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The Mark Simone Show

Mark Interviews Writer/Producer Alan Zweibel

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Alan talked about how comedy has been ruined by the woke crowd. They also talked about what happened to non-political humor on SNL.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mark Simone Show

0:01.8

710 W-O-R

0:04.6

Well, Alan's Wibel, that great producer, comedy writer, author, best-selling books, laugh lines,

0:13.4

a great book about his life and comedy, a lot of great stuff.

0:17.3

You can go to his Instagram or his website or his website allens why bell dot com and

0:23.4

and get everything there allens why bell how you doing i'm good i'm good hey look at this nobody

0:30.5

wants to emce the golden globes because i i understand chris rock all these guys it's so woke

0:37.1

and pc now.

0:38.0

You can't do any jokes in a monologue.

0:40.2

How's anybody supposed to do this stuff nowadays?

0:43.5

You know, it's amazing.

0:45.1

It's like walking through a minefield.

0:48.0

You don't know who you're going to offend,

0:51.8

even with the most innocuous kind of statement.

0:54.8

You know, it's one of the most creative things going on right now are people who, what reason

1:02.0

that they figured that they should be offended.

1:04.4

Okay.

1:05.2

They take whatever you say and twist it.

1:08.2

I might have said something already to you right now that pissed somebody off.

1:12.2

Yeah. But you go on YouTube and you watch like Don Rickles, even like 2004 on the Letterman show,

1:18.6

and it's the most ethnic joke. You can't believe how much the world changed. What the hell

1:24.0

happened? How did we get like this? Mark, I mean, go back on YouTube and look at the rat pack.

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