Wow! John Fugelsang was a guest comedian this past December for Scott Blakeman’s show “The End of the Year As We Know It.” 

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For Mr. Spitzer, the amicable separation is unsurprising. Last spring, nine months after his CNN talk show was canceled, Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt abruptly asked him to take over the 8 p.m. time slot on Current. The reason: the 8 p.m. host Keith Olbermann was about to be fired.

Mr. Spitzer was, by his own account, “thrilled” to do it, but it was never a full-time job, nor a long-term one. His contract expired after the presidential election in November.

Mr. Spitzer, who resigned the New York governorship in 2008 shortly after his liaisons with prostitutes were made public, is presumed by many people to harbor political ambitions. Asked if they were right to presume that, he said in a telephone interview, “Others presume I have the ambitions.” He laughed and added, “Let me leave it at that for now.”

Comedian John Fugelsang, who has become well-known as a political commentator in recent years, will replace Spitzer in the slot. As for other figures at the network, The Young Turks is open to staying on the network but is unsure if they’ll be sticking around, and Jay Leno mocked the new ownership, asking network personality Joy Behar, “Now what happened to Current TV? Osama bin Laden is your new boss?”

So if the next xyz dance theme is time travel, I hope it means what I hope it means!

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I would like to think that our small resistance on Thursday was felt all the way to Moscow.

Michael Block interviews the ladies of Snow White & Cinderella F**king Rage, opening at The Tank this weekend! Tickets are going fast at only $5, better get yours now before someone hurls a glass slipper at your head…

“Theater folks have likely heard by now of indie film sensation “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” thanks to its buzzy Sundance debut, its Camera d’Or win at Cannes and, in recent weeks, the impressive per-screen averages of its Fox Searchlight release.

But they probably don’t know that the film and its writer, Lucy Alibar, have their roots in the Gotham legit scene.

Alibar’s a playwright, an artistic associate at New York theater troupe New Georges and a member of Ensemble Studio Theater’s Youngblood group. The script for “Beasts,” co-penned by director Benh Zeitlin, is based on her play “Juicy and Delicious,” initially written by Alibar in 2000 and performed at midtown performance venue the Tank in 2007.”

Chris Price from Tumblr created this mini-site for everything tagged as #gif and #blip12ny for Blip Festival New York at Gramercy Theatre last weekend.

We think this NYT piece about crowdfunding for the arts speaks volumes.