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Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

Lewis Black, legendary political comedian is so angry, he won’t even talk about ‘you know who’. Now THAT’S angry!

Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

WarnerMedia Podcast Network

News

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week’s Politically Re-Active finds our hosts meeting up with legendary political comedian Lewis Black, and getting some important questions answered. How did he become “The King of Rant”? What’s making him rant right now? From his early days yelling at walls, to his current “fan rant” driven tour, Black let’s us in on his creative process.

Black has been making regular appearances on The Daily Show since the show began over two decades ago, and he weighs in with a unique perspective on each host.

Of course, with three political comedians in the kitchen, the conversation simmers around the many recent blunders from the current administration, and one lost opportunity for Mario Cantone. The icing on this conversational cake? Lewis Black is a socialist. This episode has lots to unpack, but again, we not only have two, but three political comedians to doing the unpacking.

If you’re feeling the love (or even if you’re angry) then catch Lewis on his fall Rant, White and Blue tour. Grab your tickets at www.lewisblack.com. You can also follow Lewis on Twitter at @TheLewisBlack  

And don’t forget we have new t-shirts! Visit podswag.com/pr or podswag.com/politicallyreactive. Both work! To get the latest updates on us follow us on Facebook at Politically Re-Active and Twitter @PoliticReActive and send us your comments using the #politicallyreactive. Thanks!

Check out Hari’s tour dates and albums at Harikondabolu.com and for all Kamau’s project check out wkamaubell.com.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, it's just the desperate determination of my part to get to that seat the Trevor

0:07.4

has.

0:08.4

You know, people come and go and I'm still there.

0:13.3

One day, one day they're going to be looking around going, who's next and I'll be

0:18.5

sitting there.

0:21.3

From Topic and Airwolf, this is politically reactive.

0:25.1

I'm Debbie Kamalbelle.

0:27.3

And I'm future hair model, Harry Cundabola.

0:30.0

Okay, and all the ridiculous shit you usually say there, that one's probably true.

0:34.0

Yeah, I hope so if there's anybody who works for a hair modeling agency, this would be

0:37.9

the time.

0:38.9

I'm at peak hair right now.

0:40.7

This show where two comedians try to make sense of politics in America.

0:44.3

Sure.

0:45.3

On today's show we're speaking with one of Stan of Comedy's most distinct voices.

0:50.0

Now, standing there in the background was Donald Trump and at the microphone was Sarah

0:57.0

Paley and I looked at that image and I thought, how am I supposed to make this funnier?

1:06.6

How do you satirize something that is already satiric?

1:10.8

For more than three decades, Lewis Black has been calling up bullshit from the standup

1:14.8

stage to his popular segment Back in Black on the Daily Show.

1:18.5

He's been doing Back in Black on the Daily Show since way back in the Craig Killborn

1:22.8

days all the way up to now with Trevor Noah and even with that other guy in the middle.

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