Anybody try out Redlasso.com yet? I highly recommend it. It basically searches Television.

Yes, you can search Television, for example, I typed in a random name like "Rob Corddry" and it sent me directly to the portion of a program from Comedy Central that just happens to be about a movie that he's currently in.

Intriguing, I'm still new to it, just got a pass today. It looks like it searches transcripts, You can click on words in the transcript and it takes you to that location in the video stream.

I typed in "Samantha Bee" and it sent me to last nights Daily Show. This is where it gets pretty fucking cool. There is a clip option, so now, as I'm watching this clip stream online, I am provided with a clipping tool and I can clip out this segment that I want clip.

Fuckin EH!



It's in Beta, but they already have all of FOX, NBC, Comedy Central, ESPN, CSPAN! I'll keep ya'll updated, go to redlasso.com and sign up. You may have to wait to gain entry.

So...flipping through the channels last night and I realize Leno and Letterman are on.

While watching Letterman, he makes a joke about the rat heart.

I change the channel. It is Leno... he makes the same joke about the rat heart.

What is going on here?

US talk show host David Letterman has reached a deal with striking writers that will allow his show to return with a full writing staff. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) said the agreement meant its members would be paid for work distributed online - a major sticking point in their dispute. Letterman said he was “happy to be going back to work” on 3 January after eight weeks off air. Many of his rivals also return next week - without their writing teams. The interim agreement between the Letterman’s Worldwide Pants production company and the WGA also allows the return of spin-off programme The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. “This is not a solution to the strike, which unfortunately continues to disrupt the lives of thousands,” said Letterman. “But I hope it will be seen as a step in the right direction.”

Letterman’s deal gives his show a distinct advantage over the likes of Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel, who face the prospect of presenting an hour-long nightly television show without scribes to pen their monologues, sketches and other written material. Presenters such as Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will not even be allowed to write their own scripts, as they are members of the WGA. There is also a question over whether celebrity guests will be prepared to cross picket lines to appear on the shows. The strike, which began on 5 November, was called because of a dispute over the fees writers get paid when their work is released on DVD or the internet. I really hope this will be a beginning of the end of this strike, as it hurts mostly us, fans of all those shows…

So there are over 7,000 embeddable Daily Show clips now online.

Here is the beginning of the massive archive.

You can peruse every single Daily Show, that is a lot of late night comedy and it's going to need some sifting. There are going to be some incredible clips coming out of this.

You can peruse by date
For Example Videos from March 2003

You can peruse by correspondent
Like Steve Carrell

They also did an incredible job at Tagging each clip quite extensively. For example... God