Sunday, June 7, 2026

Make Room for Maisel: Emmy Winner Hank Azaria Has a Memorable, Marvelous Guest Turn in The New Season

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No spoilers here that reveal much of anything.

Only to say that the great Hank Azaria turns up in the final season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” alongside Tony winner Sutton Foster.

Azaria and Foster sort of play a version of Danny Thomas and Marjorie Lord from the great early 60s sitcom, “Make Room for Daddy.” (The insanely talented “Maisel” set designers even re-create Danny’s living room. Marlo Thomas has to watch this, Angela Cartwright, too.)

They’re each so good this is what we learn: Sutton Foster should have her own “Mary Tyler Moore” type show on a big network. She starred in “Younger” on cable TV but she can still do a lot better. She literally pops off the screen.

And number 2: Azaria, who has SIX Primetime Emmy Awards, has made a fortune from “The Simpsons,” and deserved an Oscar nomination for “The Birdcage,” must be a great friend of the Palladinos. They give him something to do at the end of his episode that will definitely win him an Emmy as Guest Star in a Series. It will also earn him so much press and raves, I can’t wait to see the reaction.

“The Marvelous Mrs Maisel” starts dropping on Amazon Prime April 14th.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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