And only 37!

Hello from the quarantine-times, where I binged both seasons of this show. It’s good! A bit too Community, and a bit too formulaic (the vast majority of the episodes have an A-plot with Jack and his students and a B-plot with Durbin, Helen, and the other teachers doing something wacky), but it made me laugh a lot.…

It’s like the show was really two shows. I preferred the S1 and half of S2 show, and you preferred the S3 and 4 show. I didn’t mind the Christine show, I just thought it wasn’t the show I was sold going in.

The Ladies’ Room attendant sketch was shocking for Newman’s appearance at the end. When she turned in profile, you could tell she was literally skin and bones. Cocaine... it’s a hell of a drug...

Greetings from the quarantine-times, where I just binged all of Baskets in a couple of weeks. Gotta say I didn’t care much for Seasons 3 and 4, when the show focused much more on Christine and kind of ignored Chip. 3, in particular, is basically the Christine and Dale season, and Chip barely figures. It seems like the…

Yeah, YMMV, but I enjoyed it. I did wonder where in the world Rod and Todd were while Ned was mentoring. Did he just leave them at the house while he took Bart fishing?

Vulture reported that Pete Davidson had written a sketch about the Grande breakup that was being rehearsed and then he pulled it late Friday or early Saturday. I think we can also assume there was a Trump cold open and the Fox News thing was either written on the fly after Baldwin got arrested or had been slotted for…

It was funnier, but I wonder how much of that was blind panic by the writers fueling creativity. You know they had a Baldwin-as-Trump slotted for the opening sketch, but then when he got arrested they had to pull it.

Last night on Mom, Kristen Johnston made her triumphant return to network TV with a performance that answered the question: what would a middle-aged woman’s impression of Chris Farley be like? And the answer was: fairly funny.

Poor Laraine Newman is unrecognizable now, and that’s because she’s a normal weight. She was so emaciated from the eating disorders and the cocaine in the ‘70s. I remember Al Franken in the Live from New York made fun of her post-SNL career a bit, which I thought was a dick move.

That’s partially because the best writers from the late ‘70s era came back and were joined by a younger generation of great writers. The writing staff in the late ‘80s is a murderers’ row: Conan O’Brien, Jim Downey, Smigel, Jack Handey, etc.

The tiny pieces of Miller’s Flash from Justice League were pretty good; I think there’s a decent movie there. Cyborg, Aquaman, etc.? Not so much.

I saw the first couple of eps, and it’s... ok. Has an actual, overarching plot emerged yet, or is it still super-shaggy?

I can’t figure out what else they could have done with Kavanaugh that would have been funnier or more cutting. He doesn’t know the meaning of the word stop and he shotgunned a water. They pretty much laid out where they think the truth lies.

Part of the problem with the show right now is Lorne will let McKinnon do whatever she wants. If she wants to play Lindsey Graham, she gets to. If she wanted to play Diane Feinstein or Chuck Grassley, she could have done that, too.

And both sketches are really just Sudeikis and Wiig’s two a-holes mixed with the Farley hidden camera Folgers sketch from 25 years ago.

Pretty sure that short film was entirely Kyle Mooney. The fact that he’s still making meta shorts about how he’s not sure what his place is on the show is pretty sad going into his sixth season.

Yeah, where has Joan Cusack been? I remember thinking she should have had a way bigger career, even in the mid-90s.

The Post profile does point out that articles like the Gawker one (Uproxx did another) are really just piling on. They’re always taken directly from the Miller and Shales book, plus whatever the latest thing is.

There’s an interview in the Washington Post from the early ‘80s (it’s available online), from when Gilda was doing a play with Sam Waterston. She talks matter-of-factly about the fact that she’d learned she really needed a live audience to play off of in order to be at her best. Her film career proved that, sadly.