>> Jim Gaffigan has long been one of my favorite
comedians. His Netflix shows I've watched
1,000 times each, but generally his comedy
is not it's not Dave Chappelle or Chris Rock.
It's not highly political tapped into what's
going on socially. It's awesome observations
about food and commercials and travel and
stuff like that.
But that ended last night, he apparently reached
his limit and he began a tweet storm. I'm
only going to read you a few, but there is
many. And I'm gonna try not to swear because
these were littered with F bombs. Hopefully
they've all been censored. Let's find out
together.
Trump derangement syndrome is part of the
con, wake up. You know Fox News is biased
and full of loons. It's how they gaslight
and silence criticism. Do you think any of
those congressional Republicans really believe
in Trump or do they fear him and don't wanna
end up like flake?
Please don't buy that socialist crap either.
Obviously, that's okay, you can say that,
yeah. Obviously Obama wasn't a socialist.
This is all lies to scare you and you know
it. Biden is not radical. Are you serious?
Heading to bed but remember, if you want to
sound crazy, please tell me about the deep
state.
To sound stupid, please be against cancel
culture but then accuse anyone with an opinion
of virtue signaling. Trump derangement syndrome
is meant to distract from the con of Don.
I don't give an F if anyone thinks this is
virtue signaling or whatever. We need to wake
up. We need to call Trump a con man and thief
that he is, and there was a lot more.
But I like finally seeing people push to the
point where they have to say something. And
he was pretty far away from political commentary
at least in his stand up. I liked I know he's
getting criticized this morning by I love
it. What do you think?
>> Yeah, I love Jim Gaffigan, and there's
six people do know about Jim Gaffigan.
It's not just that he is a political, it's
the Jim Gaffigan is also religious. He's a
religious guy. He's a man of faith. He's a
Catholic. He definitely brings that into the
content that he's created. I mean, he is like
the host in terms of his popularity. He is
like the wholesome comedian who made it huge.
And that's what I like about Jim Gaffigan.
He's the hot pocket, like his joke.
>> Yes, and the voice.
>> He's like, I've just been starting to go
to the supermarket and throw avocados away
there.
>> That's good, that's good.
>> It's just so throw it away later.
>> That's a great point, yeah. I know a lot
about food.
>> Yeah, and just from a comedians perspective,
like the way that Jim Gaffigan tells his jokes
is very slow. It's like little bits where
he's just a little funny here, a little funny
there, and just like gets you off balance.
It is not like a rant to based comedian.
>> No.
>> It's not like that. It's not just observational
but it's not like Dennis Leary where it's
like, can you believe the jelly doughnuts?
Like it is, I just avocados, Hot Pockets.
And he typically like summarizes for you as
an aside what the audience is probably thinking
like, he's lost it now, but he does that voice
that way.
It is the opposite of what you see here. So
when Jim Gaffigan, the typically reserved
comedian comes out and does stuff like this?
>> Yeah.
>> I mean it is a huge moment for him, and
he's a very popular comedian.
>> Yeah, no, he totally is and definitely
watch especially if you haven't already.
I honestly do love though, I like a lot of
different types of comedians but I have legit
listened to everything he has on Netflix.
At least seven, eight times, all of them,
over and over. I don't even care, I'll keep
listening. He's very good, and by the way,
he's been on TYT before.
He was interviewed by Cenk Uygur. So feel
free to tweet him to come on TDR, that'd be
pretty cool. I love him, we could talk about
politics. A lot of his tweets were trying
to get through to Trump voters. You know he
lies constantly and you don't care.
And he talks about how he says, I know you
hate snobs and elites, I get it, but look
at Ivana and that Dbag Jared, you think they're
on your side? Do you think they've ever done
a real day's work in their lives? Wake up,
these are just true.
Like you say that you hate canceled culture,
Trump tries to cancel everyone. You say you
hate the elites, you pick the biggest elite.
And and like these are things that obviously
we've talked about over the years. But like
seeing more and more people being vocal about
it. And I know it's a different topic, but
when like the NBA and all those other leagues
were starting to do their boycotts and everything
yesterday and the coverage of it.
I pointed out a tweet by The Rock where The
Rock is delaying something and he was talking
about the shooting of Jacob Blake and the
reason it stood out to me is because The Rock
never talks about this stuff. He doesn't delve
into politics literally at all. He's very
brand safe and everything.
And maybe this is just two data points that
are totally unrelated and they're not indicative
of anything. But I'd like to imagine that
maybe more and more people over time are being
forced to acknowledge how crazy things have
become. And if Trump does get reelected, I
don't know what we do to limit the damage
but hopefully we'll be doing it together.
>> The skill of the politician is to be able
to win the votes of the populace and then
not have to admit that what they want is what
they need. And what they're feeling should
actually be reflected in the behavior and
like legislative ends of the politician. And
that translates to just general topics and
public opinion like the Republicans want you
to think that things like the NBA strike is
unpopular.
That athletes protesting is unpopular, that
Nike standing up just for the general idea
that there is some form of systemic racism
in America and embracing a concept like Black
Lives Matter. They want you to believe that's
insane. But a poll came out today saying that
two-thirds of Americans, a two to one ratio
Americans are in favor of the strike of professional
basketball.
>> Yeah, you're absolutely right.
>> And Nikes made those decisions cuz they
think that it's popular because it is absolutely
popular. And all the Republicans have going
for them is Frank Lunt. Frank Luntz, who's
a pollster, who essentially a focus group
or who's like what can I say over and over
again, to convince people that the truth isn't
true.
And that this little feeling, and it's not
even like a feeling it's putting these two
words together. Feels like that portrays an
issue, a topic on America, when really it
does not. It is just focus grouped and artificial
and takes advantage of essentially, people's
heuristics.
>> Yeah, it's this weird coming together of
a person who is for whatever other faults
he has, it's a long list, is good at gaslighting
people.
And an ever increasing percentage of the population
that is like just give me the tube I just
want to suck on this gas. Just give me as
much gas as you can possibly, like they desperately
want to be lied to. Anyway, good job Jim Gaffigan,
everyone please give them a shot.
>> I get it, I get that you're doing something
rhetorical but it's not they want to feel
right. They want to feel superior. Everybody
does.
>> That's what I mean.
>> Yeah, but it's not that but-
>> Yeah, your willingness to.
>> Yeah, they don't know how or wanting to
be lied to.
Everyone would prefer that the thing they're
told, they already believe that they're the
best. They also wanna feel right, and they
just need someone to confirm that in a way
that they don't reject. And that's that sweet
spot right there is how the republicans operate.
