"Most of the people are out here for their lungs…some people come out here to become actors or get into showbiz, but most people in Los Angeles are here for their lungs."

I have never heard a comedian's facade as thoroughly demolished as PFT's after that line.

Paul F. Tompkins managed the opposite of breaking character. Anytime he wasn't speaking as Werner Herzog, he was beyond himself in laughter.

"I don't wanna wait
For my Trapper Keeper to be over…"

I'd drink godfathers and rusty nails all day if I could.

Bastille: British group of "Pompeii" fame, a.k.a. That One Indie Pop Song with the African Chant.

My sister convinced me to join her for fondue so she could redeem an employee of the month gift certificate. I ordered a Manhattan, and the bar served it on the rocks. I've never had a Manhattan served that way; not bad.

I've driven through South Carolina; that result is not fascinating in the least.

But…the USA leads the medal count. That's an actual statistic you can look up. Sure, we pooped the bed in speed skating this year, but unlike the Dutch, we actually compete in other sports.

It doesn't matter who you are; everybody wants to watch B-list celebrities get drunk.

It includes ski-cross, and skiers from other freestyle disciplines do not like that categorization, since most ski-crossers come from an alpine background.

The Baltic states really are Europe's bicycle. Russians, Swedes, Poles, Germans, Danes: they've all had a ride.

For all the buzz Tara and Johnny have been receiving (deservedly), Terry Gannon should not be overlooked. This is his first Olympics as a full-time NBC employee (though he's been on loan from ESPN the last few years for Olympic coverage, and more significantly as an anchor for PGA Tour telecasts on Golf Channel,…

ABC used that song first. I think it comes with the broadcast rights.

Hamilton's been the skating analyst at the Olympics since 1992, and I think he's at that point a lot of color commentators reach where he's not as close to the sport as he once was, and his on-screen persona becomes exaggerated into caricature. He's irrevocably TV's stage dad.

Luckily for Disney Channel fans, there's already a spinoff in the works featuring Charlie's long-lost Nigerian cousin called "Good Luck Jonathan."

I see PRIDE! I see POWER! I see a BAD-ASS MOTHER WHO WON'T TAKE NO CRAP FROM NOBODY!

More importantly than Johnny and Tara not being in the commentary booth tonight, neither was Scott Hamilton, which means the primetime audience was spared from fits of oddly passive-aggressive sycophancy.

You tell me.

Noah Ngeny (1500m gold in Sydney) paced El Guerrouj to his 1500m world record, and finished a step behind him during his mile record (Ngeny's second place in that race is still the second-fastest mile ever); Ngeny was the only person in the world who could have beaten El Guerrouj at that time, and he was the one who…