I could see Dave playing a comedian, but not himself. He was more of an 80's East Coast comic.

This sounds like an alternate take on the Andy Kindler joke on you knew that Late Night With Jimmy Fallon was going to suck, when everyone was extolling the virtues of The Roots as a great band. "Everyone knows that The Roots are great. It doesn't mean that Fallon will be."

I read an interview with Mike Farrell, in which he said that he begged Larry Linville to stay with the show, as he liked him personally and thought that he was the best actor of the cast. Linville told him something along the lines of, "Mike, I've done everything anyone can do with Frank Burns. He can't grow up and…

I do remember reading that Insomnia came to an end due to several factors, such as Dave's becoming too well known to make a show's shoot a surprise, and also that Attell thought that he was drinking too much while filming the show. There was a piece about the show in which one of the producers mentioned that they'd…

I'm of the opposite opinion, as I prefered the Kilborn era. And I preferred Brian Unger, Dave Attell, Frank DiCaro, and A. Whitney Brown to the faux newsies of the Stewart era.

That sounds like a funnier lineup than Real Time has had in forever.

That sounds like the opposite of Maher's roundtable, where it's usually 3 suits who wouldn't know funny if it bit them. From what I've read, Bill doesn't like being upstaged by someone funnier than he is, which was pretty much every comedian he had on Politically Incorrect.

I remember reading that one of the reasons that Rogers left MASH was that like McLean Stevenson, he'd received better offers from the other networks. After he ran the numbers, he made his decision to leave on the fact that he would be losing money if he stayed with MASH.

I'll give this one to the Jacksons by a nose, and I'm a Springsteen fan.

Ah, more pearls from Debbie the dipstick. You can get arugula lettuce at the Kroger in Wheeling,WV, it's not for the elites.

No review of the Bob Dylan Cutting Edge 1965-66 box set, either the 6 CD or the 18 CD uber set. I guess the AV Club music reviewers are busy.

I passed on the "Videos" collection, as I don't have a problem paying for the BluRays, I'll be damned if I buy another copy of "1's," which you have to take as part of the "Deluxe" set. Until Apple gets around to putting out a decent "live" Beatles CD, as there are bootlegs out there that beat the socks off of "Live…

There's a Glenn Gould uber box like this that I have my eyes on. I didn't pull the trigger when it first same out, but I figure after I refill my wallet after the holidays, I'll snag it.

Same here. I do know two things that will happen at a Springsteen/E Street Band Pittsburgh show. At one point, Joe Grushecky will join the festivities, possibly with his son Johnny. And "Youngstown" will be played.

Fun with SNL trivia. Michael O'Donoghue liked Tom Davis, but absolutely hated Al Franken, and thought he was a "careerist."

Is there any particular reason that Comedy Central is no longer running The Daily Show and The Nightly Show in the late evening? I'm not complaining, as that makes more Futurama reruns for me.

Mazda has run an ad for the new Miata recently. It chronicles a guy who had a first generation Miata as a young man, and worked his way though the line of Mazda cars until he’s reached his late 40’s, when he buys a current generation one.

I have a bootleg of U2 performing this, and it's not bad.

Add the fact that Colbert's show now costs CBS less to produce than Letterman's, and the ratings are still better than Dave's overall probably has CBS relatively happy. They can sell him as a "prestige" talk show host, and as the Fallon Kimmel bland a thons roll on, there will be an audience for that kind of host.

As do I. If for no other reason than the cameos that other comedians put in on the show, from Todd Glass, Andy Kindler, Joel McHale, Doug Stanhope, Hannibal Burress, Chelsea Peretti, Jerod Carmichael, and the list goes on and on. Like Norm Macdonald, Tosh is a student of comedy, but I prefer his standup to the show.