Damn Michael Bérubé. This talk-show idea is too much fun. I spent the drive to campus thinking about who to invite on the show. Here are my choices for the first couple of weeks:
- Mon:Steven Weinberg, Jeanette Winterson, Angelina Jolie
Musical guest: Medeski, Martin and Wood - Tue: Larry Summers, Lisa Randall, Cornel West
Musical guest: Robert Randolph and the Family Band - Wed: Sir Roger Penrose, Jonathan Lethem, Christopher Walken
Musical guest: The Bad Plus - Thu: Richard Dawkins, Tom Stoppard, George Clooney
Musical guest: Luciana Souza - Fri: Gary Wills, Richard Friedman, Sister Wendy
Musical guest: Leonard Cohen - Mon: Sir Martin Rees, Toni Morrison, Shaquille O’Neal
Musical guest: Jason Moran - Tue: Kathleen Sullivan, Karl Iagnemma, Sir Ian McKellen
Musical guest: Queen Latifah - Wed: Donald Rumsfeld, Howard Zinn, Uma Thurman
Musical guest: Bootsy Collins - Thu: Wendy Freedman, Richard Posner, George Carlin
Musical guest: Sergio Assad - Fri: Brian Greene, Barak Obama, Jodie Foster
Musical guest: Either/Orchestra
I could go on forever. Didn’t even get a chance to invite Amartya Sen, Umberto Eco, or Nigella Lawson. Admit it, this show would rock. We would be crushing Jay Leno like a little bug. Mike Ovitz, call me!
Update: Now with links. Because you’re too lazy to google for yourself, you know you are.