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‘Amandaland’ Writer Reveals Dream Guest Star After Winning BAFTA: “She’s America’s Amanda”

Deadline·Max Goldbart·22 days ago
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Amandaland writer Holly Walsh ‘s dream guest star is a bit left field. Walsh and co took home the award for Best Scripted Comedy at last night’s BAFTA Television Awards . After the victory, Walsh told the winners press conference that she would love to get First Lady Melania Trump involved. “She is very much America’s Amanda,” joked Walsh. “Melania Narnia.” Since her out-of-the-blue Jeffrey Epstein press conference, British comics have taken a shine to the First Lady. She was parodied in an SNL UK cold open , during which she was played by Emma Sidi and reassured BBQers in a borough of south London that she definitely isn’t buddies with the disgraced pedophile. Britain’s Amanda, Lucy Punch , didn’t win Actress in a Comedy for the hit BBC series, and neither did co-stars Jennifer Saunders or Philippa Dunne, with the trio losing out to Here We Go’s Katherine Parkinson. Watch on Deadline But Walsh was in good spirits and even hinted at a third season of one of the BBC’s biggest comedies of the decade.…

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