The actor Andrew Sachs who played such a memorable role as the long-suffering Spanish waiter Manuel at the hands of the irascible Basil Fawlty (played by John Cleese) has died at the age of 86 after suffering from dementia for the last four years. As the foil for the more famous Cleese, he was a major factor in providing the humor in that series. He was by all accounts an extremely nice person who had a knack for farcical comedy.
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There is a guy named Bill Dance who is an expert angler. He has his own fishing show on TV and has put together a collection of the times when things went wrong. I am not a fishing enthusiast but I found this hilarious.
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Kate McKinnon and Alec Baldwin are just as sick of this election as I am.
Bill Maher says that we should be grateful to Donald Trump because his candidacy has sidelined the nauseating piety that seemed obligatory in past elections because the evangelicals have sold their souls to Donald Trump, someone who violates all the things they supposedly hold dear as ‘people of faith’.
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Seth Meyers says that whether Donald Trump wins or loses, the Republican party is headed for a major crackup.
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Anyone who has been a long time reader of this blog knows that I have not been a huge fan of Hillary Clinton. But the idea that she and Donald Trump are equally bad is preposterous. There is simply no comparison and Seth Meyers, in his update on the state of the election, does a wonderful job of comparing the negatives of both candidates, starting at the 6:10 mark. And he does not even mention Trump’s sociopathic levels of lying and his ignorance of major issues.
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He continues his efforts to reach out to young people to vote.