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James Allen
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I did not make any jokes about that woman, Miss Lewinski.

My one and only God is, and always will be, George Burns.

RIP Morgan Freeman, the first black President.

Quiet, you. - His Agent

Or just Gordon from Sesame Street. He's still around, right?

I have a feeling that Freeman's body will die, but his voice narration will go on for a least a few more months.

Who would narrate his funeral?

Still waiting for the Easy Reader movie.

Ah! I see what's going on here. By putting a style of music in the mouths of characters where you would not expect such things, you have created an incongruity which has in turn confounded the expectations of my brain, making the left side of my brain sort through these novel and unexpected inputs, then

HEY! THIS GUY'S ON TELEVISION!!

The plot seems like it came out of the Indy Film Generator 1000. Or maybe just a Mad Lib. [Indian] [cab driver] helps [divorced] privileged white [woman] find out the true meaning of life.

I love Maya to death, but a network variety show is just doomed to failure. It does have the potential to develop an audience of some sort (and that won't really happen until show actually develops an identity), but the network just won't have the patience. The only way I can remotely seeing something like this even

I have a feeling Short was a ringer brought in when someone realized the show's lead actor had the screen presence of a lamppost and they needed "more crazy." It wasn't great work by any means, but I have little doubt they hired Short and just let him do whatever he wanted.

Riiiiight.

It's all subjective, of course, but if you take into account the level of talent involved, the degree of failure,and the type of failure (it wasn't like other shows that tried to be be really outrageous and/or "shocking" and crashed, it was just an inert rip-off of Seinfeld that barely tried to be anything) Mulaney is

¡Rob! says hello.

I love "Jenny" and the entire HBO One Night Stand special, which I would recommend to people who aren't familiar with them to watch first (although if you're not familiar with them, why are you reading this thread?)

"[Tracy]! You're back!
"Yeah and this is my front. Thanks for setting me up with another classic quote."

I imagine a March of the Penguins style film, tracking the history of the geese and how they bravely migrated from Canada in order to settle down in Queens, NY, their love affair with the New York Mets and the almost completed Citi Field, their fascination with what they perceived to be their faster and more powerful

I want to see Sully looking sullen. Or maybe see Sully act silly. I'll stop now.