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Talkshow with Spike Feresten
Format	Comedy/Sketch
Starring	Spike Feresten
Theme music composer	G. Love & Special Sauce
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	26 (as of October 7, 2007)
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	FOX
Original run	September 16, 2006 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Talkshow with Spike Feresten is an American talk/sketch/variety television program on FOX starring Spike Feresten.

Writers include: Joe Furey (Late Night with David Letterman, Newsradio), Jeff Cesario (The Larry Sanders Show, Comedy Central Presents), and Adam Felber ("Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!").

Some of the regular sketches on the show include "Idiot Paparazzi", where photographers hit the streets and take photos of people who vaguely look like famous people; "Comedy for Stoners", where a comedy sketch specially designed for someone who might be stoned; "Tomorrow's Headlines Today", when Spike reads headlines ("Ford Lays Itself Off", "Al Gore Melts", "NBC Pre-cancels Fall '07 Lineup", etc.) from Sunday's paper from various newspapers; sponsors for the show (such as Pitters beer, a very flammable beer sold in a breakaway bottle, with an AIDS test on the label, etc.), and "Backfat Sponsorship", where Spike uses one of his writer's (seemingly Felber, although not identified) backfat to advertise Fortune 500 companies (Red Bull, PS3, and Ign.com). On May 7, 2007 FOX renewed Talkshow With Spike Feresten for a 2nd season, making it the longest running talkshow on FOX. ^[1]

Contents 1 List of episodes 1.1 Season 1 1.2 Season 2 2 International Broadcasts 3 Backfat Sponsorships 4 Comedy For Stoners 5 Sketches 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

Note: All episodes in Season 1 were taped during Fall 2006 for broadcast throughout the year. However, as of Season 2, each episode is now taped the Thursday night before broadcast. Although due to the start of the writer's strike in November 2007, the show pretaped a few episodes to air.

Production #	Original Airdate	Guests
5031-06-101	September 16, 2006	Andy Richter
5031-06-102	September 23, 2006	Mary Lynn Rajskub
5031-06-104	September 30, 2006	Michael McDonald
5031-06-105	October 7, 2006	Thomas Lennon
5031-06-103	October 14, 2006	Tom Green
5031-06-108	October 21, 2006	Jerry Seinfeld
5031-06-109	November 4, 2006	Jason Alexander[2]
5031-06-106	November 11, 2006	Joey Greco
5031-06-113	November 18, 2006	Fred Willard
5031-06-111	November 25, 2006	Jeff Garlin
5031-06-114	December 9, 2006	Cheryl Hines
5031-06-121	December 16, 2006	Julia Louis-Dreyfus
5031-06-120	January 6, 2007	Carl Reiner
5031-06-116	January 20, 2007	Tim Meadows
5031-06-117	February 3, 2007	Tom Arnold
5031-06-119	February 10, 2007	John C. McGinley
5031-06-115	February 17, 2007	Melinda Clarke
5031-06-122	February 24, 2007	Bobby Lee
5031-06-118	March 24, 2007	Seth MacFarlane
5031-06-112	April 7, 2007	Alex Borstein
5031-06-110	April 28, 2007	Michael Rapaport
5031-06-107	May 19, 2007	Dave Foley

Production #	Original Airdate	Guests
Unknown	September 15, 2007	Ryan Seacrest
Unknown	September 22, 2007	Brian Baumgartner
Unknown	September 29, 2007	Eddie Kaye Thomas
Unknown	October 6, 2007	Louis C.K.
Unknown	November 3, 2007	Patrick Warburton, Jerry Seinfeld (as host)
Unknown	November 10, 2007	Carl Reiner
Unknown	November 17, 2007	Andy Kindler
Unknown	November 24, 2007	Nick Bakay

• Australia, the program airs on The Comedy Channel.
• South Africa, the program airs on the Mnet Series channel on digital satellite service provider DSTV.
• Canada, the program airs on Global or E!, depending on the market.
• Singapore,
• Ireland,

• Red Bull Energy Drink
• PS3
• Ign.com

• Extreme Hitlers - A little music video with people dressed in Hitler-like clothes skateboarding.
• Shaolin Cats - Cats that "do battle" in a martial arts sort of way.
• Electric Lincoln- Abraham Lincoln dances around with Christmas lights strapped around him and saying "historical facts". The actor portraying Lincoln happens to be on of the show's editors, Neil Grieve.
• Horrifyingly Sexy Larry King-Larry King's head placed over the body of a dancer dressed in a bikini and suspenders.
• Fat Albert Gore - Fat Albert dressed in a suit sings about the environment in the way Al Gore would make a speech about the environment
• Strobe Light Monkeys - Monkeys dance around to the song 99 Luftballons, while strobe lights flash in the background.
• Electric Lincoln part duex - Lincoln gets shot
• Mexican Space Lizard - A lizard in a sombrero with space scenes in the background
• Slow-Mo Humanimal Races - Two people dressed as animals race through a hallway in slow motion. The panda humanimal is one of the show's writers, Adam Felber, and the tiger humanimal is the show's Associate Producer of Music, Blaire Reinhard.
• Cheeto Dogfights - Two fighter planes made of Cheetos fight in the sky.
• Martin Scorsese's Exploding Squirrel - a squirrel explodes
• Vincent Gallo Underwear Parade - a parade of guys in their underwear
• Morbidly Obese Aquarium
• Bigfoot Opera - an Opera were bigfoot rides a unicorn
• Senior Citizen Trannie Lingerie Party
• Horrifyingly Sexy Hannity and Colmes
• Smooth Jazz Rectal Exams - People getting rectal exams as jazz music plays
• Emo Baby verses Goth Baby Smackdown - Two babies fighting each other.
• Mr. Happy Handshake - A man who farts when you shake his hand meets a guy who shakes people's hands when they fart.
• Nightvision Elvis - Three Elvis shown in Nightvision
• Rascit Nose Party - A black finger tries to pick a white nose.

• Idiot Paparazzi - Spike and some friends pretend to be Paparazzi and shout the names of celebrities while snapping photos of passing everyday people who have a resemblance to the celebrity being shouted.
• Rick Richards reports
• Tomorrow's News Yesterday Today - Spike reads "news from the furture".
• Tomorrow's Headlines Today
• Payday Advance Lenders
• The Donny Riffle Show
• Febreze Elderly
• Priest in a Yellow Ferrari
• Lot Cops
• Stimurol
• Discriminav
• NPR Morning Zoo
• 30 Second Trading Spaces
• The Heckler Whisperer
• Transcripts of Books on Tape
• Girl's Fathers Gone Wild
• Senior Citizen Trannie Lingerie Party
• Dr. Phil's Fan Mail - Spike reads mail intended for Dr. Phil, for voice overs were done by the show's staff, including Executive Producer Michele Armour, Associate Producer of Music Blaire Reinhard, and writing assistant Meghan Gambling.
• Ye Olde Adult Video Shoppe - what porn would have been like during the American Revolution.
• Shoe Store Predictions
• Backfat Sponsorship -
• Discount Puppies and Cats
• Indignant Editorial
• Lemon Party -
• Classaction Lawsuit
• Crappy Neighbor
• Celebrity Space Shuttle
• Clinica de Medico
• What's Nuts Now? - in the episode with Jerry Seinfeld
• Cops Guy
• Chinese Product Recall
• Comedy for Stoners - a series of sketches that should only be considered funny to stoners.
• Pitters Beer - an ad for a beer that makes you wince when you drink it.
• How to do a Nerdy Intern Segmant - starring actual nerdy staffer, DJ Lubel, the show's researcher.
• The Unfair Target

List of late night network TV programs

• Official Site of Talkshow with Spike Feresten
• Talkshow with Spike Feresten at the Internet Movie Database
• Talkshow with Spike Feresten at TV.com

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