Defend Carson Daly on his 34th birthday

hi carson

i have never seen TRL as i am canadian, so he seems ok to me! happy bday fren

he probably knows he sucks.

Cameo in Josie & the Pussycats, which wasn't terrible.

dude i was in h.s. with plays(played?) trumpet for his show. he gives a good working musician a job

broke Tara Reid's spirit

He was so annoying on his show last night in the span of 3 minutes in his interview with Avril:

1) You are so hot now! When did you get so hot!

2) A comment about how both of their careers have turned out nicely.

3) I took your husband to his first strip club!

4) You don't have to play your single, you can do whatever you want. You can cover, say, Nirvana's "Territorial Pissings." (WTF)

i would have thought he was older. now i feel really really old.

he's only 34? he looks kinda long in the tooth these days...

he is GREAT in josie & the pussycats

I sometimes like watching a show for the same reason that some people look at car crashes.

i used to like it when he would make rush jokes and whatnot on TRL and then there'd be a letterman-esque comedy beat as it sailed over the heads of the audience

i think he'd be an okay guy to get a drink with, and maybe after plying him with a few shots i could get rachel leigh cook's number

i remember back inna day my friend practically wanted to put a contract on carson's head cause he had bedded jennifer love hewitt "before i got the chance to."

this friend is now studying law.

THANK GOD THE TRUTH IS OUT ABOUT HOOS' FRIEND

These days I bet you can get Rachael Leigh Cook's number through 411.

I bet Carson thinks he will get the 11:30 slot someday. There is NO chance.

insert comment about sexing her with the pussycat ears on (no furry)

started his career at KROQ in LA which at one point many years ago was THE "alternative" radio station in the southland. so props for that, i guess.

When I flew Northwest a few weeks ago there was a really pathetic cover story about Rachel Leigh Cook in the in-flight magazine.

time to make my move

she went to my high school

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but her eyes. i could sleep in them.

carson was the man that explained that jennifer love hewitt's boobs weren't actually all that big, they just looked that way because she was so skinny.

ruining dreams = U SUCK

avril interview - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvQsnk7tZ3E

when did they put him behind a desk like a real show???

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he was great on the chappelle show

fyi josh hartnett also went to my high school

kind of a dick

with the knowledge that life is finite i have nevertheless been to two carson daly show tapings and he definitely knows he sucks

like craig ferguson he seems to put a lot of work into making his shitty talk show good

I think Ferguson's doing really well -- he winds up with terrific interviews sometimes. The pull with Daly is just watching the show wreck, for sure: the idea that people are getting paid to write for that show is still mind-boggling to me, and his interviews are clumsy and boring in the exact horrible way Daly is clumsy and boring, and for a while there they seemed to be getting kicked from studio to studio and more or less joking on air about how they were getting canceled -- in the scary lame way, not the Conan "hahaha our show sucks" way -- and yet on it goes, worse and worser, into the depths of talk-show hell, and Daly continues to have this look on his face like a bride trying to look happy and dignified even as her vows are interrupted by her already-drunk father making audible racist comments about the groom's family.

My defense of him is that I look forward to his long career as a mid-level all-purpose television personality -- if his current uselessness hasn't sunk him, nothing will -- so that one day we can watch an old-ass Carson hosting New Year's Eve in Times Square for like the 30th time. It's going to be great. With any luck he and Seacrest will turn into the general network host dudes where your grandkids don't understand their references and can't wait for them to just die already so someone else can do something. We live in a time of ephemeral culture, and could use the same kinds of crappy long-running television institutions everyone else got.

I mean imagine the commercials for life insurance and geriatric health care and shit! "I'm Carson Daly, and iMediPlusPod covers all my prescription medications."

ferguson is good but the writers suck
his thing about britney spears alcoholism trauma was amazing

i know the craig ferguson show is actually better than carson daly's half step above cable access written by 13 year old conan fans but i seriously cannot stand to watch ferguson whereas inoculation at an early age via trl to the cringiness of carson daly means i don't mind having his show on as background noise. i will admit that mr wick seems like a bro while daly is a schmo, for sure

oh also carson daly's warmup dj played exclusively stuff like everclear "am radio" and lo fidelity all stars feat pigeonhead "battleflag" to get the audience jumpin in 2005

carson was the man that explained that jennifer love hewitt's boobs weren't actually all that big, they just looked that way because she was so skinn

Maybe that's why HE lost weight as well.

Defend the Indefensible: Carson Daly

nabisco OTM - daly's destined to be the 21st century regis philbin

carson just looks really stupid to me, an inane what-me-worry grin on his mug. never watched TRL for more than a few minutes but I'll never forget reading an interview w/Daly during the show's heyday where he said if the MTV opportunity hadn't come along he probably would've become a catholic priest! a vocation, is what the nuns called it.

"boy that's a new one" I thought through the tears of laughter.

for a while there they seemed to be getting kicked from studio to studio and more or less joking on air about how they were getting canceled -- in the scary lame way, not the Conan "hahaha our show sucks" way -- and yet on it goes, worse and worser, into the depths of talk-show hell

haha, holy shit, I was searching youtube for a clip that would serve as a representative sample of the show, and I came across this Yo La Tengo performance, which was from one of the episodes that I actually saw! I seem to recall that it was even weirder and stranger within the context of the rest of the show

getting kicked from studio to studio and more or less joking on air about how they were getting canceled -- in the scary lame way, not the Conan "hahaha our show sucks" way

In a way, I respect Daly more for giving less of a shit or at least acting like he gives less of a shit, whereas Conan's self-deprecation about his show is more professional and tenured. At least Daly is closer to the idea of letting the shit fall apart, which is what it should do so.

"which is what it should do so

"this reminds me: did anyone ever watch John McEnroe's extremely short-lived talk show? I remember catching a few episodes of it once while on vacation (don't have cable at home), and it was the most surreally, hilariously bad thing I'd ever seen."

i remember. it was bad. but not as bad as the chair. but at least the chair had johnny mac AND live alligators.

"so that one day we can watch an old-ass Carson hosting New Year's Eve in Times Square for like the 30th time. It's going to be great."

nabisco, your vision of future greatness...is quite the vision.

Conan's self-deprecation is just a blander version of Letterman's self-deprecation aimed at Generation Y. Fuck that.

I thought Ryan Seacrest was being groomed as the New Year's Eve host of the future. didn't he already fill in for Dick Clark once or twice?

"Conan's self-deprecation is just a blander version of Letterman's self-deprecation aimed at Generation Y. Fuck that."

Letterman's self-deprecation is just a blander version of Carson's self-deprecation aimed at Generation X. Fuck that.

Carsons's self-deprecation is just a blander version of Paar's self-deprecation aimed at Baby Boomers. Fuck that.

Paar's self-deprecation is just a blander version of Benny's self-deprecation aimed at the WWII Generation. Fuck that.

Benny's self-deprecation is just a blander version of Allen's self-deprecation aimed at the Depression Generation. Fuck that.

pwned by sammy maudlin

whether all those characterizations are true or not, scott, i don't know. but conan's self-deprecation IS blander, in my mind. he doesn't have the vision that letterman had or has.

and daly is blander than conan and seems to be about letting the whole thing fall apart, which is fine. fuck a self-deprecation.

conan is a writer. he was never a performer like letterman. i think he's funny though. i dunno, i never watch either of those guys anymore. it's an old bit, that's all i was saying.

"aren't i kinda cute in the way i flail about and acknowledge the fact that i'm flailing about in trying to do this dumb show every day" - time for that shit to go

you know who was pretty good at the late night gig the one time he filled in when Letterman was out and had like a week's worth of guest hosts? Vince Vaughn. I never really given a damn either way about his career, but he was surprisingly sure-footed and completely watchable in this arena.

I've

wait wait wait. VINCE VAUGHN hosted an episode of letterman??? how did i not get notified about this.

yeah i think it was actually pretty great if i recall.

and why is this not on Youtube yet?

March 2003 sez IMDB

it's true. and he was really, really good.

He used to play the occasional Fugazi track when he was at KROQ.

vince vaughn? W T F

i would have thought he was older. now i feel really really old.

-- scott seward, Friday, 22 June 2007 17:09 (3 days ago) Link