#and the quote is from another stephen colbert interview

[lemon-lyman]

‘You’re like Anderson Cooper head to toe.’  ↳A silver fox Bradley Whitford appreciation post

[phillipcole]

Post-AGT Appearance 1136: Exploring music with Bill McGloughlin WXXI- fm  91.5 April 29

That little quote would get a lot of attention and I would resist all temptation to talk about it further.  I would be grieving again, as I am, with the death of my former uncle Wayne Diehm on April 27, so I would not be on a hurry for an open interview.  By the way, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert would mention on their Facebook page that Walter Mondale was not the last name on Phillip’s list, getting tired of the attention. 

You may recall an interview chapter in which I mentioned that a longer version of the John Williams Medley might come out someday.  Getting permission from all necessary sources would be very difficult and the final difficulty, getting John Williams to conduct it, would seem an impossible hurdle, but when the pandemic hit and we found a way to do it virtually he would agree.  The last hurdle would be to get it on the radio.  It would take until April 2021, when my agent would persuade one of his clients, Bill McGloughlin of classical station WXXI-fm 91.5 in New York, to play it on his Thursday show April 29.  The 22-minute single would go on sale at midnight that night.  His show airs at 7 pm.  The tunes in use come from Close encounter of the third Kind, Jaws, Star Wars and Fiddler on the Roof with long overlaps and runs 22 minutes and 8 seconds including musical interludes.  The correct name is The John Williams Avonelle Medley.

McGloughlin: On this show we pride ourselves with introducing new music as well as remakes of older pieces and tonight we have a new mix.  You might recall several years ago that John Williams blended some of his legendary pieces into a campaign song for one...Avonelle Hector Joseph of Trinidad and Tobago.  The mastermind behind the medley is Phil Cole through his production company Phillip and Cole’s Variety Team.  They expanded the medley to 22 minutes and I am about to be the first person to put it on the air.  Phil Cole is very excited about this and said, I quote:

PBC: This is the greatest achievement of my life.

McGloughlin: So here it is, for the first time anywhere ever, on sale everywhere tomorrow but here first: the John Williams Avonelle Medley.

Tenors: Vote for Avonelle

Sopranos: Hector Joseph, Election Day.

Tenors: Vote for Avonelle

Sopranos: Hector Joseph, Election Day.

Tenors: Vote for Avonelle

Altos: Vote for Avonelle

Basses: (overlapping) vote for Avonelle

Sopranos: Hecor Joseph Election Day.

All overlapping: Vote for Avonelle, Vote for Avonelle, vote for Avonelle, Avonelle, Avonelle, Vote for Avonelle, vote for Avonelle , vote for Avonelle, vote for Avonelle.

Sopranos: (Overlapping) Hector Joseph Election Day, Hector Joseph,, Election day, Hector Joseph Election Day, Hector Joseph Election Day.

Altos: Avonelle

Tenors: Avonelle

Basses: Avonelle

Sopranos: Avonelle

Altos: Election Day, Election Day

Tenors: Election Day, Election Day

Basses: Election Day, Election Day, Election Day, Election Day, Election Day, Election Day, Election Day.

All: Vote for Avonelle Hector Joseph Election Day.

Basses: Vote for vote for vote for vote for Avonelle Hector

Tenors: Vote for vote for vote for vote for Avonelle Hector.

Sopranos: Vote for vote for vote for vote for Avonelle Hector.

Altos: Vote for Avonelle, vote for Avonelle, vote for Avonelle

All except altos overlapping: Vote for vote for vote for vote for Avonelle Hector.  Vote for vote for vote for vote for Avonelle Hector.  Vote for vote for vote for Avonelle Hector.   Vote for vote for vote for vote for Avonelle Hector.

Basses: (Overlapping) Vote for Avonelle Vote for Avonelle Vote for Avonelle Vote for Avonelle.

All: Vote for Avonelle!

(Musical interlude)

Sopranos: Vote for Avonelle Hector.

We must elect this lady this year.

Basses: Vote for Avonelle Hector.

We must elect this lady this year.

Tenors: Vote for Avonelle Hector.

We must elect this lady this year.

Altos: Vote for Avonelle Hector.

We must elect this lady this year.

All: Vote for Avonelle Hector.

We must elect this lady this year.

All except basses: Vote for Avonelle Hector.

We must elect this lady this year.

Basses: (overlapping) Vote for vote for vote for vote for Avonelle Hector.

Vote for vote for vote for vote for Avonelle Hector.

Vote for vote for vote for vote for Avonelle Hector.

Tenors and sopranos: (overlapping) Vote for Avonelle Hector.

We must elect this lady this year.

Altos: (overlapping) Vote for Avonelle vote for Avonelle vote for Avonelle vote for Avonelle.

(All 3 continue for 2 more minutes.)

(Musical interlude.)

Basses: Please cast your vote for Av’nelle Hector.

This year Diego Martin West,

This is the year you must elect her.

She’s the best.

Altos: Av’nelle Hector, Av’nelle Hector;

As the years go by,

You will be glad if you elect her,

So please give Avonelle a try.

Tenors: Av’nelle Hector, Av’nelle Hector

As the years go by,

You will be glad if you elect her,

So please give Avonelle a try.

Sopranos: Av’nelle Hector, Avnelle Hector.

Basses and Sopranos: Av’nelle Hector, Av’nelle Hector

Altos and Tenors overlapping: As the years go by, as the years go by, as the years go by, as the years go by, as the years go by.

Basses and Sopranos: You will be glad if you elect her

So please give Avonelle a try.

Altos: So please give Avonelle a try.

Tenors: So please give Avonelle a try.

Sopranos: So please give Avonelle a try.

All: So please give Avonelle a try.

Basses: Av’nelle Hector, Av’nelle Hector, Av’nelle Hector, Av’nelle Hector, Av’nelle Hector.

Tenors: Vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote for Avonelle Hector.

Vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote for Avonelle.

Vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote for Avonelle Hector.

All except Tenors: She’s the latest,

She’s the greatest

Candidate you’ve ever seen.

Altos: Please cast your vote for Avonelle Hector

Basses: Joseph.

Altos: Please cast your vote for Avonelle Hector

Basses: Joseph.

Tenors and Sopranos: Avonelle Hector’s the best

From Diego Martin West,

Best candidate you’ve ever seen

And not the least bit mean.

Basses: Elect her, elect her, elect Av Hector

Altos; Elect her, elect her, elect Av Hector.

Tenors: Elect her, elect her, elect Av Hector.

Sopranos: Vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote for Avonelle Hector.

Vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote for Avonelle.

Vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote for Avonelle Hector.

All except Sopranos: She’s the latest,

She’s the greatest

Candidate you’ve ever seen.

Basses: Please cast your vote for Avonelle Hector

Altos: Joseph.

Basses: Please cast your vote for Avonelle Hector

Altos: Joseph.

Tenors and Sopranos: Avonelle Hector’s the best

From Diego Martin West,

Best candidate you’ve ever seen

And not the least bit mean.

Altos: Vote for Avonelle

Basses: Hector Joseph Election Day.

Sopranos overlapping:  Vote for vote for vote for Avonelle Hector

Tenors overlapping: Av’nelle Hector, Av’nelle Hector, Av’nelle Hector.

(All overlap for another 90 seconds)

(Musical interlude)

Tenors: If you want to help the country vote for Avonelle, Avonelle.

If you want to help the country vote for Avonelle, Avonelle.

Basses: Av’nelle Hector, Av, nelle Hector

As the years go by

Altos: You will be glad if you elect her

So please give Avonelle a try.

All: Av’nelle Hector, Av’nelle Hector, Av’nelle Hector, Av’nelle Hector, Av’nell Hector, Av’nelle Hector, Av’nelle Hector, Av’nelle Hector

Altos overlapping: If you want to help the country vote for Avonelle Avonelle.

If you want to help the country vote for Avonelle Avonelle.

(Continues to overlap for another minute.)

All: Avonelle Hector’s the best

From Diego Martin West

Basses: Diego Martin West Diego Martin West Diego Martin West Diego Martin West

All except Basses: So elect her, elect her, elect Av Hector.

Basses: Elect her, elect her, elect elect Av Hector.

(musical interlude)

All: Elect Av Hector.

[angelofberlin2000]

By Naomi Fry 2:58 P.M.

Last week, I read a report in the Times about the current conditions on Mt. Everest, where climbers have taken to shoving one another out of the way in order to take selfies at the peak, creating a disastrous human pileup. It struck me as a cogent metaphor for how we live today: constantly teetering on the precipice to grasp at the latest popular thing. The story, like many stories these days, provoked anxiety, dread, and a kind of awe at the foolishness of fellow human beings. Luckily, the Internet has recently provided us with an unlikely antidote to everything wrong with the news cycle: the actor Keanu Reeves.

Take, for instance, a moment, a few weeks ago, when Reeves appeared on “The Late Show” to promote “John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum,” the latest installment in his action-movie franchise. Near the end of the interview, Stephen Colbert asked the actor what he thought happens after we die. Reeves was wearing a dark suit and tie, in the vein of a sensitive mafioso who is considering leaving it all behind to enter the priesthood. He paused for a moment, then answered, with some care, “I know that the ones who love us will miss us.” It was a response so wise, so genuinely thoughtful, that it seemed like a rebuke to the usual canned blather of late-night television. The clip was retweeted more than a hundred thousand times, but, when I watched it, I felt like I was standing alone in a rock garden, having a koan whispered into my ear.

Reeves, who is fifty-four, has had a thirty-five-year career in Hollywood. He was a moody teen stoner in “River’s Edge” and a sunny teen stoner in the “Bill & Ted” franchise; he was the tortured sci-fi action hero in the “Matrix” movies and the can-do hunky action hero in “Speed”; he was the slumming rent boy in “My Own Private Idaho,” the scheming Don John in “Much Ado About Nothing,” and the eligible middle-aged rom-com lead in “Destination Wedding.” Early in his career, his acting was often mocked for exhibiting a perceived skater-dude fuzziness; still, today, on YouTube, you can find several gleeful compilations of Reeves “acting badly.” (“I am an F.B.I. agent,” he shouts, not so convincingly, to Patrick Swayze in “Point Break.”) But over the years the peculiarities of Reeves’s acting style have come to be seen more generously. Though he possesses a classic leading-man beauty, he is no run-of-the-mill Hollywood stud; he is too aloof, too cipher-like, too mysterious. There is something a bit “Man Who Fell to Earth” about him, an otherworldliness that comes across in all of his performances, which tend to have a slightly uncanny, declamatory quality. No matter what role he plays, he is always himself. He is also clearly aware of the impression he makes. In the new Netflix comedy “Always Be My Maybe,” starring the standup comedian Ali Wong, he makes a cameo as a darkly handsome, black-clad, self-serious Keanu, speaking in huskily theatrical, quasi-spiritual sound bites that either baffle or arouse those around him. “I’ve missed your spirit,” he gasps at Wong, while kissing her, open-mouthed.

Though we’ve spent more than three decades with Reeves, we still know little about him. We know that he was born in Beirut, and that he is of English and Chinese-Hawaiian ancestry. (Ali Wong has said that she cast him in “Always Be My Maybe” in part because he’s Asian-American, even if many people forget it.) His father, who did a spell in jail for drug dealing, left home when Keanu was a young boy. His childhood was itinerant, as his mother remarried several times and moved the family from Sydney to New York and, finally, Toronto. We know that he used to play hockey, and that he is a motorcycle buff, and that he has experienced unthinkable tragedy: in the late nineties, his girlfriend, Jennifer Syme, gave birth to their child, who was stillborn; two years later, Syme died in a car accident. Otherwise, Reeves’s life is a closed book. Who is he friends with? What is his relationship with his family like? As Alex Pappademas wrote, for a cover story about the actor in GQ, in May, Reeves has somehow managed to “pull off the nearly impossible feat of remaining an enigmatic cult figure despite having been an A-list actor for decades.”

This inscrutability makes each new detail we learn about Reeves’s life seem like a revelatory gift. On a recent appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” the actor admitted, twenty-five years after the fact, that he had a crush on Sandra Bullock when the two were filming “Speed.” Last week, a Malaysian Web site claimed that, in an interview, Reeves confessed to being lonely. “I don’t have anyone in my life,” he supposedly said, adding, “Hopefully it’ll happen for me.” The Internet responded with a collective shriek of longing. When it was reported, on Saturday, that, according to Reeves’s rep, the quotes had been fabricated, it almost didn’t matter. The Internet’s desire to plumb the hidden depths of this gorgeous puzzle of a man, and to serve as a balm to his perceived hurt, had been so strong that it willed this bit of news into existence.

The outpouring of horny sympathy recalled an earlier episode, in 2010, when paparazzi pictures appeared showing the actor sitting on a New York City park bench and eating a sandwich, looking scruffy and in low spirits. So emerged the “Sad Keanu” meme; June 15th was even declared, by fans, “Cheer Up Keanu Day.” But, unlike the “Sad Ben Affleck” meme, which came in response to a swaggery alpha male’s public descent, Sad Keanu was not animated by Schadenfreude. It simply brought to the fore the retiring, not-long-for-this-world sensitivity that we had always intuited was there.

Recently, a slew of people have come forward to share their real-life “Keanu Stories.” (A bizarrely large number seem to have encountered him at one time or another, perhaps owing to the fact that he often travels alone and without handlers.) The image of him that emerges from these anecdotes is of a considerate man who is aware of his status as a celebrity but doesn’t take advantage of it, and who is generous but careful with his presence. After a flight he was on from San Francisco to L.A. had to make an emergency landing in Bakersfield, Reeves helped passengers recruit a van to transport them the remaining way; en route, he read facts about Bakersfield aloud and played country tunes on his phone for the group. He signed an autograph for a sixteen-year-old ticket seller at a movie theatre after intuiting that the teen was too shy to ask him for one directly. He called an indie bookstore in advance, once a week, before arriving, on his motorcycle, to pick up new books. He was a wallflower at a party, asking another actor on the outskirts of the gathering if she would show him pictures of her dog in costume.

My colleague Jessica Winter was involved in a well-known Keanu Story, though she didn’t know it at the time. In a minute-long viral video taken on a New York City subway car, in 2011, Reeves is seen getting up and offering his seat to a woman who is carrying a large bag. Winter happened to be sitting next to Reeves when the video was shot—she is the strawberry-blonde woman absorbed in reading a magazine, initially unaware of her famous fellow-passenger. Watching the clip today, Winter recalled the courtly way in which Reeves reacted to being filmed: “He was calm and beatific and ever so slightly puzzled, like, Why are you doing this? I am not upset, and perhaps it is not my business.” If only more of us could learn to adopt Reeves’s attitude in our own lives. It’s O.K. to take a pause sometimes, to not engage, to let the world separate from you a little bit, he assures us. Just watch me.

I have two Keanu Stories of my own, both brief but sweet. In 2006, at a performance by the dancer Pina Bausch, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, I saw Reeves seated a couple of rows away from me—in the cheap seats—his gangly legs crammed into the small space in front of him. Three years later, at Film Forum, I spotted him emerging alone from a Kurosawa movie, carrying a large tub of popcorn. These moments aren’t much, but I keep them close, picking them up every once in a while, the way you would a crystal or an amulet.

[alittlelife]

By Naomi Fry. June 3, 2019.

Last week, I read a report in the Times about the current conditions on Mt. Everest, where climbers have taken to shoving one another out of the way in order to take selfies at the peak, creating a disastrous human pileup. It struck me as a cogent metaphor for how we live today: constantly teetering on the precipice to grasp at the latest popular thing. The story, like many stories these days, provoked anxiety, dread, and a kind of awe at the foolishness of fellow human beings. Luckily, the Internet has recently provided us with an unlikely antidote to everything wrong with the news cycle: the actor Keanu Reeves.

Take, for instance, a moment, a few weeks ago, when Reeves appeared on “The Late Show” to promote “John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum,” the latest installment in his action-movie franchise. Near the end of the interview, Stephen Colbert asked the actor what he thought happens after we die. Reeves was wearing a dark suit and tie, in the vein of a sensitive mafioso who is considering leaving it all behind to enter the priesthood. He paused for a moment, then answered, with some care, “I know that the ones who love us will miss us.” It was a response so wise, so genuinely thoughtful, that it seemed like a rebuke to the usual canned blather of late-night television. The clip was retweeted more than a hundred thousand times, but, when I watched it, I felt like I was standing alone in a rock garden, having a koan whispered into my ear.

Reeves, who is fifty-four, has had a thirty-five-year career in Hollywood. He was a moody teen stoner in “River’s Edge” and a sunny teen stoner in the “Bill & Ted” franchise; he was the tortured sci-fi action hero in the “Matrix” movies and the can-do hunky action hero in “Speed”; he was the slumming rent boy in “My Own Private Idaho,” the scheming Don John in “Much Ado About Nothing,” and the eligible middle-aged rom-com lead in “Destination Wedding.” Early in his career, his acting was often mocked for exhibiting a perceived skater-dude fuzziness; still, today, on YouTube, you can find several gleeful compilations of Reeves “acting badly.” (“I am an F.B.I. agent,” he shouts, not so convincingly, to Patrick Swayze in “Point Break.”) But over the years the peculiarities of Reeves’s acting style have come to be seen more generously. Though he possesses a classic leading-man beauty, he is no run-of-the-mill Hollywood stud; he is too aloof, too cipher-like, too mysterious. There is something a bit “Man Who Fell to Earth” about him, an otherworldliness that comes across in all of his performances, which tend to have a slightly uncanny, declamatory quality. No matter what role he plays, he is always himself. He is also clearly aware of the impression he makes. In the new Netflix comedy “Always Be My Maybe,” starring the standup comedian Ali Wong, he makes a cameo as a darkly handsome, black-clad, self-serious Keanu, speaking in huskily theatrical, quasi-spiritual sound bites that either baffle or arouse those around him. “I’ve missed your spirit,” he gasps at Wong, while kissing her, open-mouthed.

Though we’ve spent more than three decades with Reeves, we still know little about him. We know that he was born in Beirut, and that he is of English and Chinese-Hawaiian ancestry. (Ali Wong has said that she cast him in “Always Be My Maybe” in part because he’s Asian-American, even if many people forget it.) His father, who did a spell in jail for drug dealing, left home when Keanu was a young boy. His childhood was itinerant, as his mother remarried several times and moved the family from Sydney to New York and, finally, Toronto. We know that he used to play hockey, and that he is a motorcycle buff, and that he has experienced unthinkable tragedy: in the late nineties, his girlfriend, Jennifer Syme, gave birth to their child, who was stillborn; two years later, Syme died in a car accident. Otherwise, Reeves’s life is a closed book. Who is he friends with? What is his relationship with his family like? As Alex Pappademas wrote, for a cover story about the actor in GQ, in May, Reeves has somehow managed to “pull off the nearly impossible feat of remaining an enigmatic cult figure despite having been an A-list actor for decades.”

This inscrutability makes each new detail we learn about Reeves’s life seem like a revelatory gift. On a recent appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” the actor admitted, twenty-five years after the fact, that he had a crush on Sandra Bullock when the two were filming “Speed.” Last week, a Malaysian Web site claimed that, in an interview, Reeves confessed to being lonely. “I don’t have anyone in my life,” he supposedly said, adding, “Hopefully it’ll happen for me.” The Internet responded with a collective shriek of longing. When it was reported, on Saturday, that, according to Reeves’s rep, the quotes had been fabricated, it almost didn’t matter. The Internet’s desire to plumb the hidden depths of this gorgeous puzzle of a man, and to serve as a balm to his perceived hurt, had been so strong that it willed this bit of news into existence.

The outpouring of horny sympathy recalled an earlier episode, in 2010, when paparazzi pictures appeared showing the actor sitting on a New York City park bench and eating a sandwich, looking scruffy and in low spirits. So emerged the “Sad Keanu” meme; June 15th was even declared, by fans, “Cheer Up Keanu Day.” But, unlike the “Sad Ben Affleck” meme, which came in response to a swaggery alpha male’s public descent, Sad Keanu was not animated by Schadenfreude. It simply brought to the fore the retiring, not-long-for-this-world sensitivity that we had always intuited was there.

Recently, a slew of people have come forward to share their real-life “Keanu Stories.” (A bizarrely large number seem to have encountered him at one time or another, perhaps owing to the fact that he often travels alone and without handlers.) The image of him that emerges from these anecdotes is of a considerate man who is aware of his status as a celebrity but doesn’t take advantage of it, and who is generous but careful with his presence. After a flight he was on from San Francisco to L.A. had to make an emergency landing in Bakersfield, Reeves helped passengers recruit a van to transport them the remaining way; en route, he read facts about Bakersfield aloud and played country tunes on his phone for the group. He signed an autograph for a sixteen-year-old ticket seller at a movie theatre after intuiting that the teen was too shy to ask him for one directly. He called an indie bookstore in advance, once a week, before arriving, on his motorcycle, to pick up new books. He was a wallflower at a party, asking another actor on the outskirts of the gathering if she would show him pictures of her dog in costume.

My colleague Jessica Winter was involved in a well-known Keanu Story, though she didn’t know it at the time. In a minute-long viral video taken on a New York City subway car, in 2011, Reeves is seen getting up and offering his seat to a woman who is carrying a large bag. Winter happened to be sitting next to Reeves when the video was shot—she is the strawberry-blonde woman absorbed in reading a magazine, initially unaware of her famous fellow-passenger. Watching the clip today, Winter recalled the courtly way in which Reeves reacted to being filmed: “He was calm and beatific and ever so slightly puzzled, like, Why are you doing this? I am not upset, and perhaps it is not my business.” If only more of us could learn to adopt Reeves’s attitude in our own lives. It’s O.K. to take a pause sometimes, to not engage, to let the world separate from you a little bit, he assures us. Just watch me.

I have two Keanu Stories of my own, both brief but sweet. In 2006, at a performance by the dancer Pina Bausch, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, I saw Reeves seated a couple of rows away from me—in the cheap seats—his gangly legs crammed into the small space in front of him. Three years later, at Film Forum, I spotted him emerging alone from a Kurosawa movie, carrying a large tub of popcorn. These moments aren’t much, but I keep them close, picking them up every once in a while, the way you would a crystal or an amulet.

[wreckthelist]

on ‘BE’ing here: part i

rambling of sorts on Grammy nominated artist Bangtan Sonyeondan

(note 1: I was planning to complete this the day of the nomination, but judging from the state of how things are - this right here is the opportune moment to, as my friend Mint had put it, clear out whatever I’ve been wanting to do but didn’t get the time to)

When Spotify announced, loud and clear, on that 2020 Year-End summary instagram story, Dynamite was the song that helped me through 2020 (this fuck-up of a year), that wasn’t an understatement.

I’ve seen Bangtan before, heard of them in passing, even (slightly, really slightly - when you’re hanging out in film-dom or western doms, I doubt you’d come in contact with a full-fledged Korean dom as it is, or perhaps my circles were small and quite closed in on themselves. Regardless!) - and opened that Boy With Luv SNL performance for my parents on the TV in the living room, not long after they went on the show. But it took that one song, one full English song, for me to listen.

(sorry and thank you Namjoon for that diss. Yes, the song’s message’s definitely digestible and easy to consume - for foreign, western audiences. No one much had to care what you guys had to say way back when and they were wrong for it.)

Dynamite pretty much saved my life. (Still waiting for that damn vinyl, BigHit. Think I’ll get it come new year’s.) 

The first time I started listening, I couldn’t really stop. I think I played and replayed and replayed the song 20++ times as I did mundane household chores which were asked of me in the morning. Sunday August 24th, my life was transformed (and my digital and physical wallets along with it. Sobs.)

I had no idea who was singing which part, no idea which boy was which, but what got me in, locked and loaded and in place, were the beats, the uplifting sounds that got me dancing again after a messy heartbreak caused by a personification of immaturity who had refused to let go. I was only one week into my new job (old job again now. Such is the way of life - and we lead separate ones now, no reason to cry over invisible lives and imagined smiles or smirks of satisfactions I am not in any current position privy to - or will ever be. Thank God.) 

Then there were the messages - the lyrics - “I’m diamond, you know I glow up.” - I mean, Yes, Fucking YES - Kim Seokjin, of course I’m a piece of precious Jewel. Of course I am one and whole of myself and one of a kind (apologies for being cliches, felt good to type out loud right). Asked on Twitter who the “other black-haired” guy was and learned that it was Hobi. Spent time watching a couple of interviews, took 3 hours to tell the boys apart (”You had a lot of free time,” Shareef said, amused, and I quite abashedly admitted to him yes.), and picked him as my bias (little did I know).

I was attracted (still am) to sunshine. I needed smiles and laughters like his in my life. He stood out to me in almost every interview, beaming with his heart-shaped lips and his eternal catchphrase - “I’m your hope.” I was exactly at that point in my life when I needed to hear that. From him, in that voice, from those lips, with those eyes.

And I thought, dear god. I’m always attracted to guys who bring smiles to my face. Of course it has to be him.

(Natalie replied “You’ve joined the party!” in a reply to my screencap of Taehyung wearing those adorable black-rimmed glasses on Stephen Colbert not long after. 

That Beatles-Boy With Luv performance remains one of my favorites.)

Bangtan has since performed and performed and performed Dynamite, and to this day I and the rest of the fandom have witnessed and seen about 30++ performances of Dynamite, and it has yet to grow old on us. (Well.) I swear I can still play the song at least once a day, and that irresistible bubble of hope in Jungkook’s voice in the opening simply shines through. The rest of the song just does its magic - every single time.

I mean, “Life is sweet as honey,” “I’m in the stars tonight,”? Talk about hope, about confidence, looking forward. Straight and simple as that. I had yet to discover what BTS truly has in store.

Note 2: My favorite dance move in the performance itself is Hoseok’s, for the Japanese taping (FNS Music Festival) right here. 

After Dynamite, I burned through the usual favorites, seeing as there was a literal treasure trove of Bangtan songs to discover and listen to, thanks also to this chart.

Go Go and Pied Piper are fun teases to listen to every now and then. Their Halloween dance practice and MNet countdown (I could die over Tae’s clear-rimmed glasses) are bundles of colorful energy. (Until I came across Lotte 2018 Jungkook?! Adding Best of Me here because it’s become a recent favorite. Dance moves are impeccable. There was a stint in my life where I was watching the Airplane Pt. 2 MV almost every day because of how in love I was over Taehyung’s whole look - pink hair, flowing robes, and how the boys pull off their outfits. )

I proceeded mainly through the orange branch, bought myself a few Love Yourself albums along the way, and the day I saw this Min Yoongi in In the Soop, my Bangtan life took a turn.

Yep. Simplicity.

What’s not to fall in love with?

One of my current, low-ranking regrets may include having forgotten the exact moment I first listened to Trivia: 轉 Seesaw, but I fell hard and deep. To that point of no return when I read the lyrics and that analogy Yoongi had penned.

I mean, add Autumn Leaves (the complexity of layered notes, beats, and resulting emotions... ah) and you’ve got this king of breakup songs right here.

What beautiful words, what gorgeous language. I wish I could learn Korean just to fully appreciate the message.

Another friend recommended me Butterfly and I lost my shit realizing they referenced Murakami.

More obscure songs like 134340, Paradise and Sea I didn’t get to till much later. Whalien 52 could make me cry just with the lyrics alone (I doubt my exes had ever felt that level of emotional toward me - the more tragic thing is that the doubt would always exist). Just One Day was that track I had on loop this one afternoon I had to go into town for a dinner party, and Miss Right was an accidental discovery that had me grinning and blushing to the boys’ voices alone, same as 21st Century Girl (’Cause you’re my only girl, oh yea. If you love me, just say it straight. We love a confident but committed guy.) 

*Dope is that one MV I waited to watch because of my love of uniforms and managed to get to on a day I could not recall.

*This MIC Drop MAMA performance is the hottest clothes-on, turn on performance I’ve ever watched.

Coffee was the track I first listened to on a drive back from a rather unsuccessful and uneventful beach (bitch?!) trip, and the bitter nostalgia cut me deep. Jungkook’s voice could string up my soul any day of the week. Yes, baby, I still drink Caramel Macchiato every time I think of you - the song, not the person, or any person at all.

I discovered HOME because of this comfy Kimmel performance and died over the camaraderie and obvious ties they have as a family.

Plus a blue-themed home, uh, have you seen my bedroom, sir?

Boy With Luv will cheer me up any time of day - no thoughts but blue haired Tae and bubblegum pink haired #Jimim, indeed. (That mirroring of a glow-up from the 상 남자 of Boy In Luv is genius. Girl, ‘m not begging for you no more, but letting you know that I’m whole and ready and intent on keeping you safe.)

Spring Day I listened to on an off day in October and wrenched my own heart over the lyrics, even starting off a chapter in one of my fics with the verses that hit me most in particular.

The ON:E concert re-introduced me properly to Filter, My Time (sexy personified as a performance), Persona, Interlude: Shadow, Ego, UGH!, Moon (Prince Kim Seokjin - you have my heart, and my light, always), and 00:00 (picked up through Twitter that it was the song for personal therapy and reminded me of that quote - nothing good ever happens between midnight and 2am, go to sleep. Add 2!3!, which I’d properly listened to after viewing the ON:E exhibit, to this and we are done.) 

It wasn’t until I listened to Blood, Sweat, and Tears that I went full-blown head over heels (more than I was before). I’m a musical theater kid, have always been at heart, and those boys dancing in the suits and literature and arts references. You could have just plunged that knife a bit deeper into my heart.

Needless to say that I bought Demian couple of days after (my 3rd Herman Hesse! Regrettably not my favorite.) 

Blood, Sweat and Tears joins my own mini self-compilation of songs on the attraction and sublime relishing of a toxic relationship. That sweet temptation that’s so lush in theory yet acidic in real life.

You’re willing to give it all to this person, this passion, this love, this lure of attraction, imprisonment, and just lose yourself.

You’re begging to be hurt, even when you know it.

You’re asking to stay bathed in acid, drown yourself in punishment, and you’re okay. As long as the “you” in the lyrics is ok - to have you.

You’ve signed over your mind, your body and soul - “I know well they’re all yours” - what sinful admittance, what a delicious way to say you’re under the other’s spell. Not like I haven’t been there before (fitting to think of Jimin holding that apple. God.)

“Peaches and Cream/Sweeter than Sweet/Chocolate Cheeks and Chocolate Wings” - talk about dessert, about diabetic, diabolical sweetness that both indulge and burn your soul. These are saccharine metaphors and goddamn if I wasn’t and am all over them. 

Sweet as they are, they melt - they expire, they’re tangible but transient, and you’ve chosen to have them anyway, just to taste them, just to know, to satisfy your sense and just to possess.

“There is a ‘bitter’ next to your ‘sweet’“ - this is my kind of writing. My kind of getting your sweet now and being punished for it later, the kind my friend had commented before of living for today and choosing to forgo the punishments of tomorrow that you’re all too aware of.

And here comes Hoseok! 

Kiss me, it's okay if it hurts Just make it as tight As that I can't feel the pain anymore

Goddamn. That Blade Runner 2049 phrase about how pain makes you human - this is next level of hurting just so you could feel. This is hurting to know that it’s real - that the ‘you’ exists - and this “tightness”, this tense sensation, is only reminding you that the lover(?) is worth the pain (grit your teeth and continue!)

Baby, it's okay if I get drunk I'll drink you in deep now Deep into my throat The whiskey that is you

Intoxication - another one of my favorite topics sprouting a platitude of interpretations. Aside from being a sucker (and loving it myself) of saying “baby,” (signaling intimacy, no less) - this is an artful, eloquent way to sketch another version of “love is the/a drug,” which the lover/”you” is consciously consuming with consent.

There’s a repeat in the “d’s” that definitely conjures an imagery of diving deeper and deeper into a bottomless abyss, or of drinking your bottles dry - but this is a translation so that’s that.

But where we have been (or were) in love, we could feel the other person intoxicating, consuming us, consuming our senses, straying our conscience, blurring the lines among reality, reasoning and our own thoughts and what they may have driven us to think or view, just like alcohol or drugs would lead you to do. That inebriated state would be just a self-enriching cycle of docile submission and self-driven continuance.

It doesn't matter if it hurts Tie me up so I can't escape Hold me tight and shake me up So that I can't come to my senses

Like Jimin with the cloth over his eyes in the MV, this is another conscious decision to be held imprisoned, bounded, senses so disrupted you’re choosing to stay. I don’t know about you, but there’s an inkling of weakness in me when I’d chosen to do that, to opt for that choice and stay in something I was fully aware from experience wasn’t going to last (’can’t come to my senses’) but choosing to blind myself to indulge in the fleeting sweetness anyway.

When you’re making that firm and persistent decision to beg for pain and consciously choosing to numb your senses so you could feel nothing else but what you may have thought you desire to feel - you’ve got it bad, baby. That absinth’s hit you hard.

(And we love it.)

Kiss me on the lips A secret just between the two of us Deeply poisoned by the jail of you I cannot worship anyone but you and I knew The grail was poisoned but I drank it anyway 

Yoongi’s “Kiss me”, like his “불타오르네” (and obviously “용서해줄게“)  in Fire may as well linger in my ears as my personal on-demand whisper sounds. His voice is that sexy as fuck ASMR I never knew I needed (and queue Ben Whishaw’s...) 

Here we see “poisoned” harking back to intoxication, and “jail of you,” calling back to the whole verse I’d interpreted above before. What interested me here was the couplet - “Kiss me on the lips/a secret just between the two of us” - kissing as an act of sealing a deal or secret reminds me of age old love songs, of promises made between lovers before they part. Not to mention, this is that sexy, 섹시한  way of “sealing the deal” you may have heard about. 

“I cannot worship anyone but you...” holds the lover up high, almost godlike, maybe on a pedestal. It’s that everest, that peak point when you’re more than head over heels in love, when you’re able to see no one but this person. “Worship” is that word signaling holy, direct, and submissive devotion - just powerful. 

“...and I knew/The grail was poisoned but I drank it anyway” - again the voice of submission in line with above verses, submitting yourself to temptation, same as biting into that apple despite knowing consequences. “Grail” embodies the whole MV image of the classics.

Close my eyes with your caress I can't resist it anyway I can't even escape anymore

You are too sweet, too sweet Because you are too sweet

“Close my eyes” is the same as asking to be blinded (see above). Adding “with your caress” only enhances the intensity of the speaker’s desire, of the intimate and physical nature - you know full well what that person does to you, your heart, conscience, and senses with just one simple touch or the trace of a finger on your skin - especially someone as addicted to skinship as I am. The repetition “You are too sweet...”  brings us back full circle to Namjoon’s dessert verses, intoxication, indulgence, and submission.

What a delicious song. I fall in love every time I listen.

Second song in my trilogy is Love Maze - an intoxication of a different, lighter flavor yet still an an intoxication nevertheless.

Trapped in a maze of decisions Exhausted by all the different chaos We’ve wandered around, looking for the answer Lost in the maze, in the darkness

Jimin’s first verse traverses over the trials and tribulations of every day life - naturally we’re caught in decision-making from the moment we open our eyes (ah, sigh. my major. what the hell), and that, in extreme cases, can escalate to choice paralysis). Life is a mess, to say simply. At times you can feel (and you are) lost in some sort of maze which seems impossible to escape from. 

[Verse 2: Jungkook] We ran and ran endlessly But all the fake noise Can’t tear us apart It’s true baby [Refrain: Jimin, Jin] We must believe only in ourselves Can’t let go of each other’s hands We need to be together forever

And now this is just asking your partner to hold your hand throughout the darkness, holding hands while the walls come tumbling down type of way.

[Verse 3: RM] People say That I’ll end up a fool But I don’t wanna use my head I don’t wanna calculate Love ain’t a business Rather like a fitness I’ve never been in a calculating love I know it’ll be cold like winter But I still wanna try

Yup, sure. Love isn’t logical, and we feel it when we feel it. This is a more considered version of love or succumbing to temptation/infatuation, compared to Blood, Sweat, and Tears, see here:

If you push me, I’ll fall, just raise me up again Even if I pull, you don’t have to come

Upon a close look, this is the more confident, the more ‘out-there’ you - like a rocking doll, a full human ready to get back up on its own once fallen, not a blind follower or submissive slave. What I find particularly captivating is the bottom verse - “Even if I pull, you don’t have to come” - this is a show and declaration of independence at its finest. I’ll woo you, I’ll say I want you, and I’ll grab you toward me, but you “don’t have to” be with me, [if you don’t want to.] (Plays I’m Fine)

No matter what others say, don’t listen Just let’em talk, whatever they say The more they do, the more I’m sure

Honestly this reminded me of a past relationship, where figurative hand-holding was the emphasized union to help us make it through. Would have been half the fight if it was that aspect alone, though.

Baby just don’t give a damn

This is the sentence I sing to every single time I play this aloud. The sentence.

I always think, even if eternity is hard I wanna try it, let’s be forever

My ex once asked, “How long is forever?” just ripping off that sign in a mall we walked past, and yes, that’s what I do remember about us. Part of it. Since then, mentions of eternity like this has always hit me.

And forever doesn’t exist, guys. COVID does.

(Bad joke, sorry.) 

The song that completes the trilogy is one I discovered only last week. My last BTS x Steve Aoki crossover: Waste It On Me. 

Queue neon club lights and bad decision drinks. Kook being Kook, his voice in songs like these, House of Cards, and Savage Love slices you right through, like a young, impressionable boy asking you to give this love a try, to forget yourself in being attracted to him, and to waste the time you aware you’re willing to waste on him:

[Verse 1: Jungkook] You say love is messed up You say that it don't work But, you don't wanna try, no, no (You don't wanna try, no, no) And baby, I'm no stranger To heartbreak and the pain of Always being let go (Always being let go)

This verse, man. When your heart’s rusty and battered and beaten and broken enough, “Baby, I’m no stranger/to heartbreak and the pain of always being let go,” is that overwhelming elixir to slosh it altogether, like soaking your lone damn heart in warm bathwater, and with Jungkook’s inviting voice, you may have added your favorite flavor of Lush bathbomb.

[Pre-Chorus: Jungkook, RM & Jimin] And I know there's no making this right, this right (This right) And I know there's no changing your mind, your mind (Your mind) But we both found each other tonight, tonight (Oh yeah) So if love is nothing more than just a waste of your time

It’s that exact moment when it’s the night of your birthday, you’re all dressed up with only one place to go in a town where you knew a handful of people, and the guy at the bar had bought you a shot of mysterious substance to drink. So you’re here. So he’s here. And the drink’s here, between you two, and you’ve downed it in. And you’re here.

So why not?

‘Waste it on me’ is a sexy invitation in itself, that momentarily grasp for pleasure. Ok, yea. I’m all yours. 

Tonight.

[Verse 2: RM] So we don't gotta go there Past lovers and warfare It's just you and me now (Yeah, yeah) I don't know your secrets But I'll pick up the pieces Pull you close to me now (Yeah, yeah)

Namjoon’s voice has always been sexy to me. Masculine, dominating, in control, in the same way that Yoongi’s raspy, gravelly voice grabs you and stubbornly holds you close. 

Maybe this guy you’d just met in a club’s blabbering away to pierce who you may have been or who you’re presenting yourself to be just for you to be with him, and takes ahold of your waist before you could say no.

What do you say?

Yay, don't you think there must be a reason? Yeah, like we had our names Don't you think we got another season That come after spring? I wanna be your summer I wanna be your wave Treat me like a comma I'll take you to a new phrase Yeah, come just eat me and throw me away If I'm not your taste, babe, waste Waste it on me

I’m speechless over the “Treat me like a comma, I’ll take you to a new phrase,” wordplay. Most of all, it illustrated my past relationship in that all too on-the-nose way, for me and him both. English is sexy, man, please don’t ever say it isn’t.

“Yeah, come just eat me and throw me away/If I’m not your taste, babe.” I’m partial to babe as much as baby, let’s be real. Haha. The whole “come just eat me” paints that picture of the speaker being “consumed,” just devoured whole (echoing the earlier image of being “washed over” from “I wanna be your wave”) by the to-be-lover, without a care, a giving-himself-away submission reminiscent of Blood, Sweat, and Tears’ intoxication and blind bondage. The speaker here doesn’t even care if he’s not tailored to the ‘lover’s’ desire, ready to be discarded, treating himself here as disposable, even worse than Love Maze’s partnered hopefulness and teamwork or Blood, Sweat and Tears’ irresistible, spellbound attraction.

Aaand there you have it, my ramblings on Bangtan (as of now). There’s just so, so much - I’ve recently received my HYYH Pt.1 (RIMBAUD! SEXY CONVERSE!!! BOYZ with FUN!) and YNWA albums, not to mention my rap line songs, vocal line, In the Soop, Performance details, Run BTS (source of joy and laughter, more than any man has ever affected me), Premiums, and the whole “Love Yourself” concept + B.E. Itself.

I’ll be sure to pop back in very, very soon!

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A Celebration of Isaac Asimov

Stephen Colbert: Isaac Asimov would have been 100 today. He published in every category of the Dewey Decimal system. After reading him your mind works better. Too many great quotes. Here's one: "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." Here's another: "It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety." In 1967, Asimov talked about what life with robots might be like in the future. "I wonder if we will make robots so much like men and men so much like robots that eventually we'll lose the distinction altogether." (A short BBC interview on it.) Asimov's commentary on society: "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." "There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity." "There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference -- but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort."

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Sacha Baron Cohen Convinces GOP Congressmen to Arm Toddlers in Who Is America? Premiere

Sacha Baron Cohens new surprise Showtime series is ostensibly trying to answer the question, Who Is America? Another question it answers is, Where has Sacha Baron Cohen been when weve needed him most?

Apparently, the comedic genius behind the characters Ali G, Borat and Brno has spent the better part of the Trump presidency traveling around the country, surreptitiously interviewing figures like former Vice President Dick Cheney, former vice presidential wannabe Sarah Palin, accused pedophile Roy Moore, and many more names still to emerge for what they apparently thought was some sort of legitimate political documentary with the working title Age of Reason.

The 46-year-old Brit has a long history of making the powerful look foolish. In the early 2000s, as Ali G, he sat down with people like Newt Gingrich, Gore Vidal and Boutros Boutros Boutros Boutros-Ghali and managed to completely humiliate them by pretending to have no idea what was going on. The approach predated the way Stephen Colbert would vanquish opponents on The Colbert Report by playing dumb and forcing them to defend their most outrageous positions.

For a 2003 episode, Ali G wormed his way into Trump Tower to pitch the soon-to-be host of The Apprentice on his idea for an ice cream cone glove that protects your hand from drips. Its still a joy to watch Baron Cohen ask Donald Trump questions like, How long has there been business? Unlike Palin, who apparently sat with Cohen for quite some time, Trump claims he was smart enough to walk out after little more than a minute; according to Cohen, it was more like seven minutes, or quite a long time.

Despite his rise in fame over the past 15 years, Baron Cohen somehow managed to gain even more access to powerful people for this new series. Hes taken advantage of a media environment in which partisan figures are willing and eager to engage with those on the other end of the political spectrum regardless of how bizarre or outlandish they seem.

This phenomenon helps explain how Senator Bernie Sanders found himself in a room with Baron Cohens Dr. Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr., a Rascal scooter-bound conspiracy theorist and founder of TruthBrary.org, trying to make sense of an inane plan to move the 99 percent into the one percent that has been verified by the International Institute of Truth and Knowledge.

That conservative imbecilethe same disabled US veteran who Sarah Palin says duped heris just one of several new characters Baron Cohen portrays in the shows premiere. Just as Dr. Ruddick told Palin in an open letter this week that he is not a War Vet but rather in the servicenot military, United Parcel, he tells Sanders that he is not actually disabled but just trying to preserve his energy.

And in another move, perhaps meant to inoculate himself from Palins claims that he is mocking the disabled, the shows opening credits pointedly remind viewers about that time Trump made fun of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who suffers from a congenital condition that affects his movement. A montage of presidential quotes moves from Kennedys Ask not what your country can do for you to Trumps Aah, I dont know what I said, aah, I dont remember!

Other characters include a British ex-con who creates art with his bodily fluids and, most effectively, an Israeli former Mossad agent who tackles Americas school-shooting epidemic with a program called Kinderguardians that aims to put guns in the hands of toddlers.

Incredibly, the fake initiative not only gets the endorsement of gun rights activists like Philip Van Cleave, once similarly duped by John Oliver on The Daily Show, and Gun Owners for America head Larry Platt, who can be seen laughing on screen at the hosts suggestion that its not rape if its your wife, but also receives supportive testimonials from several sitting members of Congress, including Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA). If Rohrabachers Democratic opponent Harley Rouda isnt using the clip in a campaign ad by next week, hes doing something wrong.

Remarkably, the one politician Baron Cohen speaks to who refuses to endorse Kinderguardians on the spot is Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), known for bringing an infamous right-wing troll as his date to the State of the Union. Former Republican congressmen Trent Lott and Joe Walsh, on the other hand, had no problem looking into the camera and declaring that four-year-olds should be allowed to defend themselves with firearms.

In a recent article for Fox News website, a source familiar with the project described Who Is America? as a total right-wing hit job meant to make conservatives look bad and liberals look good. But that dubious report ignores one of the most promising new characters on the show, an NPR-listening, pussy hat-wearing progressive who is working through his grief over Hillary Clintons loss and his guilt about being a white, cisgender male by traveling the country to speak with Trump supporters.

The portrayal is as damning to the Left as the Dr. Billy Wayne Ruddick character is to the Right and has the potential to humiliate Democratic politicians as much as we can only assume Palin is humiliated in her episode, should Baron Cohen choose to take things in that direction.

Ultimately, Who Is America? is a much-welcome return to form for Baron Cohen, who in recent years had strayed from the type of real, confrontational comedy that made him famous in the first place. In narrative films like The Dictator and more recently The Brothers Grimsby, he eschewed his reality-based style for a more traditional approach and the results were underwhelming. Without giving too much away, there are moments in the new show that are as deliriously hysterical and excruciating as the epic naked fight scene from Borat.

In the first episode of Who Is America?and the second, which Ive seen but am forbidden to discuss just yetBaron Cohen proves that he still has what it takes to get under the thin skins of the powerful people he clearly believes are making America worse. Watching them show their true colors to the world has never been more satisfying.

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Stephen Colbert is really mad.

It is not easy to push him into being mean. He generally stands for things like 'read more books' and 'get along with each other'. Somewhere in the multiverse, there is a reality where Colbert is a Jesuit scholar. Somewhere else is a timeline where he's the television personality who accidentally won his bid for President. I for one would like to apply for a transfer, right now.

Colbert has a reputation. I've started to wonder if people who interview him are contractually obligated to describe him as 'the nicest man on Earth' because they all basically do. When he accidentally acquired an internet army at his old show, he put them to work alternately getting random shit named after him and organizing thousands, if not millions, of dollars for various charitable causes. After testifying before Congress on behalf of immigrant workers, he was asked why he would do that, and stammered before quoting Matthew ('the least of my brothers' usw.), I suspect because it had never occurred to him that anyone would ever not know the reason behind defending other human beings. I find it prognostic that the first time he dropped the idiot pundit persona on camera, in front of his core audience, was on Jon Stewart's last episode of The Daily Show, where Colbert cornered his friend behind the anchor desk and said nice things at him until he cried. He teaches Sunday school. He shows up to work on Ash Wednesday with a cross smudged on his forehead. His Instagram is full of pictures of his dog. 

I have no way of knowing what celebrities are really like at home. (Well, we all know what Colbert's like in one very specific corner of his study now, thanks to coronovirus, but you get what I mean.) If he is not the R-rated potty-mouthed Mr Rogers all us grown-ups need right now, then he is absolutely dedicated to playing that man on TV. And the last time he was that determined to keep up a character, he held it for nine and a half years.

This man does not want 45 on his show anymore. He is afraid that he would say something he very, very much wants to say to Donald J Trump, but that he would regret having said to a sitting President. And just to remind you, this is what he was willing to say to a President who was sitting not just in the sense of "incumbent", but also in the sense of "two chairs to his right at the banquet table".

[And note also what he was willing to say on national TV. I have a feeling there was a substantial cut at about the 10 minute mark, where his prop disappears, and given the later monologue I also have a feeling it was a callback to the other very famous bit involving Colbert and a banana.

He later apologized to the audience if his phrasing seemed unnecessarily crude or offensive to anyone other than Donald Trump.]

Historically, men who have gotten away with egregious abuses of power have often done so on the strength of character witnesses. When allegations start coming out, so too do their friends, other powerful men who crow 'no friend of mine could ever do such a thing'. Their voices, already loud, are amplified by repetition, and eventually there comes a point where the victims have shouted themselves hoarse for so long with so little result that they give up. And so the cycle continues.

When Les Moonves, then-emperor of CBS and Colbert's boss' boss, was the subject of accusations of sexual harassment and assault, Colbert sat down at his desk and very solidly bit the hand that greenlit his show in the first place. He made the critical point that just because someone has been good to you, doesn't mean they've always been good to everyone, and accountability means nothing if you only enforce it on people you don't like.

As far as I can tell, he doesn't think Trump has ever been good to anybody in his life. And he's probably right. Colbert's fanbase is big enough that his support would be valuable, which makes his derision equally notable. It's easy to ignore anger from the perpetually self-righteous; screaming about everything is functionally the same as saying nothing, as the nuances of emphasis are lost. The ire of a kindly man is a different thing entirely.

[CBS conspicuously failed to fire him for taking a chunk out of Moonves. In fairness, the person whose job it is to deal with content complaints from the network is usually the executive producer. There are four or five of them on the Late Show, but Colbert is one, and another one is Jon Stewart, who is semi-retired and often has literally nothing better to do than win arguments of that ilk.]

The Late Show has lately morphed from nighttime entertainment to CBS Presents: The 'You're Not Crazy' Hour, Hosted By Stephen Colbert. Our leadership is so useless that the job of giving inspirational speeches has fallen to TV comedians. I want George Carlin back. Probably so do Jon Stewart and all his comedy children.

I am pretty sure Colbert will be on the air complaining about this stuff until either the problem is solved, or he is arrested for doing it. If that day comes, I've no doubt he would go peacefully but not quietly. Then someone would tell Stewart and the internet, possibly even in that order, and the media shit would hit the fan.

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Post-AGT Appearance 1063: Scott Shannon in the Morning February 24

Impossible, improbable, unlikely but True would rise to sixth on February 16 and fifth on February 23 while dropping to 55th and 56th on the country chart.  I love you better than Beer would sink to 36th both weeks on the top 40 pop chart while remaining first on the country charts.  Forever’s getting closer every Day would continue to rise, hitting 29th and 27th pop and spending 2 weeks at number 9 on Fitts’ chart.  No one would quote me.  Last call for Love would drop to 39th and 41st and Missouri Misery would drop to 44th and 48th on the country chart. 

I would wait until Saturday morning to send Scott Shannon my predictions about the Nevada caucus.  I assume they would be exactly the same and these are my real predictions.  We would both be in a hurry to get the interview over with and agree to rush it.

Shannon: Welcome back to WCBS, Scott Shannon in the Morning.  I’m Scott Shannon and this morning, in the aftermath of another Presidential caucus, we have our whiz prognosticator Phil Cole on the line.  How are you Phil?

PBC: Doing well.

Shannon: And where are you this morning?

PBC: Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Shannon: That’s Dick Cheney country.

PBC: Yes, it is.

Shannon: What kind of shows do you do out there?

PBC: Mostly music these days.

Shannon: And I understand you have an announcement this morning.

PBC: Yes, our song I love you better than Beer is number one on all 3 country countdown shows.

Shannon: Wow!

PBC: For about a month now.  However our other big hit from this album might not get to the top.

Shannon: Which one is that?

PBC: Forever’s getting closer every Day.

Shannon: That sad one.

PBC: Yes, so this Wednesday night on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert Amber Riley and Hank Williams III are going to sing it as a duet.

Shannon: It’s already a duet, isn’t it?

PBC: I backed Hank up a little.  This is different  We’re going to make a video and a new recording with those 2 singing and release it.  Hopefully that will give the other version the boost it needs and maybe this will be a hit too.

Shannon: Very good!  Well you hit the trifecta this weekend with the Nevada caucus.

PBC: Sure did.

Shannon: You had Bernie Sanders winning.  He won.  Biden second with 20%.  It’s a little complicated.  They’ve got first vote, final vote and delegates earned but one of them is 20%.  You have Pete Buttigieg third with 18% and he’s got that.

PBC: Thank you.

Shannon: I checked your 2016 predictions on the Republican side.  You got the top 3 that time too.

PBC: I know my Nevada voters.

Shannon: Of course you got the bottom 2 right also, Tulsi Gabbard and Mayor Bloomberg at the bottom.  The only weak point is Tom Steyer.  You picked him fourth at 14% and he’s way back in sixth.

PBC: I overestimated the influence of all those commercials, BUT NOT AS MUCH AS TOM STEYER DID!

Shannon: Ha ha ha!  How do you think Mayor Bloomberg will do when he gets into the race next week?

PBC: Better than Steyer!  He wins the battle of the billionaires, but overall...I’ll send you a letter.

Shannon: South Carolina next Saturday; who wins?

PBC: Look for an email late this week.

Shannon: I sure will.  Good luck for the new duet.  Keep us posted.

PBC: Thank you Scott.

Shannon: That was Phil Cole.  Stay tuned.

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Tragic Details About Kevin Hart

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Kevin Hart is one of the most successful stand-up comedians of all time, and you’ll rarely catch him without an infectious grin on his face. But his childhood was no laughing matter, and behind the scenes, his life has been shrouded in tragedy. This is his tragic real-life story.

Hart tailored his award-winning formula for stand-up by focusing on topics that centered around his dysfunctional upbringing, in particular, his experience growing up with his father, Henry, who was so heavily addicted to drugs that Hart claims, quote, “nothing else mattered to him.” Since Henry spent most of his son’s formative years in and out of jail, Hart was raised by a single mom.

In his book, I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons, Hart recalled how his dad allegedly broke into his mom’s house to steal money. Another incident involved Henry robbing Hart’s brother’s barbershop and crashing his car.

After a long and tumultuous struggle, Hart and his brother got their father into rehab. Henry eventually met a woman who helped him stay clean. Hart told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show that is relationship with his father is “amazing now.”

After dropping out of college and working as a shoe salesman, Hart decided to hit up the local comedy clubs to perfect his stand-up routine. Variety revealed that his mother agreed to pay his rent for one year while he tried to get noticed.

“‘Kevin’ she said, ‘I’m not a dream killer.’ Her exact words, ‘I’m not a dream killer. You’re telling me this is what you want to do, I’m gonna let you do it.’ She said, ‘You’ve got a year.”

Sadly, his mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2007, just as he snagged a role in the rom-com Fool’s Gold. She made the tough decision to keep her diagnosis a secret from him, worried that if he knew the truth, it would derail his career. It wasn’t until a few weeks before she passed that Hart found out how ill she really was.

While cleaning out her home following her death, Hart stumbled upon a box filled with printouts of his interviews and videos of his recorded television and movie appearances. He told Variety,

“Anything I’d ever done, she had it. She never missed anything.”

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Does Omarosa now bow down to Trump after criticizing him?

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WASHINGTON /March 27, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) —Omarosa Manigault Newman once predicted that “every critic, every detractor will have to bow down to President Trump.” Now the question for the former White House aide and “Apprentice” contestant is whether that counts for her, too.

Starring in another reality TV show after resigning from the West Wing, Manigault Newman unleashed one criticism after another of her longtime friend Donald Trump and former White House colleagues, testing the widely held view that few people are ever really exiled from Trump’s orbit.

Manigault Newman said she was “haunted” every day by Trump’s tweets and “attacked” by colleagues when she tried to intervene. She said he tweets in his underwear in the early morning. She compared leaving the White House to being freed from a plantation, a reference to her one-time status as the only black member of the White House senior staff.

If that wasn’t enough, she said the country will not be OK under Trump, and teased that she may tell everything in a book.

The ill feelings may well be mutual.

Trump, who called Manigault Newman a “good person” after she left the White House, referred to her as “the worst” in a speech at a press dinner where the president traditionally jabs at friends and foes alike.

The White House dismisses Manigault Newman as someone Trump has now fired four times: thrice from “The Apprentice” and once from the White House last December.

Armstrong Williams, a longtime friend of Manigault Newman, said the fact that Trump name-checked her in the Gridiron dinner speech this month “means she’s on his mind.” He doesn’t think she had fallen out of favor because of her nationally broadcast criticisms.

“Here’s the key: The president has not tweeted about anything that Omarosa has done since she left. That’s significant,” said Williams, a conservative commentator. “He’s tweeted about (Steve) Bannon and everybody else, but he has not tweeted or pushed back in any way against Omarosa.”

Bannon is the former White House chief strategist whom Trump publicly broke with after a book about Trump’s first year in office quoted Bannon criticizing some of Trump’s adult children. Trump then accused Bannon of “losing his mind.”

Others fired by Trump, including his first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, and his first chief of staff, Reince Priebus, remain in contact with the president.

During her stint on CBS’ “Celebrity Big Brother,” where Manigault Newman and other celebrities lived under constant surveillance in a shared house until voted out, she steered clear of Trump’s third rail, his family. But she let loose on the president and Vice President Mike Pence.

In one whispered conversation, she said working for Trump was “like a call to duty,” but “I was haunted by the tweets every single day, like ‘What is he going to tweet next?'” When she tried to intervene, Manigault Newman said through tears, “all of the people around him attacked me.”

When asked if people should be worried, Manigault Newman nodded her head and said, “It is going to not be OK. It’s not.”

She criticized Pence in a later episode, saying he’d be more extreme than Trump. “So everybody that’s wishing for impeachment might want to reconsider their lives. We would be begging for days of Trump back if Pence became president,” she said. “He’s extreme. I’m Christian. I love Jesus. But he thinks Jesus tells him to say things. I’m like, ‘Jesus ain’t saying that.'”

The conversations eventually came around to Trump’s tweets. Manigault Newman was asked who monitors them.

“He’s up in his underwear or something at 4 in the morning. Who’s going to monitor that?” she said. “Remember, the bad tweets happen between 4 and 6 in the morning. Ain’t nobody up there but Melania” — Trump’s wife. Manigault Newman then commented on the large diamond the first lady wears on her left ring finger and said Trump “can do whatever he wants. She ain’t saying nothing.”

It was unclear whether her criticisms were genuine or whether she was trying to curry favor with her castmates to avoid eviction. (She didn’t win.)

Manigualt Newman, who declined to comment for this story, passed up a chance to repeat her criticisms during a recent appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” after the reality TV show ended.

When asked if everything will be OK under Trump, she told Colbert, “You’ll have to wait and see.”

She did tell Colbert that she plans to focus on her ministry. Last April, she married John Allen Newman, senior pastor at a Baptist church in Jacksonville, Florida, during a ceremony at Trump’s hotel near the White House. The website of Mount Calvary Baptist Church says she was licensed to preach in 2011 and later ordained and served as assistant pastor.

“My calling to the ministry is more important than anything else that I’ve done and I don’t want to neglect it,” Manigault Newman told Colbert.

Whether that means she’s done bashing Trump remains to be seen.

In her first interview after leaving the White House, she told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that “when I can tell my story, it is a profound story that I know the world will want to hear.”

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'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Frankie Shaw ('SMILF')

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'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Frankie Shaw ('SMILF')

“We shot everything before the Harvey Weinstein article came out,” says Frankie Shaw, the showrunner, producer, director, writer and star of Showtime’s comedy series SMILF, as we sit down at The Hollywood Reporter to record an episode of THR‘s ‘Awards Chatter’ podcast and begin discussing the show’s recurring theme of sexual misconduct. SMILF debuted last November — its premiere attracted its network’s highest ratings for a new comedy in five years — and, little more than a month later, its 36-year-old mastermind received a best actress in a musical or comedy series Golden Globe nom. Shaw volunteers, “I think that we got so lucky with the timing. I think people really want to see something that feels real, and that’s something that we really try to do with the show.”

SMILF, which Shaw originally made as a nine-minute film (it won the top prize for shorts at 2015’s Sundance Film Festival), was largely inspired by her own experience as a single mom. She plays Bridgette, a young woman from working-class South Boston who was raised by a single mother and fantasized about a career as a pro basketball player, but instead found herself struggling just to stay afloat after becoming pregnant at 25 by a boyfriend with whom she was breaking up, and then raising their son. All of those descriptions also apply to Shaw — but, Shaw emphasizes, other aspects of the character’s life do not. “My life as a single mom wasn’t as messy,” she says with a chuckle.

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LISTEN: You can hear the entire interview below [starting at 26:29], following a conversation between host Scott Feinberg and Michael O’Connell, THR‘s senior writer on TV, in which they preview the Emmy race.

Click here to access all of our 209 episodes, including conversations with Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Lorne Michaels, Gal Gadot, Eddie Murphy, Lady Gaga, Stephen Colbert, Jennifer Lawrence, Will Smith, Angelina Jolie, Snoop Dogg, Elisabeth Moss, Jerry Seinfeld, Reese Witherspoon, Aaron Sorkin, Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Kate Winslet, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Aziz Ansari, Jessica Chastain, Denzel Washington, Nicole Kidman, Warren Beatty, Amy Schumer, Justin Timberlake, Natalie Portman, Tyler Perry, Judi Dench, Tom Hanks, Jane Fonda, J.J. Abrams, Emma Stone, Guillermo del Toro, Jennifer Lopez, Michael B. Jordan, Mandy Moore, Ryan Murphy, Alicia Vikander, Jimmy Kimmel, Greta Gerwig, Robert De Niro, Claire Foy, Bill Maher, Rachel Brosnahan, Michael Moore, Kris Jenner & RuPaul.

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Shaw was born and initially raised in Southie, but, at a young age, relocated with her mother to nearby Brookline. Though hailing herself from a blue collar family, she was encouraged by a friend to apply to the upper-crust boarding school Milton Academy — and was admitted with a full scholarship. “It really did, I think, change the trajectory of my life,” she says. Life at Milton helped Shaw to broaden her horizons and led her to apply to Barnard College, to which she was also accepted, leading to her first-ever trip to New York. There, her eyes were opened by her professors (she began taking acting classes and wrote her first script as part of an independent study), her side job (she worked at fabled Kim’s Video in Harlem and also acted in short films directed by her boss) and the city itself. By the time she graduated, she “was dead-set” on pursuing a career as a professional actor in New York.

After landing a few small roles, including one on an episode of Law & Order, Shaw, at 23, met Mark Webber, a fellow actor. They entered into a relationship and, two years later, she was pregnant with their son, Isaac. 11 weeks into her pregnancy, she broke up with Webber and, against the advice of her family, moved across the country to Hollywood to pursue her dreams. But out west, with no contacts, no money and no permanent home or job, it proved a challenge to juggle her ambitions with motherhood. During Isaac’s first years, Shaw’s mother and Webber (with whom she remained on good terms) were often around to take care of him when she had an audition or a tutoring gig, but sometimes thereafter she had to bring him along with her — for instance, to an audition for Breaking Bad that didn’t ultimately pan out for her. “In hindsight, it seems so unlikely,” she says of her story. “I was so naive.”

Even after years of beating the pavement, Shaw’s acting career wasn’t quite taking off, and she was growing increasingly frustrated. She “pretended to be okay” with the part she landed on the raunchy sitcom Blue Mountain State, which ran on Spike from 2010 through 2011, even though it didn’t pay a living wage and conflicted with her strongly feminist values, because she hoped it would lead to something more. It did not. “After I did the show Blue Mountain State,” she recalls, “there was a year where, every three months, Isaac and I moved — he was three at the time — and I have just really crazy stories of the people that I lived with during that time. And so then I just started writing. I was like, ‘I have to at least use this material in some way.'”

It was only in May 2013, when she was hired to fill a last-minute opening in the cast of a series that was already picked up by ABC, Mixology, that she began earning enough to take a breath — and to finance a project of her own that she had begun developing, as something of a pipe-dream, two months earlier. “I owe everything to Mixology because [after landing that job] I had money to pay for my shorts,” she says, explaining, “I had written a script because I was so sick of being broke with this small child and I thought I could get staffed on a show and then I’d have a regular job.” The script was a “broad version” of what ultimately became SMILF — more of a sitcom. “It wasn’t supposed to be a short,” she notes. “It was really for my pitch [to be a TV writer]. I just realized, as I was editing, ‘Oh, this stands on its own. I might as well just submit it to Sundance.'” Not only did it get accepted, but it won the top prize for U.S. shorts. “I’d been there before as ‘the girlfriend’ so many times,” Shaw reflects. This time was different. “It was so empowering and it was so fulfilling to be there and be part of a community with something that I wrote and directed. I was like, ‘Oh, this feels so good.'”

Shaw next went off to shoot the first season of USA’s Mr. Robot, a drama series for which not even she had great expectations, but it debuted in June 2015 and proved a phenomenon, winning the best drama series Golden Globe Award just a few months later. Her one-season arc drew unprecedented heat for her acting career — but at a time when she was unavailable to capitalize on it. She had already sold the concept of SMILF, the series, to Showtime, and had to turn in the script for its pilot. At the suggestion of her friend Jill Soloway, the force behind Amazon’s Transparent, Shaw made it a requirement that she be able to direct some of SMILF‘s episodes if it was picked up — but there was no guarantee that it would be, and if it wasn’t, her moment of heat could easily have passed her by. In fact, Showtime chief David Nevins did not initially order it to series, but instead asked Shaw to write scripts for a few more episodes to give him a better sense of what he would be signing up for. She did, and then — after she made another short film that got into Sundance, 2016’s Too Legit — he told her that she had a show.

The first season of SMILF spans eight 30-minute episodes. Four were written or co-written by Shaw, who also directed three of them. (“Directing is my love,” she gushes, noting that she’s “thinking about” directing all eight episodes of the second season, which is being written now.) Every episode offers a darkly humorous look at Bridgette’s life, while also provoking deeper questions about sex, class, race and gender inequality. For instance, in the third episode, Bridgette is sexually assaulted — literally “grabbed by the pussy” — by a stranger, something that Shaw confirms was “inspired by our president, 100%.” The season finale, meanwhile, is all about childhood sexual abuse, and takes a clear swipe at alleged pedophile Woody Allen by opening with titles in the same font that Allen always uses, a quote from him (“The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things”) and then a cut to a little girl — young Bridgette — talking about being sexually abused by her father. “That was my proudest moment,” Shaw says, adding, “The desire is to explore themes and ideas that I’m passionate about.”

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Jennifer Lawrence and Colbert Drunkenly Gossip About Harvey Weinstein and Larry David

Jennifer Lawrence recently announced that she will be taking a year off from acting to focus on activism. Hopefully she will still be appearing on talk shows.

A few months after she filled in for Jimmy Kimmel and conducted her own delightfully weird interview with Kim Kardashian West, the actress sat down with Stephen Colbert on Monday night and delivered yet another wildly entertaining late-night performance.

Within moments of sitting down on the Late Show couch, Colbert had pulled out a hidden bottle of Cuban rum and the pair started throwing back shots together. Asked why shes taking a year off from acting, Lawrence joked, Because Im so miserable. She explained that she will still be developing projects during that time but wont actually be on set acting so she can instead talk to kids about, you know, corruption.

Im a part of an organization [Represent.Us] thats trying to pass the state by state legislation to get big money out of politics, Lawrence, who recently revealed on 60 Minutes that she dropped out of middle school, explained. When Trump got elected, my head spun off. And I read all these books and I have really learned myself good about our government.

So speaking about politics and corruption, you recently were ill-used in the defense of Harvey Weinstein, Colbert said, changing the subject.

Yes! I was! Lawrence replied, as they both kicked off their shoes to get more comfortable. He is just that horrible ass boil that does not go away. You pop the ass boil. Hes just the worst. When is it going to end? In the middle of the night I come up with a statement in London, and I was like, its still not over? The awfulness is still happening?

Quotes from Lawrence, who won a 2013 Oscar in the Weinstein-produced Silver Linings Playbook, were recently usedalong with those from Meryl Streepby Weinsteins lawyers to defend the disgraced movie mogul in a sexual-misconduct lawsuit. Or as Colbert put it, He dragged you into his pile of shit.

Yeah, everybody does, Lawrence said. But I love my job and Im very happy, she added, giving Colbert a look that said the exact opposite. It turns out I really like rum, she said. You know, I like vacation me, so why wouldnt I like rum?

From there, Lawrence proceeded to tell Colbert about how she spent Amy Schumers recent wedding flirting with Larry David. But it was very one-sided, she said. Im obsessed with Larry David, but hes not obsessed with me.

Asked if David knows she has a crush on him, Lawrence said, I feel like, um, yes, but I dont have his number and he doesnt flirt back with me, which is just like fuel for me. That just gets me going. In fact, the Curb Your Enthusiasm creator once discussed the crush with a different late-night host, Seth Meyers.

They didnt get around to talking about her new movie Red Sparrow until after a break, but soon they were off on yet another tangent about their shared Southern roots. Speaking to her nieces and nephews back home in Kentucky, she looked into the camera and said, Aunt Jens drunk.

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Justin Theroux Cancels 'Late Show with Stephen Colbert' Appearance Following Jennifer Aniston Split

Justin Theroux will not be making his first post-split TV appearance this week after all. 

The 46-year-old star was scheduled to be a guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert -- which is taped at Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City -- but no longer appears on the schedule for Tuesday's program. This would have been Theroux's first sit-down interview since he and wife Jennifer Aniston announced their separation last week after two years of marriage. 

The former Leftovers actor was going on the late-night program to promote his upcoming projects on Netflix, including the TV series Maniac and the movie Mute, which also stars his and Aniston's former Wanderlust co-star, Paul Rudd. 

Instead, Tuesday's The Late Show, airing at 11:35 p.m. ET on CBS, will have on The Office's Chris Gethard in Theroux's place, along with originally scheduled guests Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and musical act Portugal.The Man.

Theroux has not appeared on The Late Show since November 2015.

After news broke of Theroux's split from Aniston, a source told ET that the separation was a long time coming as the two disagreed on where they should live. According to ET's source, Theroux considers himself a New Yorker, while Aniston wanted to reside full-time in Los Angeles. 

“Justin has a very diverse friend group, and he likes that they're not all 'in the industry,'" the source explained. "He's friends with people in the restaurant world, writers, comedians, artists, tattoo artists. It's an eclectic group and he doesn't have that type of network in L.A."

The source added that it was Theroux's hope that Aniston, 49, would come to love NYC as much as he does. “He really wanted her to be comfortable [in New York]," the source said. "He even negotiated with the paps to make a deal that they would only shoot her once per day and then leave her alone. He also agreed to move out of his apartment, which he loves."

However, the source noted, "[Jen] just never really could get settled in, she wasn't happy [in New York]."

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Post-AGT Appearance 907: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert April 10

Taking that drink would fulfill my obligation to Chris Janson but I would remain with him through the following weekend to avoid another snowstorm on the east coast.  Thereafter I would be mostly under the control of Beyonce for the rest of the year.

Trinidad’s Lady would fall to 3 on March 25, 14 on April 1 and 27 on April 8, not meriting new or recorded quotes.

In the real world Kenny Rogers announced the premature end of his farewell tour.  That would not have happened because he would not be on his farewell tour but resting after the Trinidad’s Lady Tour.  He might get the same diagnosis, but that would limit a less strenuous schedule.  It would however present him from attending the ACM Award, at which Both Aaaaaaaaaaavonelle and Trinidad’s Lady would be nominated for the same award.

There would remain one other obligation that would at last be resolved tonight on Colbert.  Phillip, not to be terminated, would give his first interview since before the Trump campaign started.  He’d have been talking about it for weeks and devote the final 2 segments to the Phillip interview first, then me.

Colbert: Welcome back.  For months now we’ve been talking about a talented performer who was too ill to talk or perform, but at last he is recovering and here tonight, a rare privilege, we bring to you a guest giving his first appearance since he was afflicted with the illness that afflicts so many of us...

(Clip of Cole saying Donald Trump as Phillip winces.)

Colbert: He first was stricken of Trumpitis in the summer of 2015, discontinued his touring schedule and got worse and worse as Trump gathered momentum, recovered slightly when other candidates beat Trump in several primaries in March 2016, 2 years ago.  Approximately that time he grunted on a radio show and soon thereafter went into a coma.  Still very weak, he has consented to a brief interview tonight.  Please welcome, but not too loud, because that might hurt him: Phillip.

(Someone in a medical uniform wheels Phillip out on a hospital cot.)

Colbert: Phillip, how do you feel?

Phillip: Uhhhhhhh.

Colbert: Has anyone told you any recent news headlines?

Phillip: Uhhhhhhhhhhh.

Colbert: When do you expect you can next go on tour?

Phillip: Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Colbert: are you by any chance auditioning for Lerch in a revival of the Addams Family?

Phillip: Uhhhhhhhhhhh.

Colbert: For a long time we thought we were going to lose you.  Have the doctors given you hope for a full recovery?

Phillip: Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Colbert: What do you think about the great success of your group: Phillip and Cole’s Variety Team?

Phillip: Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Attendant: One minute, Mr. Colbert.

Colbert: So, what would you say to other people suffering from your medical condition: acute Trumpitis?

Phillip: No...news...is...good...news....uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Colbert: We’ll be right back.  Don’t go away!