Comedian Gavin McInnes joins Jemele to discuss his new Netflix show, "SNL" and his new book, "Outrage culture," which explores the ways in which social justice warriors have cannibalized their own in light of SNL. Plus, a new segment called "Wine of the Day" features the wine of the day: Gerald B. Fidelio.
00:05:19.000Before we get to Gavin McInnes and the show today, we are going to be talking about the five top times that social justice warriors have cannibalized their own in light of SNL recently.
00:06:53.000The Net actually beat out a crowded field of nominees this year for outstanding writing in a comedy special, including HBO's Chernobyl, Peter Jackson's They Will Not Grow Old, and that grainy black-and-white Holocaust footage you were forced to watch your sophomore year.
00:07:06.000So it did face some stout competition.
00:09:30.000Andrew Yang is obviously a 2020 candidate.
00:09:32.000He's under fire right now from Vox for using Asian stereotypes.
00:09:36.000They claim he reinforced toxic tropes.
00:09:38.000In actual quote, Yang's comments about Asians being doctors and liking math has some voters concerned they reinforce long-standing racist stereotypes.
00:09:49.000Many of, obviously a lot of people refer to the contract as overblown, with his most vocal
00:09:54.000critics saying that he actually has a history of this yang, even pointing to his most recent
00:09:57.000campaign slogan of me chiney, me no dumb, which seems, yeah.
00:10:28.000Because there is, like, when I look at what the joke is, it's someone who's making a joke that's saying, common ground, we have this joke and the joke exists, and they're not saying it as a joke at me or about me specifically as an individual.
00:10:41.000It would be a stretch for me to have taken that personally and be offended instead of just laughing along with it.
00:13:42.000This isn't the first controversy of its kind, though.
00:13:44.000We've covered these, especially with the Woman of the Year cover with Caitlyn Jenner, Playboy got into some hot water for their transgender pictorials, and of course the outrage over the most recent cover of Yeast Infection Monthly, which seems as though...
00:16:17.000It is durable, I think it's approved up to 100 meters.
00:16:19.000Finally, women are flocking to plastic surgeons right now to fix resting bitch face.
00:16:25.000It's an actual thing from the New York Post.
00:16:27.000According to one plastic surgeon, it's a common request.
00:16:29.000They may not always use the words, but if I mention RBF, they say exactly.
00:16:35.000The surgeon has of course been called an artist, with the human face his canvas, and he's most celebrated for his RBF work on RBG, AOC, The Notorious B.I.G., and medical anomaly, The RBF Elephant Woman.
00:16:51.000Reading this story, it's hilarious because smiling is that difficult that you would have surgery.
00:21:15.000By the way, last week's trivia contestant, before we move on to the meat segment, last week's trivia contest winner is Metal Gunner, at Metal Gunner 2, who correctly answered that Bernie Sanders thought bread lines were a good thing.
00:21:27.000So, let's move on to this segment here.
00:21:29.000The top five examples of SJWs, or let's just call them leftists now, because I think SJW is a flagged word on YouTube.
00:21:36.000If you put SJW on YouTube, you're immediately demonetized.
00:21:39.000So, let's use this as a jumping off point.
00:21:41.000SNL, they dropped a new cast member, Shane Gillis, right?
00:21:44.000If you haven't followed this, we'll talk about it with Gavin next.
00:21:46.000This was following some social media outrage based on some jokes.
00:21:49.000They said he wouldn't be joining the cast, and his comments were, quote, offensive, hurtful, unacceptable to the Asian community, proving, once again, That Charlie can't take a joke.
00:23:06.000That's basically the last cast member who was replaced by the other black female cast member who was replaced by the other black female cast member.
00:23:51.000The mob is going to come after comics, celebrities, politicians, regardless of how woke they are.
00:23:55.000And that's why I want to cycle through five examples of the most woke people we can think of, leftist folks, who then had the crocodiles turn on them.
00:24:02.000So example number five, Sarah Silverman.
00:26:15.000She accidentally stumbled upon truth in the earlier part of that interview where she said her response to the question about it was comedians don't like to be told what to do.
00:26:22.000But then she's like, I can't say that.
00:26:24.000By the way, I want to be really clear.
00:26:25.000I don't think she should have been cancelled or punished at all.
00:26:28.000The blackface sketch was about a girl who was tone-deaf doing blackface to impress black people.
00:26:34.000I think Sarah Silverman can be very funny at times, and I am not advocating for her to be cancelled at all.
00:26:39.000I am pointing out the standard by which they want to be judged.
00:26:43.000I think conservatives need to be really careful about this.
00:26:45.000We shouldn't be advocating that anyone else get cancelled.
00:26:47.000We should be pointing out their standards, but then we should be defending them and championing their right to do these things, to say these things, and not be canceled.
00:26:54.000And I'm not just talking about First Amendment.
00:26:55.000You know, we talk about this all the time.
00:26:56.000First Amendment, obviously, is government.
00:29:27.000I mean, that's not the kind of beautiful and brave thing that we're looking for, right?
00:29:30.000So the joke that we make about it, obviously some people, they have to fight through a lot of different tragedies in their life or whatever that they're feeling.
00:30:19.000While our first instinct is to listen to every woman's story, because you demanded that they do, our insider knowledge of Murray's situation makes us confident that sadly this accusation is one of the 3% of assault cases that are misreported every year.
00:30:31.000It's not only 3% that are misreported or false allegations.
00:30:54.000So we know that she went from believe all women to now this guy's making it up without even looking at any evidence.
00:30:59.000And by the way, this is what finally led to the social justice warriors calling for Dunham's cancellation.
00:31:05.000It's hard not to be happy about this example.
00:31:06.000I'm generally against cancel culture, but...
00:31:11.000You know, I'm also against raping sisters.
00:31:13.000Yeah, and the biggest thing, she actually got pissed off that people thought she was a sexual predator when she described herself as a sexual predator.
00:31:21.000It's like Jerry Sandusky saying, yeah, I know I had sex with that kid in the shower and you guys saw me, but that doesn't make me a bad guy.
00:31:28.000It's almost like a Twitter personality from a certain three-lettered network calling himself things on his Twitter handle and then complaining about someone else using those same words.
00:31:39.000I'm not going to lie, I didn't catch what you were doing.
00:31:43.000I swear to you, I started with Don Lemon?
00:31:46.000Because you said Three Letter Network, so right away I went to CNN.
00:32:29.000It's okay, we'll hit the censor button.
00:32:30.000So him and his co-star Jeremy Renner, they made the mistake of calling Black Widow, referring to Black Widow, a fictional character, mind you, as a slut.
00:33:33.000I think he threw a little dig in there, this joke about an offensive character.
00:33:36.000I'm like, seriously, you just sort of said these people were stupid.
00:33:39.000Bill, if you were advising one of these people today, would you tell them to apologize like that for something that is absolutely so non-offensive to anybody?
00:33:46.000I mean, it's not really a legal issue.
00:33:48.000It's not really a legal issue, it's a question of where you're going to draw the line.
00:33:51.000And you know, the funny part is, I like what you're pointing there, is that if you read it and you emphasize the words of him reading it all, I'd be like, if everyone's offended at this comment about a Fictional character.
00:34:04.000Then I apologize for your offendedness.
00:35:13.000He committed the unforgivable crime of going on a date with a girl that didn't go so well.
00:35:18.000So, for those of you who are confused, bad date is now a synonym for sexual misconduct, apparently.
00:35:25.000Keep in mind, we're not advocating for casual sex here, or promiscuity, where the conservatives were mocked for advocating abstinence until marriage.
00:35:31.000But ladies, let me just say this, okay?
00:35:33.000If you're going to a guy's apartment, and you strip down to nothing, and you start engaging in sex, I don't want to say that you're asking for it, but that's only because you're already doing it.
00:35:44.000You asked for it, you got it, you were doing it, and then you didn't want it.
00:35:48.000Like Chance in Homeward Bound with the porcupine.
00:35:58.000I mean, like, seriously, as a guy, if you're, I, again, we would advise you, the best advice got even better now, abstinence until your marriage, that's better advice, but what do you do as a guy now?
00:36:07.000A woman gets naked and starts doing things to you, I'm sorry, what do you do?
00:38:07.000Keep in mind, this is important, I'm not advocating, I don't think he should lose his re-election.
00:38:10.000But Megyn Kelly was fired, cancelled, for merely suggesting that someone doing blackface back in the day might not have been inherently racist.
00:38:19.000So I want to contrast the comments that got Megyn Kelly cancelled, let's juxtapose that, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's apology.
00:38:26.000Truly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface for Halloween, or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween.
00:39:05.000He didn't just dabble in blackface, he was positively a blackface connoisseur.
00:39:15.000I love how he didn't, like, no one knew about this and then it didn't happen and he didn't remember and didn't bother to tell anyone about it.
00:39:25.000And then it happens and he's like, but actually there's two of them.
00:39:30.000You can also see on his face when this story broke and they're asking those questions, like, I'm sorry, I didn't know that it was racist back then, but now I understand.
00:39:37.000And he's sitting there, he thinks it's over.
00:39:38.000And then someone says, yes, excuse me.
00:40:03.000Look, I love, it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
00:40:07.000I am like you, like Lena Dunham on this list and him, like I'm kind of like, good, I'm glad something like that happened, but it's like they can't control their own creation and I don't want it to happen to anybody, it just, it tears me apart because I'm like, you deserve it!
00:40:39.000The hypocrisy is funny, but I gotta say the point has got to be that the whole point of this is that the ridiculousness of the quote-unquote punishment.
00:40:52.000It comes back and bites them because they didn't really think of what the consequences were.
00:40:56.000What's the consequence of limiting free speech to only speech that some particular group happens to be in power approves at that moment, right?
00:42:18.000They will go after you no matter what, and I want to make sure that everyone out there, because we've seen a lot of comedians who used to fancy themselves liberals who have now come to the other side of the fence just because of this cancelled culture, while there are still some other comedians saying it's not a real thing, like Andy Kindler.
00:47:57.000If there was some kind of an initiation, as has been reported, I'm sure he would have been initiated.
00:48:01.000You know, he actually included, if I'm not mistaken, I think Lorne Michaels, the spokesperson for SNL, said that was included in his audition, the MAGA hat firefighter.
00:48:58.000That was a mockingbird doing an impersonation of an eagle.
00:49:01.000And it's like, okay, it's kind of cute, but these alt, I guess alternative, I was about to say alt-right, alternative comedians, it's 20 minutes of a gag that could have been funny, but they just drag it on too long and they have nowhere else to go.
00:50:33.000What a lot of these TV execs don't understand is they see a successful YouTuber and they go, oh, this person has a huge audience that will easily transpose to television.
00:52:00.000Is it just serum, goose pimple, or is it like mono, where it's always dormant, but is it a virus or a disease, the genital goose pimples?
00:52:07.000So when I saw this, I thought it was very similar.
00:52:10.000I don't know if you remember when YouTube started, there was a girl named Lisa Nova.
00:52:15.000And by the way, this is important for people out there, because what they've done with Gavin, what they've done with myself, what they've done with Norm, by the way, and Dennis Miller, And even some people who've just been on our show, they'd lob the accusation, well, it's just not funny.
00:52:27.000And I heard this on The View, they said, well, I just don't think that was funny.
00:53:09.000She's done videos on YouTube and kind of showed up and spoken for her fans, but she doesn't have any experience with a live audience.
00:53:15.000And so I watched this premiere and I said, you know what?
00:53:17.000That's probably a girl who would be middle of the pack at an open mic, uh, who just, you would say, give her five, six years of seasoning, let her work it out.
00:54:34.000Yeah, I think it's going to probably be pretty rough, but I think it's important to note that a lot of these, they don't know what they're doing, right?
00:54:41.000They're saying, okay, we want to try and bring in non-linear content and they want to bring in people from YouTube, but they don't understand necessarily how to make it work.
00:54:48.000And it is amazing right now that this discussion, who is it?
00:54:51.000Someone from Seth Meyers, a black girl is going to have another late night show.
00:54:54.000Oh man, how many late nights do you need?
00:54:55.000I don't know, but they go, the late night landscape has to change and they show all the hosts and I'm looking, I'm going, okay, We've got Seth Meyers, we've got Trevor Noah, we've got Samantha Bee, we've got Stephen Colbert, and their argument is, look at how homogenous this is.
00:55:46.000I mean, in this modern landscape of talk shows, if you were Jay Leno, and all Jay Leno did was not hate Republicans, If you were Jay Leno, you'd be David Duke.
00:55:55.000Yeah, well, I think that was his nickname.
00:56:04.000No, something else, though, that's interesting to me is, I don't know if you know this, they pre-taped with Lilly Singh.
00:56:09.000So this is important because it coincides while this Shane Gillis is getting canceled for a joke, right, for being what they consider racist.
00:57:14.000They're like, what are all these **** here?
00:57:16.000He said people are like, so he was doing a guy who was freaked out by Chinatown.
00:57:21.000He wasn't using the word on a personal level, but we get rid of him, we get rid of, you know, I think Lorne Michaels was going, let's get some actual quality comedy back, like Robert Downey, who defined SNL from the 80s to the 90s.
00:57:35.000They thought, let's get a new Robert Downey.
01:00:29.000That's right, not only do the Light Earth Crater crew broadcast with the entire team from this here van, but it has the maximum legally allowable height limit with an added on semi-custom roof!
01:00:40.000Custom all this space, arm to arm, and custom red, white, and blue shade carpeting from Florida Steel, and we have all the colors of the rainbow!
01:03:19.000And I want to make sure I clarify earlier when we're talking about how This is the only show that survived that sort of onslaught of cancel culture.
01:03:25.000That's not to brag, that's really out of gratitude to all of you guys.
01:03:28.000The only reason we're able to do this is because of you and because of people who join up at Mug Club.
01:03:32.000If there's no Mug Club, if you guys don't join, and many of you have and support us, there's enough of you out there to support what we're doing now, we're done.
01:03:41.000Do you know how much we're making on YouTube?
01:04:27.000So I hear this a lot, particularly in children's shows, and you hear it on the radio.
01:04:30.000We're constantly told, for as long as I can remember, certainly our entire upbringing, that the most important thing you can do is believe in yourself.
01:05:01.000Now, it's not okay to let that overtake you, to paralyze you, to prevent you from doing the work that has to be done anyway, but it is okay to be unsure of your abilities.
01:05:45.000Well, if you're a productive person, a person who utilizes critical thinking, You're going to set out to determine whether that doubt is valid.
01:05:52.000See, absolute confidence, the believe in yourself, if you buy that wholesale, it breeds complacency.
01:06:24.000You should go touch every northern-facing corner of your house right now while avoiding all the tile cracks, otherwise your family will die.
01:06:30.000But for the rest of us, That trepidation, that self-doubt, it only comes into play when we're nearing the perimeter.
01:06:39.000of something that matters, especially if it's your purpose.
01:06:42.000And we've talked about this, talked about living in your purpose, talking about fulfilling your purpose, because everyone has something that they're great at.
01:06:47.000And so the lie that we tell young kids, and I hear it so often, it's so pervasive that you don't even think about it.
01:06:53.000Some of us don't even think to go, hold on a second, is that true?
01:06:55.000Just like, you're perfect the way you are.
01:06:59.000And it's bad to tell people that they're perfect.
01:07:01.000You can accomplish anything if you believe in yourself.
01:07:03.000The most important thing is that you believe in yourself.
01:07:05.000The lie, and that's a lie that we tell young kids, It teaches them to avoid one of life's most fulfilling endeavors, which is conquering self-doubt to achieve one's purpose or goal.
01:07:17.000And I wish I could say, you know, on a personal level, I wish I could say that I always believed in myself.
01:07:39.000We talk about this idea of shame in culture, but the problem is we want to praise the wrong things and remove shame from things that maybe should be shamed.
01:07:48.000There should be no shame in self-doubt.
01:07:50.000There's no virtue in absolute, unfettered self-confidence.
01:07:54.000There's no shame in self-doubt whatsoever, just as there is no sin in fear.
01:07:58.000Gonna go a little bit theological on you here.
01:08:00.000We've often heard, I had a pastor, I've talked about this, who once taught that fear is the opposite of love.
01:09:38.000Every single one of them, without exception, struggled with self-doubt.
01:09:44.000Every single one of the greatest to have ever done X or Y or Z was nervous and struggled with self-doubt.
01:09:51.000They didn't walk on stage, whether it be the global stage, the comedy stage, or the arena, like some pink song who thinks that they are perfect the way they are and that they had absolute self-confidence.
01:10:03.000On the flip side, think of the buffoons.
01:10:05.000Think of the people you don't necessarily have a ton of respect for.
01:10:08.000Like the cast of Jersey Shore, C-level actors, the mediocre plus-size Instagram models, the guy you knew from high school who's still living in his senior year.
01:10:16.000Think of anyone who you wouldn't want to emulate.
01:10:19.000They tend to be the people who have ultimate self-confidence and this unwavering self-belief.
01:10:26.000Doubt never even enters into the equation.
01:10:32.000So the final exercise I want you to do this week, it's just about being mindful.
01:10:37.000I want you to think about what it is that gives you self-doubt.
01:10:41.000What is it that you would like to accomplish, but maybe you're not sure if you can?
01:10:46.000Or maybe if you can't think of it, I want you to be hyper-vigilant just throughout the entire week.
01:10:52.000Be as aware as you can, hyper-vigilant this entire week, so that any situation that arises, as you approach it, and when you get that little feeling, that voice in your head telling you, I don't know, I don't think you can do it, is that voice popping up because you're coming close to fulfilling your purpose?
01:11:08.000I want you to ask yourself, is that voice coming up because this is important, this is of consequence, this involves your life's potential?
01:11:13.000Have you been avoiding it because it might sting?
01:11:15.000Have you been cutting that feeling, that voice, a wide swath of avoiding?
01:11:20.000I want you to be honest with yourself.
01:11:22.000You don't have to believe in yourself.