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Joe Keenan
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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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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
YouTube video by Joe Keenan
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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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“I’ve Still Got My Health” Cole Porter, Panama Hattie

“When I give a tea
Lucius Beebe ain’t there.”
I stand corrected so many times per day that my chiropodist has advised me to try sitting corrected.
“On hearing this, the First Lady commented, ‘If he wants to name it after himself, why not just call it The Mush Room’?”
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.
Well said, Mr. Speaker. It’s why I never wear nice clothes to the zoo, because sometimes the monkeys get satirical.
You have my sympathy, Bebe. I too miss the dear dead days when I could pick up a sock without reaping the whirlwind.
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.
Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."
Congratulations, Jack and Josh! I’m 3/4 of the way through and loving it.
(A Class Act ran 105 which took “Better” and “Self Portrait” out of the running.)
I saw The Grand Tour when I was in college. “You I Like” was the song that (finally) won me over.
“I Wouldn’t Bet One Penny” from Donnybrook.
It’s like a Looney Tunes version of the Spanish Inquisition starring Elmer Fudd as Torquemaga.
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"
Here's a bit more of Coward's lyric. If you remain stubbornly certain that Coward didn't mean the word gay to imply anything about the singers' sexuality, I'll tamper no further with the delicate fruit of that conviction. But I have some possibly upsetting news for you about Paul Lynde.
[Citation above, btw, from Masquerade, The Lives of Noel Coward by Oliver Soden.]
I probably read too much into it, as did that silly old queen, the OED.
Actually, Noel Coward beats Cole by more than a decade. Bitter Sweet, a hit in London, but not on Broadway, ran in the 1929-1930 season. The super swishy young queens who sing “Green Carnation” boast that they’re “the reason for the 90s being gay.”
The first one that comes to mind for me is “Farming” from Let’s Face It, but I suspect there’s an earlier one than that.
You know the country’s having a good week when Seven Days In May starts to sound like a feel good fantasy film.
Wow, Charlie Kirk's death really has brought the country together. His memorial's full of anti-trans crusaders suddenly willing to refer to a lone shooter as "they" and "them."
Has any smug, power-crazed regime ever had MAGA World‘s gift for denouncing and validating every criticism of it in the same breath?

“I’m not a cannibal, you hatemonger! YOU’RE THE CANNIBAL!! Are you going to admit it, or do I have to eat your other leg too?“
Am I the only one who thought this was a still from a new M. Night Shyamalan film?
I can never listen to that score’s opening song without wondering why they’re all singing the dummy lyric.
We’re told by each MAGA factotum
To mourn Charlie Kirk, but not quote him.
Once a patriot’s dead,
If you note what he said
You’re as bad as the bastard who smote him.
He had such a kind face.
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