Like Santa’s in his workshop, the Chair is still whittling away at his students’ screenplays. So we’ll keep it short and sweet — HAPPY HOLIDAYS, DEAR READERS!
Enjoy this truly hilarious version of the already-questionable “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” Think of it as the Chair’s gift to you.
Liza Minnelli and Alan Cumming – “Baby It’s Cold Outside”
Fall semester grades are always due a few days before the holidays.
You know what that means for me in the last weeks of 2024?
Reading a lot of original screenplays and TV pilots with post-apocalyptic, historical or contemporary end of the world scenarios where occasionally we are left with some small ray of hope at the end. But only if we choose to look for it.
And who says Gen Z is not paying attention to the world these days?
Good. For. Them.
Gen Z, I mean.
As for this baby boomer, I had to stop reading at some point for the palette cleanser of Saturday Night Live this weekend with guest host Chris Rock. Somehow he managed to do socially relevant, edgy and sometimes even dangerous comic commentary about the past, present and future all through his monologue and in each sketch he was in.
How did he pull it off?
As far as I can tell, it took three things:
Which is more than I can say for the TWO multi-BILLIONAIRE founder/owners of Meta (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp blah, blah blah…) and Amazon/Blue Origin/The Washington Post blah, blah, blah…
But what’s $1 million apiece to the 2025 inaugural party for the new POTUS/Time 2024 Man Of The Year, that NOT ONE of my smart, talented friends (Note: Which means ALL of them) will be watching in January because we love democracy and truly don’t give a….
Well, you know. You really do.
And so do many, many, MANY more.
But back to SNL. Again.
If like me and my friends, and their friends, you too need a palette cleanser – and a Christmas stocking stuffer for the family – try the Chair’s repeat shameless self-promotion. Yes, repeating once again this week instead of writing one more word about politics.
Order here either new, on Kindle or….used!
It will take you through 50 years of a lot of funny, smart and sometimes even dangerous social commentary. And bring you back to many years quite different than 2024.
Some of them were good or great. And a few of them were….well, none were exactly like this year.
As for the most recent Chris Rock episode there was a brilliant sketch about a car.
But my fave was the mindless, disgustingly side-splitting (Note: Almost literally) hospital sketch with a great former Not Ready For Time Prime Players cameo.
Because I, like many of the rest of you, are kinda sick these days.
As you’ll see….
#GodBlessAmerica.
notes from a chair 