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Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen star in Amazon's new sleeper hit. Amazon Prime Video Photo by: Amazon Prime Video #Forever #FredArmisen #Portlandia #MasterofNone #AlanYang #30Rock #MattHubbard #MayaRudolph #SNL #Comedy With little fanfare—even less spilling of its secret central conceit—Amazon released its new comedy,  Forever , earlier this month. Starring Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen as married couple June and Oscar, it’s a show that wrings every last bit of humor out of the day-to-day humdrum of domestic partnership. It’s like if one of the odd couples Armisen was a part of on  Portlandia  wrote their own show after a lot of therapy. It also happens to be one of the best new shows of the fall. Created by Alan Yang ( Master of None ) and Matt Hubbard ( 30 Rock ),  Forever  also has a premise that’s better left unshared. (At least in this intro; we can’t promise there are no spoilers below.) Like an onion made of wit and insight and tract housing, it...

#EGOT # TracyJordan  #TracyMorgan  # Dealbreakers  #30Rock  years, awards-show enthusiasts have come up with elaborate systems for predicting and logging the entertainment world’s winners, losers, and tragic snubs. As hype over who wins has grown, so has a fascination with show business’s overachievers. Only a talented few have reached the apex of this proverbial horse race, but it wasn’t until a multiseason  30 Rock  subplot that the public knew what to call it. In “Dealbreakers Talk Show #0001,” the seventh episode of the show’s fourth season, Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) strolls into a jewelry store called Yakov’s Nubian Bling Explosion to find a gift for his wife as part of a larger effort to prove he’s responsible enough for them to have a daughter. But within seconds, his eye catches on a large gold necklace with diamond-encrusted letters that spell out “EGOT.” “Who’s an EGOT?” Jordan asks in earnest. “EGOT is not a person, T.J., it’s a goal...