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• Summer House’s Ciara Miller: Inside a Day in My Life (US Weekly exclusive)
• Who is Lindsay Hubbard Dating? She Declares She's "Very Satisfied in the Bedroom" (Bravo)
• 'Summer House's Jesse Solomon on Season 8's 'Juicy' Reunion and Sharing His Cancer Story on TV (ET exclusive)
• ‘Summer House’ Star Jesse Solomon Recalls Breaking Down In Tears In Front Of West Wilson: “It Was By Accident” (Decider exclusive)
• Bravo’s Jesse Solomon Was Nervous to Watch Breakdown Over Cancer Scare on ‘Summer House’ (US Weekly exclusive)
• 3 minute video: 'Summer House' star Jesse Solomon unpacks Kyle Cooke's explosive outburst Virtual Reali-tea (Page Six YouTube)
• 'Summer House: Martha's Vineyard's Jasmine Ellis Cooper Promises 'Clarity' at Cast's First Reunion (ET exclusive)
• Ariana Madix Glows at Her DSW Shoe Collaboration as ‘VPR’ Reunion Looms (Showbiz CheatSheet)
• Ariana Madix Teases Life After Vanderpump Rules (E! exclusive)
• Ariana Madix Fires Back at Love Island Fan's Host Criticism: "Doing What I Do Best" (Bravo)
• ‘SNL’ Dings Tom Sandoval Again in ‘Weekend Update’ Segment, Now Implying He’s a ‘Parasite’ (US Weekly)
• Lisa Vanderpump stuns in a blazer and jeans at the 7th annual World Dog Day celebration with husband Ken Todd in West Hollywood (Daily Mail)
• Kristen Doute weighs in on the future of ‘Vanderpump Rules’: Season 11 felt ‘very final’ (NY Post exclusive)
• Is Jax Taylor Moving on From Brittany? Why He’ll “Never Date” Anyone Again (Bravo)
• Jax Taylor Hints The Valley’s ‘Cutest Couple’ Danny and Nia Booko’s Relationship Isn’t Perfect (US Weekly)
• Former Miss USA Nia Sanchez Reacts to Noelia Voigt and UmaSofia Srivastava's Resignations (ET exclusive)
• Craig Conover explains why he invested in alcohol brand competing with friend Kyle Cooke’s Loverboy (Page Six exclusive)

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• Danielle Cabral hasn’t spoken to Teresa Giudice since falling out after ‘RHONJ’ Season 14 wrapped (Page Six exclusive)

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• DWTS’ Emma Slater Hopes Former Partner Mauricio Umansky Will ‘Be in My Life Forever’ (US Weekly exclusive)
• Crystal Kung Minkoff Talks Life After Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Where She Might Be Headed Next (People exclusive)
• Padma Lakshmi, Halsey, Saweetie and Lucy Liu dazzle with high-octane glamour as they lead stars at Gold Gala honoring Asian-Pacific achievement - with Crystal Kung Minkoff in attendance (Daily Mail)
• Annemarie Wiley Warns Former RHOBH Co-Star Crystal Kung Minkoff About ‘Karma’ (Heavy)
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• Kathy Hilton confirms husband Rick’s favorite chicken dish at Cheesecake Factory after viral video mystery (Page Six exclusive)

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So I work in a software related customer services role. My work involves picking up cases that our clients have raised and answering them/troubleshooting their issues with the HR software that we provide.
This is normally all done via case comments/emails and the occasional phone call.
Sometimes I'll also attach a link to a handy guide for the customer which I feel may be of use to them.
Me and my friend are big star wars fans and he's recently started playing Jedi survivor. For those of you who don't know, this is a dark soulsy type of game and boss fights are usually quite intense.
In this game, the devs added in a boss fight with a guy called "Rick the door technician"
He's just a basic grunt but when ya face him a whole health bar appears at the top and boss music plays too. He is just a 1 hit kill enemy though, an Easter egg referencing the SNL live skit where kylo ren becomes "matt the technician" in an undercover boss style episode.
Here comes the fuck up.
I was trying to explain this context to my friend at work who had just gotten to Rick the door technician in the game, so i sent him a link to a YouTube video of the SNL skit while i was working on a live case. I didn't think anymore on this and went straight back to my open case that I was working on.
I typed up my resolution to the the customers case and thought that I had copied a link to my clipboard for the guide I wanted to attach on a particular part of the software. I was in such a rush to get the work done and in my haste I pasted the YouTube link to the SNL skit to one of our biggest customers.
The client was confused and reached out and lodged a complaint to my manager.
I am now awaiting a disciplinary for browsing YouTube at work and not following proper customer contact procedure.
TLDR: sent this SNL skit to one of our clients instead of the guide they had request and am now in trouble at work for not working 😅

This might be a stupid question but I can’t find the answer. How do the skits work? Are they in front of a live audience? Are they broadcasted to a live audience but filmed elsewhere? I know it’s live, and there is a live audience, but the laughter sometimes happens as the camera pans out and the punch line is shown or something. And then in some sketches when it pans out at the end the film crew is clearly blocking the view of any audience. But I know it’s live. I’ve also noticed the cast will sometimes react to the audience (like pausing to wait for loud laughter or clapping). How does this work? I’m so confused

There it was, on the table in Nicola Coughlan’s apartment — a microscopic undergarment that loomed large in the actor’s mind.
The “Bridgerton” costume department had sent Coughlan home with a piece of intimacy wear that was essentially a strapless thong that would cover the bare essentials of her body during an upcoming love scene.
It would be her first time ever acting in such a scene, in a series known globally for its sexy yet empowering bedroom romps, and it would require her to be almost totally naked in front of people she’d worked with for years. Coughlan was understandably terrified. One night, she poured herself a margarita and summoned the liquid courage to try on the tiny sliver of fabric.
“I went to the bathroom and looked in the full-length mirror. I was like, ‘Absolutely not.’ I hid it down the bottom of the laundry basket,” Coughlan recalled on a cold morning in January at Netflix’s offices in Manhattan. “I was like, ‘How am I going to do this?’”
Coughlan eventually got over her nerves. Much to her surprise, she found the process of filming the scenes with her co-star Luke Newton creatively satisfying — liberating, even. “By the end of the day, we were both lying under a blanket, not clothed, just chillin’. We were like, ‘This is why nudists do it,’” said Coughlan, who speaks in a rapid, melodious accent that only adds to her natural exuberance.
While discussing the arc of her career, she goes on joyful digressions, praising everything from Mrs. Renfro’s salsa to Ryan Gosling’s performance in the forgotten teen series “Breaker High” to “Saturday Night Live,” which she’s just attended for the third time and hopes to host one day (are you listening, Lorne Michaels?).
She is nothing if not enthusiastic, and she brings this level of passion to Season 3 of “Bridgerton,” the first half of which will return to Netflix on Thursday. Until now, her character, Penelope Featherington, has been content to be a wallflower in the ballrooms of Regency London, allowing her to observe and secretly write a society scandal sheet under the pseudonym Lady Whistledown.
But this season will focus on Penelope as she — spoiler alert — consummates her long-simmering crush on Colin Bridgerton (Newton) in a friends-to-lovers storyline with distinct rom-com overtones. Penelope’s move into the center of the narrative also meant that Coughlan faced new pressures as the lead in one of the most watched and dissected shows on Netflix.
“With Penelope this season, it felt like there were so many things that were reflected in real life. The whole theme of her stepping out of the shadows and into the light, and not feeling quite ready — I felt like I had to do that,” said Coughlan.
“It was really challenging. It was terrifying. It was cathartic. It was a million and one things,” she added. “I loved it.”
She juggled “Bridgerton” with an edgy turn in “Big Mood,” a “Fleabag”-esque dark comedy released last month on Tubi. On top of that, she also had a small role in the biggest box office hit of 2023, “Barbie” — she wanted to do more but, alas, her schedule was too packed — and filmed a guest appearance in the “Doctor Who” Christmas special to be released later this year.
It amounts to a long-simmering breakout moment for Coughlan, who is 37 but thanks to a preternaturally dewy complexion often plays characters who are much younger than she is, like a Catholic high school student in the Troubles-themed sitcom “Derry Girls.”
“It was very exciting to play grown women. But I was like, ‘Can I do that?’ Even in drama school, they would always cast me as the random kid, like, there was an Ibsen play called ‘Little Eyolf,’ and I had to play Eyolf. I was like, ‘This is gonna be me forever.’”
Raised in County Galway on the western coast of Ireland, she grew up liking whatever her older siblings were into — whether it was Nirvana or “Wayne’s World.” When her sister starred in the school play, Coughlan showed up in a sequined vest, looking like a little Liza Minnelli — as if she knew she also wanted to be onstage. (She still has a taste for eccentric glamour: Despite the wintry gloom, she’s decked out in a gold spangled dress and a cloud-like ruffled bolero.)
At age 9, she scored her first professional gig, a movie called “My Brother’s War” starring James Brolin. She got the day off from school, but she wanted more. “I used to look at the Olsen twins. I was like, ‘God, look, look at where they are,’” she joked. As a teenager, she did regular voice work in cartoons. Her father, who was in the Irish army (as a teenage cadet, he took part in U.S. President Kennedy’s funeral in 1963), and mother, a stay-at-home parent, were supportive but also baffled by their youngest child’s dramatic streak. “It’s really not in my family at all,” Coughlan said.
After graduating from the National University of Ireland Galway, Coughlan enrolled in a foundational course at the Oxford School of Drama in England, where she quickly bonded with fellow student Camilla Whitehill.
“We were the only people there that really cared about things being funny,” said Whitehill, a playwright who would go on to create “Big Mood” as a vehicle for her old drama school friend. “Everyone else just wanted to do plays where their family had died, or whatever.”
There it was, on the table in Nicola Coughlan’s apartment — a microscopic undergarment that loomed large in the actor’s mind.
The “Bridgerton” costume department had sent Coughlan home with a piece of intimacy wear that was essentially a strapless thong that would cover the bare essentials of her body during an upcoming love scene.
It would be her first time ever acting in such a scene, in a series known globally for its sexy yet empowering bedroom romps, and it would require her to be almost totally naked in front of people she’d worked with for years. Coughlan was understandably terrified. One night, she poured herself a margarita and summoned the liquid courage to try on the tiny sliver of fabric.
“I went to the bathroom and looked in the full-length mirror. I was like, ‘Absolutely not.’ I hid it down the bottom of the laundry basket,” Coughlan recalled on a cold morning in January at Netflix’s offices in Manhattan. “I was like, ‘How am I going to do this?’”
Coughlan eventually got over her nerves. Much to her surprise, she found the process of filming the scenes with her co-star Luke Newton creatively satisfying — liberating, even. “By the end of the day, we were both lying under a blanket, not clothed, just chillin’. We were like, ‘This is why nudists do it,’” said Coughlan, who speaks in a rapid, melodious accent that only adds to her natural exuberance.
While discussing the arc of her career, she goes on joyful digressions, praising everything from Mrs. Renfro’s salsa to Ryan Gosling’s performance in the forgotten teen series “Breaker High” to “Saturday Night Live,” which she’s just attended for the third time and hopes to host one day (are you listening, Lorne Michaels?).
Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan hold champagne glasses on "Bridgerton."
Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) go from friends to lovers in Season 3 of “Bridgerton.” (Liam Daniel / Netflix)
She is nothing if not enthusiastic, and she brings this level of passion to Season 3 of “Bridgerton,” the first half of which will return to Netflix on Thursday. Until now, her character, Penelope Featherington, has been content to be a wallflower in the ballrooms of Regency London, allowing her to observe and secretly write a society scandal sheet under the pseudonym Lady Whistledown.
But this season will focus on Penelope as she — spoiler alert — consummates her long-simmering crush on Colin Bridgerton (Newton) in a friends-to-lovers storyline with distinct rom-com overtones. Penelope’s move into the center of the narrative also meant that Coughlan faced new pressures as the lead in one of the most watched and dissected shows on Netflix.
“With Penelope this season, it felt like there were so many things that were reflected in real life. The whole theme of her stepping out of the shadows and into the light, and not feeling quite ready — I felt like I had to do that,” said Coughlan.
“It was really challenging. It was terrifying. It was cathartic. It was a million and one things,” she added. “I loved it.”
She juggled “Bridgerton” with an edgy turn in “Big Mood,” a “Fleabag”-esque dark comedy released last month on Tubi. On top of that, she also had a small role in the biggest box office hit of 2023, “Barbie” — she wanted to do more but, alas, her schedule was too packed — and filmed a guest appearance in the “Doctor Who” Christmas special to be released later this year.
It amounts to a long-simmering breakout moment for Coughlan, who is 37 but thanks to a preternaturally dewy complexion often plays characters who are much younger than she is, like a Catholic high school student in the Troubles-themed sitcom “Derry Girls.”
“It was very exciting to play grown women. But I was like, ‘Can I do that?’ Even in drama school, they would always cast me as the random kid, like, there was an Ibsen play called ‘Little Eyolf,’ and I had to play Eyolf. I was like, ‘This is gonna be me forever.’”
Raised in County Galway on the western coast of Ireland, she grew up liking whatever her older siblings were into — whether it was Nirvana or “Wayne’s World.” When her sister starred in the school play, Coughlan showed up in a sequined vest, looking like a little Liza Minnelli — as if she knew she also wanted to be onstage. (She still has a taste for eccentric glamour: Despite the wintry gloom, she’s decked out in a gold spangled dress and a cloud-like ruffled bolero.)
At age 9, she scored her first professional gig, a movie called “My Brother’s War” starring James Brolin. She got the day off from school, but she wanted more. “I used to look at the Olsen twins. I was like, ‘God, look, look at where they are,’” she joked. As a teenager, she did regular voice work in cartoons. Her father, who was in the Irish army (as a teenage cadet, he took part in U.S. President Kennedy’s funeral in 1963), and mother, a stay-at-home parent, were supportive but also baffled by their youngest child’s dramatic streak. “It’s really not in my family at all,” Coughlan said.
After graduating from the National University of Ireland Galway, Coughlan enrolled in a foundational course at the Oxford School of Drama in England, where she quickly bonded with fellow student Camilla Whitehill.
“We were the only people there that really cared about things being funny,” said Whitehill, a playwright who would go on to create “Big Mood” as a vehicle for her old drama school friend. “Everyone else just wanted to do plays where their family had died, or whatever.”
Nicola Coughlan holds her fingers against her cheek. Yellow orbs float behind her.
Nicola Coughlan on playing Penelope this season: “The whole theme of her stepping out of the shadows and into the light, and not feeling quite ready — I felt like I had to do that.” (Evelyn Freja / For The Times)
Coughlan, ever the pop culture connoisseur, introduced Whitehill to the sitcom “Arrested Development.”
“She’s one of those people who, if she thinks you will like something, she will make you watch it. And she is — annoyingly — usually right,” added Whitehill. (More recently, Coughlan urged her friend to catch up on “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.” “It’s such an easy one to sell to people. I’m like, ‘One of them is a cult leader who’s married to her granddad; are you in or are you out?’” Coughlan said.)
They both eventually landed in London, where “neither of us was successful at all for our whole 20s,” said Whitehill, who would often cast Coughlan in “my bad unpaid short plays at pubs,” including one where Coughlan played a cat.
“You leave drama school, which is a lovely, cozy bosom where you get to do the thing you love every day. Then you go, ‘Hang on. Thousands of people leave drama school every year, and they want to do the exact job I do.’ It seems so improbable that you’ll make a living doing it,” said Coughlan. “I felt like a loser at so many points.”
One such nadir came when she was working at a frozen yogurt shop at a mall in West London and the cheap jeans she wore as part of her uniform tore “right up the butt crack.” It was sobering, she said. “I was like, ‘This is not the life I wanted.’”
By the time she was in her late 20s, she’d moved back home and was working for an optician in Galway. Then she saw a listing for an open casting call for a festival of plays being put on by the Old Vic Theatre. Even though she was broke, she flew back to London for the audition and landed a part in a play called “Jess and Joe Forever.”
It marked a turning point for Coughlan, who was soon cast as studious teen Clare Devlin in Channel 4’s “Derry Girls,” a project she was drawn to because of its vividly drawn female characters.
“They were all really distinct — young women who were ballsy and foul-mouthed,” she said. She convinced herself that the show would flop because “people hate women trying to be funny.” Instead, the show was a massive hit in the U.K. and earned a devoted following in the U.S. when it was picked up by Netflix.
Then, Shonda Rhimes came calling about “Bridgerton.” After a single audition, Coughlan was cast as Penelope, a thoughtful, sharp-witted young woman with an overbearing mother and tacky, dim-witted sisters. Season 1 was released in late 2020, when much of the world was staying home because of the COVID-19 pandemic-related closures, and it became a sensation.
Whitehill recalls going out with her friend once restrictions had lifted in the U.K. and sensing how much had shifted. “It’s such a weird, un-put-into-words-able experience to watch someone you know for such a long time become globally famous,” she said. The fact that Coughlan didn’t find success straight out of school “has grounded her significantly, which means that she doesn’t let it go to her head.”
Success has not come without complications, however, like the relentless media scrutiny around Coughlan’s physical appearance. “It’s really hard and feels [like] s—,” she said.
In 2018, she wrote an essay for the Guardian responding to a theater critic who described her character in a London production of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” as “an overweight little girl.” Coughlan is determined to push back against this kind of casual body-shaming because, she said, “I grew up at a time where it was so overt. There was the circle of shame for cellulite [in magazines] — just horrific, horrific messaging.”
It’s also why this season of “Bridgerton,” which celebrates the allure of a character often overlooked as a wallflower, is so meaningful to Coughlan — and why she suspects it will resonate with so many viewers. Rhimes and showrunner Jess Brownell decided Season 3 should deviate from the timeline in Julia Quinn’s novels and focus on Penelope and Colin — a couple known to fans as “Polin.”
“We’ve watched Colin not quite understand that Penelope has a crush on him for two seasons. You can only play that dynamic out for so long before it gets frustrating,” said Brownell.
Stepping into the lead meant Coughlan would need to be on set nearly every day for eight months straight. But if she was overwhelmed at first, she didn’t let on. “She just seemed so game and ready for anything on set,” said Brownell. “If anything, I just noticed how seriously she was taking her preparation.”
Coughlan was insightful and collaborative, said Brownell, sharing an endless stream of ideas about her character in a WhatsApp group chat with Newton and Brownell. She had suggestions for specific music cues and for Penelope’s makeover, which sees her ditching her tight red poodle curls and garish citrus-hued gowns for loose waves and cool blues and greens. Coughlan is also very plugged into the fandom, and she advocated for including a scene, important to novel readers, in which Penelope calls Colin “Mr. Bridgerton.”
As if that weren’t enough, she even found time to bake fresh Irish soda bread and bring it to set.
This season is “a lot lighter and more playful than we’ve been able to be in the past,” Brownell added. The writing leans into Coughlan’s strengths as a comedic performer, particularly her knack for awkward banter, a skill she deploys as Penelope throws herself into the London social season in a bid to find a husband.
Coughlan, who enjoyed being, as she put it, “the weirdo in the background” for the first two seasons of “Bridgerton” and who idolizes women like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, said it was a thrill “to play Penelope as goofy and terrible with men.”
Like Coughlan, Newton was nervous about filming the love scenes but found the anxiety quickly dissipated after the first take. “We both had a similar outlook — it’s like doing comedy because you’re having to put yourself out there and feel exposed and risk something,” said Newton (who watched “Hamilton” at Coughlan’s recommendation and loved it, just as she predicted.) Because of how these moments focus on consent and emotional intimacy, “It was essential that we were friends,” he said.
The co-stars were especially heartened to hear from a burly security guard named Dave who has worked on “Bridgerton” since Season 1 and was moved by the romance he watched them act out on set.
“He came to Luke and I and said, ‘I don’t normally watch shows like this. Something about this season is very special, and I’m very proud of you,’” Coughlan recalled.
For several weeks, Coughlan was filming “Bridgerton” and “Big Mood” at the same time. She coped with the stress by watching “Vanderpump Rules” from the beginning.
“It’s a testament to how nosy I am that I heard people talking about Scandoval, had no frame of reference and was like, ‘Well, I need to know,’” said Coughlan, now a superfan who recently threw a “Vanderpump”-themed housewarming party and made a beeline to take a selfie with Ariana Madix when she was at “SNL.” It’s not just escapism: She also finds creative inspiration in reality TV personalities, channeling some of Lala Kent’s mannerisms into her character in “Big Mood.” “You forget how f— weird people are, how bizarre they can be,” she said.
In January, Coughlan had not yet seen the new season of “Bridgerton.” But by phone in early May, she said she’d finally watched the episode in which Colin and Penelope sleep together, nervously, by herself in a hotel room. Once again, the anticipation was worse than the thing itself.
“I laughed and cried and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, it’s amazing,’” she said. “They’re not titillating just to be titillating, even though we hope they are sexy. There’s so much about female pleasure and positive sexual experiences, and we don’t get enough of that onscreen.”
Coughlan has reached a bittersweet crossroads on “Bridgerton,” now that her character’s big season has wrapped and she will soon return to being “the weirdo in the background.” But she has no regrets.
“We left it all on the pitch. There’s nothing I wanted to do this season that I didn’t get to do,” she said. “And that’s a rare thing.”
Source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-05-12/nicola-coughlan-bridgerton-season-3
It seems some people are having trouble accessing it. There's no paywall for me, and I'm in the USA.

Lost one of my fingers, and that made me lose my desire to do cards.
Don’t know what the collection would be worth. List below (forgive any spelling errors, did voice to text for the list).
All unopened.

• [ ] December boys zebra deck x 2
• [ ] Bicycle stargazer
• [ ] Bicycle 52 to 1 deck.
• [ ] Abstract version one
• [ ] Gold fort NOC x 4
• [ ] King slayer black x 2
• [ ] Kingslayer blue X2
• [ ] Kingslayer zebra
• [ ] Kingslayer red X2
• [ ] King slayer teal X2
• [ ] Deck of cards black illusionist times two first
• [ ] playing cards black and gold X2
• [ ] orbit seventh edition X2
• [ ] orbit version seven parallel edition, X2.
• [ ] Orbit sixth edition winter metallic green x 2
• [ ] Cardistry con knock X2
• [ ] noc 300x1 ×4
• [ ] Laers the Sears x 3
• [ ] paper luxury edition x 2
• [ ] Art of play mystery deck.
• [ ] Mint Stripper deck.
• [ ] Mint Kickstart edition. X 2
• [ ] mint foil edition
• [ ] Mint second edition blue X3
• [ ] mint second edition green
• [ ] Thermal chrome X2
• [ ] Zero playing arts
• [ ] Skateboard playing cards by Riffle shuffle
• [ ] Ecaterina red fox x 2
• [ ] Illusionist views limited edition X2
• [ ] Artisan, black, gold, white.
• [ ] Monarch, black, red
• [ ] Theory 11 Neil Patrick Harris
• [ ] Theory 11 SNL
• [ ] Lighthouse keeper Seagreen.
• [ ] Virtuoso perspective series X6 black
• [ ] Virtuoso fall winter 2017 X4
• [ ] virtual cell perspective with series red X6
• [ ] virtuoso moments white X2, black X one
• [ ] DKNG red, black, blue, brown (art of play))
• [ ] Rifflle shuffle fox, owl
• [ ] Commoners x 2
• [ ] Waves first edition day, x 3
• [ ] Waves first edition standard x 2
• [ ] Waves first edition limited x 2
• [ ] Waves first edition foil X2
• [ ] Riffle shuffle box containing owl, furious, skulls, fox, two serious bees, and one limited edition with trees, one extra B plus a bunch of stickers.
• [ ] Fortunate card trick by David Jonathan
• [ ] Principia gimme cards plus Principia book
• [ ] T 100 by Nemo
• [ ] USPS art of magic ltd ed box set

I've just been watching all the Eurovision performances on YouTube yesterday & this morning (I'm in Canada, so it isn't shown here on TV). I don't know how the BBC chose their contestant? I don't wish to say anything disparaging about Olly as I really think his song was good, & the fact that he was a contestant is the only reason I got caught up watching all the rest. But almost any of the new songs from Nonetheless could have taken the win compared to most of the contestants.
I liked Marcus & Martinus's kind of 90's throwback, even if it was a bit cheese.
Even though it was comedy joke record, Window95man had some impressive vocals from Henri Piispanen. Maybe he will get a legitimate career out of that.
I also enjoyed the French singer Slimane's vocals.
The rest felt like one big SNL skit where they mock Euro stuff - except it was all real.

Everyone do yourself a favor and go watch last nights SNL teacher skit… I shared it immediately with my teacher friends that are retiring 🤣

Hoping someone has a better memory than me...
I recall seeing what I think was either a SNL weekend update or maybe a daily show skit? Also possible it was from MTV's The State. But I'm *pretty* sure it was SNL and could have been in the 2000s also.
Basically they had on a movie reviewer and for each movie he reviews, he gives it some different number of stars. So the first movie he explains how it was just OK, not that great etc then says... "4 stars!" and the host is like "wow, 4 stars, thats a great rating for an ok movie". and the movie reviewer slyly says "... out of 12 stars!??? I think not!"
Then he reviews another movie and says how great it was... and then gives it like 8 stars. To which the host says "oh that doesnt sound so great, only 8 stars out of 12..." and the reviewer blurts out " ... OUT OF 8 STARS!!!"
This back and forth continues for another few movies, like "... out of 37 stars!"
Obviously i cant recall the exact back and forth but the joke was how the denominator kept changing so the host couldn't get an accurate read on anything.
I love this skit and I regularly use lines from it (or from the bit I can remember) when I give my own little reviews about anything :)
I've tried googling and searching youtube for this over the years and never can find it.
Any help would be awesome. A youtube clip would be even better! THANKS! 22 stars for the person who finds this!

I feel like this was part of some improv audition take or SNL skit or something like that, although I suppose it could be from a movie too. There was definitely some improv element to it though.
The scene is - someone has to do a fake commercial or promotion or testimonial about some product, and the name of the product manufacturer they come up with is Zimmerfield. That's really all I remember. I know it's almost nothing to go on but here's hoping!

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6- Monex $10 trade eagle $32ea
1- Niue tree of life $37
1- Mass Metal Minuteman $32

The skit on May 4th about a morning show in Greenville SC was hilarious. Hilarious because it is so accurate, but sad because...racism. It hit a nerve with many who live in Greenville. It's hard to see the truth sometimes and maybe this one was too close to home.
Did a writer from SNL go to Greenville, watch the news, and get inspired?! If so, it was probably by channel 7. IYKYK
Greenville is incredible. Doesn't mean there isn't progress to be made.
"You don't go to church" is my new favorite burn.

Not sure if you guys have heard of Kyle Mooney, he’s a writeactor on SNL who got famous of YouTube skits back in the day.
In one of his early YT videos, he’s at a Saosin concert. Kind of funny to see.
Check it out: https://youtu.be/0FwWM7nsxd0?si=Qq3r6AqLJZEkY8LA

The Kansas City rapper released his eighth studio album, and the second in the "Collabos" series on April 28th, 2009. Released on Tech's Strange Music label, it independently sold 21,455 copies in its first week and about 118,000 copies to date.
The non-single Dysfunctional featuring Krizz Kaliko and Big Scoob was certified gold by the RIAA in 2020.
Tracklist:

1. Sickology 101 (Ft. Chino XL & Crooked I)
   
2. Midwest Choppers 2 (Ft. K-Dean & Krayzie Bone)
   
3. Ghetto Love (Ft. Krizz Kaliko & Kutt Calhoun)
   
4. Poh Me Anutha (Ft. Kutt Calhoun & Potluck)
   
5. We Kixin' It (Ft. The Popper & Ron Ron (Rapper))
   
6. Nothin' (Ft. Big Scoob & Messy Marv)
   
7. Let Me In (Ft. Cash Image, D-Locc Da Chop & Krizz Kaliko)
   
8. In the Air (Ft. Craig Smith & Nesto The Owner)
   
9. Blown Away
   
10. Party and Bullshit (Ft. Big Ben (KC rapper), Krizz Kaliko & Shadow (Pop))
    
11. Grammys (Skit) (Ft. Below Zero, Chandra Palmer, Dana Perkins, Irv Da Phenom, Krizz Kaliko, Rob Rebeck & Valerie Knight)
    
12. Sorry N' Shit by 57th Street Rogue Dog Villians
    
13. Dysfunctional (Ft. Big Scoob & Krizz Kaliko)
    
14. Far Away (Ft. Krizz Kaliko)
    
15. Spelling Bee (Skit) (Ft. Makzilla & Rob Rebeck)
    
16. Creepin' (Ft. BG Bullet Wound, Krizz Kaliko & Paul Mussan)
    
17. Red Nose
    
18. 816 Boyz - Bootlegger (Skit)/Areola/Bootlegger Outro (Skit)
    

Discussion:

1. Which collab guest impressed you the most?
   
2. When was Strange Music's peak in terms of their cultural impact? Are they still as relevant in the streaming era as they were in the CD era?
   

Hi everyone Ive been thinking alot about this recently but I feel like scott is the current posterboy and gold standard for comedy game reviews online.
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Heres a history. (note lets players are being left out of this. This is only about scripted gaming videos and such)
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From 2006 to 2011 the Angry Video Game Nerd reigned supreme as the top dog and poster boy of only game reviews. He popularized the angry critic archetype which was later used by people like the nostalgia critic, spoony, and linkara. These sorts of reviewers would include comedic skits that were often loosely related to the topic.
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From 2012 to 2018 Id say Jontron was the poster boy for high quality gaming videos on youtube. This era saw the decline of the "angry reviewer" archetype. Additionally this time saw creators take on a more informative tone delving into the history of the topic while also sprinkling in comedic moments although larger skits took a bit of a backseat here. Some other youtubers to gain popularity in this era include projared and peanutbuttergamer.
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2019 to now. The reign of SCOTT. Scott is one of the first major youtubers to have grown up watching the videos of the previous two eras. He has admitted to watching AVGN and his jontron influence was obvious early on. Skits return reminiscent of the early 2006 to 2011 era. The informative tone remains while comedy and skits play a larger role in the video.
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These are just my thoughts if you have anything to add let me know (im gonna be expanding this to a full video)