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Video: Chris Christie Tells Brian Williams He’s “Just Not Very Hungry Anymore”

Well that's got to be the first time a U.S. governor has ever uttered those words on national television. Also divulged in this interview with NBC's Brian Williams: He got lap-band advice from Rex Ryan and the David Letterman donut-scarfing appearance was his "goodbye" to obesity.
 
 

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VIDEO: Philly Comedian In Steve Martin’s Awesome Jimmy Fallon Entrance

 
 
That's Philadelphia comedian Tommy Pope on the left, clapping as Steve Martin walks by during a thoroughly entertaining 3-minute walk-on to the set of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night. Full video below. Watch. It's worth it. You may recognize Pope from that incredible "Deck the Hall & Oates" Christmas parody.
 
 
 
 
Pope, a Drexel Hill native, tells me that he's been to the Fallon studio a few times and that his comedic cohort Luke Cunningham (they have a comedy collective called BirdText) is a writer for Fallon.
 
 
Here's the "Deck the Hall & Oates" parody, with Pope in the pink sweater:
 
 

The Office’s Rainn Wilson Loses It At PHL

On his way to a weekend of Scranton-related festivities, for The Office's final sendoff, Rainn Wilson--AKA Dwight Schrute--began experiencing a sensation with which many of us are familiar: deep, bitter frustration at Philadelphia International Airport and its US Airways overlords. Here's Wilson, in his own tweets.
 
So @usairways just screwed me & half the cast of The Office. Conctng flight left BEFORE departure time. Sorry Scranton won't see u til tom.
 
 
— RainnWilson (@rainnwilson) May 3, 2013
 
 
 
 
I'm going to REALLY enjoy trying to convince 3.5 million twinions not to fly @usairways b/c of their shitty service.
 
 
— RainnWilson (@rainnwilson) May 3, 2013
 
 
 
 
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Steelers’ Ryan Clark “Interning” With ESPN

If only ever ESPN intern got to appear on camera. Outspoken Steelers Safety Ryan Clark, whose career may be nearing its end, is currently some sort of intern with the Worldwide Leader and will pop in several segments on your TV screen this week. Said his boss: "I can't tell you how impressed I am about how proactive he has been with us." See what you can accomplish when you delete your twitter account? [SI]

Scranton Gets One Last Office Party Before Fading Back Into Oblivion

Before NBC came along and made it the setting for the American version of The Office, Scranton wasn't even notable for being the home of Joe Biden—because Biden was just some Delaware senator with a history of plagiarism. Indeed: That's why Scranton was chosen to be the setting for the show, because of it's very un-noteworthiness. It could just as easily have been Decatur, or Topeka.
 
 
But fate smiled on Scranton, and Scranton is taking advantage one last time: With a big party to celebrate the finale of The Office.
 
 
Organizers are now expecting at least 5,000 people to attend festivities in

The Following Finale: Who Lives, Who Dies (or Could it All Be a Dream?)

For those of us trying to guess how The Following would wrap up its first season, creator Kevin Williamson shared a clue with Entertainment Weekly. “People live, people die,” he told the mag, coyly. But the real hint was in his explanation of what makes for a good TV ending. “I loved finales as a kid. Knots Landing had the best finales.” And so it should be no surprise that, in the tradition of those campy 80s soaps like Knots and Dallas, we’ve been left with a whopper of a cliffhanger. Williamson had suggested that the Joe Carroll story would draw to a close, and it did. Or did it? The only thing I’m sure of is that the season is over, Kevin Bacon will be back, and my eye is still twitching from that interrogation scene.

Will You Be Watching The Phillies On Fox Sports in 2016?

Maybe. Then again, remember who owns the tallest building on the city's skyline? Comcast, that's who. And while Comcast may be shipping its sports operations to Connecticut and the sweet, sweet tax advantages available to broadcast is that state, it still seems likely the hometown cable conglomerate will do its darndest to keep the hometown MLB team on its airwaves.
 
 
That said, Yahoo Sports thinks Fox Sports may make a bid for the Phillies broadcasting rights:
 
Comcast is a Philadelphia-based company. It does not want to lose the rights of the team that from 2009-11 ranked among the three highest local baseball

Susan Barnett, On Heels of Legendary Rodman Interview, Leaving CBS 3

 
I guess there's no greater journalistic high than interviewing Dennis Rodman during the Papal Conclave outside St. Peter's Square. So Susan Barnett's going out on top, and has decided not to renew her contract with CBS 3, where she's anchored evening newscasts since 2008. Or maybe she's just parlayed the interview into a more lucrative gig at Vice, where she can trail Rodman on his next trip to a brutal totalitarian dictatorship. [Daily News]

Guy Fieri Will Be on Your TV Tonight, Eating at a Philly Restaurant

 
The fruit of Guy Fieri's labors will bloom tonight on your television screen, as the silver surfer's Philly visit gets its moment in primetime. Tonight on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, Graduate Hospital's Sidecar Bar and Grille will show Fieri its chowder, gnocchi, and speciality crab-ish fries, which they actually refuse to call "crab fries," because a certain local sports bar doesn't let anyone else call it that. Tune into the Food Network at 10 p.m. to hate-watch. [Foobooz]

Watch Eastern PA Congressman Receive the Colbert Treatment

Consider this Matt Cartwright's freshman hazing. The first-term Democrat, who represents a district that has been gerrymandered drawn to include Scranton, Pottsville, and Easton, was featured on Stephen Colbert's recurring segment "Better Know a District." Cartwright, who says he's a fan of Colbert, nonetheless fell into his trap several times.
 
 
After Colbert interpreted 'transient' as 'transgendered,' Cartwright was quick to clarify that he was in no way referring to the gender or sexuality of migrant farm workers.
 
Colbert got him to say, in Spanish (more or less) "Hey you guys, get out of my neighborhood."
 
"Taught" him to ride a bike.
 
 
Cartwright, a graduate