eighty-sixed

David Feinberg’s “Eighty-Sixed” is unique in that the whole first half is a joyous celebration of gay life in the city, from bathhouses to gay bars to bedrooms.

“When he told me I was eighty-sixed from the party, I was so relieved I screamed, ‘Thank you!

Comedy Central may have eighty-sixed “Drunk History,” but a live show inspired by that concept continues: “Drunk Black History,” which was started by Brandon Collins and Gordon Baker-Bone at New York clubs in 2019 and has moved to Zoom since the pandemic, serves up alcohol-fueled lessons about influential Black Americans.

This is either a reference to the team’s last world championship — 34 long years ago — or a signal that this plague year should just be eighty-sixed from memory.

She had just eighty-sixed then-press secretary Sarah Sanders, disseminator of Trump’s anti-democracy rhetoric that the press is the “enemy of the people.”