All right, so, we didn't get to see Tracey Ullman's State of the Union premiere last night. (We don't have Showtime just now, thank you very much.) But we really really wanted to, because Tracey Ullman has been on our mind for a few weeks now, ever since that Vanity Fair article about funny women came out. You know, the article that didn't mention her. Did that strike anyone else as a little weird? Granted, Ullman's had kind of a lo-pro of late, and -- perhaps more problematically -- she's an example of that sort of "one woman show" period in 80's and 90's comedy that most people in the world -- certainly the women profiled in that VF piece -- seem eager to forget.
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