Sigh.
BTW- if DougJ is a Dave man, I am a Craig Ferguson man, because he is hands down the funniest late night guy.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Ah, the different things are different argument.
Impressively dumb. Congratulations.
When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.
This really is a full service blog.
Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.
That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.
If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!
Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.
Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.
Republicans do not pay their debts.
Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.
fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)
Accountability, motherfuckers.
“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”
They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.
You can’t love your country only when you win.
It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.
Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?
It’s the corruption, stupid.
Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.
Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?
YellowJournalism
Okay, now I feel better for having a similar thought about an hour after hearing the news.
I also think he would have been the perfect person to play my high school drama teacher if anyone ever made a movie of HIS life, but for different reasons.
Jebediah, RBG
Yes yes re: Ferguson
YellowJournalism
And I really wish someone would have made a loose sequel that focused solely on PSH’s character, complete with an all-star dream cast playing the fake Brat Pack.
Culture of Truth
Donal Logue?
some guy
@Culture of Truth:
Jesse Peretz dd everything he could to make him a star. no luck
Steeplejack
Some discussion of Craig Ferguson in the thread downstairs.
Suffern ACE
I guess it depends on the script. Will this be a sweeping epic that requires us to cast a “young cole” and and “old Cole?”
Omnes Omnibus
@Suffern ACE: Jesus, that would be like DeNiro in Raging Bull.. But with a neck beard.
joel hanes
Cole biopic : we’ll want Dick VanDyke as stunt coordinator.
MikeJ
@joel hanes: When I watch clips from the Dick Van Dyke show I want more undercupping.
Violet
According to Memebase, look alikes for PSH include Michael Vanderbyl, Robert Scoble and Meg Whitman. Meg Whitman would be an interesting choice to play Cole.
Omnes Omnibus
@joel hanes: Chevy Chase. Less elegant while falling.
Violet
@Omnes Omnibus: Probably need to hire a couple of stunt doubles as well.
Mike E
@Steeplejack: Ferguson enjoys himself thoroughly in this oft tired TV vehicle, lets his freak flag fly, and lets it all hang out. Hysterical. Plus, he is a fierce patriot who is so proud of becoming a US citizen that he got a badass tattoo to commemorate his naturalization.
NotMax
Peter Scolari.
Suffern ACE
@Omnes Omnibus: I think we need two actors. I guess if we can believe that Joseph Gordon-Levitt will grow up to be Bruce Wills (see Looper), matching types isn’t necessary. Maybe to keep it fresh, we could have Michael Cera play old Cole and and Kevin Spacey play young cole.
ranchandsyrup
Is there still time to get footage of the Subaru in the field?
Suzanne
I have been told I look like Tina Fey, so she can play me.
Ferguson is hilarious.
Omnes Omnibus
@Violet: By a “couple,” you mean a “couple of dozen,” right?
Violet
@Omnes Omnibus: Of course. Just didn’t want to put that on the budget line. Do we also need an ambulance on standby?
Roger Moore
The actor who would play me is obvious.
NotMax
@NotMax
Also too, perhaps Michael Keaton or Skeet Ulrich?
Ooh, ooh, hold the phone – howzabout Josh McDermitt?
Omnes Omnibus
@Violet:
Duh
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Violet: Absolutely. A helicopter for transport to a level 3trauma center should probably be a line item also.
NotMax
@Roger Moore
Pierce Brosnan?
/couldn’t resist
Roger Moore
@Violet:
I’m thinking a MASH unit on set would be a better call.
MikeJ
@NotMax: George Lazenby
Suffern ACE
Bruce Dern could play very old cole. We need to start working on this script. What we need to figure out is where Cole will be in 30 years so that this whole thing can get made while we’re still around to see it.
Now, are the dogs in this movie really dogs or are they symbolic somehow? Is it o.k. if they talk?
NotMax
@Suffern ACE
In traction.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: For me, it looks like Ed Helms/ Hugh Grant. For the younger than 30 me, who the fuck knows.
Suffern ACE
@Omnes Omnibus: Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suffern ACE:
No, the dogs can’t talk. I lived near NYC in the summer of ’77. Talking dogs are bad shit.
@Suffern ACE: Hmmm…. In college, I always got the Tom Hulce as Pinto comparison.
lurker dean
eric stonestreet? lol
Suffern ACE
@Omnes Omnibus: O.K. maybe they don’t talk to Cole. They just kind of comment on the action.
NotMax
@Omes Omnibus
It can be done like the dog Cleo in the old TV series The People’s Choice, where the dog’s thoughts are given by an off-screen voice.
MikeJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
It was ok in Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon.
YellowJournalism
Just watched Patrick Stewart on The Daily Show. I would like to see his take on the challenge that is the role of John Cole.
Hill Dweller
@YellowJournalism: I thought Clooney was supposed to be on the show tonight.
Suffern ACE
Zac Efron might be cast in next years star wars reboot. I guess he won’t be available to play cole, either.
TG Chicago
From what I’ve seen of Ferguson, he’s not as good as Letterman at his career best. But he’s WAYYYYY better than Letterman any time recently.
Katharsis
The only late night person I can actually watch a whole show of would be Jimmy Kimmel. Everyone else I can only tolerate for so long. My tolerance threshold goes in this order(highest to lowest):
Craig Ferguson
Conan O’brien
David Letterman
I don’t even bother with Leno, and I haven’t seen enough Fallon to know where he goes on that list–even though I like his occasional music spoofs.
? Martin
Huh. I think Stephen Colbert might be closest in general appearance, though he’d need to let himself go a bit, and lose most of his talent to really capture the true me.
John Carter
Young Cole: the cat from the credits of the Mary Tyler Moore Show:
Old Cole: Morris the Cat.
ultraviolet thunder
In the biopic, the pets will all be imaginary, inhabiting Cole’s mind. He’ll have conversations with them and everyone else will think he’s off his rocker.