Bill Maher does his show Real Time live from CBS Television City. I drove by it earlier today and I could hear him tearing up tonight's monologue and starting over. What a news day. No one's complaining the impeachment hearings are dull now…and it's nice to see Robert Mueller's "witch hunt" is still catching witches.
I received two e-mails from friends after I posted here that I think airing the hearings on so many channels is an unnecessary duplication of efforts. One friend is adamantly pro-Trump and other is just as adamantly anti…and they both disagreed with me for the flip sides of the same reason. The both think that having it on so many channels will draw more viewers which will have the result of, depending on which you believe, making America see the hearings for the sham they are or making America realize that Trump is even crookeder than anyone thought. You can guess which friend thought what. Me, I think that as long as viewers are reminded the hearings are in progress, they'll find their way to a channel that's covering them.
I continue to be impressed with the "Eat Shit, Bob" musical number performed last Sunday evening on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. What with all the dancers and singers and folks in squirrel costumes and location set-ups, that was not cheap to do. It was like they were saying to Bob Murray, "You made us spend $200,000 to fight a frivolous lawsuit, Bob…so we're going to spend almost as much to call you names!" What does it cost to shoot sixty dancers in Times Square even — as I assume from how few onlookers there were — in the middle of the night? Nice to see Brian d'Arcy James, star of musicals like Shrek and Something Rotten playing the HBO attorney.