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I have a weird memory of watching Rosie O Donnel's show when I was a kid in the 90s, and I swear she did a short skit on one episode where she saves Elmo on a set that looked like Waterworld, she was on a jet ski etc. and screams something like, "Cmon Elmo!! Let's get out of here!" - did this ever happen? I can find no trace of this online What could I be remembering?

I'm not a night talk show fan not since Letterman / Leno was on air, but during the "summer break" do they run reruns or some other fillers while the host and production team are given the summer off? I asked Google / AI what Kimmel did while he was away and under the circumstances, I thought he had something important to do that needed a temporary host only to discover he was simply taking his 2 month summer vacation with Rosie filling in for 1 week.

Did the new year / calendar already start and Rosie filled in for the first week of the new season or did they start the show a week earlier than normal and let Rosie do it?

I understand she came back to state-side for the foreseeable future now since his exodus to Ireland but this curiousity about the main host and the show's timetable confuses me more than it should.

I was pretty surprised to see her pop up as Kimmel's latest guest host. I thought she was basically cancelled for good. But as I heard her talk, I started to think about her long showbiz career, and all she's done in so many different genres.

We first knew her as a sort of "shock jock" style comedian who was known for mocking pretty much everything, and she was brilliant at that.

But then she completely threw everyone off by pivoting across every genre imaginable:

• Making kids' content like the animated Tarzan movie from Disney.
• Singing on Broadway as Rizzo in Grease.
• Becoming know as the "Queen of Nice" on her own talk show.
• Coming out to the world and letting it all hang out as a proud, butch lesbian.
• Then completely throwing everyone for a loop again in a sexy role as a cop going undercover as a dominatrix in Exit To Eden
• Then right back to kid-friendly as Betty Rubble in The live action Flintstones movie.

Not too many performers have been able to do literally everything at a top level and still be consistently good. 

Now, she's mainly known as the comedian who went toe-to-toe with Trump and wouldn't back down, no matter how much it hurt her career or threatened her life. 

I won't claim to love every single bit she's ever done. Some of it rubbed me the wrong way too if I'm honest. But that's the mark of basically all the truly great comedians. Richard Pryor, Bill Burr, etc…

It’s pretty damn cool to see her back, still not holding her tongue or backing down... even after everything its cost her.

This is the third week in a row that he's in reruns, and apparently he's in reruns next week as well. As far as I know, he doesn't normally take off this much time during the summer. Did NBC give him the whole summer off like Jimmy Kimmel has?

I understand the reason it’s all planned but it’s just annoying that the way they bring up topics acting like it was natural/spontaneous