the Dalaverse

Awww. Angelina Jolie was on TDS tonight, and I didn't realize she and Jon are friends. They clearly adore each other, and Jon has a geekboy crush on her. Would that group of people not have the best cookout ever? Jon and Angelina and Brad Pitt and George Clooney and Matt Damon and Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell, and maybe Sam Bee, and Nancy Walls, and even Julia Roberts could come if she wants to, and all their kids could run around eating watermelon and being adorable. I will keep my Saturday afternoons open for the rest of the summer, you guys.

One thing I love about TCR is its canon/continuity/storyline, which is appropriate since "Stephen Colbert" is a character: his ongoing feud with Barry Manilow, his affinity with Papa Bear O'Reilly, his love for Melinda Gates and Soledad O'Brien, his hatred of bears, his frozen manjuice, his Black Friend Alan (and he has a gay friend now too, doesn't he? - add to that his mancrushes), his Catholicism, Charlene...man, Colbert is awesome and TCR is awesome. I couldn't pick a favorite between the two; I will say that TCR is more easily amusing, no matter how biting Stephen's points can be - but I really need to hear Jon's report every night, especially when his anger and bitterness over whatever horrendous thing is happening in Washington that day cracks through his TV persona. Comedy Central has my eternal thanks for basically putting up the whole of every episode online, because I need it to maintain my sanity when I can't watch it on TV.

Also, I flipped on "Homeward Bound" on Animal Planet and man, there is precious little in cinema that makes me sob harder than the dogs and the cat coming down that hill to their family at the end - in the original, too. I love all my animals. And with that, I bid you all goodnight.