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Fun way to end season 51! Read my @ew recap which includes commentary from Gary Kroeger, Patrick Weathers and Denny Dillon!

https://t.co/bunMtT2iVq

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@time0149 @RaminNasibov Yes!

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@RaminNasibov Die hard

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@Andrew_Milner @heystu818 Stu whiffing

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RIP Muffy

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RIP Muffy

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@bmislow Exactly lol

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@heystu818 What

[Eshan @eshanbuilds]

Joan Cusack has spent the last eleven years running a gift shop in Chicago. The red carpet she stepped onto this week for Toy Story 5 was a day pass to leave the shop and come back to Jessie for one afternoon.

The shop is called Judy Maxwell Home. She opened it in 2014 and named it after a character from What's Up, Doc?, the 1972 Barbra Streisand comedy. It sells curated home goods, small art, weird knickknacks she picks out herself. She works the floor. She picks the stock. She has been telling interviewers for over a decade that retail is the thing she actually wants to be doing.

In her words from this week: being a celebrity actress isn't that fun, over and over. Not that great of a world, except for being exposed to cool sets and talented, interesting people.

The Toy Story premiere was her first red carpet since September 2015. She did not attend Toy Story 4 in 2019, even though she was in the film. Her last on-screen acting role was a TV guest spot in 2020. The interviews where she talks about Hollywood with the most affection are the ones where she is also explaining why she left.

What I keep coming back to is the math of her career. Two Oscar nominations by 1997. School of Rock in 2003. Shameless from 2011 to 2018. She earned the right to keep working at the level she was working at, and she chose a gift shop in her hometown instead.

The line she gave reporters this week, about why the shop matters: if you're a woman now, it's so fun to have a shop of your own. You hone your instincts in the world, versus at home. This is a little lab of my own instincts about being in the world.

She made an exception for Jessie because Toy Story 5 finally makes the yodeling cowgirl the lead. Twenty-seven years after she first voiced the character. The carpet was for that, and only that.

The framing that she came back is the part worth correcting. She has been gone on purpose, doing the thing she actually likes, and a six-day press tour for a Pixar movie does not change that. The shop will still be there on Monday. She will be in it.

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@NR4PTProject @realjonlovitz I love this - coupled with the Three Amigos scene

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The Mortimer Snerd of SNL Twitter

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37 years ago we lost the great Gilda Radner.

On that day, Steve Martin was hosting the #SNL S14 finale. In his monologue, he & the show pay tribute to Gilda's passing with one of her classic sketches.

G.E. Smith (her 1st husband) leads the band out to commercial.

RIP Gilda.

[✨ @memesistential]

The clip in question.

[Sean @scs_real]

The greatest one hit wonder, in the history of humanity, was released on this day, 41 years ago.

Yes, you are that old.

You're welcome America

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@JakePlunkett Fantastic job!

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Joel Murray talking about his brother Bill Murray making them miss a Grateful Dead concert they had tickets for in the '70s is honestly one of the best stories I've ever heard. Enjoy.

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a lot of people keep DMing me about when I’m starting a paid substack/patreon.

The answer: I’m not. Nothing gated.

BUT..if I did it’d be topics like:
“A complete history of SNL delivering cheap shots on Stevie Wonder being blind” tracing the trajectory of every Update joke etc

[Scott P. Brown @SenScottBrown]

Barney Frank and I did not agree on much, but we worked hard protecting our fisherman. We also had some laughs over this great skit in which @JonHammOnline played me. Met him soon after. 🎤🇺🇸

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Happy Birthday, @AlanZweibel! One of the original writers of #SNL, co-creator of It's Garry Shandling's Show, and multiple Emmy-winner.

Hoping you enjoy a Spud Beer today!

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Fun way to end season 51! Read my @ew recap which includes commentary from Gary Kroeger, Patrick Weathers and Denny Dillon!

https://t.co/bunMtT2iVq