As you may have figured out from the week of videos I recently posted when John Mulaney hosted Saturday Night Live, I've become a big John Mulaney fan.  So, when I signed up for Netflix streaming a couple weeks ago, I saw that they had a John Mulaney special and watched it last night.  I should note that this is even more uncommon than you might think because, as much as I love comedy, I'm not a big fan of standup.  That's not to say I don't like any standup-comedy -- I do -- but not much.  It's just not my favorite form of comedy.

So, last night I watched his special, Kid Gorgeous at Radio City, and it was wonderful.  I even found myself laughing out loud a couple of times alone in the room.  That doesn't happen often, even when watching a comedy that I love.

Some of it is that his twists are funny, or his observations, or construction.  But a lot of it is that he's a wonderful performer and his delivery is just so good.  Even when he's not delivering a joke, I found myself often with a smile on my face, and sometimes laughing.  Describing the lines won't do much good, because it's his pacing and performance that make them come off well, For instance, he even got a big laugh explaining why he said something that he knew wasn't funny and doesn't get a laugh, just a large reaction.  It comes after a description he makes about a policeman who came to his grade school in Chicago every year to give a "Stranger Danger" speech at school assembly.  And that description is an absolutely great line, pointed, unique but a bit uncomfortable, and while the audience reacts in a huge way, it's -- "Ooooooooooo-oooooo."  After which Mulaney says -- and I can't get across his style, but he turns to look directly at the audience -- "That NEVER gets a laugh, but when you write a line like that... -- It Is Never Coming Out of Your Act."  And that gets a big laugh and applause.

Anyway, at one point, he explains that he's never been political, but it's impossible to miss the news, and for the next almost 10 minutes he goes into a story about the Trump administration that is not only uproariously funny and devastating, but not once does he mention Trump or any other politician or even anything about politics.  It's a remarkable, unique take.

I searched YouTube to see if they might have the clip from the show, and they didn't.  But -- I did find an appearance he made on the Colbert show a few years back where he's chatting with the host, and as part of their conversation he does work in about two minutes of that bit.  It comes a bit after the 8-minute mark. The first eight minutes are a charming joy, so that's worth watching, but it's when Colbert asks him about a trip he took and if politics came up that he conversationally slides into his act.  Alas, it's just two minutes out of what's almost 10 on stage, but you'll get a hint of it.

​And if you like John Mulaney and have Netflix streaming, the full show is really well-worth checking out.

Just a bit of a prank that Jimmy Fallon and Paul McCartney play on visitors to 30 Rock.  It starts off pretty mediocre, but they eventually start getting a bit more clever and fun.

The main story on last night's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver seems an unlikely one -- a look at mobile homes.  But it's very good, delving into to repellent practices in the industry -- done with solid insight, outrage and lots of humor.

It's been far too long since I've had one of those video that comedy shows around the world have made, making the case about -- if, as Trump says it's 'America First' -- why they should at least be second.  And for this offering, we have Iceland.  

This is a touch different from the others.  Those were largely good-natured and making fun of themselves as at Trump.  This does that, too -- but is much more direct in its criticism of Trump

Yes, another new one this week from Randy Rainbow.  And it's a good one, at  that -- both with very good song parody lyrics, and a lot of fun production values.
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Trump releases his college transcripts that show he knows almost none of the best words.

Ivanka Trump calls for prison reform in anticipation of her ending up there.

Melania Trump to finally give press conference on her immigration status and then surrender herself to ICE.

Trump acknowledges that Puerto Rico was, in fact, hurt badly by a disaster, and that it was him.

Don Jr. releases his father's tax returns by mistake, thinking they said "Jr." but didn't.

Nancy Pelosi says she practices Kabuki Theater on Trump.

NRA offers "thoughts and prayers" to itself in hopes it doesn't go to hell.

Lindsey Graham regains consciousness and says he has no memory of past year.

Trump praises Barack Obama.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders becomes first press secretary to take the Fifth while holding a press conference.

Ancestors of WWII Fascist leader Francisco Franco sue Republican Party for copyright infringement.

Trump explains typo in his bio that he doesn't "own" billions but "owe" billions.

Kellyanne Conway admits that half the time she has no idea what Trump is talking about.

Rachel Madow starts broadcast with news instead of 12-minute history lesson.

Vladimir Putin releases transcripts of his meetings with Trump just to get rid of them because they were creeping out everyone at the Kremlin.

Trump in negotiations with Lego for deal to build his Wall..

Tiffany Trump petitions court to change her name -- will drop "Tiffany" in place of "Never."

Mitch McConnell to leave Senate for "Some long soul-searching on what I've become."

Meghan McCain makes it through an episode of The View without claiming to be a victim of anything.

Tucker Carlson upset when people call him a "little Fascist" because he's actually 6'1". 

Democrats will hold first debate in Houston Astrodome with spectators invited only if space allows.

Trump says it's unfair to say he hates minorities because he hates all people.

Mike Pence was replaced by Disney robot for six months and no one noticed.

Ethics Chief says Devon Nunes to be charged rent for time spent living up Trump's butt.

Trump resigns before Senate votes to convict him of impeachment 99-1 with Lindsey Graham the only holdout.

This piece from this week's Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is both very funny and utterly infuriating.  Reported by Alana Harkin, it looks at the MAVNI program, taking highly-educated, exceedingly-qualified and deeply-vetted undocumented immigrants and offered them citizenship if they joined the military -- and how the Trump administration has dismantled it.

Here's the latest from Randy Ranbow.  It's especially timely, so there's less production than usual, though a lot of use of effective clips edited in.  It's also not as funny as most of his other song parodies, but that's sort of the point of it, I think.  And it wonderfully captures the sort of schizoid nature of the topic -- appropriate too for the Sondheim song its based on from Follies, which probably won't be well-known to most people, the tour de force number, "The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues."