alan: "Uh, excuse me, does the audience see a cartoon antelope in my hand? . . . . a technical problem? . . . . And why didn't anybody tell me, for crap's sake? I've been talking to my hand like a psycho because none of you morons can make a ‘givl'ing cartoon antelope appear in my ‘givl'ing hand! I expect this kind of incompetence from a drunk old bag like Letterman, but I guess he's not the only dip‘djoy' here who doesn't know how to do his job. Well, you and Letterman and Ying Yihg the cartoon antelope and all kiss my ass!" Alan storms out in anger.
Back to Dave, who admits, "I mean, he has a point."
ACT 3: KELLY RIPA
From the very popular "Live! With Regis and Kelly" show and a voice in the new 3-D animated film, "Fly Me To The Moon."
Summer is a great time to be a kid. Kelly's 3 kids go to day camp when she is working on her show. Her children love camp but one thing Kelly doesn't like is "Visiting Day." This is a day camp they go to, not sleep-away, and Kelly sees them every morning before they leave and again as soon as the get home. There is no need to visit them. 3 kids, 3 visiting days. She admits to going through the motions when she sees them at camp . . . "Oh, I'm so happy to see you!" . . . . even though she had seen them just an hour earlier at home. Kelly says she has a friend who sends her kids away for 7 weeks and maybe there will be one visiting day. Visiting Day at a day camp doesn't make sense. Her 11-year-old son ignores her when she shows up, embarrassed that someone might find out that he has a mom. One time a fellow camper came up to her and said, "Hey, you're Kelly Ripa." Her son then brightened up and said proudly, "Yup, that's my mom!" Kelly skunk-eyed her son, angry that he was now trying to weasel his way back in good with her.
Dave says he didn't know from camp growing up. Kelly says she knew nothing about camp either. In fact, her mother used to use sleep-away camp as a threat, as a possible punishment. Many times Kelly would hear from her mom, "If you and your sister don't behave I will sent you away to sleep-away camp for the whole summer!" She grew up fearing summer camp. When she heard friends had gone to summer camp, she couldn't help but wonder what they did that was so wrong.
Kelly and the family recently went on a trip by mini-van up through Arizona. The family packed up in Phoenix and traveled through Sedona, Grand Canyon, and Flagstaff. Hey, I made that same trip 15 years ago. Ahh, the Grand Canyon. Dave asks what word she used to describe the Grand Canyon when she first saw it. Dave says everyone utters the same word. Kelly says "Beautiful? Inspiring?" Both good choices, but not the word Dave was looking for. The word is "Majestic." Yes, many use that word when seeing the Grand Canyon.
Kelly shows a photo of something new at the Grand Canyon called the skywalk. When I say "something new," I mean it's younger than me. It's a glass-bottom walk that extends out over the Grand Canyon. Kelly loved it but her husband was scared silly. I'm on her husband's side on this. But I'm with Dave when he wondered if the man-made structure is necessary when surrounded by such natural beauty. At least I think Dave said this. It was what I was saying when I saw the photo. Would I go on the skywalk? I would want to, but I don't know if I would. Like anything else I'm afraid to do, I would simply tell people I did it whether I did it or not.
Near the end of the segment, Dave takes a moment to admire Kelly's beautiful teeth; so white; so perfect. I "Played the Dave" and said, "Majestic." But Dave didn't say it. Darn. Kelly says she actually had her front two teeth filed down because they were so big. She says she was like a little beaver. Uh oh. Don't say it . . . don't say it . . . Paul and Dave refrained from the obvious, so Kelly added, "I always said, ‘A little beaver goes a long way.'" Buh dum bum.
Dave asks Kelly if he can take a look at the interior of her dental work. Kelly opens her mouth wide and Dave says, "Ahhh, majestic." DING DING DING DING DING! I'm a winner at "Play The Dave."
ACT 4: STEVE COOGAN
I didn't know this guy. He's very popular in England, playing the part of Alan Partridge, a TV talk show host, seen here in the States on the BBC America. I love the premise. "Alan Partridge" is a successful TV talk show host teetering on the dim side, whose show is then canceled and finds himself living in a motel working on radio. His character seems to be one mired in insecurity which he tries to hide with over-confidence and bluster. We watch a scene of his "making it" for the first time with his female assistant in the motel room. Very funny.
Although he is not a recognizable figure here, in England he is recognized quite often. Being a celebrity can make one lose one's sense of reality. He was in a supermarket recently and a guy stops him and says, "You're Steve Coogan! What are you doing here?" Coogan replies, "Just doing some shopping." This was met with a big "Ha ha ha ha ha." What Steve said wasn't funny, he knew it wasn't funny, but the guy made it seem like it was funny. It's easy to let yourself believe that, yeah, it was funny.
Steve's new film, Hamlet 2, is a sequel to the first one. I like the idea. Steve plays a drama teacher who wrote the sequel for his students to perform. It opens August 22nd at selected cities.
You can also see Steve in the Ben Stiller movie, Tropic Thunder which comes out next week.
ACT 5: Announce: "Tomorrow on the Late Show, Penelope Cruz, X-Games skateboarder Danny Way; and musician Randy Newman. The Late Show, your first choice for Big & Tall fashions."
ACT 7 SPIRITUALIZED: From the new CD, "Songs in A&E," Spiritualized performed "You Lie You Cheat."
And that was our show for Tuesday August 5, 2008.
After my little appearance as the ticket scalper, I went back to the shack backstage where I watch the show with about 5 others. As soon as I walk in I tell all that I have a microphone on. What I say and what they say could be heard by the audio department in the Control Room. We know to keep our gossip to a minimum. Following the ACT 2 I decided to go to one of the audio engineers to have him remove the microphone so we in the shack can freely talk about people. As my microphone is being removed, the very pretty Kelly Ripa is two feet away getting ready to go on stage. She looks at me and says, "You were great!" I suavely replied, Hummina hummina hummina . . . . thank you very much!" I wanted to say "Good luck" to her but realized it's some kind of bad luck to say such a thing to a performer before going on stage. My mouth fumbled for something else to say. When nothing came, I decided to run away. As I ran across the stage, I felt like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer after Clarice told him he was cute. I flitted across the stage humming to myself, "She likes me! She likes me! Wheeeeee! She likes me." Pathetic.
Thank you, Ms. Ripa. You have a fan for life and gave me a story I can tell at Thanksgiving.
My Arizona Trip. 20 years ago or so, four of us traveled to see a friend out in Phoenix. While there, we took a drive up to the Grand Canyon, stopping at the towns mentioned by Kelly. I took the best photograph of my life in Sedona of the church on the hill; such a deep blue sky and the red rock. A perfect photo. We also stopped at Prescott for some drinks. A Steve McQueen movie was shot in Prescott which the bar was quite proud of. On the way up to the Grand Canyon we took a detour. We drove off the highway and went for miles over dirt roads to a tiny town up in the hills. It was called "Crown King." At the time, it was a far, out-of-the-way place. Once there, we headed to the Crown King Saloon. Inside we saw 15 at the bar and 6 dogs lying where they wanted. After a few, I struck up a conversation with a local. I asked him how many people lived in Crown King. He said "about 30." I looked around the bar. I jokingly said, "Well, 15 of them are here. Where are the other 15?" He pointed out the window to a building across the street and said, "In that bar over there."
After the Yankees, I'll be rooting for the Red Sox and against the Dodgers. And what team will reward the disgraceful Manny Ramirez next year with a huge $100 million/4-year contract? Golly, I hope it ain't the Yanks. With the old Stadium on the way out, and Derek and Mariano 5 years from the end . . . . . well, it might be time to start window shopping for a new team. The team is taking on a lot of baggage.
You got to like a team like the Red Sox when the players vote overwhelmingly to get rid of their best hitter in Manny Ramirez because he is such a jerk.
CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
Celebrating their 5th wedding anniversary on Saturday, it's Alan and Sharon Best Page.
This concludes another installment of CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
Kelly Ripa; Steve Coogan; and Spiritualized. PLUS:The "Today" Show; Brett Favre Starts a Trend; Tickets to the Olympic Opening Ceremonies; Great Moments; a Top Ten List; and Alan Kalter's Olympic Update.
" . . . and now, Russian fertilizer king . . . . . . . David Letterman!"
ACT 1:
The Summer Olympics are to begin this Friday in Beijing, China. Apparently, torturing dissidents is one of the requirements of being awarded the Games. Monday morning, the ‘Today' show began broadcasting from Beijing for the duration of the Olympic Games. NBC is reluctant to admit it, but Dave thinks the quality of the air is going to be a problem. We see a clip of Matt Lauer's report from this morning. Halfway through his first sentence, Lauer gasps and coughs and wheezes from the polluted smog that drifts in and surrounds the handsome Matt Lauer.
Brett Favre is back with the Pack. Dave is still a bit steamed at the future Hall of Famer who was on this show after the season and said he was retired . . . sort of. Now he's not retired. Brett Favre's return to the Green Bay Packers has started a trend. We take a look at this odd announcement. Announce: "The decision by quarterback Brett Favre to come out of retirement is an inspiration to all professionals who fell they stepped aside too early. Therefore, as of today, former President Richard Nixon is coming out of retirement and getting back into politics.
Richard Nixon: All you need is a dollar and a dream."
Dave is then interrupted by a ticket scalper behind him in the skyline. "Dude . . . psssst, Dude. Dude!" Dave finally notices the bad element. The guy reveals two tickets. "I got two tickets to the Olympic Opening Ceremony in Beijing." Though impressed, Dave won't be in China on Friday and won't need tickets to the opening ceremonies. Not to be defeated, the scalper comes on with a new come-on. He gets Dave's attention again and shouts in a whisper, "Hanna Montana . . . . LIVE!" This gets Dave's attention and he quickly gets up to purchase the hard-to-get ducats. Unfortunately, just at that moment the ticket scalper notices the fuzz approaching. He yells "HEAT!" and quickly runs away.
A still-shaken Dave returns to the desk and wonders how the ticket scalper could have gotten Opening Ceremony tickets. Paul wonders how the scalper got Hanna Montana tickets.
That was me playing the ticket scalper. It was scripted for me to get Dave's attention by saying, "Psssst, Dude," but quite a few time while running it through my head I found myself saying, "Pssssst, Dave." I decided to start out with "Dude . . . Dude . . . pssst, Dude." I figured this would ensure the "Dude" and not the mistaken "Dave."
And my girls were up last night to watch me on the TV. They enjoyed it, but said I should have had tickets for the Jonas Brothers instead of Hanna Montana. They told me the Jonas Brothers are now better than Ms. Montana. Everybody's a critic.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES. We see the President: "I can answer your question beyond . . . beyond that . . . . people . . . . just need to be . . . ."
Dave says you can see the President think in 3 steps.
Step 1: he comes to a small hump and fights to get past it.
Step 2: he comes to another hump, a little larger than the one before it. He struggles to get past that one.
Step 3: He now goes laterally. He can't get past what's ahead of him so takes a different route to avoid the hump, but never gets past it.
ACT 2: TOP TEN: Signs Your Airline is Cutting Costs -- JetBlue announced this morning it would now charge $7 for the pillow and blanket they had previously given for free.
Other airlines are cutting back to make ends meet, such as eliminating flights; going to fewer destinations, and charging for water and extra check-in luggage.
Signs Your Airline is Cutting Costs: 8. Plane has a ‘Hyundai' hood ornament. 7. When you arrive, Hawaii looks suspiciously like Detroit.
The Olympics are just a few days away, so we decided to allot some time to our announcer Alan Kalter in something we call "Alan Kalter's Olympic Update." Alan: "Thanks, Dogmeat. The 2008 Summer Games begin this Friday and I'm happy to report they're shaping up to be the best Olympics in decades. But don't take it from me . . . . take it from one of the official Olympic mascots, Ying Ying the Antelope."
(Alan holds up the palm of his hand where an animation of Ying Ying the Antelope sits . . . . is supposed to sit. There is no animation. All we see is Alan holding up his palm. There is obviously a glitch in the Control Room. Unfortunately, Alan doesn't realize it . . . . yet.)
"Hello, Ying Ying, or should I say, "Ni Hao."
(Alan listens for response and reacts as if spoken to) Alan: "Well, thanks, Ying Ying. Your English is very good, too. Now tell me, what are you looking forward to at the Olympics?"
(Alan listens for Ying Ying's response. Meanwhile, we see Alan receiving some kind of message off-camera) Alan: "Uh, excuse me, does the audience see a cartoon antelope in my hand? . . . . a technical problem? . . . . And why didn't anybody tell me, for crap's sake? I've been talking to my hand like a psycho because none of you morons can make a ‘givl'ing cartoon antelope appear in my ‘givl'ing hand! I expect this kind of incompetence from a drunk old bag like Letterman, but I guess he's not the only dip‘djoy' here who doesn't know how to do his job. Well, you and Letterman and Ying Yihg the cartoon antelope and all kiss my ass!" Alan storms out in anger.
Back to Dave, who admits, "I mean, he has a point."
ACT 3: KELLY RIPA
From the very popular "Live! With Regis and Kelly" show and a voice in the new 3-D animated film, "Fly Me To The Moon."
Summer is a great time to be a kid. Kelly's 3 kids go to day camp when she is working on her show. Her children love camp but one thing Kelly doesn't like is "Visiting Day." This is a day camp they go to, not sleep-away, and Kelly sees them every morning before they leave and again as soon as the get home. There is no need to visit them. 3 kids, 3 visiting days. She admits to going through the motions when she sees them at camp . . . "Oh, I'm so happy to see you!" . . . . even though she had seen them just an hour earlier at home. Kelly says she has a friend who sends her kids away for 7 weeks and maybe there will be one visiting day. Visiting Day at a day camp doesn't make sense. Her 11-year-old son ignores her when she shows up, embarrassed that someone might find out that he has a mom. One time a fellow camper came up to her and said, "Hey, you're Kelly Ripa." Her son then brightened up and said proudly, "Yup, that's my mom!" Kelly skunk-eyed her son, angry that he was now trying to weasel his way back in good with her.
Dave says he didn't know from camp growing up. Kelly says she knew nothing about camp either. In fact, her mother used to use sleep-away camp as a threat, as a possible punishment. Many times Kelly would hear from her mom, "If you and your sister don't behave I will sent you away to sleep-away camp for the whole summer!" She grew up fearing summer camp. When she heard friends had gone to summer camp, she couldn't help but wonder what they did that was so wrong.
Kelly and the family recently went on a trip by mini-van up through Arizona. The family packed up in Phoenix and traveled through Sedona, Grand Canyon, and Flagstaff. Hey, I made that same trip 15 years ago. Ahh, the Grand Canyon. Dave asks what word she used to describe the Grand Canyon when she first saw it. Dave says everyone utters the same word. Kelly says "Beautiful? Inspiring?" Both good choices, but not the word Dave was looking for. The word is "Majestic." Yes, many use that word when seeing the Grand Canyon.
Kelly shows a photo of something new at the Grand Canyon called the skywalk. When I say "something new," I mean it's younger than me. It's a glass-bottom walk that extends out over the Grand Canyon. Kelly loved it but her husband was scared silly. I'm on her husband's side on this. But I'm with Dave when he wondered if the man-made structure is necessary when surrounded by such natural beauty. At least I think Dave said this. It was what I was saying when I saw the photo. Would I go on the skywalk? I would want to, but I don't know if I would. Like anything else I'm afraid to do, I would simply tell people I did it whether I did it or not.
Near the end of the segment, Dave takes a moment to admire Kelly's beautiful teeth; so white; so perfect. I "Played the Dave" and said, "Majestic." But Dave didn't say it. Darn. Kelly says she actually had her front two teeth filed down because they were so big. She says she was like a little beaver. Uh oh. Don't say it . . . don't say it . . . Paul and Dave refrained from the obvious, so Kelly added, "I always said, ‘A little beaver goes a long way.'" Buh dum bum.
Dave asks Kelly if he can take a look at the interior of her dental work. Kelly opens her mouth wide and Dave says, "Ahhh, majestic." DING DING DING DING DING! I'm a winner at "Play The Dave."
ACT 4: STEVE COOGAN
I didn't know this guy. He's very popular in England, playing the part of Alan Partridge, a TV talk show host, seen here in the States on the BBC America. I love the premise. "Alan Partridge" is a successful TV talk show host teetering on the dim side, whose show is then canceled and finds himself living in a motel working on radio. His character seems to be one mired in insecurity which he tries to hide with over-confidence and bluster. We watch a scene of his "making it" for the first time with his female assistant in the motel room. Very funny.
Although he is not a recognizable figure here, in England he is recognized quite often. Being a celebrity can make one lose one's sense of reality. He was in a supermarket recently and a guy stops him and says, "You're Steve Coogan! What are you doing here?" Coogan replies, "Just doing some shopping." This was met with a big "Ha ha ha ha ha." What Steve said wasn't funny, he knew it wasn't funny, but the guy made it seem like it was funny. It's easy to let yourself believe that, yeah, it was funny.
Steve's new film, Hamlet 2, is a sequel to the first one. I like the idea. Steve plays a drama teacher who wrote the sequel for his students to perform. It opens August 22nd at selected cities.
You can also see Steve in the Ben Stiller movie, Tropic Thunder which comes out next week.
ACT 5: Announce: "Tomorrow on the Late Show, Penelope Cruz, X-Games skateboarder Danny Way; and musician Randy Newman. The Late Show, your first choice for Big & Tall fashions."
ACT 7 SPIRITUALIZED: From the new CD, "Songs in A&E," Spiritualized performed "You Lie You Cheat."
And that was our show for Tuesday August 5, 2008.
After my little appearance as the ticket scalper, I went back to the shack backstage where I watch the show with about 5 others. As soon as I walk in I tell all that I have a microphone on. What I say and what they say could be heard by the audio department in the Control Room. We know to keep our gossip to a minimum. Following the ACT 2 I decided to go to one of the audio engineers to have him remove the microphone so we in the shack can freely talk about people. As my microphone is being removed, the very pretty Kelly Ripa is two feet away getting ready to go on stage. She looks at me and says, "You were great!" I suavely replied, Hummina hummina hummina . . . . thank you very much!" I wanted to say "Good luck" to her but realized it's some kind of bad luck to say such a thing to a performer before going on stage. My mouth fumbled for something else to say. When nothing came, I decided to run away. As I ran across the stage, I felt like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer after Clarice told him he was cute. I flitted across the stage humming to myself, "She likes me! She likes me! Wheeeeee! She likes me." Pathetic.
Thank you, Ms. Ripa. You have a fan for life and gave me a story I can tell at Thanksgiving.
My Arizona Trip. 20 years ago or so, four of us traveled to see a friend out in Phoenix. While there, we took a drive up to the Grand Canyon, stopping at the towns mentioned by Kelly. I took the best photograph of my life in Sedona of the church on the hill; such a deep blue sky and the red rock. A perfect photo. We also stopped at Prescott for some drinks. A Steve McQueen movie was shot in Prescott which the bar was quite proud of. On the way up to the Grand Canyon we took a detour. We drove off the highway and went for miles over dirt roads to a tiny town up in the hills. It was called "Crown King." At the time, it was a far, out-of-the-way place. Once there, we headed to the Crown King Saloon. Inside we saw 15 at the bar and 6 dogs lying where they wanted. After a few, I struck up a conversation with a local. I asked him how many people lived in Crown King. He said "about 30." I looked around the bar. I jokingly said, "Well, 15 of them are here. Where are the other 15?" He pointed out the window to a building across the street and said, "In that bar over there."
After the Yankees, I'll be rooting for the Red Sox and against the Dodgers. And what team will reward the disgraceful Manny Ramirez next year with a huge $100 million/4-year contract? Golly, I hope it ain't the Yanks. With the old Stadium on the way out, and Derek and Mariano 5 years from the end . . . . . well, it might be time to start window shopping for a new team. The team is taking on a lot of baggage.
You got to like a team like the Red Sox when the players vote overwhelmingly to get rid of their best hitter in Manny Ramirez because he is such a jerk.
CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
Celebrating their 5th wedding anniversary on Saturday, it's Alan and Sharon Best Page.
This concludes another installment of CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
ACT 1 • Show Open • Dave's Monologue Watch now • "Today" Show in Beijing • Brett Favre Comeback • Ticket Scalper Interrupt • Great Moments In Presidential Speeches
ACT 2 • Top Ten Signs Your Airline Is Cutting Costs Read now
