Subject: Talk Shows

• The Big O

  June 9, 2006

• The Rate Stuff

  May 24, 2007

• Delegating Denver #28 of 56: Mississippi

  January 28, 2008

• Matthew Moon Lands Song on Budweiser's Olympic Promo

  June 12, 2008

• Jon Stewart's Denver Visit Highly Anticipated By at Least Two People

  July 3, 2008

• Sorry, Penny Parker, but the DNC is over

  September 16, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: It's all downhill from here, Denver

  The national news is full of Colorado's vituperative lover flaming his ex on the Internet (and getting smacked by this state's bizarre criminal libel statute) and a future vituperative lover giving dating advice at the age of nine (here's just one international sample, from Australia, as well our October blog on the Colorado Casanova, "Nine-year-old Author Doesn't Know S*#t About Talking to Girls." But on Friday, Good Morning America will give the country another look at the real Denver -

  December 3, 2008

• Best collapse of a PR campaign

  June 29, 2000

• Best TV personality vs. government official feud

  June 29, 2000

• Best radio personality vs. public mouthpiece feud

  June 29, 2000

• Off Limits

  March 1, 2001

• Off Limits

  December 20, 2001

• Colorado Public Radio dials back on new talk show

  In the July 2008 blog "Colorado Public Radio Plans Two-Hour Weekday Info Block," Sean Nethery, CPR's vice president of programming, said that "in a matter of weeks, not months," the service would formally announce the expansion of its weekday news program, Colorado Matters, from thirty minutes to an hour in length. As a bonus, this supersized effort would be paired with an hour-long daily talk show that Nethery likened to a local varation on Talk of the Nation, a National Public Radio favorite

  January 27, 2009

• Best Radio Talk-Show Host

  March 27, 2003

• Bite Me

  January 1, 2004

• Gail Schoettler has the final word on vagina-gate

  The stir over KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles's use of the names "Vagina DeGette" and "Vagina DeJet" in reference to Congresswoman Diana DeGette has pretty much run its course -- which is precisely what Clear Channel Denver exec Kris Olinger hoped when she ordered Boyles to drop the topic. But today's Denver Post lobs one last shot in his direction, this one courtesy of former Colorado lieutenant governor (and onetime gubernatorial candidate) Gail Schoettler. And at least "Boyles' Talk Show A

  February 26, 2009

• Drunk of the Week

  July 8, 2004

• Best Slip of the Tongue by a Colorado Politician

  March 24, 2005

• Comic Correction

  Maher keeps on joking

  June 12, 2003

• Mission: Unfilmable

  October 15, 1998

• Meet Mike Relm, master of video turntablism.

  August 14, 2008

• Rescue 9/11

  This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter.

  January 3, 2002

• Oliver Twist

  The Daily Show's John Oliver on fake news and afflicting the comfortable.

  March 20, 2008

• Repeat Offender

  A second, slimmer Capote movie fails to improve on its predecessor.

  October 12, 2006

• Queen City of the Plains

  Nathanial Trotter has a plan to crown Oprah.

  May 25, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  From the week of June 1, 2006

  June 1, 2006

• The Colbert Report

  FEMA's Michael Brown fumbles his fifteen minutes of fame.

  April 13, 2006

• A Very Long Run

  November 17, 2005

• Off Limits

  Peek-a-boo

  April 8, 2004

• Good to Be Black

  Comic Lewis Black brings his comedy back to Colorado.

  January 22, 2004

• Ad Attack

  Political commercials outnumber political reports on local television.

  October 24, 2002

• The T.A.M.M.Y. Show

  A documentary gives life to fallen PTL angel Tammy Faye Bakker.

  August 10, 2000

• Off Limits

  Columbine families prepare to unite for a new library...

  December 2, 1999

• "HELLO, DENVER, YOU'RE ON LARRY KING LIVE!"

  November 29, 1995

• OFF LIMITS

  November 29, 1995

• SUFFERING FROM BAD HIP

  October 11, 1995

• FAIR TO MUDDLING

  March 22, 1995

• OFF LIMITS

  February 22, 1995

• Is the media focusing too much on principal Frank DeAngelis in regard to the Columbine anniversary?

  Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis during an "Oprah" interview that reportedly will not air today. Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis has made himself the face and the voice of tenth anniversary coverage related to the killing spree that took place at the high school on April 20, 1999. Indeed, he got started weeks before the actual date. On April 2, FM 104.3/The Fan host Jim Armstrong had to take a break from discussing that afternoon's trade of Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler to the Chicago B

  April 20, 2009

• Randy Brown on the cancellation of today's Columbine-related Oprah broadcast

  Kate Battan, Dave Cullen and Dwayne Fuselier on a Columbine-related episode of "Oprah" that will no longer air today. As pointed out earlier today in a blog about the many media appearances of Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis, Colorado journalist Dave Cullen, author of the widely praised volume Columbine, was scheduled to appear on Oprah today, the tenth anniversary of the massacre at the high school. However, yesterday afternoon, Cullen sent out a note to folks on his e-mail list revealing

  April 20, 2009

• Talk Talk

  April 30, 2009

• Brian Rohrbough says Columbine segment for Oprah permanently canceled

  Photo by John JohnstonBrian Rohrbough. A report about the tenth anniversary of the massacre at Columbine High School that was originally slated to run on Oprah's April 20 program, but host Oprah Winfrey ordered it yanked at the last minute. In a statement, Winfrey says she made the decision because the footage focused too heavily on killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. But other issues were also in play. Randy Brown, the father of a Columbine student, confirmed in this space that he and other

  May 6, 2009

• Q&A flashback with The Daily Show's John Oliver

  Razr photo by Michael RobertsJohn Oliver in a giant queue, as he would call it. 'Cause his British, you see. John Oliver, who headlines at Comedy Works South tonight and tomorrow, returns to Denver after spending a week here in August making the Democratic National Convention funnier along with his colleagues at Comedy Central's The Daily Show. His quick wit was much in evidence when I wound up standing next to him in a massive line leading to the Pepsi Center. I asked him why he was waiting al

  May 26, 2009

• Q&A with Aisha Tyler

  Aisha Tyler suits up. Aisha Tyler may not be the complete package, but she comes a helluva closer than the average human. The Dartmouth grad's appeared in recurring roles on some of television's biggest hits, including Friends and 24, hosted Talk Soup back when that meant something, appeared in films ranging from Balls of Fury to the forthcoming Black Water Transit, demonstrated her knowledge of Asian action cinema while filling in for Roger Ebert on his signature movie-crit show, and even kick

  May 29, 2009

• Video: Kristen Schaal does Daily Show bit about growing up in Colorado

  The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cBurka Banthedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorEconomic Crisis Last night, Comedy Central aired a repeat of the July 1 Daily Show that included a segment with comedian Kristen Schaal (whom you might recognize from her role as obsessive fan Mel on Flight of the Conchords) about efforts in France to ban Muslim women from wearing burkas. Schaal, who grew up on a farm in Longmont, included a joke about how birds in Colorado ofte

  July 8, 2009

• The Fray on the Tonight Show

  ​In case you missed it, the Fray appeared on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien last night. A couple noteworthy things about the performance: Drummer Ben Wysocki pitched in on backing vocals, suggesting that Joe King's still experiencing voice problems, and the band tapped a string section to play on "Never Say Never," the latest single from the act's self-titled sophomore album. See the clip after the jump.

  July 28, 2009

• Jared Polis does beer bong with Stephen Colbert

  The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cEven Better-er Know a District - Colorado's 2nd - Jared Poliswww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorMeryl Streep It's one of those TV moments when you're thinking, "He won't do that. He wouldn't possibly do that." And then he does it anyway! Second District Congressman Jared Polis appeared on last night's episode of The Colbert Report in the show's first-ever "Even Better Know a District Segment" -- so named because Colbert

  August 18, 2009

• Dan Caplis wants Jared Polis to apologize for beer-bonging

  Jared Polis sucking one down on "The Colbert Report."​Representative Jared Polis' decision to beer bong a Coors Light during a Monday appearance on The Colbert Report was hilarious, but it also carried the risk of political consequences. As of yesterday morning, commentators in politically correct Boulder were mostly taking Polis' stunt in stride -- but not KHOW conservative finger-wagger Dan Caplis. During his show Wednesday afternoon, he narrated audio from the clip -- it can be viewed b

  August 20, 2009

• Good for Laughs

  September 10, 2009

• The Legendary Griffin

  November 19, 2009