The Ben Shapiro Show - November 12, 2026


Rob Schneider on the Hollywood Blacklist Nobody Talks About

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00:00:00 Joining me on the line is Rob Schneider.
00:00:02 You know him, of course, from Grownups and Deuce Bigelow and The Animal and The Hot Chick.
00:00:06 That's producer Savvy's literal favorite movie.
00:00:09 His new book is The Not Real Anthony Fauci Diary.
00:00:12 It is out November 24th and it is a darkly funny, unapologetic, provocative satire about, you know, Anthony Fauci.
00:00:20 Rob, thanks so much for taking the time.
00:00:21 Really appreciate it.
00:00:22 Thank you.
00:00:23 It's the only justice we're going to get the making fun of this little dwarf who shut down the world and the amount of power that that man had.
00:00:32 It was incredible.
00:00:34 And how he wielded it and silenced others was phenomenal.
00:00:40 So I think it's a real swipe.
00:00:42 It's a mean spirited take on his diary.
00:00:47 And a lot of it seems like it's in his own words.
00:00:50 If it isn't, I will claim it as my own.
00:00:54 So, Rob, what prompted this other than, you know, visceral hatred for Anthony Fauci?
00:01:00 What prompted this?
00:01:01 His actual diary, when it came out, read like a schoolgirl's diary.
00:01:05 It really read like, you know, This guy, you know, really was impressed that, you know, Julia Roberts is calling him and, you know, Barbara Streisand.
00:01:13 And he was just, he's this guy who was, you know, nobody noticed him for most of his life.
00:01:19 And all of a sudden during the pandemic, he had this, you know, meteoric rise to fame.
00:01:24 He was America's doctor and the left completely embraced him as this, almost angelic or certainly, you know, the Mr. Science, as he'd called himself.
00:01:36 And he was anything but.
00:01:39 He literally was the epitome of medical corruption and scientific corruption and censorship.
00:01:47 And the fact that that goes to show you how bloated our government is, because there's other Anthony Fauci's out there, and whether it's the Defense Department or whether it's the Energy Department, there's just this bureaucratic bloat that is part of it.
00:02:00 But for someone to have that kind of influence and to have that, to be so celebrated and be so enamored with his own newfound fame.
00:02:11 I just had to, we just had to make something fun about it.
00:02:14 You know, Rob, one of the things that's really funny about this is you write this satire book about Fauci.
00:02:18 You know, in the past, if you look at Hollywood, Hollywood, even now, they'll satirize the right and they'll spend literally hundreds of millions of dollars to do it, right?
00:02:24 One battle after another is this supposed satire about a white supremacist America in which apparently only highly sexualized black liberation theorists and also illegal immigrants can liberate us.
00:02:35 And they'll spend hundreds of millions and give it Oscars.
00:02:37 If you go all the way back to the 60s and you look at Dr. Strangelove, which was satirizing the entire defense establishment, But Hollywood will never touch, not in a million years.
00:02:46 They would never touch somebody like Fauci, who, as you point out, is extraordinarily ripe for satire.
00:02:50 I mean, I know this is something you've talked about at length, but you felt it directly.
00:02:54 I mean, you were a huge star, able to book pretty much anything.
00:02:58 And, you know, you just aren't of their political ilk.
00:03:01 And now, you know, they're not going to be calling you on the phone.
00:03:04 No, and that's okay.
00:03:05 I mean, I think there are some things more important than fame and money and celebrity status, whatever that means.
00:03:13 I think standing up for your culture when it's under attack.
00:03:16 I think it has a value beyond what you can get financially.
00:03:23 I think when you have a society that refuses to believe the truth, and when the truth becomes a right wing concept, then I think you have to stand up for it.
00:03:32 And yes, it's going to cost you.
00:03:34 And yet it's going to cost people that we know.
00:03:36 I mean, Charlie Kirk, it cost his life.
00:03:38 What I didn't expect was to see this wave of ugliness and a wave of tribalism that does not, the tribal left does not afford.
00:03:50 To give empathy and sympathy to those outside their ilk, outside their tribe, which is really pathetic and disgusting.
00:03:58 And at least you see it exposed.
00:04:01 It's so disappointing when you see someone who's so talented, like Dave Chappelle, just evolve into a non joke.
00:04:08 And to see the audience not going with him at the Madison Square Garden event, they didn't.
00:04:13 I heard it.
00:04:14 And they were like, oh.
00:04:16 And some tried to join in on the laughter just when he said he felt good that Charlie Kirk, when he thinks of Charlie Kirk being murdered, it makes him happy.
00:04:27 And I don't sense a joke in that.
00:04:29 I sense a lack of humanity.
00:04:32 And I sense a, um, an ugliness.
00:04:35 And I also sense that, you know, the left is so, um, kind of ugly in this ugly area that is particularly left.
00:04:45 And, uh, seeing these women witches, Jennifer Welch, I can't even believe that I know her name now.
00:04:51 Um, that's because of all this.
00:04:53 Um, I mean, they're unrepentant and ugly.
00:04:56 And the celebration for, for any murder, any death is abhorrent, but, um, I just don't know where we go from here.
00:05:05 It reminds me of a very, very dark time in our history.
00:05:10 When you think about the anti Semitism that I've never seen at this level in my lifetime, it reminds me of there was a Hitler rally in 1939 in Madison Square Garden.
00:05:21 And is something like that likely to happen again?
00:05:26 I don't know.
00:05:27 We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:06:31 You know, Rob, one of the things that you're mentioning here, and I think that we should really put a point on it, is the fact that Dave Chappelle did what he did, and he will lose zero gigs because of it.
00:06:39 Legitimately zero gigs.
00:06:40 I mean, he was on your old stomping grounds literally that night.
00:06:43 I mean, he was on Saturday Night Live that same night that he was at Madison Square Garden doing this routine, this very ugly routine.
00:06:50 And, you know, Saturday Night Live, you know, wants him on next week.
00:06:53 They'll invite him on next week.
00:06:54 I mean, that's the way that it works.
00:06:55 But if you write out.
00:06:56 There's no repercussions.
00:06:57 I mean, when a Democrat actor, you know, shoots somebody on the set, they go free, you know.
00:07:08 If any conservative, ever did anything like that.
00:07:11 You, you'd be in jail.
00:07:12 You know, I mean, it's a, it's, it's a sick kind of thing, but also it, it seems to be accepted.
00:07:17 Like there is nothing beneath the liberal intelligentsia that, um, can get you kicked out, apparently.
00:07:25 And, uh, it's, it sickens me.
00:07:27 It's, um, at the same time, it's like, I'm just waiting.
00:07:32 There, there is no new low.
00:07:33 It just keeps going lower and lower.
00:07:36 And definitely the, I was shocked.
00:07:39 One at the murder of Charlie Kirk, the cold blooded murder.
00:07:44 But I wasn't prepared emotionally, psychologically for the lack of remorse, the lack of, I mean, that no one on the left, I mean, even when Reagan was shot, I mean, there was, you know, you didn't see people jumping to congratulate the shooter.
00:08:05 Whereas you really have a coarsening on our society.
00:08:09 And I think that does go hand in hand.
00:08:11 with the rise of anti-Semitism.
00:08:13 You see, like, you know, like this plane crash in Florida the other day, Ben.
00:08:17 I mean, why are they showing that on Instagram?
00:08:20 Why are people putting that on their accounts?
00:08:22 These are nine dead people who had families.
00:08:25 And this was the last tragic moments of their life is at, at long last is nothing sacred.
00:08:30 I mean, we have a million women on OnlyFans from a particular generation.
00:08:35 Is, is nothing?
00:08:36 I mean, is, is everything for sale?
00:08:38 Is there nothing sacred?
00:08:40 Is there nothing we can hold back?
00:08:41 Is there nothing we can come together and say this is too much?
00:08:44 This is too far.
00:08:45 This is below the belt.
00:08:48 And we must rise together as a nation to say when something is abhorrent that it is indeed abhorrent.
00:08:56 Yeah.
00:08:56 And Robbie, you know, for saying what you just said right there, that's the thing that gets you not booked, right?
00:09:00 I mean, you've mentioned all these terrible things that have been done over the course of the last several years things people have said, things people have done.
00:09:07 And they're still getting gigs.
00:09:08 But for you just saying what you've said, which is those things are bad.
00:09:11 You will feel the blowback.
00:09:13 I mean, that's something that we here at Daily Wire have experienced a lot recently.
00:09:16 Obviously, we were filming something up in Montana, and the town literally mobilized their city council to try and shut down the filming, which is a violation of the First Amendment.
00:09:25 We were going to sue them.
00:09:26 And the entire Hollywood glitterati, everyone in the Hollywood press, came down on the side of the city.
00:09:31 They were very, very excited for the censorship.
00:09:34 And we released our biggest movie yet yesterday Confession with Rob Lowe and James Franco and Jennifer Jason Lee and Ignolty.
00:09:42 It's a terrific film, it's been a great success.
00:09:44 Hollywood Reporter, its opening paragraph, the literal opening paragraph of the review was Ben Shapiro is a loathsome human being.
00:09:50 And so I think that until that changes, until the artistic community was supposed to be the broad minded, open minded community where everybody could come to the table, sure, you bring your opinions, and then we all get together and make art.
00:10:02 That has died.
00:10:03 And until there is an alternative that's provided, we're trying to do that some here at Daily Wire.
00:10:07 But until an alternative is provided, it really is going to be dominated by some of the most censorious and restrictionist people in America.
00:10:14 You really do have a blacklist.
00:10:16 And the blacklist, if you go back and think about it in the 1950s, you really, first of all, some of the things you realized was yes, Hollywood was being infiltrated by communists.
00:10:26 It was having an effect.
00:10:29 And Joe McCarthy was right to go after these people.
00:10:33 And now what you have is you have the opposite now, is you really have a blacklisting of conservative voices.
00:10:40 Or I would just say, you know, from someone who's been, you know, a Democrat most of his life, You have someone who just doesn't go along with the playbook, and then you're out and you're out forever.
00:10:51 But luckily, like yourselves, you know, the Daily Caller, you're providing work for actors and making content.
00:10:58 Because at the end of the day, the cat is out of the bag.
00:11:01 I mean, if you take a look at who really watches the Oscars anymore, I haven't seen it in years.
00:11:06 I mean, it's got to be in the hundreds of thousands when it used to be 100 million people would watch it because it really was the best pitchers.
00:11:13 Remember, I remember, you know, Barbara Wawa.
00:11:16 Interviewing Sean Connery, you know, and interviewing the people nominated.
00:11:20 And you would watch that, you'd watch it with your parents, and you'd bet on who would be the best movie.
00:11:25 And there were great films, and 100 million people in the United States would watch it, and then around the world.
00:11:31 And I can't say that anybody that I know watches it anymore.
00:11:35 And I don't know who it's for.
00:11:36 And I don't know what those movies are.
00:11:38 And the fact that it has to be, you know, certain percentage LBGTQ plus to be the boom operator, to be, to be nominated, you have to have certain characters that, that fit the, I mean, where does that come in artistically?
00:11:50 It is just a political machine.
00:11:53 And so you have, um, you know, you have politics that are, that are the top of the, uh, the most important, um, you know, that, that, that is the, you know, the, the prime objective is to force their politics down the throats of the American people.
00:12:09 And they're not shy about it.
00:12:10 And I would say that they're more successful than not.
00:12:14 I mean, if anything, I think Trump in the last was an aberration to the continued onslaught of this leftist and now leftist Muslim advance.
00:12:25 So, I mean, communist, leftist, Muslim, DSA, call it what you want.
00:12:30 These are things that are violently anti American.
00:12:35 The violence that we're seeing from the left, violence from Antifa, the violence that we're going to see more in Europe.
00:12:43 We're going to see that coming here.
00:12:45 So I think it, people on both sides of the aisle here, they have to stand up and it's going to cost you.
00:12:52 It's going to cost you to speak your opinion.
00:12:54 It's going to cost you jobs.
00:12:55 It's going to cost you money, but it's going to cost you much more if you don't speak up and you lose this incredible experiment and freedom that we have.
00:13:03 This idea that we have this thing called inalienable rights.
00:13:08 That was a new idea.
00:13:09 It wasn't given by some king or by some tyrant or by some bishops or lords.
00:13:14 This is something that you have and that no one can take away from you and that no one can argue about.
00:13:18 That is a system that, with its safeguards in place, is something that, you know, whether Democrats and Republicans have disagreed in the past, they haven't tried to discard it and throw it into the dustbin of history.
00:13:31 This is particularly new and dangerous what these Democrats and these DSA and these communists, these avowed communists, are threatening to do, Ben.
00:13:40 Well, that's Rob Schneider.
00:13:41 He has a brand new book.
00:13:42 I know this has been a very serious interview with the book.
00:13:45 Is actually hysterically funny, and you should go check it out right now.
00:13:47 The book is The Not Real Anthony Fauci Diary, which again is a hilarious satire on you know who, Anthony Fauci.
00:13:55 Rob, thanks so much for stopping by.
00:13:56 I really appreciate it.
00:13:57 Thank you very much, Ben.
00:13:58 All the best to you.
00:13:59 Continue success and good luck.
00:14:00 I can't wait to see the new movie.
00:14:01 Thank you.
00:14:02 Appreciate it.
00:14:03 All right.
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