Today is a day of tremendous astronomical significance.
The moon is full and at its perigee, which means it's the biggest and brightest you'll ever see it. It also coincides with the winter solstice, and such an event will never happen again in our lifetime. So, it should seem fitting that Man on the Moon opens today. It could be a sign of good luck for Universal, or yet another omen of a millennial apocalypse. His stand-up act was completely unlike anything that came before.