Six Degrees: World Cup Vuvuzela Edition.

G’day Zoners, I’m currently blogging to you as I channel surf between Wimbledon and the World Cup. For a mad sports nut such as myself, life doesn’t get much better than when you’re on holidays with a daily sporting smorgasboard and the oh so “subtle” sound of a Vuvuzela humming in the background. The only thing that could ruin my holiday and current state of sporting bliss, is if New Zealand win the World Cup. It’s at that point that Australia will prove that the world is indeed flat, as we slowly drift off the edge. I hope that the team you support is doing better than Australia or that you’ve at least gotten better referee’s than we have. I have to say that tt would be an absolute disaster if America won the world cup but you did definately deserved to win the match against Slovenia. Here’s hoping that the rest of the World Cup will be as exciting and unpredictable as the first week has been.

For the non-sports obessed Zoners, there is plenty of Six Degrees news to brighten your day!!

And now it’s time to check in with our good friends over at The Daily Show

Jon Stewart

• It has been announced that “The Main Event” at “Star Wars Celebration V” will be a live on-stage candid interview between Jon and Star Wars creator George Lucas.

  
  You may submit questions for Jon to ask George here: [Link]

  Date: August 12 – 15.
  Location: Orlando, Florida.
  Tickets: $48 – $128.

• The Huffington Post’s Mike Green thinks Jon Deserves Pulitzer for Defense of Helen Thomas.

Aasif Mandvi

• Aasif talks to Desi Hits about his new movie “The Last Airbender”.

  
  Trailer: [Link]
  Release Date: 2 July, 2010.

Adam Lowitt

• Adam hosts the free fortnightly Monday night comedy show “It Is It” at Pianos. The show has featured such prominent comedians, as; Aziz Ansari, Rory Albanese, Sarah Silverman, Wyatt Cenac, John Oliver, Louis C.K.

Beth Littleford

• Catch Beth as R.J Berger’s sex crazed mother Suzanne, in MTV’s newest sitcom “The Hard Times of RJ Berger”.

Ed Helms

• Ed and Ken Jeong recently performed “Stu’s Song” from “The Hangover” at the MTV Movie Awards:

John Hodgeman

• For those of you saddened by the news that Apple have ended their “Get a Mac” ad campaign, The Best 5 (Now Cancelled) “Get a Mac” Apple Ads have been featured in this months PC Magazine.

Josh Lieb

• While Stephen may be South Carolina’s favourite son, Daily Show writer and producer Josh Lieb is also a Charleston native and he to is fed up with the states “constant crazy”. You can read what Josh has to say about his home state in the Charleston City Paper.

Olivia Munn

• Olivia speaks to The Wall Street Journal about her busy career which includes acting, writing, hosting and about her new role at The Daily Show.

• Darren Franich from Popwatch talks to Olivia about her acting career, what it was like filming her first Daily Show segments and the advise given to her by current correspondants Aasif Mandvi, Jason Jones and Samantha Bee.

Olivia Munn and Rory Albanese

• Music Toob’s Andy Pemberton talks to Olivia about her best tv moments and how a Holocaust joke may have secured her the role of The Daily Shows new female correspondant.Pemberton also speaks to Executive Producer Rory Albanese:

  Daily Show Executive Producer Rory Albanese said it was only recently that he and host Jon Stewart discovered cable network G4’s most prized possession: a hot girl who’ll do anything for a laugh. “We’re stuck in a hard news cycle and we’re nerdy,” Albanese said. “If she was on the cover of The Economist, we would have been like, ‘Yes! Of course!’”

  —

  “We just wanted to make sure our sense of humor clicked with hers,” said Albanese. The show, he said, is always looking to add women to its roster of correspondents, having been accused in the past of not having enough female voices in its mix. “When we watched Olivia on G4, we saw all the things we need on The Daily Show. She’s got great comedic timing, she’s smart and she’s very good off the cuff. We certainly didn’t know she was just on Maxim, and it really doesn’t matter. We just needed to find out if she was into joining us.”

  While her deal with the show is not yet final, it’s simply a matter of sorting out Munn’s packed schedule. “She’s like the female Ryan Seacrest,” Albanese said.

  Full Article: [Link]

Rory Albanese

• Rory wil be performing stand-up at Bar 9 Comedy on June 28 8pm.

John Oliver

• John will be performing at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Taxas on November 20, 2010 at 8pm.

  
  Tickets: $25 – $40
  (h/t Ms. I)

• John will be performing at the Wellmont Theatre in Monclair, New Jersey on October 2nd, 2010 at 8pm (doors open at 7pm).

  
  Tickets: $23 – $33
  (h/t Ann G)

Lizz Winstead

• Ken Picard from Seven Days talks to Lizz about politics, her family, her career in comedy and her web-based comedy troupe Shoot the Messenger.

  SD: It’s like what Stephen Colbert said about George W. Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ dinner: “He believes the same thing on Wednesday that he did on Monday no matter what happened Tuesday.”
  LW: That was such a fascinating thing. Many people forget that that was the first time George Bush had been held to hear his record and wasn’t able to leave. He wasn’t able to orchestrate the crowd like he’d been doing in the rallies … And the media had to hear it, as well.

  And so it was very interesting, because people who watched that thought it was really funny, but the press was, like, “Stephen Colbert bombed.” No, you get to say that because you’re a little mad that he called you out on how you handled the war and all that other stuff. So, everyone tried to form this meme that Stephen didn’t do well, when he was fantastic.

  Full Interview: [Link]

Paul Mecurio

• Ed Condrand of the Star Tribune talks to Paul about why he left his job on Wall Street to pursue a career in comedy, his HBO webseries “Got No Game” and his current stand-up tour.

  
  Paul will be appearing at House of Comedy from June 23 -27th at 8:00 – 10:30pm.
  Tickets: $13

Rob Riggle

• Rob is joined by Paul Rudd, Jason Sudeikis and Will Ferrel at the Kansis City Royals vs. Detroit Tigers game, where they get to throw out the first pitch, get some tips from the players, discuss childhood baseball memories and their charity poker tournament.

  
  Part I: [link]
  Part II: [Link]
  Part III: [Link]

Samantha Bee

• Sam’s new autobigraphy “I Know I Am, But What Are You?” has hit the bookshelves and she’s been out busily promoting it. Whilst out on the promotion trail Sam has done a number of interviews that cover why she decided to write the book and gives an insight to the colourful stories written in the book, from meeting Jason while touring in a children’s stage version of Sailor Moon, to her teenage crime spree as a car thief and being mistaken as her mother’s lesbian lover.

  You can read all about Sam’s amazing life in the following articles and interviews:

  “The Not-So-Secret Life Of Samantha Bee” on NPR.

  “I Know I Am, But What Are You?”: Samantha Bee Explains the World at Salon.com

  “Samantha Bee’s Memoirs of a Daily Show Correspondent” in the National Post.

  The Interview: Samantha Bee at Macleans.com

  Sam talks to Natasha Barrett and Scott Thuman from “Let’s Talk Live”.

  Sam calls into “Elliot in the Morning”.

  Sam reads an excerpt on lesbianism from her book at Borders in Washington D.C.

The Colbert Report Staffers [and beloved ex-Staffers]

Tim Meadows

• Tim will be a guest The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Friday, June 25 2010.

Friends of the Show

Amy Sedaris

• As part of San Francisco’s City Arts & Lectures, Amy will be appearing In Conversation with Paul Lancour at the Herbst Theater on Monday, 15th November 2010 at 8pm.

  
  Tickets: $20

Conan O’Brien

• Although Conan’s ban is lifted in September his new show will not debate until 11pm on November 8th due to the MLB playoff’s which air every fall on TBS.
• Conan talks to Rolling Stone Magazine about nude fans and Jack White after taking his Legally Prohibited Tour to the Bonnaroo Arts and Music Festival.
• Conan teamed up with Jack White to play a secret show to 300 lucky fans at Jack’s Third Man Studios. The intimate performance which included covers of Elvis Presley’s “Blue Moon” and “Poke Salad Annie,” the Stray Cats’ “Rock This Town,” the Band’s “The Weight” and a humorous version of Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” was recorded on reel to reel tape and will be released as a limited edition LP.

  Conan O’Brien – Live at Third Man

  This is the live LP of a truly amazing and one of a kind evening at Third Man Records on June 10, 2010. Conan and The Legally Prohibited Band blazed through an amazing set of rock and roll tunes and hilarity. Features 7 Nation Army and Jack White joining in on Eddie Cochran’s 20 Flight Rock.

  Pre-Order: [link]

Jeff Goldblum

• The trailer for Jeff’s new movie “Morning Glory” has been released.
  
  The movie co-stars Rachel McAdams as an aspiring news producer who tries to save a failing morning show by getting control of its feuding but wise anchors played by Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford.

  
  Trailer: “Morning Glory”
  Release Date: 12 November, 2010.

Movits

• Movits are currently touring the UK and will be appearing at:

  
  Tooting Tram & Social with The Correspondants
  Sunday, 20 June 2010 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM BST

  Sixty Million Postcards with The Correspondents
  Monday, 21 June 2010 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM BST

  Glastonbury Festival
  23 – 27 June 2010 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM BST

Robert Smigel

• Robert talks to the AV Club about “his plans for a Triumph movie, why a Hans and Franz movie was both the stupidest and best idea he’s ever heard, and why he’ll never write with heart.”

  AVC: Wasn’t there an Ambiguously Gay duo movie as well?
  RS: That’s what I wrote with Stephen Colbert. It had been suggested to me to write an Ambiguously Gay duo movie a couple of years after that cartoon had come out, and I resisted until I thought of doing it as a live-action movie. I thought that would bring a whole new life to it and it would be a way of parodying the superhero genre without doing a movie that was just a superhero movie. You know the people who do those Not Just Another movies? I never wanted to make a movie that was just a superhero parody. They come out with those movies and they do direct hits on things. I didn’t want to do that—I just wanted to play with the genre and how seriously it had started to take itself, starting with the Tim Burton Batman movie. I though that would be funny to play against these ridiculous characters and I also thought it would be hilarious to see them in those costumes and to see that car. You just want to see that car, and Colbert and I ended up writing a pretty crazy movie. It had a lot of satirical—Ace and Gary are big characters in it but there’s also enormous time spent with this rogues gallery and the government as well. We ended up getting to do a lot of funny social commentary about people’s attitudes about sexuality. I confess to still thinking about that one now and then. It was a very funny screenplay that we worked hard on and I know Colbert really liked it at the time before he became a national treasure. Now he’s like, “Ambiguously what?”

  Full Interview: AV Club.
  (h/t Ms.I)