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The Gist

Chris Gethard Can't Fake It

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On Tuesday's Gist, Roseanne gets run out on a rail. Comedian Chris Gethard reflects on how things have changed for his madcap live show, starting from its days on a public access channel to its current home on TruTV. "It's more a TV show than it's ever been, the larger platforms that we get to," says Gethard. "But … it's me, it's really me and I'm letting my guard down." The season finale of The Chris Gethard Show airs Tuesday on TruTV.  In the Spiel, the mysterious name of a famous Russian painting.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The following content is explicit.

0:02.4

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0:06.5

It's Monday, May 29, 2018 from Slated to the Gist-Dimike Pesca.

0:11.0

Rosanne, likened Valerie Jarrett to a resident of the Planet of the Apes,

0:15.5

and as a result, Rosanne was canceled the show, not the person.

0:19.3

He can't cancel a person, though it seems that everyone involved with the reboot of the show

0:24.7

would have liked at least to have canceled out the odious and volatile aspects of the star's personality

0:31.7

that was clearly a powder keg.

0:34.0

Rosanne, which I thought was a very well-done network sitcom that said something a little different

0:39.0

from almost everything else on the air, was executive-produced, written, and performed

0:43.9

by forward-thinking members of the Hollywood Creative Class, who really did have good intentions,

0:49.5

but also would have liked Rosanne Barr's propagation of fringe and indeed racist theories to have gone away,

0:56.6

and now go away, they all will, to ABC's credit, to their ethical credit, and their financial detriment.

1:07.0

But the interesting thing to me is the analogy between the power structure at ABC,

1:12.4

benefiting from the success of Rosanne, and the power structure of the GOP,

1:17.0

which benefited from their man getting into the White House, and then what happened afterwards.

1:22.5

So here's the analogy.

1:24.0

The titular figure certainly has some conspiracy theories they'd like you to know about.

1:29.4

The person at the middle certainly has a spouse, some untruthful attacks.

1:34.6

The person with the name on the enterprise or the building certainly has been called a

1:41.3

ground-breaking visionary who the establishment cannot countenance, therefore a rebel.

1:47.9

The person who has become this mononym and brand uses the argument of class to repeatedly demonstrate,

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