116: The Inevitability of Trump and Why Improv Sucks (with Anthony Atamanuik)
The Alexei Sayle Podcast
Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti
4.8 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
The President of alternative American comedy Anthony Atamanuik (30 Rock, The President Show, What We Do in the Shadows) joins Alexei and Talal Karkouti to dissect the state of the USA, how they got there and where they're going.
Also, Alexei lands a plane in Singapore.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Hello everybody, welcome to episode 116 of the Alexis our podcast and increasing the global reach of our podcast |
| 0:38.9 | via a Talal Khakhuti |
| 0:41.3 | collection |
| 0:44.4 | I'm not in Khamas, why you say my name? |
| 0:48.6 | I was trying to think of a joke. |
| 0:50.7 | Chahuti. |
| 0:51.8 | I've written down, I've written |
| 0:53.6 | Hamas slash hummus. |
| 0:56.8 | Has anybody attempted to allied those two things? |
| 0:59.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.5 | I think, is that really obvious? |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, I mean, it's, uh, there was a Trump joke I did, a hummus and chips, uh, joke, |
| 1:10.0 | but I have to recall it. But it's something about |
| 1:13.0 | we need to stop hummus and all the, and the, and the, it was the chips act, which was a thing in |
| 1:19.3 | the United States. Chips. Anyway, yeah. And in my, in my act, I have a song, one of my most |
| 1:24.0 | popular song is about hummus, but it's an analogy. It's an analogy for British imperialism. |
| 1:29.1 | And at one point in the song, I talk about how you pronounce it. |
| 1:33.6 | And I say, if you're Israeli, you pronounce it, hummus. |
| 1:37.4 | Something like that. |
| 1:39.1 | I should explain before we get any further. |
| 1:41.9 | I'll guess this afternoon, evening evening is Tony Atamanick, who said it right? |
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