Seeing as it’s almost the big day, here’s Jennifer Coolidge reading Twas The Night Before Christmas
“My great-grandfather used to read this to me when I was a little child on Christmas Eve. Now he’s dead.”
Look, 2021 pretty much sucked. The pandemic continued unabated, despite a couple of revolutionary and life-saving vaccines being available to anyone in the United States. December offered very little relief, as a far more infectious, though, perhaps less deadly, variant tore through the U.S., driving up hospitalizations. It’s something of a trend lately; every year is worse than the last. We get it: Pessimism is such an inviting salve in these trying times.
It can be very easy to get bogged down in the depressing state of affairs. The pandemic is a hydra, in that way, cut off one head, and another one grows in its place. But not all was bad this year. For instance, one Jennifer Coolidge delivered a knockout performance as the hopelessly self-absorbed Tanya McQuoid on The White Lotus.