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Hacks Recap: It’s Wine O’Clock Somewhere
It’s hard to believe Deborah would be so ill-prepared to host her dream late-night gig and so ready to accept data-driven, focus-group insights.
We’ve got a potentially interesting tug-of-war between two visions — the pragmatic, insecure Deborah, pretzeling herself into a pleasing shape by the data and focus group’s findings, versus the snobbish, insecure Ava, who watches with envy as her former On the Contrary colleagues get invites to the Hill and can’t stop Googling “Peabody submissions deadline.” But we end up spending most of our time picking the lowest-hanging fruit on the modern comedy tree — a TikTok star whose whole thing is doing stupid dances — in a story that goes nowhere. I switched to a Samsung phone so she wouldn’t be the only one with green bubbles.” He threatens her with the sort of bullying (it involves horse porn) that sent James Corden running back across the pond. Especially given all the drinking, starting with the “why not?” lunchtime margarita, I was sure we were headed for some drunken disaster, either that afternoon or later on camera, after both Kayla and Jimmy gave her some tequila shots for confidence, not realizing the other had already done it.
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