Can I Just Talk About

The Biggest Loser for a second.

The Biggest Loser and I aren't besties. I don't watch it religiously and I'm not 100% convinced that their training methods are exactly healthy.

That being said it's still and inspirational, motivational and cathartic show for me to watch right now. I may not be 300 pounds but I certainly know what it's like to go through a gruelling workout. I didn't even make it all the way through my first work out.

However, I've incorporated training into my regular life. I go three times a week and for the majority of it I was working two jobs (now only one) and am still managing to having a fulfilling social life. While on the show these participants have nothing to do but focus on weight loss. So while they've been successful in an extreme situation they have not done it in the real world. What happens when they don't have two amazing trainers on their asses all day?

Oh, but there is a twist.  This season their aren't just two trainers, there are four. Two new "unknown trainers" have shook things up a bit. The teams were given a challenge. The choice to pick the unknown trainers and get 4 weeks immunity or train with Bob and Jillian and be up for elimination each week. Immunity is the ultimate prize on the show, so to me the choice is obvious.

I was shocked to see teams freely, choose Bob and Jillian, because they were proven (read the contestants were star struck) over four weeks immunity. To me everyone who choose to work with Bob and Jillian aren't there only to get their life in order , other motivations have to come into play: maybe it's a bit of a groupie thing or their own desire to be famous.

I suspect Bob and Jillian feel similar as they basically told the teams who chose them they made a dumb decision.  That was only proved at the weigh in where a single contestant from the "unknown trainers" lost 41lbs in one week (that's a show record by the way). That's more then entire teams lost together. Clearly these "unknown trainers" know their shit, or maybe the stronger. smarter and more determined contestants just choose them. Either way it's going to be an interesting season.

Learn Fundraising with 30 Rock.

Fundraising lessons can be seen everywhere... apparently, and slightly to my dismay.

Anyways, I stupidly set myself a goal to read Keep Your Donors, which is a 400 page text book on good donor relationship building, before Tuesday. This is definitely an unreasonable goal.

Realizing that it's impossible I decided to slack off and watch 30 rock with my room mate. WELL, this particular episode of 30 rock featured a charity golf tournament and a great example of how not to ask a group of people for money followed by a good example of how to ask a group of people for money.

If only my actual classes were as entertaining as this. Maybe I would have paid more attention.

The scene of reference starts at the 14:30 mark, but you should really just watch the whole episode because it's awesome.

For Your Consideration: Conan O'Brien

Once upon a time I used to love both Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien. Once upon a time I used to love NBC.  I even travelled to LA and went to two tapings of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. I stood on The Tonight Show stage with Jay Leno.

Once upon a time I tried to attend a taping of Late Night with Conan O'Brien in Toronto. 40,000 people entered the lottery for those tickets - I've never been to lucky.

I now shudder at the thought of even watching Jay Leno and would never watch NBC if it wasn't for Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.

But, I'm still with Coco.

I've never felt as bad for a celebrity as I did for Conan O'Brien. The demise of the Tonight Show with Conan was one that thousands of people around the world could relate too. While I'm sad that he's not currently on tv...in some ways Conan getting his ass booted out of NBC like a drunk out of a bar paid off for him and his fans.

The last few weeks of the Tonight Show were some of the funniest moments in his career. I personally loved when he put the tonight show up for sale on craigslist.  Plus now that he has a twitter account, twitter tracker has exploded and my day instantly gets better every-time he tweets.

I got to see Conan do his thing live when his "Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television" tour stopped in Toronto. It was definitely sorta worth it.

For him, well, he got to realize that his fan love him enough to rally behind him and pay to see him preform (something they've never had to do before). And now, In my opinion, for the first time in his career Conan is finally getting to be the star of the network, like he should have been at NBC.

TBS isn't going to let NBC forget the mistakes they've made. Conan maybe legally prohibited from being funny on TV, but TBS isn't prohibited from reminded everyone of just how funny he was and will be.

They have launched an aggressive advertising campaign to get Conan an Emmy. To me this would be the ultimate ironic ending to the whole Conan vs. NBC fiasco.

The Emmy's air on NBC on August 29 and Conan's TBS show starts November 8th.

I think we know how Jimmy Kimmel and David Letterman are voting!

Give this man an Emmy. He's legally prohibited from being funny on television - hasn't he earned it?!