David Spade slammed a mall’s tree-lighting ceremony for omitting the word “Christmas.”

In the Sunday episode of Spade and Dana Carvey’s “Fly on the Wall” podcast, the 61-year-old “Grown Ups” actor called out the organizers of a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony for “consciously” avoiding any mention of the Christian holiday during the event.

“I will say that Christmas is taking a little bit of a beating lately. It is December and I saw the other day there was a tree-lighting ceremony for the Christmas tree in some dopey mall but it said tree-lighting ceremony, and they were careful not to say the word Christmas during the whole ceremony,” Spade said, without naming the mall.

“No,” Carvey, 67, said.

“Why?” Spade asked. “So it’s just a tree?” And you go, I would understand if you said, ‘T

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