March 2020 – saleintothe90s

381. It Came From the Daily Show: one episode from October 1999, and one from November, 1999

October 26, 1999

“Do you like origami?” Jon also embarrassed an Atlanta Braves fan in the audience.

Matthew McConaughey was arrested when officers in Texas were called to a public disturbance call. Matthew was high playing bongos, naked, while another man danced. Matthew said it was a nice stay in jail.

Field Piece: Live! Without Regis and Kathie Lee – Stacey Grenrock-Woods investigates turmoil among fans of Regis & Kathie Lee. Is it just me, or does it feel like sometimes that Regis is still on TV with Kathie Lee? I can’t believe its been almost 20 years since Kathie Lee left Regis—and its been nearly 10 or so years since Regis left.

So, the Regis & Kathie Lee fan club no longer exists. Oh, no. btw, the Barbara Mandrell fan club also broke up a while back.

MILLENNIAL MOMENT – GENERATION DEADLINE – a quick parody of all the books that came out at the end of the year, marking the beginning of the millennium.

This just in: Fight Cub –

–but first, Jon pulled an eyelid muscle winking at us —

“Bear wrestles man, wins coveted pic’nic basket.” This guy, Randy Miller a wrestling promoter was promoting a wrestling match between Dakota the bear, and Dominc Renaldi, an idiot. Miller thinks its fun for the bear to fight.

Other News: Smack to School – a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice was awarded a grant to study heroin use. He used the 2.6 million dollars for cd’s, vacations, and …. heroin for himself. oops.

Other clips:

Al Up in That – Hotel Parking http://www.cc.com/video-clips/lbp6z8/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-al-up-in-that—hotel-parking

Interview: Louie Anderson: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ksd7vn/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-louie-anderson

November 4, 1999 — I uploaded it to YouTube!

I wanted to include a picture of my bedroom at this time, but I couldn’t find one, so here’s what I got for Christmas in 1999.

This one gives me all the feels for the year 1999. I can totally picture myself sitting in my childhood bedroom watching this episode. Thing is, I don’t think that Daily Show was repeating on the weekends anymore at this point, and that was the only time I ever saw the show, unless I had a day off school and could watch the 10 am repeat.

First, this amazing promo for Comedy Central with Bebe Neuwrith and Lewis Black, and he’s holding her purse.

Headlines: “A Glover and a Fighter” – “Danny Glover can’t hail cab, claims ‘Riggs, I’m getting too old for this’.” He saw five cabs in Harlem! Cab driver disagrees and says that he doesn’t refuse cab rides b/c “he’s on the duty”.

There’s a joke that Danny was on his way to record a “buckle up” recording for the New York Taxi and Limo commission when he wasn’t picked up. Vance DeGeneres does a recreation — which totally wouldn’t fly today.

Lowdown Dirty Seamus – Irish people offended by NBC’s “Leprechauns” miniseries. Rightfully so, they showed the ad over and over again during the World Series. I found one here during this Thursday night lineup set of commercials.

“Vance DeGeneres discusses people getting offended by Harry Potter” – “The Harry Potter series is popular as hell, and just as evil.” Is anything safe anymore? Green Eggs & Ham: gangsta rap. Goodnight moon, goodnight moral standards.

Other News: Live and Let Dive – Boxing taunted with fraud, boxers admit they’ve thrown fights. Nice Lean Mean Grilling Machine reference.

Interview: Roshumba Williams the supermodel, who came with her book “The Complete Dummies Guide to Becoming a Model”, which is in high standing for most 90s book ever. There’s a copy currently over at archive.org : https://archive.org/details/completeidiotsgu0000will_k0t0

This Just In: Spines Like Us: oldest vertebrae found in China.

The Public Excess segment is missing from my copy, but Comedy Central has us, for once. Pet the entertainer has a museum of sex? Ostaro the psychic tells Hillary to sleep on it, when concerning her senate run.

“It’s a good grill!”

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The zine sale is still going on at my etsy shop, including my zine about my favorite episodes of Daily Show from 1999-2001! Read some zines while you’re stuck at home. I don’t go back until April 4th.

409. Monica’s “glaze” lipstick (3/2/1999)

You know, the one thing I remember from the Monica Lewinsky Barbara Walters interview was articles about the Club Monaco Glaze lipstick Monica was wearing, and how women wanted it. When MacArthur Center mall in Norfolk, VA opened a couple of weeks later, the Sephora store reported that within minutes of opening, Glaze was sold out, and only a few lip liners remained. 4

People were tired of the drama, they just wanted the lipstick:

ABC also solicited responses to the interview via the Internet, where many viewers seemed more interested in how Lewinsky looked than what she said. One viewer wrote to ask what shade of lipstick Lewinsky had been wearing, and three dozen others soon joined the e-mail chorus clamoring to know her color. Anchors at “Good Morning America” promised to try to answer that question on today’s show. 1

The lipstick retailed for about $13, and immediately following the interview waiting lists began for the lipstick. 3

Looking back now, the hype it surprises me since that color was so common back then. We were nearing the end of the doodoo brown lipstick craze of 1997, 1998 and going into a lighter shade of doodoo brown. That shade kinda fit.

My doodoo brown go to back in high school was Stone Edge, from Revlon. Always bought it at Target, back when the makeup department at Target was at the front of the store, next to the purses and accessories.

I know I mentioned the Monica interview years ago, but this was the first time I had ever seen the whole thing. I received it in a tape box I bought off of Ebay, and I put the whole thing, commercials intact on DVD. Luckily for us and my slow internet connection, I found another copy with the commercials on archive.org.

Monica’s interview almost had as many viewers as an Oscar telecast. 1

One thing she mentioned was that she began her internship in Washington at the White House to get away from that teacher she was having an affair with in high school and into college. That kinda stung me, because I recently read the book My Dark Vanessa about a years long dangerous affair a woman and her prop school teacher had.

Two major sources of awkwardness was Barbara Walters asking Monica in the interview how to describe phone sex since “people may not know what it was”. Of course, there was also discussion over ~ThE dReSs~. I didn’t know that Monica gained weight shortly after wearing the dress and couldn’t fit in the dress again, so she just threw it aside.

One slightly less awkward moment was this pee joke:

“The president and I were having a very intimate discussion and he … said that he wished he had more time for me and I said … ‘Well, maybe in three years, you might’ …

“And he said, ‘Well, I might be alone in three years.’

“I was very stunned to hear him say that, and so I said, ‘Well, I think we’d be a good team.’ And he said, ‘Well, what are we going to do when I’m 75 and have to pee 25 times a day?’

“That to me certainly indicated that it was a thought that had crossed his mind.” 5

A face palm moment was Monica mentioning that she stayed up all night waiting for Bill to call her after the 1996 election with promises that he was going to get her back in the White House. He didn’t and Monica went crazy (her words) near the end of their relationship

Right, the commercials. I wasn’t surprised at who advertised during this interview. Advertisers spent about $800,000, for ad space 2. I saw commercials for weight loss pills like Merida, and rom com movies like Notting Hill, The Other Sister, She’s All That, and Forces of Nature. Also, a news promo about “cheating on your spouse”.

Also, this MasterCard commercial implying that my girl Olive Oyl bought a wonder bra.

But this commercial, THIS COMMERCIAL, is the winner. It’s a local Augusta, Georgia ad for American Auto Commercial and it stars Bill, Monica, and Betty Currie. I uploaded it to my YouTube channel.

Finally, I put Instagram filters on Monica and Barbara, and put them on my instagram.

1 “Huge Ratings for Lewinsky.” Los Angeles Times, March 5, 1999. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-05-ca-14057-story.html.

2 Press, Associated. “ABC Asking Five Times the Norm for Ads on Lewinsky Interview.” Deseret News, March 2, 1999. https://www.deseret.com/1999/3/2/19432130/abc-asking-five-times-the-norm-for-ads-on-lewinsky-interview.

3 Staff, Jean Patteson of The Sentinel. “LEWINSKY’S LIPSTICK HAS BECOME THE RAGE.” OrlandoSentinel.Com. Accessed March 20, 2020. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1999-03-25-9903240362-story.html.

4 “Short Takes.” Daily Press, March 17, 1999.

5 Connor, Tracy. “CLINTON ‘MAKES ME SICK,’ MONICA SAYS – CLAIMS HE’S SORRY ONLY THAT HE WAS CAUGHT.” New York Post, March 4, 1999. https://nypost.com/1999/03/04/clinton-makes-me-sick-monica-says-claims-hes-sorry-only-that-he-was-caught/.

hi everybody,

I’m currently off work until the 30th. I’ve been trying to get some things up on my etsy shop to bide the time.

Check out my instagram too where I’ve been posting things I’ve been finding on these vhs tapes I bought off eBay back in January.

I need to put my nose to the grindstone soon and crank out a new entry.

408. Purell

I remember where I was the first time I saw a commercial for Purell. It was an early morning sometime in 1997, as I was getting ready for school. Mom had Good Morning America on in the living room, and I saw on TV (what I remembered at the time as) a trembling hand getting ready to touch an ATM keypad. The voiceover was something along the lines of, “think of all the other people who touched those buttons”.

I found the commercial, and I rewatched it for the first time in 22 years.

Ok, the voiceover guy said, “Germs live on all types of things. Even the things we touch every day.” Also, the guy’s hand wasn’t trembling.

The agency search for that commercial began in the fall of 1996.

Kathie Lee Gifford approved of it.

Two of Purell’s earliest copycats/competition came from SoftSoap (which is no longer produced), and Dial. 2

One of the earliest instances I could find of Purell mentioned in a book was a 1999 Y2K preparedness guide 1:

Around 1998, 1999 Bath & Body Works began selling their own hand sanitizer. Because its totally approbate to make a section of a restaurant smell like Juniper Breeze. Looking at you, mom.

Kitchen Lemon is the only suitable scent, and the only scent I bought back then.

ALSO, FOR SOME REASON THERE WAS SOME WITH GLITTER IN IT. BECAUSE IT WAS THE LATE 90S, I GUESS.

[from this amazing Bath & Body Works archive of the old “heartland” days]

1. Porlier, Victor W. Y2K: An Action Plan to Protect Yourself, Your Family, Your Assets, and Your Community on January 1, 2000. 1st ed. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1999. 50.

2. Angela, Hardin. “Gojo: Getting a Handle on Its Purell Market.” Crain’s Cleveland Business, June 22, 1998.