oh. lovely to see you, of course. but why are we preaching across the aisle in public? robert, brush by her and sit down. sorry. this is so sad. you two are pathetic. okay, we re blowing you off now. we re not even going to say good-b good-bye. on the count of our clashing philosophical views. it was a rare moment of conversation across party lines through the alpha house lens. this is the new hit show brought to you by amazon.com, taking a comedic look at four senators showing personal and political problems. jonathan alter, our friend, is an msnbc political analyst, author, and the executive producer of alpha house. congratulations, first of all. i saw the first three episodes at the nuesum last night.
you get to like these guys. you do. it demonizes them. gary is so talented at working on several different levels at once. you don t have to love politics to enjoy alpha house. but if you do, it s working at a character level, a political level, and it s simultaneously warm and piercing. you know, human and satirical. so you get kind of it all. what it doesn t do is it s not jokey. it s not set up joke, set up joke like so much of what you see out there. it requires a little more appreciation of some of the subtleties. but it was just so great getting to watch him work and help him out a little bit. we had a tremendous amount of fun. the first three episodes are free on amazon. they re up already. they re up already. episode four, which will be released this friday, you have