Why Kramer Would Definitely Go QAnon, Feat. Larry Charles

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng welcome writer/director Larry Charles, a Sacha Baron Cohen collaborator who also wrote some of the darkest and most beloved episodes of Seinfeld. According to Charles, if Seinfeld were on the air today, Kramer would definitely be a “QAnon believer”... but also somehow in Antifa, too? Charles also opens up about what he sees as mainstream comedy and “very corporate” satire’s major failings in confronting Donald Trump over the past half decade. Elsewhere on this episode, Suebsaeng and Sommer introduce listeners to a former Survivor contestant and a falconer—yes, a falconer—and explain their efforts to take down Joe Biden and the all-powerful “Deep State.” (The duo have not been entirely successful.)

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0:00.0	Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination.
0:11.1	Not a care in the world as you simply lean back and before you know it, you're there.
0:16.7	London to Glasgow from just 46 pounds each way.
0:20.5	Avanti West Coast.
0:22.0	Feel good travel.
0:23.8	Exclusions and limitations apply.
0:25.6	Full terms and conditions can be found at avantiwestcoastcoast.com.
0:28.0	UK forward slash plan. Hey guys, this is Aswin Tsubang, but please call me Swin.
0:44.8	And welcome to The Daily Beast's fever dreams.
0:47.4	Hi, I'm Will Summer, a politics reporter at The Daily Beast, where I dig into all the darkest recesses of American extremism and extremely online
0:55.3	militants. I'm currently working on a book about QAnon and its disastrous impact on our society.
1:00.6	I'm also a senior political reporter at The Beast and co-author of the book Sinking in the Swamp.
1:05.4	I've spent years covering the intersection of entertainment and politics. And in the post-Trump era,
1:10.4	that seems like the only
1:11.3	sensible way to cover politics in this beautiful, hideously stupid country of ours. On this podcast,
1:17.6	we're going to take you on deeply reported plunges into the sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary
1:21.5	fanatics infecting the way that millions of Americans view the world and how they vote.
1:25.8	Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration,
1:28.2	the energy of these conspiracy theorists, the grifters, and the influencers is still pushing our
1:33.4	mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point. We're here to help you better
1:38.3	understand how and why this is happening, and who in the halls of power are letting it happen.
1:42.6	Along the way, we'll regularly bring on
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