The John-Henry Westen Show - LAUGHABLY PRO-LIFE： Watch The World's Only Pro-Life Comedian

00:00:00.000 I'm just going to say it, okay?

00:00:02.940 I'm going to say it. 0.96

00:00:03.980 Nazis were bad. 0.82

00:00:06.660 And one of the worst things they did 0.67

00:00:09.060 was getting rid of people who would have been a burden

00:00:11.840 or deemed as a burden on the society,

00:00:14.200 including unborn babies.

00:00:16.700 But nowadays we are being told

00:00:18.140 that it's good to get rid of unborn babies 1.00

00:00:20.460 because they would be a burden on Karen from accounting 0.97

00:00:23.700 and her aspirations of getting a promotion. 0.99

00:00:27.460 If anything, Nazis made a better case. 0.99

00:00:31.480 Bear with me on this one.

00:00:33.220 We cannot sustain the war effort

00:00:35.800 if we were to take care of the likes of you. 1.00

00:00:38.760 So you got to die, 1.00

00:00:39.440 unless you can become a German soldier 0.99

00:00:41.120 who can also speak English

00:00:42.440 because according to all future World War II movies,

00:00:45.520 the Wehrmacht personnel talked English to each other.

00:00:49.100 Otherwise, you got to die.

00:00:50.600 Your mom is a junior events manager with Thompson & Thompson. 0.98

00:00:53.980 She wants to become a senior events manager

00:00:57.600 with Thompson & Thompson.

00:00:59.240 At least the Nazis had a clear defined goal 0.97

00:01:02.460 based on solid geopolitical principle.

00:01:06.260 Some of you are sitting here thinking,

00:01:07.760 the Nazis did make a lot of sense.

00:01:09.400 Do you know how you're never supposed to raise

00:01:19.160 the issue of the Nazis,

00:01:20.580 yet the comparison is so perfect

00:01:23.120 when it comes to abortion,

00:01:24.440 you'd think,

00:01:25.020 oh, you want to use that all the time,

00:01:26.240 but you can't.

00:01:27.180 Because somehow in today's political climate,

00:01:29.580 you're just not allowed.

00:01:30.860 It's an untouchable.

00:01:32.260 Well, there is one area

00:01:34.200 in which it still is very usable,

00:01:36.680 and that's in comedy

00:01:38.040 because in comedy,

00:01:39.140 you can almost say anything.

00:01:41.480 But who is ever going to do that

00:01:43.820 in a comedy routine?

00:01:44.860 Well, there is one person.

00:01:46.240 His name is Nick DeSanto.

00:01:47.960 He's actually,

00:01:49.220 he bills himself as the only pro-life comic.

00:01:53.620 And we've got him right here

00:01:55.020 on The John Hunter Beston Show.

00:01:56.260 Stay tuned.

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00:03:39.700 Nick DeSanto,

00:03:47.960 welcome to the program.

00:03:49.220 Thanks for having me.

00:03:50.300 Let's begin as you always do

00:03:51.200 with the sign of the cross.

00:03:52.160 In the name of the Father

00:03:52.920 and of the Son

00:03:54.140 and of the Holy Ghost.

00:03:56.520 Amen.

00:03:58.320 So,

00:03:59.040 you, sir,

00:03:59.600 are the first comedian

00:04:00.700 I have ever interviewed.

00:04:02.380 and stunningly so.

00:04:06.400 We played a clip

00:04:07.540 at the outset here

00:04:08.840 about your very,

00:04:11.360 I'd say,

00:04:11.900 courageous take on things.

00:04:13.340 It is hilarious.

00:04:14.900 But you describe

00:04:16.740 in your routine

00:04:18.020 that the people

00:04:19.660 in the audience

00:04:20.200 are much nicer

00:04:21.600 than they were

00:04:22.400 at a college.

00:04:24.560 Why don't we just

00:04:25.480 jump right in there?

00:04:26.820 Have you had

00:04:27.480 these weird experiences

00:04:28.480 at colleges

00:04:29.480 where you're

00:04:30.060 not accepted at all?

00:04:31.220 Yes, I have.

00:04:32.500 Thanks for the invitation,

00:04:33.600 by the way.

00:04:34.200 Of course,

00:04:35.540 comedy,

00:04:36.440 stand-up comedy

00:04:37.200 is very much

00:04:38.380 frequented

00:04:40.060 or popular,

00:04:40.860 is popular

00:04:41.400 among young people,

00:04:44.020 university students

00:04:46.260 or college students

00:04:47.420 as you tend to put them,

00:04:49.240 put it in America.

00:04:51.680 When I started,

00:04:52.580 I was a bit younger.

00:04:55.260 Not as young

00:04:56.360 as your typical

00:04:57.440 college or university student.

00:04:59.700 but a lot of people

00:05:02.340 who come to

00:05:03.980 comedy nights

00:05:05.260 are young

00:05:05.780 in that sort of age

00:05:07.060 and also

00:05:07.700 a lot of competitions

00:05:09.200 for new comics

00:05:11.560 or upcoming comedians,

00:05:14.040 so to speak,

00:05:15.060 are held

00:05:15.660 in these

00:05:16.200 university camps.

00:05:18.100 And that was also

00:05:18.740 my experience.

00:05:19.680 And of course,

00:05:20.860 the kind of material

00:05:21.960 that I do

00:05:22.980 as you have

00:05:23.800 seen or just shown,

00:05:25.480 it doesn't go down

00:05:26.420 very well

00:05:27.200 in today's

00:05:28.460 athletic climate

00:05:30.700 that we have

00:05:31.620 at colleges.

00:05:33.100 What gave you

00:05:33.800 the gumption nonetheless

00:05:34.700 to go for it?

00:05:35.700 I think the idea

00:05:36.640 maybe sounds a bit

00:05:37.620 cliche,

00:05:38.200 but at the end of the day

00:05:39.480 it is true.

00:05:40.660 You want to be

00:05:41.600 true to yourself.

00:05:42.820 I would say

00:05:43.340 writing jokes

00:05:44.660 is not easy

00:05:45.420 and doing stand-up

00:05:47.380 is not easy.

00:05:49.060 A favorite comic of mine

00:05:50.800 who is no stranger

00:05:51.780 to cancel culture

00:05:52.740 and his name

00:05:53.180 is Andrew Lawrence,

00:05:54.460 a British comic.

00:05:56.280 He has this joke.

00:05:57.880 He says,

00:05:58.600 comedians come on stage

00:05:59.740 and start by saying

00:06:01.000 it's great to be here.

00:06:02.780 But, you know,

00:06:04.000 you have to go around

00:06:04.880 gigging.

00:06:05.440 Traffic is horrible.

00:06:06.580 Driving is horrible.

00:06:08.300 Public transport,

00:06:09.160 if you use it,

00:06:09.640 is horrible.

00:06:10.600 Clubs might be horrible. 0.65

00:06:12.880 And you do this

00:06:13.640 for next to no money.

00:06:15.660 So when people come on

00:06:16.800 and start by saying,

00:06:19.200 oh, it's great to be here.

00:06:20.400 And that's what Andrew Lawrence said.

00:06:22.800 Man, your house must be

00:06:24.180 really, really terrible.

00:06:25.920 So at the end of the day,

00:06:27.720 if you want to do

00:06:28.540 stand-up comedy

00:06:29.440 for next to no money

00:06:31.180 and then sometimes

00:06:32.960 inclement audiences,

00:06:34.960 you might as well

00:06:35.920 be true to yourself.

00:06:37.960 I always think to myself,

00:06:40.060 and I think this sounds funny,

00:06:41.740 I hope,

00:06:42.120 but it's true

00:06:43.140 and that's more important.

00:06:44.720 Does the world need

00:06:45.880 another comic

00:06:47.140 who does jokes

00:06:48.500 about dating apps?

00:06:50.400 or the price

00:06:52.200 of avocado toast

00:06:54.420 or the battle

00:06:56.520 against autism?

00:06:59.380 Because there are

00:07:00.400 a lot of other comics

00:07:01.260 who are already doing this

00:07:02.820 properly much better

00:07:04.420 than I am.

00:07:05.600 So I thought,

00:07:06.820 you know,

00:07:07.460 and I joke about this as well,

00:07:09.140 but again,

00:07:09.580 it's true.

00:07:10.840 Being a conservative

00:07:11.860 or right-wing

00:07:13.040 or Christian comic,

00:07:14.380 it has the upside

00:07:15.280 of becoming very easily

00:07:17.380 the best in your field

00:07:19.200 because there's

00:07:20.220 little competition.

00:07:23.120 Indeed.

00:07:24.640 So tell us a little bit

00:07:26.480 about yourself

00:07:27.160 because you explain

00:07:29.120 in your routine

00:07:29.680 how you came from,

00:07:31.800 I think it's Iran, 1.00

00:07:32.460 and things were pretty tough.

00:07:35.840 Tell us a little bit

00:07:36.620 about your background

00:07:37.200 and how that motivates you.

00:07:40.120 My father was

00:07:40.920 an Iranian diplomat.

00:07:42.140 That's how I traveled a bit

00:07:43.980 and I was born in Italy,

00:07:45.800 but very much

00:07:46.620 against my will,

00:07:47.400 I had to spend

00:07:48.700 my high school years

00:07:49.580 in Europe.

00:07:51.140 So the good thing

00:07:52.180 about that,

00:07:52.840 if you want to put

00:07:53.500 the positive

00:07:53.900 or see the silver lining,

00:07:55.480 is that I experienced

00:07:56.280 that sort of religious

00:07:57.900 Islamist,

00:08:00.080 theocracy,

00:08:00.760 dictatorship.

00:08:01.540 And then when I went

00:08:02.100 back to Italy, 0.61

00:08:03.040 I went,

00:08:03.940 not to the place

00:08:05.640 where I was born,

00:08:06.480 which is the great city

00:08:07.580 of Rome,

00:08:08.020 but I went to Bologna,

00:08:09.340 which posed the West's

00:08:10.420 oldest,

00:08:11.520 still-functioning university.

00:08:13.960 But very much

00:08:14.780 the stronghold

00:08:16.340 of the Italian left,

00:08:18.300 the birthplace

00:08:18.960 of once

00:08:20.020 the West's biggest

00:08:21.700 communist party.

00:08:23.200 And actually,

00:08:24.840 interesting,

00:08:26.700 the

00:08:27.040 communist

00:08:28.300 philosopher

00:08:30.300 or ideologue,

00:08:32.160 if you like,

00:08:32.680 Antonio Gramsci,

00:08:34.020 is the one

00:08:34.480 who came up

00:08:35.080 with this doctrine

00:08:36.020 of the silent,

00:08:38.280 gradual mark

00:08:39.200 into the institutions.

00:08:41.500 And that's pretty much

00:08:42.420 what they have done.

00:08:44.860 University campuses,

00:08:46.300 but also other areas

00:08:47.640 of culture,

00:08:48.560 Hollywood,

00:08:49.280 advertising.

00:08:50.380 I have a lot of respect

00:08:51.340 for comics

00:08:52.080 who do everyday,

00:08:53.740 mundane topic

00:08:54.640 and make

00:08:55.380 that sort of stuff.

00:08:56.700 funny,

00:08:58.180 but

00:08:59.860 I have always

00:09:01.880 been a political

00:09:02.640 person,

00:09:03.860 very much

00:09:04.820 politics

00:09:05.500 and current

00:09:06.200 affairs oriented

00:09:07.060 also because

00:09:08.260 of my background.

00:09:09.620 And I thought,

00:09:10.340 hey,

00:09:10.500 if you can

00:09:11.000 make people laugh

00:09:12.680 and at the same

00:09:13.940 time

00:09:14.380 be socially

00:09:16.260 useful

00:09:16.900 or,

00:09:18.020 you know,

00:09:18.760 have some sort

00:09:19.460 of service

00:09:20.580 to the society,

00:09:22.300 why not?

00:09:22.900 Because I used

00:09:23.700 to be a journalist

00:09:24.420 and that's a job

00:09:25.640 I had to leave

00:09:27.000 because

00:09:27.780 they being

00:09:30.900 a legacy

00:09:31.460 media outlet

00:09:32.520 deemed

00:09:33.120 by conservative

00:09:34.780 comedy

00:09:35.360 in contradiction

00:09:36.660 or

00:09:37.240 somewhat

00:09:38.880 something

00:09:41.100 that could 0.68

00:09:41.540 have

00:09:41.660 blemished

00:09:42.380 their

00:09:42.980 reputation

00:09:44.380 or their

00:09:45.020 impartiality.

00:09:46.140 If you can

00:09:46.780 perceive

00:09:47.820 mainstream media

00:09:48.900 nowadays

00:09:49.380 as impartial

00:09:50.260 with that,

00:09:51.100 that's another

00:09:51.720 story.

00:09:53.620 So I thought,

00:09:54.600 okay,

00:09:54.960 if I'm no longer

00:09:55.740 a journalist,

00:09:56.700 maybe I can be

00:09:57.440 useful

00:09:58.200 being a comedian.

00:10:00.160 So it's

00:10:00.820 basically the best

00:10:01.660 of both worlds,

00:10:02.700 you know,

00:10:03.060 entertaining

00:10:03.680 and entertainment

00:10:04.600 for the sake

00:10:05.660 of entertainment

00:10:06.160 is fine,

00:10:07.400 but if you're

00:10:08.700 also teaching

00:10:10.140 or if you're

00:10:10.980 also making

00:10:12.720 people to

00:10:14.260 think,

00:10:14.840 you know,

00:10:15.640 if you are

00:10:16.180 being thought

00:10:17.260 provocative

00:10:17.840 and that's

00:10:19.880 the best

00:10:20.480 reaction

00:10:20.940 when people

00:10:22.120 come to you

00:10:22.760 or write

00:10:23.660 to you,

00:10:24.200 you know,

00:10:24.620 I never

00:10:25.260 thought about

00:10:25.800 that or I

00:10:26.320 was thinking

00:10:27.000 that but I

00:10:28.120 never dared

00:10:28.860 say that

00:10:30.660 and you

00:10:32.400 also,

00:10:33.000 again,

00:10:33.460 stand out

00:10:34.100 as a

00:10:34.620 comic.

00:10:35.280 So again,

00:10:36.580 that joke

00:10:37.120 that I usually

00:10:38.080 say at the

00:10:38.940 end of my

00:10:39.320 routine,

00:10:39.780 okay,

00:10:40.420 you've been

00:10:40.860 a wonderful

00:10:41.320 crowd and I

00:10:42.160 have been

00:10:42.780 the funniest

00:10:44.340 conservative

00:10:44.900 act of the

00:10:45.620 night and

00:10:46.040 it's not

00:10:46.480 always true.

00:10:47.780 It's

00:10:48.300 mechanically

00:10:48.860 true because

00:10:49.480 you are the

00:10:50.300 only one.

00:10:51.460 Why pro-life?

00:10:53.020 Was there

00:10:53.740 something in

00:10:54.540 your life

00:10:54.980 that occurred

00:10:59.040 to you

00:10:59.220 somehow that

00:10:59.760 really got

00:11:00.820 you to be

00:11:02.360 pro-life and

00:11:02.960 then speak on

00:11:03.600 it?

00:11:04.060 Well,

00:11:04.200 I think I was

00:11:04.720 always pro-life.

00:11:06.500 This has been

00:11:07.100 a major debate,

00:11:09.400 one of the

00:11:10.240 major and

00:11:10.920 controversial

00:11:11.440 debates of

00:11:12.540 our lifetime.

00:11:13.900 It has been

00:11:14.360 going on,

00:11:15.120 as you know,

00:11:15.780 for decades,

00:11:17.140 but over the

00:11:17.660 past few

00:11:18.180 years,

00:11:18.940 now we

00:11:19.720 have

00:11:20.020 Roe

00:11:21.200 B.

00:11:21.460 Way

00:11:21.740 almost a

00:11:24.360 year ago,

00:11:24.900 just over

00:11:25.300 a year ago,

00:11:26.400 but where I

00:11:27.600 live and I

00:11:28.480 live in

00:11:28.880 England,

00:11:29.540 it was a

00:11:30.580 major issue

00:11:31.320 a few years

00:11:32.200 back when

00:11:33.060 a referendum

00:11:34.180 in Ireland,

00:11:35.880 which is

00:11:36.400 a predominantly

00:11:38.520 Catholic country

00:11:39.660 or used to

00:11:40.240 be,

00:11:40.580 that referendum

00:11:41.500 was won

00:11:43.480 by the

00:11:44.400 so-called

00:11:45.520 pro-choice

00:11:46.280 crowd.

00:11:47.540 And I

00:11:48.400 remember

00:11:49.040 looking at

00:11:49.620 that,

00:11:49.800 and I was

00:11:50.100 a TV

00:11:50.740 journalist at

00:11:51.400 that time,

00:11:51.920 looking at

00:11:52.480 this huge

00:11:54.740 square somewhere

00:11:56.320 in the middle

00:11:56.940 of Dublin,

00:11:58.460 I suppose,

00:11:59.700 as all

00:12:00.320 these young

00:12:01.280 women were 1.00

00:12:02.340 celebrating,

00:12:03.400 and it made

00:12:03.840 me think,

00:12:04.880 what are they

00:12:05.960 exactly celebrating?

00:12:07.500 Because we

00:12:08.260 all like to,

00:12:09.080 you know,

00:12:09.380 those jokes,

00:12:10.300 sometimes meaning

00:12:10.900 jokes about,

00:12:11.780 you know,

00:12:12.120 feminists and

00:12:13.120 the pro-choice

00:12:15.560 people who

00:12:16.400 are maybe not

00:12:17.360 attractive enough

00:12:18.200 to even be in

00:12:19.140 a relationship

00:12:19.780 or a family,

00:12:20.340 but these are

00:12:20.720 all attractive,

00:12:22.160 young,

00:12:22.680 healthy,

00:12:23.400 you know,

00:12:23.900 women, 1.00

00:12:24.620 Irish women,

00:12:25.820 celebrating the

00:12:26.780 so-called right 1.00

00:12:27.680 to kill your 1.00

00:12:29.300 unborn child. 1.00

00:12:31.020 And that made

00:12:31.640 me think,

00:12:32.440 and of course,

00:12:33.900 I,

00:12:34.140 I,

00:12:34.360 I,

00:12:34.920 when this

00:12:36.140 happened to me

00:12:37.260 in terms of

00:12:37.800 my comedy,

00:12:38.520 I started

00:12:39.060 somewhere around

00:12:39.860 2017,

00:12:40.620 2018,

00:12:41.640 and I was,

00:12:42.220 I still am not

00:12:44.480 big as a comedian,

00:12:46.600 but I was a,

00:12:47.600 I was an absolute

00:12:49.660 beginner at that

00:12:50.700 time,

00:12:50.980 and I started

00:12:51.680 again experimenting

00:12:52.560 with some jokes

00:12:54.500 as any comedian

00:12:56.100 is supposed to do,

00:12:57.220 and I was

00:12:57.720 shut down

00:12:58.280 very soon

00:13:00.020 by a couple

00:13:00.600 of clubs

00:13:01.220 because I tried

00:13:02.260 a few

00:13:02.740 pro-life jokes,

00:13:04.600 and that

00:13:06.980 kind of

00:13:07.400 made me

00:13:07.720 even more

00:13:08.120 eager to

00:13:08.760 examine this

00:13:09.720 area

00:13:10.080 because this

00:13:12.840 is what

00:13:13.080 you're supposed

00:13:13.520 to do

00:13:13.960 after all.

00:13:15.500 You know,

00:13:16.080 you need to

00:13:16.500 experiment,

00:13:17.520 you need to

00:13:18.120 push the

00:13:18.540 boundaries,

00:13:19.360 and satire

00:13:20.420 is by definition

00:13:21.820 is speaking

00:13:22.840 truth to

00:13:24.260 power.

00:13:24.780 and who

00:13:26.120 has the

00:13:26.820 most power

00:13:27.500 nowadays?

00:13:28.720 Feminists or 1.00

00:13:29.500 these third,

00:13:30.380 fourth,

00:13:30.880 fifth,

00:13:31.240 I don't know

00:13:31.760 which way we

00:13:32.560 are at now,

00:13:33.200 but they are

00:13:35.720 everywhere.

00:13:36.340 They are on TV

00:13:36.900 commercials,

00:13:38.000 institutions,

00:13:39.240 workplace,

00:13:39.760 and these

00:13:41.900 are the

00:13:42.180 powerful people

00:13:42.980 and they

00:13:43.420 have the

00:13:43.760 dominant

00:13:44.100 narrative,

00:13:45.200 which might

00:13:45.720 be right,

00:13:46.320 but I don't

00:13:46.680 think it

00:13:47.020 is,

00:13:47.300 but as a

00:13:48.480 comic,

00:13:48.940 as someone

00:13:49.480 who does

00:13:49.960 satire,

00:13:50.660 it's your

00:13:50.940 responsibility

00:13:51.580 to challenge

00:13:52.720 that narrative,

00:13:53.720 and of course,

00:13:54.640 if you believe

00:13:55.220 in that,

00:13:55.560 all the more

00:13:55.980 reason.

00:13:56.880 And when

00:13:57.240 the Roe v.

00:13:58.240 Wade was

00:14:00.020 overturned by

00:14:00.680 the Supreme

00:14:01.140 Court,

00:14:01.580 again,

00:14:02.680 we had this

00:14:03.240 major debate

00:14:04.200 in the U.S.,

00:14:05.060 as you know,

00:14:05.680 then a few

00:14:07.580 months ago,

00:14:08.140 we had this

00:14:08.860 referendum

00:14:09.760 in Ohio,

00:14:14.040 which didn't

00:14:14.940 work out

00:14:15.460 for the

00:14:15.900 pro-life

00:14:16.260 people.

00:14:16.780 But anyway,

00:14:17.660 this is again

00:14:18.540 in the run-up

00:14:21.060 to the election

00:14:21.600 in the U.S.,

00:14:23.140 Democrats are

00:14:24.120 trying to make

00:14:24.900 it an issue,

00:14:26.100 hoping that they

00:14:27.260 can maybe hurt

00:14:27.960 Republicans or

00:14:28.800 scare people

00:14:29.480 into not voting

00:14:30.620 for Republicans.

00:14:31.920 So,

00:14:32.980 especially on

00:14:33.640 the back of

00:14:34.220 or in the wake

00:14:35.440 of Roe v.

00:14:36.680 Wade being

00:14:37.220 overturned,

00:14:38.260 I did this

00:14:39.140 routine,

00:14:40.000 and I thought,

00:14:40.360 okay,

00:14:40.520 now I'm going

00:14:40.960 to do a routine,

00:14:42.240 not just a couple

00:14:43.100 of jokes,

00:14:43.820 but almost a

00:14:45.540 whole routine

00:14:46.240 coming from

00:14:47.660 my perspective.

00:14:49.960 And I tried

00:14:51.060 it first

00:14:51.660 in Reading,

00:14:54.420 a town near

00:14:55.780 London.

00:14:56.920 I think it was

00:14:57.720 in October

00:14:58.300 2022.

00:14:59.280 and it went

00:15:00.900 surprisingly well

00:15:01.920 for this kind

00:15:03.200 of topic

00:15:03.740 or an area

00:15:05.940 near London.

00:15:07.840 And then

00:15:08.700 I did that

00:15:10.580 again

00:15:11.100 with this

00:15:12.240 club called

00:15:13.720 Comedy on Lee,

00:15:14.680 to whom I'm very

00:15:15.480 grateful because

00:15:16.100 they entertain

00:15:18.040 and support

00:15:19.980 free-thinking

00:15:20.840 comedy.

00:15:21.500 I did it

00:15:22.020 early last year

00:15:23.420 and I posted

00:15:24.060 it in May,

00:15:25.240 I think,

00:15:25.900 and it has

00:15:27.820 just exceeded

00:15:29.400 one million

00:15:30.060 views on

00:15:30.680 YouTube.

00:15:31.940 I'm very happy.

00:15:33.220 Has your

00:15:34.000 comedy that you

00:15:34.940 know of

00:15:35.400 affected anyone

00:15:36.760 in terms of

00:15:37.580 their beliefs

00:15:38.080 on life?

00:15:39.060 I don't know

00:15:39.920 if it has

00:15:40.560 made anyone

00:15:41.380 change their

00:15:42.800 lives,

00:15:43.580 their views

00:15:44.840 on life

00:15:45.360 or on

00:15:46.060 life before

00:15:47.400 being born,

00:15:49.920 so to speak.

00:15:51.360 but of

00:15:53.120 course I

00:15:53.400 received a

00:15:54.080 lot of

00:15:54.400 comments

00:15:55.000 mostly on

00:15:56.020 YouTube

00:15:56.580 and most

00:15:58.960 of them

00:15:59.800 have been

00:16:00.560 positive.

00:16:01.180 Maybe it's

00:16:01.580 because the

00:16:02.540 algorithm is

00:16:03.280 doing a good

00:16:03.780 job offering

00:16:05.320 the video to

00:16:06.360 the people

00:16:06.840 the algorithm

00:16:08.360 deems already

00:16:09.360 favorable because

00:16:10.600 that's what

00:16:11.640 they do.

00:16:12.320 But apart

00:16:14.580 from many

00:16:15.640 complimentary

00:16:16.520 comments and

00:16:17.740 people who are

00:16:18.540 already on your

00:16:19.160 side, it's

00:16:19.600 always good to

00:16:20.340 be praised

00:16:21.340 and admired

00:16:22.120 and received

00:16:22.860 the love

00:16:23.620 and affection

00:16:24.200 of people

00:16:25.680 in your

00:16:26.080 own camp.

00:16:29.260 But in

00:16:31.440 another way,

00:16:32.280 the best

00:16:32.640 comments I

00:16:33.300 receive are

00:16:34.500 always from

00:16:35.140 the people

00:16:35.540 who say,

00:16:36.440 well, I

00:16:37.580 don't agree

00:16:38.340 with you,

00:16:39.300 but this

00:16:39.680 was funny

00:16:40.760 because at

00:16:41.780 the end of

00:16:42.020 the day,

00:16:42.240 it must be

00:16:42.680 comedy.

00:16:43.400 It shouldn't

00:16:43.720 be preachy

00:16:45.340 or a sermon.

00:16:46.600 It has to be

00:16:47.240 comedy for it

00:16:48.040 to work.

00:16:50.460 And other

00:16:51.820 comments where

00:16:52.540 people say,

00:16:53.720 you know,

00:16:54.360 I'm not

00:16:54.800 exactly pro

00:16:56.260 life, but

00:16:57.080 I'm seeing

00:16:57.760 that you're

00:16:58.340 making some

00:16:58.980 good points

00:16:59.960 or some

00:17:00.540 valid points.

00:17:01.660 And of

00:17:02.080 course, that's

00:17:02.460 the ultimate

00:17:02.940 goal.

00:17:04.120 Next to the

00:17:05.020 goal of making

00:17:05.960 people laugh

00:17:06.800 and entertaining

00:17:07.680 them is just

00:17:08.940 the thing.

00:17:09.460 And that's the

00:17:10.140 premise of my

00:17:10.820 routine, isn't

00:17:11.380 it?

00:17:12.060 That's the

00:17:12.720 starting point.

00:17:13.420 If Nazis

00:17:14.420 were bad

00:17:15.200 for doing

00:17:15.820 this to

00:17:16.980 the so-called

00:17:17.840 defective

00:17:19.280 unborn babies

00:17:20.360 or fetuses

00:17:21.100 because they

00:17:21.580 would have

00:17:21.880 been a burden

00:17:22.600 on the war

00:17:23.420 machine or

00:17:24.060 the war

00:17:24.560 if that is

00:17:26.260 horrible,

00:17:26.880 high

00:17:27.060 contaminating

00:17:28.140 a pregnancy

00:17:28.940 where the

00:17:29.540 baby is,

00:17:30.680 in most

00:17:31.400 cases,

00:17:31.980 perfectly

00:17:32.320 healthy or

00:17:32.940 is going

00:17:33.240 to be

00:17:33.540 healthy and

00:17:35.060 you are

00:17:35.320 just doing

00:17:35.960 it out

00:17:36.340 of fear

00:17:37.620 convenience,

00:17:39.080 right?

00:17:39.600 You want

00:17:40.080 to keep

00:17:40.960 going out

00:17:42.340 with friends

00:17:43.700 or colleagues

00:17:44.200 for drinks

00:17:44.820 or do

00:17:45.820 Peloton,

00:17:46.700 you know?

00:17:47.340 So that's

00:17:48.040 the contrast

00:17:48.520 I'm trying

00:17:49.000 to create

00:17:49.940 and to joke

00:17:50.720 about,

00:17:51.080 but that's

00:17:51.460 the bottom

00:17:52.280 line.

00:17:52.840 I don't

00:17:53.080 know if

00:17:53.420 anybody has

00:17:54.320 chose their 0.98

00:17:55.380 view entirely

00:17:56.260 on this

00:17:57.280 issue,

00:17:58.460 but at

00:18:00.860 the end

00:18:01.140 of the

00:18:01.360 day,

00:18:02.600 as an

00:18:03.360 observer,

00:18:03.940 as a

00:18:04.180 comedian,

00:18:04.820 as a

00:18:05.980 satirist,

00:18:07.040 your job

00:18:07.800 is to make

00:18:08.400 people think

00:18:09.160 and to

00:18:09.500 point at

00:18:10.180 the absurdities

00:18:11.700 or the

00:18:12.280 discrepancies

00:18:14.940 in this

00:18:16.100 edifice.

00:18:16.980 That is,

00:18:17.580 well,

00:18:18.340 it can be

00:18:18.760 any idea

00:18:20.900 or ideology,

00:18:21.600 but in

00:18:21.820 this case,

00:18:22.680 it's the

00:18:22.980 pro-choice

00:18:23.600 ideology

00:18:25.500 or belief

00:18:26.220 system.

00:18:27.020 It's a

00:18:27.400 great thing.

00:18:27.940 You're a

00:18:28.360 former

00:18:28.620 journalist,

00:18:29.160 so you're

00:18:29.500 a storyteller.

00:18:31.340 And it's

00:18:33.140 very interesting

00:18:33.860 because your

00:18:35.380 routine,

00:18:37.000 while being

00:18:38.000 very funny,

00:18:39.140 is also

00:18:39.820 very,

00:18:40.340 very true.

00:18:40.940 And I

00:18:41.600 think some

00:18:42.220 of the

00:18:42.460 laughs you

00:18:42.860 get are

00:18:43.480 just that.

00:18:44.540 They realize

00:18:45.200 it's so

00:18:47.100 true.

00:18:48.500 That

00:18:49.000 particular

00:18:49.520 segment

00:18:50.320 about the

00:18:51.820 Nazis have

00:18:52.780 relatively

00:18:53.920 good reasons

00:18:55.880 for their

00:18:56.800 killing the

00:18:57.320 unborn 1.00

00:18:57.560 children.

00:18:58.660 But as

00:19:00.260 you said,

00:19:00.700 here,

00:19:01.260 we're

00:19:02.120 doing it

00:19:02.600 so Karen

00:19:03.140 can go

00:19:03.500 to Peloton.

00:19:05.720 It's

00:19:06.200 stunning.

00:19:06.980 It's

00:19:07.300 stunning.

00:19:08.480 It was

00:19:09.180 hilarious,

00:19:09.900 but it was

00:19:11.000 stunningly

00:19:11.600 true.

00:19:12.320 How have

00:19:12.720 stories,

00:19:14.380 and is

00:19:15.080 that part

00:19:15.500 of your

00:19:15.780 art,

00:19:16.180 to cultivate

00:19:16.820 stories,

00:19:17.960 to be able

00:19:18.880 to tell

00:19:19.280 these in a

00:19:21.160 satirical way

00:19:21.740 that will

00:19:22.040 get,

00:19:22.400 garner laughs,

00:19:22.920 but also make

00:19:23.340 people think?

00:19:23.800 I'm not

00:19:24.720 exactly sure

00:19:25.640 how I do

00:19:26.520 it, and I

00:19:26.880 don't say it

00:19:27.720 exactly, or I

00:19:29.200 don't say it

00:19:29.640 in a pretentious

00:19:30.380 way, and

00:19:31.080 that's

00:19:32.620 precisely why

00:19:34.020 I'm fascinated

00:19:35.100 by comedy

00:19:36.860 and by

00:19:37.340 stand-up, and

00:19:38.020 that's why I

00:19:39.200 started this.

00:19:42.000 And I'm

00:19:42.760 doing this in

00:19:43.600 English, which

00:19:44.400 is not really

00:19:45.000 my first or

00:19:45.680 even my second

00:19:46.600 language.

00:19:47.160 I always

00:19:47.580 liked languages

00:19:48.680 and learning

00:19:49.220 languages and

00:19:50.400 different languages,

00:19:51.660 and especially

00:19:52.400 I liked

00:19:52.840 English.

00:19:53.300 Maybe it's

00:19:54.020 because it's

00:19:54.580 so direct,

00:19:55.480 or it's

00:19:56.420 a predominant

00:19:57.660 language of

00:19:58.740 the world,

00:19:59.420 and I'm

00:19:59.920 always fascinated

00:20:00.720 by how

00:20:02.140 jokes work,

00:20:03.600 because you

00:20:04.640 can even

00:20:05.920 tell the same

00:20:06.620 joke in

00:20:07.300 different rooms,

00:20:08.420 and it doesn't

00:20:09.520 work in the

00:20:10.560 same manner.

00:20:11.260 It depends on

00:20:11.740 the audience,

00:20:12.380 it depends on

00:20:12.760 the mood,

00:20:13.380 it depends who

00:20:14.080 says it.

00:20:14.920 Sometimes you

00:20:15.760 say, well,

00:20:16.140 whatever works.

00:20:17.340 If it's

00:20:17.740 working,

00:20:20.040 then it's

00:20:21.020 right.

00:20:22.360 And yeah,

00:20:22.600 there's a part

00:20:23.100 of me who

00:20:23.500 wants to

00:20:23.880 analyze

00:20:24.200 everything and

00:20:24.940 decide, okay,

00:20:25.880 why is this

00:20:27.020 working?

00:20:27.820 If you capture

00:20:29.280 and discover

00:20:30.100 the magic

00:20:30.600 formula,

00:20:31.160 then you

00:20:31.420 just rinse

00:20:32.460 and repeat

00:20:33.040 and you

00:20:33.480 come up

00:20:33.820 with more

00:20:34.680 jokes.

00:20:35.520 I think in

00:20:36.560 this case,

00:20:37.580 the reason

00:20:38.060 it works

00:20:39.460 is the

00:20:40.200 sheer contrast

00:20:41.280 and the

00:20:41.900 sheer taboo,

00:20:42.760 because you

00:20:43.060 are combining

00:20:43.820 two taboo

00:20:44.780 areas.

00:20:47.040 One is

00:20:47.460 abortion,

00:20:48.320 and the

00:20:48.800 other one

00:20:49.240 is the

00:20:49.560 Nazis,

00:20:50.000 and the

00:20:50.860 world left

00:20:51.600 have turned

00:20:52.760 Nazi and

00:20:53.520 Hitler into 0.99

00:20:54.660 an overused,

00:20:56.340 overstretched

00:20:57.540 insult to

00:20:58.700 the point

00:20:59.220 that it

00:20:59.940 has almost

00:21:00.440 lost its

00:21:02.880 impact,

00:21:03.860 because you

00:21:04.540 say, let's

00:21:05.400 control the

00:21:05.940 border, and

00:21:06.440 you are a 0.99

00:21:06.800 Nazi, and 0.99

00:21:07.280 so on and

00:21:07.760 so forth.

00:21:09.380 So here I

00:21:10.720 make these

00:21:11.460 two, I

00:21:12.940 draw this

00:21:13.820 parallel between

00:21:14.920 the Nazis 0.71

00:21:16.140 and the

00:21:17.180 pro-choice,

00:21:17.940 and I

00:21:18.140 think that

00:21:18.480 is already

00:21:20.260 a funny

00:21:21.180 comparison,

00:21:22.520 and a

00:21:23.220 stark

00:21:23.520 similarity

00:21:24.500 in the

00:21:26.220 logic, and

00:21:27.380 the stark

00:21:27.740 difference,

00:21:28.280 because the

00:21:28.920 Nazis,

00:21:29.820 you know,

00:21:31.000 yeah, they

00:21:31.840 had a

00:21:32.460 flatland,

00:21:33.160 they even

00:21:33.400 have a

00:21:33.680 word for

00:21:34.040 that in

00:21:34.300 German,

00:21:34.740 which I

00:21:34.980 learned

00:21:35.160 that in

00:21:35.420 West,

00:21:35.720 but I

00:21:35.880 forgot,

00:21:36.280 but they

00:21:36.600 have the

00:21:37.280 curse of

00:21:37.720 the

00:21:37.840 flatland,

00:21:38.320 they had

00:21:38.680 to fight,

00:21:40.180 you know,

00:21:41.080 that's real

00:21:42.480 politics for

00:21:43.300 you.

00:21:43.600 Any last

00:21:44.760 thoughts from

00:21:45.240 you in

00:21:45.640 terms of

00:21:46.100 what your

00:21:47.200 next moves

00:21:47.760 will be,

00:21:48.480 and what

00:21:49.900 future plans

00:21:50.540 might be

00:21:50.840 for you?

00:21:51.540 I have

00:21:51.880 been

00:21:52.060 encouraged

00:21:52.600 by the

00:21:53.560 positive

00:21:54.220 response I

00:21:55.020 have

00:21:55.220 received.

00:21:57.600 Thankfully,

00:21:58.860 we are

00:22:00.360 in an

00:22:01.320 era where

00:22:02.520 the TV

00:22:05.300 producers

00:22:06.020 of the

00:22:07.960 legacy

00:22:08.300 media,

00:22:09.920 or club

00:22:10.940 owners,

00:22:11.540 or promoters

00:22:12.200 are no

00:22:12.920 longer the

00:22:13.560 only

00:22:13.980 gatekeepers

00:22:15.360 to

00:22:16.540 stand-up

00:22:17.600 comedy,

00:22:18.120 and that's

00:22:18.540 maybe our

00:22:19.020 only hope,

00:22:20.480 because thanks

00:22:21.960 to YouTube,

00:22:23.680 thanks to

00:22:24.720 social media,

00:22:27.920 people can

00:22:28.280 make a name

00:22:28.780 for themselves

00:22:29.440 and spread

00:22:31.320 the message,

00:22:32.860 and in this

00:22:33.520 case, I have

00:22:34.440 received a lot

00:22:35.240 of good

00:22:35.780 feedback,

00:22:37.140 which also

00:22:37.920 makes me

00:22:39.540 feel, you

00:22:40.120 know,

00:22:40.620 sort of

00:22:41.040 vindicated,

00:22:41.560 because I

00:22:42.360 had a

00:22:42.700 relatively

00:22:43.440 good job,

00:22:44.400 which I

00:22:44.600 had to

00:22:44.960 leave

00:22:45.320 because of

00:22:46.040 my comedy,

00:22:47.460 because I

00:22:47.960 decided to

00:22:48.740 make a

00:22:50.500 stance,

00:22:51.860 and a

00:22:54.500 lot of

00:22:54.780 people say,

00:22:55.400 well, you

00:22:55.720 need to go

00:22:56.840 on,

00:22:57.300 because,

00:22:58.020 again, if I

00:22:59.280 don't do it,

00:22:59.980 how many other

00:23:00.480 people are

00:23:01.580 doing this?

00:23:02.280 so what I

00:23:03.960 hope for my

00:23:04.540 future is

00:23:06.080 that because

00:23:06.520 we are in

00:23:06.960 this culture

00:23:07.520 war, and

00:23:08.340 because comedy

00:23:09.280 is probably

00:23:09.900 our last

00:23:10.820 trench,

00:23:12.400 it's an

00:23:13.280 uphill battle

00:23:14.320 even in

00:23:14.860 comedy,

00:23:15.380 because,

00:23:16.460 you know,

00:23:17.420 comedy, like

00:23:18.060 other areas

00:23:18.880 of culture,

00:23:19.460 has been

00:23:20.100 almost

00:23:20.900 monopolized

00:23:21.600 by the

00:23:22.720 left,

00:23:23.280 but here you

00:23:23.800 have the

00:23:24.140 so-called

00:23:24.540 comedic

00:23:25.120 defense,

00:23:25.860 you can say,

00:23:26.320 well, I was

00:23:26.900 joking,

00:23:27.540 why can't

00:23:28.020 you take a

00:23:28.560 joke,

00:23:28.980 it's all

00:23:29.360 an act,

00:23:29.900 even if

00:23:30.300 it's not

00:23:31.500 always an

00:23:32.040 act,

00:23:32.560 and I

00:23:33.080 believe in

00:23:33.780 those jokes,

00:23:34.400 right,

00:23:34.760 to get

00:23:35.580 back in

00:23:36.660 the game,

00:23:37.460 to fight

00:23:38.340 back,

00:23:38.840 to resist

00:23:39.580 the hegemony

00:23:40.500 of the

00:23:41.900 left,

00:23:42.620 and the

00:23:42.940 global

00:23:43.240 left,

00:23:43.740 the ones

00:23:45.160 who just

00:23:45.600 want to

00:23:46.120 turn us

00:23:46.980 into people

00:23:47.820 with no

00:23:48.140 identity,

00:23:49.080 no nations,

00:23:51.120 no borders,

00:23:52.620 all people

00:23:53.180 are going

00:23:53.580 to be

00:23:54.440 atomized,

00:23:56.040 beige,

00:23:57.000 faithless,

00:23:58.480 nationless,

00:23:59.260 consumers,

00:24:00.760 that they

00:24:01.120 can dominate.

00:24:01.920 The situation

00:24:02.560 is so dire

00:24:03.520 and so bleak

00:24:04.540 that you

00:24:05.760 need this

00:24:06.480 sweet pill

00:24:07.400 of comedy

00:24:08.180 to,

00:24:09.340 you know,

00:24:10.160 alleviate

00:24:10.620 the pain

00:24:11.560 of facing

00:24:12.440 these issues.

00:24:14.040 So you're

00:24:14.540 entertaining

00:24:15.060 people,

00:24:15.620 but you're

00:24:16.000 also making

00:24:17.320 them aware

00:24:18.280 of what is

00:24:18.920 going on,

00:24:19.660 giving that

00:24:20.300 food for

00:24:20.760 thought,

00:24:21.820 and resisting

00:24:22.960 the dominance

00:24:24.800 and that

00:24:25.540 relentless

00:24:26.180 march of

00:24:27.380 the faithless

00:24:28.300 globalist

00:24:29.020 left

00:24:29.360 into our

00:24:30.420 institutions

00:24:30.940 and into

00:24:31.500 our culture.

00:24:32.560 Nick DeSanto,

00:24:33.160 so good to be

00:24:33.640 with you.

00:24:34.000 Thank you for

00:24:34.480 that and for

00:24:35.160 your company.

00:24:36.380 God bless you.

00:24:37.320 Thank you.

00:24:37.700 My pleasure.

00:24:39.220 And God bless

00:24:39.900 all of you.

00:24:41.120 And we'll see

00:24:41.520 you next time.

00:24:41.940 Hi, everyone.

00:24:53.320 This is John

00:24:53.740 Henry Weston.

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The John-Henry Westen Show - January 19, 2024

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