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Samantha Bee responds perfectly to that Vanity Fair cover and we agree with Trevor Noah, women ARE ruling comedy now!
“Yes, Charlie!” Elizabeth Banks may direct those “Angels.”
Have women broken through the glass ceiling only to fall off the glass cliff?
R.I.P. May Boss, Stuntwoman extraordinaire.
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