The beauty of Thanksgiving is it’s flexible. Why can’t you have a cherry pie over the too sweet pecan pie?

I don’t think you can have a show where an actor leaves but is still part of a couple. I can’t think of a single tv show that did that. Not The Good Wife. Not Downton Abbey. How do you write it?

Yeah I saw thar. That’s scary and I’m genuinely worried. 

I’m actually sensitive to the opposite POV. Chris Rock (who I think has a nuanced take on this stuff) once said that if camera phones existed when he was starting, he’d have no career now because the stuff he said then was awful. I’m actually sensitive to that. Every artist, every person, will fail a lot before they…

Sure, but isn’t the bigger problem that the GOP base donates more, volunteers more, votes more, supports more? That in a few weeks these fundraising emails will be for Loeffler and McConnell and some scary white nationalist group and the Fox News viewers will support them, in a way the D base doesn’t do?

FTR I don’t think Trump can inflict more damage, at least not how people think. He was only able to do anything because the rest of the GOP protected him. They’ve made it pretty clear they aren’t going to bother any more. 

Why do Trump supporters always look exactly like what you would expect Trump supporters to look like? 

Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others. Plenty of twirling and... Boom! You’re elected!

I feel like everyone, including Oliver, is glossing over the elephant in the room. The fact that American institutions and laws were completely unable to prevent Trump’s illegalities and let him be an elected dictator for 4 years, accountable to no one. That’s not supposed to happen. Even with a GOP congress and…

I grew up in Canada. I’m aware of Carvel (and Fudgie the Whale in particular) through US TV pop culture osmosis. I think the only ice cream cakes I ever had growing up were Baskin Robbins at other kids’ birthdays. Meh but that could just be that I’m not a huge ice cream person. 

I’m super impressed you bake pretzels and just have them oven ready for your snacking. Doesn’t that involve food grade lye?

Honestly Dennis’s snack sounds healthy. I’ve tried so hard to like sardines since they’re cheap, shelf-stable, portable protein but I can’t make myself. Some of the ones in sauces like mustard are OK but even then it’s a slog. Same with mackerel. Too fatty. I wish I could train my tastebuds. 

Those crispy seaweed sheets are good. Or fruit. Or a piece of chocolate if I really don’t care and it’s a bad day. Or a carrot.

It’s a comedy world chiche that every hack comic who isn’t good enough for crossover success and needs to be in the safe alt-right bubble, WILL call his (always his) comedy show “Triggered” or “No Safe Space.”

If it’s a white man, it’s played by Beck Bennet or Kate McKinnon. The boring white guys are usually Bennett, so, Bennett I guess? Alex Moffat probably looks the most like him fwiw. 

Was it calling out, though? I get how it seemed transgressive because Chappelle broke the rules like addressing the audience and calling one of the performers by their real name, and race is such a big loaded taboo subject in general, but if you look at it, it was just a joke with nothing behind it. Like, Pete…

I think Chappell is hilarious but the smoking thing is affected as hell. Like, it’s 2020. I get how smoking indoors when it’s not allowed makes you a rebel but it really doesn’t telegraph cool badass.

It’s so weird that this iconic comedy institution, that drives the conversation, somehow delivered, in the most momentous occasion of the last 4 years, a long standup set not written by the show, and a few sketches, about half of which weren’t performed by cast members. Say what you like about the Hallelujah thing but…

Sobering that even a generational comic like Chappelle thinks you can do lazy shit jokes like “women be stupid” with no flair or punchline and then think that if the audience isn’t laughing, they’re oversensitive babies who are too politically correct.

Movies/TV shows where a plus-sized woman is seen as an attractive romantic lead and her size is a non-issue, meaning she’s neither overcompensating nor insecure.