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Tina Fey previously did an amazing Sarah Palin with Amy Poehler doing Hillary Clinton on SNL. In true SNL fashion, Tina Fey returned again as Sarah Palin being interviewed by Katie Couric.

SNL is good and Tina Fey is just unbelievable. Of course, my favorite quote from Tina Fey this week was, “I hope that come November I can stop playing Sarah Palin.” If Palin doesn’t win, then I hope she stays in the spotlight at least enough for Tina Fey to play her again. It’s just wonderful television.

On the first season finale of America’s Best Dance Crew, Jabbawockeez defeated Status Quo to become the champions. Jabbawockeez set the bar high on ABDC and have been hard at work fulfilling their mission to “inspire the world through music and dance.”

A special thanks to Chelsea over at KarmaloopTV for sending this new video with the Jabbawockeez they just launched.
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David Letterman had one of the best reactions to John McCain canceling his appearance on his show. The best part of it is at about 7:00 minutes.

I think some of the funniest David Letterman has been the times when people haven’t been on his show (see Oprah)

My allergies really made my eyes water during this episode. It couldn’t be I was crying over how cute and tender the conversations home were. I mean who would cry over Charlie Brown?

My one major gripe about this show is shameless advertising. They throw in adversing through out the whole show but do it in the most tacky way.

I was excited to see Rocco on the show and to have a little segment on healthy yet affordable meals. I found some of Rocco’s recipes online, however they weren’t the ones featured in this weeks show. I am hoping that NBC will put those recipes up on their website soon. I want to try the winning meatball and chick pea soup.

The average weight loss for week two is only 2%. I think I heard this a thousand times during this episode. I just wanted to scream “okay we got it” Stop repeating it over and over”. The show could be a normal one hour show if they stopped with their shameless advertising, their endless repeating and the stretched out weigh-ins.

I always have thought that the first weeks weight loss is overly exaggerated. Of course they are going to lose a lot of weight. When you teach them how to eliminate all the extra water from their bodies combined with healthy eating for the first time in their lives they are bound to lose a lot. A friend of mine who isn’t overweight gave up soda for a week and lost 5 lbs. These contestants on this show have given up more than a daily soda soda so it didn’t surprise me to see big numbers.

Now week two is more realistic. The numbers are a lot smaller but heck they are normal. All of them did so good. One week is not a lot of time to even lose one pound. My poor yellow team did so well but because they took the bait of money they missed there goal and were placed in the bottom. The problem is they showed they were a threat. They showed the other teams how much they want to win.

This is good but at the beginning it is dangerous. You want to fly under the radar the first couple of weeks so others won’t vote you off. They got lucky that the grey team fell below the line. They are huge guys and could be a huge threat since they have more weight to lose and we all know guys lose weight faster than girls too.

I was sad to see the grey team go but was happy to see yellow still in the game. Coleen worked hard and she and her dad deserve to be there. I felt sad for L.T. because he gained weight this week but as watched the after the show re-cap he looked great (as did his dad) and there are no worries that he will continue to do well at home. Both Tom and L.T. are going to good contenders for the at home winner.

After last weeks post NBC sent me some links to some unseen footage. I don’t know if they will do this every week or not. However, they did tell me if you go to their official website each week you can find unseen footage from that week.
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Below is a list of the Reality Show Emmy winners. The complete list of 2008 Emmy Winners here.

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY
So You Think You Can Dance (Hummingbird and Flower)

OUTSTANDING REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM
The Amazing Race

OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM
Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List

OUTSTANDING HOST FOR A REALITY OR REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM
Jeff Probst, Survivor

OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL DIRECTION, CAMERAWORK, VIDEO CONTROL FOR A SERIES
Dancing With The Stars

OUTSTANDING MAKEUP FOR A MULTI-CAMERA SERIES OR A SPECIAL (NON-PROSTHETIC)
Dancing With The Stars

OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR REALITY PROGRAMMING
Top Chef

OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING OF CLIP PACKAGES FOR TALK, PERFORMANCE, AWARD, OR A REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM
American Idol

OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR REALITY PROGRAMMING
Carrier

OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING
Deadliest Catch

This seasons Biggest Loser theme is families. My favorite quote from this first episode was “they were born into it or sworn into it”. Jillian is going to pummel the parent/children into healthy lifestyles while Bob takes on the married couples. Let me just say the married couples should be happy they have Bob because Jillian is mean. I am not hating on Jillian. If I were on the show she would be the trainer I would want. I am just saying she is rough. But like Ed from the orange team said, “all this suckiness is worth every minute of it”.

As I was watching the show my prediction was that the brown team would lose. I didn’t want them to lose I just thought they would. In fact I thought they were one of the teams who needed the most help. When we first met the brown team I thought I heard their little boy order 4 donuts. Can he really eat 4 donuts? I can’t imagine letting my child eat 4 donuts in one sitting. No wonder their other child weighs 64 pounds at 4 years old. She weighs as much as my 4 year and one year old combined. I don’t mean to be harsh but this almost seems like child abuse. They are slowly killing their children. But on a positive note they know they need help and are trying to learn healthy living habits so they can return home and help their children. And I couldn’t have been more wrong. Not only weren’t they up for elimination they placed first! Go Brown! I love you.

I was happy to see green go. I think they were great. They were strong competitors. I just think they can go home and do well. From the update at the end of the show it looks like they have done just that. They look great!

And now my own predictions for who I want to make it to the end.
After the first hour I knew I wanted Jerry and his daughter, Coleen to make it far in the competition. I am always a sucker for the weakest link. I felt bad for Jerry and his bad health. I also found him to be quite humble and teachable which I think will help him a lot in this competition

By the end of the show I was a brown team fan.. I hope they make it all the way to the end too.

What are your predictions? And if you were on the show which trainer would you want?

The Future on Fox blog posted a trailer for 24: Redemption. I must admit that this 24 trailer has even more production value than the highly acclaimed Fringe on Fox. Even if it’s not a completely fair comparison since 24: Redemption is a movie, but Fringe had a movie budget.

Saturday Night Live has always done a good job covering the various political figures, but this has to be one of my favorite SNL political skits. Probably because Tina Fey does an incredible job of doing Sarah Palin. In fact, my wife said that she looked like Tina Fey before they’d even tried to do the skit. It was nice to see Amy Poehler do another rendition of Hillary Clinton before Hillary is out of the news for a while.

Check out the Sarah Palin SNL video below:

The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony will be awarded on Sunday, September 21st 8/7c. on ABC.

Here are a few of the nominations:

Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program

American Idol
Ryan Seacrest, Host

Dancing With The Stars
Tom Bergeron, Host

Deal Or No Deal
Howie Mandel, Host

Project Runway
Heidi Klum, Host

Survivor
Jeff Probst, Host

Outstanding Choreography

Dancing With The Stars • Routine: Mambo / ‘Para Los Rumberos’
Julianne Hough, Choreographer

High School Musical 2 • Routines: ‘What Time Is It?’, ‘Fabulous’, ‘Work This Out’, ‘I Don’t Dance’, ‘You Are the Music In Me’, ‘For One’
Kenny Ortega, Choreographer
Charles Klapow, Choreographer
Bonnie Story, Choreographer

So You Think You Can Dance • Routine: Hummingbird and Flower / ‘The Chairman’s Waltz’
Wade Robson, Choreographer

So You Think You Can Dance • Routine: Transformers / ‘Fuego’
Shane Sparks, Choreographer

So You Think You Can Dance • Routine: Table / ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)’
Mandy Moore, Choreographer

Outstanding Cinematography For Reality Programming

Carrier • Rites Of Passage

Project Runway • En Garde!

Survivor • Just Don’t Eat The Apple

The Amazing Race • Honestly, They Have Witch Powers Or Something

Top Chef • Finale (Part 1)

Outstanding Reality-competition Program

American Idol

Dancing With The Stars

Project Runway

The Amazing Race

Top Chef

Outstanding Reality Program

Antiques Roadshow

Dirty Jobs

Extreme Makeover Home Edition

Jeanne Kazumi Petrone, Produced By
Intervention

Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List

Get the complete list of nominations Emmy Nominations