Glenn’s Blog Thing

Be careful what you ask for…you might just get it.I’ve used that line 1,000 times and I am using it again because it rings so true.

We bitched.

We complained.

The tv show “The Comedy Den” FINALLY aired last night on Cablevision and the reviews are coming in.

“You guys were great!”

“It was like the morning show on tv!”

That’s the basic gist. It was very entertaining. So you may be asking, “So? What’s not to like?” Well…..

The other half of the reviews, THAT’S WHAT!

“Dave looked like he had three chins”

“Glenn didn’t look as hideous as he normally does.”

“The camera seemed to be propped up on Dave’s crotch.”

“Glenn looked like Elvis Costellos hideous half brother.”

Oh well. To use another overused cliche’…I guess I can look at the glass as half empty.

Or I can look at the glass as half full….and someone spit in it.

Well, it won’t be the first time I am a hypocrite. And it won’t be the last.

I said we would never again promote the show Dave and I appeared on..(see my last blog)….. but we know it is definately on tonight so….

The Comedy Den… Channel 20…. Cablevision…. 9:30 tonight.

Don’t miss the beggining because you get to see how mad I get after driving for an hour and a half to the middle of nowhere. Then I got to sit around another 2 hours waiting to tape the show. When the cameras started rolling so did I…..

……I told you the morning after Micheal Jackson died that we were just seeing the beginning of this crap! This story is going to go on and on and on. He was surrounded by drug enablers. The cable networks will give it almost non stop coverage until some white girl on summer vacation dissapears…..

I didn’t review Transformers 2 this weekend. Why? Because if I want to waste two and a half hours of my life I can watch the Mets…..

Note: We are off on Friday but you can catch us broadcasting live from the Brookhaven Ampitheatre Saturday night before the fireworks show.

If you stayed up LATE to watch our appearence on The Comedy Den we are very sorry.

We were told the episode would air last night and it didn’t!!!

We got a boatload of calls from listeners who stayed up and were dissapointed. Even though we have no control over the broadcast, Dave and I feel terrible.

So…….we are no longer promoting the episode. Thank you to everyone who wound up being late for work this morning because they stayed up (or just changed thier viewing habits to catch the show.)

…..We are done with it. Washing our hands. We don’t care when it’s on.

We don’t care if it is ever on.

When we went out east to tape the show, we met some fine folks that work at the tv station and we don’t mean to disparage them….. but even if Moses himself comes down from a mountain declaring when it will be on we are no longer talking about it…..

One other goodbye…..　

….Although 86 years old is a pretty good “run” it was sad to hear of the passing of Ed McMahon this morning. A few months ago we broke the story that he had bone cancer but his passing was still was a surprise.

I remember meeting him during my first radio job 11 years ago. I was an associate producer for “Danny Bonaduce in the morning” on what was then a radio station called BIG 105.

When you are an “associate” producer, that is just another name for low man on the totem pole.We were broadcasting from the18th floor in a building in Manhatten and one of my duties was to take the elevator to the street to get the guests whatever they might want to eat or drink at 7 o’clock in the morning.

Many, many, many times for countless big time celebrities, I would trudge my butt down to get coffee, cigarettes, breakfast and other things a silence contract clause prevents me from telling. The one thing all of those trips have in common is an ungrateful star at the end of the delivery.

But when I met Ed McMahon in the green room he shook my hand and said with a smile, “Nice to meet you Glenn.”

When I got back with his cofee and danish he said, “Thank you Glenn.”

That meant alot to the radio pee-on radio rookie I was. After his interview, where he was engaging and very funny, he made it a point to say goodbye to me, thanks again and nice to meet you (again.)

Mr. McMahon has a long and wonderful resume of his time on earth but sometimes you can judge a mans character just on how he treats strangers. To Ed I say:

IT WAS REALLY NICE TO MEET YOU SIR.

1-the ride out to the tv studio was an hour and a half and

2-then they kept us waiting around for 2 hours before taping began.

That’s why I am angry and yelling as soon as the show starts. I have no excuse for the other 364 days a year….

….Are you watching the HBO series True Blood? If you are a fan of horror, science fiction or just plain great writing and acting and you are NOT watching this show you are really missing GREATNESS!!!

I have not been this riveted to a television show since the Sopranos in it’s glory years.

Not only that, it has the coolest opening I have ever seen in this genre ….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxINMuOgAu8

When True Blood ends I literally am dissapointed at how quick the hour went by.

And finally….I hate teasing our fellow ghosthunting fans but I cannot yet reveal what our big surprise is. In case you didn’t hear, Dave and I will resume our paranormal adventures in the late summer and what we have in store for you will blow you away!

That’s right…I said “you” because we are going to include listeners on our ghosthunts but that is just the tip of the iceberg! You will have a chance to join our team and be a part of something HUGE!

Here’s a hint. Think of the overall theme of todays blog. That is all I can say for now.

Forbes magazine has released thier annual list of the male celebrities in Hollywood who made the most money in the last 12 months. I can’t believe some old, familiar names are still on this list.

Harrison Ford is at #1.- He made 65 million dollars. I guess that’s because George Lucas and Steven Spielberg paid him a s***load of money to make that crappy Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull movie. Either that or they had pictures of Ford with farm animals. No amount of money should have equaled a “yes” from Harrison with that horrible script!

#2 is Adam Sandler with 55 million dollars.- I should prefice what I am about to say with this: I think Sandler has a WORLD of talent. I LOVED him in “The Wedding Singer”. He was AMAZING in “Punch Drunk Love”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6btDjOPkEqk

I even really enjoyed “50 First Dates” for the sweet little comedy it was. But when he gets into his “Touch the Heiny!” type characters it is excruciatingly bad! But for the people and critics that yell a collective “P…U…” at his dumbed down roles all that matters is THE BOTTOM LINE.

Sandler did not make that 55 million this year from Academy Award type roles. He made all that money from two of the worst movies of last year- “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” and “Zohan.” Together those movies made almost 200 million dollars. CASE CLOSED.( which SUCKS for us Adam Sandler fans who like his quality work)

Will Smith #3- 45 million

Eddie Murphy is number 4 with 40 million. He has not done anything remotely good since Dreamgirls. It was a freaking crime he did not get the Acdemy Award for that role!

Nicolas Cage comes in at #5 with 40 million. Tell me again what he has done since “Raising Arizona?” Oh…that’s right. NOTHING! Only Cage could ruin a superhero as cool as Ghostrider! I had a friend who thought that was the best comic book hero ever. I will never forget what happened when he heard Cage was playing the lead role. Before the movie ever came out he said, “It’s gonna suck. I’m not even seeing it.”

#6 is Tom Hanks with 35 million.

#7 is Tom Cruise with 30 million. He’s going to need alot more than that to continue keeping Katie Holmes locked up in the cellar of his house.

#8 is Jim Carrey with 28 million……How’d he get that? Did he rob a bank?

#9 Brad Pitt-28 million. (How good does that Quentin WW2 movie look?!?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sQhTVz5IjQ

#10 Johnny Depp with 28 million. The best actor in Hollyweird. PERIOD. (with all due apologies to Daniel Day Lewis.If he made more than one film every 2 or 3 years I would not say that)

Some random thoughts….

I really enjoyed the Taking of Pelham1-2-3!

No, it’s not nearly as good as the original but it IS fun, fast and has some very good moments. On the show this morning I gave it a soft 3 stars out of four. Travolta is a little over the top at times but he is mostly awesome. (So are Denzell, Tuturro and Gandolphini.) You could do alot worst for your ten dollars at the movies……

On tommorows show Dave and I will be talking to Katrina Weidman, one of the stars of the VERY popular A&E ghosthunting show Paranormal State. Make sure you tune in- although I will probably fawn all over her. I can’t help it- she is the bravest woman ghosthunter on television! I’m a sucker for those tough woman. She goes inside the most haunted places without batting an eyelash! ……

And in a kind of related note……a new videogame comes out tommorow for all major consoles….Ghostbusters! And it’s getting good to great reviews! You can catch a video review of it here:

http://ps3.ign.com/dor/objects/14218851/ghostbusters/videos/ghostbusters_review_060909.html

I don’t have time to write more today but I’ll be back tommorow with much more. Later.

….What a weird day.

First the guys from Ghost Adventures cancelled our interview so they could visit the Today Show. It wasn’t even the REAL Today Show. It was the throw away hour with Kathy Lee!

What a crock!….

The lead in interview before Zack and the boys was “Ambush Makeovers.”  Before that it was tasty pastries you can make at home. Before that it was Al Roker in a donut shop.  When they talked about ghosthunting Kathy Lee and her other middle aged barbie doll co-host looked like they were listening to another language they didn’t understand. And get this! Kathy Lee had no idea what time or day the show was on! That’s the first thing you have to know when interviewing tv people!!!  Watching the ghosthunting guys on a show made for stay at home moms (with two clueless bimbos interviewing) reminded me of that Sesame Street song…

“One of these things dosen’t belong here, one of these things isn’t quite the same…..”

In our segmet “This Date in History” I pointed out that in 1967 the supreme court struck down states rights to ban interracial marraiges. I then remarked that all of these people against gay marraige that say,” we can’t make an ammendment to the constitution” should think about that.  If that that was an ironclad policy blacks and whites still could not marry!  AND DAVE ”Mr Conservative” AGREED WITH ME!   You could have knocked me over with ticket stub to the Tonys!

Finally….I’m going to see and review “Taking of Pelham 1-2-3″ tonight.

Live on the air today, Dave taunted me because HE SAID that I SAID I would not want to go to the movies with the listeners.I was offended at that accusation of snobbery and I invited everyone listening to join me at the film tonight and gave the time and theatre location to 200,000 people-some of whom don’t like me.

Hopefully on Monday the joke about me won’t be that old Abe Lincoln Ford theatre zinger:

“So besides that other thing how did you enjoy the show?”

…..Yankee thirdbaseman Alex Rodriguez may have really lucked out. I am no fan of A-rod anymore after the last two news cycles that involved him. In case you live under a rock, I am talking his beautiful ex wife Cynthia revealed he was a serial cheater and the steroid use.

So now he is dating actress Kate Hudson. They met through a mutual friend. They have the same real estate agent and he told Arod “I know the perfect woman for you…Kate Hudson.”

Beside the fact she is drop dead gorgeous and very talented she is doing something that many woman (and men) don’t do in a relationship.

She is taking an active interest in her boyfriends life. Before Kate met Arod she admitted she knows NOTHING about baseball, zilch, zero, nada, and she has hired a baseball coach to teach her everything about the game. Too bad Mr Rodriguez dosen’t deserve a nice woman like that after what he did to his ex…..

The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 opens tommorow and for me it is critic proof. I remember the first one with Walter Mathau and my favorite actor of all time Robert Shaw. When I first heard about this remake i said “Noooooo!”

But the cast is unbelievably outstanding…. Denzel Washington, John Travolta (he plays the BEST villan roles if you don’t count Battlefield Earth), James Gandolphini and Jon Turturro. That’s a dream lineup!

Check out our Morning Show Weekend Movie Preview tommorow for more details on the movie…..

and last but not least, happy birthday to a comedic genious! Gene Wilder turns 76 years old today.

http://images-cdn01.associatedcontent.com/image/A5236/523689/300_523689.jpg

We have been trying FOREVER to get him on the show but his agent says he hates Hollywood and he hates the media. He has a book coming out soon so we might actually get a chance to talk to him. Don’t expect a hard hitting interview. Dave and I both have a serious Bromantic crush on him. The interview will probably go like this:

“Mr. Wilder, tell us why you are so great in 10,000 words or more.”

Why? I don’t care so much about Predator. There is alot of improvement that can be done with that movie. Like not casting Carl “Apollo Creed” Weathers and Jesse Ventura.

And the good news is Robert Rodriguez would be on board for this one!!!

No, he’s not the guy that mows your lawn….. He’s this guy……

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001675/bio

But why are they remaking Total Recall? Without Arnold? No actor living or dead could top his delivery of “I vant to go to Marzzzzz!”

….I still have not gone to a game at the Mets new home Corporate Bailout Field. The sad part is I have been a Mets fan my whole life and still have ZERO desire to do so. Every review from every Mets fan I talk to says it’s pretty but almost completely ignores the Mets history. And I have also heard multiple complaints that the PA system at the game is still LOUDLY blaring out all kinds of Latin music during the game.

I have no problems with Latinos. I’m married to a latino woman. But baseball is an AMERICAN game! I know the Census Bureau says Latinos will be the majority in America in 50 years but the game was invented by Abner Doubleday not El Guapo. Can we dig up Jane Jarvis and put her back on the organ?……

….Our Ghost hunting adventures will be continuing in the late summer or early fall. Stay tuned for more details. I wish I could tell you more but I am sworn to secrecy!

We also will be talking to some big ghosthunting tv stars on the morning show over the next few weeks. We will interview stars from Ghost Adventures, Ghosthunters and Paranormal State!

I gotta go now but I will be regularly blogging again and will also have a review of the remake of Taking of Pelham 1-2-3.

What a shame the movie “Land of the Lost” got such terrible reviews. I can’t say I am surprised. When I am in the theatre, I rate movie previews too  and I just looked it up. I gave it a D-. 

The good news is the comedy “The Hangover” was given a thumbs up from 80% of critics.

It’s about a bachelor party gone bad.

Guns and chicks and firetrucks, YEAH!……

Tonight (Friday) is the premier of season 2 of Ghost Adventures. If you have not seen this show and you are into the paranormal……you are not really in to the paranormal…

David Carradine….what a rotten way to check out. I remember watching Kung Fu with my parents. Shame on the New York Post for thier front page! It read:

“HUNG FU”

….I see you smirking, knock it off!