Khan

SNL has never done right by its' Black cast members. Not even Eddie Murphy -- which makes his ascendancy during his time on the show all the more remarkable.

This is what happens when you don't let TP write for "Scandal."

"David [O'Brien] is a bachelor, but he's housebroken!" WTF?!

SNL faces the same "problem" with Kamala, perhaps, that they faced with Obama. Unless they can fall back on tired stereotypes, they're at a loss as to how to satirize Black politicians. Exactly.

The "Public Charge Rule" -- that's the one where people immigrating to this country must prove they're able to afford private health insurance, correct? Three big losses in the courts and more rats crawling from out of the woodwork to eat each other on this Ukraine mess. Now THIS is the kind of winning I like, lol!

Mama Khan seems to think Shep left because some personal scandal's about to break. It couldn't possibly be because of his feud with Tucker Carlson -- "Shepard's been there forever, Tucker just got there" -- or because he had the audacity to criticize the Trump administration on air. Now I know why we can't keep any Kool-Aid in the house.

And they call the left a bunch of snowflakes. Incredible.

FNC is a joke of a network. If only someone would do to it what Brian Frons did to SoapNet.

Although Claire Labine didn't give Mel much to do in the "unearthing Dorian's past" storyline, I felt like she really invested a lot of time and energy into making him and Dorian a viable, romantic, older couple. It's a disgrace how JFP came along and just obliterated it all out of hubris and spite.

You aren't, lol. I, too, believe Shep's departure had something to do with Murdoch and Barr's meeting (and vice-versa). Shep was probably the ONLY one at Fox News willing to call out the administration on their bullshit, and now he's gone? AND, he leaves "escorted by security," too, after his last broadcast, which apparently caught everyone at FNC and FBC by surprise? In life, there are no such things as coincidences. Which also explains my feelings about the talking points being leaked AGAIN to the Democrats. I'm with you on that as well, @DramatistDreamer. As they say in all those cheesy horror movies, the calls (or, in this case, the talking points) are coming from inside the house. Cue the "Hanoi Jane" rehashes from the right.

"Zarf" has become a sort of curse word for me.

IMO, Trump's actions regarding the Kurds amount to treason. That ALONE should be grounds for removal from office, let alone impeachment.

Vienna will not wait for you, Rudy.

Yeah, Trump might have thrown the Festrunk brothers under the proverbial bus. (By the way, when's the expiration date on the phrase "throw under the bus"?) OTOH, Trump is so clearly in the grips of dementia, it's truly possible he does not remember them. At all. For you, maybe. For me, however, watching Lindsay Graham get punk'd has me singing: Yup. If I were the judge, I'd deny bail and hold those two until trial.

Why not? Certainly, listening to Drew Barrymore talk for an hour five days a week couldn't make us any stupider than we are already!

Absolutely.

Which is, perhaps, the saddest thing to happen in my lifetime. Since when was it wrong to be educated, or to have paid one's dues, in order to be trusted to run a damn country? I shouldn't feel like I'm SMARTER than the president, when it's always been the other way around! But, you see, I blame George W. Bush for that. He was the first Commander-in-Chief who made it okay to be "intellectually incurious," as my hero, Linda Ronstadt, once so aptly put it.* America should have learned never again to elect a man into the WH, who only got married because his wife was a librarian and he needed help reading the big words. (*Yes, I'm a Linda Ronstadt fan. Fight me.)

Is it just me, or is the wording in that first tweet ("Two foreign-born men who have worked with Rudy Giuliani [...] are expected to be unsealed later today") oddly funny? "Unsealed"? So, does that mean they've been kept inside Ziploc bags until now? (Don't worry, I get what Tom Winter is saying, no need to explain it to me, lol.)

Amen! Meanwhile, Facebook has officially decided to help out Trump again: https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebook-trump-biden-ukraine-ad-removal-154944386.html But seriously. FB knows damn well the claims made in those ads have been debunked, over and over again. They know, too, how misinformation like that ("BUT HER EMAILS," 'member?) helped Trump enormously in the last election. Again, though, Zuckerberg doesn't give a [!@#$%^&*] about any of that. He's just there for the clicks. And as much I would miss chatting with many of my peeps on FB, I would not shed one damn tear if someone were to take it down for good.

I'm quoting this from Facebook, but it's truly how I feel as well: I never, ever want to hear again how a businessman can run this country better than any politician. Because, if this is the best that a businessman can do for the U.S., then, for Christ's sake, bring back the career politicians who've been groomed for the job since they were in the cradle!

True.

Now we know what Andrew lacks. ;)

I still don't understand why they couldn't have brought back Alex Marshall back when Nick was still alive on this show. Having him, Marie, Jessica and perhaps even Scott might've helped give Nick a firmer footing on the canvas.

Perhaps, if I hadn't been worn down by years of awful writing, @BetterForgotten, I would agree with you. However, by the time Laiman and Passanante came along, I was desperate for anything on AW to hold my interest -- and you know I'd have to BE desperate, too, to even give two shits about something screwy as Lumina! However, in a way, that neglect worked in AW's favor. When AW was cancelled, it was in much better shape, overall, than it had been in quite some time. No, it wasn't as "together" as ATWT was at the end of its' run, but it was certainly better, IMO, than GL was -- either at that time, or at any other time in the decade to follow. I've always believed (or suspected) that "Ghost Reva" was a compromise of sorts between JFP and either CBS or PGP. KZ was ready to come back, and both network and sponsor were ready to have her back, too. However, JFP, who neither liked nor understood the "Reva phenomenon," wasn't all that keen on bringing her back, since she believed GL had evolved into a more well-rounded, ensemble-driven show. So, like I said, they drew up a compromise: CBS and PGP got what they wanted (Reva/KZ back on GL) but more-or-less under JFP's terms (a short-term arc, as Reva's ghost). If "Ghost Reva" flopped -- which it did, creatively, if not in the ratings -- then JFP would have all the justification she needed to keep both actress and character from returning full-time. But, if the audience were to respond well to the story...? Well, figuring out how to bring back Reva full-time after bringing on her ghost would be up to her successor, since I'm about 90% sure JFP was out the door and working at AW by the time "Ghost Reva" was done.

Somehow, I can't see Mitch McConnell being all that scared of Donald Trump. Is it just me?