With videos like this rap song from a maggotine, my guest today has taken Twitter by Storm

and fooled a lot of prominent liberals along the way.

I'm a magazine. I'm a magazine. I'm here to burst your liberal spleen. Global warming is a hoax.

COVID isn't real. My primary care doctor is Dr. Phil.

I'm not joking. I'm not kidding. I'm a magazine here to do the Lord's bidden. I think Trump is a pretty

cool guy. I had to say that because my parents were nearby. Now they're gone and I'm here to say,

sorry you had to see this today.

I'm not actually a Republican.

I'm only 16.

I have to be homeschool because my parents hate vaccines.

If you think this is a cry for help,

you're absolutely right.

This is a cry for help. You're absolutely right. This is a cry for help.

This is the Last Laugh.

I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was Blair Erskine in just one of the many videos that have made me laugh harder over this past year than pretty much anything else.

Blair was performing stand-up comedy in her hometown of Atlanta when the pandemic hit last March,

and like so many other comics, made a hard pivot to creating content online.

Those videos in which she mostly plays fictional characters kind of adjacent to well-known

right-wing figures like Tom Cotton and Marjorie Taylor Green have blown up beyond her wildest

dreams. They've also managed to fool media celebrities like Michael Moore, Katie Couric,

and Joy Reid, all of whom thought that her video of a Trump supporter stranded

outside after his freezing cold rally in Omaha last October was real.

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