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On the next Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend

Oh hi there. Perhaps you saw me on Red Eye tonight and thought, “Who is this mesmerizing vixen and what is she all about?” I SO wish I could tell you over cheese doodles and white wine spritzer but instead I was thinking that you should watch my USTREAM show tomorrow night (or tonight, really) because it’s a ton of fun and I know that you take your fun by the tons.

You can RSVP here and then I’ll know how many bean bag chairs to put out.

On the next show my guest will be comedian Michael Showalter. Here’s a video of me interviewing him last year. Might I inform you that I just watched it and it’s as charming as ever? Because I just did. Inform you of that, that is.

You may know him from The State and Stella and Wet Hot American Summer and The Baxter and Michael & Michael Have Issues and a zillion more things including the episode of Sex & The City where Carrie was dumped via a post-it. He was supposed to be on the show last week but because of the insane weather he had to reschedule. (We chatted with him on the phone last week.) I’ve interviewed him a handful of times and each time is like the first time: sort of awkward. But also amazing and afterward I’m a woman. And I never forget it. And I cry.

Yeah, like that.

Also Dustin will be on the show and there will be more surprises and whatnot. So please watch and join in the chatroom and get your friends to watch too and have them get their friends to watch because I’m hoping we’ll have enough people to play sardines. A giant game of sardines with thousands upon thousands of people.

And I’ve booked some awesome upcoming guests. Some names? Well only because you’re begging: Jim Norton, A.J. Jacobs, Andrew WK, Myq Kaplan. And that’s not all!

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Last night's episode with Andrew K Thompson, Tom O'Connor and Michael Showalter

Here are the links to the episode. Watch them more than once!

Part 1: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4629920

Part 2 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4631460

Part 3 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4632920

Part 4: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/4633921

And here’s some info about last night’s show.

And go check out Andrew Thompson, Tom O’Connor and Michael Showalter.

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On tonight's Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend

Alright my precious peaches. I have good news and bad news about tonight’s show. Because of the snowpocalysemageddon, which I do have to say is pretty phenomenal, Michael Showalter will not be on tonight’s show though we’ll be phoning him to make sure he isn’t trapped under or inside of a giant snowball. He is scheduled to appear on next week’s show which I will be sure to remind him forty five times on the phone tonight. The good news is tonight’s guest is Andrew Thompson who not only is a neato guy in his own right, having invented Punk Rock Pillowfight and being a member of Incredibly Strange Wrestling and an artist and a photographer and a musician and a glovemaker, but he’s instrumental in my moving to New York. I will explain more when he’s here, but if you miss the show, you will be so sorry it’s not even funny, it’s just sorry.

And today he reminded me about the time he and I saw Jimmy Fallon and Chris Kattan in a bar and I took this as a sign I should move to New York. It almost embarrasses me to mention this. Had I lost faith in the Magic 8 ball?

Anyway, don’t miss tonight’s show because it will be stupendous. Watch here at 10pm ET/7pm PT. RSVP for updates.

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I need a publicity stunt double

Clean up last night was a breeze. I swept up the hair bits into a pile and then into a dustpan and then into an envelope. You probably think I’m lying. Well feast your eyes on this:


So yeah, there’s some of my hair in that envelope. Hair which Miles cut on the show last night. Someone made a joke that I’d be putting it on Ebay—I think it was Dustin—but then as I was about to throw it out he reminded me of the Ebaying and so perhaps I will. Should I?

Basically what I’m thinking is that it’s high time I pull some kind of publicity stunt. For the sake of the viewing public. I am providing a service here. I mean, really.

So I think I’ve been going about this all wrong, being all delightful and honest and unassuming and such.

It’s high time for me to asshole it up in a blatant attempt to grab publicity. But how?

Maybe I should be one half of a celebrity power couple. Granted I’m dead inside and my idea of romance is checking my email, but I think with the appropriate amount of motivational duckling face time (that’s where I stare at a photo of a duckling and psyche myself up to mix with other human beings) anything is possible.

Or maybe I need to get caught shoplifting… someone’s husband?

Or dognapping? I mean, I would like a puppy anyway and I’m poor so it kind of makes sense.

Or maybe I need to get in a public feud with someone?

I’m open to suggestion here.

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Another note about tomorrow's show

In addition to the delightful Courtney Cummz, it looks as if tomorrow’s show will also feature the delightful Miles Kahn—he of the haircutting and working for The Daily Show. I hesitate to announce this as every time I do he gets scheduled to fly out of town for a story and then he’s all, “Oh hey, I’m so sorry I have to reschedule but it looks as if I have to go win an Emmy,” and then I make jokes about how my hair is granted a temporary reprieve which is fine since I have mixed feelings about cutting my hair anyway and am thinking I’d look great with dread locks. Lest anyone be concerned though, we’re just talking about a trim. I might have him do it with a laser. He’s essentially performing microsurgery on my hair.

So perhaps you’re wanting to RSVP for this hot action? Do so here.

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Here's what I think (about the adult video debate)

A delightful gent has written into the comments on this post deriding adult video for turning people into pedophiles, rapists and sex offenders. At first I wasn’t sure whether to approve the comment, since I feel protective of the people I have as guests on my show and don’t want anyone to feel as if I’m inviting them on to be sandbagged. But then I thought more about it and realized that people who work in the field must be used to the arguments for and against adult video, and that if I’m choosing to provide a forum, we may as well have the discussion.

Here are my feelings: I’m not a big consumer of adult video. I know there are women who are super into it and I hear those reports about how it’s much more common than you think, but it just isn’t my thing. My curiosity is more as an interviewer and a human being (I mean, come on, there’s something compelling about the way it’s so polarizing and about the notion of taking something so private and making it public) and let’s not forget my weird foray into the Playboy world when I worked at the OC Weekly.

Sometimes I like to live exclusively in a world of ducklings and puppies, as it’s cute and uncomplicated, but I’m aware that a guy who says he isn’t into it is probably lying. I accept that and I’m fine with it though I’d rather not reflect on it for too long in most cases. Once, years ago, I had a house guest who arrived with some supplies he’d purchased at a bodega including a few adult mags which he was making little effort to conceal. I was concerned with the logistics of said pursuit. Sort of like if I were your house guest and came in with a potter’s wheel and some clay. You might support my interest in ceramics but not want me throwing any pots in your home since who knows where the clay might end up.

So yes, I’m sort of squeamish about the unsavory aspects of it but I support the first amendment whole-heartedly and have a real problem with those who walk around condemning and judging others, especially since, in my experience, the most judgmental people are the ones who are acting in the most hypocritical manner. I tend not to think art leads to violence and I’m sure someone is going to say, “Are you calling porn art?” and so let me rephrase: I tend not to think expression leads to violence. I think inability to express oneself, or censorship of expression leads to violence. And I think guilt about sex or the denial that sex is a very real and powerful force (one which few people know how to talk about in a healthy manner) leads to an array of destructive things.

But mostly I just feel like people are people, everyone is deserving of compassion and an  attempt at being understood, and so long as no one’s being hurt or mistreated, people should be given the freedom to make their own choices.

Stepping off soap box/high horse now!

What do you guys think?

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