#57: …So Trump Walks Into a Bar
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Under Donald Trump, political comedy has often been more hard hitting than straight news. And it’s not just big-name late night hosts carrying the torch. Comedians across the country are rethinking what comedy means during a Trump administration. Is it still just about being funny? Or is it about resistance?
Host Julio Ricardo Varela leads a discussion on this and more with comics Lalo Alcaraz and Elsa Waithe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Julio. We recorded this episode before all the weekend events happened in Syria. |
| 0:06.0 | We'll be bringing you a Syria episode next Tuesday. |
| 0:10.0 | Until then, enjoy this episode of In The Thick. |
| 0:12.0 | I have friends who have escaped fascist regimes and dictators, and they tell me |
| 0:17.8 | satire is one of the first things to go. |
| 0:20.8 | Hey, welcome to In The Pick a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm Julio Ricardo Barrella hosting solo this week while my co-hosts Maria Nahosa is |
| 0:34.4 | reporting from Minnesota. Congress is in recess this week so we're gonna do |
| 0:38.8 | something a little bit different. The last few months have been so absurd and to be honest |
| 0:44.8 | comedians have been actually doing a great job covering Donald Trump. |
| 0:49.2 | As Vox's Carlos Masa says political satire has something that TV news lacks. |
| 0:55.8 | A really low tolerance for bullshit. |
| 0:59.5 | And sometimes comedy or satire is actually the most appropriate way to reveal someone's |
| 1:04.5 | absurdity. I mean take this clip from Stephen Colbert. I think the |
| 1:09.3 | president has done a phenomenal job. We're doing a phenomenal job of staffing |
| 1:12.3 | the government. Phenominal, phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal, a phenomenal job of staffing the government. |
| 1:12.6 | Phenominal, phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal, |
| 1:17.6 | phenomenal. |
| 1:20.0 | Phenominal. And then of course Melissa McCarthy's portrayal of Sean Spicer, let's just say his |
| 1:28.0 | interesting way of talking is always revealing. |
| 1:32.0 | You said they are now I'm saying it back to you. |
| 1:34.0 | The president tweeted and I quote, |
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