Crapload of clips (from a bunch of shows)

Look, it's ME-bonanza! A festival of ME! A ME-palooza! A Me-varee! A ME-ding! A ME-splosion! I could keep going. Also, completely unrelated, I was thinking lately how much I enjoy brainteasers and riddles and things so if you know any, leave them in the comments!

My Best Bets segment from this morning

I'm wearing the same makeup in this segment (toned down a little and cleaned up) that I was on Red Eye last night because I was too tired to take it off only to be putting it all back on in the span of a few hours. But whenever I do this I end up sleeping like a little mummy because I'm trying not to move so the extra sleep I think I'm going to get by leaving the makeup on is canceled out by the fact that I don't sleep well in it. My hair was delightfully styled here by the woman who regularly does Regis and Kelly's hair but was filling in at NBC because Regis and Kelly is on hiatus. I was far too excited by my hair's brush with greatness! (oh no I did not!!!!!!)(that was an unintended pun! even when I'm on/off I'm on/off!)

Best Bets 12-08-07

New(ish) set!

Tomorrow morning's Best Bets segment

These are the events I'll be talking about on my usual Saturday morning segment tomorrow morning at the very prudential time of 6:45am on channel 4 here in New York. Is prudential the right word? Let's find out... well, not quite. But kinda. But anyway:

The Indie and Small Press Book Fair: Stick it to the man and his corporate books at this two day affair, why don't you? Tama Janowitz, Ian Mackaye and others will be on hand. It's at the New York Center for Independent Publishing on 44th between 5th and 6th. Free with a suggested one dollar donation! Sat 10-6, Sun 11-5

Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter: performing stand-up at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza which I still call Irving Plaza. I think both of them are hilarious. It's Saturday night at 8pm. Tickets are $25.

The Salzberg Marionette Theater performs The Sound of Music: Jersey dwellers don't just have a turnpike, they have this show, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Here's what I want to know, and there is a good chance I'm going to pose this very question on TV tomorrow so sorry for the redundancy if you happen to read this and then see the segment tomorrow, but you know that scene in the Sound of Music where they put on a marionette show? Will marionettes be putting on a marionette show? It's Saturday at 2:30 and 7:30 and Sunday at 2:30 Tickets are $44 to $49 [note: it's not just limited to the weekend but my segment tomorrow is, hence my just mentioning the weekend times]

Blip Festival: Fans of chiptunes, or music made from old electronics especially video games and the like, should head to the Eyebeam Gallery (21st between 10th and 11th) this weekend for this nerdathon. If my sister were listening to me right now she'd get on my case for using nerd here which she thinks is insulting and she says I'm not allowed to say nerd that way. I think I have nerd clearance. $5-$35 I think.

MOTH storytelling: Grand Slam: Competing storytellers will gather at Comix (14th and 8th) to see who can spin a better yarn about Growing Pains. The theme, not the show, alas. Sunday at 6pm. $15-$150.

Best Bets 10-27-07

Best Bets 10-13-07

Pardon the hair in my eye and slight audio weirdness at the beginning.

Best Bets 10-06-07

Best Bets 9-29-07

So I promised…

to blog about every TV appearance but clearly that isn't going to be happening. I will say that despite doing the Saturday show for about two and a half years now, just pre-taping a couple weeks left me out of practice getting up at the crack of dawn and this morning's frequent checking of all the alarms was extra nerve-wracked. But there's something nice about arriving at 30 Rock when no one is there, and were I given the choice to do the segment at a later hour of course I'd take it but I think I'd kind of miss the way the building feels before it comes to life.

Best Bets 9-8-07

Best Bets 9-01-07

Best Bets 8-18-07

I forgot to post this delightful number from a couple weeks back. I didn't love it for some reason if I remember correctly, but don't let that stop you from loving it, since you probably will since you're very like that. (but it's what I like best about you.)

Best Bets 8-25-07

Perhaps it's the fact that it's 20 degrees hotter in my apartment than outside or maybe it's that I have about four thousand deadlines in the next few days and all I really want to do is take a nap somewhere sunny, which is really weird since I'm hardly a somewhere sunny kind of person, or maybe it's the hyper-rodent-vigilance I'm now engaging in round the clock, but I just felt kind of spacey during this morning's Best Bets and also, apparently something painful crossed my face while talking about the second event. I think I swallowed wrong. Enjoy!

Me talking about skee-ball on the 11pm news 8-17-07

Am I ruining the mystery?

I've decided that from now on when I do TV I'm going to post about the behind-the-scenes experience because television is magical and all sorts of important and exciting stuff happens which you may or may not be aware of and I'd like to build a bridge between you, the viewer, and me, an emissary of the enchanted land of television. Actually I don't want to build a bridge between us, I want to be the bridge that connects you to TV. It's a good thing that I'm not making any bridge jokes because that would be tasteless. I'm just saying more that television is an organ and you're a pedunculated cyst and I'm the stem. That's disgusting! Truly, I just made myself sick. For YOU.

So today I set the regular three alarms for 4:48am, 4:58am and 5:11am. Because I'm neurotic. I woke up on the intended second alarm (the first is so I can hit snooze and the last is just a safety precaution because if I were to sleep that late I'd be screwed). I got to the studio, drank a small cup of coffee and noted once again the dichotomy between makeup and hair people, who are generally exceedingly calm and soothing, and morning TV personalities, who are somewhat antic. I'm somewhere in between, but I like to make sure the first few words I speak aren't on air because I want to eradicate any sleepy conversational clunkiness. For this reason if anyone asks me any questions before I go on air and I struggle to answer I take this as a slightly foreboding sign, especially when the questions are "hey, what's going on" and "how are you?"
Then then hair and makeup people told me I was perfect exactly as I am and that if they were to touch me it would be gilding the lily and also unfair to everyone else so I said okay and was brought out to the set. Actually, that didn't happen. Please read critically.

The segment went well. Michael and I wondered aloud what Yo-yo-ers should be called and then when we were talking about Home Movie Day he said that the footage we were looking at was Thomas Edison but I thought he said Thomas Jefferson which really didn't make sense.

After the segment I drank another cup of coffee but I think the milk had turned or maybe the coffee had but anyway I quietly excused myself to throw it away in Conan's trash can. I mean, not his personally, but the one across the hall by the entrance to his studio. I'm not sure why I did this since there were trash cans in the green room.

Then I sat around for awhile and then I changed into my walking home from TV clothes and walked home except for the part where I got lazy and took a cab.

Best Bets 8-11-07

Best Bets 8-4-07

Here's Best Bets, and I'm sorry I haven't posted anything of consequence word wise lately. Would it please you to hear about my allergies? Because I feel like someone rubbed a cat all over me today, which is not a euphemism. I have histamines in places I didn't know were possible. Date me?

Best Bets 7-28-07

Best Bets 7-21-07

How fancy am I?

So fancy that I now post youtube clips of Best Bets, courtesy of Brent Walquist of the Beta Media Group, right here on this here blog. I was going to tell you about how I called 911 today because I walked past a fire but then I got distracted by the bounty that is this: