David Lucas is a stand-up comedian, podcaster, and podcaster. He has been featured on Kill Tony and is a regular on Comedy Central's "Comedy Bang Bang! He also has his own YouTube channel, where he is known for his satirical take on current events.
00:00:00.000If Black Lives Matter really gave a damn about black lives, there should be backpack giveaways going back to school.
00:00:19.600There should be cookouts. You know what I'm saying? Black people, that's how I know black people not giving money.
00:00:26.100I heard you went to jail just so you could get Jussie Smollett's Subway sandwich from him.
00:00:40.100David Lucas, took so long to get us set up here, but we're finally recording now. How are you, sir?
00:00:45.800Yeah, I'm good, man. I ain't got no bottoms on.
00:00:50.060That's good. I'm glad. David Lucas, I think I first discovered you from Kill Tony. How long have you been doing stand-up exactly?
00:00:58.400Um, I started when I was like 17, 18. So, I mean, like, I've been doing it like 13 years, but like for a living and like seriously, like the last six, seven years.
00:01:21.480I think it's one of my favorite podcasts. I don't know how they came up with it. I knew they started it in L.A., but I've noticed that you've been doing a lot more stuff on your YouTube channel lately.
00:01:33.480Was that like a conscious decision? Did you just feel like starting to do that? Were you going to do a podcast and sort of turn it into that? How did that start happening?
00:01:40.460So, yeah, I'm going to do a podcast as well. But, um, how I look at everything that a comedian does, I feel like, um, it's just a commercial, you know what I'm saying?
00:01:54.080So, like, if I'm on Kill Tony, that's my commercial. Like, people get the opportunity to see me. And when they see my commercial, I feel like they need something else.
00:02:02.640That's also me, uh, that I'm doing that they can, uh, consume. So that's why I'm like big on my YouTube now, because, you know, eventually, like, I do want to like retire from Kill Tony so that I can become my own entity.
00:02:18.400For sure. What do you think is the most insane thing you've seen on that show? Because I was just watching, I think, uh, one that's filmed a couple of weeks ago.
00:02:27.120There's a girl with an ankle monitor on there. Uh, you got so many ridiculous things happening.
00:02:32.640What do you think is the craziest, like, person or thing you've seen on that show?
00:02:37.540Uh, honestly, I don't really watch the show. I'll be in the green room until it's my time.
00:02:43.940Um, but when I first got on the show, uh, some crazy shit we saw, uh, there was this, uh, I think it's, I don't know how you politically say it, but a midget.
00:02:57.040Um, and he said he had a long dick and, uh, Tony didn't believe him.
00:03:04.620And, uh, he sent like Jeremiah to like the side of the stage to look at this midget's dick.
00:03:10.140And I was just like, these white boys are fucking wild.
00:03:14.140All right. I think that passes. Um, with, with all the, uh, the content you're doing now, like I noticed the, the one video you had the, I think it was the streets miss Trump or the streets want Trump back or something like that.
00:03:30.180And that's, that's over a hundred K already. Do you think that you're going to start to get censored soon? Because you do talk about, uh, BLM, you talk about Trump.
00:03:38.900You obviously, your content is not safe for work for the most part for a lot of the stuff anyways. Um, and then politically what YouTube does people, do you, do you think you kind of have to prepare for that?
00:03:49.200I mean, it's already happening, man. Uh, I just made my Patreon, patreon.com slash David Lucas. Um, a lot of my videos have been, uh, demonetized.
00:04:02.180And now when I put videos up, uh, before they can earn any type of advertisements, they have to go through the screening process with YouTube.
00:04:11.340So sometimes it takes two days before they let me know my video is suitable for YouTube.
00:04:16.700Yeah. I'm in the same boat. It's a, an automatic demonetization basically. Yeah. And it's pretty terrible. Um, and you also talk a lot about the, uh, the Spotify. I've seen some of your, your standup on that talking about Rogan and the Spotify. Where do you think this goes? Like, do you think that we're just going to have to constantly jump ship to other platforms? Like you've got all these alternatives to Twitter and everything. You've got different ones to YouTube.
00:04:42.940Do you think everybody's just going to have to constantly jump ship once some, one platform gets too bad with that kind of stuff? Or do you think eventually something happens that puts an end and, and, and to all the censorship for, for stuff like comedy or, or, uh, music or anything like that?
00:04:56.940What I don't understand. What I don't understand about Twitter, Twitter, especially bro. You can go see a chick get fucked on Twitter. You can see a chick get fucked in the ass, the mouth and her pussy. But the moment I say something, that's a problem.
00:05:15.280I don't, it bothers me a lot that you can watch porn on Twitter, but my words offend you to the point where you want to flag my account. Like Brad, that's why, you know, I got my Patreon going, bro. Cause, um, um, and I made everybody who joined my pay. I just had one tier $5, bro. Cause I really just want people to get the content.
00:05:44.140Like, I just want to be seen and I want them to hear what I got to say. Like, I'm not, uh, you know, the money is, you know, a side effect of putting out good content, but I'm not really too concerned. I just want people to, I just want people to see my stuff, bro. Like, and I don't want to be silenced. And, and, you know, um, the more I put out videos and content, I find out that a great percentage of people actually have some of the same viewpoints and, and think like me.
00:06:11.540Do you think anything happens now with Elon Musk buying, I think the most shares for Twitter?
00:06:18.240Yeah. He bought a, what was it? Nine or 10%. So he has the biggest shareholder in, of Twitter right now. Uh, well, hopefully, you know, he can get Trump back on, uh, cause Twitter has been born since Trump left.
00:06:35.700I don't see a lot of comedians utilizing Twitter as much as they used to. It's like, it's so like politicized and maybe it's just from what I follow, but like, it seems to me like it's probably not the, like the best thing for comedians to capitalize off of.
00:06:50.960That's just me. But, uh, everybody's just getting, I mean, you know, that used to be how they were, uh, canceling everybody.
00:06:59.260That's, you know, like they pull up tweets from six years ago. Um, and, uh, you know, the moment somebody about to, I don't know who the fuck has all this time,
00:07:09.460but it's so funny to me that, uh, as soon as a person is about to do something great, they pull up some tweets from eight years ago.
00:07:17.920You know what I'm saying? Like, bro, I don't even have that same mind frame anymore. I don't even have the same mind frame I had two years ago.
00:07:24.620So, um, I think that's why a lot of comedians, especially, uh, got off Twitter because it gets old. Like that shit gets old, man.
00:07:34.140Like they're already trying to silence us. Like they try to cancel you, even though cancellations are not really successful.
00:07:40.640I don't know a successful cancellation, but I was trying to silence you and always trying to cancel you.
00:07:46.480So, uh, like me, bro, like I really don't put my material on YouTube. I just, you got to see me live.
00:07:52.940Like, yeah, for sure. I only see most people putting up, uh, up specials now just for YouTube as opposed to the regular specials.
00:08:02.020I wanted to ask you, since I have seen some of your stuff about, uh, your standup about BLM, have you seen the news coming out about them buying all these mansions?
00:08:11.380The $6 million house, bro. Yeah, that's what be, that's what BLM stands for. Buy large mansions.
00:08:16.840They bought one in Canada for $8 million as well.
00:08:20.380I mean, they're crooks, bro. Um, and I think that, um, all the gay white people and all the queer people, you know, that supported Black Lives Matter because it was not black people.
00:08:31.740Black people didn't support Black Lives Matter. I don't know a single black person who gave money to Black Lives Matter.
00:08:37.280I know a lot of black people that marched, but I don't know, I don't know one nigga that gave money to Black Lives Matter.
00:08:42.400So, uh, to all the gay people and, you know, LGBTQ people who donated all them large sums of money to Black Lives Matter,
00:08:50.320it's okay to say that these motherfuckers poured a wool over your eyes.
00:08:53.520Um, just admit it. You got got. That's what black people do. We swindled the fuck out of white people.
00:09:00.040So, you know, they, they pulled a hook, line and sinker on all these crazy ass white people that want to wear purple hair and say,
00:09:07.460did you just assume my gender? So, um, it is what it is.
00:09:12.760Do you see a parallel between how the media pushes something like that and how people just,
00:09:19.080my personal opinion, just universally like support something like Ukraine, whether it's Ukraine,
00:09:23.620Amazon rainforest or Australian rainforest getting burned, like the whole,
00:09:28.720if you, if you take this point of view, you're supposed to be a good person.
00:09:31.560Do you see that like as a, as a pattern?
00:09:34.120Man, on some real shit and it's no disrespect to Canada, but, uh, the city I live in LA and the country I live in,
00:09:44.460United States is too fucked up for me to really give a damn about anywhere else.