It’s time for you to go
so…I’m not a big fan of CNN Headline News. It’s just too repetitive all while not really telling you anything. Sure…I’ll watch 6 straight hours of SportsCenter, but…anyway, Erika likes HN so it’s on every so often.
The last couple of nights I’ve managed to catch the Glenn Beck show. I think he’s an ass…yet, I’m oddly intrigued and drawn to watch him. I’m not at all into talk shows, much less talk-shows-turned-tv-shows, so it doesn’t surprise me that I’ve never of him — it does surprise me how huge he is and I hadn’t heard of him, but, I really don’t care that much. He just seems like an odd addition to Headline News.
He had Amy Sedaris on the other night, and I thought he was slightly funny, and I thought she was an interesting choice opposite him, considering my quickly-formed opinion of him, and my based-on-Strangers-With-Candy opinion of her. She was pluging her new book, “I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence.” They were going through a couple ways to get rid of people at a party: “It’s time for you to go.”
SEDARIS: No, I think it`s pretty obvious what — and, you know, sometimes if you have that fear, then you can give a cutoff, you know, 2:00 to 2:30, for the party, you know? And then they should know. And if it`s gone past that hour, then…
BECK: OK, so now I also have a problem because I`m a recovering alcoholic.
SEDARIS: Perfect! How many years?
BECK: Twelve.
SEDARIS: Oh, wow. And do you have like an angel pin and stuff?
BECK: No, don`t have a — or the chip or anything.
SEDARIS: Oh, you don`t have a chip? Did you go to AA?
BECK: Yes.
SEDARIS: Oh, OK.
BECK: I mean, I had chips, but I stopped collecting them.
SEDARIS: Oh, OK.
BECK: Anyway, they`re always hanging…
(CROSSTALK)
SEDARIS: Wow, OK, well, good for you.
BECK: So I`m a recovering alcoholic and a Mormon.
(LAUGHTER)
SEDARIS: Bring a book. Well, you wouldn`t be at my party then, let me tell you that much.
BECK: So if I invite people over, what do I do?
SEDARIS: Yes, that`s a double whammy. Maybe get it to-go? Well, you know, I don`t rely on alcohol and drugs to make my parties. I really don`t. That`s why, if I say dinner is at 7:00, it`s at 7:00. And then everyone can eat. And then, you know, afterwards, if they want a cocktail or whatever, that`s fine.
I totally thought Beck was just playing along, making up the “recovering alcoholic and a Mormon” just to take the party talk to the extreme, but, nope, he IS a “recovering alcoholic and a Mormon.”
I didn’t really have a point to all of that. It sounded better in my head the first few time I thought it, but it always loses somethingeverything once I start writing it…
November 12th, 2006 at 3:09 am
Amy Sedaris was in Portland (where I live) a few weeks ago. We tried to go hear her read from that book, but room in which the bookstore was holding the reading was jam packed–and this was more than an hour before the reading was supposed to start. There were hundreds of people in there, elbow to elbow. We decided not to stay.
I think Amy’s pretty hilarious, and apparently so does a good part of the rest of Portland.