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Riki Lindhome Figured It Out

There are so many heavily-anticipated albums coming out this year, but only one record contains lyrics this hot: “Have you heard of vaginal atrophy? / When your vagina gets smaller after menopause?” 

That’s from “Second Best Lover,” a pseudo-romantic ballad meant to reassure the listener that, really, he’s good in bed — even if the singer has had (at least) one better. You’ll find it on No Worries If Not, the first solo album from Riki Lindhome, perhaps best known from the musical-comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates, alongside Kate Micucci, and films like Knives Out and the Netflix series Wednesday. No Worries If Not, based on Lindhome’s one-woman musical Dead Inside, is a collection of funny, sometimes caustic, sometimes sweet tunes that speak frankly about her struggles to navigate relationships, infertility and endometriosis.

Here’s Why ‘SNL’ Political Cold Opens Rarely Pack A Punch

It wasn’t hard to guess how the recent Saturday Night Live starring Mikey Madison would kick off last weekend. Surprise, surprise — the cold-open sketch skewered the week’s hottest political story, with Andrew Dismukes as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth unintentionally entering the group chat of a group of teenage girls.

Just another meh sketch in a long run of meh cold opens over the past, well, decade or so. Somewhere during the show’s run — was it Will Ferrell’s George Bush impression? Tina Fey as Sarah Palin? — Lorne Michaels decided that America demanded SNL’s political take to open every show. “A high-energy cold open is important to (Michaels), and he often has the writers start from scratch on Friday or even Saturday,” according to Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live. “The idea is, if you begin the show with a home run, then momentum will carry through the next 90 minutes.”

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