STEVE MURPHY: A lukewarm way to start the show. Joe Biden doesn’t have the level of public exposure these days that I think was needed to pull this one off. Plus… I mean the jokes really weren’t the kind a person laughs at.
HOWARD MEGDAL: I am all for topical humor, but is the idea that Joe Biden says what’s on his mind particularly topical?
MOLLY SCHOEMANN: If you could pick 5 celebrities, politicians, otherwise well-known people to send to a deserted island and never be heard from, who would you send?
JILLIAN LOVEJOY LOWERY: This is hard. There are so many that I strongly dislike. And there are others that I dislike more (like Palin), but their entertainment value is high, so I kind of don’t want them banished.
CHRIS PUMMER: I’d put Pauly Shore on the list, but I think he’s already there. I don’t even see that guy giving commentaries on VH1 “Best of Whatever” shows. And those are sort of the death throes of fame.
HOWARD MEGDAL: Wow, I’ve always thought about this in reverse- the small group of people I’d take with me to the island, leaving the rest of the world on their own.
TED BERG: I’m so happy that Bono-bashing has become more mainstream. I feel like I was one of the first conductors of the anti-Bono railroad.