Political satirist, LadyPartsJustice.org co-founder and "Daily Show" co-creator Lizz Winstead signed a recent e-mail, "Peace, Love & Pointergate." That's a big fat clue that the most memorable story of Jay Kolls' career at KSTP-TV is likely to be skewered during her annual year-in-review, which brings her home to Minnesota for performances around New Year's Eve.
The clue was confirmed in another e-mail promoting her shows: "2014 was a bumper crop of material folks and I am gonna cover it all. From the NFL and the GOP, POTUS to KSTP, I'm going full frontal Lizz in calling them out."
Full frontal? "It means just when you think you know how I'm going to take on something, watch out! I might go even farther," Winstead told me by phone last week. She is delighted by Twitter's #pointergate. "I loved the pointergate story because it's ridiculous. It was such a stretch and revealed the worst in people. When you just make assumptions that are so wildly disprovable, what is wrong with you?"
This year's show, "Lizz 2014: Plan B from Outer Space," will be at Cedar Cultural Center Dec. 27 and 31. 7:30 p.m.
The opening act is her special guest and comedian pal Frank Conniff, the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" cult figure.
Since Winstead's specialty is biting commentary about behavior, I asked her to do a Q & A about what she hopes the newsmakers below learned about themselves in 2014.
She kind of stuck with the mission. You all know I can't tell a mind as creative as Winstead's exactly what to do, right?
Q: Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington, D.C., area NFL team?