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oh, jim carrey just walked in. dwight, get his autograph for michael, quickly.your stomach? is that a muppet babies tattoo? (jim) oh, my god, karen, you're right. that is animal from the muppet babies. you can't see my stomach. i am not chopping off phyllis' head with a chainsaw! [imitates engine revving, clears throat] [cheerful music] ♪

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here at his home in wilmington but he may be surprised if he turns into saturday live to find out jim carreys no longer playing him on the show. he announced today it's time playing joe biden has come to an end. jon: hilary, thanks. we'll have more on the hunter biden investigation later in the hour. at the bottom, republican congressman from colorado joins me to talk about why he supports a special counsel investigation into the president collects son. turning now to the georgia senate showdown, press has 1.1 million voters already cast their ballots in the crucial run off senatorial elections. those numbers, that's the federal judge tosses another republican lawsuit that seeks to challenge out-of-state voter registrations for the runoffs. some people fear people are moving to georgia or pretending to just to vote in the races that will decide control of the upper changer chamber in congress and the direction of the country. charles. reporter: a federal judge dismissed that lawsuit after the campaign failed to come up with the avenues needed to support their claims. the campaign sought to f

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the cast member taking over the role after jim carrey announced to saturday he is hanging up his impressiong hosted the show with musical guest dua lipa. >>> taraji p. henson's name is synonymous with cookie lyon, the unforgettable matriarch on the hit series "empire." a role that earned henson a golden globe award for best actress in a television drama. in the movies, the washington, d.c., native has won praise for her performances in "hustle and flow," "hidden figures," and "the curious case of benjamin button" which earned henson an oscar nomination. she is stepping to another kind of screen with "piece of mind with taraji" on facebook watch where henson hosts raw, honest conversations about mental health. taraji and i got together over zoom this week for a virtual "sunday sit down." ♪ >> name cookie -- >> as cookie lyon, taraji p. henson was a self-assured icon of swagger and power. >> now, let's talk business, shall we? >> in real life, though, the actress is, like all of us, a work in progress. >> we are embarrassed to say we need help. >> with her conversational new show, "piece of m

i am so happy to see that they got rid of jim carrey doing biden, which i thought was terrible. >> whaty that donald jr. called him bas basic. i think the true test of a comedian is being able to laugh at yourself and your spouse. all of the great comedians do it. but this just shows that he's not a real comedian if he doesn't do it. >> well, hilaria or hitler he probably likes pumpkin spice lattes. all right, so next up, emotional support animals will become endangered species after this latest fan. alaska airlines is the first major airline to -- no more ponies, peacocks, or penguins on your next flight going forward. we will only allow service dogs. lawrence, i regret to inform you, my friend, you can no longer bring your peacock on alaska airlines. >> i am so excited about this and i hope they crackdown on the fake service dogs as well. i am on a plane 3-4 days out of the week and it is just so annoying to have to deal with it all of the time because they are not properly trained and you have these animals all over the place. they don't want to get in trouble because they put these

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but what was it like when you're being offered this iconic role from animation to the movies with jim carrey character. and this role is one of those roles that you can kind of anything goes and you can be as big and imaginative as possible. after not working for eight months, i was so excited and ready for the task and it was terrifying and thrilling and just liberating all at the same time i had so much fun getting into that green suit every day. >> i was going to say what was it like getting into makeup, into character and into that suit was it physically challenging? >> i lost a lot of weight honestly you know, it was so funny. it follows me everywhere, the grinch it's like whoa, whoa, hold on. excuse me. no, it was three and a half hours to get into the makeup, an hour to take it off and i only had to do that about five times in total because we rehearsed this like a stage musical for a month just in rehearsal space and then we actually had two days of camera blocking and two days of actual filming. >> what was it like doing this during a pandemic? you were in london, but still in the m

>> look, i think my life between 2016 and the summer of 2017 reminded a lot of jim carrey in the trumanimself. and ever single business person or professor or academic that i seem to have ran into between those critical months we now lauter found out was some sort of operative or somebody sent to set me up to basically try to undermine and upend donald trump's presidency which, of course, never worked. and it makes sense that this individual who drops this money in my lap that we've had a discussion about before, i found it very suspicious. i turned it over to my lawyer, and the next thing i find out is 15 fbi agents are essentially man handling me looking for money that i didn't have on me. it seems that there was a target on me from the moment i joined the trump campaign through the summer of 2017 which, obviously, was in the middle of the trump administration where they were looking to take down particular targets of the trump campaign and the trump transition, and i was certainly one of those key targets. fortunately, their plot failed, the trump presidency overwhelmingly succeeded

saturday's final "snl" episode of the year, and notably absent from the show was actor and comedian jim carreylect joe biden since the fall. before the show he tweeted, quote, though my term was only meant to be six weeks, i was thrilled to be your -- to be elected as your "snl" president. comedy's highest call of duty. i would love to go forward knowing biden was the victor because i nailed that blank, but i am just one in a long line of proud fighting "snl" bidens. cast member alex moffett assumed the role for the episode. it's unclear who will fill the spos permanently as the season continues. "saturday night live" returns with new episodes next year on january 23rd. that will be fun. still ahead, congress reaches a deal on covid relief, but how soon before it's ready for a vote? and what was left out of the bill to get to a consensus? "morning joe" is coming right back. ♪ sanctuary music (kids laughing) (dog barking) ♪ sanctuary music it's the final days of the wish list sales event sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first month's p