Lewis Black Stand-Up Comedy: Politics, Economics, Limbaugh, Colbert, Letterman (2014)
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Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is an American comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor. More Lewis Black: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&tag=doc06-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=9d8d3c63b615fb084b6264fbe8a7169b&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=books&keywords=Lewis%20Black He is known for his angry face, comedy style, which often includes simulating a mental breakdown, or an increasingly angry rant, ridiculing history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena. He hosted the Comedy Central series Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, and makes regular appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart delivering his "Back in Black" commentary segment. When not on the road performing, he resides in Manhattan. He also maintains a residence in Chapel Hill, N.C. He is currently the spokesman for Aruba Tourism, appearing in television ads that aired in late 2009 and 2010. He was voted 51st of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time by Comedy Central in 2004; and was voted 5th in Comedy Central's Stand Up Showdown in 2008 and 11th in 2010. Black serves as the American Civil Liberties Union's ambassador on voting rights. Black's style of comedy is that of a man who, in dealing with the absurdities of life and contemporary politics, is approaching his personal limits of sanity. Sarcasm, hyperbole, profanity, shouting and trademark angry finger-shaking bring emphasis to his topics of discussion. He once described his humor as "being on the Titanic every single day and being the only person who knows what is going to happen." Black has described his political affiliation as: "I'm a socialist, so that puts me totally outside any concept...the Canadians get it. But seriously, most people don't get it. The idea of capping people's income just scares people. 'Oh, you're taking money from the rich.' Ooh, what a horrifying thing. These people really need $200 million." Black lists his comedic influences as George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin, Bill Hicks, Bob Newhart and Shelley Berman. Black appeared in episode 25 "Aria" (1991) of Law and Order as porn director Franklin Frome, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Obscene" (2004) as a shock jock, and in The Big Bang Theory episode "The Jiminy Conjecture" (2009) as an entomologist. He also released his autobiography, Nothing's Sacred, in 2005. Since November 9, 2005, Black has been making appearances in small segments on The Weather Channel. In December 2005, he appeared in an animated holiday special The Happy Elf, as the voice of the extremely tightly wound elf, Norbert. In the film Accepted, a film about high school graduates who create a college when they fail to get accepted into any, he played Dean Ben Lewis of the school "South Harmon Institute of Technology". He also appeared in the 2006 films Man of the Year and Unaccompanied Minors. Black hosted Comedy Central's Last Laugh '06, which aired on December 10, 2006. In 2000, Black and fellow comedian Jim Norton were arrested for their involvement with "The Naked Teen Voyeur Bus", a specially designed bus with acrylic glass walls containing numerous 18 and 19 year old topless women. This bus rode around Manhattan while being broadcast on the Opie and Anthony radio show. Unfortunately, radio station management did not inform the O&A show that the bus's route was also the route that President Clinton was taking that same day. Twenty-eight hours after the arrest, Black and Norton were released. Black appeared on The Daily Show the following night where he stated he was exercising his constitutional rights. He then joked that the location of this particular right was unclear, but that it was "between 'all men are created equal' and 'don't shit where you eat.'" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Black
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Lewis black only prompts himself what to say, and he nailed it on the head about Clinton . . . . Soo many better people than her . . . like Sanders >.> . . . . fucking Debbie Shultz and the DNC >.>
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i think he was prompted what to say... in this video
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its a shame hes a socialist though. COmpletely misguided.
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min 22 thats why trumps in
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"Socialism is enforced Christianity... we're not gonna wait on you to help the poor." Brilliant.
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a fucked up nation by its politicians,
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I never want Lewis to stop
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What? no stupid comments here? Lewis Black fans seem to be cool. Cheers from outside your border pre wall (north)
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Lewis Speaks at 4:37
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Lewis Black nailed it.
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Gosh, poor Lewis Black having to regale this media crowd. Hes hardly one of them. Hes like the lone Indian confronting the Great White Father. But its election year and just look at what the mainstream parties + their media backers have come up with!? Hilary is a neo con and will push the Empire at the expense of everything else as will Trump. Just like the mainstream parties have done before them, at least since WW2, almost without interruption. Now, voters have a good sane choice in Jill Stein, and yet Jill Stein is polling really really low. I conclude from this that her political views like those of Lewis Black and myself are a total freaking minority.
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Taxes haha hahaha! man he got me there
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Bullshit that "Nobody wants to pay for it(school programs. Average people pay 30-50% of their income to taxes. It's the crooked politicians that hand all our assets over to the bankers. Hillary's Goldman Sachs is doing all they can to keep the status quo. Time for Trump. He'll put parents in control of their kids education
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The Feds are to pay 75 cents/dollar for education but under georgie boy Bush he dropped that to 4.5 cents/dollar. That and the New Education has made idiots of several generations.
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When he mentioned the whole Redskins thing, I'm glad he followed that with how mercenary professional sports gets. To me, a name like "Redskins" is probably one of the LEAST awful things about sports. (In fact, he didn't seem to even find the subject incredibly interesting.)
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Thanks Mr. Lewis Black for showing what a Bitch of a Nation America has turned into... There is nothing comfortable about a damn Oligarch, make them feel the "Bern"
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hey john jackson yes you you idiotic shit wad fartknocker if you don't like lewis black then shut up and go fuck yourself insane dipshit asshole!!!
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OMG! At abt 21:00, he says, "I had no sense or did I care that I wasn't rich. We lived next to a rich neighborhood and the buildings were bigger and they had nicer lawns, but I didn't care. I could not imagine that they had more than I did..."
And that is exactly what it was like for me. My mother was a secretary & my father worked in the car business and eventually had his own garage/service station, but we were middle class. You didn't have to be a doctor or lawyer or banker to have enough. In those days, the rich paid taxes and--scary stuff!--the money was redistributed via the GI Bill primarily to create a middle class & the most prosperous & most scientifically innovative country in the world.
And then the rich decided they wanted all the money in the world & they couldn't share it with anyone even though they couldn't possibly spend it all in 5 generations of profligate, lazy entitled kids suffering from "affluenza".
It wasn't golden, but we prospered. I miss it.
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