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Kevin M.

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Mar 22, 2020, 7:45:47 PM3/22/20
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Various celebrities doing various things. Please add to the list. 

Patrick Stewart reading Shakespeare sonnets 

Steve Martin playing the banjo


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Kevin M.

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Mar 22, 2020, 8:35:12 PM3/22/20
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Neil Diamond updated the lyrics to Sweet Caroline

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Mar 22, 2020, 8:42:55 PM3/22/20
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This is the first of these that I saw, I think last weekend (gee, it seems a lot longer than that). Yo Yo Ma:


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David Bruggeman

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Mar 23, 2020, 12:20:00 AM3/23/20
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Various musicians have been doing livestreamed concerts from their homes, (I'm aware of ones by Chris Martin of Coldplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMBK9OfsKO4, John Legend - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2NTcBmQkjw, and Luke Combs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNG-r5el24Y).  I've seen a few quarantine themed hashtags, but for me #TogetherAtHome gives the highest ratio of celebrity/non-celebrity performers.

Others have been uploading songs (if you've ever wanted to hear Katharine McPhee and David Foster duet, now's your chance.)  Here's the cover of Patsy Cline's 'Crazy'


Live From Here (formerly named A Prairie Home Companion), carried by many an NPR station, has been encouraging its guests and regular performers to record something using the #livefromhome hashtag.  The show's #livefromhome playlist on YouTube includes video mostly from regular performers on the show.


I know other artists have responded, and a couple are in the playlist.  However, Norah Jones did a cover of "Patience" by Guns 'n' Roses and it's not on the list.  Sorry I don't know who's accompanying her on slide guitar.  It's my favorite song by GnR, and I really recommend the cover.


Some comedians are uploading video diaries from wherever they're holed up.  David Spade appears to be doing a version of his show from his house. 


Norm MacDonald uploaded a set he did about COVID-19, and he might be doing a podcast from his house.  https://www.youtube.com/user/NormMacdonaldLive

While Samantha Bee just had a short video prologue video noting the quarantine, she posted the longer version, and an additional video, online.

Along with all the new Daily Show stuff released online, the show compiled some Between the Scenes segments about Trevor Noah's grandmother with the segment when Trevor visited her with a camera crew.

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David


David Bruggeman

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Mar 24, 2020, 10:42:54 PM3/24/20
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Seth Meyers has joined the late night party.  Yesterday he posted a "Closer Look" segment and today was an edition of "Jokes Seth Can't Tell"  Both available on the show's YouTube channel.


Sir Patrick is continuing to read a sonnet a day, which you can access via his social media accounts - @SirPatStew on Twitter and Instagram, Patrick Stewart on the book of faces.

(checking on his socials, I now know the Free Picard on All Access lasts through April 23)

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Kevin M.

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Mar 24, 2020, 11:10:17 PM3/24/20
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The Grand Tour (formerly Top Gear) trio each filmed quick videos encouraging people to stay home

And if you haven’t watched any of James May’s videos from his “bugout bunker kitchen,” they are simplistically silly, especially the one with Richard Hammond 


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Tom Wolper

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Mar 25, 2020, 10:47:25 AM3/25/20
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:10 PM Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote:

The Grand Tour (formerly Top Gear) trio each filmed quick videos encouraging people to stay home

And if you haven’t watched any of James May’s videos from his “bugout bunker kitchen,” they are simplistically silly, especially the one with Richard Hammond 


Austin City Limits is opening its archive from the past 3 seasons and episodes are available for streaming.

Tom Wolper

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Mar 25, 2020, 10:51:30 AM3/25/20
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 10:47 AM Tom Wolper <two...@gmail.com> wrote:

Austin City Limits is opening its archive from the past 3 seasons and episodes are available for streaming.


The NFL has made its Game Pass free. You can stream not only games from their archive but also A Football Life and Hard Knocks.

I got Game Pass to watch old episodes of A Football Life. The full archive is available on my desktop through their website. I installed the NFL app on my TV and only 10 or so episodes were available. I installed the app on my iPad and only recent Super Bowls were available (so I uninstalled that app).

David Bruggeman

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Mar 25, 2020, 6:31:39 PM3/25/20
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Bandsintown will run a series of livestream marathons on their Twitch channel, with proceeds benefiting the Music Cares COVID-19 fund.  The next ones are Thursday and Friday from 1-9 Eastern.  List of acts can be found here - https://news.bandsintown.com/article/2020-03-21-dont-miss-the-bandsintown-live-music-marathon-next-week/

Verizon will livestream an hourlong concert by Dave Matthews as part of a series to benefit small businesses Matthews performs tomorrow at 8 pm Eastern on Verizon's Twitter feed (@verizon).  Future performances will be Tuesdays and Thursdays at the same time.

David

Kevin M.

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Mar 30, 2020, 10:43:52 PM3/30/20
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John Krasinski with Some Good News


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Apr 3, 2020, 9:52:34 PM4/3/20
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Levar Burton reading books is what you need right now 

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David Bruggeman

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Apr 4, 2020, 12:12:23 AM4/4/20
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Questlove has been doing multi-hour DJ sets (three hours or longer) over the last week or so, streaming live (and later archived) through The Roots YouTube channel.  He's encouraging donations to FoodHub NYC.


Tonight's set (still going at 12:10 am EST) is a tribute to Bill Withers.

David



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Apr 4, 2020, 3:42:43 PM4/4/20
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Kevin M.

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Apr 4, 2020, 3:43:35 PM4/4/20
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On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 12:42 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

No. He doesn’t, 



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David Bruggeman

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Apr 7, 2020, 1:54:14 PM4/7/20
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Several of the "Whose Line" people (Aisha, Ryan, Colin, Wayne and Jonathan) are doing videochats via YouTube (Search for Wayne Brady's channel).  I haven't watched them all the way through, so I don't *know* if they're doing any games.  I think they're just talking and busting each others' chops.  Ryan, as you might expect, usually has trouble logging on.

David

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Kevin M.

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Apr 9, 2020, 11:18:53 PM4/9/20
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For those on the Instagram, DC Comics had a live-stream of Kevin Conroy (MY Batman) reading a Batman script. It’s a live story so it will only be available for a day or so. But if you miss the animated series, this is nice. 


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