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Weekend Update: Bruce Chandling on Thanksgiving

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The setup

Hack stand-up Bruce Chandling visits the Weekend Update desk to celebrate Thanksgiving, but his pilgrim jokes, corn puns and Black Friday plans keep going sideways for a patient Michael Che.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

With Thanksgiving a week away, Michael Che welcomes veteran stand-up Bruce Chandling to Weekend Update for his unique take on the holiday. Bruce arrives hungry and asking where the food is, then retells the first Thanksgiving as a story about pilgrims whose worst hardship was bad satellite reception during the big game. He follows with a pun on the Native word for corn, ignores Che's groans, and moves on to Black Friday, which he wants renamed after the bruises he would hand out to anyone between him and the hottest toy. Che gently checks that he is not really fighting people over toys, and Bruce admits he has no one to give a toy to anyway, which leads to a sad aside about never having a little Bruce of his own, his lack of a job and his inability to write in cursive or any other style. Che takes pity and invites him to his family's Thanksgiving, and Bruce accepts by repeating his opening question about where the food is.

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