What day were you born? How old are you? When did you start seeing her? How many times have you been married? What's your phone number? Address? Credit card number? Social security number? How much money do you make? How many kids do you have? When's the due date? What do you pay in taxes? Here's your prison number. Welcome to our bank; here's your account number. Did you set an ATM pin number? How about for your phone? What's the speed limit? Do you know how fast you were going? Here's a ticket; pay the fine. What time is it? What time do you work? Is it a 9 to 5? How much do you get for overtime? How significant was the raise? The bonus? How many miles are on this road trip? How about the flight? How long will it take? How tall are you? How much do you weigh? Is she a 10? What year is this? What was the score of last night's game? What are the teams' records? Know this guy's batting average? How are his fantasy numbers? Speaking of fantasies, how many people have you slept with? How many words have I just written? How many questions? Why are we obsessed with numbers? Are numbers enough to capture the essence of friends? Family? Loved ones? Life?
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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