Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips will appear tonight on “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.” The show airs at 10:35 p.m. on NBC (KFOR-4 in Oklahoma City).

The band releases its first double-album, “Embryonic,” today.

Conan’s other guests tonight include Ice-T and one of my all-time favorite comedians, Eddie Izzard.

-BAM

Eddie Izzard (Associated Press photo)

Eddie Izzard, my favorite British standup comic, has once again proved himself a completely cool guy by completing 43 marathons in seven weeks as part of a demanding charity run.

According to the Associated Press, Izzard, 47, finished his 1,100-mile trek across Britain on Tuesday, stumbling across the finish line at London’s rain-soaked Trafalgar Square.

The comic says he managed the feat with only five weeks of training. He ran for the Sport Relief charity, and a spokeswoman says he was followed by a BBC film crew the whole time.

After finishing…

Ben Barnes reprises his role as Prince Caspian in “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.” Filming on the third film in the franchise started earlier this week.

“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” the third in the epic series of films based on the bestselling books by C.S. Lewis, started principal photography this week on location in Queensland, Australia, according to a news release from Business Wire.

The production, a joint venture between 20th Century Fox Film Corp. and Walden Media, continues the franchise that…

“Star Trek” Week continues here at BAM’s Blog, and today I’m sharing a snippet of “Trek”-related hilarity from one of my favorite comedians, Eddie Izzard.

In his 1994 stand-up video “Unrepeatable,” Izzard performs an uproarious bit about the original “Trek” TV series. In it, he makes  fun of Dr. McCoy’s overly dramatic speeches, imagines what would happen if someone from the Enterprise’s accounting department joined a landing party and suggests other settings for phasers besides just boring ol’ stun and kill. (I particularly like the “ice cream van nearby” setting.)

The video is from…

The latest James Bond movie, “Quantum of Solace,” comes out on DVD today, and if you haven’t seen it, you should watch it ASAP. However, if you haven’t seen the 2006 reboot of “Casino Royale,” you should plan on a DVD double-feature, since “Quantum of Solace” picks up just minutes after “Casino Royale.”

Despite my early misgivings, Daniel Craig is an awesome Bond. He’s not a grand as Sean Connery, but really, who is?

For more new entertainment offerings, check out this list of the week’s CD, DVD and book releases, from…

One of my favorite comedians, Eddie Izzard, is no longer on TV.

A spokesman for FX confirmed last week that the cable network has canceled “The Riches” after just two seasons, according to EW.com.

The show starred Izzard and Oscar-nominated actress Minnie Driver as a con-artist couple who assumes the identity of a wealthy pair.  Driver was nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her performance on the show.

“The Riches” was one of the many quality shows to fall victim to last winter’s writers’ strike. It debuted in 2007 with a…

The release date for the World War II period film “Valkyrie,” starring Tom Cruise, has once again been moved.

Variety is reporting today that MGM has moved the film back to 2008, with a new opening date of Dec. 26.

It was originally scheduled for June 27 release, then shifted to a height-of-awards-season October date and finally pushed into a new Feb. 13, 2009, slot. This makes me wonder how long this particular release date will last, but for now, it’s apparently what we’ve got.

The trade magazine quotes unnamed “sources close to events” who…

We picked up a commemorative “Stripped” program at the Eddie Izzard show Saturday night in Austin. Most of the 18 pages in the oversize booklet were dedicated to Lorenzo Aguis’ slick and sexy photos of Izzard (love that goatee) and William Smith’s rather revealing interview with the comic.

Some interesting factoids Izzard shared in his lengthy interview with Smith:

- He doesn’t play a character in his stand-up routines; that’s just him in a “really switched on state.” His often-proclaimed interest in joining the army when he was a kid motivated him…

On Saturday night, loyal reader 3D offered this comment on my post “My take: Eddie Izzard “Stripped” in Austin”:

“Who in their right mind would go to one of Eddie’s shows and then heckle? That’s just madness!”

My response:

I also couldn’t believe that not one but two people decided to just shout out from the audience during Eddie Izzard’s second of three shows this weekend in Austin. Neither one of the hecklers said anything mean, but I contend that heckling in any form is both disrespectful and distracting.

The first heckler spoke up…

AUSTIN, TEXAS – From French giraffes and African tigers to Spartan sheep and rocks with GPS, British comic Eddie Izzard covered a wide array of bizarre topics in his trademark rambling fashion Saturday night at the Paramount Theatre.

The sold-out crowd laughed, clapped and howled through most of the two-hour show, titled “Stripped.” The audience rewarded Izzard with standing ovations after the main show and brief encore.

Izzard took the stage bowing, bouncing and dancing, though he said a hurt foot limited the amount of frantic footwork in his routine. But he…