Monday, January 14 – Lots of opening
blurbs: the LA teachers’ strike (with grammatically-correct
chants!), an Instagram picture of an egg with 26 million likes (I laughed so
hard at its Oscar-hosting gig being “ruined” by its old “EGG WHITE POWER!”
tweets,) China landing a craft on the dark side of the moon, and Chicago Bears
fans failing at a challenge they berated their kicker for. Next was the news that the FBI investigated
Trump possibly acting on Russia’s instruction – I loved the jokes on Trump
being the worst spy ever. We also looked
at some early Democratic candidates for 2020.
I especially liked Trevor comparing Julián Castro’s speech patterns to
Obama’s. The guest was Derek Waters of Drunk History. Before the interview, in which he talked
about wrangling drunk comedians, he and the show created a “Trump History,”
with the correspondents reenacting non-drunk Trump’s dubious Civil War stories.
Tuesday, January 15 – We started with Brexit
and Netflix’s price hike. Good story on
Trump serving fast food to the NCAA-winning team visiting the White House. I loved Trevor calling Big Macs by
candlelight quintessentially Trump:
something fancy mixed with something “garbage-y.” Fun bit of Trevor playing “Racism Detective”
examining clips of Steve King – my favorite line was, “God damn, that was so
racist it burned my lungs!” Ronny did a
tech piece on the consumer electronics show’s most useless new technology. I enjoyed his anger at the inconvenience of a
vending machine that sells whole loaves
of bread, and the sensor to send you notifications on your baby’s diapers
made me laugh. Author Tressie McMillan Cottom was the guest, and I loved her.
She had great things to say about Black women, their experiences, the
assumptions people put on them, and why she chooses not to code-switch.
Wednesday, January 16 – Quick bits on
Kirsten Gillibrand joining the 2020 race, YouTube banning harmful challenge
videos (featuring Thomas Edison’s nuts slamming into a metal railing,) William
Barr accepting Trump's attorney general appointment because he’s “led a good
life”(?), and the homophobia of the school where Karen Pence works – I liked
what Trevor said about using religion as ana all-purpose excuse for
discrimination. We got the latest on the
shutdown, including Nancy Pelosi disinviting Trump to the House for the State
of the Union; Trevor envisioning the spelling mistakes (and included “stage
directions”!) of a Trump speech delivered in writing was great. New Back in Black on state laws that went
into effect in the new year, ranging on issues from the age of consent for marriage
to mandatory cursive to pet custody in divorce settlements. The guest, Keegan-Michael Key, denied having
designs on Trevor’s job, despite his sharp suit, and Trevor seethed with
jealousy over Key being in the new Lion
King.
Thursday, January 17 – We opened on an Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That, featuring Rudy Giuliani maybe admitting to collusion
in the campaign, Michael Cohen rigging polls for Trump (that Trump later called
rigged!), the 10-year challenge and the twinning app being mined by facial
recognition technology (loved the bit about Trevor coming up as a celebrity “twin”
for wildly-differently-looking people,) and Microsoft stepping in to do the
business of the government during the shutdown.
Speaking of which, we got Cardi B.’s thoughts on the issue and looked at
unpaid federal workers turning to GoFundMe to stay afloat. Great bit on the wall, with a staggering
montage of Trump’s clueless evasions as to how
“Mexico was gonna pay for it” and Jaboukie showing off the ease of using his “A-Mexican
Express” card. Don Cheadle was the
guest, getting me even more hyped up for Black
Monday and talking about his activism.
No comments:
Post a Comment