Monday, March 26 – We opened on March for Our Lives – I loved the riff about how much pressure must be on King family
members to have inspiring dreams, and Rick Santorum’s comment suggesting
students “learn CPR” rather than ask Congress to do something about gun
violence was despicable. A Trump edition
of Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That covered the ousting of Russian diplomats,
John Bolton joining the administration, the transgender ban in the military (I
loved the remark that trans people who’ve entered Alabama public bathrooms
would make the bravest soldiers,) the omnibus bill, and Stormy Daniels. Roy had a great field piece on a 2nd Amendment rally in Montana, featuring the stunning irony of protest organizers
requesting attendees not to bring
their guns to avoid “safety issues.”
Tyler Perry was the guest, discussing his empire and the importance of
having a Black-owned studio.
Tuesday, March 27 – The latest in gun
safety, with a Pennsylvania school equipping classrooms with buckets of
rocks(?!) to use against shooters. We
got a profile on John Bolton, featuring his general warmongering, his continued
support for the Iraq War, and a series of hilarious physical descriptions (my
favorite being “Gepetto cosplayer.”) I
liked the piece on a staggeringly-racist Heineken ad – I appreciated Trevor’s
theory that, with many people fastforwarding through ads, the only way to
actually get people to see them is to incite controversy and wind up on the
news. Roy’s own ad for his new corporate
service “Ask a Black” was fun, and the fake racist ads in it were appropriately
horrible. The latest Third Month Mania segment featured a guest spot from the guy from The President Show, highlighting the final Trump-BS matchups. Guest Sean Penn discussed the book he’s
written and mused on the need for the president to be impeached.
Wednesday, March 28 – After a quick blurb
on Trump firing his Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Trevor moved onto a story on
Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her complete dedication to whatever the Trump
party-line BS is. This piece led to a
fun skit from Desi taking Huckabee Sanders’s tactics and trying to apply them
to real life. Next up was an Alabama sheriff who bought himself a beach house with money he “saved” from his prison
food budget. Michael came on to give an
important lesson on the distinction between “wrong” and “illegal,” and I liked
Trevor’s point about how the sheriff’s actions here color his remarks on other
subjects (like suggesting opioid addicts should be imprisoned rather than
treated, thus increasing his budget.)
Musicians/Grown-ish cast
members Chloe x Halle were the guests, first fangirling as they shared the
story of getting discovered by Beyoncé and later performing a lovely pair of
songs from their album.
Thursday, March 29 – Trevor led with Kim Jong-un’s “secret” visit to China, foiled only by the use of his private
train. Good follow-up on the new
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, White House doctor Ronny Jackson – I appreciated
Trevor’s point that Veterans Affairs is enormous
(with more employees than GM!), and simply being a doctor shouldn’t be enough
to run it. Hasan came out to discuss an
English hate group’s proposed “Punish a Muslim Day.” He covered the inscrutable points system – to
be redeemed where? – and noted that condensing Islamaphobia into just one day a
year could be an okay deal. Desi and
Dulcé’s final Women’s History Month piece was on Sarah Howe, a woman who was highly successful in her field. Namely, conning people out of half a million
dollars. Desi’s performance as Howe in
the “reenactment scenes” was great. The
guest, Rosie Perez, talked Rise and
her experience supporting the arts in schools.
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