The Democrats held the first ever virtual convention of a major American political party

this week.

It was four nights of programming that looked a lot like the zooms and web-exes we've

become accustomed to during this pandemic, or as President Obama put it when he spoke

on Wednesday night.

As you've seen by now, this isn't a normal convention.

It's not a normal time.

Instead of having a big convention hall stage, we had celebrity hosts in TV studios.

I first met Joe Biden when I was doing my show Veepe.

I played the vice president and he was, in fact, the vice president, and we hit it off immediately.

Instead of music piped in through speakers or live performances, we got glossy music videos

from Billy Eilish and John Legend and the constant, unrelenting use of Bruce Springsteen's

my city of ruins to pad every last transition from speaker to speaker to video to video to video.

But the virtual thing occasionally worked in the Democrats' favor.

Convention roll call is typically one of the longest slugs of the week and now we go to

the delegation from Utah.

Lauddy, dauddy, da.

This time around, in a time where many of us are grounded, we got to go to every last

state and territory from North Carolina.

I've been doing this for a long time, so let me just be plain.

Black people, especially black women, are the backbone of this party and if we don't

show up, Democrats don't get elected.

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