09 Nov

Humor Latenight

During it’s preliminary run, Rob Corddry’s “Children’s Hospital” was hosted by TheWB.com and drew admiration from critics and fans alike. Now the sitcom is getting picked up by Cartoon Network, which plans to air the first season and subsequent new episodes during its Adult Swim block.

Although “Children’s Hospital” is heading for greener pastures, the WB has still decided to tap Corddry for other projects.

Under terms of the exclusive deal, Corddry will create, exec produce and star in a pilot presentation for the studio.

Warner Bros. has set aside money for Corddry to shoot a project, which would then be shopped to the networks.

Corddry said he’s penning an “unconventional family comedy” in which he’ll play the father; the show will be set in an off-kilter world. Like his hit Web series “Children’s Hospital,” which parodied hospital dramas like “Grey’s Anatomy,” the show also will be a parody, this time on the family laffer.

As for “Children’s Hospital,” which earned critical acclaim during its original 10-episode run on TheWB.com, the sitcom is about to make the transition to the TV screen.

Cartoon Network’s adult-targeted Adult Swim latenight block has picked up the show’s Web run — 10 episodes at five minutes each — and has ordered a second season of 12 new episodes (at an extended 11 minutes each) to run next year.

Meanwhile, Warner’s TheWB.com digital platform has ordered a new Web series from Corddry and his brother Nate (”Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”) that center on the siblings as an unlikely rock band.

The mockumentary will feature the brothers as they decide to exit show business in order to pursue their real passion as rock stars — in the style of the Bacon Brothers.

Good to hear that Corddry is back on his feet after “The Winner” bombed. I really enjoyed the first ten episodes of “Children’s Hospital,” which showcased his clever, strange, and goofy sense of humor.

Few us went to bed with any thought in mind that we would soon learn that our new president won the Nobel Peace Prize. Not a clue. Obama probably had no idea as his head hit the pillow last night.

I doubt he asked to be considered. I doubt it was on his radar as his plate is so damned full. Now that it is actually happening, I suspect he is somewhat embarrassed and yet honored. And, he has to know that the righties will attack. They are already on the net, on the tube, on the radio pissing all over Obama and the Nobel Committee. Shame on them, these unpatriotic swine.

None of us can really know WHY. I can guess that after the Bush years the vacuum of peaceful Americans was overwhelming and Obama is such a great change from that “dull thud” we called W. He has great promise and they have previously honored for promise, not just achievement. To the world, I believe that he is such a wonderful change, such a vision of hope, that this was a natural thing for them.

We’re going to have to get used to it. BHO has been our President for less than 9 months and he faces such huge obstacles, overwhelming foes, and a nasty damned mess left by W and a selfish, spineless, nasty Congress. Republicans and Democrats deserve blame for being so corrupt, greedy, and on the take. Barack is one man. They are 535 elected legislators and if there are 100 of them that are honest, thoughtful and unselfish leaders in the group, that’s a g-damned stretch.

I’m glad BHO won, though I would have preferred it in a year or two or three. At the same time, let’s just go with it. The Nobel Committee may have something amazing in mind and thus far, Obama has been pretty impressive to this exconservative. His award honors us, the people of the USA.

Way to go, BHO. You are in EXCELLENT COMPANY.

XCon

President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.

Many observers were shocked by the unexpected choice so early in the Obama presidency, which began less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline and has yet to yield concrete achievements in peacemaking.

Some around the world objected to the choice of Obama, who still oversees wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and has launched deadly counter-terror strikes in Pakistan and Somalia.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee countered that it was trying "to promote what he stands for and the positive processes that have started now." It lauded the change in global mood wrought by Obama's calls for peace and cooperation, and praised his pledges to reduce the world stock of nuclear arms, ease American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthen the U.S. role in combating climate change.

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CBS NEWS on the Obama Nobel Prize win. CLICK HERE.

Analysis: Obama's Nobel honors promise, not action

WASHINGTON – The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on darkened, still-asleep Washington. He won! For what?

For one of America's youngest presidents, in office less than nine months — and only for 12 days before the Nobel nomination deadline last February — it was an astonishing award.

But the prize seems to be more for promise than performance. Obama so far has no standout moment of victory. As for most presidents in their first year, the report card on Obama's ambitious agenda is an "incomplete."

He banned extreme interrogation techniques for terrorists. But he also promised to close the globally controversial U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a task with difficulties that have Obama headed to miss his own January 2010 deadline. (READ MORE – Click HERE.)

Rush Limbaugh said Barack Obama's

Nobel Peace Prize was a "greater

embarrassment" than losing the Olympics.

Photo: Reuters

Limbaugh: 'Greater embarrassment' than losing Olympics

Conservatives pounced on the the Nobel Prize committee's decision to award President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, with talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh calling it a "greater embarrassment" than losing the Olympics.

"This fully exposes the illusion that is Barack Obama," Limbaugh told POLITICO in an e-mail. "And with this 'award' the elites of the world are urging Obama, THE MAN OF PEACE, to not do the surge in Afghanistan, not take action against Iran and its nuclear program and to basically continue his intentions to emasculate the United States."

Limbaugh continued: "They love a weakened, neutered U.S, and this is their way of promoting that concept. I think God has a great sense of humor, too."

Read more from the RUSH Hole. Aim here.

Nobel prize for President Obama is a shocker.

He should turn it down.

They could have awarded it to Kylie Minogue and I wouldn’t have been half as surprised as I am watching the television screens around me proclaiming that Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel peace prize. The whole business of a bunch of Scandinavian worthies doling out the profits of a long-gone dynamite maker’s fortune has always smacked of the worst sort of self-satisfied plutocratic worthiness. But this takes the biscuit. President Obama remains the barely man of world politics, barely a senator now barely a president, yet in the land of the Euro-weenies (copyright PJ O’Rourke) the great and the good remain in his thrall.

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Check out Andy Borowitz today. www.borowitzreport.com

He reports:

Nobel Insiders: Beer Summit Sealed it for Obama

Rose Garden Bash Gets High Marks in Oslo

Study links virus to chronic fatigue syndrome

WASHINGTON -- A virus recently linked to prostate cancer is a new suspect in chronic fatigue syndrome. Scientists tested blood from 101 patients and found two-thirds carried it.

That doesn't mean the virus causes chronic fatigue, stressed the research published Thursday in the journal Science.

The team of scientists from the National Cancer Institute and Nevada's Whittemore Peterson Institute said it was possible the virus, named XMRV, was just "a passenger virus" that catches a ride in patients whose immune systems are weakened by chronic fatigue.

Moreover, the researchers found nearly 4 percent of healthy people carried the virus, too. That raises bigger questions about just what role this recently discovered virus - a relative of viruses that cause cancer in mice - may be playing in overall health. (READ MORE – CLICK HERE)

Allan St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana

Laws (NORML), speaks during a news conference at the group's annual convention in

San Francisco, California September 25, 2009. The convention kicked off a state-wide

signature-gathering effort aimed to support the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act

of 2010, which advocates said would regulate cannabis like alcohol, and give local

governments the ability to tax and regulate its sale.

REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES POLITICS SOCIETY)

Pot legalization gains momentum in California

SAN FRANCISCO – Marijuana advocates are gathering signatures to get as many as three pot-legalization measures on the ballot in 2010 in California, setting up what could be a groundbreaking clash with the federal government over U.S. drug policy.

At least one poll shows voters would support lifting the pot prohibition, which would make the state of more than 38 million the first in the nation to legalize marijuana.

Such action would also send the state into a headlong conflict with the U.S. government while raising questions about how federal law enforcement could enforce its drug laws in the face of a massive government-sanctioned pot industry.

The state already has a thriving marijuana trade, thanks to a first-of-its-kind 1996 ballot measure that allowed people to smoke pot for medical purposes. But full legalization could turn medical marijuana dispensaries into all-purpose pot stores, and the open sale of joints could become commonplace on mom-and-pop liquor store counters in liberal locales like Oakland and Santa Cruz.

Under federal law, marijuana is illegal, period. After overseeing a series of raids that destroyed more than 300,000 marijuana plants in California's Sierra Nevada foothills this summer, federal drug czar Gil Kerlikowske proclaimed, "Legalization is not in the president's vocabulary, and it's not in mine."

READ THIS STORY IN FULL – CLICK HERE.

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2009 file photo,, Rep. Tom

Price, R-Ga. meets with reporters on Capitol Hill

in Washington. The Republican Party is harnessing

the furious debate over health care to raise campaign

cash from doctors, dangling the promise of including

donors' names in advertising that attacks President

Barack Obama's overhaul plan.

(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, FILE)

INSIDE WASHINGTON:

GOP raising money from docs

The Republican Party is harnessing the furious debate over health care to raise campaign cash from doctors, dangling the promise of including donors' names in advertising that attacks President Barack Obama's overhaul plan.

The GOP's House campaign arm says it has raised $1.3 million since June by targeting thousands of physicians across the country with phone calls and faxes, inviting them to join the fight "against any proposal that creates a government-run health care system in America."

Some 5,000 doctors have donated, said GOP spokesman Paul Lindsay, and another 10,000 have lent their names as supporters without donating.

Some of the appeals also have gone astray. Paul Kramer, an occupational and family medicine doctor in Henderson, Ky., initially liked the idea when he was called about joining the Physicians' Council for Responsible Reform, but then perceived it as "a bald fundraising effort."

"When I told the woman I wouldn't be interested in making any financial contribution, the call was quickly ended. I want reform and wanted to tell them that not all physicians were interested in seeing this effort tank," Kramer said. "I never got the chance."

READ THE FULL STORY by clicking here.

Jeb Bush: The Country Needs To Put On

Its ‘Big-Boy Pants’ And Leave My Brother Alone

This morning on Fox News, the Fox and Friends hosts and former Florida governor Jeb Bush joined together to gripe about the fact that the country won’t forget what President Bush did to the country for eight years. They said that since it’s already been a whopping 10 months, everything that’s happening is now basically the fault of the Democrats:

KILMEADE: It’s been 10 months. Should Leader Hoyer be looking backwards, and is he accurate?

BUSH: I was on the plane coming up to Washington yesterday, and I heard someone complaining that their child’s acne was because of George Bush. Of course, last week the Olympics didn’t come to Chicago — that was my brother’s fault. And at some point, people are going to have to put on their big-boy pants and assume responsibility for the great challenges and opportunities our country has. I don’t know how much longer leaders — responsible leaders in Congress — can continue to say these things.

Read more on the Jebster as he BUSHES on. Click here.

The House ethics committee has unanimously voted to

expand its investigation into embattled Ways and Means

Chairman Charlie Rangel. Photo: AP

House Ethics panel expands Charlie Rangel probe

Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) is headed for more trouble as the House ethics committee announced Thursday it has expanded its investigation to include Rangel’s financial disclosure reports, which show hundreds of thousands of dollars in previously undeclared personal assets and income.

The growing investigation comes as Rangel continues to fight off Republican attempts to oust him from his chairmanship — the House voted largely along party lines on Wednesday to allow Rangel to keep his gavel while the ethics panel continues its months-long probe of the Harlem Democrat.

READ MORE CHARLIE NEWS – Click if you dare.

Former 'Late Show' intern says

David Letterman was 'a good boss'

by Lynette Rice

A former female Late Show intern who spoke to EW exclusively said that David Letterman was “a good boss” and that the latenight show was a “great place to work.” The woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said she never saw any inappropriate behavior from Letterman toward female staff members. “Dave was pretty regimented in his work day,” the woman said of her three-month stint. “He came in late and then left later after the show. You never saw much of him.”

She continued, “I’ve talked to other former interns and we all discussed how loyal everyone is to Dave. Since I was an intern there, the staff turnover has been minimal. Every single person I worked with there is still there. Working there is a privilege, because it’s Dave out there every single night, and he’s the face of the show. Everyone wants to do their very best for him, whether they saw him on a daily basis. No one was harder on the show than Dave himself.”

Though the former intern was “disappointed” to hear about Letterman’s indiscretions with staff members (”You never want to hear about the skeletons in someone’s closet”), she said she wasn’t surprised by his decision to go public with the affairs. “It was keeping in line with who he is and how he’s handled many situations over the years, from his heart surgery to the birth of his child,” she said. ” He sees his show as a forum to air whatever is going on his life and whatever he’s feeling. It’s weird to say that a man who just admitted to having multiple affairs with employees has maintained some integrity, but I feel he has.”

THE FULL STORY ON THE DAVE – Click Here.

David Letterman and Regina Lasko on vacation in St. Barth in 2005.

Exclusive: David Letterman's

Wife Demanded Public Apology

David Letterman's surprise announcement last Thursday that he had engaged in affairs with female staffers earned him high ratings and laughs from his audience members, but one woman who was not laughing was the “Late Show” host’s wife, Regina Lasko.

It was Lasko who demanded Letterman's second public apology on Monday, FOXNews.com has learned.

Letterman addressed his wife directly during the taping of Monday's “Late Show.” He said she had been “horribly hurt by my behavior” and stated flatly that his affairs “are in the past.”

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David Letterman had secret bedroom above Ed Sullivan Theater, sez ex-'Late Show' staffer

An ex-"Late Show" intern unmasked herself Saturday as one of David Letterman's former flings - and sources revealed the randy funnyman keeps a bachelor pad atop the Ed Sullivan Theater.

"I was madly in love with him at the time," said Holly Hester. "I would have married him. He was hilarious."

The NYU alum, who it appears went on to become a top Hollywood producer, told TMZ.com that the relationship started in the early '90s when Letterman called and asked her on a date to the movies.

A year-long, secret romance ensued, she said, until the funnyman called it off because of their age difference.

READ MORE and let’s put this Letterman story to rest!

Connick Jr. aghast over Aussie blackface skit

A race row has exploded in Australia, after staff on a variety show were forced to apologize for a blackface skit parodying the Jackson Five.

American performer Harry Connick Jr. was serving as guest judge for a reunion edition of the long-running show Hey Hey It's Saturday Night and voiced his disapproval over the musical skit, performed on Wednesday.

The "Jackson Jive" performance featured five men with black makeup smeared over their faces and wearing exaggerated black Afro wigs dancing and singing along with another man, who had stark white makeup smeared over his face and was dressed in a costume reminiscent of Michael Jackson.

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