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Claire Zulkey
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oh yeah, she also said "horny"

She made yet another food/beverage-related metaphor and she also indirectly wished me a happy birthday.

Yeah he was so eager to say something for a second I thought he liked it—usually he goes like "Arghh…OK, listen" but this time he was like "Listen to me, that was bad."

unidentified mail, thank you—her teeth were bothering me a lot last night too.

Suspicious Minds and Burning Love always make me happy.

it's just that our image uploader thingie is weird. that's the technical explanation.

it was really dick. It was as if Paul McCartney said "Pete Best is gonna have a cameo in Rock Band…psych."

actually next week it's Ryan Philippe. I have no idea how he'd be.

I wonder if Lorne also has control over how often he appears in sketches throughout the season.

A guy I sorta knew is a new writer on the show. Apparently so far he's only had a handful of sketches make it to air and would you know they were (IMO) some of the funniest and freshest of the season. I really want to know how the ultimate selection of sketches that make it to air works, because apparently also a

I admit
I didn't-hate Bieber's second song

that Al Roker sketch
reminded me of the Ronald Reagan sketch Phil Hartman did way back when. Except that I bet Hartman could have done a better Roker impression

I feel like once they got out of high school, or perhaps once Donna went blonde, was when I was done. But agreed, it was a sweet show there for a while.

I really have a hard time picking one but I'll say "Help!" because it marries a thoughtful, desperate message to such a charming, nicely crafted pop song and it's, what, 3 minutes long?

the only good medleys are ones written by the Beatles themselves.

ugly crying
I just started watching the Oprah with Steve Carrell and Tina Fey and I thought it was funny that Tina was showing what "ugly crying" is because that was sort of where Mike's wife was going tonight.

You're right! I did block it out. Was that the one where he slid across the stage?

I would have loved to have an opportunity to re-thing Long and Winding Road if it were given a new arrangement but Aaron pretty much just sang it just as it was.

I know this is a girly point of view but I also like that Paul managed to be less of a massive dick, it seems, than John. John was a genius but I have a hard time moving past some of his personal behavior, like how he treated Julian and Cynthia.

I loved Melinda too but I think Crystal emotes a lot more youth than Melinda did which works better for this show's voters.