Jon Lovett

Well, thank you, Tommy, Dan, and John.

This is the biggest night of the year for me.

A chance to celebrate the pundits.

It's like we've been treading quicksand since January 20th, but only some of us were able to poke our sandy little lips out of the quagmire and speak into existence.

A truly brain-melting take.

You guys can tell which line's Howley wrote.

This year, we've had a breadth of horrors from the Trump administration, so we have more than just takes to present you.

It's a comprehensive, horrifying look-back show, but we're going to have fun.

As horrifying as it is, we'll have fun.

We're using the dog show format again, and boy, what a bunch of dogs it is.

We'll go through a bunch of categories, and at the end, we'll have one from that category move on to a chance to win the Best in Show Pundi of 2025 award.

Now, look, I know what's coming, and I know we're going to have a process fight at some point in this episode.

Do you just want to get it out of the way now or let it happen organically?

Just remind us of the rules again.

We're going to go through the categories, and you will pick a winner from each category.

Then they'll go to the best in show at the very end, our last thing for Pundi of the year.

And then we have to come to a conclusion, unanimous conclusion, like the UN Security Council or are we voting?

What are we doing here?

Consensus.

And last year, the best in show came from the polling category.