Tonight is the premiere of the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. The former Late Night host will take over as host of the highest rated late night show (one thing NBC has been good at in ratings). Jay Leno’s last night was last Friday, which was his best Friday night in his 17 year run. But that is the most of it. He drew bigger audience with the Johnny Carson tribute show (in 2005, after the death of the Tonight Show legend), and when Obama appeared as host. Though, no one would think it could even touch Carson’s last show, but you’d think it would at least be top for Leno himself. But, it’s probably because it’s not a farewell, since this fall, Leno will be back with his own show on NBC every weeknight at 10PM.

So, how will Conan do? In my opinion, I think he’ll be just fine. I loved him on Late Night, and I believe he appeals more to the target demo.

I haven’t watched the Colbert Report on Comedy Central in a while (mostly during the writer’s strike last winter, and bits and pieces during the election stuff). But last night, I decided to watch it. Great as always (don’t know why I don’t watch everyday), and last night’s ‘Doom Bunker’ segment spoofing the ‘War Room’ on Fox News was downright hilarious (especially when the Transformers came into play, brilliant).

Anyway, the main point was encouraging viewers to continue to vote on the NASA site on a name for Node 3. They have about four that can be voted on (their narrowed down list), but also a field to submit another. Well, Stephen Colbert asks of us to fill in that field for ‘Colbert.’ So if you have free time, why not help NASA in the naming of a module for the Space Station that provides “a spectacular view of both their home planet and their home in space. The cupola’s six rectangular windows and one circular window overhead will show a panoramic view that will be unrivaled by any other spacecraft ever flown. Aside from providing a perfect location to observe and photograph the Earth, the cupola also will contain a robotics workstation, where astronauts will be able to control the station’s giant robotic arm.”

Right now, with the provided names, ‘Serenity,’ is number one with 86% (which I noticed after already submitting Colbert, and is possible geeky entry they probably don’t know of (Firefly everybody, the transport vessel name Serenity). Though, I find it interesting that ‘Enterprise’ isn’t higher on the submitted list, doubt NASA would be able to even do that if it won. Note, the names for Node 1 is ‘Unity,’ and Node 2 is ‘Harmony,’ so the lame names could end with us (Not that ‘Serenity’ is lame, though it is also a name of adult diapers, so…could be butt of jokes, especially after that whole astronaut traveling with adult diapers one thing that happened a while back, but sometimes may make an appearance in jokes.)

So, go to Colbert Nation to go onto the NASA page.

And reason why Colbert would be an appropriate name? Well, he did interview an astronaut on the International Space Station, so there is already NASA love. Check out the video for part 1 of the interview on YouTube:

I was watching the Rachel Maddow Show that I recorded on my DVR from Friday night, and one of the little news stories she touched on was some incident involving a Polish person racking in 50 traffic violations in Ireland, but had different addresses and such so was never “caught.”

Well, that’s because the name the officers were using was “Prawo Jazdy,” which is actually Polish for “driving license.” Mystery solved!

Anyway, after the episode I had already forgot what it was, so I searched Odd news on Yahoo! and such, and landed on the Reuters site and found it. Yeah!

So, yeah, the Irish officers are quite embarrassed.

Here’s the full article from the Oddly Enough section on Reuters: You’re in big trouble, Mr. License!

I was just surfing through some of the YouTube clips available for the Athiest Experience (lot of good stuff out there).  From arguments of the whole banana thing (and there are other banana thing (for some reason Mike Seaver (sorry, Kirk Cameron) and this Ray Comfort guy thing the banana is proof of a god because it’s shaped so nicely in the hand (it’s also shaped nicely to be shoved in certain places, if you know what I mean), there are even spoofs of this idea, that are hilarious).  But one clip from a past episode (I think maybe a year ago, I don’t know.  It’s based in Austin, TX, so I’m limited to checking out past eps on Google video and a few clips on YouTube.

Anyway, this particular clip features a caller that’s, I don’t want to sound rude or mean, but is just a moron, okay.

If you have issues with YouTube or aren’t too fond of watching video online, or have audio issues, basically, the converstation leads to that if the sun is a source of energy, then why don’t we die.  Then it gets to the fact that we, as humans, well, animals in general, produce our own electricity (powers our muscles, this is basic knowledge).  Well, this caller, let’s just say the neurons weren’t firing in science class, because he follows up with the dumbest question: “then why don’t we get electrocuted when we take showers.”

So, the host just points great little sites and such this person and anyone like it to check out, because, honestly, if I were him, I would’ve hung up with the “why don’t we die when the sun goes down.”  Brave to the hosts from the Athiest Experience who have more patience than me.

If you are like this guy, check out this link:
How the Brain Works

I ran into this video and figured I’ll share it.  Remember when Matt Damon said something about this whole Palin thing is like a bad Disney movie.  Well, CollegeHumor.com has a mock-up movie trailer.  Enjoy!

Yeah, the election coming up, the whole Financial situation, blah blah blah.  Let’s put all that aside and just laugh.

Let’s start with some interpretations of some warning signs.  (These are from a user on ClipMarks, URL: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/BB3541B7-1614-44C6-B31E-9EAF8047B6F6/ )

Mutated giant

Use light to lift rubble

<– Take this image on your left for example, which is my favorite, “Use your flashlight to lift the walls right off of you!”

And this image to your right, “After exposure to radiation it is important to consider that you may have mutated to gigantic dimensions: watch your head.”

You can view more from the link mentioned just above.

One of my favorite segments on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is the Headlines, usually done on Monday nights.  Just the fact that things get published with our a second glance or some kind of editing is just hilarious.  Here’s a few Headlines that actually went to print:

“Storm power outage kills local trees, ice cream, and fish”  |  “Highway 4 bypass overpass bypassed”  |  How about “Golden Ripe Bananass” for 39 cents a lb  |  and don’t forget about the “cereal killer”

Read more from NBC.COM

And let’s not forget the site for all those bored out of their minds: Bored.com.  There you can go to sites that really serve no purpose other than give you something to look at or do for a few minutes or so.  But the best part, Dumb Stuff.

Speaking of dumb things people say or do, I found a great little page entitled “Why Americans Should Never Be Allowed to Travel”.  One example from that site: “A client called in inquiring about a package to Hawaii.  After going over all the cost info, she asked, “Would it be cheaper to fly to California and then take the train to Hawaii?”"

And another batch of Dumb, Dumb things, Courtoom talk, that’ll have you rolling on the floor.  And, I’ll give you a little taste from that web page: Lawyer: “You don’t know what it was, and you didn’t know what it looked like, but can you describe it?”

In conclusion…People are just, well, dumb.

Thank you and good night!