Amy Adams is not my nominee.

Analysis:

The Lust Jedi

Isn't it rich?
Ask if I care.
And now that Han Solo's dead, I don't play fair
Send in the Jedi

(Apologies to Stephen Sondheim)

I mean, I know nothing about this, but for what its worth why does Luke have to be the last? You still have Rey. Maybe she becomes a Jedi and then has a kid at the end of the movie and he or she is the last. That way they have a whole new generation of films they can run through for the next 20 years and still have…

Too many boys, though. They had more than the movie. There were guys working their butts off that were completely off camera.

Yeah, and how did she "beat" the bookworm - she was never asked any questions. She was totally passive in that game.

You see, I didn't believe her for a second in that sketch. Aziz was a convincing husband, but with Melissa all I saw was a comedienne in a bed waiting for her next line. She had some funny lines, though. But I didn't believe in the character.

"they are comedians…"

But, you know, singing it to Letterman made it silly, but sweet. On SNL it was just too earnest and on-the-nose. Maybe if Ansari had sung it instead….

I still love that show. 80% of the writing is incredible. It all comes down to what you are willing to forgive to get those great Sorkin conversations.

They had two. For reasons I absolutely do not understand, they fired one (Taran Killam). But isn't Darrell Hammond still the announcer? They can drag him on stage whenever they need a Trump.

Really? You feel compelled to talk to them? For me a great driver is one who makes me forget that they are even there.

At least "Hallelujah" was about a character. "Sir" was just actors standing and singing a song unironically.

Agree. It also sound's like Ansari's writing. That's the kind of thing he would lift out of his life.

Lulu, even when she recorded that at 16, is a tough act to follow.

A couple of Stephen Schwartz riffs from Pippin made their way into Kander & Ebb's Chicago because their common director/choreographer Bob Fosse creates dances to existing music, then tells the composers to "Write something that sounds like this…"

That sounded to me like a collaboration of Melissa and Aziz - that kind of relationship stuff is his wheelhouse.

Five years later I have to say that the greatest contribution Smash has made to culture is the catchphrase "I'm in tech!" It's the universal excuse.

Help from a Broadway historian (five years late, but whatever…)