Looking for the truth? Try a comedian
They usually provide more honesty per minute than any other profession...
I have spent all my adult life (assuming I qualify as an adult) making a living by commenting on politics and even though it’s my bread and butter – not to mention my Double Quarter Pounder and fries – even I get tired of politics.
That being the case I planned on taking a break from politics today and posting a story about baseball.
Right up until I watched this clip from John Oliver’s HBO show, Last Week Tonight.
It’s brilliant and offers more evidence for a theory of mine: if you want to hear the truth, you might want to listen to a comedian.
Politicians, media members and just about everybody else have unseen motives for saying the stuff they say; for the most part, comedians just want to be funny so they look for ridiculous stuff and go right at it.
Guys like Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle get up (or got up) on stage and say the stuff a lot of us think, but are too timid to say out loud.
Great comedians aren’t afraid to call bullshit.
This clip is about 21 minutes long and it might be the best 21 minutes of your day unless you’re a Fox News fan, then it’ll be the worst 21 minutes of your day, but if you’ve already drunk the Fox News Kool-Aid, you probably won’t make it through 21 minutes of somebody pointing out the obvious.
Enjoy it…I know I did.
Yes! There is probably some sort of complicated psychological/artistic reason about juxtaposition of expected/actual outcome. Spoonful of laughter makes the pandemic go down, something like that.
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Glad you liked John Oliver. He is amazingly truthful & funny. His HBO budget allows him to do some pretty funny things, e.g., he bought Russell Crowe's jock strap from some movie (Russell Crowe subsequently donated money to a koala research facility in Australia and had it named for JO, "The John Oliver Chlamydia Research Center"), he started a church, most recently he bought rat porn. And he reminds me of my little brother, only with a British accent.