Part Two: Frank Fay, The Fascist Who invented Stand Up Comedy
Behind the Bastards
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In Part 2 Frank Fay finds love and creates the most toxic Hollywood romance of all time. Then he breaks Nazi and holds a fascist rally in New York City less than a year after the end of WW2.
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| 0:00.0 | Call Zone Media |
| 0:02.8 | Hello everyone and welcome back to Behind the Bastards. |
| 0:07.9 | This is a podcast about the worst people in all of history. |
| 0:11.2 | And I'm Robert Evans doing my best in PR voice. |
| 0:15.8 | Is it good? |
| 0:16.6 | That work? |
| 0:17.5 | Did that work for everybody? |
| 0:18.9 | It made me uncomfortable, frankly. |
| 0:20.4 | Did it make it uncomfortable? It makes me uncomfortable. Yeah. I liked it. Yep. Speaking of NPR, you know who's better than NPR? I mean, lots of folks. Well. Anderson. Anderson. And our guest today, Andrew T. Yeah. |
| 0:37.8 | I don't have a particular problem with NPR. |
| 0:40.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:40.4 | I don't really listen to NPR, but I assume they're valuable, right? |
| 0:45.0 | They're still good? |
| 0:45.5 | I don't think we have beef with NPR. |
| 0:47.2 | Did they do something horrible? |
| 0:48.4 | I don't know. |
| 0:50.3 | They are valuable relative to the media landscape in America. but they are not like a net value to the world, probably. |
| 1:00.2 | They're like all things that are good in America, quote unquote good. They're kind of like center-right Nambi-pambi-pambiism, but what are you going to do? |
| 1:09.1 | They've got, I'm sure they've got their problems. I think they're like basically the only thing that equivocates to local news in a lot of ways, right? Yes. That still exists that isn't like owned by Sinclair. So it's one of those things where like there should be better things than NPR performing the similar role, but we are where we are, right? |
| 1:28.0 | So I'm not going to shit on NPR for that. |
| 1:30.2 | What I am going to shit on is our topic for today's episode. |
| 1:34.9 | Frank Faye, the man who invented stand-up comedy. |
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