David Mamet doesn’t (didn’t?) write musicals. Shepard isn’t really an antihero like Pal Joey or Finch in H2$, and the fact that he’s not well-defined is even more crucial.

Maybe they could make a musical based on the Monorail!

Johnson is clearly wearing Charlie Allnut drag here, even though Blunt looks a little less prim than Hepburn did, but it was immediately what I thought of.

Due respect to Platt, the backwards-framing isn’t the problem with the piece; that’s just a crutch. The problem is the main character. As James Lapine(as well as many others who’ve tried to tackle it) said, “It’s...the cipher in the middle. You have a Franklin Shepard, and he is mostly defined by the characters around…

I saw the hair dye immediately as a Parks and Rec callback, when Ann Perkins (finger guns) dyed a purple streak in her hair after being politely dumped by Chris in “Harvest Festival.”

None of those groups have unions,so it should be all good!

I think the real shithole is the friends we made along the way.

1. Donald J. Trump does not drink.
2. If he did, there’s no way he’d ever be holding his own beer, ever.

You know the answer already. Say “no, thank you” to Charlotte Jones and stay the fuck away from the dimwit war criminal who blocked LGTBQ advancements as much as possible. And DON’T TALK ABOUT IT.

Fallon’s writer’s room might have the worst “funny in theory/funny in practice” ratio ever. None of those bits are bad ideas on paper, and none of them are funny when put on their feet.

Can’t lie, thought it was an Onion headline.

Naaah. Terry Serpico.

Ricketts: (Fires Maddon)
Did I do that right?

Bullshit headline. Change it.

Lack of funny earns it a Komedy Demerit (TM).

God dammit. I knew Bill Sornsin. I was hoping it wasn’t the guy I knew, but he’s Seattle-based now and an Iowa grad and Hawkeye fan.
Fuck.
/personal shit

It’s the Deadspin Way.
And it is the correct way.

It’s always been old wine in impeccably-cast bottles. There have always been so many cheesy-ass sitcom tropes that get recycled, and sometimes set my teeth on edge, but the cast was always so good (especially considering so many of them have been kids) that they almost always worked in the end.

I don’t watch the show, but I’m curious about something:
The triplets are referred to as the Big Three; has the show ever related them implicitly or explicitly to the three rivers of Pittsburgh?

Did you decide to type them out to show us how silly they are? Because it didn’t come off that way.