Lewis Black's Rantcast
Lewis Black has some things to get off his chest! With his weekly podcast "Lewis Black’s Rantcast," the Grammy-winning comedian does just that. Channeling his anger in ways only a man who’s devoted his entire life to ranting can do. The tirades are sometimes big, other times small, yet they are always fun-spirited and truly hilarious. No topic is safe from Black’s trademark style of comedic yelling and animated finger-pointing. Skewering anything and anyone that gets under his skin. On the "Rantcast," Black isn’t the only person getting things off his chest, each week Lewis allows fans to submit their gripes so he can commiserate in their frustrations. Black’s long career includes movie roles in Accepted, the voice of Anger in the Pixar’s "Inside Out," and is currently the longest-running correspondent on Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show." We wanna make the podcast even better, help us learn how we can: https://bit.ly/2EcYbu4 For advertising opportunities please email PodcastPartnerships@Studio71us.com Privacy Policy: https://www.studio71.com/us/terms-and-conditions-use/#Privacy%20Policy
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May 7, 2025 • 55 mins
Lewis has returned from some shows performed at his Alma Mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Was it a fun visit for nostalgia trip? Or, as he put it, might’ve been an acid flashback. But while Lewis had all the intentions about talking about performing at his college longer, the news of the day needed to be addressed and boy is there a lot – from The Boss’s declaration for everyone to have to tighten their doll ...
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April 30, 2025 • 46 mins
There are no pleases here, just a hard statement of STOP! A simple request that Lewis makes on behalf of all of us. Whether it be another Signalgate, more silliness out of the mouths of public health officials, the Pope passing away, oh yeah and remember George Santos? He finally faced justice. It’s all too much, so just STOP!
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April 23, 2025 • 52 mins
Lewis is back from Georgia where he held his invitational golf outing and has some people to thank for their work in making it all happen and the people at the Luv U Project who work day in and day out to better assist people’s mental health. But as soon as he’s back from a couple day sabbatical, the nonsense of the news has returned.
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April 16, 2025 • 49 mins
This week on the Rantcast, Lewis puts down the messiness of the week and attempts to tell us about his work with The Luv U Project. A non-profit benefitting those with mental illness. By the time you’re listening to this podcast, Lewis is down in Georgia hosting an annual golf invitational benefiting The Luv U Project.
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April 9, 2025 • 52 mins
There’s a joke in there somewhere but Lewis can’t seem to find the setup to start it. It’s so psychotic in real life that you need to be even more psychotic to write the setup for the joke. Why the title? Well that's mostly because when you can't seem to wrap your head around what's happening, you say "sure, why not?"
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April 2, 2025 • 53 mins
Like many Lewis has something to look forward to this week because baseball is back and he has a full season of watching the Baltimore Orioles to distract him from the madness of life. Which, as the title of this week's Rantcast, seem to be coming at us at the pace of at least once daily. From Signalgate to the FDA. Are things getting too woke for you? Then ban all the words! Graduate students are disappearing from our streets and ...
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March 26, 2025 • 64 mins
Lewis has returned from a run of dates up north in Canada. Tariffs be damned. He reflects on his week up there and how it was against the backdrop of our administration’s current actions against our longtime neighbor up North. Lewis’ most-recent tour stops being Florida and Canada allow him to identify the differences between the two audiences.
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March 19, 2025 • 55 mins
It’s another week of us trying to make sense of the world around us. Turns out it’s a tough task. Lewis hit the road for the first time in a while and with that involves Lewis shaking the rust and remembering his act and parts he wants to add. During this process it’s also important to stay off Twitter as the feedback can be tough on one’s mental health. Meanwhile protests have popped up pretty much everywhere you can think of jus...
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March 5, 2025 • 49 mins
It’s time for part 2. Lewis finds himself still in the train of thought as last week, just truly baffled by recent events. And since things are a nonstop firehose of bullshit, there’s even more to break down. The Washington Post takes heat for boneheaded decisions and what exactly went down in the Oval Office when Zelenskyy visited?
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February 26, 2025 • 50 mins
This week Lewis has so much to cover that it’s a 2-parter! Our current state of affairs has us all having the collective experience of living what one person’s idea of reality is. Whether it be terrible cabinet picks or the mess that mass layoffs are causing, there just doesn't seem to be enough oxygen (or air) in the room, because we only get to breathe the King's oxygen.. While in the past we might’ve taken ourselves out into th...
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February 19, 2025 • 52 mins
Things are getting crazy out there and not just our current political climate. Lewis was reminded
of that this week when the fairly simple task of getting a new computer was met with the corporate machinations of not 1 but 2 different organizations pissing him off. The frustration grew when Uber Eats got involved, yes you read that correctly Uber Eats. It’s a wild tale of one man trying is best to not lose his mind as he navigates ...
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February 12, 2025 • 57 mins
Lewis has always liked the title of the play Idiot’s Delight and it certainly seems to be describing the times that we are currently in. As the world spent a collective moment watching The Super Bowl this weekend, Lewis has a message for the NFL and its almighty self-importance. Big game aside, each passing day seems to sound a red alert in our nation’s capital and though he might be able to give our Leader credit for one thing, th...
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February 5, 2025 • 54 mins
Chaos, it seems to be all around us these days and its pretty much the last thing Lewis wants to talk about though he feel compelled to. Chaos is the feature of this administration and our Leader it at its center. From unfathomable Executive Orders to cabinet members without any sort of qualifications for the job they’re being nominated for. And just when you think it could not get much worse, we get unspeakable tragedies like the ...
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January 29, 2025 • 47 mins
It’s the time of year where Lewis realizes just how smart bears are for just shutting it down for the winter. Commanders because his favorite football team made a fantastic run this season and almost made it to the big game. Now if they can just do something about their name. Oh, and the team's former owner sucks.
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January 22, 2025 • 52 mins
Many might find it funny, but the joke is on us as a new president begins his term. The punchlines seem to write themselves even before Lewis can make the joke. Bad executive orders are a joke, the cabinet is a joke, renaming the Gulf of Mexico, buying Greenland? The punchlines write themselves! Essentially we’ve lost the laughter and have stopped laughing. As a comedian or not, its probably a bad thing.
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January 8, 2025 • 43 mins
As Lewis records his first Rantcast episode of 2025 on January 6th, he’s reminded of where we were 4 years ago on this day. Over the years the US has seen its fair share of political unrest, so comparisons become quite inevitable. Right now it seems like people are at odds because the reality of what even occurred that day continues to to be in question. That “reality” alone might just be the lasting impression of what happened bac...
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January 1, 2025 • 40 mins
It's the last Rantcast of 2024. Well, technically the first of 2025 and a recap of the year that just wrapped is in order. The difference here is that it's been done before, so the essence of the message is to wish you well for the new year.
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December 25, 2024 • 27 mins
It's December 25th and it's not only Christmas Day but the first day of Hanukkah. Something that doesn't happen often. In fact, it's so rare that all the drones tormenting New Jersey stopped flying apparently. Must be clearing the path for Santa.
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December 18, 2024 • 43 mins
Lewis reflects on the closing of the West Bank Cafe in New York. After 40+ years his friend and owner Steve Olsen is closing the location. The West Bank is a performance space where Lewis began his career on stage. He tells the story about how he began there as an aspiring playwright performing plays and his evolution to a stand-up comedian because of the space Steve fostered for creative types to perform.
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December 11, 2024 • 29 mins
Lewis just wrapped up his last tour date of 2024 so he's taking the week off and lying low. But he wasn't going to leave you hanging this week so here are some rants from the road when Lewis performed them live on stage in various cities this past year.
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