Here’s an entertainment tip: watch “Conan Without Borders: Mexico” on Netflix if you have it! I’ve always been somewhat of a fan of the quirky ginger, but this had me literally laughing out loud all by myself. Not only is it hilarious, it really shows the class and kindness of the Mexican people. It makes you realize how incredibly insulting and stupid it is to keep suggesting bigger and better walls between us and our neighbors!
Update: I watched the rest of the episodes and just wow! This has to be one of the greatest TV programs of all time. Talk about walls: when Conan is standing on the Palestinian side of that monstrosity that Israel built it really drives home what kind of damage they can do to our psyche; what an insult it can be, even when there’s such a better reason to build one than whatever our fearless President comes up with. His interviews with especially the kids in the camps still bring tears to my eyes as I write this the next day.
At the same time, the laughs are huge. My goodness, when Conan sits in on a classroom in Haiti, his entrance is goofy, lifting the tiny desk made for 9 year olds and wedging it on his enormous legs; but as the scene goes on, the wonderful kids throwing him a funny look once in a while, he starts ramping up the abstract comedy, ending up turning a room full of some of the best behaving kids I’ve ever seen into the most wonderful chaotic drum circle. By the time he’s leaving, already sitting in the car, the questions and comments from the children are just amazing…. I don’t want to write any more, you have to experience it for yourself. I have NEVER, I repeat NEVER been so moved and made to laugh literally out loud by the same program.
And God bless Conan for going out there and restoring, ever so slightly, the faith of the rest of the world in the USA. As a matter of fact, one of the recurring themes of the whole series is not only that almost everybody despises Trump and especially his never-ending insults to the “shitholes” of the world (responses of those in Haiti are beyond inspirational and hilarious), but more importantly, that they have love for the american people. He gives an angry woman the time to yell at him about the Donald, then wins her and everybody else over with his genuine interest in them and he ALWAYS makes a point to say something special in their language.
