Ben Yakas
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"It's one of my favorite movies, and it was really fun to try to replicate what made it so wonderful in this very bizarre situation that we're in," said series creator Mike Schur.
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Based on the first episodes of the new season, we can safely say that Larry David remains the William Butler Yeats of comedy.
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Based on the first episodes of the new season, we can safely say that Larry David remains the William Butler Yeats of comedy.
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"So to recap Mr. President: There was no Senator in the hospital, you didn't have the votes, the bill didn't pass, and you're bad at math, okay?"
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"That means this bill is almost certainly dead, or at the very least, on life support. Which won't be covered," he said. "Now I can go back to talking about the Kardashians!"
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"This was our hardest season. And I think that although the unsettledness and fear and anxiety and anger and emotionality of a Trump America wasn't necessarily the subject of the season, the conscious subject of our feelings was a huge force."
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"That's why we're in Israel. Jill's trying to talk about this original conflict, this never ending conflict that somehow there's a border and you're different. How are we ever going to get out of that?"
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For the third straight night, Jimmy Kimmel excoriated Republicans, and particularly Senator Bill Cassidy, for their widely-reviled attempt to repeal Obamacare. After Trump came to Cassidy's defense on Twitter, Kimmel hit back: "I guarantee you [Trump] doesn't know anything about this Graham-Cassidy bill," Kimmel said. "He doesn't know the difference between Medicare and Medicaid. He barely knows the difference between Melania and Ivanka." "For Donald Trump, this isn't about the Graham-Cassidy bill, it's about...
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After the birth of his son (who required open heart surgery) earlier this year, Jimmy Kimmel became an unlikely but passionate health care advocate, using his platform on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to decry Republican's attempts to rescind Obamacare and deny health insurance to anyone. Republican Senator Bill Cassidy went on his show back then and promised to back a health care bill that made sure "no family should be denied medical care, emergency or...
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Creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg talked to us about the development of Beatrice's storyline, the importance of endings, the responsibility of storytellers, and the origins of clown dentists.
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