This will be long, because the specifics are necessary. And being necessary, then hopefully interesting, as well. Having said that, I think the length will not be a surprise once you get through...

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08.10.2025

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If you didn't see Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of THE DAILY SHOW, his main story was about the government shutdown. While I didn't find it as detailed and substantive as his best pieces, it was...

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07.10.2025

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This is one of those days when I need a respite. And so I thought this would be a proper may to take a breath. I've posted it before, several years ago, but it hits the spot for me. (Not to...

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07.10.2025

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If you didn't see LAST WEEK TONIGHT with John Oliver last night, the Main Story was on presidential libraries. It's a fun story -- interesting and often very funny. And it deals with an...

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06.10.2025

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On this week’s Naked Lunch podcast, co-hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild’s guest is Pete Hammond -- Deadline's Awards Columnist/Chief Film Critic -- to "Lunch" at Phil's house to celebrate, as...

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06.10.2025

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Here is the third compilation of Broadway musical performances on The Ed Sullivan Show. As I noted, the Sunday night staple for 23 years is arguably the most valuable archivist in pop culture was...

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05.10.2025

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From the archives. This week’s contestants are Janice and Joe Codispoti from Centerville, Ohio. The piece is very charming, and as clear as the notes are for the hidden song, I didn’t have a...

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05.10.2025

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The guests on this week’s Jon Stewart podcast are Roosevelt University Professor and contributing writer at The Nation David Faris, and "The Bulwark Podcast" host Tim Miller. As the show writes,...

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04.10.2025

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I’ve posted a lot of videos of Amy Poehler from the very start of her career, when she was the main character in a running sketch on Conan O’Brien’s late-late show. She played co-host Andy...

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04.10.2025

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For a while now, I’ve been writing that for all the problems Trump has been causing for himself and having to deal with, “It’s only going to worse” because he’s surrounded himself with...

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03.10.2025

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The other week, I wrote another piece here about my faves Flanders & Swann, two British songwriters and performers who had to hit revues in London and on Broadway in the late 1950s and early 1960s...

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03.10.2025

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Usually hitting a trifecta is a great thing. Not so much for Trump yesterday. And this is even p utting aside the government shutdown (which is A LOT to put aside), which would make it the figure...

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02.10.2025

This is going to be short. But every time I see ruthless Border Czar Tom Homan, caught on video by the FBI taking a bribe, trying to do the very best he can to defend himself, I always want to yell...

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02.10.2025

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As we finish Yom Kippur, which starts tonight at sundown, I thought I'd get this in under the wire and repost this again tonight. It's the song "Avinu Malkeinu" which comes at the very end of the...

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01.10.2025

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Over the past few days, Trump has added several large, new tariffs -- including ones on big trucks, upholstered furniture (yes, really), cabinetry (yes, really) and drugs. Because...oh, I don't...

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01.10.2025

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Put this in the Point of Personal Privilege File. I’ve written in the past of my cousin Andy Elisburg (his branch of the family spell it different, long story…), who is the Executive...

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30.09.2025

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If you didn't see Last Week Tonight with John Oliver last night, his Main Story -- well, he initially said it was about "Israel," but it turned out to actually be about Benjamin Netanyahu, which is...

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30.09.2025

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A few weeks back, I wrote that for a while my pure guess from watching Special Elections was that Democrats had increased their vote in all Special Elections since Trump took office by 10-20 point. ...

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29.09.2025

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On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! , the guest contestant is Grammy-winning singer and musician Laufey from Iceland. Her conversation...

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29.09.2025

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The guest on this week’s Al Franken podcast is election lawyer Marc Elias, who is founder the Democracy Docket. As the show writes, “One of Donald Trump's priorities when he returned to the...

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28.09.2025

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On this “The Weekly Show” podcast with Jon Stewart, his guest is Charlie Warzel, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of its "Galaxy Brain" newsletter. As the show writes, “In the...

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28.09.2025

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We have a new one this week. The contestant is Cindy Spangler from St. Paul, Minnesota. I’m annoyed because I could easily hear the hidden song, but just couldn’t name it and knew I should...

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27.09.2025

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When it was announced on Monday that Jimmy Kimmel would return the next day, I wrote an article how Sinclair and Nexstar would now find themselves the focus when their viewers realized that they can...

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27.09.2025

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Yesterday, Trump tweeted "JUSTICE FOR AMERICA!" over his DOJ indicting former FBI Director James Comey – once again showing the convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and guilty fraud's total...

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26.09.2025

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Yesterday, “JD Vance” attempted to slam 'the Libs' by saying, “If you want to stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everyone who disagrees with you is a Nazi… look in...

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26.09.2025

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When Robert Redford passed away at the age of 89 last week, it of course got covered. But I was surprised by how perfunctory it was handled. Sort of, “And in other news…” It was almost a...

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25.09.2025

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I didn’t have it in me to watch Trump’s speech yesterday at the U.N. Thank goodness. It was scheduled for 10-15 minutes but went off-script for nearly an hour. And from clips shown and news...

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25.09.2025

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I'm sure that most people here who have wanted to see this already have. But I can't not post Jimmy Kimmel's monologue from last night. In part because perhaps some people here haven't seen it --...

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25.09.2025

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The averages that I've been writing about here held. There was a Special Election last night in Georgia, and MAGOPs held the deep Red state senate seat in GA-21. However -- In the district's 2024...

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24.09.2025

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If you didn't see Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of The Daily Show, his featured story was, not surprisingly, on Trump and the FCC's attempt to not only get Jimmy Kimmel's show off the air, but...

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24.09.2025

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Irving Berlin has a song in the movie Holiday Inn titled, “Let’s Start the New Year Right.” I don’t think he had Rosh Hashonah in mind, but it fits. Because yesterday, just hours...

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23.09.2025

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If you didn't see Last Week Tonight with John Oliver last night, it will still not shock you to learn that his Main Story was on Jimmy Kimmel and the FCC's involvement getting his show suspended...

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23.09.2025

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On the surface, this will seem an uncommon piece to post in the morning, seemingly just about entertainment, the kind of thing I usually post in the late afternoon. And on the surface it is. But...

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22.09.2025

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We have a new one today, and it’s a special edition. “The Piano Puzzler” is part of a larger program, Performance Today, which has broadcast since 1987. And this week’s contestant is...

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22.09.2025

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On this “The Weekly Show” podcast with Jon Stewart, his guest is Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. This is a really wonderful episode. Even if you don’t want to listen to the full hour-long...

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21.09.2025

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I decided to watch Stephen Colbert on Thursday, because I figured that he in particular would have a lot to address with Trump's FCC coming down on Jimmy Kimmel's show and ABC caving. It was a good...

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21.09.2025

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Jon Stewart has only been hosting The Daily Show on Mondays -- though he remains the show's executive producer. So, when he took the hosting chair on Thursday, the day after Jimmy Kimmel Live!...

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20.09.2025

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Today is one of the more offbeat holidays of the year, International Talk Like a Pirate Day. And as always, Talk Like a Pirate Day gets me to think about the quite-wonderful video I've posted here...

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20.09.2025

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Years ago, I was back in Chicago having dinner with a friend, and at the time had a chronic cough, which my friend said might be pneumonia. I knew it wasn't, just a periodic cough I'd get, but he...

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19.09.2025

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Point of personal privilege. I never really watched “Downton Abbey.” I saw maybe two episodes. I could tell it was superbly done, it just wasn’t something I cared for. (I love British...

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