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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:15:32 -0500
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On 2024-03-13 09:07:24 +0000, trotsky said:

> On 3/12/24 5:48 PM, FPP wrote:
>> On 3/12/24 5:53 AM, trotsky wrote:
>>> On 3/11/24 8:22 AM, FPP wrote:
>>>> On 3/11/24 3:51 AM, trotsky wrote:
>>>>> On 3/10/24 9:16 AM, FPP wrote:
>>>>>> On 3/10/24 5:30 AM, trotsky wrote:
>>>>>>> On 3/8/24 3:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>>>>>> Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), the youngest Republican woman ever elected to the
>>>>>>>> U.S. Senate, delivered an energetic rebuttal on Thursday night to President
>>>>>>>> Joe Biden’s highly criticized State of the Union address.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> That was one of the funniest things I've seen it a long time. Hilarious 
>>>>>>> actually.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Her lies didn't even survive through the weekend.  So young, and 
>>>>>> already a proven liar.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> She'll go far in the Republican party.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I started watching SNL about fifteen minutes in Sat. and thus missed 
>>>>> the "cold opening."  People on social media were raving about Scarlet 
>>>>> Johansson's take on Britt.  She was excellent, but the material itself 
>>>>> didn't seem that funny other than it was good mimicry of Britt.  Britt 
>>>>> herself was the real comedy act.  So pious, so fake.  I wonder what 
>>>>> Oath Keeper Twat's email blast will tell him to say about her.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Did you see it finally?
>>>> 
>>>> Selling bejeweled crosses on QVC.
>>>> 
>>>> Migrants on the top shelf of your fridge.
>>>> 
>>>> Everything was accurate... EXCEPT 1) when it happened  2) where it 
>>>> happened and 3) who was president when it happened.
>>>> 
>>>> And her delivery was spot on.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It was good. I didn't laugh though. Scarlett was amazing to do such a 
>>> great job mimicking her on such short notice.
>>> 
>> 
>> I don't know about laughing, but my mouth did drop open.
>> Scarlett did for Katie Britt what Tina Fey did for Sarah Palin.
> 
> 
> It terms of the quality of the presentation, yes.  I think this is a 
> one-off and won't become part of the national dialogue like Tina's did. 
> That was something else.

The best cold open celebrity guest in my recent memory was when Matt 
Damon turned Brett Kavanaugh up to 11.