In a Nutshell: Tom Snyder

This may be the perfect Tom Snyder clip...a then-obscure guest ("Weird Al" Yankovic's first TV appearance) in which Tom makes snide (or Snyd) comments about...Tom always played it as if he was "one of us" and his guests were sort of thrust upon him by somebody else...some unknown force that claimed that these people were worthy of a few minutes on NBC or CBS to which Tom tended to think "yeah, right"...for example he doesn't know anything about the song that "Weird Al" is going to play or that it is a parody of a Queen song...

Charlie Rose

Watching Charlie Rose on PBS is nearly a daily occurrence for me...it is hit or miss as to whether I am fulling engaged or if its just great back ground noise...one of the best interviews I've seen recently is Charlie with Ira Glass from This American Life...Regrettably, Mr. Rose doesn't ask as many "asshole" questions as Tom Snyder did...but he must be credited with having unique guests that no one else does...

Here is a rare White Stripes performance from a 2006 show.