exhaustion

Midway through the tour in May, Rife revealed that the “extreme exhaustion” from performing and traveling had caught up to him and led him to cancel a pair of Indiana shows.

The buttoned-up, pantsuit-wearing former oncologist is not a repeat of the eager “Goldbergs” matriarch, but the character maintains the actor’s knack for playing beleaguered exhaustion for comedic effect.

“This level of exhaustion and lack of support is unsustainable,” he said in late October.

Harris returned to well-worn themes such as reproductive freedom, love for country and exhaustion with a decade of rancorous politics.

That includes a continued public insistence that he did not lose the 2020 election, extended rhetorical diversions during rally speeches and last-minute cancellations of media appearances that some have attributed to “exhaustion”.