Jordan Klepper: Is what we're living through funny?

POLITICO's Off Message

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🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Jordan Klepper has spent the last three months hosting the Alex Jones-style parody “The Opposition” on Comedy Central, working hard to get into the head of all the conspiracy theorists — including President Donald Trump himself — who’ve latched onto tales of illegal voters and the “deep state” and media witch hunts. And he's scared of what he's seen there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Off Message. I'm Isaac DeVare.
0:02.7	Attention, couch soldiers. They're lying to you. The mainstream establishment has poisoned your mind.
0:07.6	They say we should investigate Trump. I say impeach Hillary. They say global warming is made by man.
0:13.8	I say, it's probably why we earn 30 cents more on the dollar. They say our children should
0:18.3	learn Chinese. I say China isn't real.
0:21.5	No one I know has, like, ever been there.
0:23.8	And I know, like, a ton of people.
0:25.6	Who are they?
0:26.7	The enemy.
0:27.4	Who's the enemy?
0:28.4	They are.
0:29.0	I already said that.
0:30.0	Pay attention.
0:30.9	It's time for us to fight back against them,
0:33.4	because them are fighting against we.
0:36.0	Today's guest, Jordan Klepper, who as the character, Jordan Klepper,
0:39.8	host the opposition on Comedy Central.
0:42.3	Actual fake news, but as a parody of Alex Jones and all the other conspiracy theorists out there.
0:48.7	Comedy shows used to feel like a release, at least to me, a purge at the end of the day.
0:54.8	Now they're just a continuation of the constant dividing fight in our politics and
0:59.3	basically the same stuff that you're getting in the network news or cable news or
1:03.9	hopefully on Politico and other websites all through the day.
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