Joe Rogan, Stephen Colbert, SNL, and More With The New Abnormal
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Once again, the time has come for our annual, year-end crossover episode in which Matt Wilstein joins The New Abnormal host Andy Levy to talk about the year in political comedy from the comedy podcasters like Joe Rogan, Theo Von, and Andrew Schulz who helped win Trump the 2024 election, to Kamala Harris’ decidedly safer appearances on Call Her Daddy and SNL, to the unfortunate decline of “resistance” late-night hosts like Stephen Colbert heading into Trump’s second term. Plus, the one comedian who could serve as the perfect “anti-Joe Rogan.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, this is The Last Laugh. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and today I'm so excited to share with you our annual |
| 0:13.6 | crossover episode with the new abnormal podcast. |
| 0:17.5 | As always, I am joined by that show's co-host and my new Blue Sky friend, Andy Levy, and producer Jesse Cannon to talk about the year in political comedy. |
| 0:27.7 | We had a lot to talk about at the end of a year that saw comedy podcasters take on a bigger role than I could ever have expected in shaping the 2024 presidential race. We also get into |
| 0:39.6 | SNL, the late night shows, and a lot more. So let's get into it now. Here's me with my friends |
| 0:46.3 | at the new abnormal. Hey, Andy. Jesse, how's it going? Seek to see you. Hey, Matt. How is everything over in fellow podcast land? |
| 0:58.8 | Oh, it's grand. We're getting towards the end of the year, so I'm really cramming it in now. |
| 1:03.7 | We've got a lot of good episodes coming up. Excellent. Yeah. I'm glad that we're getting to do this, |
| 1:08.0 | our annual crossover extravaganza once again to talk about |
| 1:13.0 | the year in comedy and politics and how they cross over. |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, always fun. |
| 1:18.1 | And for some reason, it feels particularly, I don't know if the word is important, but it feels |
| 1:24.6 | particularly, well, I'll just say important this year. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah, I mean, I was sort of trying to think about this year and how to frame it, how to |
| 1:33.3 | talk about it. |
| 1:33.9 | And to me, this was the year that comedy podcasters and shitty comedians basically won Trump |
| 1:40.9 | a second term. |
| 1:41.7 | So that was important, I guess, could be a word or significant or |
| 1:45.8 | terrible. I don't know. There are a lot of words that that could go along with that. |
| 1:50.8 | Yeah, I don't think I would go that far, but I do think that there was absolutely an element |
| 1:57.0 | there of, and we can go through the various podcast that Trump appeared on or just |
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