8:30 EST – Monday Night Football: Steelers at Redskins (ESPN)
Jeff’s fantasy implication: Santana Moss. Pleeeeease catch four touchdowns tonight. Pleeeeeeeeease.
9:00 – Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash 2008 (NBC)
I can live with the idea of there being SNL content on nights that are not Saturdays, but it’s just plain awkward when they try to do the “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night” opening on any night but Saturday. Well, NBC.com promises that this will be a “2 HOUR BLOW OUT” of some sort of another. Hey, one more Palin imitation for the road, Tina Fey?
9:00 – Die Another Day (Spike)
Remember back when James Bond still had crazy gadgets and gizmos? You know, instead of blond hair and feelings? Well, if you don’t, Die Another Day will gladly remind you. Next question: they were really, really close to spinning off Halle Berry’s character into her own movie – would this have been a good thing because of 90 minutes of Halle Berry in a bikini on screen, or a bad thing because it would’ve been just as bad as Catwoman? Discuss.
Late Night
Paris Hilton is a fine, upstanding young woman on Letterman, Leno is apparently featuring something involving SeaWorld (……yeah), 2.0somethings mancrush Brian Williams is on Conan, Doris Kearns Goodwin plagiarizes her witty retorts to Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, and the Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan brags about how many bajillions of readers his stupid blog gets on Colbert.
Six days left until the election that the country has been building up to for 21 months (seriously, the third ever post on this very blog mentioned the election) and everyone is trying to pull out their A-game. Since no one on the internet seems to care about anything but the election and because this stuff is like crack to me, I thought I would run through some election-related stuff that you should check out.
While Jon Stewart is a few hours from doing the opening of The Daily Show in an Obama T-shirt, a lot of the correspondents are stepping up and delivering segments that brutally satirize both sides and the political process.The video embedded above and this one are great examples of what the Daily Show is pumped out all week.
To find out how The Onion, Brian Williams and a random Obama volunteer are dealing with the pressure, keep reading after the jump.
TV’s most addictive nightly series is drawing to a close, and tonight we say goodbye to young gymnast Sophie. Will Paul carry her away into the sunset of sanity, Bela Karolyi style? Or is she just plain nutso?
10:00 – South Park (Comedy Central)
Tonight’s new South Park is apparently an homage to the animated flick Heavy Metal. I do not know anything about this movie, and didn’t even read the Wikipedia page I just linked to. But I mean, South Park‘s usually pretty funny, I suppose. Right? Sure.
10:30 – Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil (Comedy Central)
Caught the Donald Trump vs. Viagra episode of Black’s new show, and aside from feeling a bit too rehearsed, it was pretty damn funny. Tonight’s episode tackles the age old question: which is more evil, beer or weed? Because, you know, crystal meth doesn’t qualify because it’s good at heart.
Late Night
Personal man-crush Brian Williams is on Letterman tonight (as is the great comedienne Judy Greer), Leno is hosting John Krasinski and Joe Torre, Kimmel has John Cusack and the disgustingly virginal Jonas Brothers, and the good hosts (Conan, Colbert, and Stewart) are all still off.
8:30 EST – Monday Night Football: Steelers at Redskins (ESPN)
9:30 – In Treatment (HBO)