Meghan Trainor and Jimmy Kimmel team up to fix America's dearth of Thanksgiving carols

Meghan Trainor and Jimmy Kimmel team up to fix America&#039;s dearth of Thanksgiving carols — (Image credit: Jimmy Kimmel Live)

There's no reason that Adam Sandler's two-decade-old "Thanksgiving Song" should be the only real anthem America has for its most popular secular holiday. Jimmy Kimmel thinks the lack of Thanksgiving music is a shame, he said on Tuesday night's Jimmy Kimmel Live, so he enlisted the help of "All About That Bass" singer Meghan Trainor. Trainor good-naturedly teases a range of Thanksgiving carols, including "My Flight Got Canceled in Denver" and "Uncle Dan Hates Obama (And He Won't Shut Up About Benghazi)." And she may have improvised the best line: "Who the f--k is Benghazi?" Watch the parody commercial below, and start feeling the spirit of Turkey Day. --Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.