The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 147 - Claps Not Laughs： Michelle Wolf And The Death Of Comedy

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00:00:27.260 Until 50 years ago, only men were allowed to attend the White House Correspondence Dinner.

00:00:32.920 And after Michelle Wolf's cringe-fest performance on Saturday night,

00:00:36.420 the Correspondence Association is considering reinstating that rule.

00:00:40.300 We will analyze why Wolf's schtick bombed, the difference between comedy and important comedy,

00:00:46.720 and why the left can't tell jokes these days.

00:00:49.180 Then, my latest video for PragerU on leftist abuse of language.

00:00:53.700 Somebody get it to Kanye.

00:00:54.800 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:57.260 So, there's a lot to get to today.

00:01:06.440 It is also, I didn't mention this at the top, it's Cecile Richards' last day at Planned Parenthood.

00:01:12.440 She's the maniacal ghoul who has run Planned Parenthood for a decade, 1.00

00:01:15.600 and I'm sort of sorry to see her go. 0.65

00:01:17.800 I'll explain why.

00:01:19.180 We'll also play the audio of my new PragerU video at the end here, mostly because I really want Kanye to see this.

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00:01:46.620 Before we get to these things, because I want to analyze this Michelle Wolf thing bit by bit.

00:01:51.640 There's a ton of fake news about it.

00:01:53.360 Everybody's lying to themselves.

00:01:55.100 Nobody thought it was funny.

00:01:56.400 We will explain why.

00:01:57.680 I actually know why her schtick failed.

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00:04:40.420 So the White House Correspondents Dinner was on Saturday.

00:04:42.840 They call this nerd prom.

00:04:45.060 And by they, I mean the people who go.

00:04:47.240 No one else calls it nerd prom.

00:04:48.600 Not like regular people don't call it nerd prom.

00:04:50.580 And it isn't nerd prom.

00:04:52.740 This is so absurd.

00:04:53.900 This is so self-aggrandizing.

00:04:55.640 It's all these, you know, journalists and bloggers and TV types.

00:04:59.300 And they call it nerd prom because what they're saying is we're really smart.

00:05:03.420 It's nerd prom because we're so, we're nerds.

00:05:05.920 So we, you know, we put on our tuxedos and you're not nerds.

00:05:08.960 Nerds are smart.

00:05:09.940 Brian Stelter and Don Lemon and Jim Acosta are not nerds. 0.99

00:05:13.580 They're, they're dummies. 0.95

00:05:15.260 I'm sorry to say, I don't want to be mean to you guys. 0.99

00:05:17.540 I don't, but you're not nerds.

00:05:19.440 You can't call yourselves nerds.

00:05:21.560 You, you look good on TV.

00:05:23.580 At least Jim Acosta does, you know, you don't, but you're not nerds.

00:05:27.040 Like Jim Acosta just, I think the height of his intellectual activity is staring at himself

00:05:31.860 in the mirror and smiling.

00:05:33.140 That is what Jim Acosta does.

00:05:34.540 So that, this happened on Saturday, a ton of backlash against the main performer.

00:05:41.180 So the White House Correspondents Dinner has been going on since the Coolidge administration.

00:05:45.180 And, uh, they, they would always have some sort of entertainment.

00:05:48.360 Some celebrities would show up.

00:05:49.800 Sinatra started going in the seventies.

00:05:51.760 And by, I think it was 1985, that was the first year they invited a comedian to give the

00:05:57.000 monologue at this event.

00:05:58.440 Now, uh, you know, these have been going on for a long time.

00:06:02.540 They had some good ones in the early 2000s.

00:06:04.920 Norm MacDonald came.

00:06:05.880 He was great.

00:06:06.840 Uh, Daryl Hammond came.

00:06:08.980 Even Stephen Colbert pushed the edge a little bit, but he was still fine.

00:06:13.300 This woman bombed. 1.00

00:06:15.760 I mean, it was really awful.

00:06:18.660 It, she totally bombed. 1.00

00:06:20.140 And now some people are trying to defend her and say it was good, even though really no one

00:06:26.060 thinks that the view, leave it to the view.

00:06:28.620 Here are the ladies at the view defending Michelle Wolf's monologue. 1.00

00:06:32.540 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:06:48.260 That was just a bunch of cackling hyenas.

00:06:50.380 Do we, can you, uh, easy to confuse.

00:06:52.220 Do we have the clip of the view?

00:06:54.260 You guys gotta stop putting Kellyanne on your shows. 0.53

00:06:56.800 All she does is lie. 1.00

00:06:59.140 It's like that old saying, if a tree falls in the woods, how do we get Kellyanne under that tree?

00:07:06.700 I'm not suggesting she gets hurt, just stuck.

00:07:10.640 I actually really like Sarah.

00:07:13.080 I think she's very resourceful.

00:07:15.360 Like, she burns facts, and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. 1.00

00:07:20.920 Like, maybe she's born with it.

00:07:24.620 Maybe it's lies.

00:07:27.200 It's probably lies.

00:07:31.920 There's a laughing at heads up here.

00:07:34.240 So did she go too far?

00:07:36.100 Well, when I first saw the coverage of it, because I hadn't seen it live, I thought that someone had really pushed the limit.

00:07:41.320 Because every headline was, it was awful, it was uncomfortable.

00:07:44.060 Then I read it and watched the clips, and she, the comedian did her job. 1.00

00:07:49.180 She is there to come and push the envelope.

00:07:51.340 That's what comedians do.

00:07:52.680 If people have a problem with it, it might be taking issue with this dinner as a whole in these times.

00:08:00.680 No, that isn't true.

00:08:02.020 That isn't her job.

00:08:03.700 That isn't her, look, there have been plenty of comedians on, I guess they're all on the left.

00:08:08.560 Some are not quite on the left, but they're usually on the left.

00:08:10.720 And no one's taken any issue with them.

00:08:12.360 Even Stephen Colbert, who really actually did kind of go up to the edge.

00:08:16.320 But that isn't their job.

00:08:17.900 The job of a comedian is not to push the envelope.

00:08:20.920 The job of a comedian is to be funny.

00:08:23.980 That's the only job of the comedian.

00:08:25.860 And this gets, I had Owen Benjamin on the show a few weeks ago, and he talked about this big distinction in comedians.

00:08:31.980 The ones who go for claps, not laughs.

00:08:34.700 The one, like, Jimmy Kimmel can't be funny anymore, because the left lost its sense of humor.

00:08:38.540 So now, instead of telling jokes on his show, instead of making people laugh, he makes political statements.

00:08:44.840 And then they don't laugh because it isn't funny, so they just clap.

00:08:47.700 They clap approvingly.

00:08:49.100 They say, mm, wow, yeah, mm.

00:08:51.660 He said a thing, mm, yeah.

00:08:54.380 It didn't tickle me because he's not doing his job, but mm.

00:08:56.840 You know, this is the distinction between comedy and important comedy.

00:09:03.160 This is the main distinction in comedians these days, because there are comedians who make people laugh, and they tell jokes.

00:09:08.520 And then there are people who can't make others laugh, who can't tell jokes, so they do important comedy.

00:09:15.080 This kind of ruined George Carlin, even, when he decided to become a philosopher instead of a comedian.

00:09:19.960 Very talented comedian.

00:09:21.180 And then he started doing this philosopher shtick.

00:09:23.960 It isn't great.

00:09:25.060 It isn't what comedy is for.

00:09:27.660 But people totally misunderstand the job of comedians.

00:09:30.320 They say, you're there to speak truth to power.

00:09:32.800 No, that's what journalists are there for.

00:09:34.680 They totally derelicted their duty for a decade, and now they are the butt of jokes. 0.94

00:09:40.160 Now they're sort of the clowns rather than the journalists or the comedians. 0.82

00:09:44.260 And the comedians are there to make people laugh.

00:09:45.860 So, look, I'm not surprised that the view isn't the most insightful place to look for commentary on this.

00:09:54.220 The left and anti-Trump conservatives now are calling those of us who didn't like the shtick hypocrites. 0.90

00:10:00.920 They're saying, oh, what, are you offended, snowflakes? 0.94

00:10:03.580 Or you're always saying we're offended.

00:10:05.400 Now you're offended.

00:10:06.680 It's not quite that I'm offended.

00:10:08.160 I am offended because it's not in good taste, but I don't really care.

00:10:12.240 It's just that it isn't funny.

00:10:13.780 And the set bombed.

00:10:16.320 Everyone admits that the set bombed.

00:10:18.200 Even the left admits it.

00:10:19.660 This isn't some left-right thing.

00:10:21.360 The left admits it bombs.

00:10:22.920 Douglas Brinkley, who's a CNN talking head who refers to himself as a presidential historian.

00:10:28.260 Douglas Brinkley came on for reaction after the correspondence dinner, and they said, what do you think?

00:10:32.600 And he said, well, you know, there were some good lines.

00:10:36.060 He was trying to put a good spin on it.

00:10:37.480 No, there were a couple of good liners.

00:10:39.320 And then they brought him on again.

00:10:40.440 And he said, well, yeah, I mean, well, yikes.

00:10:43.880 And then the third time they brought him on, he said, okay, they've got to cancel this dinner.

00:10:47.640 This was a disaster.

00:10:49.720 Margaret Taleb, the head of the White House Correspondents Association, she defended Wolf.

00:10:54.840 She called Wolf a talented comedian who had a message to deliver, and she did deliver a message.

00:11:02.820 Again, this is back to the views, misunderstanding of comedy.

00:11:06.000 The point of comedy isn't to deliver a message, it's to make people laugh.

00:11:09.680 So then the head of the White House Correspondents Association said, unfortunately, the entertainer's monologue was not in the spirit of that mission to unify the country.

00:11:18.880 So even the White House Correspondents Association threw this woman under the bus. 1.00

00:11:23.500 Maggie Haberman criticized it.

00:11:25.340 Maggie Haberman, more than basically any journalist, was totally in the tank for Hillary. 1.00

00:11:29.280 The Hillary campaign openly talked about this with one another in memoranda that have since come out.

00:11:34.000 But Maggie Haberman tweeted out, she said, that the press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, sat and absorbed intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth, instead of walking out on national television, was impressive.

00:11:50.960 Because Michelle Wolf was really crude to President Trump, and then almost exclusively the women in the Trump administration. 1.00

00:12:00.180 Those were her two targets, Trump and the women in the Trump administration. 1.00

00:12:04.260 Now, I have to say, a lot of this sounds like a little, too little, too late, because everybody was laughing in the room.

00:12:09.980 I don't know that it was like real laughter, but it was at least performed laughter.

00:12:14.520 All of those left-wing journalists there, they gave her her laughs. 0.98

00:12:18.600 They played into some of the bits.

00:12:20.160 She did this thing, well, we'll get to it in a little bit, but Michelle Wolf had this segment where she would call out something, and then the whole audience would call back. 0.97

00:12:30.660 So they were in it, and then they realized how awful it looked afterward, and they said, okay, we've got to throw her under the bus. 0.79

00:12:35.940 We've got to throw Wolf under the bus. 0.89

00:12:37.240 Because Wolf was vulgar, she was vicious to women about their appearance, she was profane, she was, and what all of the media people realized, because they were all laughing in the room. 1.00

00:12:50.520 But then when they left, they said, uh-oh, now we can't criticize Trump for those things.

00:12:55.520 Uh-oh, yikes, we just destroyed our main line of attack against Donald Trump.

00:13:01.260 Oh, yeah, that was really bad.

00:13:02.640 We hate her, yada, yada, yada. 1.00

00:13:03.840 So in that way, I think it was really a great event, because it showed them to be the hypocrites that they are. 0.99

00:13:09.840 So the other ridiculous lie that's going around is that Wolf mocked everybody. 0.99

00:13:14.720 Look, she mocked everybody. 1.00

00:13:16.380 Only the GOP is getting offended, you little snowflakes. 0.80

00:13:19.500 But she mocked everybody. 1.00

00:13:21.440 The Twitter description of the trending story of the White House Correspondents' Dinner, written by Twitter, said Wolf doled it out to everybody.

00:13:29.680 Wolf tarred everybody.

00:13:31.320 Uh, NBC analyst Howard Feynman wrote about this.

00:13:35.000 He said, he tweeted out, uh, regarding Michelle Wolf, one, yup, crude, blunt, pitiless. 1.00

00:13:42.300 Reminds you of, say, a president?

00:13:45.060 Hmm.

00:13:46.000 Number two, she torched everyone, even Democrats, Stormy Daniels, the media. 1.00

00:13:51.780 Three, she wasn't playing to all of America or The Room, but to her Netflix deal.

00:13:56.820 Four, she was invited.

00:13:59.640 Five, it's not her job to behave. 0.98

00:14:02.200 And six, she's funny.

00:14:04.720 Basically, none of that is true, or if it's true, it shows that she was terrible.

00:14:08.640 Number one, right, he admits here that this was more about attacking the president than being funny.

00:14:14.240 They just want, they're out for blood.

00:14:15.920 They want to attack the president.

00:14:17.180 So it wasn't, it was about attacking the president, right?

00:14:20.800 Number two, uh, that's a lie.

00:14:22.880 The, the few jokes that she told about Dems were compliments.

00:14:26.140 They were, you know, this is, I think they called it Ben Smithing after the founder of Politico,

00:14:31.680 or after, uh, uh, the founder of BuzzFeed, I suppose.

00:14:34.420 Uh, he, Ben Smithing is when you say something mean about Democrats,

00:14:38.720 but it's just mean enough to get credibility as an attack,

00:14:42.000 but then it's, uh, not so mean that it actually hurts.

00:14:45.880 So one of the jokes that Michelle Wolf said was Democrats are bad because they lose sometimes.

00:14:52.380 You know, they're really bad because they lose elections. 0.97

00:14:54.760 The, the whole joke was, you know, Republicans could nominate Jeff pedophile Nazi doctor and 0.97

00:15:00.860 the Democrats would still lose. 0.93

00:15:02.500 So the whole joke is Democrats are great.

00:15:04.680 And the only flaw is that, I don't know, they're not charismatic enough, but they're really good.

00:15:10.140 Another joke was that Rachel Maddow is just too smart for TV. 1.00

00:15:14.040 She, oh, Rachel Maddow is way, way too educated for a popular TV show. 1.00

00:15:19.240 Ha ha ha.

00:15:19.700 That's the, that's not a insult.

00:15:21.340 That's not an attack.

00:15:22.300 So then number three that, uh, the NBC analyst says is, uh, that means she didn't do her job.

00:15:29.020 She didn't, if she's playing to all of the, uh, playing to all of these places other than the

00:15:35.400 room, then she didn't do her job.

00:15:36.980 You know, yes, he says number four, she was invited, but that was, that was a mistake to

00:15:41.100 invite her.

00:15:41.880 You know, it's, it's not her job.

00:15:44.440 Sure.

00:15:44.600 It's not her job to behave, but it is her job to read the room and to entertain,

00:15:48.860 which obviously she did not do.

00:15:51.560 Obviously the reaction shows she did not do her job and she isn't funny.

00:15:56.780 She isn't funny.

00:15:57.880 She just makes political statements that this guy at NBC likes, but that's not the same thing

00:16:03.420 as being funny.

00:16:04.180 There are plenty of people who on the conservative side who say things that I like, who aren't

00:16:08.580 funny.

00:16:08.940 That that's good.

00:16:11.560 I like them, but it, that doesn't make them a comedian.

00:16:13.680 Now the final left-wing attack here is that it is hypocritical for Trump supporters to attack 0.60

00:16:19.640 this woman for being vulgar and profane and not having class or anything and not being funny. 1.00

00:16:24.540 They say it's hypocritical because Trump, you know, Trump says mean things and he says vulgar 0.98

00:16:29.640 things and all that.

00:16:30.440 I will explain to you why these cases are completely different.

00:16:34.260 Here is a classic example from Donald Trump from one of the debates with Hillary Clinton.

00:16:40.280 Oh, it is, uh, it's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump

00:16:46.040 is not in charge of the law in our country.

00:16:48.900 Because you'd be in jail.

00:16:50.500 Secretary Clinton.

00:16:56.020 That is a very funny line.

00:16:57.920 That shows a quick wit.

00:16:59.640 It wasn't scripted.

00:17:00.800 You know, Michelle Wolf was reading from her script all night, but that was extemporaneous.

00:17:05.460 Very quick wit.

00:17:06.400 Now, if Michelle Wolf were to try to do a joke like that, she would probably just yell in 1.00

00:17:10.260 that nasal voice, you're a criminal. 0.97

00:17:12.520 That's what she was saying all night. 1.00

00:17:13.520 You lie. 1.00

00:17:14.320 You're a liar. 1.00

00:17:15.160 You lie. 1.00

00:17:15.840 And so you're a criminal. 0.99

00:17:16.940 But that's not funny. 0.91

00:17:18.440 What's funny is waiting for Hillary to tee it up. 1.00

00:17:20.940 And then Hillary says, I don't want to live in an America where Donald Trump is president.

00:17:25.940 So how do you play on that?

00:17:27.200 Well, why not?

00:17:28.520 One, you could make a joke about her character, her own actions, and you could make a joke

00:17:34.740 about what happens if you're president, right?

00:17:36.720 You play around in this scenario.

00:17:39.060 A joke requires detachment.

00:17:41.240 It requires space.

00:17:43.020 So he says, she says, I don't want to live in an America with Donald Trump.

00:17:46.840 It's not like he says, yeah, that's right.

00:17:48.400 You wouldn't, you know, because I do good things and you would do bad things.

00:17:51.540 Wait, wait, wait, right.

00:17:52.100 That would be the Michelle Wolf thing.

00:17:53.520 Instead, he goes, yeah, you'd be in jail. 0.99

00:17:55.040 That's why you wouldn't want it because you're a crook. 0.99

00:17:57.680 That's funny. 0.98

00:17:58.380 And that's, he's detached enough to enjoy it.

00:18:00.960 He's having fun up there.

00:18:02.220 He's not just very angry.

00:18:03.560 He did this with everybody.

00:18:04.480 He did it with Rand Paul.

00:18:05.820 He did it with little Marco, to use his phrase.

00:18:08.840 And of course, he did it to Jeb Bush.

00:18:10.980 Here is an amazing one from Jeb.

00:18:13.000 This is a tough business to run for president.

00:18:15.960 Oh, I know.

00:18:16.180 You're a tough guy, Jeb.

00:18:17.060 And it's, and we need to have a leader that is principled.

00:18:19.680 You're never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency.

00:18:23.080 Let's see, I'm at 42 and you're at three.

00:18:24.960 So so far, I'm doing better.

00:18:26.100 Doesn't matter.

00:18:26.720 So far, I'm doing better.

00:18:28.240 You know, you started off over here, Jeb.

00:18:30.160 You're moving over further and further.

00:18:32.400 Pretty soon, you're going to be off the end.

00:18:33.740 This doesn't do a thing to solve the problem.

00:18:38.160 Devastating.

00:18:39.120 Devastating.

00:18:39.660 And the reason that's so funny.

00:18:41.840 Well, the main reason it's so funny is because it's true.

00:18:44.600 Jeb Bush says, you've got to be real tough like me.

00:18:47.100 And so what does Trump do?

00:18:48.100 He doesn't say, you're not tough.

00:18:49.560 I'm tough.

00:18:50.420 Right.

00:18:50.980 That's what Michelle Wolf would do. 1.00

00:18:52.780 Instead, he just points out the obvious.

00:18:54.920 He says, oh, yeah, you're real tough.

00:18:56.380 Yeah, no, you're a big, tough guy.

00:18:57.480 I'm real.

00:18:57.980 Right. 0.98

00:18:58.240 If you just prick that little ridiculous balloon, it'll pop because we all know, 0.98

00:19:03.740 what the truth is. 0.96

00:19:05.060 The other reason it's funny is that he's punching back.

00:19:07.820 He isn't really starting these fights.

00:19:10.420 Roseanne Barr was tweeting all of the rules for comedy to explain why this schtick didn't 1.00

00:19:15.220 work at the correspondence dinner.

00:19:16.840 And one thing she said is, never insult someone in the room who's more famous than you.

00:19:21.300 Never pick a fight with someone more famous than you because you'll lose the audience.

00:19:26.300 And Donald Trump actually doesn't really pick fights.

00:19:29.680 He tends just to hit back.

00:19:31.360 He did this with Rosie O'Donnell.

00:19:32.660 He did this with Jeb Bush.

00:19:33.960 He did this with Hillary.

00:19:35.280 On and on.

00:19:36.320 With Rosie, you saw him.

00:19:38.580 He was so vicious with her.

00:19:40.520 But he said, look, with me, she insulted me. 1.00

00:19:42.960 She insulted my business. 0.99

00:19:44.540 And so with me, I fight back.

00:19:47.080 And so it actually makes him the underdog.

00:19:49.640 Jeb Bush, in these attacks, Hillary Clinton, they were supposed to be the bigger characters. 1.00

00:19:56.380 They were supposed to be the more stately people.

00:19:57.960 But they degraded themselves and they kept attacking and attacking.

00:20:01.180 So it just gave Trump the opening to punch back, even with John McCain.

00:20:04.760 You know, he was so vicious to McCain and basically made fun of his being a prisoner of war.

00:20:10.560 But McCain did start it.

00:20:12.840 He didn't.

00:20:13.300 Now, I'm not saying McCain was as vicious to Trump.

00:20:15.380 He wasn't.

00:20:15.940 But he criticized Trump.

00:20:17.160 And what happens with Trump is the minute you hit him, he punches you back at least twice as hard.

00:20:23.060 You can argue about whether that's appropriate or nice or whatever, but it's always punching back.

00:20:27.600 The other thing about Trump is his comedy isn't essentially angry.

00:20:32.020 It plays on anger sometimes, but it's actually not angry in itself.

00:20:36.780 It might be a facsimile of anger, but it's not really anger.

00:20:39.760 Here's a great example of this.

00:20:40.860 So I get a call from one of the reporters yesterday, and they said, the president of Mexico said they will not, under any circumstances, pay for the wall.

00:20:51.780 What is your comment?

00:20:52.920 I said, the wall just got 10 feet higher.

00:20:56.440 It's true.

00:20:57.700 It's true.

00:20:58.340 Now, if he were really angry, there wouldn't be a joke there.

00:21:06.720 He wouldn't know how to play on their reactions, right?

00:21:09.820 He'd say, you're not going to believe what they said to me, but they're not going to get away with this because da-da-da, and you did this to me, right? 0.91

00:21:15.900 And that would be the Michelle Wolf response. 0.65

00:21:18.140 But the Trump response is, okay, they've thrown this one at me.

00:21:21.420 I'm going to detach myself a little bit.

00:21:23.060 But how can I, oh, yeah, that's a funny joke.

00:21:25.800 The wall just got 10 feet higher and goes right out, and that's why it's funny.

00:21:29.360 The Washington Post, where democracy dies in darkness, ran a trollish headline today because her performance is basically being universally condemned.

00:21:38.460 But they ran the headline.

00:21:39.720 They said, Michelle Wolf got it just right.

00:21:43.680 This is how the piece goes.

00:21:44.960 That Wolf's performance was not normal for the Correspondents' Dinner is a testament to its timeliness and necessity.

00:21:52.500 Nothing is normal right now.

00:21:55.320 So that's what, this is important comedy.

00:21:57.300 That's what this is.

00:21:57.980 It's not, we need to suspend the rules because it isn't normal.

00:22:01.200 This isn't, stop it.

00:22:02.340 This isn't normal.

00:22:03.500 This is why left-wing comedy is so insufferable.

00:22:06.700 They're all doing this.

00:22:07.840 They're doing this important comedy.

00:22:10.020 So, you know, if the purpose of comedy is to make people laugh, then they'll keep that in mind.

00:22:15.620 But they say, no, these aren't normal times.

00:22:17.600 We have to suspend all the rules.

00:22:19.140 No, you don't.

00:22:20.000 You don't have to suspend all the rules.

00:22:21.860 You're just, you're in this vacuum.

00:22:24.320 Your vision is so warped by your own hatred of Donald Trump that you don't realize the rules of comedy still apply.

00:22:31.780 And so you might find catharsis in her saying mean things about Trump.

00:22:36.240 That's not comedy.

00:22:36.920 Let's get to Michelle Wolfe herself to compare. 1.00

00:22:40.720 So the woman who introduced her said, Michelle Wolfe is not a political comedian by trade. 0.73

00:22:45.560 And that is obviously true.

00:22:47.380 She clearly isn't.

00:22:48.480 It's why she bombed it so badly. 0.98

00:22:50.620 Here's how Michelle Wolfe opens. 1.00

00:22:52.840 Like a porn star says when she's about to have sex with a Trump, let's get this over with. 1.00

00:22:59.200 Yep, kiddos, this is here getting tonight. 0.99

00:23:01.960 I'm going to skip a lot of the normal pleasantries.

00:23:04.420 We're at a Hilton.

00:23:05.360 It's not nice.

00:23:06.940 This is on C-SPAN.

00:23:08.260 No one watches that.

00:23:10.000 Trump is president.

00:23:11.300 It's not ideal.

00:23:14.040 White House Corsors and Spine Association, thank you for having me.

00:23:17.340 The monkfish was fine.

00:23:18.660 So that's how she opens. 0.99

00:23:24.300 She opens up with this very easy joke about a porn star, right? 0.97

00:23:27.780 And referring to Trump, just Trump, right? 0.94

00:23:29.800 Not President Trump, not the sitting president, just Trump.

00:23:33.320 It immediately begins with disrespect and an easy joke, a joke that anybody could make.

00:23:38.520 And she addresses that.

00:23:40.120 She said, this is not going to be nice.

00:23:42.200 Everything about this is not nice, right?

00:23:44.480 Now, it's supposed to be this glitzy affair.

00:23:46.440 Black tie, you know, these journalists get to go out for a night and pretend that they're movie stars or celebrities there.

00:23:53.040 So it is supposed to be elevated and a little glamorous.

00:23:56.040 That's been the way it's been for decades and decades.

00:23:58.680 It's a charity dinner.

00:24:00.140 But she says, no, this ain't going to be nice.

00:24:02.360 I'm going to make this unpleasant and tense and debased and ugly and just bleh.

00:24:06.540 Right, and so you already know where she's coming from.

00:24:09.220 She's not coming from a healthy place.

00:24:11.300 She's not coming from the kind of place where you would laugh and tell jokes.

00:24:13.980 She's saying, this is a miserable time and you're going to be miserable with me.

00:24:17.280 I identified 48 statements that she intended to be jokes.

00:24:22.740 Because I watched the whole thing.

00:24:23.880 I watched it, those parts of it a few times.

00:24:26.520 And I was able to identify 48 lines that she would probably call jokes.

00:24:30.620 They weren't quite jokes.

00:24:31.920 I say that the Oxford English Dictionary definition of a joke is a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline.

00:24:43.340 Now, forget that these didn't really have punchlines, a lot of them.

00:24:46.940 A lot of the statements were just statements.

00:24:49.240 They weren't jokes.

00:24:51.280 They weren't intended to make people laugh.

00:24:52.920 Maybe she wanted people to laugh, but they didn't follow the arc of what an actual joke is. 0.95

00:24:58.540 So she'd say, so-and-so lies and is a liar. 0.99

00:25:02.460 So-and-so is a disappointment to women. 1.00

00:25:04.680 She used that line a bunch. 0.99

00:25:06.060 Said, yeah, Ivanka Trump is a disappointment to women. 1.00

00:25:08.820 But that isn't a joke. 0.96

00:25:10.060 That's just an insult.

00:25:11.880 But it's not insult comedy.

00:25:13.540 It's just, you just don't, that's what you think.

00:25:16.100 Okay, that's fine.

00:25:17.400 So, regardless, I wanted to include that because that's 48 statements that might have been intended to be jokes.

00:25:23.860 A full 22 of them were just about genitals. 0.98

00:25:28.440 And a 23rd flew directly from the genital to the scatological.

00:25:32.540 So, 22, 23 are occurring below the waist.

00:25:36.960 And 22 were just about genitals. 0.99

00:25:39.760 I'm actually surprised she did this because this sort of thing is a parody of bad female comedy. 1.00

00:25:47.240 This is what you get from Amy Schumer when she's not stealing other people's jokes and Sarah Silverman.

00:25:51.460 It's the easiest, grossest comedy that usually people don't really laugh at.

00:26:00.320 South Park perfectly skewered this sort of fake comedy.

00:26:04.300 Hey, girls are funny, Wendy. 1.00

00:26:05.460 Okay, get over it.

00:26:06.680 Just do women's comedy stuff. 1.00

00:26:07.760 You know, talk about how fat you are and how you want to have sex with guys and then say, my vagina a lot. 1.00

00:26:10.960 That is it. 1.00

00:26:12.480 And Trey Parker and Matt Stone are making fun of the Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman kind of comedy because that isn't funny.

00:26:21.620 I suppose they think it's funny because it's incongruous, right?

00:26:24.760 They're playing on an incongruity.

00:26:26.340 So, they say, well, women are perceived as being very feminine and nice and pleasant and graceful.

00:26:31.620 And we're going to be explicit and vulgar and materialistic and profane.

00:26:35.980 But the thing is, that only works once.

00:26:39.100 That only works in the 80s.

00:26:40.680 It doesn't work when the norm for women is feminism. 1.00

00:26:45.040 When the gracefulness and the femininity has all gone out the window for decades, then it's not funny anymore. 0.57

00:26:50.340 It's just that's the way it is, right?

00:26:51.840 That's sure.

00:26:53.160 And now, everything that Michelle Wolfe did was extremely vulgar. 1.00

00:26:58.220 So, F words, explicit genital references, pretty raunchy general references.

00:27:03.720 That's not to say that you can't do those things. 0.85

00:27:06.480 You can talk like a sailor sometimes or make jokes about genitals or whatever.

00:27:10.940 But there is a time and a place for that.

00:27:13.400 As I say, there's a time and a place for everything, and that's college.

00:27:15.940 But there are times and places for this, right?

00:27:18.900 So, they'll say, well, Trump said gross things. 0.98

00:27:21.020 He talked about genitals and made jokes about genitals. 0.99

00:27:23.620 Right.

00:27:24.360 He didn't do that on a podium at a black tie affair.

00:27:28.160 He didn't even brag about it or do it in public.

00:27:30.060 He defended those statements as locker room talk because they were locker room talk.

00:27:34.420 Because he thought he was having a private conversation with a guy, the sort of conversation that every guy has.

00:27:40.140 Sorry to tell you, ladies.

00:27:41.780 Whatever little feminist guy is telling you, I've never said anything like that.

00:27:45.800 I've never said anything.

00:27:48.220 No.

00:27:48.600 And what they're, like, run away.

00:27:50.960 Because those are the creepy guys that are convincing you that they're nice and sensitive and feminist. 0.90

00:27:54.960 And they are the creepiest of all.

00:27:56.460 Those are the Aziz Ansari types.

00:27:59.100 Owen and I were discussing that.

00:28:00.900 I think Owen uses the word soy boy.

00:28:03.540 That, run away from that. 0.89

00:28:05.140 Because that's locker room talk.

00:28:06.900 But there's a difference between locker room talk and glitzy Washington affairs.

00:28:11.380 They're not, you've got to read the room.

00:28:13.280 You've got to read your crowd.

00:28:14.360 And also, you've all been criticizing Trump for saying those things.

00:28:17.920 So now you can't do it.

00:28:19.360 Now, you've been saying it's, oh, so it's the worst thing that he did that.

00:28:22.320 And yeah, it's great for her to do it because he did it.

00:28:24.260 But, what?

00:28:26.360 That doesn't make any sense.

00:28:27.760 Also, it's so easy to go blue in comedy.

00:28:30.360 It's so easy to just cheat at comedy by using swear words and raunchiness as a crutch.

00:28:36.180 It's much easier to do that than to try to do jokes without that.

00:28:40.540 Jerry Seinfeld talks about this.

00:28:42.000 Norm Macdonald talks about this.

00:28:43.620 It's much harder to be funny without that crutch.

00:28:46.220 She wasn't even playing on anything else.

00:28:48.220 It was just raunchiness and bad words.

00:28:50.800 If you took all of that out, there wouldn't be any words left.

00:28:53.760 And it also isn't subversive.

00:28:56.800 So the idea is, that's the whole thing of women talking about their genitals. 1.00

00:29:00.360 I'm going to be subversive.

00:29:01.680 But that isn't subversive.

00:29:02.800 That's the way comedy is now.

00:29:05.300 That's the baseline.

00:29:06.620 That's the way society is.

00:29:07.740 You hear it on network television.

00:29:09.340 You hear little kids using terrible words in front of their parents.

00:29:12.740 Little kids always use terrible words.

00:29:14.220 They used to do it not in front of their parents.

00:29:16.620 Right now, going clean is subversive.

00:29:19.040 So there was a great, again, I always bring up Norm because he's the best living comedian.

00:29:24.320 And Norm Macdonald was invited to one of these Comedy Central roasts for Bob Saget.

00:29:28.640 And all of these roasts, it was the same thing as this.

00:29:31.260 Just how do you say the raunchiest, grossest thing with the most F words?

00:29:35.440 And so Norm decided, I'm going to be really subversive by telling clean jokes from the Dean Martin roasts.

00:29:41.040 So he'd say things like, you know, yeah, you know, your face looks like a flower, like a cauliflower.

00:29:48.360 You know, and then Bill would say, oh, this is so shocking.

00:29:52.020 This is so subversive.

00:29:53.400 Now, the rest of the jokes, we'll have to wrap this up in a second.

00:29:57.080 Say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:29:58.380 But the rest of, I'll try to run through these quickly.

00:30:01.160 The rest of them, Hillary ignored, Michigan and the campaign.

00:30:04.800 That was one of the premises.

00:30:06.200 Ha ha. 1.00

00:30:06.420 In another one, Michelle Wolf called Trump, well, I'll just say the word, she called Trump a pussy. 1.00

00:30:13.240 I can use it because they talk about the hats that way. 1.00

00:30:15.400 And then she made a joke about how she can't grab him. 0.99

00:30:17.660 Ha ha.

00:30:18.220 She used the euphemism about pulling out of the Paris Agreement and how most men don't do that. 1.00

00:30:23.060 Then one of her jokes just said, Trump is racist, xenophobic, Nazi, incompetent, and impotent. 1.00

00:30:28.340 Ha ha ha. 1.00

00:30:28.960 Just insults.

00:30:31.640 She said, teachers don't need guns. 1.00

00:30:33.640 That was one of the premises. 0.97

00:30:34.680 Said, Mike Pence is awful too. 0.81

00:30:36.420 And so this was actually one of the best jokes of the night.

00:30:40.040 She hit Mike Pence for being pro-life.

00:30:42.900 That was the whole joke.

00:30:44.700 And here's, I loved this joke.

00:30:46.480 Here it is.

00:30:47.820 Mike Pence is also very anti-choice.

00:30:50.980 He thinks abortion is murder.

00:30:53.140 Which, first of all, don't knock it till you try it.

00:30:56.860 And when you do try it, really knock it.

00:30:59.580 You know, you gotta get that baby out of there.

00:31:01.560 And yeah, sure, you can groan all you want.

00:31:06.520 I know a lot of you are very anti-abortion.

00:31:09.900 You know, unless it's the one you got for your secret mistress.

00:31:12.960 It's fun how values can waver.

00:31:16.880 But good for you.

00:31:19.060 This was probably her best joke of the night.

00:31:22.940 One of two that were passably funny.

00:31:25.580 And the reason, it's not that this joke was terribly funny.

00:31:27.860 It was pretty horrifying.

00:31:29.560 It would have been funny if it weren't such a horrifying image that it kind of overwhelmed the comedy of it.

00:31:35.120 But, and obviously she didn't get the room. 0.73

00:31:38.360 This was a totally inappropriate joke for an event like this.

00:31:41.080 But it was pretty good because it killed all of the pro-abortion arguments.

00:31:45.360 It actually did, it sort of got to the issue.

00:31:48.160 For instance, she admitted that the baby is a baby.

00:31:51.220 She said, you gotta really, you know, you've gotta knock it because you gotta get that baby out of there. 1.00

00:31:56.180 Right? 0.99

00:31:56.360 She is saying, look, abortion is when you kill a baby in the womb and get rid of it. 0.96

00:32:00.400 And she's following that to its logical conclusion.

00:32:03.280 So that is truthful.

00:32:04.180 She's kind of playing on truth.

00:32:05.620 It's so horrifying it wasn't totally funny.

00:32:07.420 But it was probably the closest thing to a joke she had all night.

00:32:10.120 She doesn't totally get the issue.

00:32:12.240 But, you know, Jonathan Haidt did that study that shows that conservatives understand the left.

00:32:17.580 The left doesn't understand the right terribly well.

00:32:19.980 And then all the rest of the jokes were about sex, you know.

00:32:23.080 She talked about how she worked at Bear Stearns.

00:32:25.260 So she's never been harassed, but she got effed.

00:32:28.800 You know, some easy jokes like that.

00:32:30.800 One kind of funny one about Mika and Joe.

00:32:32.900 Joe, excuse me, Mika and Joe, where she said Mika and Joe on Morning Joe on MSNBC.

00:32:39.240 It's always nice when a Me Too works out. 0.83

00:32:41.500 It's kind of funny.

00:32:42.500 And the rest just total insults against other media personalities.

00:32:47.220 So it doesn't have to be this way.

00:32:51.220 The reason the schtick bombed is because she's so angry. 1.00

00:32:56.220 She hates Trump.

00:32:57.320 She hates the Trump administration. 0.50

00:32:58.860 She hates the media. 0.97

00:33:00.220 And so she would just call them liars. 0.86

00:33:02.060 But calling someone a liar isn't a joke.

00:33:04.120 And the premises, other than the abortion one, just weren't true.

00:33:07.240 She had a joke about Starbucks.

00:33:08.460 And the premise was that Starbucks isn't doing enough to stop racial discrimination.

00:33:12.180 The real joke is that Starbucks is the most hippy-dippy, bleeding-heart place on Earth.

00:33:18.520 And it isn't, you know, the Jim Crow South.

00:33:21.460 That would be the actual joke.

00:33:23.500 It was so disconnected from reality.

00:33:26.140 We will get into how it wasn't always like this and how to get comedy back.

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00:35:08.180 So it wasn't always like this.

00:35:10.120 It wasn't always this vulgar and this crass and this gross.

00:35:14.820 You know, it wasn't always this disconnected from reality at these dinners.

00:35:19.160 I couldn't find a clip of performers at these dinners because they don't really have them available until recently.

00:35:25.560 But here's a clip of President Kennedy from the 1962 White House Correspondents' Dinner.

00:35:30.240 Here's just an idea of how it used to be.

00:35:32.880 Like members of Congress, I have been during the last few days over the Easter holiday back in touch with my constituents.

00:35:38.500 And seeing how they felt.

00:35:42.020 And frankly, I've come back to Washington from Palm Beach, and I'm against my entire program.

00:35:46.460 Would you?

00:35:48.060 Would you?

00:35:48.620 So it's kind of funny, too, because he, John F. Kennedy's vacation home, one of his, was right near Donald Trump's.

00:36:05.880 He would go down to Palm Beach a lot.

00:36:07.680 Maybe he went to Mar-a-Lago.

00:36:08.940 Who knows?

00:36:09.680 But it's just nicer.

00:36:12.280 The Oscars used to be nicer, too.

00:36:13.880 The awards shows used to be nicer.

00:36:15.340 Because there was something called glamour.

00:36:17.760 And people say all the time, they say, I miss it when politics was civil.

00:36:20.640 I hate Donald Trump because he's not civil.

00:36:23.420 Our politicians aren't civil.

00:36:24.720 If you want the politics to be civil, the culture has to be civil.

00:36:27.220 If you want the culture to be civil, you have to be civil.

00:36:30.600 You have to comport yourself with dignity and integrity and not be screaming and yelling and profane all the time. 0.99

00:36:37.040 You know, people can say, they tweet out or they put on Facebook, you know, I effing hate this stupid whatever Michelle Wolfe. 0.99

00:36:46.960 You know, you're part of the problem, pal. 1.00

00:36:49.100 That's not the sort of thing.

00:36:50.540 It is degrading to swear frequently in public.

00:36:54.560 That's not something, if you want things to be civil and nice, you have to behave in a nice and civil way.

00:37:00.100 Roger Kimball, who is one of the great observers of culture, he got this exactly right at American Greatness.

00:37:06.820 He wrote, quote, the idea that there is certain conduct unbecoming a lady is anathema to Michelle Wolfe.

00:37:13.520 On the contrary, she wears her vulgarity like a badge of honor, happy to trade an hour of embarrassed titters for a lifetime of dishonor. 1.00

00:37:22.920 And that's exactly right.

00:37:24.420 You go up and you say, I'm going to get the applause of the crowd for 15 minutes and I will permanently degrade myself. 0.95

00:37:31.340 I will permanently be that woman who did those disgusting things. 1.00

00:37:36.420 You know, that woman whose parents probably aren't very proud of that display. 1.00

00:37:40.920 But I got the titters of the crowd for an hour.

00:37:43.260 That's not a good way to go through life.

00:37:45.920 Comedy doesn't have to be debasing.

00:37:47.720 It can be witty.

00:37:48.780 It can be nice.

00:37:50.480 It can be John F. Kennedy.

00:37:52.020 It can be Bob Hope.

00:37:53.400 It can be plenty of good comedians.

00:37:55.500 It can be Woody Allen for that matter.

00:37:57.580 But when it becomes vile and mean and angry, not only is it debasing and not only does it ruin the glamour and ruin the appeal of that entertainment, it isn't funny.

00:38:10.140 It doesn't work.

00:38:10.920 It actually works much better when the performer and the audience have dignity themselves.

00:38:16.400 Okay, we've got, how many more minutes do we have?

00:38:18.100 We've got to burn through these things, huh?

00:38:20.600 I've got, all right.

00:38:21.640 Well, I want, I really want to talk about Cecile Richards and why I'm going to miss her.

00:38:27.240 But I'll abbreviate it.

00:38:28.680 Cecile Richards, it's her last day at Planned Parenthood. 0.99

00:38:30.620 She's a total ghoul. 1.00

00:38:32.760 But she strengthened the pro-life movement. 0.98

00:38:35.980 She did.

00:38:36.460 We have a great debt of gratitude to her.

00:38:38.680 Her bloodlust increased abortions at Planned Parenthood.

00:38:41.360 Absolutely true.

00:38:42.420 But nationally, abortions decreased.

00:38:44.760 In 2014, abortion hit a historic low in America.

00:38:48.100 Fewer than a million abortions.

00:38:49.660 I know that sounds terrible.

00:38:50.960 It's not like damning with faint praise.

00:38:53.080 But that's the right direction to be going down.

00:38:55.980 It's her last day there.

00:38:57.500 She made the goals of Planned Parenthood pretty clear. 0.99

00:39:02.280 She was there to murder babies. 1.00

00:39:04.580 That's her job. 0.98

00:39:05.460 And she took her job very seriously.

00:39:07.340 She did her job very well.

00:39:08.680 But we saw a lot of things come out of that tenure.

00:39:11.420 There were those undercover videos from the Center for Medical Progress

00:39:14.260 that showed members of Planned Parenthood, executives of Planned Parenthood,

00:39:19.040 haggling over how much they could get for selling baby parts and organs and limbs,

00:39:24.120 illegally selling them.

00:39:25.360 They were haggling over numbers.

00:39:27.140 And so I'm going to miss her.

00:39:28.220 I mean, she was, she showed Planned Parenthood for what it is.

00:39:31.920 And I hope the next person can be so cartoonishly ghoulish.

00:39:36.800 And I wish Cecile Richards a nice time for the rest of her days on Earth

00:39:41.980 before an eternity of hellfire awaits her. 0.52

00:39:44.720 Okay, I've got a PragerU video out today.

00:39:47.580 This is about how the left uses language and how they destroy language.

00:39:52.000 So I'll just play a little clip of it.

00:39:53.680 And you got to go over and see it.

00:39:55.200 You got to share it.

00:39:55.920 And really, you've got to send it to Kanye West.

00:39:58.940 Here's the video.

00:40:00.280 What's in a word?

00:40:01.760 Why does it matter whether we call someone who breaks the law to enter the country 0.91

00:40:05.700 an illegal alien or an undocumented immigrant?

00:40:09.040 What's the difference between a Christmas tree and a holiday tree?

00:40:12.640 It's just semantics, right?

00:40:13.880 Yes, and no.

00:40:16.480 It is just semantics.

00:40:18.200 But semantics means the meaning of words.

00:40:21.560 Words exist so that we might discriminate one thing from another.

00:40:25.620 Without words, we have chaos.

00:40:27.500 And it starts with the first words.

00:40:30.260 A baby says mama to distinguish mommy from daddy. 0.85

00:40:34.460 Words shape how we think.

00:40:36.240 They color how we view the world.

00:40:38.840 No one understands this better than the left.

00:40:40.720 They are the masters of words because they know that words matter.

00:40:44.840 The left has a special gift for euphemisms.

00:40:48.860 Soft words selected to sugarcoat harsh realities so as to make those harsh realities easier for us to swallow.

00:40:55.440 But these soft words are insidious.

00:40:57.900 So there's a lot more.

00:40:59.920 And if you aren't watching right now, if you're not a subscriber, the artwork is phenomenal on this video.

00:41:05.280 They did an incredible job on the artwork.

00:41:07.560 Some people pointed out when they talk about swallowing soft words that Democrats give you.

00:41:11.920 It's a little blue pill.

00:41:13.040 Well, well done on that little Easter egg.

00:41:16.900 The video goes on for, I think, another four minutes or so.

00:41:19.660 But it's so important.

00:41:21.460 It's this subtle point that a lot of people ignore because it's so easy to get wrapped up in the language of the left.

00:41:27.800 But language is where the battles are won.

00:41:30.680 It's where the culture is won.

00:41:31.800 It's where the politics is won.

00:41:32.960 The difference between a Christmas tree and a holiday tree is night and day.

00:41:36.440 The difference between an undocumented worker or a future American or a refugee asylum seeker and an illegal alien.

00:41:45.280 That is night and day.

00:41:46.420 It totally shapes how we think about subjects.

00:41:48.920 So please go over there because really all I want is for Kanye West to tweet this video.

00:41:56.240 He's so close.

00:41:57.520 You know, he's hanging out with Candace Owens.

00:41:59.520 He's watching Jordan Peterson videos.

00:42:01.400 He's watching Scott Adams.

00:42:03.880 And it's just the perfect moment.

00:42:06.340 I think if we can get this in front of Kanye, it'll be over.

00:42:11.260 He'll never take that MAGA hat off.

00:42:13.100 So please tweet it at him and send it to him.

00:42:15.040 And I hope you enjoy the video.

00:42:15.860 Let me know what you think about it.

00:42:16.900 Okay, that's our show.

00:42:17.960 We'll just have to get to the rest of the news tomorrow.

00:42:20.860 Until then, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:42:22.000 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:42:23.080 I'll see you tomorrow.

00:42:23.560 The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire Forward Publishing production.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 30, 2018

Ep. 147 - Claps Not Laughs： Michelle Wolf And The Death Of Comedy

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