Adam Savage of “Mythbusters”
Adam Savage returned to my show to talk about the "Mythbusters" marathon (every episode from all ten seasons) that's airing through January 2nd on The Science Channel. We also discussed the upcoming 11th season, which debuts January 10th on The Discovery Channel, but...
Stop Asking That
On Friday when President Obama held his end-of-the-year press conference, the topic of the Sony hack and the withdrawal of "The Interview" came up. The president said that his administration would respond to the hack, which he considered a criminal action, but was not...
We’ll Meet Again
The song that Stephen Colbert and his assembled multitude sang on the final episode of "The Colbert Report" was "We'll Meet Again," written in 1939 by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles, made famous by Dame Vera Lynn in the 1943 movie of the same name. It has also been...
Goodbye Colbert (and Craig)
"The Colbert Report" will air its last original episode tonight -- and the word "original" certainly applies. Stephen Colbert's character was a brilliantly-devised vessel for satirizing television, politics, and the world at large, and his performance as that...
Sports Night
I'm an Aaron Sorkin fan. That doesn't mean I love everything he does -- although "The Newsroom" isn't his best work, I still watch every episode, and even endured "Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip" -- but I like the way the man uses the English language, and the...
Idle and Cleese
I could listen to these guys talk all night. On November 18th, Eric Idle interviewed John Cleese on stage in Los Angeles about Cleese's autobiography, "So, Anyway...." It wasn't really an interview, but more of a conversation, as the old friends swapped stories about...
Dan Pink, “Crowd Control”
Dan Pink returned to my show to talk about his new TV show, "Crowd Control," which debuts Monday night on the National Geographic Channel. We discussed the show's behavioral experiments, like trying to get people to use stairs instead of escalators by making the...
Ken Jennings In Outer Space
It’s been a decade since Ken Jennings appeared on 75 consecutive "Jeopardy!" shows and won $2.5 million (and more in several return visits for special tournaments). He writes a weekly trivia quiz for Slate, compiles the Kennections puzzle for Parade, and is the...