No, there was still a stay in place til June 28th, see my response to rogerthat above.

But the show films in June, which means that the prep, planning and bride/groom casting for that challenge probably took place before Perry was decided. Additionally, the Ninth Circuit had issued a stay which prevented clerks from issuing new marriage licenses until SCOTUS made a decision and they could determine how…

I like his music a lot but admit that I don't know a damned thing about his personal life, so I just didn't know. I bet if I'd gone to UF, I'd have heard all about how he was a local boy, but I was a 'Cane, not a Gator.

Orlando's secretly an amazing foodie town. There are little Vietnamese joints that are just to die for!

I was born and raised here, so I had a love/hate relationship with the place in my youth, but as I've gotten older, I've come to embrace our quirks. Any time I've considered moving away, the "pros" of staying always far outweigh the "cons." South Florida has a lot of awesome going for it, but that stuff rarely makes…

Holy shit, how did I not know Tom Petty was from Florida? It's nice to see a factoid about my state that is not even slightly embarrassing.

I remember being a burgeoning feminist in high school and listening to "Hey Baby" on WVUM, the local college station. Before the invention of HollaBack, this song gave a generation of girls a way to feel less powerless in the face of street harassment. RIP, Maggie

So THAT's why FOX's Megyn Kelly got so freaked out at the idea of replacing white-dude Santa with a penguin - because lesbians!

Humans are so dumb. They still don't realize that mice are their overlords.

Her improper emphasis on the wrong syllable makes me stabby every time I hear the song, and since it's the title, she does it approximately 80 times in a row. It is unbeaRAAAAAAble.

When I saw this article title, my thoughts immediately went to the scene in Philadelphia where Tom Hanks is describing Maria Callas and La Mamma Morta. I was in high school at the time, and while I was in youth symphony and appreciated classical music, I had no familiarity with opera. I remember being so stunned by…

Seriously, so much hilariousness coupled with so many subtle, well-acted moments. Ugh, Boyle's face when Diaz said it was the best Thanksgiving dinner she'd ever eaten was just amazing.

I loved Roc, and am happy to see it remembered. I also loved Living Single, which was another Fox show.

I like that Adam Pally story, I hadn't heard it but that's a pretty cool choice. Assuming that the audition material was not related specifically to the character's romantic life, he was basically telling the casting directors that THEIR idea of what it means to be gay was what needed re-thinking.

In a way, though, this is true not just of gay characters, but ALL characters on really popular sitcoms - the shows that have the broadest appeal tend to have the broadest, least-nuanced representations of ANY kind of person, be it housewives, gay dudes, Latin@s, or anyone else. And that's just using Modern Family as…

Morrissey said it best:

"Finding Asian men beautiful" is not the same thing as saying "I only date Asian men," AT ALL. The first implies a preference, which is fine. Lots of people have a preferred "type."

That wasn't Gina Torres, that was Nicole Randall Johnson, who was on MADtv with them. She also played the single mom in the Common/Ying Yang Twins rap video sketch last season.

My god, that "Yeaaaaaaah" in the bong sketch was fucking perfection.

It's one thing to talk about a show like Friends and poo-poo any comments about the lack of diversity, because it's entirely possible for a specific small group of people to only run in circles that include people that look like them, even in a place like NYC.

But for a show like SNL, with a premise that relies on…