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President Bush (news - web sites) held a two-point national lead on Democratic rival John Kerry (news - web sites) for the third consecutive day, and held small leads over Kerry in the swing states of Ohio and Florida, according to Reuters/Zogby polls released on Sunday. Bush led Kerry 48-46 percent in the latest three-day national tracking poll of the race for the White House, a statistical dead heat that was within the poll's margin of error. He led 47-45 percent the two previous days. Initial polling of 10 crucial battleground states, which began on Sunday and will run each day through Nov. 1, also showed tight races between the president and the Massachusetts senator in several of the biggest states. In Florida, Bush led Kerry 49-46 percent, a statistical dead heat within the margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points. In Ohio, Bush's lead was a more solid 47-42 percent. Kerry led Bush 47-45 percent in Pennsylvania. The states of Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania and their combined 68 electoral votes are the biggest prizes remaining as the tight race for the White House enters its last full week of campaigning before the Nov. 2 election. Kerry had a solid lead in Michigan, at 52-42 percent, and slight leads within the margin of error in Colorado and Minnesota. Bush had a 49-44 percent lead in New Mexico, and slight leads within the margin of error in Iowa, Nevada and Wisconsin. The number of undecided voters in the national poll fell to 4 percent. Neither candidate has been able to break 50 percent since the poll began on Oct. 7. UNDECIDED VOTERS Pollster John Zogby said the tense White House battle evoked memories of the disputed 2000 election narrowly won by Bush over Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites). At this stage of the 2000 race, Bush had a one-point lead over Gore in the tracking poll. Zogby said only one in five of undecided voters felt Bush deserved a second term in the White House. "These are the most important people in America today. Well over 90 percent of undecideds tell us they're going to vote and only 20 percent say the president deserves to be re-elected," he said. The national poll of 1,206 likely voters was taken Thursday through Saturday and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points. The rolling poll will continue through Nov. 1. The poll showed independent candidate Ralph Nader (news - web sites), blamed by some Democrats for drawing enough votes from Gore to cost him the election in 2000, with the support of 1 percent of likely voters. The polls of 600 likely voters in each of 10 battleground states were taken Thursday through Sunday and have a margin of error of 4.1 percentage points in each state. The state-by-state results: In Colorado, Kerry led 49-45 percent; Florida, Bush led 49-46 percent; Iowa, Bush led 47-45 percent; Michigan, Kerry led 52-42 percent; Minnesota, Kerry led 46-45 percent; New Mexico, Bush led 49-44 percent; Nevada, Bush led 48-44 percent; Ohio, Bush led 47-42 percent; Pennsylvania, Kerry led 47-45 percent; and Wisconsin, Bush led 48-45 percent.

They played the wrong vocal track so her band just decided to play Pieces of Me again while Ashlee stood there like a jackass

LL maybe a slightly better draw on the acting department (even though I think her fame will die soon) though she has a lot of catching to do with Hilary in other areas. Raise Your Voice was just given no support by New Line. Shame since the movie was really good

The background music doesn't work though. It doesn't fit her voice or the tone of the song. The whole thing comes across as very messy. Because I like her music. She has good song writers (Charles Midnight and Kara DioGuardi) and her music is fun to listen to. Simple as that. I always just heard MSNBC was kind of biased. Their website is very hard to read. Avril's good though- she writes her own music and has a great voice. And she never claimed to be punk.

Yes. I listened to Metamorphosis while typing the first half of the review. I disagree. I gave Ashlee a chance as my friend compared her to Avril and sent 4-5 of her songs. They all sucked badly. Her voice is terrible and makes a lot of the songs hard to listen to. Her music at times comes across as dirty and grungy and it doesn't suit her voice or the type of song at all. She also sang about having sex but called it La-La. I think she was trying to kill time hoping someone would change the song.

No- I do not want to meet Ashlee Simpson. Meeting the musical guest is impossible anyway. They rehearse during the week and not on Fridays.

Yea. Out with cuteness, in with humour. That should be a campaign slogan

I liked it until Tina had to give a shoutout to Jimmy. What was the fucking point? God- WU just infuriates me right now.

I got the joke. But the bit wasn't funny and Amy using the bananna as a telephone was so stupid. Amy and Tina are slowly killing Update. Amy is hilarious in skits- she just doesn't belong at the desk.

It's a shame Raise Your Voice got ranked from 1,000 screens. It's held up real well after the disasterous first week and it's per screen average only fell 20-30% from last week. (This has been the Bob Barron Spin Raise Your Voice report)

I always thought CNN was centre-left, FOX was far right and MSNBC was far left. I don't get MSNBC and never watch it when I'm in NY so I really don't know. I'd like to say something to her but a) That's mean and b) I won't see her till December at the earliest and I don't know if I'm gonna wait to see her. I was going to say to something to Seth at the Latifah show but he came out at the same time Amy did so I couldn't. Last December I expressed my displeasure over Horatio being on WU and sucking and him not. He understood and seemed to agree with me.

Right now RCP has it 234-211 Bush. So you think he gets Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin and something like Minnesota or New Mexico/New Hampshire?

Bush takes lead in Hawaii poll The president erases a 7 percent August gap, but Democrats remain confident By Richard Borreca [email protected] President Bush is now ahead of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, according to a new statewide Star-Bulletin and KITV 4 News poll. The numbers show a shift in Hawaii voters towards the Republican president. The new poll of 612 registered voters who said they are likely to vote in the election has Bush with a one percent lead. In August, Kerry was leading by seven percentage points. The margin of error is plus or minus four points. The poll was taken Oct. 17 to 20 by Hawaii-based SMS Research. The poll also shows that as the race draws to a conclusion, more voters are making up their minds. The undecided group shrank from 11 percent in August to nine percent last week. Until this poll, Hawaii has been considered to be a a solid, strong bastion for Kerry and the Democrats because only twice in Hawaii's state history has it voted for a Republican. But Hawaii has always voted for the incumbent president who wins a second term. Hawaii voted for Richard Nixon's second term, Ronald Reagan's second term and Bill Clinton's second term. Hawaii has four electoral votes. In the 2000 presidential race, Hawaii was a strong Democratic state and Bush had only 37 percent of the vote. Bush is winning 51 percent of the male vote in Hawaii, while Kerry is picking up 47 percent of the female vote. Bush also leads with more than half of the vote among those 35 to 44 and those 55 to 64. Kerry is strongest in Hawaii with younger voters. He has 60 percent of those 18 to 24 and 54 percent of those 25 to 34. According to the poll's breakdown along ethnic lines, Caucasians equally support Bush and Kerry. But, Filipino-American voters are overwhelmingly in support of Bush, by a 56 to 36 percent margin. Half of Japanese-American voters support Kerry, while more than half of the Hawaiian and part-Hawaiian voters support Bush. Gov. Linda Lingle, the titular head of the Hawaii GOP, said Hawaii voters are responding to Bush's strong image as a wartime leader. The governor added two more reasons she thinks Bush is pulling ahead in Hawaii. First, a strong local economy is spreading more money through the state, and then Lingle herself just completed a swing through the mainland for Bush and was singled out by Bush. "People feel the president paid a lot of respect to our state by the role they asked us to play," Lingle said. "To come from a small state that hardly ever votes Republican and that has so few voters and to be given that kind of recognition makes people feel good about it," said Lingle, who flew with Bush on Air Force One to a campaign stop in Las Vegas. Brickwood Galuteria, the Hawaii Democratic Party chairman, said the poll results mean Hawaii's Democrats have to work hard in the campaign's closing days. "The stakes are high and I still have confidence that the voters in Hawaii will deliver. "I will stand by our rich Democratic history and our confidence in delivering for Kerry," Galuteria said.

Are you still confident that Bush has it in the bag Mike? If I was in the Bush campaign I'd be nervous too- since the race is so close.

I knew it! Jane Eyre was also cut from the Colin Firth show.

My friend was at the dress rehearsal and that's what she told me

My hatred for Kattan meant I never got into the How Do You Say...Ah Yes...Show. I admit that part was funny but it seems the skits would just revolve Kattan taking off his shirt. And no one wants that. Anyway... I was waiting for them to bring up Zell Miller and I thought Forte did a great job. The graphic Zell Miller: A Crazy Person was hilarious. Isn't MSNBC the network that's to the left? Sky Captain got great reviews so I thought it would've done a lot better then it did. I didn't see it either though. Jude spoofing Ewan would've been funny since my friend considers Ewan the poor man's Jude. It's weird- It seems like Forte's Bush was a lot better last year. I don't know what happened. But I think they're never gonna be able to find the perfect Bush to replace Ferrell. I like how Tina used to do jokes and skits about her and no one knew who they were so no one laughed. Now they're huge names. I wonder if Tina feels vindicated? One of my friends compared Ashlee to Avril and tried to get me into her. She's horrible. It was good seeing that bitch get exposed. It seems like they're trying to do the Weekend Update Fun Happy Smile Hour. It's not working. They cater to the East Coast all the time. They always did impressions of Dinkins and Guiliani before anyone knew who he was. They had Rudy host when probably only NYers really knew of him. If this keeps up- I wouldn't be totally against doing away with WU. I don't want it to become unwatchable. As starvenger pointed out- that line was a jab at the Donald. I love the Apprentice and hate Donald Trump so I love it whenever they make fun of the Donald. I think the Apprentice was created just to suck his dick. Yea- it had the Bears at the office. It didn't work as well as the first one.

Here's some more info on the Ashlee debacle: She sang Pieces of Me live in dress and apparently it was so terrible that she ran off crying.

Yea- That's Wake Up Wakefield. They haven't done that in a while. I don't really find it funny. I don't know. Horatio really should've left with Jimmy. He looks lost without his buddy to clown around with and he really adds nothing to the show. Horatio should stick to doing improv. Someone said maybe their hinting at Seth doing something for the World Series if Boston wins but the problem with that is that it doesn't lineup with the schedule. Unless Boston wins in 5. In the dress people really liked it- in fact I missed some of the jokes from people laughing so hard. Skits like that usually get cut in dress. Having not read Jane Eyre I'm sure a lot of it went over my head. I think the band didn't know what to do and just panicked waiting for them to go to commercial. I still don't get why Ashlee didn't just start singing Shadow or Autobiography or SOMETHING.

I was kidding Meatwad. One of my friends said she felt sorry for Ashlee. So I gave her a list of reasons why she shouldn't. Now she won't respond to me

There was spinning? Somewhere deep inside a woman's clitoris- Bill O'Reilly is not pleased

Did I just hear you admit that 10% of what Jimmy did was not horrible? I think we see a breakthrough!

Jimmy's songs kicked ass. Christmas Day was classic. And that song montage gave us 'Thanks Charles Rocket.' I'm too tired to rant about you saying Ashlee is hotter then Hilary but it's funny that Ashlee dissed Hilary a few times and she's the one who gets exposed on live TV

::defends Jimmy:: ::DA rips him apart:: ::defends Jimmy again:: ::DA admits he just hates the guy:: ::Agrees to disagree:: Hey- at least Jimmy sang live on SNL. :-)

SNL Review- Jude Law/Ashlee Simpson SNL Moment #18- 18. Tina and Jimmy give Rudy Guiliani an interesting send off After September 11th, Rudy Guiliani had become America’s mayor for the way he helped many people recover after 9/11 and how he helped lead the charge to get back to normal. Guiliani was also a big help to SNL. He showed up on the September 29th season premiere and gave Lorne Michaels the go-ahead to be funny. He also once hosted in 1997 and did an admirable job. On December 31st he was leaving as New York mayor and SNL decided they had to pay tribute to him somehow. Leave it to Jimmy and Tina to find a way to do it. THE MOMENT: Tina introduces Rudy Guiliani and he gets a familiar Rudy chant. Tina and Jimmy try to latch onto the mayor and follow him where he goes. Rudy goes on a long winded monologue which prompts Jimmy to go: Aren’t you going to be a consultant? Rudy goes: Yea whatever and they move on. Tina and Jimmy then decide to put on a play for Rudy. Tina is New York City (the Statue of Liberty hat and torch is a dead give-away) while Jimmy is Rudy. (with of course- a combover) Jimmy starts singing and then breaks out laughing as Rudy shoots him a ‘WTF’ look. Jimmy keeps singing as Rudy tries not to laugh and keep his composure as Jimmy butchers ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’. Tina gets the mic and starts to sing. She may be hot and she may be funny but we quickly learn that the girl cannot sing worth a damn. After Tina is done butchering the song it’s time for Rudy’s moment to say goodbye to his fellow New Yorkers. He grabs the mic and looks nervous but Tina encourages him to sing and give us one last Rudy moment. The trio all start to sing together and Tina even mouths ‘I love him’ as they head towards the big finish. The crowd loves it and gives them a big ovation despite their terrible singing. They do some light banter and then it’s time to get serious for a second since Rudy did mean a lot to people. Tina gets a chance to say what was all on our mind: Tina Fey: And we, as New Yorkers, want to thank you for holding us together in the hardest time we've ever known. Tina and Jimmy then say farewell but since this is Rudy’s time to say goodbye he gets to say the signature line. Mayor Rudolph Guiliani: And I'm Rudy Guiliani. Good night, New York, and have a pleasant tomorrow. Tina’s singing may not have been the best way to say goodbye to a New York icon but you could feel the love in the room- and in the end that’s all that mattered. Sports Report- New Orleans Saints- They’re now 2-4 and they really need to turn their season around after those inexcusable losses to the Cards and Bucs. They have a winnable game today against the Raiders and it’s a must win. Falling behind 2-5 pretty much kills your playoff chances right away and I want them to make the playoffs for the first time in my SNL reviewing career. Mailbag!!!!! Chase Sambori writes- Hi Bob, My name is Chase Sambori and we used to talk a lot, I had AOL and my screen name was JRUSTY. Anyways, I love reading your reviews and I had a question- In your opinion, do you think Tina should do skits as well as update, or stick to update. Also, is there any other cast member you'd rather have at update instead of Amy and Seth(I know Seth was #1 on your list, as he was #1 on mine) Keep up the great reviews, Bob Chase Sambori Hey Chase- it’s nice to hear from you. I’d like to see Tina do skits as well as Update but it’s too time consuming for her. Being head writer as well as putting together WU takes up a lot of her time and she just doesn’t have the free time to rehearse and learn her lines for a skit. Regarding other castmembers on WU- I think Fred or Will would’ve been pretty good although I think their bizarre personalities may not have worked. Jason Sudaekis (a writer) auditioned. He’s really funny and I think he would’ve done a pretty good job. Thanks for the kind words. [email protected] writes- You don't have to read it, but you also don't have to wipe your ass after you take a shit. :-) Confessions of an American Idiot: Ryan DiBiase (http://ryanpatrickdibiase.blogspot.com/) Once I was desperate to get back to the TV so I wouldn’t miss SNL so I didn’t wipe all the way. That was gross I apologise. [email protected] writes- Hi Bob, This is Ken Hayashi from Voy. Sorry to bother you again. I just have one quick question for you. You mentioned in your last SNL review that you have seen Hilary Duff’s new movie, Raise Your Voice. I was wondering if you know what songs Hilary sings in the movie. I don’t think there’s an actual soundtrack to Raise Your Voice, so I’d imagine that many of the songs used in the movie were lifted off Hilary’s new album. I haven’t had time to go see the movie yet. So I was hoping if you could help me out in any way. Thanks again, Ken Hilary sings Jericho and Someone’s Watching Over Me in the movie. Both songs are on her newest CD. The movie includes ‘Fly’ but it is not sung by Hilary in the movie. Emma B writes- Hi, You may be interested in this new message board. It features chat about celebrities, books, films, music and TV (with special SNL and Dan Aykroyd boards). Please pay a visit! http://xsorbit26.com/users5/theboardboard/index.php Thanks. A Dan Aykroyd board? How bad is the traffic there? Wanna be in the mailbag???? Email me at [email protected] And now the review.... Cold Opening Cast- Darrell Hammond, Seth Meyers, Will Forte, Amy Poehler Thoughts- It’s great seeing Hardball back. I think Darrell is old and washed up and should’ve left years ago but man- they always can pull off a great Hardball. Seth was ON as Ed Gillepsie and I loved Amy as Kerry’s campaign manager and SNL as usual was hilarious when they decided to play beat the censor with the Mary Cheney gay innuendoes. I especially loved ‘carpet cleaner.’ Darrell botched his lines but instead of laughing like an idiot he made a nice save. Good on ya’ Darrell. Will’s Zell Miller kicked ass! I thought it was pretty dead on and very very funny. Especially when he brought out the pistols and challenged Matthews to a duel. Hardball is the perfect way to get a show starting off on the good foot and this was no exception. Great stuff here. ****1/2 Monologue Cast- Ashlee Simpson, Jude Law, Tina Fey, Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph Thoughts- I guess the tradition is that when you have a sexy female host, the guys hit on her, and when you have a male host who the girls swoon over, then you bring out the ladies to sing. Tina look really hot here and I have to commend her on that. I mean- damn. Jude’s song was funny but went on for way for too long and I started to lose interest in it fast. When Boston and St. Louis are playing a tight game- this is not what you want. But damn- Jude doing his best Paul McCartney and singing Hey Jude was freaking awesome and I loved it. It definitely saved what was going to be a lacklustre monologue. And kudos to Jude for referencing Norm’s British gay joke. Cheers mate. **1/2 Green Screen Movie Cast- Law, Meyers, Poehler, Dratch, Forte Thoughts- At first I thought they were going to be directly spoofing Sky Captain (to show you how serious I am I even wrote ‘Sky Captain’ as the skits title) but I guess they decided to take a different route. This was really funny and Jude’s various facial expressions were hilarious. Amy was pretty funny as the other actress dodging things using Wonder Woman stuff. Will Forte was awesome dressed in that green screen suit and doing his bizarro Forte stuff. I wonder why they put Seth in this. Maybe to taunt him so he couldn’t watch Boston. This was really funny and it was nice to have the first skit be funny for a change. ***1/2 Dyson Toilet Cast- Fred Armisen Thoughts- This was cut from the Queen Latifah show. This got a much better reaction in the dress rehearsal and then it did in the live show. Still I found Fred’s odd character to be quite funny and they made jokes about poop. I mean I’m not that hard to please. *** Presidential Debate Cast- Parnell, Meyers, Forte Thoughts- They just won’t give up. It seems like they’re trying to create a ***** memorable classic each time they do one and it just doesn’t work. Forte’s Bush isn’t good enough to do it, and the material they write out just isn’t funny enough. I mean come on. Seth’s Kerry is still awesome even though it wasn’t as good as last week’s. While I enjoyed the joking about Cheney’s gay daughter, I felt they had already had milked that in the cold opening. This was funny but not as good as the first two debates. They really had nothing to work with and shouldn’t have tried to do another one. If you must- save it for the Presidential Bash. Seth’s Kerry continues to carry these skits and it was nice that they kept it relatively short for a change. **3/4 Paris Hilton Apologises Cast- Law, Rudolph, Dratch Thoughts- I didn’t even hear about this story which shows you how out of the loop I’ve been. Jude walking out as Nicky Hilton was pretty funny and as Maya did her usual good job of being tremendously unfunny, I thought Jude constantly saying ‘Hot. That’s hot’ was pretty funny even though it got old towards the end. By the time she was listing all the black guys she’d do it was like ‘Enough already!’. This had good intentions but dragged way too much. *1/2 Ashlee Simpon: Pieces of Me Part 1 Thoughts- God Ashlee is terrible. She has no vocal talent, a huge nose, and an odd looking body. She also kept making weird movements with her arms that were distracting me and meant I couldn’t concentrate on hating her. And while I was hating her- I missed the end of the game. Damn you Ashlee Simpson! This song is bollocks- it has a horrible flow and just sounds awkward. Plus the guitars were way too loud and they overshadowed Ashlee’s vocals. And at the end it seemed like Ashlee was acting out the song which just made her look like a jackass. Little did we know what was to come. Anyway this sucked. * Weekend Update Cast- Fey, Poehler, Sanz, Dratch Thoughts- All-girls Weekend Update is turning into a game of limbo. How low can it go? People can say give her a chance but it’s been three episodes. I see no improvement. It’s getting worse. Amy is terrible. There’s no nice way of saying it. She’s awful. Her jokes are not funny. Her delivery is still lacking and causes jokes to fall flat. She is unprofessional. She is becoming a liability at the desk. If Lorne had any sense he would fire her. Now for the crowd who said OMG JIMMY COMPARISONS regarding Seth: Does it really matter now? Does it really matter if people would’ve compared the two? I mean honestly. Who cares if people compare Seth to Jimmy when we could be getting him instead of the crap Amy is spewing out each week. The bit with the banana? What the hell was that? IT’S NOT FUNNY. We get that Amy is a cute blonde woman. But cuteness doesn’t get you laughs and it’s becoming irritating and annoying. I don’t want a ‘Fun’ Weekend Update. I don’t WANT Weekend Update where people have fun and giggle and tee-hee after every lacklustre joke. That’s NOT the Update I fell in love with. That’s not the Update that made me obsessed with this show. Tina and Jimmy had fun hilarious bits that played off their sexual tension. They also had funny jokes to back it up with. And say what you will about Jimmy but he never used a banana as a telephone. Tina is being dragged down with this mess and you know what the sad thing is about this Amy debacle? I don’t like Tina that much anymore. There I said it. I spent four years obsessed with this woman, I waited 7 hrs while having to pee so bad just to give her a CD. Now I don’t like her. She put friendship over funniness and now we get this trainwreck of a WU each week. WU is the reason I got into the show and I now I dread watching it. That sucks. Amy really needs to be fired now and Tina needs to STOP laughing at the jokes. Have fun all you want but not at the expense of Update. Norm had fun too but guess what girls- he was funny. Has Tina been on drugs since saying: Yes- I think Amy should be my co-anchor? Let’s recap: The Boston Red Sox just had the greatest comeback in baseball history and played one of the most memorable series in baseball history against their hated rivals the New York Yankees. So does Tina get: Seth Meyers, the Boston Red Sox fanatic who is always funny on Weekend Update? No. We get Horatio Sanz doing his tired, unfunny and unprofessional shtick on WU. It’s never funny. It never has been funny, it never will be funny. At least in the FF days you could blame it on Jimmy. But this is all Tina’s fault. She’s completely ruining Weekend Update. It’s sad watching something you love die before your very eyes. Now it could still get better- I know that. But after three Weekend Updates it has just not been good. I know Seth being compared to Jimmy is like the worst thing that could ever happen to the human race but he would’ve have put on a Weekend Update that got a rating this low: **1/4 Congratulations Amy. Your suckiness has caused me to give WU it’s lowest rating since I started reviewing! Blair and Bush Cast- Law, Forte, Poehler, Riggle Thoughts- They made Jude look scary like Tony Blair. I don’t really think we needed the debate AND this but whatever- both were fine skits. Jude’s Tony Blair was really funny and I thought the interplay between Bush and Blair was cute. I loved the thing where Bush kept coughing to get Blair to endorse lower income taxes. It went on a tad too long and there weren’t enough laughs (spoofing C-SPAN is so well not 2004) but I enjoyed the concept and thought Jude did a great job. But don’t push Forte’s Bush down our throats. Let the viewer get into it. Putting it two times a show just alienates people. *** Trump Cast- Hammond Thoughts- I was surprised they had Trump exaggerate so much when Trump said on the Apprentice that he hates people who exaggerate. I like Darrell’s Donald and this was pretty funny. Especially his attempts at trying to do the evil laugh and him saying they can splice it all in. I would’ve shaved off a minute or two from this since it started to really drag at the end but it was still pretty funny. ***1/4 Jane Eyre Cast- Law, Dratch, Rudolph Thoughts- I’ve never read Jane Eyre so some of this was lost on me. I think had I read Jane Eyre I still wouldn’t have found this to be that funny. Rachel talking about her plainness was funny but the rest of this skit was pretty dead. * Ashlee Simpson: Pieces of… Oh wait Thoughts- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I’m not going to rate this but it was hilarious to see that no talented, unprofessional, ugly, hypocritical bitch get completely humiliated on live TV. I mean, I know she has a horrible voice, but even Britney busted ass and sang live on SNL. Did it suck? Yes. Was it funny? Hell yes. This was awesome and it was funny seeing that big nosed piece of shit get what she deserves. And hey- it saved us from another song! If you want to see Jessica’s sister embarrass herself go here- https://home.comcast.net/~mr.mojo/Oops.wmv or…. http://thedvdguy.modblog.com/core.mod?show...&blog_id=327149 Yes Ashlee. We’re all sorry you’re band couldn’t play the right song. Bear City Thoughts- I thought it was really funny when they swapped insurance info so this gets the Tom Green rating. **1/2 Adventures of O’Toole and Caine Cast- Law, Meyers, Dratch, Riggle, Kenan Thompson Thoughts- Good to see Kenan getting on the air. He needs to help promote Fat Albert. This was really weird and it seemed like everyone was a tad off. Seth had a very funny Michael Caine impression. I’m not really familiar with Peter O’Toole’s work so I can’t say whether the impression was funny or not. The jokes here were very hit and miss and the bits with Rachel and Riggle didn’t really work so as a result it got draggy at times. The stuff with Kenan at the end was kinda funny. Just a weird skit- I wonder if they had to drag it out cause Ashlee can’t sing. ** Bear City Thoughts- This had no bits of bears handing out insurance information. DUD The Bottom Line- The avg. skit was **.5 making this barely a thumbs up show. The ironic thing is that had Ashlee not had the blooper of the year this probably would’ve been a thumbs in the middle show. The show started off great with Hardball and picked up a bit after Update but it was just a very hit and miss show with some stuff not working at all and other stuff being really funny. It was a really odd show. Update was all over the place, the bears stuff, Ashlee and Peter O’Toole and Caine was a weird skit as well. That’s live TV for you. Even though the show was good Update’s plunge is really starting to worry me and I hope to God they can start fixing it. Jude was a good host- he had funny facials and great comedic timing. I’d like to see him back. A good show but they have a lot of work to do. Thumbs Up