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That's such a lovely story. The little speeches Mac gives to us never fail to be touching. Who is the woman with Brittany?

He's a very rich man who is going to be in his mid '70s by that point. I think he's fine with losing, if he even runs again. He can say - with lots of gushing from the Beltway to back him up - that he put "the right thing" over "special interests groups."

I saw that Politico was also contacting proven failure and frequently rejected grifter Nina Turner to primary Biden. The edgelord/contrarian and terminally media in a nutshell. Jesse Waters pretty clearly calls for Fauci's murder while leaving enough plausible deniability to get the "well, actually" crowd going.

Sasse and even Murkowski have party loyalty - Manchin and Sinema don't. They are corporate whores, and yes, Manchin obviously hates most of his people:

And we'll probably be in that same boat with more home shows. Everything changes but as the year winds down it feels like nothing changes...

For me it was much less awkward than most of her Update run (which was often very bitter, sexist, and homophobic). The whole thing was helped by having Kenan, Paul and Tom as the "audience," but it was all very free and easy for me. Overall the night could have done much more with the talent they had, but that's SNL for you. Beyond the truly beautiful goodnights (helped by not having 500 people on the stage and letting Lenny Pickett close out with a beautiful sax solo), my favorite part of the night was the Pete Davidson film - the closest the modern show can get to the melancholy genius of Tom Schiller:

Billie Eilish was talking earlier in the week (to Howard Stern) about how Lorne had been coughing and wheezing while she was there. One of the new cast members (James Austin Johnson) said at the start of the week he was sick, and his wife is about to give birth, so they may have been better off just doing two at home shows in December. Various people at the show (and Lorne himself, probably) did not like doing those, so here we are... I think things must have seemed under control until today, and that's why Lorne is pushing through, but it shows how he has had too much power for too long and the consequences. I hope NBC will step in and mandate at home episodes if need be, unless Lorne wants to stay off the air for months (the Olympics will be shutting everything out in February).

They are off until mid-January. It would depend on how bad things are at that point.

Tonight's SNL - if it airs at all - will not have an audience, will not have a musical guest, will likely be a clip show most of the time, and will not have one half of its Weekend Update team. Should be interesting, if it gets on.

Miranda and Steve were one of my favorite parts of SATC. I am not surprised that Michael Patrick King is lying as I never felt that he had much use for the pairing, and much of the material for Miranda in his time as the main showrunner was shaky - the best was her relationship with Steve. Just another relationship ruined by hackery and what seems to be another case of having a character become gay just because the actor who plays them went the same path. I am a glutton for punishment for following a show led by people I dislike and characters long ruined.

I'm so happy to hear that about Lark. She deserves a second chance in Hollywood.

The GOP did just that in the early '00s. My guess is Schumer is afraid but beyond that, Manchin and Sinema and those who hide behind them probably said no, they won't let it happen. One of the reasons I stopped posting in here much is because I was just so disheartened by their stalling and clear hatred of anything beyond getting more checks in their bank accounts. And it still keeps going.

I sometimes do that, although it depends on the level of interest I have in a show. With the long waits for some shows now and me not knowing if we will make it to another day, I don't wait as much as I used to. Succession I started paying more attention to because a few cast members showed up on SNL, and then I got more into some of the actual storylines. It's basically just a big soap opera - Harding Lemay + Dallas + drugs.

I had blurry memories of some of this but here's a tabloid article at the time:

Thanks for asking, and for telling us who your avatar is. I always notice your avatars. It's the very talented and handsome Matthew Macfadyen, albeit not in the best framed shot (it's a behind the scenes video). https://www.instagram.com/p/CXcIdeoP1Qj/?utm_medium=copy_link If you meant my previous avatar, it was Elizabeth Shepherd, the first Emma Peel.

I believe so, yes.

I wondered the same, but they seem to have put up 'fun' press photos with him, and so on, which makes me think they didn't know.

Mike Logan is a character I loved, but as always I have to remind myself actor does not = character.

I think the Dingles are at a very low ebb these days...that means less overexposure, at least. The writing is very bad though. I don't understand why they had Chas make the family banish Liv for about 4 days then change her mind.