So long as everything goes as planned (or at least as hoped), my new book, A Collection of Satirical Short Stories: A Bigly Clever Title, should be available for purchase by Christmas. It'd make the perfect late stocking-stuffer! Forget the coal; just buy your kids my book! Well, that's all I have to share about the matter for now. I'll keep everyone up-to-date as things progress. Stay tuned!
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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