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Joe Keenan

@joekeenan.bsky.social

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Frasier farceur, and co-perpetrator of several other TV shows. Lyricist, playwright. Novels: Blue Heaven, Putting On The Ritz, My Lucky Star. Awards available on request, or I'll just work them into our next conversation.

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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · Jan 7

Meta's decision to end fact-checking makes this a good day to share Bebe Neuwirth's wry, lovely performance of a song called "Facts." When I wrote the lyric, the trend it laments felt new and, we all hoped, transitory. It has since, so to speak, Metastasized.

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"FACTS" from Everybody Rise, sung by Bebe Neuwirth at Birdland

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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 80th Birthday to the great Henry Winkler. I was lucky enough to work with him for a year, and would happily have done so for another decade. (Alas, our show was at CBS which even in 2006 had numbskulls in high places.)

Happy belated birthday as well to Marion Ross, who recently turned 97.
🎂❤️🎉

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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 3d

“I’ve Still Got My Health” Cole Porter, Panama Hattie

“When I give a tea
Lucius Beebe ain’t there.”

Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 7d

I stand corrected so many times per day that my chiropodist has advised me to try sitting corrected.

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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 7d

“On hearing this, the First Lady commented, ‘If he wants to name it after himself, why not just call it The Mush Room’?”

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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 7d

Maria’s an unsophisticated girl. Tulsa is steeped in show biz (“Astaire bit!”) and Brummel was a more familiar name then than he is now. There was a Broadway play about him (by Clyde Fitch!) and Barrymore played him on film. It never surprised me that Tulsa made the reference.

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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 11d

Well said, Mr. Speaker. It’s why I never wear nice clothes to the zoo, because sometimes the monkeys get satirical.

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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 16d

You have my sympathy, Bebe. I too miss the dear dead days when I could pick up a sock without reaping the whirlwind.

Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 19d

My protest agent's nagging me to close a deal for No Kings Day. ActBlue's offering $5K for downtown LA, $1K extra if I'll burn sage. Pikers. Soros will pay me $25K to wear an inflatable chicken suit in Burbank. I'll go with Soros, but he has to clean the suit first. Last time it gave me a rash.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 21d

Congratulations, Jack and Josh! I’m 3/4 of the way through and loving it.

Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 29d

(A Class Act ran 105 which took “Better” and “Self Portrait” out of the running.)

Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 29d

I saw The Grand Tour when I was in college. “You I Like” was the song that (finally) won me over.

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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 29d

“I Wouldn’t Bet One Penny” from Donnybrook.

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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · Oct 2

It’s like a Looney Tunes version of the Spanish Inquisition starring Elmer Fudd as Torquemaga.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 1

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"