Hints and tips:
...Conan O’Brien was an early adopter with Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, based on the conceit that he had no friends beyond those on his payroll....
...Sixteen years ago I moved to the US, and my wife and I would regularly watch Stewart’s show and The Colbert Report, which starred Daily Show alumnus Stephen Colbert, when trying to get our then baby son...
...She refused to play a slave girl fanning Claudette Colbert’s queen in DeMille’s Cleopatra....
...Bill O’Reilly, presenter of The O’Reilly Factor, was the subject of a weekend New York Times report alleging $13m of pay-offs to silence women who had complained he sexually harassed them....
...Mr Colbert has described it as truth that “comes from the gut”....
...On The Late Show, presenter Stephen Colbert said only the waft of frying bacon could get his two teenage boys out of bed in the morning....
...From George W Bush to the British royal family, Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly to Bill Clinton, no one was spared....
...But Bill O’Reilly, from the far-to-starboard Fox News network, for once offered a more nuanced view, pointing out that late-night talk TV has long been mostly a parade of celebrities sitting on a couch and...
...Conan O’Brien, who briefly hosted The Tonight Show on NBC in 2009, is among the candidates....
...Mr Colbert, who plays the persona of a rightwing talk show host, captured both sides of the double-edged sword when the rally was announced last week. “Shame on you Jon Stewart,” he quipped....
...For example, Mr O’Regan said there was wide confusion about the acronyms and terms bandied about during this most complex of crises. “We’ve been downgraded from AAA+ to AA-,” said Mr O’Regan....
...Still, in the end, it’s the success, or not, of Palin and her mini-mes running for office (Christine O’Donnell, Michele Bachmann, Kelly Ayotte) that may have the greatest style repercussions....
...The late-night TV landscape has been redefined by edgier cable comedians, notably Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on Viacom’s Comedy Central channel, he said....
...UCD; Elaine Hutson, lecturer in finance, Smurfit School, UCD; Cal Muckley, lecturer in finance, Smurfit School, UCD; Shane Whelan, senior lecturer in actuarial studies, school of mathematics, UCD; Kevin O’...
...Vergis Colbert, also new to BofA’s board from Merrill’s board, purchased 15,000 shares. O. Temple Sloan, the bank’s lead director, bought 95,000 shares at $4.53 each....
...“My profession has taken me all over the world and many places are more spectacular but there’s something magical about Barbados,” says photographer Terry O’Neill....
...It was two o’clock in the morning. Furious, my boss stood in front of me, screaming. “That’s bullshit! Don’t ever bullshit me!” he said, in response to my last, clearly unsatisfactory answer....
...Comedies such as the The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report will also be affected....
...Next time: Rodnik finds a new home, and presents their next collection www.rodnik.co.uk T o read previous instalments, go to www.ft.com/adventures...
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