Comedian and actor David Spade blasted a mall tree-lighting ceremony for refusing to use the word Christmas. “You’re not allowed to slam someone else’s religion,” Spade said, pointing out a stark double standard.
Comedian and actor David Spade blasted a mall tree-lighting ceremony for refusing to use the word Christmas. “You’re not allowed to slam someone else’s religion,” Spade said, pointing out a stark double standard.
“Christmas is taking a little bit of a beating lately. It is December, and I saw the other day there was a tree lighting ceremony for the Christmas tree in some dopey mall,” the Joe Dirt star said during Sunday’s episode of the Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade podcast.
“But it said ‘tree lighting ceremony,’ and they were careful not to say the word Christmas during the whole ceremony,” Spade continued, before asking, “Why? So it’s just a tree?”
“I would understand if you said, ‘They’re doing the tree lighting at the Grove’ or whatever — but to consciously avoid that [Christmas], then what is the tree for? A December to remember? Is it a Lexus dealership?” the Tommy Boy star added.
