We spoke a few years ago for one of our first episodes, when she was a correspondent for The Daily Show, before she created her own show, Full Frontal, and before we could even imagine a President Trump, who makes us so desperately need Full Frontal and powerful mind-numbing drugs. Smart, funny, and humane, she is given to at least one heretical assertion: “Canadian – Montreal – bagels are so much better than American bagels.” Well, heretical in my neighborhood.

•  PERSON: her mother
  (not her)
•  PLACE: a Cuban hotel
  (not here)
•  THING: her grandmother’s ashes
  (not these)
•  RANDY’S PLACE: a golf resort near Phoenix