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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Berry Show. Rob Schneider was one of my
favorite SNL characters over the years. I'm gonna taste a favorite,
but I always felt like I appreciated him more than
probably others at his level. He was not a rock
star in the SNL category, but he was funny. And
maybe part of that was when I was in college,
(00:21):
we all watched Saturday Night Live, and we all went
into an area called the Underground, and I was student
body president, so we would come into my office and
everybody would come out office, and we would talk about
the meeting that was coming up and student concerns and
this and that, and you know college stuff, and when
we would interact with each other, all the student organizations
would be there. So I'd go past the Black students,
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and I'd go past the Indian students, and I'd go
past the homos, and I'd go past this group and
this group, and you would call out to each one
of them as you went by, and I would call out,
like my buddy Joel Richards was head of the Black students,
and I'd say, hey, Joel sitting in his office. And
that whole goofy bit came from this Saturday Night Saturday
(01:02):
Night Live skit that Rob Schneider was the star of.
I don't know if he conceived it, but it was brilliant.
So this is a five minute clip. In case you
don't like it, you can fast forward, but it's one
of my all time favors. His office. You have to
understand the context. He was stuck. He was given the
office in the copy room. So when you're the low
(01:24):
guy on the totem pole and they don't have space
for you even in the bullpen, they put you in
the copy room, or they put you in the coffee room.
Well they put him in the copy room and then
the coffee machine. They ended up having to move things
out of there because you couldn't go in and do
whatever you needed to do without him calling out to
you because he was so lonely. Everybody has this guy
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at work or girl who when she sees you pass
in the hallway, she has to say hello, and so
you dread it. So you wait till they're gone to
the bathroom or whatever to pass by there. And so
all right, here is the bit, and then I'll give
you a couple of follow up real shortened versions. But
this was the bit that set it all up, Tom.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Tommy, Hey, Richard, just making some copies.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
The Tom Man making copies, the Tomster, Tom Ruski, the
tom Myster.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, see Tomo.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Randi, the Randster Randi, Ryaneappolis by Richard.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Just making some copies.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Randy, that's my name. Don't wear it out, Shamo lamarran Man.
Why bye, Randiro, Randola, the Great Randino.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Steve, the Steve, Steve Ster.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Hey, Richard, Barrenbaud Steve.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
Oh no, has this machine been acting up?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Steevee?
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Yeah, this is Steve down the hall.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Could somebody come over and take a look at the
coffee here?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Steve Man calling for help, helping the zero zerop sol My, Richard,
Sandy Sanstress, great, you're.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
On your way.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Okay, okay, that has it stopped again, Senior Riata Sanda.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
I called the guy.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
He'll be right here.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Steve and Sandy can't make their copy. Thanks for coming,
No problem, I'll ride Zeros repairman.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
The guy who checks the tona tona checker man. I'm
trying to work here, all right.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Tona checker Rinsky. The guy who took a swing at me.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh boy, not good, not good?
Speaker 6 (04:26):
What is it? Well?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Your port receptor belts bustin. What does that mean, Admiral
check Levontona.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
I can't fix it here.
Speaker 9 (04:37):
I gotta take it back to the shot Tones.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
I'll have it back in the three four days, tops.
Speaker 10 (04:47):
Steve, this copy machine is Richard's whole wife.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
They take it.
Speaker 10 (04:51):
Away, it'll kill him.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
I know, I have no one to talk to.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Steve Ster and the Sandita sharing a secret.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
Can you tell him?
Speaker 11 (05:01):
I don't think I could do.
Speaker 9 (05:04):
It, he rich the Richter, Steve O, rich that's no
easy going to tell you this.
Speaker 8 (05:19):
They can't service the copy machine here.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
They have to take it to.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
The shop, all right, Steve A Rolo teasing the rich Myster,
pulling my leige.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
No, it's no joke. Copy machine needs some major work.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The Steven Nader pushing the joke too far. Not funny,
rich I wish it were a joke.
Speaker 12 (06:01):
I see rich Oyster.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Disaster for the rich Moister.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Oh there's a coffee machine.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Tim Timmy getting some coffee?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
How you know, Richard?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
No cream for the tim Man, Tim Ramovich, Timmy, tim
Timinator Tim Alright.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
So these are quick fifteen twenty seconds, but this one
was the toemeister making copies.
Speaker 13 (07:04):
The tom myste making Copyes, Hey, Richard Senior, Camasito, Saint
thom Or Saint Thomas Cathedral, later rich.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Thumm.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Then there was the Stevenator back from vacation.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
How you doing, Richard, the Stephnata back from vacation, the
guy with the town, the townmeister. Yeah, I did get
a little son, Tyler Almah, Admiral von Townhauser says Capitol,
missieur Bin the Sole.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And finally Sandy the Sandstress.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Hi, Richard, Hey, Richard, Sandy's Sansruss sanitized for your protection.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Well, at the end of all that, Rob Schneider went
off into the great beyond. You know, a lot of
those SNL characters ended up in movies and all that,
and he did some of that. He hasn't been a
huge success, but he has remade himself as a comedian
and now he's really developed quite a following because of
his political opinions and his ability to articulate them. And
(08:18):
I think he's brilliant. Here's Rob Schneider on why he's
a Republican.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
The state of California is a mess and the supermajority
of Democrats is not working. I've been a lifelong Democrat
and I have to switch over because it no longer
serves the people of this great state. We need to
have a new voice, we need to have a new direction,
and we need to break this supermajority that isn't helping
with jobs. The last time I made a movie in
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California was seven years ago, and that's because we're not
being competitive. I own a item and company with my
friend and we moved out of the state because of
over regulation. And it isn't helping businesses. We're chasing businesses away.
And believe me, if businesses were being supported, we're being
what the state should do. The most attractive state, the
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best state to work in, to live in, and to
have your factory and your business, and then it should
be bringing in people. We're scaring away people by the thousands.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
By the way, work noting Rob Schneider says he was
a lifelong Democrat before this. Anyway, Prager, you does some
great work. Dennis Prager's group, and they put out a
short documentary called Laughter on Lockdown and it features comedians
including Rob Schneider, talking about the importance of comedy without
fear of offending and this is good market pick one.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
A lot of people ask me to do this, and
I said no to all of them.
Speaker 11 (09:41):
I just need my coffee.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Excuse me, we're working here.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
People.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
People come to comedy so they can hear something because
there is a void of voices that are speaking for individuality.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
Your job is to disturb. Your job is to shake
things up. No, I mean the old fashioned ones, the
old fashioned women.
Speaker 14 (10:03):
Oh god, you know the ones.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
We're wombs.
Speaker 15 (10:05):
Oh that poking of the bear is the point of
what we do. You're gonna risk offending people, no matter
what you say.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
That's a physic What.
Speaker 11 (10:15):
This is how I feel inside.
Speaker 15 (10:21):
I started to notice certain topics being called off limits.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
This is the first time I've been afraid in many ways.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
What did you mean about that?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I feel triggered.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
It isn't about anyone's particular taste. It's about someone having
the right to say it.
Speaker 16 (10:38):
Power doesn't like to laugh at itself.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Comedy is the great equalizer.
Speaker 11 (10:42):
We need it more than ever.
Speaker 15 (10:59):
My name is Tyler Fisher and I'm a stand up comedian.
Speaker 11 (11:02):
Guys, your next before becomes a stage he is fantastic.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
You have a Tyler Fisher.
Speaker 15 (11:07):
I'm lucky that this is the weird skill, one of
the few skills I have to make a living and
to connect with people.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
People call me a white guy every day. Anyways, I'm like,
might as well lean into it.
Speaker 17 (11:21):
Call me rites this again. Tell me I'm privileged. Tell
me I'm privileged with these little legs. Oh, you're just
a privileged white guy. I can't even ride a roller
coaster legally, what do you think.
Speaker 15 (11:37):
Luckily, you don't start working until seven, eight, nine, ten
at night, so you've got a big chunk of time
during the day.
Speaker 11 (11:43):
Fortunately, now, because I make money off.
Speaker 15 (11:46):
Of my videos and my podcast, I'm taking a seat
of an idea. I'm covering a whiteboard, exploring it.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
It is such an interesting time to try to do
stand up now that I think the opportunities are great.
Time there's a cultural dissension and anytime people feel like
they're being lied to, like now, well you'll have the
potential for great art.
Speaker 18 (12:07):
The CEO of United Airlines last month, the CEO he
announced of all the hiring for all the new pilots
that are coming up this year, all the hiring for
the new pilots, the main focus is going to be diversity.
Speaker 19 (12:22):
What diversity? Not the best pilots you can find. The
ones with the most hours of experience.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
When they do come to my shows, I think they
walk out and they'll go like this, okay, I thought
it was just me.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Well, my name is real zend Bar.
Speaker 16 (12:46):
I'm I don't know what I do.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
I do a whole bunch of stuff.
Speaker 16 (12:52):
I write jokes, I babysit, I cook. Have you ever
knowned that bad people don't think like skinny people.
Speaker 10 (12:58):
We have our own way of thing, Like did you
ever ask a fat person for directions?
Speaker 16 (13:03):
Because that is one of the difference in think and
really shows, you know, cause you go up to him
on the street.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
And ask them more something is and they tell you
like this, wow.
Speaker 16 (13:11):
Go down here to Rvy's. My father was a huge
fan of stand up comedy, and he'd say, this guy's
a comedian, he says things funny.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
But this guy's a comic, he says funny things.
Speaker 14 (13:31):
I am civil rights activist, Jeff Dye, stand up comedian, podcaster,
terrible actor, dog lover, bigfoot enthusiast. I've always known I
wanted to be a stand up comedian because I wasn't athletic,
wasn't smart.
Speaker 11 (13:47):
Girls didn't like me.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
We were poor.
Speaker 14 (13:48):
We dressed terrible, had bad big hair, kool Aid, stains, braces.
I was a mess, but I could always make kids
laugh and I could always be silly, and I was
always very engaging that way. So once I learned, like
at a certain age, like, oh, I know Chris Farley,
whatever he does.
Speaker 12 (14:05):
I wonder Ryan, from what I've heard, you're using your
paper not for writing, but for rolling doobies. You're gonna
be doing a lot of dooby rolling when you're living
in a van.
Speaker 13 (14:21):
Down by the river.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
My name is Brian Callen, and I am a professional jackass.
I get paid for what I got in trouble for
in school, my entire life. It's called the stand up
comic Women. You guys, it's say what you will about
gender parody. You guys can cry over anything.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Hans, you can't.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
You collabor nothing. I've seen that, I've seen it. I've
walked in the room, I've been like, what's wrong.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
I don't know. I'm just having a day.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
I guess we're going shopping.
Speaker 16 (14:55):
Anybody who I ever saw take through the stage to
attempt tell jokes is my idol. Lenny Bruce, Rodney, danger Filled,
just all the greats.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
George Carlin, John Cleese, my comedic hero. I don't believe
that the most sensitive members of society should get to
decide that everybody else gets to listen to and watch
let us. I mean, are you gonna chew my food
for me? As well? He doesn't say that far, but
I do well. First of all, Monty Python was the
high watermarkt comedy of the twentieth century. I mean, the
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fish slapping dance. This is wonderful, absurdist progression of nonsense,
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but it's wonderful.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Carlin, for me, is the greatest, the greatest comic in
many ways. There's another pack of.
Speaker 10 (15:56):
Low grade morons want to be locked into portable toilets
and on fire.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
These people with bumper stickers that.
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Say we are the proud parents of an honor student at.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
That friend school.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
Or the Midvale Academy or whatever other innocent sounding name
has been assigned to the indoctrination center where their child
has been sent to be stripped of his individuality and
turned into an obedient, soul, dead conformist member of the
American consumer culture.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
I think Carlin kind of took a mirror and just
kind of, you know, shined it back at us and
said hey, you might be the problem.
Speaker 20 (16:36):
Everybody.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
You guys might be hypocrites too.
Speaker 15 (16:38):
I mean, George Carlin went to jail, and I don't
think a lot of comedians know that. I think it's
important to know the history of comedy. George Carlin went
to jail for swearing on stage. You know, he went
to jail to find out what are the words you
can't say? All right, you're arresting me for swearing, but
you're not giving me a list of words.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
I wanted a list because nobody gives you a list.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
That's the problem.
Speaker 15 (17:00):
They don't give you a list.
Speaker 10 (17:01):
Wouldn't you think I'd be normal if they didn't want
you to say something, I'd tell you what it is.
Speaker 15 (17:05):
About ten years ago, I started to notice certain topics
being called off limits.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Have you been to a stand up comedy show?
Speaker 10 (17:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (17:15):
Was there anything in the show that you were offended
by or that you thought should not have been allowed
to be set?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Yeah? Do you remember the topics or jokes that you
didn't like. I just think that it's a.
Speaker 11 (17:27):
Low blow when they go for the like trying to
offend people's stuff.
Speaker 16 (17:32):
Because like they're like, you know, what comedy's supposed to
make you uncomfortable, and it's like, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Comedy has to make you uncomfortable all the time.
Speaker 15 (17:39):
I think that if you are good at comedy, you
don't have to find something that's gonna offend someone.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
You can find something that's relatable.
Speaker 15 (17:46):
But what do you gain personally from bringing up topics
that you know are gonna make your entra carsonal If
George Carlin was alive today, he would be like, well,
here are the seven thousand topics you can't talk about.
You can't talk about race, gender if you're black, you
can't talk about this if you're white, And he'd have
this whole list, and I thought, man, he actually was
more free back then.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
The threat of cancelation is very real because what cancelation
really means is that we live in a society, unfortunately,
where we're corporate America, where the money doesn't want to
have anything to do with you. They're too afraid. If
you really want to silence people, take away their ability
to earn a living, put pressure on their sponsors, put
pressure on the people that pay their bills.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Nobody wants that.
Speaker 16 (18:27):
I live through a ghad from the right when I
messed up the Star Spangled banner and now I'm I've
lived through an inquisition by the left.
Speaker 20 (18:41):
It is one of the most shocking developments in TV history.
Speaker 21 (18:44):
ABC cancels it's number one comedy Roseanne after a racist
tweet from its stars.
Speaker 17 (18:50):
TV's most beloved shows, Roseanne canceled and Roseanne bar effectively
banished from Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
This is the first time I've been afraid in many way,
when we say certain things, we get flagged. And we
need YouTube, we need Instagram, we need Facebook, and in
many ways they are our masters because I can't make
a living without them. And if I think I'm gonna
get flagged, which people do and we do, that is
a very real threat.
Speaker 14 (19:16):
I had like a mental breakdown around twenty twenty, just
because it was too many things at once.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
The breaking news.
Speaker 20 (19:22):
Stay at home.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
That is the order tonight from four state governors as
the coronavirus pandemic spreads.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
These are legal provisions, they will be.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Enforced during the lockdowns. It was so authoritarian.
Speaker 16 (19:35):
So the number of people who are dying around the
country because they're getting misinformation that is leading them to
not take a vaccine.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Eighty million Americans said both we're not taking those shots.
You're not going to tell us what to do, and
that we are able for the first time in my
lifetime to peek behind the curtain and see the great
oz And they all got exposed, and they all lied
and said stuff that even the pharmaceutical company didn't have
the balls to say, take this one drug, what one
and you had? You can't get You can't give it,
(20:04):
you can't get what. Okay, you take the booster a
two days, what the booster? But if you take the
booster and the shot and then you get what you got, Well,
if you take two shots and two boosters, then you
can't give it. You can't get the virus. You can't
what will you take a third booster? Will you keep
us syringe in your ass? And you keep constantly pressing
(20:24):
and then you can't give it, you can't get it,
and it's all bolted. And the American public.
Speaker 15 (20:29):
Saw that I used to perform two three four shows
at night, and after I started exploring my voice during
the pandemic, I lost almost one hundred percent of that work.
Speaker 16 (20:43):
Anybody who was saying anything, they got rid of them
in one way or another. So of course comeby got
a lot softer, because you know, it had to. Plus
you wouldn't get booked if you didn't.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
So I was a TV guy, We're a NBC.
Speaker 14 (20:57):
Anytime I would say something that was a little edgy
or political cool, you know, NBC would just cut around
that in a very business way, be like, we don't
really talk about that here at NBC, or we don't
talk that way here at NBC. So what they were
saying to me is, Jeff, we're just not doing your politics.
We're doing what we want to do politically, but like,
we're not going to touch on any of that stuff.
And so I was like, all right, what's my tool?
(21:19):
Stand up comedy, Like that's that's what that's all I have.
That's how I get heard.
Speaker 11 (21:23):
And so I was like, I'm just gonna start writing
about this stuff.
Speaker 15 (21:25):
So I started doing my jokes on my phone, you know,
and thank god, the internet is a pretty good place
to put your comedy to get a reach.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Hey guys, it's Taylor. It's day six of girlhood. And
look who I got a a Spenser. Look at this
cool bud Light tower they sent me.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Bud Light sent me so much cool stuff because they're
so inclusive.
Speaker 17 (21:46):
Look at this bud light tank top, and I've obviously
been drinking a lot of bud.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I also might be pregnant.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Don't tell anyone.
Speaker 15 (21:54):
Are there any topics that you feel like are off
limits to you?
Speaker 6 (21:57):
There's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
Race that a big thing.
Speaker 15 (22:00):
Yeah, some of the stuff about gender, because everybody's like,
what's he gonna say? Yeah, you kind of have to
like massogyny and almost make them feel like you're on
the whatever side they are exactly before you go.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
In and maybe like a little punch.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Yeah, like I have to admit maybe I'm gay.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I don't know, but just a little trans. Yeah, we're
a little black.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
We're all a little black, we're all a little gay.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Of course, you're going to make fun of sometimes certain groups.
And the reason you make fun of those groups is
because there's probably some truth.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
There's some truth in that.
Speaker 14 (22:37):
Young people have got this new thing where it's like,
if you say a thing about a group, you must
hate that group. You're like, no, most of us are
just talking about that group. We don't hate them at all.
I don't hate trans people.
Speaker 11 (22:50):
I love them. I'll protect their rights, I'll fight for
I'll be their friend.
Speaker 14 (22:53):
We can hang out. I just I just think they're weird.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
I actually like trans women better than I like regularly women.
Speaker 15 (23:02):
I do.
Speaker 22 (23:02):
Have you ever talked to a trans woman? They're great,
They're like dudes, I'm like this gal gets me.
Speaker 20 (23:12):
You know.
Speaker 11 (23:13):
People now started to think like, oh, saying things is
a type of violence.
Speaker 14 (23:18):
You're like, no, it's not.
Speaker 11 (23:20):
Same things is just saying things.
Speaker 15 (23:22):
You can't make a joke about somebody else because you
don't have their lived experience, the.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Idea that you got to only stay in your lane?
What is that lane? Who decided that lane? Can I
make fun of Asians and white people?
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Can I make fun of all people?
Speaker 6 (23:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 16 (23:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
And courage good?
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Could women make fun of short men? Yes? Could short
men make fun of fat women?
Speaker 20 (23:45):
No?
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Why not?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
Why can't a man make fun of a woman.
Speaker 11 (23:50):
You can make fun of you, but you can't make
fun of us.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Women can make fun of men, yes, yes, but men
can't make Wow, you just.
Speaker 11 (23:57):
Closed off a ton of topics.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
What if I say I was a woman?
Speaker 11 (24:00):
Could back and then I make fun of fat women?
Speaker 20 (24:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
All right, my name's Taylor and I'm a woman.
Speaker 15 (24:06):
It's a slippery slope to go down to say if
you don't live like this person. You can't joke about
that person.
Speaker 16 (24:12):
They'd like to be enraged, and that makes that switches
into self righteous indignation.
Speaker 11 (24:18):
Those two things go together.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
These are jokes. You're an adult. You can decide to
laugh at it or whatever. And if if you pay
to come see me, you're insulted, do your research.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
That's on you.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Look me up. If you think I might say something objectionable,
that's my job.
Speaker 16 (24:35):
You can't not tell the truth or else you're just
another liar, you know, and it might hurt you and
get you kicked out or your family or nobody wants
to take your calls.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
But so what my job is to make is to
get people to think. It is not to you know,
to get people to reinforce their political you know, ideology.
They can stay at home and watch, you know, Stephen Colbert,
or they can watch Jimmy falland if they want to
do that, or Jimmy Kimmel, and then they'll tell you
what to think and then go ahead and think that
(25:05):
because they're not going to ask you to think for yourself.
Speaker 15 (25:08):
Are you mad?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You okay, you're mad, that's okay? You know what the
cool thing about in America is free speech? Isn't the
speech you like, nice Stuff's now what needs to be protected.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
It's the stuff that you hate.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
It needs to protection so that somebody, like the government
or you, doesn't get to decide what everybody else gets
to hear. And you're more than welcome to disagree and
write an act and get on stage and sell out
like I just did. It isn't about anyone's particular taste.
(25:45):
It's about someone having the right to say it and
then that person Because when you eliminate free speech, you're
not only stopping somebody's right to speak, you're also stopping
somebody's right to listen.
Speaker 11 (25:57):
That poking of the bear or the opening those conversation
is the point.
Speaker 20 (26:01):
Of what we do.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Your job is to say things that people think but
would never dare say because they might get fired or
kicked out of a room a polite company.
Speaker 11 (26:09):
I can't say anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
If you're a white guy, you can't.
Speaker 17 (26:11):
That's why I have to come to a basement where
your phones are locked up.
Speaker 20 (26:15):
My name is Nolain dormant On, the owner of the
Comedy Seller.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
The Comedy Seller.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
It's a tiny place, but that's where some of the
best comics on the planet, no matter how big they get,
always come back to.
Speaker 20 (26:25):
People come down here because they want to hear the
edgy stuff, the stuff that's over the line.
Speaker 11 (26:31):
I don't think I've ever heard comedy and safe in
the same sentence.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
I feel like you kind of have to be on
edge to get a rise out of people.
Speaker 20 (26:37):
No subject is off limits because somebody else has decided
you can't joke about it.
Speaker 15 (26:44):
Sometimes I'll remind the crowd, you know, if they're getting
a little tight, that they're in the most free country
in the world, the most free artistic city in the world.
This might be one of the most free.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Thinking spaces to be in in the world.
Speaker 15 (26:57):
And I just want to take a moment to say
I support Ukraine, and I just want to take a
moment to say black lives matter, and specifically black Ukrainian
trans lives matter. I just want to go on the
record and say that.
Speaker 20 (27:09):
Well, if you tell a comedian not to talk about
it is many of them will talk about it.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
Don't tell me not to do it, because if you
tell me not to do it, I gotta do it.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I have to.
Speaker 20 (27:19):
I think people are getting fed up now with cancel culture.
Comedians are a part of that movement to push back
against that.
Speaker 15 (27:27):
Shane Gillis is a great example.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
Ladies and gentlemen, shame guillous.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
He got hired and then quickly unhired from a joke
that missed on a podcast.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
A Saturday Night Live shakeup the show firing one of
his new cast members.
Speaker 21 (27:42):
Comic Shane Gillis out at SNL after just a few days.
I'm aid a firestorm of criticism. Many on social media
praised the decision. Former SNL cast member Rob Schneider did not, tweeting,
I am sorry you had the misfortune of being a
cast member during this era of cultural unforgiveness.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I still stood up for him, and I said, hey,
that's wrong to get rid of him. The fact of
the matter was that they at that time, they were
swept up in this authoritarianism.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
Who knows the kind of pressure Lauren Michaels was under.
Speaker 20 (28:13):
Shane Gillis talk about fearless and this guy made his
own way and now he's huge, maybe bigger than he
would be if he was on us. All.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
I don't know, So I don't know if you know
this like being racist isn't like a yes or no thing,
you know what I mean. It's not like you have
it or you don't have it, like being racist is
more it's like being hungry, you know. It's like, yeah,
you're not right now, you know, so, yeah you're not
(28:45):
hungry right now, but a cheeseburger could cut you off
on the highway.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
The cream rise at the top. And he's a really
funny comedian, and you can't keep a funny guy down.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
Most of you probably have no idea who I am.
I was actually I was fired from this show a
while ago.
Speaker 20 (29:06):
The pendulum is swinging back a little bit. I think
part of what that means is as simple as corporate
America not panicking whenever something erupts on Twitter that scares them.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
And that's why I think this whole woke movement is
very good for comedy. It gives us something to push
back on.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
It's never been a better time for comedy because you
have to have something to rail against them.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Bring on your woke police, bring on your shackles. I
need something to break out of.
Speaker 15 (29:39):
I want to be able to say the N word. Okay, no, no,
not that non vaccinated.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
That's the word I'm talking about.
Speaker 20 (29:45):
This is a golden age of stand up comedy and
quality drives demand.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Every show I do is completely sold out. Why because
they're hearing stuff they can't hear on TV.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
You're reminded of how good life can be and how
silly this old game might just be. That's what I
love about comedy.
Speaker 16 (30:03):
I think there's gonna be a renaissance of it. I
think it's coming into a big rebirthding.
Speaker 15 (30:09):
I have new comedians reaching out saying thank you for
opening up this area.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
If something is so ridiculous and tyrannical and authoritarian, the
way to knock it down.
Speaker 11 (30:21):
It's to laugh at it.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
There's something great about comedy because what it does is
it takes the whole chess for it and throws it.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
In the air.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
What you're seeing now is the collapse of authoritarian idiocy,
an ideology they cannot hold up, so they have to
shout you down and it won't work because Americans are
smarter than that and we've had enough of it. So
thank you, but I'm gonna keep speaking my mind.
Speaker 18 (30:48):
You're gonna have to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
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The Michael Berry Show. Rob Schneider was one of my
favorite SNL characters over the years. I'm gonna taste a favorite,
but I always felt like I appreciated him more than
probably others at his level. He was not a rock
star in the SNL category, but he was funny. And
maybe part of that was when I was in college,
(00:21):
we all watched Saturday Night Live, and we all went
into an area called the Underground, and I was student
body president, so we would come into my office and
everybody would come out office, and we would talk about
the meeting that was coming up and student concerns and
this and that, and you know college stuff, and when
we would interact with each other, all the student organizations
would be there. So I'd go past the Black students,
(00:41):
and I'd go past the Indian students, and I'd go
past the homos, and I'd go past this group and
this group, and you would call out to each one
of them as you went by, and I would call out,
like my buddy Joel Richards was head of the Black students,
and I'd say, hey, Joel sitting in his office. And
that whole goofy bit came from this Saturday Night Saturday
(01:02):
Night Live skit that Rob Schneider was the star of.
I don't know if he conceived it, but it was brilliant.
So this is a five minute clip. In case you
don't like it, you can fast forward, but it's one
of my all time favors. His office. You have to
understand the context. He was stuck. He was given the
office in the copy room. So when you're the low
(01:24):
guy on the totem pole and they don't have space
for you even in the bullpen, they put you in
the copy room, or they put you in the coffee room.
Well they put him in the copy room and then
the coffee machine. They ended up having to move things
out of there because you couldn't go in and do
whatever you needed to do without him calling out to
you because he was so lonely. Everybody has this guy
(01:44):
at work or girl who when she sees you pass
in the hallway, she has to say hello, and so
you dread it. So you wait till they're gone to
the bathroom or whatever to pass by there. And so
all right, here is the bit, and then I'll give
you a couple of follow up real shortened versions. But
this was the bit that set it all up, Tom.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Tommy, Hey, Richard, just making some copies.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
The Tom Man making copies, the Tomster, Tom Ruski, the
tom Myster.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, see Tomo.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Randi, the Randster Randi, Ryaneappolis by Richard.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Just making some copies.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Randy, that's my name. Don't wear it out, Shamo lamarran Man.
Why bye, Randiro, Randola, the Great Randino.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Steve, the Steve, Steve Ster.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Hey, Richard, Barrenbaud Steve.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
Oh no, has this machine been acting up?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Steevee?
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Yeah, this is Steve down the hall.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Could somebody come over and take a look at the
coffee here?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Steve Man calling for help, helping the zero zerop sol My, Richard,
Sandy Sanstress, great, you're.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
On your way.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Okay, okay, that has it stopped again, Senior Riata Sanda.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
I called the guy.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
He'll be right here.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Steve and Sandy can't make their copy. Thanks for coming,
No problem, I'll ride Zeros repairman.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
The guy who checks the tona tona checker man. I'm
trying to work here, all right.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Tona checker Rinsky. The guy who took a swing at me.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh boy, not good, not good?
Speaker 6 (04:26):
What is it? Well?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Your port receptor belts bustin. What does that mean, Admiral
check Levontona.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
I can't fix it here.
Speaker 9 (04:37):
I gotta take it back to the shot Tones.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
I'll have it back in the three four days, tops.
Speaker 10 (04:47):
Steve, this copy machine is Richard's whole wife.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
They take it.
Speaker 10 (04:51):
Away, it'll kill him.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
I know, I have no one to talk to.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Steve Ster and the Sandita sharing a secret.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
Can you tell him?
Speaker 11 (05:01):
I don't think I could do.
Speaker 9 (05:04):
It, he rich the Richter, Steve O, rich that's no
easy going to tell you this.
Speaker 8 (05:19):
They can't service the copy machine here.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
They have to take it to.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
The shop, all right, Steve A Rolo teasing the rich Myster,
pulling my leige.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
No, it's no joke. Copy machine needs some major work.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The Steven Nader pushing the joke too far. Not funny,
rich I wish it were a joke.
Speaker 12 (06:01):
I see rich Oyster.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Disaster for the rich Moister.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Oh there's a coffee machine.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Tim Timmy getting some coffee?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
How you know, Richard?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
No cream for the tim Man, Tim Ramovich, Timmy, tim
Timinator Tim Alright.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
So these are quick fifteen twenty seconds, but this one
was the toemeister making copies.
Speaker 13 (07:04):
The tom myste making Copyes, Hey, Richard Senior, Camasito, Saint
thom Or Saint Thomas Cathedral, later rich.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Thumm.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Then there was the Stevenator back from vacation.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
How you doing, Richard, the Stephnata back from vacation, the
guy with the town, the townmeister. Yeah, I did get
a little son, Tyler Almah, Admiral von Townhauser says Capitol,
missieur Bin the Sole.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And finally Sandy the Sandstress.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Hi, Richard, Hey, Richard, Sandy's Sansruss sanitized for your protection.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Well, at the end of all that, Rob Schneider went
off into the great beyond. You know, a lot of
those SNL characters ended up in movies and all that,
and he did some of that. He hasn't been a
huge success, but he has remade himself as a comedian
and now he's really developed quite a following because of
his political opinions and his ability to articulate them. And
(08:18):
I think he's brilliant. Here's Rob Schneider on why he's
a Republican.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
The state of California is a mess and the supermajority
of Democrats is not working. I've been a lifelong Democrat
and I have to switch over because it no longer
serves the people of this great state. We need to
have a new voice, we need to have a new direction,
and we need to break this supermajority that isn't helping
with jobs. The last time I made a movie in
(08:42):
California was seven years ago, and that's because we're not
being competitive. I own a item and company with my
friend and we moved out of the state because of
over regulation. And it isn't helping businesses. We're chasing businesses away.
And believe me, if businesses were being supported, we're being
what the state should do. The most attractive state, the
(09:03):
best state to work in, to live in, and to
have your factory and your business, and then it should
be bringing in people. We're scaring away people by the thousands.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
By the way, work noting Rob Schneider says he was
a lifelong Democrat before this. Anyway, Prager, you does some
great work. Dennis Prager's group, and they put out a
short documentary called Laughter on Lockdown and it features comedians
including Rob Schneider, talking about the importance of comedy without
fear of offending and this is good market pick one.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
A lot of people ask me to do this, and
I said no to all of them.
Speaker 11 (09:41):
I just need my coffee.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Excuse me, we're working here.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
People.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
People come to comedy so they can hear something because
there is a void of voices that are speaking for individuality.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
Your job is to disturb. Your job is to shake
things up. No, I mean the old fashioned ones, the
old fashioned women.
Speaker 14 (10:03):
Oh god, you know the ones.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
We're wombs.
Speaker 15 (10:05):
Oh that poking of the bear is the point of
what we do. You're gonna risk offending people, no matter
what you say.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
That's a physic What.
Speaker 11 (10:15):
This is how I feel inside.
Speaker 15 (10:21):
I started to notice certain topics being called off limits.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
This is the first time I've been afraid in many ways.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
What did you mean about that?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I feel triggered.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
It isn't about anyone's particular taste. It's about someone having
the right to say it.
Speaker 16 (10:38):
Power doesn't like to laugh at itself.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Comedy is the great equalizer.
Speaker 11 (10:42):
We need it more than ever.
Speaker 15 (10:59):
My name is Tyler Fisher and I'm a stand up comedian.
Speaker 11 (11:02):
Guys, your next before becomes a stage he is fantastic.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
You have a Tyler Fisher.
Speaker 15 (11:07):
I'm lucky that this is the weird skill, one of
the few skills I have to make a living and
to connect with people.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
People call me a white guy every day. Anyways, I'm like,
might as well lean into it.
Speaker 17 (11:21):
Call me rites this again. Tell me I'm privileged. Tell
me I'm privileged with these little legs. Oh, you're just
a privileged white guy. I can't even ride a roller
coaster legally, what do you think.
Speaker 15 (11:37):
Luckily, you don't start working until seven, eight, nine, ten
at night, so you've got a big chunk of time
during the day.
Speaker 11 (11:43):
Fortunately, now, because I make money off.
Speaker 15 (11:46):
Of my videos and my podcast, I'm taking a seat
of an idea. I'm covering a whiteboard, exploring it.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
It is such an interesting time to try to do
stand up now that I think the opportunities are great.
Time there's a cultural dissension and anytime people feel like
they're being lied to, like now, well you'll have the
potential for great art.
Speaker 18 (12:07):
The CEO of United Airlines last month, the CEO he
announced of all the hiring for all the new pilots
that are coming up this year, all the hiring for
the new pilots, the main focus is going to be diversity.
Speaker 19 (12:22):
What diversity? Not the best pilots you can find. The
ones with the most hours of experience.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
When they do come to my shows, I think they
walk out and they'll go like this, okay, I thought
it was just me.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Well, my name is real zend Bar.
Speaker 16 (12:46):
I'm I don't know what I do.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
I do a whole bunch of stuff.
Speaker 16 (12:52):
I write jokes, I babysit, I cook. Have you ever
knowned that bad people don't think like skinny people.
Speaker 10 (12:58):
We have our own way of thing, Like did you
ever ask a fat person for directions?
Speaker 16 (13:03):
Because that is one of the difference in think and
really shows, you know, cause you go up to him
on the street.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
And ask them more something is and they tell you
like this, wow.
Speaker 16 (13:11):
Go down here to Rvy's. My father was a huge
fan of stand up comedy, and he'd say, this guy's
a comedian, he says things funny.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
But this guy's a comic, he says funny things.
Speaker 14 (13:31):
I am civil rights activist, Jeff Dye, stand up comedian, podcaster,
terrible actor, dog lover, bigfoot enthusiast. I've always known I
wanted to be a stand up comedian because I wasn't athletic,
wasn't smart.
Speaker 11 (13:47):
Girls didn't like me.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
We were poor.
Speaker 14 (13:48):
We dressed terrible, had bad big hair, kool Aid, stains, braces.
I was a mess, but I could always make kids
laugh and I could always be silly, and I was
always very engaging that way. So once I learned, like
at a certain age, like, oh, I know Chris Farley,
whatever he does.
Speaker 12 (14:05):
I wonder Ryan, from what I've heard, you're using your
paper not for writing, but for rolling doobies. You're gonna
be doing a lot of dooby rolling when you're living
in a van.
Speaker 13 (14:21):
Down by the river.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
My name is Brian Callen, and I am a professional jackass.
I get paid for what I got in trouble for
in school, my entire life. It's called the stand up
comic Women. You guys, it's say what you will about
gender parody. You guys can cry over anything.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Hans, you can't.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
You collabor nothing. I've seen that, I've seen it. I've
walked in the room, I've been like, what's wrong.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
I don't know. I'm just having a day.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
I guess we're going shopping.
Speaker 16 (14:55):
Anybody who I ever saw take through the stage to
attempt tell jokes is my idol. Lenny Bruce, Rodney, danger Filled,
just all the greats.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
George Carlin, John Cleese, my comedic hero. I don't believe
that the most sensitive members of society should get to
decide that everybody else gets to listen to and watch
let us. I mean, are you gonna chew my food
for me? As well? He doesn't say that far, but
I do well. First of all, Monty Python was the
high watermarkt comedy of the twentieth century. I mean, the
(15:29):
fish slapping dance. This is wonderful, absurdist progression of nonsense,
(15:49):
but it's wonderful.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Carlin, for me, is the greatest, the greatest comic in
many ways. There's another pack of.
Speaker 10 (15:56):
Low grade morons want to be locked into portable toilets
and on fire.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
These people with bumper stickers that.
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Say we are the proud parents of an honor student at.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
That friend school.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
Or the Midvale Academy or whatever other innocent sounding name
has been assigned to the indoctrination center where their child
has been sent to be stripped of his individuality and
turned into an obedient, soul, dead conformist member of the
American consumer culture.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
I think Carlin kind of took a mirror and just
kind of, you know, shined it back at us and
said hey, you might be the problem.
Speaker 20 (16:36):
Everybody.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
You guys might be hypocrites too.
Speaker 15 (16:38):
I mean, George Carlin went to jail, and I don't
think a lot of comedians know that. I think it's
important to know the history of comedy. George Carlin went
to jail for swearing on stage. You know, he went
to jail to find out what are the words you
can't say? All right, you're arresting me for swearing, but
you're not giving me a list of words.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
I wanted a list because nobody gives you a list.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
That's the problem.
Speaker 15 (17:00):
They don't give you a list.
Speaker 10 (17:01):
Wouldn't you think I'd be normal if they didn't want
you to say something, I'd tell you what it is.
Speaker 15 (17:05):
About ten years ago, I started to notice certain topics
being called off limits.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Have you been to a stand up comedy show?
Speaker 10 (17:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (17:15):
Was there anything in the show that you were offended
by or that you thought should not have been allowed
to be set?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Yeah? Do you remember the topics or jokes that you
didn't like. I just think that it's a.
Speaker 11 (17:27):
Low blow when they go for the like trying to
offend people's stuff.
Speaker 16 (17:32):
Because like they're like, you know, what comedy's supposed to
make you uncomfortable, and it's like, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Comedy has to make you uncomfortable all the time.
Speaker 15 (17:39):
I think that if you are good at comedy, you
don't have to find something that's gonna offend someone.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
You can find something that's relatable.
Speaker 15 (17:46):
But what do you gain personally from bringing up topics
that you know are gonna make your entra carsonal If
George Carlin was alive today, he would be like, well,
here are the seven thousand topics you can't talk about.
You can't talk about race, gender if you're black, you
can't talk about this if you're white, And he'd have
this whole list, and I thought, man, he actually was
more free back then.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
The threat of cancelation is very real because what cancelation
really means is that we live in a society, unfortunately,
where we're corporate America, where the money doesn't want to
have anything to do with you. They're too afraid. If
you really want to silence people, take away their ability
to earn a living, put pressure on their sponsors, put
pressure on the people that pay their bills.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Nobody wants that.
Speaker 16 (18:27):
I live through a ghad from the right when I
messed up the Star Spangled banner and now I'm I've
lived through an inquisition by the left.
Speaker 20 (18:41):
It is one of the most shocking developments in TV history.
Speaker 21 (18:44):
ABC cancels it's number one comedy Roseanne after a racist
tweet from its stars.
Speaker 17 (18:50):
TV's most beloved shows, Roseanne canceled and Roseanne bar effectively
banished from Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
This is the first time I've been afraid in many way,
when we say certain things, we get flagged. And we
need YouTube, we need Instagram, we need Facebook, and in
many ways they are our masters because I can't make
a living without them. And if I think I'm gonna
get flagged, which people do and we do, that is
a very real threat.
Speaker 14 (19:16):
I had like a mental breakdown around twenty twenty, just
because it was too many things at once.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
The breaking news.
Speaker 20 (19:22):
Stay at home.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
That is the order tonight from four state governors as
the coronavirus pandemic spreads.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
These are legal provisions, they will be.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Enforced during the lockdowns. It was so authoritarian.
Speaker 16 (19:35):
So the number of people who are dying around the
country because they're getting misinformation that is leading them to
not take a vaccine.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Eighty million Americans said both we're not taking those shots.
You're not going to tell us what to do, and
that we are able for the first time in my
lifetime to peek behind the curtain and see the great
oz And they all got exposed, and they all lied
and said stuff that even the pharmaceutical company didn't have
the balls to say, take this one drug, what one
and you had? You can't get You can't give it,
(20:04):
you can't get what. Okay, you take the booster a
two days, what the booster? But if you take the
booster and the shot and then you get what you got, Well,
if you take two shots and two boosters, then you
can't give it. You can't get the virus. You can't
what will you take a third booster? Will you keep
us syringe in your ass? And you keep constantly pressing
(20:24):
and then you can't give it, you can't get it,
and it's all bolted. And the American public.
Speaker 15 (20:29):
Saw that I used to perform two three four shows
at night, and after I started exploring my voice during
the pandemic, I lost almost one hundred percent of that work.
Speaker 16 (20:43):
Anybody who was saying anything, they got rid of them
in one way or another. So of course comeby got
a lot softer, because you know, it had to. Plus
you wouldn't get booked if you didn't.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
So I was a TV guy, We're a NBC.
Speaker 14 (20:57):
Anytime I would say something that was a little edgy
or political cool, you know, NBC would just cut around
that in a very business way, be like, we don't
really talk about that here at NBC, or we don't
talk that way here at NBC. So what they were
saying to me is, Jeff, we're just not doing your politics.
We're doing what we want to do politically, but like,
we're not going to touch on any of that stuff.
And so I was like, all right, what's my tool?
(21:19):
Stand up comedy, Like that's that's what that's all I have.
That's how I get heard.
Speaker 11 (21:23):
And so I was like, I'm just gonna start writing
about this stuff.
Speaker 15 (21:25):
So I started doing my jokes on my phone, you know,
and thank god, the internet is a pretty good place
to put your comedy to get a reach.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Hey guys, it's Taylor. It's day six of girlhood. And
look who I got a a Spenser. Look at this
cool bud Light tower they sent me.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Bud Light sent me so much cool stuff because they're
so inclusive.
Speaker 17 (21:46):
Look at this bud light tank top, and I've obviously
been drinking a lot of bud.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I also might be pregnant.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Don't tell anyone.
Speaker 15 (21:54):
Are there any topics that you feel like are off
limits to you?
Speaker 6 (21:57):
There's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
Race that a big thing.
Speaker 15 (22:00):
Yeah, some of the stuff about gender, because everybody's like,
what's he gonna say? Yeah, you kind of have to
like massogyny and almost make them feel like you're on
the whatever side they are exactly before you go.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
In and maybe like a little punch.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Yeah, like I have to admit maybe I'm gay.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I don't know, but just a little trans. Yeah, we're
a little black.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
We're all a little black, we're all a little gay.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Of course, you're going to make fun of sometimes certain groups.
And the reason you make fun of those groups is
because there's probably some truth.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
There's some truth in that.
Speaker 14 (22:37):
Young people have got this new thing where it's like,
if you say a thing about a group, you must
hate that group. You're like, no, most of us are
just talking about that group. We don't hate them at all.
I don't hate trans people.
Speaker 11 (22:50):
I love them. I'll protect their rights, I'll fight for
I'll be their friend.
Speaker 14 (22:53):
We can hang out. I just I just think they're weird.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
I actually like trans women better than I like regularly women.
Speaker 15 (23:02):
I do.
Speaker 22 (23:02):
Have you ever talked to a trans woman? They're great,
They're like dudes, I'm like this gal gets me.
Speaker 20 (23:12):
You know.
Speaker 11 (23:13):
People now started to think like, oh, saying things is
a type of violence.
Speaker 14 (23:18):
You're like, no, it's not.
Speaker 11 (23:20):
Same things is just saying things.
Speaker 15 (23:22):
You can't make a joke about somebody else because you
don't have their lived experience, the.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Idea that you got to only stay in your lane?
What is that lane? Who decided that lane? Can I
make fun of Asians and white people?
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Can I make fun of all people?
Speaker 6 (23:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 16 (23:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
And courage good?
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Could women make fun of short men? Yes? Could short
men make fun of fat women?
Speaker 20 (23:45):
No?
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Why not?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
Why can't a man make fun of a woman.
Speaker 11 (23:50):
You can make fun of you, but you can't make
fun of us.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Women can make fun of men, yes, yes, but men
can't make Wow, you just.
Speaker 11 (23:57):
Closed off a ton of topics.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
What if I say I was a woman?
Speaker 11 (24:00):
Could back and then I make fun of fat women?
Speaker 20 (24:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
All right, my name's Taylor and I'm a woman.
Speaker 15 (24:06):
It's a slippery slope to go down to say if
you don't live like this person. You can't joke about
that person.
Speaker 16 (24:12):
They'd like to be enraged, and that makes that switches
into self righteous indignation.
Speaker 11 (24:18):
Those two things go together.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
These are jokes. You're an adult. You can decide to
laugh at it or whatever. And if if you pay
to come see me, you're insulted, do your research.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
That's on you.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Look me up. If you think I might say something objectionable,
that's my job.
Speaker 16 (24:35):
You can't not tell the truth or else you're just
another liar, you know, and it might hurt you and
get you kicked out or your family or nobody wants
to take your calls.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
But so what my job is to make is to
get people to think. It is not to you know,
to get people to reinforce their political you know, ideology.
They can stay at home and watch, you know, Stephen Colbert,
or they can watch Jimmy falland if they want to
do that, or Jimmy Kimmel, and then they'll tell you
what to think and then go ahead and think that
(25:05):
because they're not going to ask you to think for yourself.
Speaker 15 (25:08):
Are you mad?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You okay, you're mad, that's okay? You know what the
cool thing about in America is free speech? Isn't the
speech you like, nice Stuff's now what needs to be protected.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
It's the stuff that you hate.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
It needs to protection so that somebody, like the government
or you, doesn't get to decide what everybody else gets
to hear. And you're more than welcome to disagree and
write an act and get on stage and sell out
like I just did. It isn't about anyone's particular taste.
(25:45):
It's about someone having the right to say it and
then that person Because when you eliminate free speech, you're
not only stopping somebody's right to speak, you're also stopping
somebody's right to listen.
Speaker 11 (25:57):
That poking of the bear or the opening those conversation
is the point.
Speaker 20 (26:01):
Of what we do.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Your job is to say things that people think but
would never dare say because they might get fired or
kicked out of a room a polite company.
Speaker 11 (26:09):
I can't say anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
If you're a white guy, you can't.
Speaker 17 (26:11):
That's why I have to come to a basement where
your phones are locked up.
Speaker 20 (26:15):
My name is Nolain dormant On, the owner of the
Comedy Seller.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
The Comedy Seller.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
It's a tiny place, but that's where some of the
best comics on the planet, no matter how big they get,
always come back to.
Speaker 20 (26:25):
People come down here because they want to hear the
edgy stuff, the stuff that's over the line.
Speaker 11 (26:31):
I don't think I've ever heard comedy and safe in
the same sentence.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
I feel like you kind of have to be on
edge to get a rise out of people.
Speaker 20 (26:37):
No subject is off limits because somebody else has decided
you can't joke about it.
Speaker 15 (26:44):
Sometimes I'll remind the crowd, you know, if they're getting
a little tight, that they're in the most free country
in the world, the most free artistic city in the world.
This might be one of the most free.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Thinking spaces to be in in the world.
Speaker 15 (26:57):
And I just want to take a moment to say
I support Ukraine, and I just want to take a
moment to say black lives matter, and specifically black Ukrainian
trans lives matter. I just want to go on the
record and say that.
Speaker 20 (27:09):
Well, if you tell a comedian not to talk about
it is many of them will talk about it.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
Don't tell me not to do it, because if you
tell me not to do it, I gotta do it.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I have to.
Speaker 20 (27:19):
I think people are getting fed up now with cancel culture.
Comedians are a part of that movement to push back
against that.
Speaker 15 (27:27):
Shane Gillis is a great example.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
Ladies and gentlemen, shame guillous.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
He got hired and then quickly unhired from a joke
that missed on a podcast.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
A Saturday Night Live shakeup the show firing one of
his new cast members.
Speaker 21 (27:42):
Comic Shane Gillis out at SNL after just a few days.
I'm aid a firestorm of criticism. Many on social media
praised the decision. Former SNL cast member Rob Schneider did not, tweeting,
I am sorry you had the misfortune of being a
cast member during this era of cultural unforgiveness.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I still stood up for him, and I said, hey,
that's wrong to get rid of him. The fact of
the matter was that they at that time, they were
swept up in this authoritarianism.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
Who knows the kind of pressure Lauren Michaels was under.
Speaker 20 (28:13):
Shane Gillis talk about fearless and this guy made his
own way and now he's huge, maybe bigger than he
would be if he was on us. All.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
I don't know, So I don't know if you know
this like being racist isn't like a yes or no thing,
you know what I mean. It's not like you have
it or you don't have it, like being racist is
more it's like being hungry, you know. It's like, yeah,
you're not right now, you know, so, yeah you're not
(28:45):
hungry right now, but a cheeseburger could cut you off
on the highway.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
The cream rise at the top. And he's a really
funny comedian, and you can't keep a funny guy down.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
Most of you probably have no idea who I am.
I was actually I was fired from this show a
while ago.
Speaker 20 (29:06):
The pendulum is swinging back a little bit. I think
part of what that means is as simple as corporate
America not panicking whenever something erupts on Twitter that scares them.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
And that's why I think this whole woke movement is
very good for comedy. It gives us something to push
back on.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
It's never been a better time for comedy because you
have to have something to rail against them.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Bring on your woke police, bring on your shackles. I
need something to break out of.
Speaker 15 (29:39):
I want to be able to say the N word. Okay, no, no,
not that non vaccinated.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
That's the word I'm talking about.
Speaker 20 (29:45):
This is a golden age of stand up comedy and
quality drives demand.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Every show I do is completely sold out. Why because
they're hearing stuff they can't hear on TV.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
You're reminded of how good life can be and how
silly this old game might just be. That's what I
love about comedy.
Speaker 16 (30:03):
I think there's gonna be a renaissance of it. I
think it's coming into a big rebirthding.
Speaker 15 (30:09):
I have new comedians reaching out saying thank you for
opening up this area.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
If something is so ridiculous and tyrannical and authoritarian, the
way to knock it down.
Speaker 11 (30:21):
It's to laugh at it.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
There's something great about comedy because what it does is
it takes the whole chess for it and throws it.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
In the air.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
What you're seeing now is the collapse of authoritarian idiocy,
an ideology they cannot hold up, so they have to
shout you down and it won't work because Americans are
smarter than that and we've had enough of it. So
thank you, but I'm gonna keep speaking my mind.
Speaker 18 (30:48):
You're gonna have to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
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