EPISODE NUMBER: Season 2, Episode 39 (Friday, November 4, 2016)
GUESTS: Viggo Mortensen | Patton Oswalt | Maz Jobrani
SEGMENTS: Stephen Needs Relief from the Electoral Chaos | The Starbucks Holiday Cup Is More Divisive Than Ever | Stephen Colbert and Viggo Mortensen: Save the Bees | Viggo Mortensen | Patton Oswalt | Maz Jobrani
SUIT REPORT: Grey Suit | White Shirt | Black Tie
What a great episode! Stephen rails about the soon-to-be-brewing near you Starbucks holiday cup design controversy du jour.
- It’s about time for the annual tradition for everyone to get mad about Starbucks holiday cups…
[This year’s is] green and has a picture of people drawn with one continuous line. Because what says Starbucks more than a line that goes on forever!
This segment gives us an opportunity to see Brian Stack appear as God in the big dome and share his thoughts, which I really like. I get a real Monty Python feel from that comedy for some reason.
This episode also features some great interviews, including Stephen’s friend from the old show and the perpetually handsome Viggo Mortensen, who is supporting Green Party candidate Jill Stein for president.
Viggo Mortensen: I’m voting for Jill Stein for the same reason I supported Bernie Sanders. Because she’s talking in a meaningful way about many things that aren’t being discussed in the debates…they’re really not going into climate change in a big way. They’re certainly not talking about overspending in the military…I just want to vote my conscience and feel right about it.
Patton Oswalt is up next for a really lovely exchange in which he discusses the recent loss of his wife, Michelle McNamara. He and Stephen talk about how experiencing grief can make you feel alienated from others, who may fear that one’s grief is “contagious.”
Patton Oswalt: If you don’t talk about it, then grief really gets to setup and fortify its positions inside of you and begin to immobilize you. But the more you talk, the more you expose it to the air and to the light, then grief doesn’t get the chance to organize itself, and maybe you can move on better and easier…[grief] can’t be remedied, it must be endured – and it’s the endurance, oddly enough, that becomes the remedy.
Undoubtedly, much like in the Joe Biden interview, Stephen’s own profound experience of grief and loss help make these kind of interviews all the more powerful, because he really, truly gets it. He can empathize with sudden and tragic loss. It’s a gift, but a painful gift.
Switching back to lighter fare, I was also excited to see Iranian-American standup Maz Jobrani perform on LSSC. My husband is from Iran, and the way he makes light of Persian culture is, let’s say, very welcome to a long-suffering American wife. 😉 His Trump jokes were timely and totally killed.
What did you guys think of the episode? Sound off in the comments.
November 4, 2016 – Viggo Mortensen, Patton Oswalt, Maz Jobrani
EPISODE NUMBER: Season 2, Episode 39 (Friday, November 4, 2016)
GUESTS: Viggo Mortensen | Patton Oswalt | Maz Jobrani
SEGMENTS: Stephen Needs Relief from the Electoral Chaos | The Starbucks Holiday Cup Is More Divisive Than Ever | Stephen Colbert and Viggo Mortensen: Save the Bees | Viggo Mortensen | Patton Oswalt | Maz Jobrani
SUIT REPORT: Grey Suit | White Shirt | Black Tie
What a great episode! Stephen rails about the soon-to-be-brewing near you Starbucks holiday cup design controversy du jour.
[This year’s is] green and has a picture of people drawn with one continuous line. Because what says Starbucks more than a line that goes on forever!
This segment gives us an opportunity to see Brian Stack appear as God in the big dome and share his thoughts, which I really like. I get a real Monty Python feel from that comedy for some reason.
This episode also features some great interviews, including Stephen’s friend from the old show and the perpetually handsome Viggo Mortensen, who is supporting Green Party candidate Jill Stein for president.
Viggo Mortensen: I’m voting for Jill Stein for the same reason I supported Bernie Sanders. Because she’s talking in a meaningful way about many things that aren’t being discussed in the debates…they’re really not going into climate change in a big way. They’re certainly not talking about overspending in the military…I just want to vote my conscience and feel right about it.
Patton Oswalt is up next for a really lovely exchange in which he discusses the recent loss of his wife, Michelle McNamara. He and Stephen talk about how experiencing grief can make you feel alienated from others, who may fear that one’s grief is “contagious.”
Patton Oswalt: If you don’t talk about it, then grief really gets to setup and fortify its positions inside of you and begin to immobilize you. But the more you talk, the more you expose it to the air and to the light, then grief doesn’t get the chance to organize itself, and maybe you can move on better and easier…[grief] can’t be remedied, it must be endured – and it’s the endurance, oddly enough, that becomes the remedy.
Undoubtedly, much like in the Joe Biden interview, Stephen’s own profound experience of grief and loss help make these kind of interviews all the more powerful, because he really, truly gets it. He can empathize with sudden and tragic loss. It’s a gift, but a painful gift.
Switching back to lighter fare, I was also excited to see Iranian-American standup Maz Jobrani perform on LSSC. My husband is from Iran, and the way he makes light of Persian culture is, let’s say, very welcome to a long-suffering American wife. 😉 His Trump jokes were timely and totally killed.
What did you guys think of the episode? Sound off in the comments.