Not only the winner Spacek, but Gena Rowlands and Ellen Burstyn too — quite a slate. (And Goldie Hawn for Private Benjamin, curiously.)

I can support progressive, bookish women's equality and freedom without leering! I think! (How about glancing? That's not as bad, right?)

New York's got that topless book club that meets in the parks in the summer (including young women WAYYYY more attractive than you would expect, I mean amazingly so), and now this… Something for everyone!

If they have chocolate bunnies.

I know people keep making this comparison, but I see a movie like La La Land and weep yet again about Lindsay Lohan ruining her career. This is what she could have done so damn well.

That reminds me of Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost… Anyone remember that?

I'll bet Joss Whedon loved it, right down to the, uh, not-superb (intentionally) singing & dancing.

The roleplaying one — you mean the couple in bed? I agree, that was a very funny sketch, it made me think that SNL must have done similar bits in the past, since it's such a basic concept. Also reminiscent of Amy Schumer's sketches on her show. Anyway, Melissa Villasenor deserves applause (and maybe she wrote it…

I loved Melissa in this sketch, I'm so glad she got to star in something. Her unusual voice made it even funnier, for me.

Maybe, but his impression is a pretty strong draw, I would think they want him as much as possible. Baldwin has said that he "does have a life" so isn't available *every* Saturday night…

I assumed it's because Obama is less funny/quirky than many other politicians, and hard to build a good sketch around. If John Kerry had won in 2004 they might have had a similar problem. The Onion was able to turn Biden into gold, but that was in writing (and photoshop), not live comedy.

I'm hoping that "leg extensions" are a dance maneuver, and not some kind of prosthetic counterpart to hair or eyelash extensions. :)

"Soft sensuality" means only one name to me: Chuck Mangione.

I know life imitates art, art imitates life, and all that… But we're witnessing the one man show now. This is the show. It's far from brilliant (except for the shrewd timing of infiltrating the pathetic GOP), but it's terribly, terribly awful.

True. However I'd think that Conan, of all the late-night hosts who've come and gone, would get frustrated with the same old crap and abandon the format for something more interesting. Especially after the way it ended with NBC. The TBS show feels like squandered talent (just like Colbert taking Letterman's spot).

I just meant he's one of those Harvard guys who wrote for The Simpsons, which is pretty strong nerd cred.

I'm waiting for his Broadway show: Sad! the Musical

Conan is so funny, endearingly nerdy, and whip-smart; I wish he'd managed (after they screwed him in the Tonight Show debacle) to put his talent toward something besides yet another nightly talk show. He could have created a unique piece of TV somehow.

I watch on the show's website, which I assume gets the feed from Crackle, technically? The episodes only have one Acura commercial at the beginning and another at the end… I don't know how they make any money.

"a young girl practicing high beams while the judges look away…"