What to Watch: Out There Edition

Lots of great new TV this week, as everyone save Conan and Ellen are sporting new shows. Perfect for hot and humid days and nights. You know, the kind of nights that get you all giddy and fill your head with cotton, and everything turns silly? Out there nights, we used to call them in high school. So to celebrate, here are a few out there selections for you this week:

• His Comedy is Out There: One of the funniest actors around, Will Ferrell, turns up on the Late Show with David Letterman to promote his new comedy, Step Brothers. That same show sports a demonstration by Discovery Channel’s MythBusters – Adam and Jamie, for those who watch the show, show Dave promises to be interesting on Monday. If you miss Will tonight, you can catch him almost all week long, as he visits Live with Regis and Kelly and The Daily Show on Tuesday and Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday.

• Lost Out There: Controversial survivalist and documentary filmmaker/reality TV star Bear Grylls does his best to find his way off Last Call with Carson Daly Wednesday. You’ll remember Bear as the TV survivalist who got into a bit of a fix when it was discovered that some of his stranded nowhere-ness may have included hotel stay-overs.

• Orbiting Out There: Here’s a fun one! Astronaut Garrett Reisman visits The Colbert Report on Thursday. Reisman lived on the International Space Station for three months, having just returned to Earth June 14. During that time, he performed a spacewalk that lasted seven hours.

• Bow Wowout There: If you’ve haven’t seen Triumph the Insult Comic Dog perform, then you’re in for a treat – a sour and kind of unexpected treat. Imagine if Kermit the Frog became bitter and resentful. Triumph lashes out on The Tonight Show Friday.