A bit of Vice Presidential trivia

[dougo]

I sort of wondered how "Futurama" got Al Gore to play himself (well, his disembodied head in the far future) several times. Turns out his daughter Kristin Gore was a writer on the show. She's also just written a novel about a senator's aide, filling a "gap in the chick-lit market" (says Jonathan Burnham, editor in chief of Miramax Books).

Comments

[dougo.livejournal.com]

See, this is what you miss by not watching TV!

Well, actually, there hasn't been much, but The Daily Show was off last week (and will be off this week too, I think). I think Kilborn made a joke about her, but otherwise people stay away from politician daughter jokes.

[mshonle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there are certain things I miss out on. Several years ago I was talking to an old friend on the phone and I asked her what she's been up to and she said she watched a bunch of "American Idol." I had to ask, "what's that?" She laughed and told me what it was. I read the Onion to stay on top of some pop culture; but either way the upsides of not watching TV outweight the downsides.