Episode 588: Comedians Getting Censored

Idiots On Parade, the Too Ugly for TV Podcast

00:00 Introductions

01:20 Censorship in Comedy

10:46 Mr. Weeks on Twitter

18:32 Political Fanatics

28:19 The War on Christmas

31:49 The Trump $2 Bill

—Aloe Mean is sitting in for Jake this week. Good times.

—Reginald D. Hunter told a joke that a couple people thought was “naughty.”

(Or, more specifically, anti-Semitic.)

Quiz: what happened next?

a) Nothing! Adults understand that not every joke is not for every person, and everyone went on with their lives.

b) A theater that had booked the comedian cancelled his upcoming show because of the “controversy,” while at the same time releasing a statement that said they believed in an artist’s right to free expression

If you guessed (b), you’re right!
Yes, the idea that we need to cater to two crybabies in an audience of a hundred or a thousand is king, because the most sensitive among us should be pandered to.

Aloe and nathan discuss the continuation of cancel culture by those in authority.

—If you haven’t been glancing on Twitter over the past few days (it’s August 18th, as I write), you’re missing out.

@WonderKing82 is dishing all there is to dish on Barron Trump, and it’s delish.

Apparently, the son of a narcissistic, bombastic, anti-intellectual hothead and cold, uncaring mother is a bit of a jerk.

(And that’s putting it mildly.)

Gonna be interesting to see where this goes.
(Hopefully somewhere. All media is currently ignoring the story. Man, you’d think liberal MSNBC or “fake news” New York Times would be all over it!)

A side discussion here involves MAGA diehards: are they crazy, stupid, or both?

Also: a side-side discussion involves women’s healthcare, and abortion.

Because what else are two men going to have opinions on?

—A quick jaunt is taken into the world of political fanatics.

For the longest time, there was a sense of normalcy on the left. Sure, Republicans were cray-cray, because not only were they openly supporting a low-IQ despot, they treated him with the reverence usually reserved for a cult leader.

Biden?

Eh, he was just a dude doing a job.

But now, with Kamala Harris, you’re seeing T-shirts and placards and “rah-rah my team!” nonsense.

But, Aloe explains it nicely: they’re relieved (no more Biden!) and enthused (hopefully no more Trump!)

In this spot, we breakdown the short history of the growth in political strife. It began with Newt Gingrich, and got kicked into overdrive by Trump and social media.

—Guess who’s back? Back again…

Nope, it’s not Slim Shady, it’s the return of idiots being outraged because a moron told them “Merry Christmas” was under attack.

It’s 2024, and the dumbest of the dumb are still buying into this nonsense, and they’re outraged.

Oh, to be dumber than a brick.

—Donald Trump is amazing.

He will put his name on anything, and sell it to those dumb enough to buy it.

He’s like Krusty The Clown.

It’s fantastic.

Idiots on Parade: we mock the news, so you don’t have to.

Tune in and get your giggle on.

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