Blaire Erskine Exposes MAGA Insanity
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Atlanta-based comedian Blaire Erskine has blown up on Twitter over the past year with videos that not only roast Trump-loving conservatives but have also managed to fool a large number of prominent liberals. With characters like Tiffany Trump’s best friend, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s daughter and Ted Cruz’s spokesperson, Blaire rides a fine line between parody and reality and nails it every time. In this episode, we talk about how she honed this new craft during the pandemic, why 90% of the hate she gets comes from the left and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | With videos like this rap song from a maggotine, my guest today has taken Twitter by Storm |
| 0:06.6 | and fooled a lot of prominent liberals along the way. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm a magazine. I'm a magazine. I'm here to burst your liberal spleen. Global warming is a hoax. |
| 0:19.4 | COVID isn't real. My primary care doctor is Dr. Phil. |
| 0:24.0 | 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 |
| 0:32.1 | cool guy. I had to say that because my parents were nearby. Now they're gone and I'm here to say, |
| 0:39.3 | sorry you had to see this today. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm not actually a Republican. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm only 16. |
| 0:45.3 | I have to be homeschool because my parents hate vaccines. |
| 0:48.3 | If you think this is a cry for help, |
| 0:51.3 | you're absolutely right. |
| 0:52.3 | This is a cry for help. You're absolutely right. This is a cry for help. |
| 0:59.6 | This is the Last Laugh. |
| 1:01.9 | 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. |
| 1:13.2 | Blair was performing stand-up comedy in her hometown of Atlanta when the pandemic hit last March, |
| 1:18.7 | and like so many other comics, made a hard pivot to creating content online. |
| 1:24.7 | Those videos in which she mostly plays fictional characters kind of adjacent to well-known |
| 1:29.6 | right-wing figures like Tom Cotton and Marjorie Taylor Green have blown up beyond her wildest |
| 1:35.5 | dreams. They've also managed to fool media celebrities like Michael Moore, Katie Couric, |
| 1:41.6 | and Joy Reid, all of whom thought that her video of a Trump supporter stranded |
| 1:46.0 | outside after his freezing cold rally in Omaha last October was real. |
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