Join ever-acerbic comedian Lewis Black on an odyssey through history to rediscover and understand the origins of the Big Four holidays - Thanksgiving Christmas Chanukah and New Year's. Once the happiest season of all it's hard to deny that the 35 days between Thanksgiving and New Year's have become weighed-down with enough stress and anxiety - the shopping the wrapping the eating the drinking the card-writing the obligations the office parties the pressures the bills - to make even the most cheery holiday-goers bitter. What's with Thanksgiving Chanukah Christmas and New Year's? Are we losing touch with our most important holidays and with what made them well...holidays? And what can we do about it? Armed with history and humor and filled with the knowledge and advice of experts and fellow comedians Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black targets the holidays in an effort to preserve the ideals they are meant to represent and to help us all relax and reconnect with the joy of the season.