So even the show airs in about an hour on the East Coast, we couldn't resist sharing some of these with you:

Well, I've timed this moment perfectly. I'm on a last place network, I moved to a state that's bankrupt, and tonight's show is sponsored by General Motors.

A lot of people have been asking me, "Will your show be any different now that you've moved to Los Angeles?" I tell them all, "No. Mi programa no va a cambiar porque estoy en la ciudad de Los Angeles."

This is a huge night for me. I remember watching Johnny Carson when I was a kid and thinking, "That's what I want to be when I grow up." And I'm sure right now somewhere in America, there's a little kid watching me and thinking, "What is wrong with that man's hair?

I think they've built us a beautiful studio here in Los Angeles. This studio holds 380 people. It's exactly like being at a Clippers game.

We're here at Universal Studios. It's exciting to tape the show on the Universal lot because we're just around the corner from Wisteria Lane where they film "Desperate Housewives". In fact, in a lot of recent scenes you can see me playing the "Creepy Guy in the Bushes."

Good God he's so much better than Leno—-We can hardly wait! And come back at 11:35 because we're going to liveblog this badboy!

While won't put on a front and pretend that we have seen Haneke's 1997 original (we wonder what percentage of critics who have claimed to see this movie in their reviews actually did), we are big fans of both The Piano Teacher and Caché. And when you combine our appreciation for Haneke with a terrific cast (featuring Naomi Watts — easily one of the finest and most underrated actresses working today — Tim Roth and Michael Pitt), we have a must-see movie on our hands, despite what some of the critics have to say. Here's a quick sampling of some of the critics pre-reviews, none of which can dull our anticipation for Friday's release:
· "A highly, if grotesquely, skilled exercise in Snuff Guignol, Funny Games doesn't come out of nowhere. It has many antecedents, from the mocking cool sadism of A Clockwork Orange to the pressure-cooker intensity of Peckinpah's Straw Dogs to the house-party torture games of Roman Polanski's 1966 classic, Cul-de-Sac." [EW]
· "it was only a matter of time before the cinema of sadism would seek a new, virtually untapped market among the egghead arthouse crowd." [News Blaze]
· "There's disturbing, there's scary, there's terrifying. And then there's this movie." [Kyle Smith]
· "Shocking and deliberately manipulative." [Variety]
· "The most perverse movie ever released by a major American studio." [Esquire]

• Funny Games [Warner Independent Pictures]