Tonight's guests are Christopher Walken on the Daily Show and Senator Jim Webb on the Colbert Report.
Christopher Walken is an actor, screenwriter, director and dancer (like you didn't know that already!)
Christopher Walken Is a Dancing Machine in Jersey Boys
Christopher Walken has definitely got the moves like Jagger.
"I love to dance," he told PEOPLE Monday night at the Manhattan premiere of his new movie, Jersey Boys, directed by Clint Eastwood.
His costars were more than impressed when they saw him show off his celebrated moves on set. "Chris Walken dances his butt off," says Kathrine Narducci, who plays Frankie Valli's mother in the movie version of the hit Broadway musical about the Four Seasons' rise to fame. "He's good!"
Well, duh! The internet already knew that!
That video is 13 years old now, where did the time go?
Jim Webb is on to discuss his book I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir
James Webb, author of Fields of Fire, the classic novel of the Vietnam War—former U.S. Senator; Secretary of the Navy; recipient of the Navy Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart as a combat Marine; and a self-described “military brat”—has written an extraordinary memoir of his early years, “a love story—love of family, love of country, love of service,” in his words.
Webb’s mother grew up in the poverty-stricken cotton fields of Eastern Arkansas. His father and life-time hero was the first of many generations of Webbs, whose roots are in Appalachia, to finish high school. He flew bombers in World War II, cargo planes in the Berlin Airlift, graduated from college in middle age, and became an expert in the nation’s most advanced weaponry.
Webb’s account of his childhood is a tremendous American saga as the family endures the constant moves and challenges of the rarely examined Post-World War II military, with his stern but emotionally invested father, loving and resolute mother, a granite-like grandmother who held the family together during his father’s frequent deployments, and an assortment of invincible aunts, siblings, and cousins. His account of his four years at Annapolis are painfully honest but in the end triumphant. His description of Vietnam’s most brutal battlefields breaks new literary ground. One of the most highly decorated combat Marines of that war, he is a respected expert on the history and conduct of the war.
Webb’s novelist’s eyes and ears invest this work with remarkable power, whether he is describing the resiliency that grew from constant relocations during his childhood, the longing for his absent father, his poignant goodbye to his parents as he leaves for Vietnam, his role as a 23-year-old lieutenant through months of constant combat, or his election to the Senate where he was known for his expertise in national defense, foreign policy, and economic fairness. This is a life that could only happen in America.
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Next Week's Guests
THE DAILY SHOW
Mo 6/16: Howard Schultz
Tu 6/17: Daniel Schulman
We 6/18: Kevin Hart
Th 6/19: Jennifer Esposito
THE COLBERT REPORT
Mo 6/16: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Tu 6/17: David Boies & Theodore B. Olson
We 6/18: Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
Th 6/19: Jay Carney