The hilarious Lizz Winstead joins us today to dish about tweeting the entire Golden Globes from her cozy couch in New York City. As a co-founder of the popular Daily Show, Lizz has a unique perspective on the ongoing late night talk show wars.
Plus hot news & trends: zombie twitter accounts, crisis in Haiti, roller coaster grandmas and slogans for teabagger Scott Brown.
The Golden Globes awards ceremony recognizes outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, but because it’s also a dinner party, it’s a great excuse to see drunk celebrities and laugh at their tragic fashion choices.
The hilarious Lizz Winstead joins us today to dish about tweeting the entire Golden Globes from her cozy couch with her two dogs in New York City. Why does director James Cameron look like Bea Arthur? How fast is Mo’nique’s wild ride from God? Why were so many winning shows and movies so depressing? Will the Oscars be as tragic?
As a co-founder of the popular Daily Show, Lizz has a unique perspective on the ongoing late night talk show wars. Should Coco and the Chin ditch TV and just start their own podcasts?
As a talk show host herself, Lizz has had some strange encounters with guests, including two respected writers from Jezebel, Tracie Egan, and Moe Tkacik, who appeared to be intoxicated on her show and were glib and dismissive about sexual assault. The two later claimed they were set up for a “gotcha” moment which Lizz denies. Boy do we feel Lizz’s pain!
Lizz also tells us how she gave MSNBC anchor and lesbian media darling Rachel Maddow her first big break on Air America.
Also hot news:
Zombie twitter accounts.
The crisis in Haiti continues.
And Lizz’s hilarious list of political slogans for Massachusetts teabagger centerfold Scott Brown.
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You may not immediately recognize Lizz’s name, but you probably enjoy the fruits of her labor.
Comedian and television producer Lizz Winstead created the news parody program “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central as a response to CNN’s paradigm shifting coverage of the first War in Iraq in the early 90s. Since it’s inception the show has become a major source for people’s news despite the fact that it’s a comedy show.
Lizz chats with us about about how The Daily Show was conceived, their original choice for host and wether she ever got an apology from Craig Kilborn about the nasty comment that got him suspended.
Ms Winstead has a had a lot of odd jobs, from working at the Red Barn to the relaunch team for Broadway Production of Grey Gardens She has come up with fantastic taglines for the show including “What’s wrong with snacking on a little cat food in your bathing suit?-Grey Gardens, The Musical” She highly recommends the show so get your tickets now.
It’s funny that Lizz takes us to task (and by surprise) for asking in a previous post why her good friend pornographer Chi Chi LaRue is on OUT Magazine’s “Power 50″ Who would have thought that this funny lady has a pornographer as a friend? It turns out they are friends from their days in Minnesota. Lizz lets us know that it might not be that ChiChi has made a gazzillion dollars in skin flicks that put him on the list but rather as top gay pornographer he knows where all the gay bodies are buried.
We like Lizz and what she has to say about the podcast genre. She thinks podcasts are comedically funnier than radio and TV. The word itself is funny and the medium is fresh.
Lizz blogs from time to time on the Huffington Post and you can befriend her on myspace.
[Originally posted on 04/09/07]
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