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EarnestPutz

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4. Remember when Chevy Chase would do the Weekend Update News on SNL and would announce "this just in from.....

Reply to Coventina (Original post)

Wed Jan 8, 2025, 07:48 PM

Jan 2025

........Spain. Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"? It was a send up because of the fact that his prolonged demise had gone on endlessly, with updates every night.

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