I'm not sure I'd realized previously that Shatner is a midget. I can't decide if that's confusing or awesome.
It's part of his incredible acting ability, Sifu. He's actually 6-3.
"I am The Man With No Name: Zapp Brannigan!"
They should really get Palin on the show to do Shatner, now.
2: I'm not sure I'd realized previously that Shatner is a midget.
Conan O'Brien is very tall; Shatner is old and shrunk.
max
['They put him through the warp dryer at the wrong speed.']
William Shatner is justified.
Right-, left-, or center-?
I thought nothing could ever make up for "Rocket Man", but now I see it was just preparation for this moment.
Has anyone ever made a more amazing comeback than Shatner? He is pure genius. A Master at his craft. Schtick has never been more schtickier.
Has the unfoggedbot been re-de-commissioned?
Certainly no one has made a bigger career out of being universally acknowledged to have absolutely no talent.
12: What is life like without a soul or the capacity for joy? Are there tax advantages, at least?
12: I don't know; he's one of the greatest actors ever to do a film in Esperanto.
Has anybody watched any of Shatner's Raw Nerve? That stuff is intense. The other day I saw him asking Fran Drescher what it was like to get raped.
13, 14: I didn't say I didn't enjoy the schtick. I was just pointing out that he has actually built his career out of being a bad actor.
A few months ago I went back and watched an episode of the old show ("The Enterprise Incident" written by DC Fontana) and was really amazed at how over the top the whole thing was. When you don't have a modern special effects budget, you need to have your actors do the equivalent of Michael Bay explosions in every scene. And the continuity errors! But the whole thing is near and dear to my heart.
I was just pointing out that he has actually built his career out of being a bad actor.
It's not like he had a lot of other options...
Certainly no one has made a bigger career out of being universally acknowledged to have absolutely no talent.
No man, anyway.
It takes talent to find just the right cosmetic surgeon, Ned.
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No man, anyway.
Maybe it's just because of the recent thread talking about Viggo Mortensen, but this reminds me of the Eowyn scene in RotK.
Has the unfoggedbot been re-de-commissioned?
Temporarily!
Has anyone ever made a more amazing comeback than Shatner?
When you've been TJ Hooker there's nowhere to go but up.
Shatner's managed to turn a mediocre acting career into a lifetime gig as a beloved pop icon. That takes some kind of talent, if only a talent at marketing.
#16. I haven't seen Raw Nerve but it looks interesting. Chris Issak has a show, too? I chuckled at that a little, I confess.
Aw, the YouTube version was taken down while I was in meetings all day.
26: It's on http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrien.com/
More OT: Virginia Tech families, please move on. Your loved ones died because one particularly messed-up young man ran amok, which was possible in part because humans are fallible and in part because it's very very hard to figure out before hand when you're dealing with the extraordinarily unusual case of the troubled person who really is going to start shooting. More investigation really isn't going to add anything terribly helpful.
As risible as Shatner has been, he ought always to be remembered for his finest moment.
28: Not that I disagree in principle, but despite all the urging we give one another to do so, "moving on" seems to be a vanishingly rare phenomenon.
30: Agreed, but I think that's partly because we've created a lot of cultural support for wallowing in grief as long as possible, much of which consists of various forms of pretending that there's something more useful to be learned than "you were unlucky and it really sucks."
32: However, sometimes people do move on, whatever that happens to mean for them, but we regard them as unhealthy -- repressed, selfish, licentious or creepy: e.g., Nigella Lawson for proceeding from her late husband to one of the Saatchis, Peter Bogdanovich for marrying his late wife's sister, the recurrent literary figure of the stern survivor of some grievous historical event (WWII, the Holocaust, Vietnam) who doesn't discuss it with his or her memoirist children.
35: Don't forget Michael Schiavo. He's someone who was really punished for moving on.
He wears a toupee too, reportedly obviously.
38: He wears a toupee too obviously.
Peter Bogdanovich for marrying his late wife's sister
We should esteem his embrace of traditional values.
Y'all can just use this thread to comment on my WEEKLY BROADCAST!
RED HOT LUTENIST ACTION going down right now!
Just tuned in a couple of songs ago. The current thing is pretty great.
Look at the effort I go through for you all: editing out the good two minutes of a 17-minute track.
I'm downloading some app since it doesn't want to play on my Mac. But then, I'll listen! Maybe!
48, 49: And I don't have a problem playing it in Itunes on my Mac, or through the browser (firefox).
It seems the thing one can play from the browser in Firefox and the thing that I can get to play in iTunes (the latter of the two being the one that is definitively labeled as neb's show, while the former doesn't indicate what I'm listening to) are playing different songs. Perhaps they're not synced? Or something?
Right now is a guy singing a capella. Recent lyric "can you play at the ball?"
that was weird, it was like it skipped a lyric or something.
What's that high-pitched instrument playing now? Some sort of horn?
(And has my cat hiding under the bed).
Some kind of near-eastern double reed would be my guess, but I'm honestly not certain. A ney or something like that?
It does sound double-reeded. Actually, rather like a bassoon played by me. (That was an experiment that was never repeated).
Something about the sound is reminding me of one of those Berlin-era David Bowie albums.
You're thinking of the track "Neukölln" [sic], essear.
This one is good, as well. Damn you for making it difficult to leave my desk and take out the trash as I should.
This one is a medley of two tunes.
Guess what the second one is!!!!
Though at least on the CD case I have it's spelled Neuköln.
Huh, I guess my [sic]ing was incorrect and there really are two ells.
Then I was right to [sic] but wrong about the reason why! Ho ho ho.
68: yes indeedy.
That was a toughie, neb.
(Like this version too. Apparently, if it's a song I like, I'll listen to any variation. I realized the other day that I have about 10 different versions of Wayfaring Stranger).
Stanley pawned me before I even managed to type it....
Yeah, I'm fairly ad hoc but I'm not sure I actually like being in hock.
And that, right there, is why I should never attempt to make a pun.
And ham hocks, how do you feel about them?
Is this still weekly broadcast time? I'm listening to slow violins.
Sounds right, heebie. Should have just transitioned.
I like this song better. So far. Oh! Black is the color! I bet this is the right DJ.
Patience, Paren, and all will be revealed.
or you could go to the playlist.
Hasn't it already been established that I lack patience? I mean, look at my response times!
Thanks for the link.
You know I'm sensitive about my nasal bray, h-g.
You know I'm sensitive about my nasal spray, h-g.
You mean your nose flow?
Yeah, the CD stopped playing back with over a minute on the track to go, so...
Oh dear, this latest song is quite atonal.
To be clear, my "Ouch"was to the technical problem, not the then-currently playing song.
There's a cicada trapped in this song.
They didn't even have Tivos back in 1992.
.oga tnemom a rohtua tnereffid a dah 201 raews dluoc I
I had to tune out not long after the Crumb, and also missed the first set. Who is this lutenist you mentioned?
Also, it's 104 goddamn degrees here.
Jozef van Wissem is the lutenist I mentioned.
Also, it's 104 goddamn degrees here.
If the dashboard melts, you'll still have the radio.
109: The reason is because neb's show's over, heebie.
or
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2009/07/william_shatner_gets_all_groov.html
Shatner's _Mr Tambourine Man_ is outstanding.
110: That explains it. I was wondering (the reason why.)
creepy: ... Peter Bogdanovich for marrying his late wife's sister
And both of his wives are still alive, making this even creepier...
Wil Wheaton on meeting William Fucking Shatner.
I assume everyone has seen Rocket Man.
Most folks don't seem to get that he was deliberately being funny, just as he does today, with the Palin, and Denny Crane, and so on.
Yes, I did the International Talk Like WS Day back in March.
I also like Wil's anecdote of his encounter with Lawrence Tierney.