Various public figures came up with some real whoppers.

Related to this point, my biggest disappointments of the year are these:

(1) Russia’s disinformation agencies don’t even make the slightest attempt to construct plausible scenarios. It’s not like a Ludlum novel where one must strip away multiple levels of brilliantly constructed propaganda to discover the truth. The Russians simply assume that we have not even the slightest bit of brainpower.

(2) Worse yet, they are right.

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The late Korean singer in a film called Real (2017)

The beautiful young performer apparently killed herself about two months ago. Sulli’s death was linked by various media outlets to depression caused by cyberbullying.

Man, people suck, especially behind the mask of anonymity. Obviously the internet didn’t cause human nature, but it really drew back the curtains on it.

“Eddie Murphy, who kept Saturday Night Live kicking through four of its bleakest seasons, will return on Dec. 21 to host the show for the first time in 35 years. Murphy has kept his distance from Studio 8H ever since David Spade, then a cast member, made a joke in the 1990s about Murphy’s faltering career. In light of Murphy’s long-awaited homecoming, we plotted the tenures of all 153 comedians who have been officially credited as cast members.”

Jeez, I miss Tim Kazurinsky. OK, not really. Amazingly enough, he is still alive (see below). Even more amazingly, IMDb indicates that his is still working, despite the fact that there are no more Police Academy movies. He had no credits in the 2013-14 era, but now seems to be mounting a … er … comeback.

Here’s some trivia you may not remember: Kazurinsky, Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo never worked for Lorne Michaels. Eddie’s tenure was in the only five seasons in which the show was NOT run by Lorne (1980-84)!