- Kevin KILLED on last night’s edition of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where he sat on the panel with Jay and the OC’s Mischa Barton to promote his new book, “Silent Bob Speaks”. Jay went right into the “Catch And Release” news (Kevin worked in a backdoor Affleck quip. Kevin also revealed that he’s visiting the “Bottoms Up” set (with Paris Hilton and Mewes) that day — Will he appear in a cameo? Hmmm…
Clerks 2 gets some MAJOR talk and pluggage, which is always good to hear, and then, the book gets some very nice screentime. Kevin openly talks about the Entertainment Weekly review and gets some nicely nationally televised burns in on the periodical for revenge. You go, Kev. And finally, yes, the WEBSITE gets airtime. And you web-types who are reading this have GOTTA love that. The online diary is the topic of discussion (and you gotta see Barton’s face during that reveal).
But hey, don’t take our words for it. WATCH IT NOW in glorious mini-quicktime video. Don’t worry, the 2-second blackout wasn’t a show edit, just technical probs.
Want to see what Kevin said about the experience today in his online diary? Sure ya do:
– I watch the show in my guest room and am floored by how fucking boring and what a terrible interview the “O.C.” chick is. I’ve now been a couch guest five or six times on “Tonight”, always as the second interview, and have figured out that there’s this delicate balance you want in the guest who comes before you: you want them to be good, but not great. You want them to warm the audience up, so that when you get out there, you’re not facing a sleepy crowd. At the same time, you don’t want the first guest to kill – otherwise you’re gonna have a tough time impressing the audience. The “O.C.” chick offers nothing. It’s dead quiet out there – which makes my job harder, because I’ve gotta be even funnier than I planned on being and win the crowd within the first thirty seconds or risk tanking harder than the chick who just said she was lucky enough to be in Rome when the Pope died.
– I’m sweating profusely (natch), so I get a litttle powder in the makeup room and trim my beard a touch. I get wired up and after the Human Ambien’s segment is over, I head backstage to go on, post-commercials.
– I do my segment.
– Post-show, I talk to Rob Thomas for a few seconds, say goodbye to Jay. Debbie Vickers (the producer of the show and a chick I really dig) tells me I killed, and Dave Berg thanks me for a great segment. I head back to my dressing room where I talk with a guy who pops in to tell me he used to be an accountant on the “Clerks” cartoon, and how ABC fucked it up. Then Andy comes by the give me the thumbs up on the segment, as does Kristin and John Melendez (aka Stuttering John). John and I bullshit for awhile about Howard and the Sirius move, as well as other non-Howard related stuff. Forty five minutes later, it’s just me and Kristin, and we go over stuff we wanna do for the book (I opt against taking out magazine ads, as it’s a waste of money, and agree to do an interview on Air America if they can get me in), including a celebratory “We Sold Out the First Printing” signing party we’re thinking of doing at the Stash before I head off to “Catch.” I drop Kristin off at the front door of the studio where her car’s waiting, and I head home.
Much congrats to Kevin for yet again proving he’s a born entertainer!
Zach Braff, an alumnus of Northwestern University’s radio-television-film department, came to speak to us today. One of his closing remarks was how when he was an undergrad Kevin Smith came to speak at NU and he went, and one of the things Smith mentioned was not liking and not ever wanting to take the “a film by” credit, because he felt the film was made by lots of people and not just the director. Braff has vowed to be the same way and encouraged us to follow.
