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Evidently, Business Insider has decided to inaugurate the launch of Jimmy Fallon’s late-night talk show with a litany of the 10 Biggest Talk Show Bombs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I prefer to honor Mr. Fallon for his awesome parody of that Dirty Vegas video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evidently, Business Insider has decided to inaugurate the launch of Jimmy Fallon’s late-night talk show with a litany of the 10 Biggest Talk Show Bombs. I prefer to honor Mr. Fallon for his awesome parody of that Dirty Vegas video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[581],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jimmy-fallon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-Vh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8019,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-dogs-of-la","url_meta":{"origin":3551,"position":0},"title":"Podcast: Dogs of LA","author":"Gil","date":"July 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories: Merrill Markoe\u00a0- Dogs of LA \"I hate to find out that people I admire are schmucks.\" Legendary comedy writer, producer and performer Merrill Markoe let me into her home after seeing pix of my adorable greyhounds, and we got to spend an hour talking about how she co-created\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis"","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis"},"img":{"alt_text":"Merrill-Markoe_by_John-Dolan_jpg_627x325_crop_upscale_q85","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Merrill-Markoe_by_John-Dolan_jpg_627x325_crop_upscale_q85-620x321.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Merrill-Markoe_by_John-Dolan_jpg_627x325_crop_upscale_q85-620x321.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Merrill-Markoe_by_John-Dolan_jpg_627x325_crop_upscale_q85-620x321.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7736,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-slippery-animal","url_meta":{"origin":3551,"position":1},"title":"Podcast: The Slippery Animal","author":"Gil","date":"March 3, 2014","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories \u2013 season 4 episode 8 - Bruce Jay Friedman: The Slippery Animal \"I'm always in the middle of a struggle with a short story. 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