Madeline Kahn/sickness/Jane Curtin is awesome/etc

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1. I have to admit I totally didn't watch the debates. I just need to take a break from politics right now. Hopefully not an 8-year break like last time.
2. I totally have the hugest crush on Madeline Kahn right now. Whaaaat?
   lmao, seriously, I could not imagine anything more random. I was just watching an episode of SNL hosted by her, and then all of a sudden I was having a Mel Brooks marathon that more or less lasted for my entire life. Also, I'm pretty sure I need to buy the VHS of First Family. Madeline, Gilda, and Bob Newhart--best first family ever, right?
   But yeah, I'm pretty sure it's just my goal in life to be obsessed with all women who have made a really badass contribution to comedy. It's like my thing. Nobody is safe.
   Apparently Madeline got fired from a movie by Lucille Ball...nobody really knows if it was just because she wanted to go do Blazing Saddles or something else, but either way it really excites me because I totally don't even like Lucille Ball. Just because I'm obsessed with the issue of TV and sexism during the Cold War and I believe that, contrary to popular opinion, SHE DID NOT HELP.
3. Why is everyone sick? It makes it harder for me to figure out who I got it from and seek retribution.
4. Sometimes I watch a Nerds sketch and I don't even believe that Enid Loopner and Jane Curtin are the same person. I kind of do that with Gilda too, but at the same time she's Gilda Radner so it's basically impossible to not immediately know who she is and be all "Gilda!" But yeah, there are a few characters where I'm just completely in denial. It makes me think that maybe they should have had her do more characters. Because I really don't count Jessica Antlerdance or the Snake-handling O'Shea's as characters. Although I do appreciate any opportunity to watch Jane Curtin petting a snake and humming.
5. Speaking of Gilda Radner, I totally just bought Gilda Radner: It's Always Something (the movie, not the book) on eBay. I'm totally psyched because apparently it's like a legit source for information since they interviewed Gilda's brother and Gene Wilder about a bunch of really specific moments. And it seems super-awesome, because they have actors playing all of her SNL castmates, etc, and it's not that often that you have a TV movie that consists of the SNL cast. So I'm totally desperate to see it, and it was definitely worth the $30 I had to pay for it. I've always wanted to own an Emmy consideration DVD; this is so exciting.