I call that a Fancy Feast (I can’t believe I can say that on CBS)

February 2022

“This morning, all eyes were on Gobbler’s Knob, which I can’t believe I can say on CBS.” —Stephen Colbert

“That is so unfair, because if Africans were doing [expletive] like this and you heard that we pulled animals out of the ground? Like, there are villages in Africa where people wear animal skins, and if I tried to explain that Americans use groundhogs to predict the weather, they would be like, ‘But why not just use the satellite data?’” —Trevor Noah

“Yeah, that’s right, we spend all year telling people to trust science, then ask a large rodent to predict the weather.” —Jimmy Fallon

“You know, they could just flip a coin, but coins aren’t known carriers of rabies and hepatitis, so it’s more fun to go with the groundhog.” —Jimmy Kimmel

“And by the way, we looked into it — the Farmers’ Almanac calls the few animals who hibernate in winter ‘the seven sleepers.’ You want to know who two of the seven sleepers are? Groundhogs and bats.” —Jimmy Kimmel

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“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth 

and Orwell’s 1984.”