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🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Lou Perez is at The Babylon Bee to talk about the death and rebirth of comedy and his best bombing stories. He also analyzes some bombs from The Babylon Bee.
Lou Perez is a comedian, writer, producer, actor. You can check out his new book That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy which is also out as a new audiobook!
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0:00.0 | Yeah, so a great of you to come out. I know I was on a panel with you at Freedom Fest. Yeah, along with John Cleese's daughter |
0:05.7 | Which was she has a name Camilla. Yeah, yeah, I just know where his John Cleese's daughter |
0:11.0 | But that was pretty cool. That was fun. Yeah, we enjoyed your I enjoyed what you said to the audience |
0:15.6 | And I feel like you were like ribbing the audience a little bit too, which was fun |
0:19.2 | Yeah, there was one point I think I was |
0:22.6 | Forget one of the jokes was had something to do with age of consent |
0:25.5 | Some like that like how you wacky libertarians. Yeah, yeah, there's definitely a booth in the back |
0:32.0 | You know we're a guy arguing, you know |
0:34.7 | What were we so I missed you and freesty I was out of town that week, but so you I like that you ribbed the audience a little bit because I know |
0:41.8 | Like in comedy I think that's always kind of one of my like instincts is to not just pander the crowd |
0:48.1 | It's like whenever you find where their values are or what they believe in |
0:51.6 | It's like you want to go after that a little bit even at a place like freedom fest. It's like you want to make them |
0:56.4 | The target or go after what they hold sacred a little bit. Yeah, I think I think for comedians |
1:02.4 | We're often we often are so like self-deprecating, you know, and it's like look if I can make fun of myself |
1:08.6 | I mean you guys got to be able to take a joke about yourself too. Yeah |
1:12.8 | And I think that's what's one of the probably I mean you have a whole book here called that joke isn't funny anymore on the death and rebirth of comedy |
1:20.6 | and I |
1:22.1 | Sorry really is a great book everyone should check it out |
1:25.2 | But you know a lot of it talks about the differences in political comedy nowadays |
1:29.3 | And I think the sort of echo chamber thing contributes to that when you're just either a conservative comedian doing it to a conservative crowd or |
1:36.1 | a liberal comedian repeating the jokes to a liberal crowd |
1:39.4 | There's if there's very hard to do humor in that sort of context, I think well, I think it sort of you know |
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