Corruption, Cancel Culture, and the Death of the Comedy Roast

Clock It with Symone & Eugene

MS NOW, Eugene Daniels, Symone Sanders Townsend

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🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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We always say you have to laugh to keep from crying. But can comedy really stay non-political? W. Kamau Bell joins the groupchat.

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0:00.0	Greetings and welcome back to Clockit. Do you like the setups? Yes, yes, yes, yes. Come on. Come on. It's given longevity.
0:13.4	Correct.
0:15.5	Folks, folks, it's given employed, Eugene.
0:20.7	Always. Always. Correct. Greetings and given employed, Eugene. Always.
0:21.6	Renews.
0:22.5	Correct.
0:23.2	Greetings and welcome back, folks.
0:24.8	This week, we are noticing some, shall we say, differences, right?
0:28.7	Between the wisdom in Washington about what's going on and then what people outside of D.C. are thinking, particularly when it comes to the president, Eugene.
0:37.6	Yes, in D.C., what both of us have been hearing over and over and over again,
0:42.3	is that everyone should be able to see the harms of the Trump administration,
0:45.9	that those harms are so obvious.
0:48.6	And there is some data to support that a New York Times-Ci-No poll reports.
0:53.4	His overall approval rating is very low,
0:56.7	Barry low.
0:58.2	Get it, Barry.
0:59.2	It's a very white low.
1:00.4	No.
1:00.9	Oh, I didn't understand.
1:02.3	I was like, where are we going with this one?
1:06.0	That's okay.
1:10.0	Low like Barry.
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