Hello From N'Orleans!

Hey, Hi and Hello from the beautiful Crescent City! I'm here to wait for the four teams to arrive for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament! (The Women's tournament finishes in Atlanta).

We're also doing some taped pieces for next week's series of shows! Trust me when I say they will be hilarious!

It's great to go cavorting around this historic town, getting as many women as we can to put their clothes on and trying to get people to use bathrooms for their required purposes, use alleyways for THEIR required purposes, and not confusing the two!

Can I say the weather here is nearly as perfect as it is back home in LA! We're supposed to have a great week of temps in the 70s and sunny! This will be fun.

Guests on the week include my "Old School" buddy, Will Ferrell, Roseanne, Tom Green, and a whole lot more! Watch for my segment with Emeril LaGasse. That is an instant classic! And we'll have the stars of the tournament, of course!

Much love to:



For sponsoring the Late Late Show excursion to New Orleans!

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Throw Away The Diet!

If there's anything you need to know about New Orleans, it's that you really can't stick to any dietary regimen while you're touring around this town. There are too many ways to eat here and all of them are overstuffed with calories.

Here's a primer for the various foods you will encounter when you visit this very fine city.

Beignet: (pronounced - ben-YAY). This is a New Orleans doughnut, quick fried and covered with powdered sugar. The closest thing to this in Los Angeles are the Funnel Cakes that they serve at the Farmer's Market across from Television City. This must be eaten with strong coffee.

Jambalaya: (pronounced - juhm-buh-LI-yah). It's the unofficial Cajun dish of the city. It has seafood, either crawfish or shrimp and rice, peppers, and all sorts of butter and spices.

Gumbo: It's almost more like a soup than a dish, but it's got all manner of vegetables and spices.

Did I mention that there is a "Louisiana" version of Tabasco Sauce? The stuff you get from your local market is actually a milder flavor of the stuff. The kind they have here is the uncut version! Believe me, you'll know it.

If you love seafood, this is your kind of town. With the crawfish, the shrimp, the crab and lobster, and all the different ways to prepare it, you can have fish for every meal of the day.

Ever eat alligator? You can here! There are restaurants that are more like episodes of "Fear Factor!" I'll spare you some of the more "exotic" menu selections. Suffice it to say that PETA members would go hungry!

There's all kinds of beverages... most famously is the Hurricane... which will get you liquored up faster than a Long Island Iced Tea. And will all of this spicy and salty food to eat, you have to keep on drinking. It's no wonder the girls can't keep on their tops!

Not to mention a lot of the recipes use beer, bourbon, wine, or other alcohol to cook with, giving you a double dose of inebriation!

I'll get back on my diet next weekend. I can already tell it's going to be a full workout at the gym every day after I get back.

Oh, one other note, David Letterman comes back from his illness on Monday, the same night as our first show from here! What a trooper! That's going to be a "don't miss" night!