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Welcome to Sunday Four-Play!
NBC News’ long-running tagline “If it’s Sunday, it’s ‘Meet the Press” has long been seared into our brains. Of course, NBC’s legendary Sunday morning show has been a TV staple for 75 years and counting—and it only feels like Chuck Todd has hosted for the past 80 of those.
But while Todd is being replaced in September by the far more palatable Kristen Welker, this column will soldier on indefinitely, assuming it doesn’t get pulled immediately after its first installment, like whatever this thing is.
That said, it would be weirdly brash—and wildly premature—to say, “If it’s Sunday, it’s Sunday-Four Play.” But I hope you’ll make this humble column a regular part of your Sunday routine nonetheless. Every weekend I’ll share four notable Sunday show clips, festoon them with snark, and send you off into the coming week either slightly more enlightened or very much more bewildered.
I doubt I can keep it up for 75 big ones, as I plan on spending my golden years attaining Howard Hughes levels of reclusion, regularly walking to Fred Meyer in Kleenex-box slippers and sucking the entrails out of eyeless fish in subterranean caves like Gollum. But I can assure you none of that will happen until I’m through making fun of Ted Cruz.
So what do you say? Let’s get this show on the road.
