If YOU were Conan O’Brien, and Jack Nicholson came onstage staggering with a bottle of scotch in each hand, would YOU tell him to get rid of them?
I read somewhere that the green room is stocked with just about everything a guest could want - including alcoholic beverages. I’ve also read/heard that those mugs for the guests may have alcoholic beverages in them for certain guests. I’ve never heard definitively about that, though. Rumor is that the alcohol is supplied to loosen the lips of guests … I would imagine that sometimes that might work as intended but other times might turn out disasterously (as the Matthew McConaghy turn on Jon Stewart?!). Heh
<Conehead cone “on”> Yes…that’s it…France. </conehead cone>
For a while, wasn’t there an FCC ban on drinking alcohol on TV around the mid-to-late 1970s? I recall several Tonight Shows w/ Johnny Carson, Ed & various guests totally looped- one night involving Burt Reynolds & IIRC Red Buttons & spray cans of whipped cream. Then soon after, there seemed to be a total end to that sort of mania, tho it also may have had to do with Johnny & or Ed having drinking problems & cutting it out.
Back in 1998, I caught one episode of The Burt Reynolds in which he, Harry Dean Stanton & a white-haired male country singer talking & giggling & being fully crocked.
Back in the 70’s most of the talk show guest were bombed- Dean Martin, Graham Kerr, etc. On Match Game the panelsits usually were drinking and smoking whilst the game was being played. And Dick Cavett seemed to me to be on Quaaludes during the run of his late nite show.
Knowing Matthew McConaughey’s reputation, I’ll bet it was a leeeetle more than booze he had in his system.
Speaking of people drinking booze on stage, I’ve read that Ron “Tater Salad” White’s scotch is actually just apple juice.
Heh, I don’t have *any * sensibilities, let alone elite ones. As one who used to buy Drum by the tin and can roll a pretty decent smoke still to this day, I found “French” a strange modifier for cigarette. Let’s just call 'em Depps.
Yeah…you know what - my response to you was uncalled for and silly. I apologize, and sentence myself to one of Mrs. Dooku’s P-Funks. ::puff:: Dammit, that recessed filter should’ve prevented that…::