The Charlie Kirk Show - October 22, 2020


Babylon Bee and How the Left Killed Comedy


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Has the left killed comedy? Also, I have some recent news about the President s chances of winning re-election. We have some positive news that we are going to share exclusively here on The Charlie Kirk Show.

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00:00:09.000 Has the left killed comedy?
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00:00:52.000 The left has killed comedy.
00:00:54.000 Why it matters.
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00:02:27.000 We're going to start today with a story that might not be top-line news.
00:02:32.000 We will dive into what I believe is the growing good news for Donald Trump.
00:02:37.000 We will go into the story around Hunter Biden.
00:02:42.000 We'll also talk about big tech and my fight and my struggle with Twitter and the decision that we will reluctantly make.
00:02:51.000 However, I want to start with a story that I think impacts our entire civilization, our entire culture.
00:02:57.000 Something that we take for granted that really no longer exists as much in 2020 as it did in 2019 or 2015.
00:03:08.000 There's a story out today that says that Facebook has demonetized the satire site Babylon B, and it claims that Monty Python spoof incites violence.
00:03:19.000 So the Babylon B is probably the premier satire site in the country.
00:03:28.000 The Babylon B is the best website when it comes to mocking and making fun of the ruling class and the leftist political intelligentsia.
00:03:45.000 There is no website that is more effective and better at poking fun at the absurdity of the left.
00:03:56.000 I encourage all you guys, you guys go to BabylonB.com.
00:03:59.000 It's hilarious content, to be perfectly honest.
00:04:03.000 For example, one of the stories is: Biden offers anyone who votes for him a seat on the Supreme Court.
00:04:08.000 Perfect satire is when it is almost believable, where you're almost questioning whether or not the story is true.
00:04:18.000 That is where satire is at its very best.
00:04:21.000 And in times like these, with the absurd being abundant, in times like these, where the left and the cultural elites are pushing the boundaries of what we consider to be normal and right in our world so unbelievably far.
00:04:38.000 Now is the time where we need comedy, where we need satire more than ever.
00:04:44.000 Comedy, from a utilitarian standpoint, pushes boundaries.
00:04:49.000 Comedy is what allows us to have a reprieve from the ever declining culture that we live in.
00:04:59.000 Comedy is the only mechanism that gives us a capacity to question those in charge.
00:05:06.000 Put simply, comedy keeps the ruling class humble.
00:05:11.000 And so Facebook has now demonetized the satire site Babylon B, because they claim that the Monty Python spoof incites violence.
00:05:22.000 They think that this clip that comes from the great Monty Python movie, which is of witches and ducks, one of the greatest scenes of the Monty Python film, is inciting violence.
00:05:35.000 In fact, let's play tape cut five of this exactly.
00:05:38.000 Monty Python, cut five.
00:05:41.000 Tell me, what do you do with witches? 0.99
00:05:43.000 Burn! 0.98
00:05:47.000 And what do you burn apart from witches? 1.00
00:05:49.000 Boar witches! 1.00
00:05:51.000 Wood! 1.00
00:05:53.000 So, why do witches burn? 1.00
00:05:55.000 Because they're made of wood. 0.89
00:05:57.000 Good.
00:06:00.000 So, how do we tell whether she is made of wood? 0.99
00:06:03.000 Does a wood sink in water? 0.94
00:06:06.000 Oh, no, it floats! 0.50
00:06:08.000 It floats over into the pot!
00:06:13.000 What also floats in water?
00:06:15.000 Bread, apples, very small rocks, cider, a great gravy, cherries, mud, a trenches, church, lead, lead, a duck.
00:06:28.000 One of the most famous scenes in movie history has now, according to Facebook, been saying they're inciting violence.
00:06:36.000 Now, Facebook doesn't say that, or Twitter doesn't say that, when they're coming after us Trump supporters, where they're calling for our death or they're following us to the streets.
00:06:42.000 That's fine.
00:06:42.000 They call that free speech.
00:06:44.000 But a civilization that does not allow comedy, which is exactly what's happening with these big tech elites, a country that does not allow mockery of the people in charge, is a civilization that is getting towards creeping totalitarianism.
00:07:00.000 Comedy allows us to challenge the absurd.
00:07:04.000 And by the way, liberals and the left, they loved comedy when George W. Bush was president.
00:07:11.000 They used comedy to try to get more power.
00:07:13.000 They constantly made fun of how George W. Bush spoke.
00:07:16.000 They made fun of his presidency.
00:07:18.000 They made fun of his policies.
00:07:20.000 They used comedy as a relentless drumbeat to try to get themselves back into power.
00:07:28.000 George Carlin, who I didn't agree with his politics many times, but he was very funny.
00:07:34.000 He said, quote, a comedian shouldn't just make people laugh.
00:07:37.000 He should also make them think.
00:07:40.000 Comedy is really rooted in truth.
00:07:43.000 Think about your favorite comedians or your favorite movies.
00:07:46.000 You laugh when you see something that you know is true presented in a unpredicted, new, fresh, exciting, and yes, lighthearted way.
00:07:59.000 The greatest comedians in the modern era, Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, they were equal opportunist offenders.
00:08:06.000 They would make fun of liberals.
00:08:07.000 They'd make fun of Republicans.
00:08:08.000 They would make fun of people in the middle.
00:08:10.000 The greatest comedy in the last 30 years is without a doubt Seinfeld.
00:08:18.000 And people say it's a show about nothing.
00:08:21.000 That's one way to put it.
00:08:22.000 I think it's a show about everything.
00:08:24.000 And the reason that it was so incredibly effective is that it harmonized and resonated with all people.
00:08:31.000 It made fun of everyday situations that we are all going through.
00:08:34.000 Grocery store shopping, dating, friendships, transportation.
00:08:39.000 Seinfeld touched everything.
00:08:41.000 And it did it in a way that was unapologetically self-deprecating.
00:08:46.000 And that's the key to good comedy.
00:08:49.000 Good comedy requires the capacity to make fun of yourself.
00:08:53.000 And this is exactly why the left hates comedy.
00:08:56.000 Because they have no tolerance to make fun of yourself, to make fun of themselves, or to have any sort of space to not take themselves very seriously.
00:09:08.000 You understand what we're doing is very serious, don't you?
00:09:11.000 We're trying to save the world from fascists and conservatives.
00:09:13.000 We don't have time for laughter.
00:09:16.000 And this makes perfect sense when you start to see the late night hosts like Jimmy Fallon, to a lesser extent, Jimmy Fallon, but Jimmy Kimmel, I should say, Stephen Colbert.
00:09:27.000 Do you notice that the audiences of these late night comedians no longer laugh, they clap?
00:09:37.000 Do you notice that they're not laughing at what they're saying?
00:09:40.000 They're agreeing.
00:09:41.000 They're clapping.
00:09:43.000 This is a tragic death of American comedy.
00:09:45.000 And we see it here through Facebook demonetizing the satire site Babylon Bee, because they claim it incites violence.
00:09:54.000 What's really going on here is a full push to restrict speech that is incredibly effective in debasing the credibility of the power class in our country.
00:10:13.000 The people in charge need to make sure that the comedians and the critics are shut up.
00:10:20.000 It's exactly why 20th century dictators like Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin and Mao Cedong always locked up the comedians that made fun of them.
00:10:31.000 Always.
00:10:33.000 There is no greater tool at challenging people in charge than mockery, humor, lightheartedness.
00:10:46.000 It can communicate to wide swaths of people.
00:10:48.000 And this is one of the reasons why I think President Donald Trump is on pace to win.
00:10:54.000 Because the left has not effectively made fun of conservatives.
00:11:00.000 Instead, they get angry.
00:11:02.000 They get venomous.
00:11:03.000 It's almost like a political drumbeat endlessly.
00:11:06.000 How are we supposed to make fun of?
00:11:10.000 How are we supposed to make sense of, I should say, some of the nonsense that the left is pushing in our culture? 1.00
00:11:15.000 Unlimited amounts of genders. 1.00
00:11:19.000 The ever-present hypocrisy. 0.99
00:11:23.000 Well, that's exactly why conservative meme culture has taken over.
00:11:27.000 Comedy is all that keeps us between madness with all the nonsense happening in our country.
00:11:34.000 Comedy allows us the freedom to challenge people in charge, to hold them accountable, to spread truth, because comedy is truth.
00:11:41.000 And so let me just read some of these Babylon B articles.
00:11:45.000 See exactly why the ruling class hates this website.
00:11:49.000 Heartwarming.
00:11:50.000 Amy Coney Barrett just adopted a local troubled youngster named Hunter.
00:11:57.000 The best satire, again, is so on the verge of real.
00:12:02.000 He makes like, yeah, I could see that.
00:12:04.000 Is that real?
00:12:04.000 Is that not?
00:12:05.000 And when you read the real news and you're wondering if it's the onion or Babylon B, then you're in trouble.
00:12:12.000 By the way, the onion, which is left-wing comedy, left-wing satire, never gets demonetized.
00:12:17.000 It's only comedy that they don't like.
00:12:20.000 Health experts now recommend maximum social distancing by attending a Biden rally.
00:12:26.000 If you are unable to challenge people in charge, which is what comedy does, what comedy is supposed to do, then you do not have a civil or decent society.
00:12:37.000 And comedy is about truth.
00:12:40.000 Truth has never been a left-wing value.
00:12:44.000 Power is.
00:12:45.000 Truth and the pursuit of truth is what built Western civilization.
00:12:53.000 And this is exactly why we are seeing the death of comedy.
00:12:56.000 People that I grew up listening to, people that I thought that were funny growing up, they've just become political mouthpieces and they complain the entire time.
00:13:04.000 And you can see this in the overuse of expletives and swearing with late-night comedians.
00:13:10.000 People that used to be hilarious.
00:13:12.000 They are just, they're swearing and they're angry more than they are actually making substantive jokes.
00:13:21.000 Plenty of madness right now.
00:13:22.000 Plenty.
00:13:24.000 Seinfeld, I think, is one of the greatest American comedians because he has really no political, I think, bias whatsoever.
00:13:32.000 Jerry Seinfeld created Seinfeld, of course, with Larry David.
00:13:39.000 Probably the most effective TV show in communicating the challenges of 1990s urban American life.
00:13:49.000 And Jerry Seinfeld was asked recently about diversity in comedy, as if that actually matters.
00:13:57.000 And this is exactly why the left will lose the culture war long term.
00:14:04.000 They are losing the capacity to self-deprecate and make fun of themselves.
00:14:08.000 Jerry always made fun of himself.
00:14:11.000 And that's why he was so effective.
00:14:12.000 Let's play cut seven of Jerry Seinfeld being asked about diversity in comedy, as if that means anything.
00:14:18.000 Play cut seven.
00:14:20.000 People had tweeted at me when I said I'm interviewing Jerry Seinfeld.
00:14:23.000 Ask him about their gender diversity on this show.
00:14:25.000 Yeah.
00:14:26.000 I mean, people think it's the census or something.
00:14:29.000 I mean, this has got to represent the actual pie chart of America.
00:14:35.000 Who cares?
00:14:36.000 It's just funny.
00:14:37.000 You know, funny is the world that I live in.
00:14:41.000 You're funny, I'm interested.
00:14:42.000 You're not funny.
00:14:43.000 I'm not interested. 1.00
00:14:45.000 And I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that.
00:14:49.000 But everyone else is kind of with their little calculating, is this the exact right mix?
00:14:55.000 You know, I think that's, to me, it's anti-comedy.
00:15:01.000 It's anti-comedy.
00:15:02.000 It's more about, you know, PC nonsense than are you making us laugh or not?
00:15:08.000 Right, right.
00:15:09.000 I love it.
00:15:10.000 Jerry Seinfeld makes an argument for a post-racial America.
00:15:14.000 And Jerry Seinfeld, of course, gets challenged by this by everybody.
00:15:17.000 And you know what's so amazing?
00:15:19.000 That line about, what is this, the census, is hilarious, and nobody laughs.
00:15:24.000 He's in front of a live audience, and he makes a very, very funny point.
00:15:28.000 Is comedy now the census?
00:15:28.000 He's like, what?
00:15:30.000 You have to have all your little points.
00:15:31.000 And everyone is staying in the audience.
00:15:32.000 That's not funny.
00:15:34.000 That's not funny.
00:15:34.000 Stop saying that.
00:15:36.000 Stop it, funny man.
00:15:37.000 Cancel his show.
00:15:38.000 Seinfeld would not be allowed to be aired on television today if it was written.
00:15:42.000 Not even close.
00:15:43.000 By the way, the early episodes of The Office would not be allowed on television.
00:15:47.000 Go watch Diversity Day, which is like the fourth episode of The Office, and you'll say, How on earth was this ever allowed on NBC News?
00:15:54.000 Because we grew up in an America where race was completely irrelevant and you could make fun of people.
00:15:59.000 You could be lighthearted about it and self-deprecating.
00:16:02.000 Why is the left so serious?
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00:16:56.000 I was at an event last evening in Huntington Beach, California.
00:17:01.000 We had a great time, Calvary Chapel of the Harbor.
00:17:04.000 Somebody asked me privately, they said, Charlie, what do you think is lacking in America right now?
00:17:11.000 And I said, I don't think we have enough people making fun and making light of what's happening in our country.
00:17:20.000 And the deeper point of that is that comedy is a mechanism of how we are able to communicate truth to the masses and actually be able to view the madness in a way that is palatable.
00:17:37.000 If you do not have comedy, you don't have speech.
00:17:40.000 If you don't have comedy, you can't pursue truth.
00:17:42.000 And if you do not have comedy, you have totalitarianism, which is exactly what the left wants.
00:17:48.000 This is exactly why the major comedians in our country, like Sarah Silverman, who I don't think has ever been funny, they don't even try to engage in humor anymore.
00:17:59.000 They are nothing more than MSNBC hosts that swear a little bit more and use some canned, reused jokes from the 1980s and then say, Orange Man Bad, and they get standing ovations and applause, but nobody laughs.
00:18:15.000 No one laughs throughout the entire performance that they are doing.
00:18:20.000 And Jerry Seinfeld has articulated this very well.
00:18:23.000 We played in the previous segment how Jerry Seinfeld was talking about, I don't care what you look like.
00:18:29.000 What is this the census? 0.92
00:18:30.000 Hilarious.
00:18:31.000 No one laughs in this entire video clip.
00:18:34.000 People say, that's not funny.
00:18:36.000 Stop it.
00:18:37.000 Cancel him.
00:18:38.000 He's not funny.
00:18:39.000 I don't like him anymore.
00:18:40.000 And Jerry's making light when he says, my whole world is about being funny.
00:18:44.000 What Jerry's really articulating here is that we live in a meritocracy in comedy.
00:18:50.000 If you're not funny, then you're not going to be given a platform.
00:18:54.000 And if you're black and you're funny, you're given a platform.
00:18:57.000 If you're a woman and you're funny, you're given a platform.
00:18:59.000 If you're not, it's not some sort of PC check the gender box campaign.
00:19:07.000 Jerry Seinfeld was asked about this, cut eight, when he was asked about how most of his guests are white males.
00:19:14.000 He jokes about it.
00:19:16.000 I have noticed that most of the guests are mostly white males of 22 episodes.
00:19:21.000 Yeah, let's get into that.
00:19:25.000 But you take a look over here, Peter.
00:19:27.000 What do you see? 1.00
00:19:29.000 A lot of whiteies. 0.99
00:19:32.000 What's going on here? 1.00
00:19:36.000 Oh, this really pisses me off.
00:19:39.000 This really pisses me off.
00:19:40.000 And he's exactly right.
00:19:41.000 I will give the audience credit.
00:19:42.000 They at least laughed at that in some self-deprecating way.
00:19:46.000 He finally short-circuited the leftist audience that they had in front of him.
00:19:51.000 And he's exactly right.
00:19:52.000 It should upset him.
00:19:54.000 Because when you hyper-focus and hyper-fixate on just people's skin color and not actually on their character or their worldview, then you are racializing America.
00:20:05.000 And all this comes off the story.
00:20:06.000 And the reason we're talking about this is how Facebook has demonetized the satire site, The Babylon Bee.
00:20:12.000 And every major totalitarian movement in the last hundred years always suppresses comedy, always, especially comedy that makes fun of what they're trying to do.
00:20:24.000 The ruling class, the power class, there's so much hypocrisy.
00:20:29.000 There's so much wrong with what they're trying to do to our country that humor is one of the only mechanisms that we have left to hold them accountable.
00:20:37.000 This is one of the reasons why they hate Donald Trump.
00:20:40.000 He's abundantly funny.
00:20:42.000 He's very funny.
00:20:45.000 And if you are a country where you can't make fun of yourself, where you are a person that cannot engage in self-deprecation, and you take yourself so incredibly seriously, then you do not live in a free society.
00:21:00.000 And that's what's happening with these tech companies.
00:21:02.000 These tech companies have now made it a position of their policy engagement that mockery, self-deprecation will not be tolerated if you go after the left.
00:21:18.000 Now, The Onion, which is pretty funny, goes after mostly conservatives and Republicans, 90% of it.
00:21:22.000 They do not get demonetized by the tech companies.
00:21:25.000 They do not get challenged.
00:21:26.000 Their brand of anti-conservative mockery is perfectly permissible by the ruling class.
00:21:34.000 And so people say, well, what we don't have enough of in our country, we don't have enough comedy.
00:21:38.000 We really don't.
00:21:41.000 I was mentioning earlier The Office, and it's probably the most popular television show of my generation.
00:21:47.000 And you can look at the early episodes in The Office.
00:21:51.000 They made fun of race.
00:21:52.000 They made fun of sexual stereotypes.
00:21:55.000 They made fun of any, every third rail of American life that you're not supposed to touch, the office went after.
00:22:01.000 Same with Seinfeld.
00:22:02.000 Unapologetically, push the boundaries.
00:22:05.000 That's what comedy is supposed to do.
00:22:08.000 Comedy is supposed to push the boundaries of what is allowed to be discussed.
00:22:15.000 And then within that space, you're able to differentiate between what is good, what is bad, what is true, what is not, and maybe a little reprieve from the seriousness and the madness that is happening around us.
00:22:28.000 One of the reasons why the totalitarians and the collectivists and the ruling class don't want this is because it's incredibly effective in challenging their power.
00:22:39.000 Is that when you have a string of comics that engage in that line of cross-examination, that engage in being able to bring a light-hearted approach to things, all of a sudden, it's a lot harder to take those people in power as seriously as they want you to take them.
00:22:58.000 You take Saturday Night Live.
00:22:59.000 Saturday Night Live is not funny anymore because Saturday Night Live is just making fun of Republicans and conservatives.
00:23:04.000 And again, some of their jokes are funny every so often.
00:23:07.000 I think they had a skit about a year ago that I think they did a pretty good job of.
00:23:10.000 But SNL is nowhere nearly as funny as it was 15 or 20 years ago, 15 or 20 years ago, where they had their core cast where they would make fun of everyone at all times, where they would go through the news cycle.
00:23:22.000 I mean, Seth Myers used to be a legitimately funny person, and then he turned into a political mouthpiece.
00:23:28.000 Some of the greatest American comic talent has gone through SNL, Will Farrell, for example.
00:23:35.000 And so, what is the broader point of this?
00:23:38.000 And what does it actually have to do with the election that is just coming in 13 days?
00:23:43.000 That the fact that the American comedian class, the fact that most of these comics have been completely silent, and in fact, they have been supportive of not just the silencing of opposing ideas is so unbelievably telling, and it is a warning sign, everybody.
00:24:05.000 It is a fire alarm.
00:24:06.000 You lose comedy, you lose speech.
00:24:08.000 It is that simple.
00:24:10.000 Where are the comedians coming out and making fun of Joe Biden?
00:24:16.000 Joe Rogan, God bless him, he's done it plenty of times.
00:24:20.000 Joe Rogan, for good reason, has become the most popular podcaster on the planet because he does actually do the free speech thing.
00:24:30.000 He has opposite ideas.
00:24:31.000 I don't agree with him on everything, but he's very good at what he does, and he is a stand-up comic, one of the last.
00:24:37.000 And yet, the entire American comic class, from even Chris Rock to Dave Chappelle, the stand-up comedian class, they have decided that they hate Trump more than they actually want to make people laugh and question.
00:24:56.000 And that's what comedy is supposed to do.
00:24:59.000 It's supposed to ask the questions and be inquisitive towards the people in power.
00:25:08.000 And the left did this unapologetically and relentlessly during George W. Bush.
00:25:13.000 That's where when I grew up, I remember every Saturday Night Live episode, every late night comic would go after George W. Bush and Republicans, and it was very effective.
00:25:24.000 It was incredibly effective.
00:25:27.000 And to a lesser extent, many comics went after Bill Clinton in the 1990s.
00:25:34.000 And Jay Leno, before he retired, and boy, do we need Jay Leno back into kind of the American cultural landscape, he would make fun of everyone.
00:25:43.000 He'd make a fan of Republicans.
00:25:44.000 He'd make fun of Democrats.
00:25:45.000 And has there, there has never been a greater opportunity or a greater need for comics to stand up and challenge the madness in our country.
00:25:58.000 The double standard of the virus and the lockdowns.
00:26:03.000 The ruling elites that say it's perfectly fine to celebrate the Los Angeles Lakers winning the NBA Finals and BLM Incorporated to march through the streets, but there's something wrong with you going to church.
00:26:18.000 There's endless material for these very talented comedians to engage in this space right now, but they're one of two things.
00:26:27.000 They're cowards and they're afraid, or they're being held hostage by the scriptwriters, by the future movie deals, by the Netflix deals, by if anyone dares speak out against the power class, they might not get that next deal.
00:26:45.000 They are being held hostage by the people in charge that if you actually question the Democrat Party and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and every single one of them, you are considered to be on the other team. 0.83
00:27:00.000 You're considered to be opposition media.
00:27:04.000 You play this out over a couple years and a decade, eventually, you will have an entire generation of people that is incapable and unprepared to question anyone in power.
00:27:19.000 And that's exactly what's happening.
00:27:22.000 You have the most powerful people in our country that control the multi-trillion dollar corporations with the most talented comedians partnering together, all as one in lockstock unison.
00:27:34.000 Being we no longer believe in a pluralistic society, we no longer believe in neoliberal free speech.
00:27:41.000 Instead, we take ourselves so unbelievably seriously that we're going to make America in our image.
00:27:46.000 And if you get in the way of us doing that, we are going to insult you, we are going to follow you, we are going to punish you.
00:27:53.000 Obey.
00:27:55.000 And so, as we see the demonetization of the satire site Babylon B, as we see comedians self-censoring or being censored by others, this is a fire alarm because this is the first step towards cultural tyranny.
00:28:15.000 If you cannot have the most talented people that engage in the space of questioning via humor, like every great comedian has in the last 40 to 50 years, then other speech will disappear like that.
00:28:34.000 The great comics of the last couple decades were unapologetic in speaking out against the decisions of the political and governing elite.
00:28:48.000 Now, the left takes themselves so seriously because they do not believe in self-deprecation, which is the root and the heart of all humor.
00:28:58.000 And they want it to disappear.
00:28:59.000 And the reason they want that to disappear is they've always been after freedom of speech, which is at the heart of good comedy.
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00:29:48.000 The left will not tolerate anyone that does not agree specifically with everything that they deem to be important.
00:30:00.000 Chris Pratt, who, of course, is from many different movies and TV shows, Guardians of the Galaxy, Parks and Recreation, Jurassic World, and more, has been deemed by the internet, whatever that means, according to Foxnews.com, that he is the worst Hollywood Chris.
00:30:20.000 Goes on to try and cancel him.
00:30:23.000 This is Amy Berg, whomever that is.
00:30:28.000 All because Chris Pratt allegedly goes to a church that is anti-LGBTQ, some support of a church that is anti-LGBTQ.
00:30:41.000 Ellen Page has regurgitated this for quite some time.
00:30:47.000 Chris Pratt said at an awards ceremony before that people need to get back to Jesus. 0.97
00:30:53.000 I agree with that.
00:30:55.000 And people have come to Chris Pratt's defense just because of all this nonsense.
00:31:01.000 Mark Ruffalo says that Chris Pratt is as solid a man as there is.
00:31:07.000 And all of a sudden, there's this sudden push to try and cancel Chris Pratt, all because he does not agree with every single point of whatever secular left-wing position that is deemed to be the current theological belief of Hollywood.
00:31:31.000 And what's really fascinating to me is that we, as conservatives, We are perfectly okay with the presence of people that disagree with us within our, in our planet, in our world.
00:31:45.000 You see here that the left is not okay, not that even someone disagrees, But that someone might have even a slight skew of a different worldview within a position of leadership or authority within Hollywood, And so this story is gaining traction.
00:32:00.000 Robert Downey Jr.
00:32:01.000 Has come to his defense, and there's a great threat that if you dare disagree in Hollywood, that you will not be listed to movies, you will not be able to continue your career, and that is exactly how the collectivists operate now.
00:32:19.000 They have never believed in freedom of Expression.
00:32:22.000 They do not believe in diversity.
00:32:24.000 They definitely do not believe in disagreement.
00:32:26.000 And we see this all the time at Turning Point USA, where young people who speak out in any sort of disagreement, any sort of opposition to the dogmatic, predominant view of the academic intelligentsia or the people in charge, the power class, you can get kicked out of class.
00:32:47.000 You get kicked out of the sorority.
00:32:48.000 We deal with this all the time. 1.00
00:32:50.000 Just got another message from a young lady yesterday that she said she's getting kicked out of her sorority because she wore a Trump shirt. 0.93
00:32:55.000 Does not surprise me at all whatsoever.
00:32:57.000 And so the question for many people that are on the sidelines witnessing this is what will it take for you to engage against the people that wish to silence and destroy anyone that they disagree with?
00:33:17.000 And this is exactly why if we do not get back to being able to challenge the people in charge via comedy, because comedy is rooted in truth.
00:33:29.000 In fact, standupcomedyclinic.com, I never heard of it before.
00:33:33.000 I was just kind of doing this in preparation of the show.
00:33:35.000 I completely agree with this.
00:33:36.000 It says, quote, I always tell my students when they sit down to write comedy, don't sit down to write something funny, but sit down and try to write something true.
00:33:45.000 Then turn it funny.
00:33:46.000 The truth, the truth, the truth.
00:33:49.000 I think that's exactly right.
00:33:53.000 And as Dennis Prager often says, truth is not a left-wing value.
00:33:57.000 Therefore, comedy is no longer a practice that the left enjoys.
00:34:03.000 The only comedy that they will use is not so funny, expletive-filled attacks towards conservatives, Christians, and Republicans that they don't like.
00:34:14.000 That's the only sort of speech that they feel comfortable interfacing on.
00:34:20.000 And so to answer the question to the person who asked me privately yesterday in Huntington Beach, what do we need more of?
00:34:26.000 We need more truth tellers and we need more comedians.
00:34:30.000 We need to make America laugh again.
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