Sunday, March 18 – John of course
opened with Rex Tillerson’s firing and then moved on to Russia, covering both
the former spy killed by a nerve agent (featuring a Russian news anchor talking
like a Mafioso) and its election.
Excellent main story on Mike Pence, a stellar reminder that, if there
was no Trump, President Pence would be his own kind of awful. John looked at the VP’s slippery talent for
not answering questions, the grossness of this purportedly-principled man
hitching his wagon to Trump, and of course, his abysmal record on LGBTQ rights. John, promising to say something good about
Pence, applauded the VP’s pet rabbit, Marlon Bundo, and that’s when it got
awesome. In response to the release of a
children’s book written from the bunny’s perspective, the show has published
its own, one that involves Marlon Bundo falling in love with a boy bunny and
then outwitting the evil stinkbug who won’t let them get married.
Monday, March 19 – After touching on
the Facebook data breach from the 2016 election, we looked, naturally, at
Andrew McCabe’s firing. Trevor focused a
lot on how cold it was of Trump to fire McCabe the day before his retirement,
and I loved the bit about how long and suspiciously Trump has been threatening
McCabe’s job; the analogy with the woman who runs over her dickhead ex-husband
was great. We also got a story on the
Russian election, featuring the various ways Putin rigged the game, from
handpicking his opponents to running any real contenders out of the race to
transparently stuffing ballot boxes (Trevor’s jokes about the polling officials
obscuring the cameras with balloons were too funny!) The guest, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu,
talked about his awakening to the reality of Confederate statues and his
efforts to rebuild post-Katrina New Orleans as it ought to have been, not as it
was.
Tuesday, March 20 – I enjoyed Trevor’s
relish at Cynthia Nixon running for governor.
Great story on Trump’s plan to take on the opioid epidemic. I loved Trevor poking holes in his “make a
bunch of commercials to convince teens not to do drugs” idea that didn’t work
in the ‘80s and ‘90s, and the show’s anti-drug PSA saying that opioids would
make teens act like Trump was awesome.
No surprise, we also looked at Trump’s death-penalty call for drug
dealers, a notion Trevor similarly poked full of holes. We caught up quickly with March Madness before
moving onto another Third Month Mania update from Roy and Michael. Drew Barrymore was the guest. I’d been vaguely aware that she was on a
Netflix show called Santa Clarita Diet,
but I had no idea that it was a comedy about an undead suburbanite, and more
importantly, that it’s from the mind of Victor Fresco (the man behind the
amazing Better Off Ted!) How did I not know this?
Wednesday, March 21 – First up was Ben Carson
trying to blame HUD’s $31,000 dining set on his wife – I feel like cabinet
members should be able to keep things like that from happening. Next was Trump’s growing list of affairs (him
forgetting to sign Stormy Daniels’s NDA is still my favorite.) Big story on Cambridge Analytica getting
personal data on millions of Facebook users during the 2016 election, with
Trevor claiming he’d always known those “What’s Your Hogwarts House?” quizzes would
come back to bite us. Desi and Dulcé did
another Women’s History Month piece, this time on Willie Mae Thornton, the
woman who wrote “Hounddog” – I laughed at the remark that it was the “No Scrubs”
of its day. The guests were Matt Damon and Gary White, there to talk about their work with Water.org; I appreciated
Trevor’s comments about the day his family got running water.
Thursday, March 22 – Déjà vu with Joe Biden and Trump trading schoolyard threats in a way unbefitting two guys in
their 70s – I loved Trevor’s admission that Trump might have the edge, since
decades of McDonald’s have yet to kill him.
More on Facebook getting mined for users’ data. Ronny demonstrated his social media safety
(only posting pictures he steals from white girls’ Instagrams,) and I liked
Trevor’s response to Mark Zuckerberg not having expected to have to protect the
integrity of U.S. democracy. Lots of
guests tonight. Five Parkland students
appeared prior to the March for Our Lives to talk about their quest to combat school
shootings. I liked what one girl said
about the school grieving together and trying to help each other through
it. We also got an interview with RuPaul Charles about the new season of Drag Race. In between poses and bits, he also rejected
conventional masculinity and applauded all his girls as winners.
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