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Anton's Thanksgiving

In Living Color
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A society luncheon invites homeless Anton Jackson to its Thanksgiving table to feel good about charity, and the guests quickly regret it.

Community rating

– / 10

The premise

Here’s the bit.

Hostess Mary introduces the charity guest at her club's upscale Thanksgiving luncheon: Anton Jackson, the street-dwelling drifter, who shuffles in late, scratches and fidgets in his filthy overcoat and bags up food for later. Asked to say a few words he offers a crude toast, then mishears an invitation to carve the turkey and handles the bird with alarming enthusiasm. As his manners empty the dining room one guest at a time, Anton is left with the feast and calls in his friends from the street, who take over the table for a Thanksgiving of their own.

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Highly quotable.

The limo dropped me off too soon. It had one of them bumpers you couldn't hang on to.

May your liquor be cold, your women be hot, and all your problems slide off like snot.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

This second-season episode was left out of In Living Color's syndication package, so the sketch was rarely rerun on television.

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