Yeah, but your last name is in the front half of the phone book, so you’d have already heard her say it by intermission.
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That show resulted in a PBS Nova special I had on tape as a kid and watched many times. She does Trudy and Ernestine in the show, so it’s even more fun.
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My last name starts with an M, so right before intermission.
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There are some one-woman shows I HAVE enjoyed, but Gypsy’s show in this episode really takes the cake in terms of comedy.
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Closest I’ve ever come to watching a one woman show is recordings of one Carol Burnett did, one Gilda Radner did and a PBS behind the scenes special of Elaine Stritch’s show “At Liberty”. 
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ABSOLUTELY. It’s one my FAVORITE host segments ever.
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Revived my pre-Thanksgiving tradition of watching this episode.
Appropriately enough the temperature dropped from 68 to 36 degrees F today.
The experiment and the short remain golden. From the running gag that Joel thinks the Bots are going “too dark” in Circus (only to indulge in a few morbid quips himself) to the hero’s Failing becoming a massive production number in TDTEF I laughed long and hard.
The skits get funnier each time I see them. Forgot Tom and Crow disguised themselves as bags and never tire of Gypsy’s One Woman Show.
A classic. One of my comfort episodes.
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Re-watching this one and thinking of the alarming number of times the family photo bit opener has been quoted in our house over the years.
“YOU CANT _______ WITHOUT YOUR NICE PANTS ON!!!”
“BOOGER!!”
“OH, MY HAIR!!”
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