Hey everybody!  In case you missed it last night (and why would you have, how could that have happened, what kind of a friend are you, etc etc), here's my appearance on the show:



Thanks for watching, and for all the super nice comments! You guys rock!! I tried my best to rep you guys hard last night - TONIGHTSHOW.COM IN THE HOUSE, Y'ALL. Whut whuuuuuuuut!

Tremendous Friday show tonight, as we welcome (from the new movie "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans") the lovely and talented Eva Mendes, then Jon Bon Jovi as our second guest - and the rest of Bon Jovi as our musical guest!! How great is that?! DOUBLE BON JOVI ACTION, Y'ALL. Whut whuuuuuuuuuuuut!

Plus, we rip on dogs, welcome a new fake porn blocker sponsor, expose British movie posters, and bring back everyone's favorite bad horror movie, Killdozer!!  KILLDOZER'S BACK, Y'ALL!!!!  Whut whuuuuuuuuuut!!

I shot a new web video today with Engineer, Matt "Coop" Cooper, but it probably won't be up until Monday - stuff kept getting pushed back and pushed back until it was suddenly 4:30, and I realized that I hadn't done the blog yet! Sorry about that, party people.. I'm sure that it also didn't help that I sat and watched Bon Jovi soundcheck for a good 30 minutes. I'M SORRY, Y'ALL. Whut whuuuuuuuuut!

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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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