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I'm green! the kids love me and i'm a christmas character, you jerk. >> all right. >> and gumby, i want to -- >> give me a match. i want to smoke this cigar. >> you can't smoke here. >> don't tell me not to smoke, head shot. i do what i want to do. i am gumby damn it! >> that's really good. because there's a moment of -- there's a truism in there where he says i saved this show. and you believe that eddie murphy at the time did save the show. >> there's no doubt. the show was teetering on the brink of being canceled. and he came out of nowhere. he was a feature player and he emerged with these...

It's looking like a blue christmas for the cowboys as their playoff hopes dwindle with a loss to the eagles. andy scholes here with more in the bleacher report. andy? >> good morning, john. not a merry christmas for cowboys fans. you know, dallas could have won the nfc east yesterday, but they just had another classic cowboys meltdown. really didn't show up for this huge game in philadelphia. shorthanded eagles meanwhile seizing the day jumped on dallas early scoring the game's first point. the cowboys failing to score a touchdown. the eagles would win 17- 9. the cowboys now need the eagles to...

Media reporter and cultural commentator john farrly is the author of "around harvard square." great to have both of you here. people were so looking forward to this weekend. and let me just start, bill. what took him so long? why was he gone for 35 years? what's the back story? >> kind of a lot of, you know, incidents there. i mean, he was not with lorne michaels. michaels had a time he didn't run "saturday night live" so he wasn't part of that. he wasn't part of the lorne michaels universe. and then he really got upset with a bit that david spade did about him and really slammed him at one po...

He's facing a re-election in 2020. jeff sessions has re-emerged from his stint as attorney general running kben. i think it's reasonable to say i have questions. i think we always jump to the scynical view which is he does this to kowtow to voters. but you're not going to see a lot of other democratic senators mimicking doug jones on this. >> he says he wants the answers to fill in the gaps. without witnesses at a trial, how are you going to do that? >> he's not going to be able to. i think it's an argument just before christmas on a sunday show to say, i want all the facts so i can make a rea...

This show already. this doesn't count the taped viewers like you, alisyn. 10 million viewers on a saturday night. >> it's important how well it's doing online as well. you see the clip like the clip we just saw already has 4 million views on youtube. people are watching this over and over again. it'll have a life beyond just watching it first run on tv. >> that's right. it's really about the reach. the reach is endless. >> but just explain the significance of eddie murphy then and now. >> something i find interesting is the fact he made the show not just a celebration of his own history walkin...