Ep. 68: We're All In Donald Trump's Cartoon (feat. Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow)
The Michael Moore Podcast
Michael Moore
4.8 • 9.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
If satire is the art of taking reality to the absurd extreme, then what is a satirist to do when the absurd extreme becomes a daily reality? Michael is joined by one of the great satirists of our time, cartoonist Dan Perkins. Under the pseudonym Tom Tomorrow, Perkins created a strip called This Modern World which has ridiculed the corporate, political and media power structures for almost 30 years. He and Michael discuss the absurdities of living in the age of coronavirus, the Trump virus and the capitalism virus.
His most recent cartoon, "The Death Cult" can be seen here:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/13/1936455/-Cartoon-The-death-cult
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| 1:10.0 | This is Rumble and I'm Michael Moore and my special guest today is the incredibly wonderful beloved cartoonist Tom tomorrow. |
| 1:24.0 | Who goes actually by his birth name occasionally is damn perkins. |
| 1:30.0 | But his stage name on the funny pages is Tom tomorrow. |
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