Quote of the day: Do you suppose Our American Cousin really did continue its run after that unfortunate business that night at Ford's?

Rumblings began when the Quote of the Day staff heard that the Car Talk Puzzler begins its annual summer hiatus this week. The QOTD drudges insist they deserve equal treatment with a merely imaginary media entity. While we could simply have asked to look at their green cards, instead we took the high road. We pointed out helpfully that if they think workers have rights, they've stumbled into the wrong century. Perhaps, we suggested, they'd be interested in pursuing opportunities in the coal-mining industry?

Shortly afterward, an unmarked manila envelope appeared with the following:

A year or two back, comedian Dave Chapelle famously walked out on a $50 million contract with Comedy Central for another season of his hugely successful Chapelle's Show. Now those ever-enterprising folks at Comedy Central have mined the scraps from his produced shows and from them stitched together three "new" half-hours, billing them euphemistically as "lost episodes."

Washington Post Style columnist Tom Shales opines:

"Now the Chappelle scraps are made the centerpiece of 'All New Sundays,' which Comedy Central calls 'a fresh lineup of . . . the network's hottest series' and 'the perfect way to end the weekend.' It kinda makes you wonder if Our American Cousin continued to run at Ford's Theatre after Lincoln was shot there: 'See the play that gave Honest Abe his last laughs—ever!'"