This is Lewis Black on Jimmy Fallon's show Friday night. I don't have a Season Pass to Mr. Fallon's show on my TiVo — the first time I ever haven't had a Season Pass to The Tonight Show since I got a TiVo, which was like the first week anyone in the country had a TiVo. I TiVoed Fallon's show at first then found myself not wanting to watch them. My attitude became, "I don't need to TiVo this. If there's anything wonderful on the show, I'll hear about it and I can watch it on YouTube." And that's happened, I think, twice since he took over.
Then I noticed Lewis Black was on and I figured, well, I love him so I'll record that episode instead of catching him on YouTube and I set it…and here's how fate works. Friday night, we had a power failure in my area from, I suppose, all those folks running air conditioners because it was so hot. It didn't last long — just long enough to shut things down here for about two minutes. My TiVo was recording when it hit and then when power came back on, it had to reboot. Once it did, it started a new recording to get the rest of the program that was interrupted. And what I got was a two-part recording of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Part One ended with him introducing Lewis Black. Part Two began with him thanking Lewis Black for the great routine. The power failure edited Lewis Black out of the show.
So I had to watch him on YouTube after all and I figured since I did, you might as well.
Mr. Black was on to promote his new stand-up special, Old Yeller, which debuted earlier that evening on Epix and which my TiVo captured without editorial interruption. Black is my favorite stand-up working today but I didn't feel this was one of his best. It sometimes is like he's running out of things to bitch about and he's bitching about some topics just because he needs X minutes of new material. There are times I felt that way about another favorite, George Carlin. I'd think, "Is he really that outraged about that?" Here, however, is Black doing the kind of thing I enjoy. Even if it is about colonoscopies…
