As funny as Fey-Fallon-Poehler were (especially Fey's writing and delivery), I know that Norm MacDonald thinks that Chevy Chase and Dennis Miller were the only great iterations of Update, aside from his own. That reflects one particular approach to the concept, and I see his point. Other hosts have been much more…

Kate's great, but Denis Leary would have made the juxtaposition less jarring. I feel that letdown whenever Bernie Sanders is on TV, since I want it to be Larry David.

The only Merkel I like even better is Tracey Ullman's. Check out her new (since 2016) show, especially where she sings an uptempo jazz number. In another scene she revels in the scent of her suit jacket after a summit meeting ("It's Obama"), and kicks off her heels ("Zese fuck-me shoes are killing me.")

Amen. Except for comedian hosts who do a bit of standup, the monologues have been mostly lame for years (maybe forever). This was refreshingly amusing.

At first glance, seeing there was one odd white candy in the box, my first and only guess was Bill Clinton. Sure enough!

Bunch of white liberals were so sure of that? Shocking. (We're so lame!)

And Steven Merchant was a riot… He and Gervais in those little two-man scenes were brilliant. Also, the friendship between Andy and Maggie was so wonderful to see through its ups & downs, a man and woman who are real friends, both straight but no hint of trite will-they-won't-they romance.

Now hang on: After McCain lost the election, she remained Governor of Alaska for at least 30 minutes.

There were always good shows and bad shows. The 50s had staged plays filmed live, the 60s & 70s had some outstanding comedies. In the years of Airwolf, etc., you could also watch Hill Street Blues or Cheers. The fun "action" shows fared poorly from our perspective, since the 2000s made a huge advance in quality.

… and that's about all. My god, that network had lame shows. Suzanne Daniels' book Season Finale tells the story of WB and UPN from their coincidental starts to their troubled merger, and even if she weren't a biased WB exec, the contrast in quality of programming and management is glaring.

I felt that way when some odd channel started showing Knight Rider reruns. I mean, the car was still cool and the Hoff was the Hoff, but the scripts were just terrible.

Oh I saw it, and the 1998 movie Twilight… My Reese crush goes way back. (Kiefer though was already known for Stand By Me, Lost Boys, A Few Good Men…)

Kiefer's always been a good-looking dude, so it's amazing how those child-molester glasses turn him into an übercreep.

I've got tickets to this and am eagerly awaiting it — not only are revivals of Sunday In the Park fairly rare, but the Hudson will become Broadway's oldest active theater (1903) when it reopens with this production. It's great to see historic preservation in a city that so often neglects it.

She was in several major musicals; it happens a lot, TV and movies reach millions who may not know anything about an actor's significant career on the stage. See also Florence Henderson, Jerry Orbach, Victor Garber…

All the Freeway DVD covers I find in an image search seem to feature Reese Witherspoon just as prominently, looking like an adorable hooker.

Those people at Jell-O who wouldn't allow the name are a disgrace. Sad!

Appropriately, this figurine looks like you flip a switch and it plays "I Love My Daughter (But Not in a Creepy Way)".

Eh, that's just the New York in him. I imagine he also likes ba-da's, and various beeps, bops & boops, but favors bings. I'm more concerned that the top photo looks like my grandmother when she walks into a room and forgets why she's there, or what month it is.

There are perfectly fine reasons to rewatch Swimfan.