When President Barack Obama starts his speech on Thursday night, I'd love for someone to place an empty chair by him and for him to say look at it and say something along the lines of, "Hey Clint. How's it going? I'm surprised to see you here. Am I making your day right now? I have to tell you, I felt pretty lucky last week when you were speaking," and then look back at the crowd with a big smile on his face. I'd like to see that or the Democrats bring out Betty White to parody Clint Eastwood's performance. If the Democrats don't poke fun at Eastwood talking to an empty chair at least once, I will be severely disappointed.
After its first week, I gave The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore a B+ grade. While I didn't think the show appeared to be perfect by any stretch of the imagination, I also liked the Daily Show meets Politically Incorrect vibe I got from it, and thought, with the proper adjustments, the show would indeed provide a great fill-in for The Colbert Report . In the show's succeeding weeks, however, I've been less impressed by it and think that if it doesn't make certain adjustments, it could be in jeopardy of losing many long-time viewers of the show's time slot. One major issue I think the show's had to this point is a lack of direction. It's been unable to decide whether it wants to be a comedy show with serious conversation sprinkled in or a serious show with comedy sprinkled in. It's almost as if the show's writers want to give The Nightly Show a Real Time with Bill Maher feel. The problem with that idea or format is the fact Real Time is an hour lon...
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