No small number of you have informed me that The Daily Show is in reruns this week and therefore unable to do anything about the Mueller Report. Bet they're not happy about that.
By the way: I am liking Trevor Noah a lot more than I did when he started there as host. If the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and even the one with Craig Kilborn had never existed — if Noah's was the first-ever Daily Show — I think we'd be hailing it as a pretty good program. Noah's interviews are first-rate…though too often they're with people who just plain don't interest me. Still, he makes them more interesting than anyone else might and yes, I know, that's a half-assed compliment.
In the past on this site, I have frequently praised the musicals staged at a place called the Cupcake Theater out on Magnolia in North Hollywood. Well, I've just learned that effective almost immediately, they will no longer be in that building out on Magnolia. They're now looking for someplace new to stage their offerings and I hope they find a good one.
One of the many annoying things about Donald Trump is that one of these days, we're going to have to listen to some of his staunchest supporters insisting that a certain Democrat is unfit for office because he or she has trouble telling the truth.
We will soon be announcing the winners of this year's Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. Thanks to all of you who sent in nominations. I think most folks will be pleased with the 2019 selections.
Lastly for now: Nothing much seems to be happening in the battle between the big Hollywood Agencies and the Writers Guild. As I understand it, Monday is the day the WGA will deliver to agents the letters from writers dismissing them. We'll see what the reaction is to this. Meanwhile, since I don't have an agent to fire, I'm showing my solidarity with the Guild by firing my gardener. (Hey, he's gotten me as much work as some agents get for their clients.)