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January 2, 2026·56 min·5 clips
Artists like Lin-Manuel Miranda and Renée Fleming cancel performances over the Kennedy Center's Trump rebranding.
The opener has false-start energy all over it. CROI Health and Dover Rug spots crowd the front door before the hosts finally hit the button gag and admit they are somehow back already. Nobody got much of a break. The first show of the year turns into a scrappy little victory lap after closing out the last one only days earlier. Vera gets called a witch, which sends the room straight into the bit about catching fire in church. Everyone treats it like established show lore. Then New Year's gets personal. Vera talks through a strange Syracuse night at a gay bar, a friend's romantic chase, and a promised breakfast that never shows up. The awkwardness carries the whole story. With no phone to hide behind, she just has to sit there while the walls make it worse. The co-hosts keep poking at her. A second New Year's story nearly involves an arrest, which makes Vera sound wilder than she seems ready to claim. Then the recap kicks in. The plan is ten pop-culture moments from 2025, framed as stories that made news and stirred trouble. One example is political: the Kennedy Center becoming the Trump Kennedy Center lands on the list as a recent controversy. The tone stays crooked and quick. Even when the conversation moves toward bigger public stories, it still feels like friends talking across a table. Miss Piggy gets a glow-up. Sabrina Carpenter with The Muppet Show is treated as a strangely perfect pairing, and the closing stretch sounds honestly delighted. They promise more whiplash, then sign off looking toward the good, bad, ugly, and what moments of 2026. Uncensored Horror gets teased for Tuesday too.

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A ragged year-start recap that works because it never pretends the world is orderly.

The first show of the year starts in a familiar place: a New Year reset, a few personal digressions, then a brisk spin through 10 pop culture moments from 2025 that made noise and drew heat.

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A first-show-of-the-year recap that turns 2025's biggest pop-culture moments into loose banter.

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