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Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

Aasif Mandvi on the Gaslighting Presidency

Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

WarnerMedia Podcast Network

News

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

You probably got to know him as the “Senior Middle East Correspondent,” or the “Senior Muslim Correspondent,” or maybe the “Senior Foreign Looking Correspondent”, but actor, writer, and former Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi has moved into the hot seat for this episode of Politically Re-Active. Join Aasif and your favorite hosts as they talk about political satire during the Bush years, Aasif’s reaction to the Muslim ban and the “gaslighting presidency”, and what it means to “wrestle your inner Hitler to the ground”.

Keep up to date with Aasif on Twitter: @aasif. That’s also where you’ll find a link to learn more about his memoir _No Land’s Man_, which the New York Times calls “explosively funny”.

Kamau’s also got a book coming out! _The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell_ is available for pre-order on Amazon. If you’d like to hear his awkward thoughts in person, you can meet him on his book tour. Visit http://www.wkamaubell.com/ to learn more. And if you STILL can’t get enough Kamau, watch him on the season premiere of United Shades of America, which returns to CNN on April 30th!

Hari is ALSO on tour, and he wants you to show up, Midwest fans! Tour dates are at his website: http://www.harikondabolu.com/.

Keep telling us what you think of the show! We’re on Twitter: @politicreactive. Or if you want to wax poetic, shoot us an email: [email protected].

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

So we changed the name. Yeah, we have to change the name to I think a better title, which

0:06.0

is Halal and the family, which we are now developing as an animated show for TBS.

0:13.6

You need voices? Yeah, we do. Yeah. Yeah. But the great thing about voices is that white

0:19.1

people can play brown people and you don't know the difference.

0:24.2

From Topic and Earwolf, this is politically reactive. I'm W. Commaubell.

0:29.0

And I'm America's secret lover, Harry Kunderbohler. The show where two comedians try to make

0:33.7

sense of politics in America. Unlike the politicians who like to make sense.

0:40.0

Sense? Like a punch? Really? Yeah, man. I don't know. I sometimes do the bugle with Andy's

0:47.4

ultimate and I think I've been punning too much. Occupational hazard.

0:51.7

On today's show, we're talking to the brilliant actor, comedian and writer and my friend,

0:57.1

Asif Monty. Many people know Asif from his long tenure as a correspondent on the Daily

1:02.1

Show. He was often referred to with various titles such as Senior Middle East Correspondent,

1:07.7

Senior Muslim Correspondent and Senior Foreign Looking Correspondent. I refer to him as,

1:13.2

Hey, look, the Daily Show got a brown guy. There's no resentment there that these changes

1:18.6

that are being brought were perhaps foisted upon this region? No, no, not at all. Over

1:22.8

the years, we've grown accustomed to thinking of ourselves as you think of us. Tiny abstract

1:28.3

drops in an oil field of possibility. Whether redrawing our borders without regard for ethnicity

1:35.3

or religion or experimenting with unfamiliar forms of governance, we always welcome a chance

1:40.8

to test the ladies' theories of your political scientist.

1:44.1

It's an incredible way to look at a terrible situation. Well, I'm sure it's no different

1:49.6

from the way your nation views the events of September 11th. Tough day, great opportunity.

1:57.0

But along with the Daily Show, Asif is a working actor. And a lot of his work has been broadening

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