Comedian Jordan Klepper joins Jemele to discuss whether or not comedy is dead under Donald Trump. Plus, we talk about how technology has changed the way we watch TV, and why we should all be thankful for it.
00:03:35.000Now, John Oliver, we'll talk about him tomorrow, but he does basically imply that comedy is You know, was dead under Trump, which I disagree with, but we are going to be addressing Jordan Klepper.
00:03:44.000I know some of you saying he works at The Daily Show and went after the Canadian truckers, and I think there's a certain... Look, I have no problem with someone having a point of view in comedy, but when does it devolve into propaganda?
00:04:27.000I mean, even if you go back, okay, Lenny Bruce was more liberal.
00:04:31.000Sure, okay, Bill Hicks, classical liberal.
00:04:33.000The idea that comedians would join in to demand that the government silence voices of dissent, that's a really, really weird time in history.
00:04:40.000As a matter of fact, it's the only time in human history that I can think of, and obviously stand up as a uniquely American art.
00:04:47.000So, before we move on, if you miss us on YouTube, Every Monday through Thursday, Rumble or Mug Club, 10 a.m.
00:06:31.000But I brought my son and his friends, we were all ice skating, and we were in Livonia, and my son's friend fell, so I went to him, then my son fell, and my body's like, I'll take care of both these things.
00:06:43.000So both my legs fell out, and then I flew back, and somehow my entire body went in the air, and I just cracked my skull.
00:07:44.000When I'm thinking in normal life, that's usually a good out for me, where I'm like, no, I get that all the time, so I don't have to talk to someone.
00:07:50.000So I'm like, no, so I'm showing someone my ID to prove I'm me while I'm just waiting for some ice and somebody's like, is that like Dave and Chuck the Freak?
00:09:38.000All right, here, while we move on and to talk about comedy here today.
00:09:43.000OK, this is from, sorry, Dave, it's Colbert off the bat.
00:09:46.000We're going to be talking about Colbert.
00:09:47.000We're going to be going to Comedy Central and we're going to be going to Bill Maher.
00:09:51.000And what's interesting is seeing how they all cover the events of our time.
00:09:54.000It's just it really is disturbing because we used to believe that it was sort of the last bastion of free speech.
00:09:59.000It's not anymore, because you have to look at late-night comedy, and then a lot of these comedians who are beholden to these late-night sort of circuits, they have to be careful with what they say if they want to get their airtime.
00:10:09.000It wasn't like that with Johnny Carson.
00:10:10.000It wasn't like with Johnny Carson or even early David Letterman, where people would say, hey, hold on a second.
00:10:15.000If you said something unpopular at the Chuckle Hut, we're not going to book you.
00:10:19.000So it's interesting to see them all towing the same line, with the exception of, surprisingly now, Bill Maher, who of course is catching hate.
00:10:26.000He's been labeled a right-wing extremist, which is what he labeled us a year ago.
00:10:32.000So first we'll go to Colbert, and if you're white and you hate—if you're white and you hate, period, but if you hate yourself specifically, you might find this sketch funny.
00:15:51.000Bones-o may cause popping, itching, fancy flippers, skittles, breakdancing, multiple sclerosis, in Wuhan vets, hat wearing, holocaust denying, anal explosion, and pregnancy in men.
00:16:01.000I don't know how they did it with carbon dioxide.
00:17:15.000So here's something interesting though, completely irrelevant to that.
00:17:19.000Tensions are obviously high and on Friday a fight broke out between a journalist, I want to make sure I'm getting this name correct, and Ukrainians you guys can comment and let me know, Yuri Butusov and parliamentary deputy Nestor Shutryk.
00:17:34.000On the Ukrainian television program, Freedom of Speech, so that's nice, they have that show.
00:17:42.000And this guy is a pro-Russia member of parliament, to be clear.
00:17:46.000And what happened is, I guess he refused to condemn Vladimir Putin.
00:17:50.000And so what we're going to do is show you the whole clip, so you see this in context, and you see just how different It is that governments function abroad compared to the United States.
00:17:59.000And then we're going to do a fight play-by-play breakdown because that'll give us some insight into the geopolitics.
00:19:55.000So, there's a lot that went on there and it's time for this week's Fight Breakdown.
00:20:04.000So let me explain this, so this way I can translate it, because a lot of people, especially if you're listening on audio... First off, I apologize that you're listening on audio, because this makes no sense.
00:23:23.000It's sort of, yeah, it's just knee judo effectively at that point.
00:23:26.000And let's continue because the fight continues on.
00:23:30.000And of course, the most interesting part here, this is hyperly technical, getting a side control, knee on belly, and very important, this gentleman right here is just sitting like he's doing nothing.
00:24:38.000He had the chokehold going though, he was in deep.
00:24:41.000Oh yeah, he was going, this guy has some fight training and that translator, I tell you what, she's been in some domestic abuse situations because her cage is not rattled whatsoever.
00:24:49.000What I love about this is it's every real fight in the world because when you watch a movie, you think it's awesome.
00:24:55.000Real fights are you two rolling on the ground like jackasses and everyone's embarrassed, especially you.
00:26:50.000It'd be like if right now, Tokunawa just front kicked Dave to the face.
00:26:54.000You just saw his foot come in, and then Dave jumps over and pummels him, and then afterwards they have to sit here and joke about John Oliver.
00:27:28.000Imagine, okay, imagine those people, and I don't know what the provinces are or states are in Ukraine exactly, okay?
00:27:33.000But imagine if, let's say, at one in the morning, those guys in Ukraine went to bed where their state had been called for one guy, and then woke up at 3 a.m., and all of a sudden they're like, wait!
00:29:07.000So they were talking about how comedians are no longer in absolute despair now that Trump, and this is something I don't understand, now that Trump is out of office because first off I remember when conservatives thought oh when Trump is office we won't have anything to make fun of anymore like Barack Obama and I never felt that way because I knew that the media, the entertainment industry establishment, they were really They were the enemy, they were the people, they were the establishment who we were railing against, not who's in the White House.
00:29:30.000And of course now, can't stand former Vice President Joe Biden, but I'm not in despair.
00:29:33.000So I don't understand how John Oliver and Stephen Colbert don't acknowledge that Trump was a gift for them comedically because they can't write without Trump in office.
00:29:41.000Every story was Trump, whether it was funny or not.
00:29:43.000And for proof that they can't write, watch their show today, and then notice the only clips that get any kind of play is when they reference Trump.
00:30:15.000It's not fun writing comedy from absolute despair.
00:30:19.000And for us it's been, even we were getting, our show was getting sucked into dealing with the fire hose of what was coming out of the administration all the time.
00:30:28.000So it is nice to return to do what we do best, I think, which is stories about PACE loans.
00:32:30.000And we'll... He has a Critical Race Theory segment, John Oliver, that just went up.
00:32:33.000We're gonna do a rebuttal to that tomorrow, because everything this guy... And I think John Oliver can be funny, but at what point, and please, you guys can comment, but at what point does comedy become propaganda?
00:32:43.000Look, and it's not lost on me, I have a point of view, but I'm very open about it, and we try to let you know.
00:32:49.000All references are available at loudearthcracker.com.
00:32:53.000I think it's pretty easy to tell when you see a Patch Adams penis doctor sketch, or Dave and I making a joke about men fighting in the Ukraine scratching like girls, although that actually happened.
00:35:48.000Trevor Noah and Samantha Bee, they have to look for propagandists first.
00:35:51.000And so they literally can't even get a guy like this, Jordan Klepper, to have a show that's a once-a-week, half-hour weekend show to work on Comedy Central because they're not actually looking for talent.
00:36:00.000They're not actually looking for the funniest people.
00:36:04.000Instead, we have diversity matters most, meaning racial diversity, meaning gender diversity.
00:36:08.000And then we say what matters most is that people have the right point of view because we can't have intellectual diversity.
00:36:13.000And way down the list, somewhere if you look for it, if you scratch like a pig scratching for truffles or a Ukrainian broadcaster scratching the face of a Putin plant, you maybe find talent and funny there.
00:36:28.000Comedians who are supposed to be the voice against authority.
00:36:32.000Going down to the Canadian... I go to TBS though, iComedy, to watch Samantha Bee, where they killed Conan, the last funny late night show host, just to point that out.
00:36:42.000But they also murdered him, it's a scandal.
00:36:44.000It's just the Prime Minister of Finland.
00:36:46.000TBS decided one day that they were a comedy station.
00:37:19.000So Jordan Klepper went down to the Canadian Freedom Convoy, and you would think, speak out against authority, speak out against the police who are abusing protesters, right?
00:37:26.000Because this is a guy, you know, who supported the Black... Instead, he went down to the Freedom Convoy to crap... Remember, people say don't punch down.
00:37:34.000They say we're punching down when we go after LGBTQAIP, or Dave Chappelle does, right?
00:37:38.000I can't think of anything more punching down than literally going to a protest where people have had their rights The trucker convoy has arrived in Ottawa.
00:37:47.000This city and the downtown core remains gridlocked.
00:37:49.000But that's what Jordan Klepper said is the ticket for him.
00:37:52.000The trucker convoy has arrived in Ottawa.
00:37:55.000This city and the downtown core remains gridlocked.
00:37:57.000Some residents here say that they really can take no more.
00:38:01.000So I traveled to Ottawa, expecting to find some Canada nice.
00:38:05.000But their messaging was a bit more coarse.
00:38:08.000These trucks shut down businesses and made roads impassable.
00:38:12.000Why did you blur that out when the maple leaf was already blurring out the F word?
00:38:17.000Well, no, because they want to make sure that you think it's more aggressive than it is.
00:39:02.000Prime Minister Trudeau locked down, shut down businesses, which by the way resulted in 3 million jobs lost, another 200,000 lost in January, and Canada only has, what is it, it's like 30-something million people.
00:40:11.000Just like when you go to the t-shirt rack and you get last year's political, it's like, oh, Mitt Happens with a picture of Mitt Romney.
00:40:17.000The same thing, only you burn down a Walgreens and you take, you know, $900 worth of equipment.
00:40:20.000You know how bad I want a Mitt Happens shirt now?
00:40:24.000We're going to sell it at Crowdershop.com.
00:40:26.000So then he moves on to interview, and this is sort of the selective editing that you see, right, to find one person in a crowd who seems crazy.
00:40:33.000And the funny thing is, this guy doesn't seem all that crazy when you take it in context and implies that they're just paranoid.
00:40:40.000So here's Jordan Klepper doing the people's work.
00:40:41.000You're committed to being here for two years?
00:41:41.000It wasn't child-friendly, it was just like, I got a mug, got a mug, and oh no, there's a bug in my mug, but it's not, so I'm gonna drink from my mug, Fred Penner's Place.
00:41:57.000I don't want to talk about it, it's only going to make me mad.
00:41:59.000My point is... Get some Raffi in your life, son.
00:42:01.000It's lazy, lazy arguing, and he just assumes that an uneducated audience will go, oh yeah, paranoid, the government's going to come after him.
00:42:25.000i guess the viewers maybe didn't actually track down this clip
00:42:29.000of the crazy ottawa police chief uh... saying that even if protesters go home
00:42:34.000after this in other words not just right now yeah if protesters go
00:42:38.000home or anyone who's been involved these protests at all
00:42:42.000and you can see this in a second and i hope it's as terrifying to you as it is
00:42:45.000to me that this is happening in the western world he says afterwards
00:42:48.000they will be tracked down No mention of due process.
00:42:52.000If the protesters at this point, you know, retreat and go home, are they going to be getting sort of repercussions down the road?
00:43:01.000Are you going to be sort of actively pursuing the people that you've been sort of documenting and filming who are still out there protesting?
00:43:08.000What are your plans after this, after the protest is over?
00:43:12.000It's a great question, and the simple answer is yes.
00:43:15.000If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges.
00:43:24.000This investigation will go on for months to come.
00:43:27.000It has many, many different streams, both from a federal financial level, from a provincial licensing level, from a criminal code level, from a Municipal breach of court order, breach of court injunction level.
00:43:53.000Do they want these people to become violent?
00:43:55.000Because when you say, hey, by the way, you made your voices heard and you protested and nobody was hurt, we're going to harm you once you leave.
00:44:04.000A part of me wonders if they're trying to get people to say, well, there's nothing to lose now.
00:44:08.000If you want peace, you give somebody an out.
00:44:12.000By the way, the out would have just been, okay, you don't have to show a vaccine passport to go to a restaurant.
00:44:18.000That would have been a nice out, but at least at this point, give them an out where if you go home, we're not going to freeze your bank accounts and harm your family.
00:44:24.000And this is something else that I, but again, it's just crazy paranoia.
00:44:28.000For crying out loud, Alex Jones is seeming more and more like an oracle.
00:44:31.000If Alex Jones were to tell you this not long ago, listen, here's what's going to happen.
00:44:34.000You're going to show up, and if you even so much as protest at the Capitol, they will freeze your bank accounts.
00:44:39.000Freeze your bank accounts, go after your family, and they will follow you to the ends of the earth.
00:44:53.000Um, and this is also something where I, you know, a lot of conservatives abandon public schools, they abandon right public office.
00:45:03.000So the police chief before this guy left, resigned before this.
00:45:06.000Now I understand probably, I don't know why, I'm inferring here, okay, just to be clear, I don't want to do propaganda, I'm letting you know that I'm making This is conjecture.
00:45:16.000Probably didn't want to be involved with the complete destruction of basic human rights in Canada, but the problem is if you abandon your post, a lot of conservatives leave.
00:45:30.000Trudeau or whoever is in charge of that office, whatever Patsy for the higher-ups, can plant whoever they want there and now you've got a guy who's going to do the bidding for that government and follow people after the protests.
00:45:42.000to punish them. Yeah well and just think about this for a second because they're saying like
00:45:46.000you said in Alex Jones voice you know freezing your bank accounts like seriously that is
00:45:50.000happening to people right now who are doing nothing more than protesting and by protesting
00:45:55.000I mean parking a truck in downtown Ottawa and dancing.
00:45:59.000Right. That's it. Well they're pretty white. Protest. Well the dance moves.
00:46:03.000I will say, the Black Lives Matter protests, they were better.
00:48:19.000Now here's the thing, I understand that horses, this happens sometimes, it's an accident, you guys should clear, but what were they, they were clearing a path for what?
00:48:55.000So I guess it's paranoid to think the government might come after, I don't know, businesses that we've seen with the Canadian government, of course.
00:49:01.000Or maybe it's paranoid, this crazy little guy, right?
00:49:04.000Jordan Klepper, the bully that you are.
00:49:06.000Maybe it's crazy for Canadians to be paranoid that the government might come after, I don't know, pastors.
00:49:11.000Thank you for the recording. It's time to say goodbye.
00:49:17.000Seems like an unsafe place to arrest a pastor.
00:50:26.000Now, also, I don't know, maybe the government could force quarantine.
00:50:30.000The point is, it's not paranoia if it's happening.
00:50:34.000It's like somebody interviewing me and me saying, I don't know, I'm paranoid that there's a, I'm paranoid that there's tepid tea in that mug.
00:51:17.000The two people who watched the lightweights fight.
00:51:19.000The best way to clear out a group of people is to come out of nowhere and say, excuse me, move, and then just immediately go in and not care.
00:51:27.000Although, you know what, that being said, what I would like to see is someone just march on in with the Budweiser Clivesdale into a Walgreens while someone's having the old five-finger discount.
00:52:31.000You don't think that this guy who can arrest people and freeze their bank accounts for parking their truck can arrest you for using the wrong pronouns?
00:52:40.000This is getting absolutely terrifying and I'll explain to you exactly why the left is now covering this because they ignored it for a long time.
00:52:49.000I'll explain to you exactly why Jordan Klepper feels the need to punch down.
00:52:52.000He really is a patsy for the higher-ups.
00:52:53.000I bet you this came to him as orders from Viacom.
00:55:16.000Let alone freezing their bank accounts and letting them know that they will continue to ruin their livelihoods for the rest of time should they deem fit.
00:56:11.000But you talk about it with the kind of weak men, right?
00:56:14.000If they're put in this situation, they have to violently react, whereas strongmen know that they can handle the situation and they're good to go.
00:56:20.000They don't have to show that force until later.
00:56:22.000With guys like Trudeau, nobody's shaking his hands, nobody thinks he's a part of the cool club, nobody likes Justin Trudeau, and he's a weak tyrant who's like, OK, I've got to do something strong now.
00:57:35.000And a well-funded, never-ending street party infused with misinformation and nationalism feels remarkably possible in our own land of the free.
00:57:44.000Where does this movement go from here?
00:57:46.000Is he always nasally or is that cocaine?
00:58:26.000Over 150,000 of you were watching when the riots started, the peaceful protests.
00:58:29.000All we did was show you what was happening across the country, right?
00:58:33.000Didn't even require that much commentary.
00:58:35.000We showed you CNN where it said mostly peaceful.
00:58:37.000This happened live on our show and now it's sort of become a meme because everyone else saw what was going on.
00:58:42.000Said fiery but mostly peaceful protests.
00:58:44.000We just showed you exactly what was going on.
00:58:46.000Okay, in this case, You don't think for a second if this guy could find an example of violence, or insurrection, or something on fire, or a crime being committed, that he would include it?
00:58:56.000He can't, so he has to say, uh, dickheads in America, and he's corrected by the nice people being interviewed, you know, mothers who aren't used to being on camera saying, well, we hope that it inspires people, and this is the point.
00:59:11.000I'll tell you exactly why they're addressing this now.
00:59:13.000They are afraid that this could be a groundswell and that it could come to the United States.
00:59:18.000Because yes, the supply chain has been disrupted.
00:59:20.000That is a wonderful way to peacefully protest and make your voices heard because you're not directly burning down somebody's business.
00:59:28.000What you are doing is forcing the government to, well if they have any sense, take a seat at the table and listen.
00:59:34.000This is how most great Civil rights protests have taken place.
00:59:39.000And by the way, we're not just talking about civil rights, we are talking about basic human rights.
00:59:41.000But this is, make no mistake, a civil rights protest, regardless of color, and it's a mixed crowd.
00:59:46.000It's Canada, so it's not quite as mixed as, you know, anywhere outside of Canada, but it's still as mixed as you're going to have in Canada.
00:59:52.000They are afraid of this coming to the states, and I have said this many times, I hope it does!
00:59:58.000I would love to see a freedom trucker convoy here in the United States.
01:00:59.000I want them to do both, but I don't want Justin Trudeau's hatchet men going in there, beating people up, and stealing money from their bank accounts, shutting down financial institutions for just funding people, and didn't have a problem with doing it for Black Lives Matter, but have a problem doing it with people... Raise money for serial felons with Black Lives Matter.
01:01:15.000Well, cutting off all funding, taking all their money away, it's just absolutely amazing that anybody could be on the side of that.
01:02:07.000Well, he's not, he's not even educated enough about the joke that he's telling because he said, because if you guys end up coming here, I might actually- I'm sorry, he's an unfunny piece of shit.
01:02:32.000Why don't you just do your job and let this guy know that, eh, you know what, maybe we
01:02:35.000don't want to pick on these protesters.
01:02:36.000Also, you know what, you want to know something else?
01:02:38.000When people say, hey, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, they can do whatever they want.
01:02:41.000They go, free speech is only when the government does it.
01:02:43.000When liberals say this, and by the way, of course, that's untrue when you look at Section 230, because the government and Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, right, they're one and the same when they're enacting policies of the government.
01:02:54.000Curtailing of speech online as we just saw recently from Susan Wojcicki.
01:02:56.000But even then, it's not an argument that the left actually believes in because right now when you actually have the government of Canada arresting and punishing people for speech You're fine with it anyway.
01:03:10.000So don't act, just like when people say, oh, what about Dreamer children?
01:03:24.000Well, then don't say that you care about the kids who are here.
01:03:26.000The anchor babies, because that's not what it's about.
01:03:28.000When you say abortion, right, they go, well what about rape and incest?
01:03:30.000Okay, if we allowed all abortions for rape and incest, would you be, well no, well then don't say it's about rape and incest.
01:03:36.000Don't say it's about individual platforms being able to ban whatever speech they want and it's not technically censorship, because you're fine with it when the government does it anyway.
01:03:44.000And I know that in Canada they don't have freedom of speech, which is what you would like to bring here to the United States, but let's not act like if we cross that bridge you're going to have a problem with it then.
01:03:52.000You only demand fewer rights and less speech.
01:03:59.000If you're on the same page as me, smash that like button.
01:04:01.000Smash the like button if you have never seen in your lifetime people in our generation, people who are supposed to flip the bird to figures of authority, doing their bidding like we are seeing right now.
01:04:13.000Well, it's not even about... In every situation, it's not even about what it is about.
01:04:16.000If you're talking about rape and incest, we know where I stand on it, but it's about not going on TikTok... Pro!
01:04:21.000Oh, I thought we were talking about the royal family.
01:05:13.000Well, here's the thing, and that's actually a good transition because The left is rewarded for the most extreme, right?
01:05:19.000You see Governor Ralph Northam saying, well, we keep the baby comfortable, let's drive an abortion, then decide what we want to do with it.
01:05:23.000They believe in abortion up until and including birth period, right?
01:05:26.000They're against heartbeat bills, where a baby has its own heart, and we know that this is now an autonomous life, you can't argue the science of it, right?
01:05:40.000Now on the flip side, Bill Maher, who absolutely is a liberal, Just to be clear.
01:05:46.000I want to support him now because I know he stepped out on a limb but he is getting a taste of his own medicine because he did accuse the Tea Party movement and people who were against Barack Obama of being racist for a long time and now he's getting the same kinds of accusations because he said something.
01:06:00.000He's the only person in late night right now who says anything even remotely reasonable.
01:06:04.000Again, not nearly as extreme as the left, what you just saw with Trevor Noah and Jordan Klepper, but he's being excoriated for it.
01:06:09.000So let me read you some of these tweets.
01:06:10.000But real quick, at least he's remained a comedian.
01:06:51.000I got sick of his Islamophobic schtick and whining when his audience didn't laugh at his, quote, jokes.
01:06:56.000Okay, again, I don't think there's ever been someone who's gone more of A consistent anti-Christian tirade than Bill Maher, but he is even-handed.
01:07:38.000So while I was watching the show this weekend, I couldn't help but notice, and keep in mind too, I have been in communication, I've told this Inside Baseball with people at Bill Maher a while back.
01:07:47.000They reached out for me to be on the show and then didn't have me on the show.
01:07:55.000I remember the Booker specifically asked me about the Russia scandal, and I was like, I don't really want to talk about the Russia scandal.
01:07:59.000I said, I think the Oscar's so white thing's pretty funny.
01:08:09.000Eileen Gooey covered quite a few topics here.
01:08:12.000And there are striking similarities between what we covered, how we covered exactly how we covered it last week, two, three weeks ago, and him covering it yesterday.
01:08:24.000I want you to comment below if you see that maybe it goes beyond coincidence, because I've got like four or five examples here.
01:08:33.000Let's first start with Eileen Gu, us, and him.
01:08:39.000I'm sure you've heard about American citizen Eileen Gu, the beautiful model, influencer, and now gold medal winning skier who was born and raised here in America, but who chose to ski in the Olympics for China.
01:10:40.000You guys see, that's just one example.
01:10:42.000Here's another example of something that we made fun of and then Bill Maher addressed, which had not been addressed anywhere on late night comedy at this point as far as I know, but I'm not... I mean, I'm not omnipresent.
01:10:52.000I can't watch all of them at the same time.
01:11:10.000On the flip side though, even though this has been a huge propaganda campaign, the Chinese, you know, the topography is something really special.
01:13:00.000That's not the only example, because now we also have, of course, and look, I do appreciate that Bill Maher has, you know, poached somebody to address this on his show.
01:13:08.000Here is him talking about the Uyghur camps.