Hey hey!  There's two great things to celebrate today: tomorrow is Friday, and tonight we've got an awesome show!!  Award Winning actress Nicole Kidman joins us to talk about her new movie "Nine"; everybody's favorite silver haired journalist Anderson Cooper will be here; and musical guest Leona Lewis will join us for some sweet sweet tunes!  Also on the show tonight: Aaron Bleyaert!  Yes! See if you can spot me on the show this evening plugging our awesome new "Get Me To The Show On Time" Game.  Spoiler Alert: I am handsome.

As many of you know, we use a lot of our own staff members and writers as actors in sketches on the show.  This means that pretty much anyone can be on the show at any time; if the writers and the casting dept think that you'd be a good fit for a part, you're called up from the ranks to appear on the show! 

Normally, the way this happens is this: You are either called by the casting folks (Ric & Emily) or a writer calls you up and asks if you've seen the script (which, because I don't read the script, is always a no).  The latter is what happened to me today: Michael Gordon, the writer of the piece, called me up, asked me some cryptic questions, and then came into my office while I read the script and saw that I was in the bit!  He asked if that was cool and everything - which of course it was - and then he left and went down to rehearsal.

During rehearsal, our Stage Manager Steve Hollander paged me over the office intercom (using a variety of, ahem, nicknames), so I scurried down to the studio.  When I got there, Steve came over and asked if I had seen the script, which I had, then he told me to have a seat in the audience with all the interns and other staff folks... Conan rehearsed a couple of bits; then, with a "don't screw this one up", Hollander called me over to the performance area.

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If you watched the show or read the blog or follow us on Twitter... You know that Andy Barker, PI is now out on DVD.  However, just in case you DIDN'T know, our very own Andy Richter decides to get the word out - more specifically, decides to get the word out around our offices.  Enjoy!



Ha ha ha!  He broke the DVD when we were shooting.  Oops!  I GUESS THAT'S ONE LESS DVD HE CAN SELL.  Andy's not the greatest businessman, ha ha! Luckily, he's a hilarious comedian. And a good DVD thrower. 

I've been playing that Intel Getting Dressed Game today and I TOTALLY SUCK. What's wrong with me?  Seriously!  My best time today?  2 MINUTES AND FIVE SECONDS.  That's just sad.  That's just embarrassing.  That's just Sadbarrassing.  Ugh.  What's your best?

Oh, check out what I did to my door today:



I was looking around the office, and noticed that no one has really decorated their office doors!  I mean, some people have put up like articles from magazines (boring) or "inspirational words" (double boring), but no one has really made the effort to be original... And CERTAINLY no one has an animal head on their office door.  So I grabbed the ball - er, Jackalope - and ran with it!!  However, I soon learned that having the awesomest door on the block has its drawbacks....

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