Election Day Special With Anthony Atamanuik
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The creator and star of ‘The President Show’ on Comedy Central joins ‘The Last Laugh’ podcast for a special Election Day episode to mark what could be the political end of Donald Trump. “I wouldn't go that far!” Atamanuik, whose incredibly dark outlook on the future of America helped define his scathingly funny show, says when the idea of Biden blowout is raised. We talk about how he created his damning Trump impression, the backstory behind his bizarre feud with SNL’s Alec Baldwin and when he thinks he’ll be able to finally stop playing the president he despises.
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| 0:00.0 | It's election day. I hope you are getting your vote out or burning ballots in a drop box one way or another. |
| 0:09.0 | You need to get out there and do it. |
| 0:11.0 | And that's why I'm coming on the last laugh podcast to get the word out to those last folks who are on the fence who might want to vote for four more years of soft fascism. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm your guy. |
| 0:29.9 | It's election day. Can you believe it? This is the last laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from the Daily Beast, |
| 0:36.3 | and I am so excited to be joined today by the |
| 0:39.5 | brilliantly funny Anthony Atamanick. Three years ago, Anthony launched the president show on Comedy |
| 0:46.0 | Central and has since put out what I consider to be the most scathing and incisive comedy |
| 0:51.7 | about President Donald Trump ever produced. So I thought he would be |
| 0:56.8 | the perfect guest for this very special episode for an election day that could maybe, just |
| 1:03.0 | maybe stop Trump from dominating every aspect of our lives. We get into all of it on today's show, |
| 1:10.8 | including how Anthony started impersonating Trump in the first place, |
| 1:14.3 | and when he thinks he'll finally be able to leave his greatest creation behind. |
| 1:19.5 | So please vote and then listen to me with Anthony Atamanick. |
| 1:26.8 | Thank you so much for doing this. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm really excited to have you on. |
| 1:30.3 | And I really wanted to have you on because I don't think anyone else has captured |
| 1:33.8 | Donald Trump in a comedic way and quite the way that you have over these last few years. |
| 1:38.8 | Oh, thank you. |
| 1:39.6 | There's just been this whole debate. |
| 1:41.7 | And then maybe you saw, you know, there was like a big New York Times magazine story recently and there's been all these stories like, is Trump bad for comedy and what's |
| 1:48.5 | going to happen? And now if he goes away, how is comedy going to be different? I stopped reading all |
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