Dispatches From the Fortress – Day 427

No one seems too shocked by yesterday's announcement that Ellen DeGeneres is ending her very successful afternoon talk show. Still, I have a flurry of e-mail asking me to comment…and I think I did last August.

Regarding NBC's announcement that they will no longer air the Golden Globes ceremony — at least for a while: All the things they're saying about how the organization is deficient in matters of diversity are probably true but we also stand by our view that America is getting sick of shows where people who are already too rich and too famous honor each other for their awesome greatness. Frankly, the Golden Globes should have been taken off the air because no one knew who gave them out or for what or how or anything. They were on TV because someone thought they were important and someone thought they were important because they were on TV.

If you don't think politics makes for strange bedfellows, just look at some of the people who now find themselves siding with Liz Cheney.

Rob Reiner just posted the following on Twitter: "We no longer have a two party system." Yes, we do. We have the Democratic Party and the Donald Trump Party. That's two parties.

I would love to know how much work and what techniques Randy Rainbow did to make that new video of his we linked here yesterday. I still find it amazing that someone could whip that up on a home computer system. Wonder what it would have cost and how many technicians would have been involved if we'd tried to produce something like that back when I was doing variety shows. We might still be in post-production.