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Our Trip to Live with Regis and Kelly

Kelly Ripa and Regis Philbin with NASCAR drivers

On Wednesday, September 10, 2008, Greg and I were audience members at Live with Regis and Kelly. The guest was Wayne Brady. The musical performer was…Wayne Brady, again. There was also a pre-recorded interview with actress Shirley MacLaine. Wow, we woke up at 6:30 a.m. for this?

Then, Regis and Kelly announced they were going to record an extra segment that would air during one of next week’s episodes and asked us audience members to stay an extra half hour. To Greg’s surprise, the segment featured the top NASCAR drivers, which was great because he’s a big fan, but for some reason, they were throwing ice cream at each other. What sense does that make?

Live with Regis and Kelly audience

In the screen shot above, you can see us in the audience! We’re the two pixelated blobs wearing white shirts.

After thinking about it for a while, I realized NASCAR fans must love ice cream, judging from how out of shape many of them are, so maybe the whole thing made sense after all.

Photos:
Flickr – Live with Regis and Kelly, NYC 9/10/08

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Celebrity Look-a-likes in the UK

Somehow, don’t ask me how, I came across a celebrity impersonator/look-a-like agency in the United Kingdom called Fake Faces. Some of the stand-ins either look nothing like the real person, or are simply wearing the costume of the celebrity’s most famous character, yet bearing little resemblance otherwise.

However, many…in fact most…are very good indeed, almost having me do a triple take. Here’s a few spot-on impersonators of some of our favorite celebrities.

Eddie Murphy and Sean Connery:

fake Eddie Murphy fake Sean Connery

It’s England, so they’ve gotta have The Beatles (George, Paul, John, and Ringo):

fake George Harrison fake Paul McCartney fake John Lennon fake Ringo Starr

They have a group photo of the George, Paul, and Ringo impersonators with a guy who looks nothing like John Lennon at all. Again, these guys look like the older, modern day Beatles. Perhaps they are insinuating that John Lennon would be fat and wearing a French beret if he were still alive?

fake Beatles

For fun, here’s a guy who is supposed to be Billy Connolly. He has the expression and the hair down, but he seems to be constantly dying his goatee different colors. Why?

fake Billy Connolly

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Episode 110: Saturday, September 6, 2008

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 110

In this episode:

  • celebrity deaths (Don LaFontaine, Bill Melendez, Walter “Killer” Kowalski, and Jerry Reed),
  • voice actors Peter Cullen and Victor Caroli,
  • the box office grosses of The Dark Knight (2008) and Titanic (1997),
  • “Convoy” by C. W. McCall,
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) starring Samuel L. Jackson,
  • The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) starring Bea Arthur and Art Carney,
  • Eddie Murphy’s career,
  • What Ever Happened To? (Judge Reinhold),
  • Nick Fury: Agent of Shield (1998) starring David Hasselhoff,
  • Esteban and the Jeff Bridges voice,
  • syndicated TV shows in the 1990s (Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Renegade, etc.),
  • listener email from Paul in Missouri,
  • the Paunch Stevenson Show marathon,
  • Sylvester Stallone’s face,
  • vitiligo,
  • Michael Jackson’s 50th birthday,
  • Bill Cosby’s rap album State of Emergency,
  • Rob’s picture with “Macho Man” Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth in Belleville, NJ, in 1986,
  • Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin,
  • and the popular vote scam.

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Episode 109: Wednesday, August 20, 2008

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 109

In this episode:

  • our movie review of The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008) starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson,
  • Chris Carter’s other TV shows (The Lone Gunmen, Millennium, and Harsh Realm),
  • the unpopularity of sci-fi on TV,
  • our movie review of Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D (2008) starring Brendan Fraser,
  • computer generated dinosaurs,
  • Rob’s problem of forgetting movies a few years after watching them,
  • our movie review of Tropic Thunder (2008) starring Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr.,
  • celebrity deaths (Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes, thanks to www.deadoraliveinfo.com),
  • Jim Henson,
  • Morgan Freeman’s car crash and injuries,
  • the curse of The Dark Knight (2008),
  • Michael Caine,
  • upcoming movies in 2009 (Fast and Furious starring Vin Diesel, The Evil Dead directed by Sam Raimi, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen starring Shia LaBeouf),
  • Michael Bay,
  • Richard Dreyfuss suing his father and uncle for $870,000,
  • and the unreleased Super Nintendo video game Steven Seagal Is the Final Option.

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Episode 108: Sunday, August 10, 2008

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 108

In this episode:

  • special guest Esteban from Please Save Me Robots (pleasesavemerobots.blogspot.com),
  • Comic-Con International in San Diego, CA,
  • the upcoming movie The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) starring Keanu Reeves,
  • Ringo Starr,
  • the BotCon Transformers convention,
  • video game grading services,
  • gasoline octane ratings,
  • obsessed collectors,
  • the upcoming movie TR2N (2010) starring Jeff Bridges,
  • funny videos of The Wicker Man (2006) on YouTube,
  • the Japanese origin of the Transformers toy line,
  • Ironhide and Ratchet’s horrible robot forms,
  • 3D movies (Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Star Wars),
  • holographic video,
  • putting your face in HD DVD movies,
  • Esteban’s experience as a weather observer in the United States Air Force,
  • his UFO sighting in Korea,
  • the Alamo in San Antonio, TX,
  • watching Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) in Turkey,
  • Esteban’s experience at McMurdo Station in Antarctica,
  • Antarctic roads and speed limits,
  • and a celebrity death (Estelle Getty, thanks to www.deadoraliveinfo.com).

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