Classy.

2017?? Fucking hell, you’re going to have to write another story about this the day before it’s available b/c I’m never going to remember this and need to add this to My List, thank you in advance.

Well thank you :-) Truth be told, we volunteers get just as much, if not more, out of being involved. I think you’re right that the horses understand that extra patience and gentleness is needed, it’s really wonderful to see. We also have kids in the program w/severe autism, including being non-verbal on top of having…

You can’t employ someone who says something we disagree with.

She’s basically his employer, isn’t she? I think that’s why. Not b/c she ‘loves’ him. Although, that may be part of it - questioning her love of someone who seems awful.

Whoa, now - the horse and cow aren’t anti-vaxx, as far as we know, so they can still sit with us.

As a volunteer mentor at an equine-assisted learning program for children and adults with disabilities (many on the spectrum), I love that you included equine therapy in that list! :-)

Unpaid internships are for college students during the summer, in the vast majority of cases. It’s a pretty common thing. College students really either need to do research or a career-building internship every single summer until they graduate. Often, they’re paid. Sometimes, they’re not. So, these unpaid interns are…

Good points. I definitely would have loved to see Wilmore hosting panels featuring black intelligentsia. The ‘correspondents’ had nothing worthwhile to say and weren’t funny enough for that to be tolerable. They were just like your drunk uncle at the table spouting off making things awkward when you’re trying to have…

It’s definitely painfully obvious how desperate they are to pander to the frat bro demographic. It’s making me watch CC less and less.

Exactly how I felt. Larry is really funny, smart, and classy, but the show didn’t fit HIM. It seemed sort of beneath him in the idiocy of some of the skits. It felt like grown-ups trying to pander to frat bros (maybe that’s exactly what it was given the target demo). 30 minutes was too short to try to discuss a…

What is it, exactly, that makes me a woman?

Goddamnit. I was kind of in the mood for a cry and got all ready to cry but I didn’t cry. I got a little worried when that car drove over him, but he seems happy and I’m not because I have seen what’s out there and it’s shit.

Agreed. “Keeping it 100" was completely pointless, which would be fine if it were funny, but it wasn’t.

Basically more like Bill Maher’s panel. The ‘funny’ or celebrity guests tend to not interrupt unless they have something of substance to say or there’s an appropriate moment that isn’t disruptive to the flow of an informative, compelling conversation.

I thought they were all funny, but just totally the wrong show for them. I thought the sketches were trying way too hard, way too affected. I’d have preferred lower key correspondents more similar to Wilmore’s style. Smart, informative but also funny. Rather than insanely animated bits more focused on slapstick than…

Interesting, I liked Stewart in the beginning, but for some time now I can’t STAND watching him b/c he seems absolutely desperate to be cool. And so, so aware of his popularity.

Well, I’m a white girl and I love Larry, more so than Colbert, Stewart, and Bee by far. I find them to be too affected, to the point that it’s annoying. And it’s like they’re too aware of their popularity and it really shows. Larry’s cooler, more natural, isn’t trying so hard (I mean that as a good thing). I hope he…

Same.

True re: the correspondents. I think they’re funny, but not for a current events-focused show (if that’s what they were doing, that’s what I watched for, anyway). Some of the sketches were just way too idiotic. But Wilmore himself can do serious and funny at the same time. Forcing the stupid sketches into the mix is…