Who is Jon Stewart playing in The Facts of Life Live ? Speaking of “Hahniston,” these two Hollywood pals also appeared together in the 2013 feature film We’re the Millers. Kathryn Hahn has been everywhere these days-scoring an Emmy nomination for her scene-stealing role as Agatha in WandaVision, appearing opposite Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell in Apple TV’s The Shrink Next Door, joining the cast of the upcoming Knives Out 2-so why not here, too? In fact, the only problem with Hahn’s casting may be that, as Aniston told Kimmel, she can’t stop laughing in rehearsals every time she and Hahn make eye contact. Related: The Handmaid’s Tale Star Ann Dowd on Finding Success Later in Life: “Don’t Ever Give Up” Who’s playing Jo in The Facts of Life Live ?

And according to Kimmel, fans will be stunned to see how much Dowd resembles Rae from back in the day (complete with bouffant red hair!). Garrett appeared on both Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes, Dowd is actually performing in both live re-creations. G is being taken on by an actress best known for being anything but maternal: Ann Dowd, who won an Emmy playing the sinister Aunt Lydia in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. In the live re-creation, Whelchel also sings the Facts of Life theme song! In the end, though, The Facts of Life wound up outlasting its predecessor Diff’rent Strokes by one season while making teen icons out of its lead actresses: Lisa Whelchel, who played spoiled snob Blair Warner Nancy McKeon, who played tomboy Jo Mindy Cohn, who portrayed Natalie and Kim Fields, whose Facts of Life alter ego was the beloved and adorable “Tootie.” The common link between the two shows was the character of Edna Garrett ( Charlotte Rae ), who served as the Drummonds’ housekeeper before taking a new job as a house mother at the fictitious Eastland School for Girls where The Facts of Life was originally set. Drummond ( Conrad Bain ), a rich, white Upper East Side widower.

Fun fact for those who don’t know or remember: The Facts of Life -which, over nine seasons, followed a quartet of boarding-school girls from adolescence through young adulthood-was actually a spinoff of Diff’rent Strokes, the iconic sitcom about two Black brothers from Harlem (originally played by Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges ) raised by Mr.

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