The John-Henry Westen Show - January 19, 2024


LAUGHABLY PRO-LIFEļ¼š Watch The World's Only Pro-Life Comedian


Episode Stats

Length

25 minutes

Words per Minute

138.84074

Word Count

3,498

Sentence Count

178

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

Nick De Santo is a stand-up comic, writer, and podcaster. In this episode of the John Hunter Beston Show, Nick talks about his new book, Pro-Life Comedy, and how he got started in comedy.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I'm just going to say it, okay?
00:00:02.940 I'm going to say it.
00:00:03.980 Nazis were bad.
00:00:06.660 And one of the worst things they did
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
00:00:20.460 because they would be a burden on Karen from accounting
00:00:23.700 and her aspirations of getting a promotion.
00:00:27.460 If anything, Nazis made a better case.
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.
00:00:38.760 So you got to die,
00:00:39.440 unless you can become a German soldier
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.
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
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.
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,
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,
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
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
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,
00:12:24.620 Irish women,
00:12:25.820 celebrating the
00:12:26.780 so-called right
00:12:27.680 to kill your
00:12:29.300 unborn child.
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
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
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
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
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
00:21:06.800 Nazi, and
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
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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