Lewis Black takes a look back at 2023 and has an uncharacteristic positive outlook at it. Black was celebrating things like the return to almost, kind of, not really return to normal after the pandemic. He also looked positively at the possibility that Marvel movies might be coming to an end, noting that if he has to sit that long in a theater, he wants to be sitting next to Lauren Boebert. Other bright notes include the popularity of Ozempic, the fact that Kanye West finally shut his big pie hole and that Elmo Musk has all but killed the dead bird app once and for all.

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