Glad to see that Conan O’Brien isn’t going to leave his friends behind when he moves to the Tonight Show.  He’s just going to encase them in carbonite for a later time and date.

Much of Conan’s more legendary skits (re: the pooping robot) won’t translate to an earlier/older audience and this is proof of that.  I don’t know if my grandma, or mom for that matter, would find an animatronic bear masturbating funny, but it is.

Tonight Conan welcomes The White Stripes back as his final musical guest. His final Late Show should be an emotionally doozy/hillarious affair.

A pretty lackluster show, considering they had a capably funny host in Bradley Cooper, two major pop culture events happened this week (Christian Bale and Michael Phelps), and they has TV on the Radio as the musical guest.

“Otherwise, what were the high points? Anyone like the Digital Short with T-Pain on the boat? Sure, host Bradley Cooper was pleasant and enthusiastic, but his material? The game show about having sex with contestants’ wives? Cooper’s okay Christian Bale impersonation in a dull bit about Bale’s rage? The intervention sketch where he and Kristen Wiig made rude noises? Speaking of Wiig, her Kathie Lee Gifford and Bjork were excellent, but I doubt I’m the only person who thinks she’s on-screen way too much these days–at best, she’s carrying too much of the load,” wrote EW’s Ken Tucker.

And I would tend to agree.  Winona Ryder’s Bjork impression from a few years ago was much better and as much as I like Kristen Wiig (and I like her a lot) she’s slowly going from underrated role-player gem to overused and overworked.  It’s like they’ve thrust her into the starting lineup when she’s a talented sixth-man.  The writer’s are starting to kill her appeal because they have nothing else funny in the bag.  A shame really.

Wait. Hold on. They make chocolate cereal straws? Why did I not know this. Where can I find these? Amazing.

The digital short with T-Pain and the Lonely Island Boys was okay. Nothing great by their own lofty standards. MORE »

Matt Ausiello at EW got his hands on a new clip from Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. It’s strange that FOX seems to be doing everything possible to sabotage this show and we find it curious that Whedon after having the excellent Firefly assassinated by the network would allow that to happen again.

“Fox has saddled it with the confidence-killing, viewer-allergic time slot of Fridays at 9, meaning it’ll probably get canceled halfway through its first season and we’ll just end up disappointed,” writes the guys over at Vulture.

And with this clip, they’ve done Whedon fans and potential new viewers no favors by releasing what could be a boring clip.? There is nothing they are doing to get people excited about the Feb. 13 pilot.? Basically, the buzz is that despite being created by Joss Whedon people are still confused/not sure what to make of the show.? But because Whedon is involved and his track record is sheer excellence most are willing to hold out hope.

I would expect that this show could become a Hulu favorite, with lots of people watching on Saturday morning while nursing a hangover. That’s how this show should be judged and not be network ratings. What FOX should have done is paired this with American Idol or some such thing.

In the clip, we see the first time we see Echo (Eliza Dushku) wake up after having her memories wiped in the special memory-flushing chair which leads into a discussion between lab tech Topher (Fran Kranz) and Echo’s handler Boyd (Harry Lennix) about her last date, delving into just what being a doll/active means.

It’s almost too easy to compile a funny list when you have excellent source material to work with.  This is also, waaaaay less creepy than the Jim Carrey in a bathtub top 10 from last night.  No seriously, that was some awkward list making, involving Larry King.  I literally haven’t been able to get it out of my head.

Now that television is on hiatus until January and nothing exciting will happen until Battlestar Galactica and Lost return, you’ll have to make do with these mini preview clips from Lost (and for those that are fans the Battlestar webisodes) until then.

The clip features Jack and Ben talking about what might have become to the other passengers who stayed on the moving island, while they prepare to “go back”.  It’s all really boring, with Jack shaving his beard – not nearly as exciting as Kate’s clip.  But it’s also tantalizingly exciting.  The possibilities!

“Because You Left”, the season premiere, airs on Wednesday, January 21st 2009.

I’m dying for January to get here.  Battlestar Galactica wraps up and Lost returns with a two-hour premiere on Wednesday, Jan. 21 at 8 p.m.

This is perhaps the funniest Gossip Girl related article I’ve read in a while.� Top to bottom just hilarious.

But now that the show is on DVD I’ve got to play a bit of catch up, as I missed the last half of the first season.� Even though Gossip Girl is Veronica Mars (now that would be a show I could get behind, her investigating with Wallace whom slept with whom, the date rapes, the affairs, the drug use, all the crazy shit that happens at an Upper West Side private high school, et cetera) I often think of her as really fat and unattractive.� I don’t know why, that just how I picture her.� Like some Frankenstein version of the cuteness we used to know as Veronica Mars.

Also, Contance Billard just like the high school I went to, except the exact opposite.� So I can relate.

Gossip Girl Season 2 begins Sept. 1 on CW.

We’re glad the kids will have someone cool to sing along with, even if the adults are all sick to death of Feist’s “1-2-3-4″ when the venerable PBS show debuts its 39th season this year. Leslie Feist will drop by to teach kids to count to four.

A salient point is to be made here. In the actual song, Feist herself has a hard time counting to 10. In fact, she doesn’t do it. Second, we’re a bit miffed that she doesn’t have a showdown with The Count. This would have been the way to go.

In the wake of Yo Gabba Gabba’s hipster credentials, is Sesame Street trying to do the same. They have Will Arnett, Heidi Klum and Jack Black making stops to the stoop made famous by Big Bird, Oscar and Grover.

It’s funny cause you don’t know what they’re saying and it’s sort of racist. What? No Hello Kitty? Still, Kristen Wiig needs to get her own sitcom cause she’s an SNL MVP. Also, it’s worth watching for the hilarious introduction by Ricky Gervais, which only confirms that the original is still the better of the two.