Eric Andre Talks Pranking While Black

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🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Eric Andre is best known for pulling outrageous pranks on Adult Swin’s ‘The Eric Andre Show,’ which is finally returning for its long-awaited fifth season soon. But first, Eric is about to drop his debut hour-long stand-up special on Netflix, called ‘Legalize Everything,’ on June 23rd. In this episode, we talk about how the absurdity and hypocrisy of the police have been a running theme throughout his work, including in his upcoming prank movie ‘Bad Trip’ co-starring Tiffany Haddish and Lil Rel Howery, which will also premiere on Netflix later this year. Plus. Eric shares his uncensored thoughts on Joe Biden, Bill Cosby, Michael Richards and a lot more.

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0:00.0	If you're a fan of this week's guest, you know to expect the unexpected.
0:13.1	This is the last laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and I am so excited to welcome
0:19.0	Eric Andre to today's show. Eric is probably best known for
0:23.9	pulling some truly outrageous pranks on the Eric Andre show, which has been running on
0:28.9	Adult Swim since 2012 and is finally returning for its long-awaited fifth season very soon.
0:35.8	This month, he's debuting his first ever hour-long stand-up special on
0:39.9	Netflix. It's called Legalize Everything, and it opens with a sketch in which Eric impersonates
0:46.3	a New Orleans cop and hands out free drugs to strangers. The absurdity and hypocrisy of police in America
0:54.0	have been a recurring theme in Eric's comedy throughout his career,
0:58.0	a theme that has never been more timely as we talk about on today's show.
1:02.6	And it shows up again in his upcoming prank movie Bad Trip, which will also be premiering on Netflix later this year.
1:10.2	Just one thing to note, I mentioned to Eric during our talk that the TV show Cops had been
1:15.4	postponed because of the protests over George Floyd's killing.
1:19.4	Barely an hour after we spoke, it was officially canceled.
1:23.6	Before we get to our conversation, if you're enjoying this show, please let us know by leaving a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.
1:30.3	If you have ideas for guests you want to hear on the show or questions you want me to ask comedians, let us know in your review and they could end up in a future episode.
1:39.4	You can also go to rate this podcast.com slash laugh to rate this podcast wherever you listen. But right now,
1:46.5	let's get to my conversation with Eric Andre. And slating. Almost. We almost got it.
1:56.0	And we're, we're kind of talking at this very crazy time on many levels.
2:02.6	How are you holding up?
2:04.8	How are you?
2:06.0	And I guess the follow up to that is, are you sick of white people asking, how are you holding up?
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