Comedy Is No Revolution

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, Instagram and FOMO. In the interview, they say president Trump has killed comedy. But in Larry Wilmore's book, comedy isn't responsible for leading us to the "right" kind of outrage or political enlightenment. Its role—get this—is to make us laugh. "Activists should engage in activism, and I always feel like that's why we have these words that are different," Wilmore says. "Comedy exists to be comic." Wilmore is the host of the Ringer podcast Black on the Air and the co-creator of HBO's Insecure. In the Spiel, Uber's IPO and Trump's tariffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following recording may contain explicit language.
0:02.8	I can't get more explicit than May.
0:05.7	Let's just say it may.
0:07.2	It's Friday, May 10, 2019 from Slated's The Gist I, Mike Pesca, and Instagram is trying
0:15.9	to prevent bullying, which, as the New York Times points out, requires that you define
0:21.6	bullying.
0:22.6	Instagram sites, as a form of bullying, quote, intentional inducement of FOMO.
0:29.2	The Times goes on to say FOMO, fear of missing out, is not a crime or even a misdemeanor, but
0:35.2	it is a big problem on Instagram where millions of teenagers go every day to check on their
0:39.4	peers.
0:40.4	Now, I do have to say that if Instagram stamped out the concept of, wow, this was fun,
0:45.8	too bad you missed it, there would be no Instagram.
0:48.8	Kim Kardashian can only chronicle the slots in her sink so often.
0:55.0	Intentional inducement of FOMO.
0:57.8	Wow, that as bullying, a form of bullying.
1:01.5	I mean, excuse me, sir.
1:03.0	I believe you sent this postcard from Mount Rushmore in 1979 and I quote, having a great
1:08.9	time, wish you were here.
1:12.1	Sir, do you need to make amends?
1:14.0	Perhaps you should apologize, a sincere thoughtful apology centered on your victims'
1:18.6	pain, sir.
1:19.6	Or else, well, I'm sure I stint in bullying jail, but set you straight.
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