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Alex Trebek taped enough episodes of “Jeopardy!” that we’ll be seeing him right through Christmas Day. That’s about seven weeks of new shows.
For a man with Stage 4 Pancreatic cancer, that’s quite an accomplishment. Trebek was literally making episodes right up to the end.
“Jeopardy!” is currently the number 2 show overall in syndication, averaging 5 million viewers every night. Expect that number to increase sharply now as fans brace themselves to say goodbye.
Choosing a successor to Trebek won’t be easy. Producers would be smart to have rotating guest hosts for a while before settling on someone. They should definitely let Will Ferrell fill in if he wants to do it.
Here’s Will playing Trebek and Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery, who we lost last week:
“SNL” was stellar last night. Dave Chappelle’s opening monologue was just what we needed, edgy and truthful. Foo Fighters were sensational.
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My favorite performances were Kate McKinnon as Giuliani, and Maya Rudolph as Aunt Jemima. (Rudolph has really been killing it this season considering she’s like a regular and guest star.) But the whole show felt 100 times better than recent installments. Still missing Cecily Strong and Aidy Bryant. The show felt very unrehearsed, maybe because they were changing things up til the last minute.
I LOVED the new Foo song, “Shame Shame” which has echoes of David Bowie’s “Fame.” And “Times Like These” from 2002 is a classic.
Former President George W. Bush has congratulated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and bids goodbye to Donald Trump in a message this afternoon.
Bush writes, “Though we have political differences, I know Joe Biden to be a good man who has won his opportunity to lead and unify our country.”
That’s pretty gracious from a man who stole his own election in 2000. It’s also a message to Donald Trump: start packing.
PS Since the Bush post, Trump has Tweeted: “Since when does the Lamestream Media call who our next president will be? We have all learned a lot in the last two weeks!”
Alex Trebek has died after a more than one year battle with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The host of “Jeopardy” was 80 years old. He went out on top, a champion.
I’ve been watching “Jeopardy” the last few months, marveling out how he could still be hosting the show. But he didn’t let his illness stop him. He worked right up to the end and showed no signs of illness. What an amazing story. God bless him. We’ll take HERO for five thousand dollars.
We’re wiping away tears here.
A “Jeopardy!” spokesperson said, “Jeopardy is saddened to share that Alex Trebek passed away peacefully at home early this morning, surrounded by family and friends.”
Trebek was the winner of 6 Daytime Emmy Awards for outstanding game show host and set a Guinness World record in June 2014 for most episodes (6,829) of a game show hosted.
“Jeopardy” airs in most markets at 7pm tomorrow. There should be a national moment of silence, and a standing ovation.
PS Tributes are pouring in on Twitter. Fellow Canadian Ryan Reynolds just posted: “Alex Trebek was kind enough to film a cameo for our film Free Guy last year despite his battle. He was gracious and funny. In addition to being curious, stalwart, generous, reassuring and of course, Canadian. We love you, Alex. And always will.”
With the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Washington is coming back. So are the celebrities.
Under Trump, the presentation of the Kennedy Center Honors had no president in the president’s box. Kennedy Center inductees didn’t go to the White House because Trump was anti-culture.
Under Trump, the presidential medal of freedom was delegitimized. Among the “honorees” were hate spewer Rush Limbaugh, also the wife of Trump and GOP donor Sheldon Adelson, and noted philandering golfer Tiger Woods.
The medals of freedom probably can’t be rescinded, but they will be entered into almanacs with an asterisk. All of them.
Also under Trump, there were few state dinners. And there were certainly no movie stars, musicians, etc. Also whittled down to nothing, the White House Correspondents Dinner, which usually took place the last week of April. After Trump’s belittling at the 2011 Obama dinner, the orange menace ran for president out of anger.
After the pandemic clears, it would be swell for the WHCA to resume, with Seth Meyers– who brilliantly took down Trump in 2011– returning at the podium.
All resumption of public activities won’t be until 2022, obviously. But when it’s possible, the Washington scene will flourish. And the arts will be celebrated once again by the White House, as they were ignored and denied under Trump.
If Biden really wants to stick it to Trump, the first batch of medals should include Rosie O’Donnell. Trump has acted in the most disgusting manner to her, belittling and mocking her. Rosie has run a successful foundation for the arts for years including a theater school for kids in the Broadway district. In charity terms, she’s the literal opposite of Trump.
The number 1 song on iTunes this morning? “FDT” by YG featuring Nipsey Hussle, released on March 30, 2016. What does it mean? You figure it out. Here are lyrics:
This is the activation of the emergency broadcast system
F**k Donald Trump
F**k Donald Trump
Yeah, n, f**k Donald Trump (It’s for our people)
Yeah, yeah, f**k Donald Trump
Yeah, f**k Donald Trump (Ain’t nobody else gon’ speak up, we gon’ speak up)
Yeah, f**k Donald Trump
Yeah, na, f**k Donald Trump
Yeah, yeah, f**k Donald Trump
I got a question
How’d he make it this far? How the f**k did it begin?
A Trump rally sounds like Hitler in Berlin
Or KKK shit, now I’m goin’ in
I’m just sayin’ what’s real, I don’t give a f**k who I offend
‘Cause it’s gotta be said, it’s gotta be said
It’s off the top like the toupee on Donald Trump’s head
This man’s not peaceful, racism’s evil
This man hates Muslims, that’s a billion fuckin’ people
If truth be told, Donald is a terrorist
Reasons why the world’s got a problem with Americans
The fuck is goin’ on? People just passed
A mass murder happened, you said thanks for the congrats
You tryna get your votes up, you don’t got class
Orlando was a tragedy, you react fast
And then made it ’bout you, to boost your campaign
It’s goin’ all bad if he wins this damn thing
Man America is fucked if he’s next up
Take a day to undo what Obama fixed up
It’s Young Gerald so you know who said it
And Ivanka can get it, straight up
F**k Donald Trump
F**k Donald Trump
Yeah, nigga, f**k Donald Trump
Yeah, yeah, f**k Donald Trump
Oh we ridin’, check it
Now, we protest when we see the tour bus (Bang, bang)
Too scared to get out, that’s why the door is shut (Bang, bang)
Your politics are like a Starburst pack (Why?)
Nobody f**ks with the orange one (Biatch!)
Bannin’ all Muslims? Aiight, bool (This guy)
What if we ban all the white dudes?
Because a couple have run up in trenchcoats and rifles
And killed in the name of Jesus Christ at the high school
How ’bout we stop sellin’ automatic guns?
You got rich ’cause your daddy gave you automatic funds
Add it up, you an automatic punk, what it is?
I’m just tryna make America great again! (Mothafucka)
Party in the streets when Hillary wins
If she don’t, my girl’s half Canadian
Actually nah, I’m not gonna stay with them
I got an eagle on my arm, I’m a patriot
I’mma stay right here, I ain’t livin’ in fear
With my people who are Muslims, Mexican and queer
And we ain’t gonna let you fuck up four years
Ain’t gonna let you fuck up for years
Fuck Donald Trump
Yeah, f**k Donald Trump
Yeah, nigga, f**k Donald Trump
Yeah, yeah, f**k Donald Trump
Yeah, f**k Donald Trump (Send it over)
Yeah, f**k Donald Trump (Ain’t nobody feelin’ your ass)
Yeah, na, f**k Donald Trump (Ain’t nobody feelin’ you)
Yeah, yeah, f**k Donald Trump (Here we go again)
Thought I was makin’ songs just to ride to?
But come to find out your own kind don’t even like you
Macklemore don’t like you, G-Eazy don’t like you
The rest weenies, they scared to say it, but they don’t like you
Obama don’t like you, Michelle don’t like you
Been tryna make it to one of your rallies but I ain’t have time to, punk
Piss on your golf course just to find you
Like where you hidin’ at? Who you lyin’ to?
Fuck your get rich scheme, I’ve been ballin’ out
You’re too old, you keep lyin’, that’s why your hair fallin’ out
Donald Trump, call him out, KKK supporter
His favorite phrase, “Deport ’em, ” how the fuck y’all endorse him?
Since America is fucked up anyway
Give Obama a third term, that’s what plenty say
Just left Texas, hit the stage for a couple thousand
And had your same color people hollerin’
F**k Donald Trump
F** Donald Trump
Yeah, na, f**k Donald Trump
Yeah, yeah, f**k Donald Trump
Yeah, f**k Donald Trump
Yeah, f**k Donald Trump
Yeah, na, f**k Donald Trump
Yeah, yeah, f**k Donald Trump
Yeah
He still doesn’t get it. Donald Trump lost the election. He’s a loser, baby. The cry baby doubled down on the crazy this morning with a series of Tweets that show someone who has lost touch with reality. Twitter, however, has put blue warnings on each Tweet indicating that they are untrue and must be viewed that way.
Jared, Ivanka, Donnie Jr, get him some medication and get him out of there, please. The movers are coming.
It wasn’t enough, as Julia Louis-Dreyfus said recently, that Donald Trump stole all the seasons of the satirical TV show “Veep” for his presidency.
It wasn’t enough that Rudy Giuliani embarrassed himself by being caught with his pants open in the sequel to “Borat.”
The two things converged on Saturday morning when Rudy called a press conference in Philadelphia with Trump’s legal team to announce their plans to stop the election. The invitation was to something called Four Seasons, but not the fancy hotel. It was Four Seasons Landscaping.
Trump himself Tweeted out a correction that it was the landscaping company, which provoked titters on Twitter from locals who wondered what was going on. Clearly, someone had booked the wrong Four Seasons. Did Trump not realize the strange locale? Or was he on the golf course and Kayleigh McEnemy or another lackey Tweet it out?
Well, they proceeded anyway, at the exact moment that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were proclaimed winners of the election. The pictures from the event are classic. Four Seasons Landscaping is an anonymous brick warehouse building with a broken window. It’s set between Fantasy Island, a porn shop, and a crematorium.
Only the staff of Selina Meyer from “Veep” could have made this mistake. That this was supposed to be a press conference for the sitting actual real life President of the United States says it all. You don’t need a laugh track when you watch the video below.
And thus we have the real finale of “Veep.” Someone tell Julia, and David Mandel.
What a birthday gift Joni Mitchell got today. One of our great artists celebrates her 77th birthday today. It’s been a great life and a great career. She’s been so influential and given us such happiness, we can only send her our best wishes for terrific health and well being for years to come.
Joni’s gift to us, of course, is her new collection of archival material on Rhino. You shouldn’t miss it. I listened to it on Spotify but you must have the CDs and the book to dig down deep. So many great versions of “Both Sides Now”! And the the next box will be the home run!
Donald Trump” His post-White House life will likely be in Florida, his new “home” since leaving New York. He’s not welcome in New York, and he knows it. In Bedminster, NJ or at Mar-a-Lago he can carry on his evil schemes.
But what about Melania and Barron? Most of the time they live in Bedminster, except when called upon for a photo op. Baron goes to school, allegedly, at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School now in Potomac, Maryland. But with the pandemic–caused by his father– he’s no doubt doing remote and home schooling. He certainly can’t go back to New York and Columbia Prep and Grammar, although the school does go through 12 th Grade. With reported learning disabilities, Barron wouldn’t flourish in Manhattan and certainly not back in Trump Tower. Before the presidency, he was reportedly living on a separate floor from his parents with Melania’s parents.
But the Trumps don’t live in Washington, so it seems like Barron’s time at St. Andrew’s is effectively over. Sources are telling me it’s likely Melania and Barron will move to Mar-a-lago and his schooling will resume there. He could stay on remote learning this year with St. Andrew’s, which would give Melania time to find a school down south. She’s proven to be self-centered and tone deaf in public matters, but so far she’s been an attentive mother who’s not going to let her son out of her sight.
