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Radio Deplorable #42

Making ‘Em Laugh With David Deeble

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Radio Deplorable is back and Dave Carter is having fun with it. This week, comedian David Deeble joins in as the two Daves enjoy a trans-Atlantic chat, one Dave in Memphis and the other in Germany. The twists and turns in their conversation take them from cruise ships to college campuses (a comedy circuit which David Deeble traveled in the past) and comparisons between the comedy of the past and the mine field of sensitivities through which humor must tread ever so lightly today. As Dave said, “For a couple of clowns, we had a really good time on this one.” We think you will too.

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Walk-Ins Welcome w/ Bridget Phetasy #26

Scotty Landes Does Not Fear Loneliness Explicit

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Scotty Landes – TV comedy writer (Workaholics), horror movie writer (Ma), man about town – trades stories with Bridget about travel, odd jobs, and writing something weird enough to get a job offer out of it. They discuss the privilege of doing what you love for a living but the downside is that your muse becomes a mule, how to take notes on your writing, the escape of making up a world, and how Scotty’s retirement plan is to be an old man bartender with a Golden Girls kind of living situation. They cover how to talk about travel without sounding like a dick, Bridget’s moments of deep existential loneliness that always appear on the heels of unique moments of spectacular awe, recognizing the pivot points in life, the joys of road-tripping solo, and putting career before relationships. Chock full of inspiration for people following unconventional paths, Scotty offers advice, and encouragement, but is also realistic about the importance of setting deadlines when it comes to making dreams come true.

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Bob Einstein, R.I.P.

Brian Watt By Brian Watt
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Brian Watt is a humorist, writer and author of The Man In Lafayette Park (available for Kindle and from Apple iBooks and Nook). He lives in California with his special needs son. Brian is currently completing his novel, The Curious Globe of Cornelius Crain. Visit: https://www.gofundme.com/the-cornelius-crain-novel. For over 30 years he has carved out a career in marketing as a writer, designer and creative director, as well as leading teams to bring hundreds of products to market.
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Comedian Bob Einstein passed away on January 2. He was a comedy writer who made his debut on “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” as California Highway Patrol Officer Judy and then created the character Super Dave Osborne, a more inept version of Evel Knievel who placed himself in various life-threatening situations. His brand of humor, in some cases, may not be considered politically correct in today’s overly sensitive and easily offended culture but, thankfully, his skits and stunts have been saved for posterity on YouTube.

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The American Zeal for Punching Up

Midget Faded Rattlesnake By Midget Faded Rattlesnake
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Bio:  Other rattlesnakes make fun of the Midget Faded Rattlesnake because even though it's a rattlesnake, it's both midget and faded (how embarrassing). Mainly it puts up with this, because it's fairly even-tempered (for a rattlesnake), though it's surprisingly venomous for such an unprepossessing creature. The Midget Faded Rattlesnake hibernates from time to time, but is usually back within a few months.   The M: The M stands for “Moderator”. For more info on what Moderators o… [more]
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Red-blooded, real Americans are sick of America’s elites punching down on them. Authentic American politics, like authentic American comedy, roots for the underdog and punches up, not down. The problem with today’s elites is their down is up and their up is down: Our elites believe they’re signaling their superior virtue by “punching up” when they ridicule heartland America, but of course what they’re really doing is using their privileged social status to punch down on heartland America instead. Or that’s how it seems to many of us. For those unfamiliar with this punchy lingo, comedian Ben Schwartz explains,

“Punching up” and “punching down” are relatively new pop-political terms, often found not far from words like “mansplaining,” “problematic,” and “trolling.”

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Norm MacDonald, #MeToo, and the Fatal Flaw in the New Morality

Jon Gabriel, Ed. By Jon Gabriel, Ed.
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Jon Gabriel (a.k.a., @ExJon on Twitter) is the Editor-in-Chief of Ricochet. He is a political writer and marketing consultant, contributing articles to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, and USA Today among others. Until 2012, he served as Director of Marketing for the free-market Goldwater Institute, where he converted policy initiatives into compelling stories. In the private sector, Jon led marketing efforts for Cold Stone Creamery, Honeywell, and several technology companies. In his… [more]
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Twitter is a cesspool. As if we needed more evidence, legendary comedian and acclaimed author Norm MacDonald was targeted for saying words to a reporter that a microscopic minority of humorless scolds didn’t care for. That’s all the pretext needed to subject a person, famous or not, to Twitter’s two-hour hate.

The Hollywood Reporter interviewed MacDonald on Tuesday to preview his upcoming Netflix show. The affable Canadian politely spoke his mind. For better or worse, his mind works differently than the rest of ours, which is one of the reasons he’s so funny.

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The Left Gives Up on Comedy

Jon Gabriel, Ed. By Jon Gabriel, Ed.
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Jon Gabriel (a.k.a., @ExJon on Twitter) is the Editor-in-Chief of Ricochet. He is a political writer and marketing consultant, contributing articles to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, and USA Today among others. Until 2012, he served as Director of Marketing for the free-market Goldwater Institute, where he converted policy initiatives into compelling stories. In the private sector, Jon led marketing efforts for Cold Stone Creamery, Honeywell, and several technology companies. In his… [more]
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Four years ago, progressives were riding high. Obama was president, healthcare was fixed forever, and the reset-button Ruskies were our best pals. But even in that golden age, there was a growing sense that comedy was … well … problematic.

The 2014 Netroots Nation conference lectured attendees on the systematic oppression of the Humor Industrial Complex while insisting they were far funnier than those evil conservatives. “When the right says we have no sense of humor,” panelist Katie Halper said, “it’s a great way for racist/sexist/homophobic men to make themselves seem funny.”

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So let’s all make fun of Sarah Huckabee Sanders

CarolJoy, Above Top Secret By CarolJoy, Above Top Secret
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The Left was incensed that Pres Trump refused to attend an event run by the Fake Media. Of course, I am sort of wondering how it was the folks who work at the Leftist media attended the gala… Shouldn’t they have been at the California border wiping the brow of the beleagured Honduran refugees? I […]
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Left-Wing Clowns Aren’t Funny

Victor Tango Kilo By Victor Tango Kilo
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Like 99.6% of America, I had much better things to do than pay any attention to the White House Correspondents Dinner. PDT also did, holding a rally in Michigan with the common folk rather than go to an event where a bunch of snotty elitist media operatives who hate him (and the people at his […]
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Love, Simon

TomCo9 By TomCo9
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I was never what you'd call liberal (in either the social or fiscal sense) but certainly things changed once I discovered The One. That was, of course, Thomas Sowell. If Friedman was the greatest economist of the 20th century then Sowell is the greatest economist/philosopher hybrid. I work in the restaurant industry currently but also review movies at my blog web-site Tommy's Film Affair. If anyone cares they can view it here: http://tomconinereviews.blogspot.com The reviews are, purposefully, … [more]
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Game Night

TomCo9 By TomCo9
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I was never what you'd call liberal (in either the social or fiscal sense) but certainly things changed once I discovered The One. That was, of course, Thomas Sowell. If Friedman was the greatest economist of the 20th century then Sowell is the greatest economist/philosopher hybrid. I work in the restaurant industry currently but also review movies at my blog web-site Tommy's Film Affair. If anyone cares they can view it here: http://tomconinereviews.blogspot.com The reviews are, purposefully, … [more]
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

TomCo9 By TomCo9
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I was never what you'd call liberal (in either the social or fiscal sense) but certainly things changed once I discovered The One. That was, of course, Thomas Sowell. If Friedman was the greatest economist of the 20th century then Sowell is the greatest economist/philosopher hybrid. I work in the restaurant industry currently but also review movies at my blog web-site Tommy's Film Affair. If anyone cares they can view it here: http://tomconinereviews.blogspot.com The reviews are, purposefully, … [more]
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A Futile and Stupid Gesture

TomCo9 By TomCo9
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I was never what you'd call liberal (in either the social or fiscal sense) but certainly things changed once I discovered The One. That was, of course, Thomas Sowell. If Friedman was the greatest economist of the 20th century then Sowell is the greatest economist/philosopher hybrid. I work in the restaurant industry currently but also review movies at my blog web-site Tommy's Film Affair. If anyone cares they can view it here: http://tomconinereviews.blogspot.com The reviews are, purposefully, … [more]
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When It Hurts Inside, I Just Think of My Favorite Memes

David Deeble By David Deeble
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When the dog bites and the bee stings and it hurts inside, I just think of my favorite memes and you know what? I don’t feel so bad.

So, what makes a great political meme? For me there are four kinds: the flat-out hilarious, those which exhibit uncanny prescience, those which knock down a peg those people and institutions which richly deserve it, and those which relentlessly mock hypocrisy or false narratives.

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Why Louis?

GrannyDude By GrannyDude
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According to Kyle Smith at NRO, Louis C.K.’s film I Love You, Daddy is pretty good. It has, nonetheless, been dumped in the aftermath of the comedian’s admission that he did some disgusting sexual stuff to/for/at insufficiently-empowered women.

“…HBO announced it was removing his standup-comedy specials and his series ‘Lucky Louie’ from its on-demand service. I’m not aware of anything like this kind of burn-the-evidence tactic being previously deployed in modern times, nor is it obvious why C.K. should be treated as a uniquely malign transgressor…”

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In Defense of Steve Martin’s “King Tut”

Jon Gabriel, Ed. By Jon Gabriel, Ed.
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On the latest Ricochet podcast, Minnesotan segue-master @jameslileks impugned Steve Martin’s classic “Saturday Night Live” performance of “King Tut” thusly:

“It’s not a funny song, it just isn’t. It’s not a funny bit, there’s nothing really to it that requires anybody to look at it now. Only, sort of, their late Boomer betters saying, ‘oh, Steve Martin is the bomb, you must watch this, this is brilliant,’ but it’s not. You were stoned in college when you watched that and you thought it was funny but it isn’t.”

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Life’s Embarrassing Moments

Front Seat Cat By Front Seat Cat
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Today’s news has been very tough to take, so much sadness, but I just had a spontaneous laugh and so I thought I’d share. I’m on the HOA Board in my neighborhood and have been encouraging neighbors to pitch in and volunteer on small projects instead of hiring a contractor to save the dues for […]
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Every Laugh Is a Little Miracle

David Deeble By David Deeble
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Reflect for a moment about all that is required for a comedian to get a laugh onstage.

It begins offstage with a barely-conscious “blip” passing through the comic’s mind: an inchoate connection between two things not normally thought connected. Recorded then promptly forgotten, the comedian’s subconscious begins to work its special brand of magic determining if there’s any “there” there. (The comedian usually needn’t check back with her subconscious as her subconscious will, when the time is right, check back with her.)

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David Deeble Returns! The Fire Inside

Dave Sussman By Dave Sussman
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Dad, small business advocate, consultant, speaker for SBA/SCORE and other business groups. Writes on culture, economics and business issues; published in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and others. Interviewed on Fox News, Fox Business, CNNfn, and various radio shows throughout North America. Purveyor at Whiskey Politics where we have conversations with newsmakers on politics, culture, and economics and Guest Host on The Real Side Radio (48 terrestrial and 3,000 stations on GSN Sate… [more]
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With the recent political news, on this week’s Whiskey Politics we take time for a drink, to breathe and exhale while focusing on what’s really important… friends, family, and laughter. We welcome back @DavidDeeble who talks about comedy in the age of Trump, Jimmy Fallon, crazy travel locations, his wife’s naturalization and “tax cut porn” (we do get a little political about the Republican health care plan). David also shares how he reinvented himself after a tragedy that impacted both his career and life; A lesson showing how our fire inside can propel us forward when facing monumental challenges. You have seen David on the Tonight Show, The Late Show with James Cordon, America’s Got Talent, Last Comic Standing, CBS This Morning and also appears regularly at The Comedy & Magic Club, emcees the Magic Castle and is a popular writer at Ricochet.com. Follow David at DavidDeeble.com, Facebook and Twitter.

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Carson & Colbert

Johnny Dubya By Johnny Dubya
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On NRO, Dennis Prager writes: To anyone, liberal or conservative, who grew up watching Johnny Carson on late night TV, the descent from Carson to Colbert is as breathtaking as it is heartbreaking. More
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