rubinville

Writing from Starbucks today, where I was just giving a sample of the new Raspberry Frappuccino. Quite delicious. Good work giant, evil corporation.

So, on Saturday night I had a couple beers and watched some Final Four action with Andrew Tavani. As always we discussed sports, life and the state of television. We even watched Saturday Night Live for a few minutes, hoping for a laugh that would never come.

That show really is just awful. I think I've written about it before, but they clearly need to take some time off to fix whatever it is they are doing there. They take one marginally funny premise and drag it out into a five minute sketch, that, as Andrew pointed out, always ends up with someone singing and/or dancing. And could those girls doing Weekend Update stop laughing at all their own jokes? I've generally noticed that when comedians laugh at their own jokes it's a trick to make people think that something funny when it, in fact, isn't.

Why am I even talking about this? As if Lorne Michaels is gonna read this and be like, "Boy, that Dave Rubin sure makes some good points, why don't we get him in here to fix this piece of crap? I sure do love Dave Rubin. Thank God for Dave Rubin!"

Hey, you never know.

Uh oh, I just noticed I only have 22 minutes left on laptop battery. I've been here writing for about 2 hours, working on my one-man show. It's fifth or six incarnation of it, but I think this is the one that will finally be seen by the public. That's opposed to the five or six other versions that sit in the graveyard of files that is the "My Documents" folder on my computer.

I wanted to mention that the audition that I went on last week was for The Daily Show. I was a little conflicted whether to mention what it was for or not, as if somehow that in itself would jinx it, but I don't see why not at this point. As I said, the audition did go great, and last I heard no decisions have been made, so I'll be sure to keep you posted. Of all shows for me to get on, The Daily Show would be the most rewarding, especially as my first, because I was an intern there years ago and I think that'd make for a nice little story to tell my grandkids.

Yea, I have grandkids but that's a story for a time when I have a full battery.

And on that note, that's it for now, the battery is almost gone and it would be ashame to lose any of this self-indulgent literary drivel...