Chrissie Mayr on Cancel Culture, the State of Comedy, and Supporting Trump | Ep. 127

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly is joined by Chrissie Mayr, comedian and Compound Media Network host and host of "The Chrissie Mayr Podcast," to talk about the state of comedy, Cancel Culture, voting for Trump in 2020 (after voting for Jill Stein in 2016) and what led to her political awakening, her back-and-forth with Chrissy Teigen, Matthew Dowd's January 6 9/11 comparison, the push to make girls liberal Democrats, Greta Thunberg's anger, growing up with fellow comedian Tim Dillon, and more. Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShow Instagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShow Facebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for Open, Honest, and Provocative Conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.
0:15.0	Today we've got Chrissy Mayer.
0:18.0	Chrissy is a comedian and host of the Chrissy Mayer podcast, and she also hosts a show on
0:23.6	compound media network, which we'll get to in one second.
0:27.4	She is hilarious and she's very insightful about our society and she also happens to be
0:34.2	a Trump supporter, the rare person in comedy, rare woman in particular, who actually supported
0:40.9	President Trump, though she voted Democrat, well, Green Party to be specific in the previous
0:46.8	election in 2016.
0:48.7	So how does that kind of a person, right, who is a feminist, who is a Democrat, who voted
0:53.7	and Stein wind up not only a Trump supporter, but actually at the Capitol Hill riot, though
0:59.5	she didn't, she didn't storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
1:03.7	We're going to get into it.
1:05.8	You'll hear a bit of her, her magic on some very funny bits and how she's been, she's
1:12.3	been sort of targeted for cancellation multiple times and what she says changed her way of
1:18.0	thinking.
1:19.0	You know, what got her politically activated the other way.
1:21.7	So we're going to get to Chrissy in one second.
1:24.1	First this.
1:25.1	All right, so you did not start off wanting to be a comedian.
1:33.1	It's not like you were dying to go into comedy.
1:35.8	In fact, as I read, you were dying to go into journalism.
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