All Entries Tagged With: "The Tonight Show"

Evangeline Lily of Lost Admits to Being Cheap (I Still Love Her!)

On Tuesday night, Jay Leno gave Evangeline Lily a hard time about her ABC tv show, Lost, doing a three episode season finale - for three episodes (three hours). The first airs this Thursday.

During the interview, Lily admitted to living in her house this past year, where she knew something was wrong (mold) because she didn’t want to pay for another place to stay. Finally she got too sick, and had to leave. She said, “My illness overrided my thriftiness.” Normally I might ream a celebrity who has all of this money, and won’t spend it when they can, and when they should (hey - mold is gross, get out!) However, Lily is so charming, and likable, and I can totally understand being frugal!

She also said she didn’t Valet park for the first three years of Lost because she didn’t want to tip. Well, hey - she’s probably grown up not having to pay extra for these things and who would want to? Instead of mocking, I applaud her for going the extra mile!

The Lost three-part season finale is coming up, I hope we get shocked and shocked again!

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Is Jay a Scab

This thing just doesn’t end.

While all the late night talk show hosts made their triumphant return to television some with writers, some without, all did it in slightly different fashion. David Letterman and Craig Ferguson are the only hosts that have the benefit of their writers, as Letterman’s production company, Worldwide Pants, worked out an agreement with the Writers Guild. This means the other hosts, who are all in the Writers Guild as well, shouldn’t be crossing the picket line to do their own writing.

Yet, Jay Leno is defiantly writing his own jokes and preparing a monologue. The Writers Guild asked him, probably not so nicely, after Wednesday night to please not do that again, as he was breaking his agreement with the Guild. By Thursday night, he was still telling jokes, though, in a prepared monologue. He’d said the night before that for him it was just like old times, writing and preparing his own material.

I’m just not altogether sure how to feel about this matter. I mean, I understand the plight of my fellow writers. I really, really do. It is quite unfair for them to continually get the short end of the stick when it comes to proceeds, as you can’t do anything without the writers and that’s what they’re trying to prove on strike. It’s like they’re saying if you think the writers are so inconsequential, try doing your show completely without, and you’ll find out how much you need us. And in that case, Leno definitely isn’t doing without, as he’s still performing with the benefit of written jokes, via a monologue.

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