I’m switching back and forth between that and Packers vs. Falcons. OMG, Colbert just trotted Sean Spicer out for a cameo as Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer. Really.
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I’m switching back and forth between that and Packers vs. Falcons. OMG, Colbert just trotted Sean Spicer out for a cameo as Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer. Really.
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Baud
I am flipping channels. That was awesome.
geg6
That was truly awesome.
debbie
Also, the crack about Apprentice never winning!
Baud
The opening musical number was great too.
chelsea350
Loved that Lithgow won for The Crown.
He was excellent. He has always been excellent.
Major Major Major Major
Huh.
I think I’m gonna read this murder mystery.
Betty Cracker
Kate McKinnon! Totally deserves it!
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Which one?
A Ghost to Most
Sorry, watching the Broncos humiliate the Cowboys is just too much fun.
Schlemazel
I rarely watch this sort of industrial matrubation but the woman foolish enough to marry me insisted because she is pretty sure there will be a bunch of shots taken at hair furor. So far she is right about that and I am still sure it isn’t worth it.
geg6
She happy for Kate McKinnon. She was awesome this year. And Laura Dern, too. Big Little Lies was just great.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
Since this is an open thread: I know THE MOOCH looks like a famous actor, but I’m not sure who. Any help?
Also: Who should play Lewandowski, Gorka, McMaster, Kelly & Huckabee Sanders?
M. Bouffant
I have Dodgers @ Nats on the 40″ flat-screen, & Green Bay @ Atlanta on the 20″ old skool tube set.
JPL
@geg6: Odd but true..my son came over Friday and signed in to HBO on roku and we watched an episode of Big Little Lies. He then went home and watched the rest of the episodes, and I did too.
The last five minutes of the series gave me goosebumps. It was so well done.
Betty Cracker
@geg6: Have not seen “Big Little Lies.”
debbie
Lorne Michaels must really, really hate Trump. Practically the whole season was about Little Fingers.
Steve in the ATL
@M. Bouffant: this is clearly a cry for help. How do we do a mandatory EAP referral on B-J?
JPL
@Betty Cracker: It’s worth seeing. The story is great and the acting is better.
Patricia Kayden
@debbie: Lorne Michaels allowed Trump to host an episode of SNL during the primary season after NBC promised to ban him.
Felonius Monk
And for those of us who missed it, it is available on youtube.
Baud
Alec Baldwin wins.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Patricia Kayden:
Fuck that guy: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lorne-michaels-donald-trump-he-863551
“Resonating”? Its called racism, old decrepit white guy.
This has not aged well at all. Couldn’t find anything recent to see if he regrets this.
Major Major Major Major
Open thread?
This is what I needed right now.
Twitter account pairs cat pics with black metal lyrics
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@Betty Cracker: I liked the book a lot. I haven’t seen the show.
debbie
@Patricia Kayden:
I’d say his opinion of him has changed.
M. Bouffant
@Steve in the ATL: It is indeed a plea for help. Please send money for a 70-80″ tee vee. Thank you in advance.
debbie
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Have you seen SNL? They’ve savaged him just as much as Colbert has.
lamh36
OOOH.. Code red at the WH…Kelly better be in the room cause you KNOW the tweet is coming!
geg6
@Betty Cracker:
You’ve got to watch. I have never been a fan of Nicole Kidman but she may have done the greatest acting of anyone in any medium this year. And they are all good, but she was a revelation to me. Outstanding!
@JPL:
Absolutely. Really great stuff. And all women, really. Loved it.
Baud
@lamh36: Heh.
lamh36
@JarettSays
Donald Glover just became the first black person to win Outstanding Comedy Directing #Emmys
https://twitter.com/JarettSays/status/909577962063765505
zhena gogolia
@Felonius Monk:
Thanks, that was funny.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@debbie:
I know. But this:
Just strikes me as fucking stupid, along with the “Trump might just end up the moderate” crap. He’s someone who’s never had ever deal with fascism in his life and how easy it is for a lot people to fall for it. His attitude strikes me now as incredibly naive at best.
lamh36
saw online this was SNLs first Emmy win for Sketch comedy series in since 24 years ago!
lamh36
yesss
9 to 5 reunion!
Love that movie
https://twitter.com/accesshollywood/status/909585394131378176
Major Major Major Major
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: OK, so Lorne Michaels gave a bad interview once.
Sab
@lamh36: Yay!
PST
Maybe this has been discussed at length in threads I missed, but just in case it hasn’t, it is a true must read. The piece, by David Roberts, is entitled Hillary Clinton’s “coal gaffe” is a microcosm of her twisted treatment by the media, but what it has to say is far more general. I have never been able to believe that the best explanation of what we witnessed in the press’s treatment of the last campaign is that reporters’ paymasters love Trump. Any attempt to fix this needs to begin with a plausible explanation of the phenomenon, and talk of who should be the first up against the wall, however satisfyingly, doesn’t help. This deserves to be read.
Betty Cracker
@geg6 & @JPL: I’m gonna have to check it out!
Wow, the Emmys are slamming the shit out of Trump.
lamh36
I liked Stephen opening skit and monologue…but the normalizing of Sean Spicer I just can’t get behind
Major Major Major Major
@PST: I thought it would be a good piece to share with folks who don’t yet fully grok just how horribly wrong everything went with the media. But I don’t really have any of them left as friends so I wasn’t able to test that theory.
efgoldman
I watch the Kennedy Center honors and the Tonys. Other than that, the last awards show i watched was the year Marlin Brando sent out the Native American woman to refuse the Oscar. Sometime during the 70s, I think
geg6
@Major Major Major Major:
No matter what he said in that interview, the fact that he gave Kate McKinnon that spotlight after the election to do her last Hillary moment singing “Hallelujah” tells me he had his heart in the right place in the end. I cried through it. Just bawled like a baby.
geg6
@Betty Cracker:
You won’t regret it. Sublime.
lamh36
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
caedite nos
Baud
@PST: Thanks. Good piece.
Baud
@geg6: That was beautiful.
debbie
@lamh36:
I saw that as Sean poking Trump.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Good.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Major Major Major Major:
I guess. Just the vapidity of it just really made me feel disgusted. But if SNL continues to destroy Trump all is good.
@PST:
Speak for yourself :P
Baud
@debbie: Me too. Trump can’t have liked that.
Go John Oliver!
Major Major Major Major
@geg6: He was probably just regurgitating cached conventional wisdom. It happens to the best of us. Cache invalidation is pretty tricky.
debbie
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
That interview, I believe, was back when no one took Trump seriously and before Trump began to whore out to the fascists.
lamh36
@debbie: meh…the time for Sean to poke Trump was before he resigned…nope…
Major Major Major Major
@debbie: “hurr durr common people have a point folks are right to be upset” is pretty much just pablum filler for when somebody asks you about politics during an unrelated interview.
raven
Not a word about the Burns show. Why am I not surprised?
geg6
@Baud:
It was. A tv moment I’ll never forget.
FlyingToaster
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
Young Joe Pesci. But more of a schlemiel.
Tom Hiddleston, Tim Roth, Mike Myers, R. Lee Ermey, and Kate McKinnon ?
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: What is that supposed to mean?
geg6
@raven:
I’m recording the whole thing and will binge it during my time off over the holidays. I find Ken Burns’ stuff to be best watched as a binge. I’ve watched all his docs and all, even back in the first run of “The Civil War, are most satisfying to me as a binge watch. I learned to program my VCR because of “The Civil War.”
lamh36
J R in WV
I’m just watching the Packers/Hawks game and surfing during slow moments and commercials.
Interestingly, I’m watching an NBC local station broadcast, and the audio is in Spanish. Interesting when Hulio Jones makes a catch. Perhaps NBC intends to infuriate millions of football fans who hate Mexican immigrants? Or doesn’t realize one can turn off the audio? Or someone at the local station who doesn’t watch football turned on the wrong audio feed?
Strange but not unique… this happened at least once before. Hulio Jones caught another pass, they’re going on about it. Yet Jimmy Jones has no Hs in his name… oh well. Loving Hulio Jones myself, except that he’s working for the wrong boss.
ETA: would watch for Colbert, but don’t know anything about the shows winning Emmys, so won’t stress my boredom limits.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Uh, it means what it says. The fucking Emmy’s.
Hey, there were two people from my 50th class reunion last night who have lived in Madison for 40 years and they didn’t know the others were there! One was very involved with the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin.
Adam L Silverman
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): this works for Gorka son of Drax and a Soviet made coffee machine circa 1958.
http://www.jamesbondwiki.com/m/page/Hugo+Drax+Pics+%26+Clips
Tripod
S1E1 of Ken Burn’s Vietnam is very good.
raven
@J R in WV: Julio
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@FlyingToaster: Not seeing Tim Roth as Gorka. And I feel like THE MOOCH looks a lot like another actor I can’t place at the moment – the resemblance being no earlier than a decade ago.
PST
Kate McKinnon. All of them, Kate.
Mike in NC
Good for Ann Dowd, who was so memorable in ‘Leftovers’ and ‘Handmaid’s Tale’.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: One is a live event. The other is a recorded program. If you can’t see why someone may prefer to watch the live event live….
Mike in NC
Cast Rosie O’Donnell as Huckabee Sanders.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Thanks for the explanation Captain.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Adam L Silverman: @FlyingToaster: Mae Whitman might play Huckabee Sanders.
ETA: @Mike in NC: Good one! Whitman can be the understudy.
Betty Cracker
@Mike in NC: She was really good in both.
lamh36
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Okay, I am not going to get in a pissing match with you.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@lamh36: Yep. None of them should be normalized.
Betty Cracker
@lamh36: What he said.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Scaramucci looks a bit like Mario Cantone.
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
At raven’s age (and mine) we shouldn’t get in a pissing match with anyone.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: The Packers are losing. Because I gave up all the good sleeping surfaces at my place to visiting family, I had a shitty night’s sleep. I spent last evening at a U16 girls soccer team family dinner. Trump is president. I may not be my usual tolerant self.
geg6
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:
If you’ve got the chance, see Mario Cantone playing him on “The President Show” on Comedy Central. It’s scary how perfect he is.
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
I got all football’d out this afternoon.
I wonder if the Packers and Rodgers have reached their sell by date, or if this is their usual slow start.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA: …I just realized, the “actor” I may have been thinking of was probably Cuomo.
Bobby Thomson
Lorne Michaels is a producer. He just cares about what makes him money. He’s not anti-Trump, just pro-ratings. And it’s not like he writes anything.
So, yeah, Baldwin’s act notwithstanding, Michaels remains a tool.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Nelson is out right now and so is Mike Daniels. These first two games might be the toughest they they face during the years. Coming out 1-1 is something won’t wail about. I just won’t enjoy watching tonight if that is what happens.
rikyrah
Following it on Twitter.
SNL earned that Emmy on the backs of Alec Baldwin, Kate and Melissa McCarthy.
zhena gogolia
@efgoldman:
Sacheen Littlefeather!
lamh36
So the In Memorium…left out Charlie Murphy but they did have Roger Ailes
zhena gogolia
@debbie:
Me too. I thought he was joining in the ridicule of DJT.
zhena gogolia
@raven:
What do you think of it?
lamh36
@lamh36: Aside from that, you can’t go wrong with “As” sung so beautifully
lamh36
@zhena gogolia: I’d have loved it better if McCarthy had come out as Spicy.
She DID win the Guest Emmy after all.
zhena gogolia
@efgoldman:
Yeah, could be pretty sad!
Damned at Random
@Mike in NC: LEFTOVERS! I wondered why she looked so familiar
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
I agree. She was so brilliant as Spicey. And she has much better dimples than he does.
FlyingToaster
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
If I had a time machine it’d be Ralph Fiennes. But he’s old, he’s M now, and I don’t think he’d want another Amon Goeth type character.
There’s probably some actor in deep cable who’d be perfect, but I don’t get to watch that much TV.
ruemara
@efgoldman: Unless there’s stones to pass. #sorrynotsorry
I’m watching. The roommate made me lentils & basmati, the boss is liking the most recent video project and there’s minimal changes, so I think I’m gonna add two more pieces to my script flowchart for my writing fellowship project and play video games until bedtime.
debbie
@FlyingToaster:
He’d be too old now, but I see Nikolas Grace from Brideshead as Gorka.
Mike in NC
Anthony Anderson is the funniest man working on network TV. Maybe next year he’ll be recognized.
lamh36
satby
@raven: most of the Burns show hasn’t even been on yet, has it?
debbie
@satby:
It’s being shown over the next two weeks.
Omnes Omnibus
@satby: First episodes air/ed tonight.
James Powell
@PST:
They don’t love Trump, but they – and most especially the New York Times – really, really hate Hillary Clinton.
debbie
@Mike in NC:
I was surprised he was funny, having only seen him on Law and Order.
lamh36
@Mike in NC: yeah…nah gon’ happen
lamh36
Quick BJ polls, who here has ever seen an episode of Atlanta on FX?
lamh36
JPL
@lamh36: I don’t get FX
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: I haven’t. I also don’t watch many current series. And the ads with the backwards moving people weirded me out a bit.
ETA: I tend to binge watch now that that option is available.
EriktheRed
Cubs just swept the Cards.
Not a sure thing the Cubs will make the post-season this year, but the Redbirds are toast. That is a good thing in and of itself.
opiejeanne
@raven:
We’re recording the Burns Vietnam series.
My youngest is in Vietnam right now, on her honeymoon a year after the wedding. I saw in the photos they posted that they have visited museums and exhibits about the war, some of it truly horrifying, some of it Propaganda and the line is a bit blurred between the two.
satby
@JPL: I don’t either. And honestly, I basically only watch TCM and old MASH reruns.
Hmmm, edited to add that may have been TMI.
Omnes Omnibus
@EriktheRed: It may come down to the final Brewers/Cubs games.
lamh36
Damned at Random
@lamh36: Saw most of the first season. It was pretty good, but no Silicon Valley (my personal favorite)
JPL
This is the award that I’ve been waiting for. Kidman’s performance was outstanding.
FlipYrWhig
@PST: Just back from reading that piece. I liked it but I wish it had discussed what’s probably the best parallel from the Obama years: not “cling to their guns” but “you didn’t build that.”
Mike in NC
Yes, Riz Ahmed! He was also great in “City of Tiny Lights” on Netflix, playing a private eye in London seeking the killer of a prostitute.
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman:
No idea, but this is an ass-whupping. Sorry, OO (sorry, not sorry).
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: Today, the Falcons are the better team. Let’s see how the season goes.
ruemara
@lamh36: I have. I dunno, i guess it goes over my head.
Juju
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Scott Baio.
lamh36
Kidman talked about her two kids, but doesn’t she have 4?
I know Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise adopted 2 kids right. Those kids are adults now. And I know that you are excommunicated when u leave Scientology, and the remainers aren’t allowed to even speak to you are say your names.
But isn’t it weird that I don’t ever recall her even being asked about the kids by any interiewers?
Like maybe terms of divorce means she can’t speak their names?
lamh36
YASSS!!!!
debbie
Love the call out to Frank!
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: Falcons fans learned a painful lesson about counting chickens before they hatch. Matt Ryan look sharp tonight. As does the Falcons defensive front, unless it’s the Packers O-line that’s weak. No idea–I miss most of the Falcons games because they are almost always on Fox and I refuse to watch Fox.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: Both of GB’s starting tackles are out tonight.
lamh36
@lamh36:
–
Another Scott
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Boris and Natasha were about 3 orders of magnitude more competent than the idiots Donnie has working for him…
Cheers,
Scott.
(“It’s a shame about losing your law licenses, isn’t it, Ty and Donald?”)
lamh36
Oh hell naw… they left out Dick Gregory on the IN Memorium segment too!
rikyrah
@lamh36:
I have. Wasn’t my cup of tea
KS in MA
@raven: I watched it. They had me at “Hard Rain Gonna Fall.”
rikyrah
@lamh36:
I am a Glover fan from his time on Community. Loved that show. I wish every actor on that show nothing but success.
rikyrah
@lamh36:
Loved Sterling ever since Army Wives ?
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Was his TV presence significant? Stand-up, writing, and film, sure. But TV?
NotMax
@efgoldman
Methinks, sometimes, we were separated at birth.
@lamh36
Emmys are for television, not a medium for which Gregory was particularly associated. Grammys are more up his popular media alley (for comedy albums).
rikyrah
@lamh36:
The gentleman who sang it was the original George Washington on Hamilton.
lamh36
Last winner was Andre Braugher for Homicide!
Congrats Sterling…and FUQ the Emmy producers played the “get off the stage” music interrupting his speech, but let Nicole Kidman drone on 2X with her speech…HARD EYEROLL!
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Juju: John Leguizamo.
lamh36
@NotMax:
@Omnes Omnibus:
bullshit…
ETA: They have also had stand up comedians in the segment in the past…
rikyrah
@geg6:
I cried during that segment too.??
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Okay, how many talk show guests end up getting mentioned on the Emmys? I know who his is, and I have read his autobiography. I am not watching the Emmys, but I suspect that you are on target with your other criticisms. I just don’t see Gregory as a TV guy. Sue me.
debbie
@lamh36:
He is really very good in This Is Us, to the point of carrying the show on his back.
NotMax
@lamh36
I’m old, I was there and remember.
Yes, he appeared on television, but was not of television. Not only Gregory, but other people who appear to do a stand-up or other bit or who occasionally occupy a couch seat on a talk show as a guest are not in any Emmy category. When Nixon died, he wasn’t included either even though he had appeared on Laugh-in.
It wasn’t a snub. Really, you’re getting needlessly bent out of shape.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: yeah–why hasn’t John MCain won an Emmy yet?
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: Lamh36 has real grievances here. I think she is wrong on Gregory, but I won’t tease or taunt.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Hope you don’t mind, but I chuckled out loud at that. OK actually I don’t care if you mind. But I will say thanks.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: Meh… I think Gregory deserved mention for this alone
Trailblazer should be acknowledged is all I’m saying?
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: Eh, blow me.
lamh36
Anyway…good night BJ
ThresherK
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Mae Whitman? “Her?” “Is she funny or something?”
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: I will leave my argument where it was.
MomSense
I missed the whole thing. Hopefully I can catch videos tomorrow.
Spent the day doing chores at my dad’s house today and then we sat on the porch and had a beer before dinner. I think he secretly enjoys seeing me do all the work while he sits in the shade with a book.
Adam L Silverman
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Is one side of Mae Whitman’s face able to move independently from the other side of Mae Whitman’s face? If not then no. I’m not even sure you could CGI the real time Picasso effect going on.
MomSense
@lamh36:
I was hoping Sterling Brown would win. He has been outstanding on This Is Us.
Fucking producers. They always load the beginning of these shows with so much filler and then rush the best parts.
Adam L Silverman
@FlyingToaster: Hugo Drax from Moonraker.
Adam L Silverman
@EriktheRed: If they were to win the World Series in back to back years does the timeline reset to what it is supposed to be?
lamh36
@MomSense: Yes…I love Sterling…
So, one more before I go…
ThresherK
@rikyrah: If you’ve read Tina Fey’s book you’ll know the atypical route Glover had to becoming a TV Face on Community.
Not unlike the way a guy working as a literary agent (John Hodgman) became a regular on The Daily Show, Fey’s got a talent which seemingly finds not-ordinary recruits, and develops multifacets in people who often go on to more, rather than just leave.
MomSense
@lamh36:
I haven’t watched the show yet but I’m going to be mad if they disrespected Sterling.
NotMax
@lamh36
A good thing, yes. On the other hand, it was far more common than not for a non-megastar stand-up act to not be invited to the couch, all the way through the Allen, Paar and Carson years. It was considered a BFD to be invited over to sit after performing.
Had Gregory one or more TV comedy specials under his belt, cable or broadcast, I’d be in agreement with you. Within the enforced time constraints of the in memoriam pastiche, his omission is but one of many who might otherwise have been acknowledged.
lamh36
@MomSense: it was noticeable…which is why so many entertainment folks commented on it…add to it that Nicole Kidman like right before went on and on and NOT cut off…
I love his shout out to Andre Braugher! Andre Braugher was the reason I continued to watch Homicide. One of my fav tv actors…and Sterling’s answer in the after winning press questions bit, was exactly what I was thinking when he won the award.
Juju
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Matt Lattanzi.
Steve in the ATL
@lamh36: I don’t know enough about either the Emmy awards or Gregory’s career to have a real opinion on this issue, but if you assume prejudice by whites against blacks you will be right far more often than you will be wrong.
And that sucks.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Juju: I’m almost certain Leguizamo was who I was thinking of, though.
MomSense
@lamh36:
Grrrr. Not even a subtle slight. Wow.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
LOL Now there is the OO that we know. ABTW Fuck you too.
Jenn B.
@lamh36: Brown did get disrespected in getting played off early, but Kidman didn’t get twice as long to speak as him – she spoke for 2 minutes and 45 seconds, Brown got cut off at 2 minutes. Watch the videos.