David Spade Blasts ‘Christmas-Free’ Tree Lightings: Says Christians Are Getting ‘Hammered’
David Spade didn’t need a stage to launch into a rant — just a mall tree-lighting ceremony that, in his view, tiptoed around the word “Christmas.” According to Fox News , during a Sunday episode of his “Fly on the Wall”…
David Spade didn’t need a stage to launch into a rant — just a mall tree-lighting ceremony that, in his view, tiptoed around the word “Christmas.”
According to Fox News, during a Sunday episode of his “Fly on the Wall” podcast with Dana Carvey, the comedian said he was stunned to see organizers “consciously” dodge any mention of Christmas at an event meant to celebrate a Christmas tree.
Spade, 61, told listeners he watched the ceremony unfold and couldn’t believe the wording.
“I will say that Christmas is taking a little bit of a beating lately,” he said. “It is December, and I saw the other day there was a tree-lighting ceremony for the Christmas tree in some dopey mall, but it said tree-lighting ceremony, and they were careful not to say the word Christmas during the whole ceremony.”
Carvey immediately reacted: “No.”
“Why?” Spade asked. “So it’s just a tree? … But to consciously avoid that, then what is the tree for? A December to Remember? Is it a Lexus dealership?”
The back-and-forth quickly veered into the duo’s shared disbelief, with both comedians insisting they’d never met anyone of another Faith who felt slighted by seeing a Christmas tree.
“I’d say stop that bulls—,” Spade said, as Carvey added, “Everyone loves Santa and the tree and all the trappings.”