Tonight's guests are Mick Foley on The Daily Show and a special "The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies" episode of The Colbert Report.
Mick Foley is a retired professional wrestler, author, comedian, commentator, and actor. Tonight he is on to promote the documentary
I Am Santa Claus
We have documented an entire year in the lives of five real-bearded professional Santa Clauses to find out what the rest of the year is like for a man who perpetually looks like Jolly Saint Nick. In the process, they are shown for who they actually are, flawed, flesh and blood men who feel an overbearing responsibility to protect the integrity of the spotless, untarnished reputation of the 'Red Suit.' 'I Am Santa Claus' is a documentary that poses a question about a ubiquitous holiday figure that few parents ever ask themselves; 'Whose lap is my child sitting on?'
MICK FOLEY BECOMES ST. NICK IN TRAILER FOR I AM SANTA CLAUS
Part of what the documentary, presented by Morgan Spurlock, will focus on is WWE superstar Mick “Mankind” Foley, a man who likes dressing up like Santa, attempting to become like these other year-round Kringles. Can he do it? Is there enough beard dye in the world? But, since the other Santas spend their years working as tax examiners, sex club staffers, and beef BBQers, Mick will probably fit right in. Have a look!
Apparently this film was successfully funded on kickstarter.
This looks entertaining at least. I'm sure it will be a reality series on TLC or A&E next December as well. :D
Tonight's Colbert is all about
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Bilbo and Company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the terrifying Smaug from acquiring a kingdom of treasure and obliterating all of Middle-Earth.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies review – packs a huge chain-mail punch
Peter Jackson has pulled it off. He has successfully concluded his outrageously steroidal inflation of Tolkien’s Hobbit into a triple-decker Middle Earth saga equivalent to the Rings trilogy, and made it something terrifically exciting and spectacular, genial and rousing, with all the cheerful spirit of Saturday morning pictures. And if poor, bemused little Bilbo Baggins now looks a bit lost on this newly enlarged action-fantasy canvas – well, he raises his game as well, leavening the mix with some unexpectedly engaging and likable drama. The Battle of the Five Armies is at least as weighty as The Return of the King. It packs a huge chain-mailed punch and lands a resounding mythic stonk. But it’s less conceited, more accessible and it makes do with just the one ending.
As the story reaches its operatic conclusion, a number of factors are in play: Gandalf the Grey, played with gusto by Ian McKellen, has been released from his enchantment and now journeys across country to warn Bilbo (Martin Freeman) and the others that battalions of fantastically ugly subtitled orcs are marching towards them. The elves have come to the rescue of Lake Town’s shivering refugees, horribly let down by their greedy and cowardly Master (Stephen Fry), but the elves’ diplomatic relations with the dwarves – they maintain a certain pointy-eared Vulcan dignity – threatens to break down over agreed access to the gold, and effectively split their anti-orc united front. A romantic drama plays out in tandem with this military scenario: the comely elf Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly) is transgressively in love with the dwarf, Kili (Aidan Turner), making them the Romeo and Juliet of Middle Earth.
But it is Thorin (Richard Armitage) who is the star of this movie, because of his internal crisis. Simply wading waist-high in these piles of gold has turned his head, infected him with “dragon sickness” and sent him delirious with power and greed. He is basically turning into something like Fred C Dobbs, Humphrey Bogart’s paranoid prospector in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948): suspicious of everything and turning on all his friends. It is humble Bilbo who must break the toxic spell.
Colbert already talked about his photo shoot, if you have not seen it yet, you probably should, it is amazing.
FORCE of HOBBIT
I suppose I must accept that this is really the end. No more heart-stopping battles, no more wizard’s magic, and perhaps saddest of all, no more stirring cameos by Stephen Colbert in my award-eligible “Lake-town Spy” role in The Desolation of Smaug.
To help me say goodbye, I took a walk down memory lane. Just me and a few of my friends got together to play dress-up. Lucky for me, my “friends” are the wardrobe department for The Hobbit. The original costumes and wigs were flown in from New Zealand just for me. They didn’t even fly the costumes out of New Zealand for the actors! They had to wear them there! The pictures on these pages fulfill a lifelong dream…winning cosplay. Boba Fett with boobs? You finished a close second.
Look at the incredible work the makeup and hair artists did. Everything was taken into account. Especially with Gandalf. Let’s just say the carpet matches the beard.
Next Week's Guests
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART
Mo 12/15: Tim Burton
Tu 12/16: Paul McCartney
We 12/17: Anna Kendrick
Th 12/18: Chris Rock
THE COLBERT REPORT
Mo 12/15: Seth Rogen
Tu 12/16: Kendrick Lamar
We 12/17: Phil Klay
Th 12/18: Grimmy (The last episode of the Colbert Report)