Joe Keenan
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Frasier farceur, Author of the novels Blue Heaven and My Lucky Star, Playwright, TV Writer, and Creator/Lyricist of Everybody Rise! A Resistance Cabaret
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Meryl Streep's advice for surviving troubled times—"Take your broken heart, make it into art"—inspired the song that ends our resistance cabaret Everybody Rise. We can't perform it for a while, but art feels more necessary than ever before, even as we find new ways to share it.
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And ZERO MUSICALS, so we had to handle that ourselves too.
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This is without question the whitest thing I have ever seen... And I wrote for *FRASIER*.
Ivanka Trump: "I've found that my greatest personal growth has arisen from times of discomfort and uncertainty."
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🧵I once spent a few afternoons at Matthew Perry’s house, co-rewriting the Odd Couple pilot after his first draft was nixed by CBS. At one point I said that when I was stuck on a story problem, a walk often helped me solve it. Matthew said, “I can’t really do that.”
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who wanted what everyone who enjoys huge early success does: a second act. He got one with his book and work on behalf of other addicts. But I feel sad today for myself and for everyone who loved him that he never got a chance to do more of what he did so incredibly well.
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John Mahoney was a lovely man. His Martin Crane was FRASIER's moral center; his cranky decency and bewildered love for his two improbable sons was hilarious one minute, heartbreaking the next, and you never caught him acting. It was a privilege and a joy to write for him.
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Where could he walk just to think and not be mobbed by fans?
The Odd Couple never took off. Matthew was struggling and Oscar was not perhaps the best match for the ironic self-deprecation that was his greatest comic gift. But he was a sweet, funny, honest, vulnerable man
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My gayest Frasier joke ever (which, given the competition, is saying something).
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@richardosman
How Frasier managed to live so well on the salary from a local market radio show was a question that inspired many an absurdist riff in the writers' room. We decided he'd invested the money from his Boston practice *very* wisely (perhaps in a friend's Seattle software start-up).
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David Angell, who co-created Frasier, was on the first plane that hit the towers 19 years ago. He and his wife Lynn were flying from Boston to LA for the Emmys. I recently found this picture of him relaxing in Martin's chair between takes, and it's my favorite photo of him ever.
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Because there was more to say about John Mahoney than anyone could express in a tweet, I wrote something a bit less condensed for FB.
#RIPJohnMahoney
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For any Frasier fans who wonder where farces comes from, I recently came across some early script notes for my first episode, "The Matchmaker." (Frasier sets his new boss up with Daphne; the boss, still unnamed here, thinks he's on a date with Frasier.)
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My mind is already spinning this into a Macbeth-like play where act one has Putin being assured by three smirking witches that if he chooses to invade Ukraine, “The Bear will triumph.”
Confirmed.
Volodymyr Zelensky is the Ukrainian voice of Paddington Bear.
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20 minutes till midnight and a nervous little LA earthquake puts the cherry on this poison parfait of a day.
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@nytimes
The way we’re going, by 2182 any asteroid that hits us will wonder why it bothered.
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Watching her whole speech was like sitting through a bad regional production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf where the stage manager had to go on for Honey.
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@richardosman
You’ve repaid the favor. I wrote for Frasier and just passed a pleasant morning reading Osman as a break from watching the news and mourning Sondheim.
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An extra *chef's kiss* to Sacha Baron Cohen for staging the Giuliani prank at a hotel called The Mark. Borat might as well have said, "Rudy! We shall be meeting please in the Pigeon Lounge of the Chump Plaza Hotel at the corner of Patsy Place and Whatamaroon Avenue!"
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Why is everyone ahead of me in line at CVS engaged in some unfathomably complex transaction? Are they trying to pay in Krugerrands? Or with a hand-drawn coupon? Is the cashier wearing the other half of an ancestral family pendant?
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Reading Chris Durang’s plays in my early 20s filled me joy and envy. They were witty, scathing, and cheerful all at once. I was happily stunned when he agreed to play a fusspot guest in a very silly Frasier I wrote about a beach house dinner party ruined by a dead, reeking seal.
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The true measure of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s stupidity is her failure to grasp that if diabolical lefties really did have Space Lasers at their disposal, she‘d never make it from the gun store to her car.
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Miss Graham thinks gay rights are a crime,
Yet pays for gay sex all the time.
Come the fall he’ll be beat,
And surrender his seat,
And for once it won’t cost him a dime.
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The most painful part of RBG's final wish is that it shows us she spent her last days thinking about how swiftly her life’s work could be undone by unprincipled men. I hope she rests in peace, because Trump and McConnell wouldn’t let her die in it.
#RIPRBG
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Today Gerry and I begin our fortieth year together. To answer the inevitable question from those younger, no, staying with the right person for 40 years isn't hard. The hard part is doing so while remaining perpetually 37.
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I see the Westminster Dog Show has a late entry in the Lapdog division.
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Kevin's map's indisputably true;
Our prairies and deserts aren't blue.
What he fails, though, to note
Is that dirt doesn't vote,
But people as dumb as it do.
63 million Americans put President Trump in office. Now 231 Washington Democrats are trying to reverse the results of the 2016 election.
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My favorite word in a Sondheim lyric is "forever" in "Sunday." A painting rapturously celebrates its own immortality, the music building to joyful crescendo on those 3 syllables. He understood the permanence art can achieve when it's skilled and passionate and timeless and true.
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A toast to my friend Henry Winkler,
Who radiates charm like a sprinkler.
The years may advance,
But his grin still enchants,
And his face never seems to get wrinkler.
Happy Birthday,
@hwinkler4real
!
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Farewell to Angela Lansbury. What a gift she had. Her range, her wit and heart, the casual precision of her portraits. She could be warm or steely, ditzy or diabolical, sometimes all four in the same role. She never recorded a song I couldn't listen to a hundred times.
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The military transgender ban makes even less sense when you consider that we’re letting Trump serve openly while he transitions to Russian.
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I met Steve Lawrence in 1994 when we were both on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect. Gay marriage, then quarantined on Hawaii, came up and I sparred with the panel's churchy conservative. Steve, mensch that he was, promised that if gays could ever marry, he'd sing at my wedding.
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How do you say "Scram!" to a president who still won't admit he needs to leave? I'm saying it with an assist from Guys & Dolls and the great Brad Oscar, who sums up in 2 minutes what we've all been shouting for 3 weeks.
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Robbie Coltrane appeared in the series finale of Frasier as Daphne’s brother Michael Moon. At the party on film night he and I were the last two stubborn revelers, still drinking and laughing at Pinot Hollywood after the rest of the cast and crew had sensibly called it a night.🧵
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🎶I was a model
Whose chances had passed.
He was a mogul
Whose riches were vast.
The sex was lousy,
But mercifully fast.
That’s why the Lady is a Trump.🎶
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I’d love to get Trump into a theological debate, just to hear him say, “I like martyrs who didn’t die.”
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Yes, our world's a dystopian hellscape, but you won't find a more blissful 8-hour furlough than
@DanielGoldfarb3
's Julia on HBOMax. The cast, led by Sarah Lancashire and my Frasier pals
@BebeNeuwirth
& David Hyde Pierce, is a B'way dream team. I want 5 more seasons immediately.
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Josh Hawley, that haughty young hellion,
Encouraged a lethal rebellion.
So if Josh, like his book,
Should be given the hook,
That's all good and well, not "Orwellian."
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Here's the tribute to David and Lynn that I wrote for The Advocate a few weeks after 9/11. It ends with a prophecy that has now, 19 years later, come true many times over.
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How pleasantly surreal to find that the cheeky reply I made to
@richardosman
's recent tweet about Frasier has spawned a tabloid headline in
@MetroUK
. I am henceforth at Richard's disposal for any and all Frasier related queries.
via
@MetroUK
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@richardosman
I’m glad to hear it, Richard, since your wonderful book (seen here looming over my scale model of our set) is currently cheering this Frasier writer up enormously.
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Barbra Streisand, examining card on the lavish flowers that just arrived: “Who’s Lori Loughlin?”
Barbra Streisand says Michael Jackson’s accusers were ‘thrilled to be there’ and his ‘sexual needs were his sexual needs’
“You can say ‘molested,' but those children...both married and they both have children, so it didn’t kill them," she said.
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@realDonaldTrump
The question you were asked most today by World Leaders was, "Do you know your elbow's in the butter?"
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@jonnohopkins
My favorite souvenir of the show. (Usually under plexiglass, but easier to photograph without the cover.)
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Hey, Susan Collins — if you don’t think traumatized women can clearly remember who attacked them, just wait for 2020.
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We’ve reached a level of Corona anxiety (
#Coronoia
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Mark Blum was in my 1st TV pilot, Gloria Vane. In a gallery of Hollywood loons, he played the one sane, funny mensch, which was definitely typecasting. He was just as wonderful in Frasier & in DH Pierce's production of Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike. He has died of coronavirus.💔
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I’m old enough to remember when you could roughly gauge how long a gay couple had been together by checking out their cast albums to see what the earliest Sondheim show was that they owned only one copy of.
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The most forward-thinking military maneuver since Achilles hacked the Trojans’ cell phones.
Appearing to have some reading trouble, Trump said that the army "took over the airports" during a part of his speech about its actions in the 1700s and early 1800s, when there were not airports or airplanes.
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This is bad for Giuliani and Trump, but great news for the Attica Prison Musical Theater Guild, which just found a Pseudolus and a Marcus Lycus for its spring production of A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM.
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Meghan McCain failing to grasp that a willingness to learn from new information is what separates smart science from dumb scions.
Anytime I screw up from now on I’m simply going to say “the science has changed”.
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WILLIAM BARR, AGE 9, PRESENTS HIS REPORT CARD: “Let me give you the headline, mom. No Fs—zero!—in Spelling, Art, or Gym. My deportment is “greatly [...] improved.” Blah blah “nose-picking,” blah blah “stole Suzy’s lunch.” My history grade remains Classified. Sign here. Or I can.”
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McCarthy was ready to adjourn today after his 9th loss, then he remembered that with 10 you get a free yogurt.
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In these bleak days it takes a lot to lift my spirits, but this love letter to the gay farces I wrote for Frasier will keep me offensively cheerful for days.
"The Original 'Frasier' Was a Gay Show for Straight People" via
@thedailybeast
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A good béchamel is tricky to pull off, but you don’t spend seven years on Frasier without learning how to make something rich, white, and saucy.
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Ten years ago I wondered if I should have picked a sunnier show than Gore Vidal's The Best Man for an Easter matinee. Then Angela Lansbunny took her bow.
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FRASIER premiered 25 years ago this week. To celebrate Vanity Fair has published this oral history by
@Loudon47
. Loads of fun stories and glimpses of life backstage from our wonderful cast and some of us behind the cameras as well.
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Spent a terrific afternoon yesterday reuniting with my Frasier family for a panel at USC. In these jittery days, it was a great balm to be reminded that the show we loved so much is now delighting people who weren’t born when it started.
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Another day of ducking responsibility for every death, while demanding credit for each breath we successfully draw. His new campaign slogan is, "TRUMP 2020: Are You Alive? YOU'RE WELCOME!"
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Pence courageously concedes that it's hard to "see eye to eye" with a man who's arranged for you to be three feet higher than him, and kind of dangling.
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I can independently verify this.
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The Ukraine situation is pretty terrifying, but at least we’re facing it with a president whose idea of getting tough with Putin isn’t giving him chlamydia.
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Every time we’ve said, “He couldn’t do anything worse,“ he’s gone ahead and done something worse. What would be worse than today? He needs to be removed before we find out.
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Note to self: Buy new home office rug the color of spilled coffee.
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Mary Poppins was the first film I ever saw in a cinema when I was five. A Little Night Music was my first Broadway musical. Glynis Johns starred in both. A million people have sung "Send In The Clowns," but her version, worldly, wry, heartbreakingly tender, remains my favorite.
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MAGA world keeps invoking the number 75,000,000 as if that's the precise, magic number of votes needed to win the presidency and the other team blew it by overshooting to 81,000,000. That's not Democracy. That's "The Price Is Right."
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Please. Days after Trump ran scared from a courtroom where he’d face tough questions and accountability. CNN gave him the one thing he craves, a jury of his fans. He vents about elections being “rigged,” but won’t go near an audience that isn’t. Congrats for giving him one, CNN.
Cooper: You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again. But do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away?
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A birthday salute to Ben Dreyer,
Whose tweets both amuse and inspire.
He wrote a whole book
And it’s well worth a look!
(I’m preaching, perhaps, to the choir.)
Happy Birthday,
@BCDreyer
!
❤️🥳🎂❤️
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Crackpot theories about election fraud are bad enough, but when the conspiracy peddlers come for
#Frasier
, I cannot stay silent.
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I’ve read a lot of articles about David Hyde Pierce, but few that capture as well what it’s like to know this lovely, extravagantly gifted man—and I don’t say so just because I’m quoted. Kudos to
@catherineshoard
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@richardosman
You're very welcome, Richard. The show was a joy to write for. (And re: Frasier's income, it occurs to me that Maris's towering wealth made Frasier seem merely comfortable by comparison, just as Niles' even more baroque flights of fussiness made Frasier look relatively sane.)
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Of all the things that made Hal Prince great, none was more inspiring to me than his habit of going to work the day after an opening, whether of a hit or a flop. He was neither crushed by failure or lulled by success into forgetting that nothing mattered more than the next show.
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I don’t think anyone in the history of human speech has said anything as many times as Donald Trump has snarled, “No collusion!” I include the number of times Carol Channing told us that “Dolly will never go away again.”
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I met my husband Gerry on June 15th, 1983. I thank him for his love and patience. And I thank the Supreme Court for ruling 25 years after we met that we could marry, and for ruling today, on our 37th Anniversary, that he can't fire me.
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First jab yesterday. Moderna. You can trust a writer to pick the vaccine that sounds most like a font.
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Still the funniest performance I ever saw. My brother, his arm in a cast, told Smith he’d only broken it so she could sign it. Teenage Me found it deeply unfair that a straight boy got to swank around school for a week with a cast reading, “You have gone too far! Maggie Smith.”
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My saddest 9/11 memory will always be the call I got mid-morning telling me that David Angell and his wife Lynn were on the first plane. Later the Advocate asked me to write a tribute. I'm glad they did. It preserved a few memories I might not recall now had I not set them down.
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36 years today.
We've reached the stage where younger people ask us what the secret is.
Mine was to marry Gerry Bernardi. His I can't imagine.
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What rights should you have if you’re gay?
Ms. Barrett refuses to say.
We’ll know all her views
On which rights we should lose
On the day that she takes them away.
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Trump wants people to be killed. Dead protesters = more rage & looting = more deadly force. Repeat as needed, then saunter over the corpses to a 2nd term, the Law & Order fix for the Carnage he promised on Day One and is now delivering.
Death isn’t the risk. Death is the plan.
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I'm thrilled to hear that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been declared cancer free, but I still think we should buy Angela Lansbury a black wig, just in case.
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Isn’t human nature funny? I know my own spring allergy symptoms are a harmless seasonal affliction, but still regard every public sneeze that occurs within 40 yards of my mask as a failed murder attempt.
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Nixon was a cancer on the country, but at least then we didn’t endure a two-year clinical trial, only to find out we were in the placebo group.
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I'll bet I'm not the only comic novelist on Twitter quietly relieved that the lack of a blue check will soon look like a principled stand and not an accurate reflection of book sales.
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Yeah! Count me in, third party! We can meet for the first two years at Andrew‘s place, then from 2025 on in the relocation camp rec room!
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You need some humor help, Mike! Try this:
“Donald Trump loves Walls the same way I love Jokes. We think they’ll make us look good, but we have no idea how to successfully construct one!”
I have a new nickname for the current crop of
@realDonaldTrump
hating, wall-averse Democrats: “The Wimpy Democrats.” I mean like Wimpy from the old “Popeye” cartoons: "We will gladly give you border security Tuesday for legalizing another 11 million illegal immigrants today!"
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The Great Gaspy.
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If Jeffrey Epstein was serious about freezing his penis, he’d be dating Kellyanne Conway.
Scientists says Jeffrey Epstein discussed plans to seed human race with his DNA and cryogenically freeze his head and penis
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How heroic of Trump to rescue us from the disastrous tariffs he threatened. He's like a sniper who wants a parade every time he lowers the rifle.
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"...Then I stepped ON the ping pong ball... It was ghastly!"
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As a gay teen I was obsessed with Rhoda & Mary. I watched their scenes over and over. I learned more about comedy, timing, and character—how to fuse wit & heart—from Harper's performance than a hundred guidebooks or writing courses could have taught me. RIP to a comedy legend.
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Could any wild New Year's Eve spree be
More fun than a show starring Bebe?
To watch her on stage is
Worth half a month's wages.
(Her Lilith's great too, and a freebie.)
Happy Birthday,
@BebeNeuwirth
❤️🎂👸🏻🎉
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What a preening little ass pimple Josh Hawley is. He doesn’t need to be fired, he needs to be lanced.
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