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Speaker 4: Welcome to the Dana Job, Jorge Level. We got so
Speaker 4: much to talk about tonight.
Speaker 5: Hunter Biden is officially a convicted criminal, and Republicans are
Speaker 5: somehow still bad. So let's get into headlines. Let's kick
Speaker 5: things off with July fourth. It's right around the corner,
Speaker 5: which means it's almost time for the Nathan's Hot Dog
Speaker 5: Eating Contest, the beautiful tradition where families gather to watch
Speaker 5: ups drivers from New Jersey scarf down hot dogs in
Speaker 5: ninety five degree heat and then vomit behind the Wonder wheel.
Speaker 5: But this year, one big name won't be abusing his
Speaker 5: digestive system for our pleasure.
Speaker 6: Joey Chestnut will not compete in the Nathan's Famous Hot
Speaker 6: Dog Eating Contest next month. The perennial champion has been
Speaker 6: banned from the fourth of July event because of his
Speaker 6: reported sponsorship deal with the competing brand named Impossible Foods.
Speaker 7: Last night on X, Chestnut said he was gutted to
Speaker 7: learn that after nineteen years, he has been banned from
Speaker 7: the contest. Chestnut's endorsement deal with impossible foods and Nathan's
Speaker 7: rival that makes vegan hot dogs just doesn't cut the mustard.
Speaker 5: Oh, come on, Nathan's You're gonna ban Joey Chestnut just
Speaker 5: for taking a sponsorship deal.
Speaker 4: He's got a family to feed and feed and feed
Speaker 4: and feed.
Speaker 5: And if you don't know Chestnut, he's the absolute king
Speaker 5: of this event. He olds the record of eating seventy
Speaker 5: six hot dogs in ten minutes, and they kicked him
Speaker 5: out just for sponsoring a vegan hot dog. By the way,
Speaker 5: the world record for eating vegan hot dogs two and
Speaker 5: a half.
Speaker 3: Frank later.
Speaker 5: Anyway, let's talk about the fallout from the big political
Speaker 5: story in the news yesterday. Hunter Biden was convicted of
Speaker 5: lying about his drug use when he filled out paperwork
Speaker 5: to buy a gun. Can I just say, how weird
Speaker 5: is it that in the past couple of weeks, Hunter
Speaker 5: Biden and Donald Trump were convicted of lying on paperwork.
Speaker 5: I mean, this country really does draw the line at
Speaker 5: filling out forms correctly. The next time I show up
Speaker 5: at a doctor's appointment, I'm gonna make sure my sign
Speaker 5: in time is on the fucking dot. So Hunter Biden
Speaker 5: has been convicted on all counts. I may even spend
Speaker 5: time in prison. I can only iagine that Republicans spent
Speaker 5: last night celebrating until the sun came up. Just because
Speaker 5: one Democrat was convicted doesn't mean the American legal system
Speaker 5: isn't being abused.
Speaker 4: Marjorie Taylor Green tweet quote.
Speaker 8: Hunter Biden just became the deep state sacrificial lamp to
Speaker 8: show that justice is balanced while the other Biden crimes
Speaker 8: remain ignored.
Speaker 3: Hunter is them sacrificing a useless pawn.
Speaker 7: Everybody knows what this trial with Hunter Biden was about.
Speaker 4: This is about smoke and mirrors.
Speaker 3: This is the red herring.
Speaker 4: This is a distraction.
Speaker 1: This is part of a cover up.
Speaker 9: This is part of a running protection racket from the
Speaker 9: highest levels.
Speaker 10: Of the US government downward to protect the Biden family.
Speaker 11: This is the decoy that they can say there's equal
Speaker 11: justice under the law.
Speaker 3: But it's all nonsense.
Speaker 11: Don't go for it.
Speaker 4: Don't let them sell you understand exactly what's happening.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: I don't want to make any assumptions about a guy's
Speaker 5: drug use, but if I was down Junior, I would
Speaker 5: not try to buy a gun in Delaware. Here's a
Speaker 5: genuine question for my Can you guys rest the conspiracy
Speaker 5: mongerine for just a second and.
Speaker 12: Squeeze a beat of joy out of this?
Speaker 4: I mean, my god, you're all so miserable.
Speaker 5: The last time a Republican had fun was when she
Speaker 5: was kicked out of the Beetlejuice musical.
Speaker 4: Let me think about this. Think about this.
Speaker 5: Your political enemy's son is headed to prison, and your
Speaker 5: mind immediately jumps to.
Speaker 4: He's just taking the fall for Joe Biden.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you something. Nobody is taking the fall
Speaker 5: for Joe Biden. He falls plenty on his own, Thank
Speaker 5: you very much. Just take the w When Donald Trump
Speaker 5: was convicted, you didn't see Democrats going I bet this
Speaker 5: is just a distraction from the classified documents case, or
Speaker 5: the January sixth case, or the Georgia racketeering.
Speaker 4: Case, or the E. G.
Speaker 5: And Carrol case, or the insurance fraud case. No Democrats
Speaker 5: were celebrating. I was in a Brooklyn Whole food when
Speaker 5: the verdict came down. People started feeding the bulk grains aisle.
Speaker 5: For more on the Republican reaction, we go live to
Speaker 5: the Delaware courthouse with Desi lyideck. Republicans had been demanding
Speaker 5: that Hunter Biden be sent to prison, and now they
Speaker 5: might actually get that wish. I'm surprised Republicans aren't happier.
Speaker 8: About this, Oh Jordan, you sweet little doe eyed fawn.
Speaker 8: Republicans aren't happy because they know that Hunter Biden is
Speaker 8: a sacrificial land being offered up by Joe Biden to
Speaker 8: distract everyone while he consolidates his nefarious powers to do socialism.
Speaker 5: So Republicans will only be happy when Joe Biden himself
Speaker 5: gets arrested.
Speaker 8: Then, Oh Jordan, you dear face, little dumb dumb Joe
Speaker 8: Biden would love to be in federal prison. Biden is
Speaker 8: time chain smoking on the toilet, consolidating his nefarious powers
Speaker 8: to do socialism, all while helpless Donald Trump rules from
Speaker 8: the White House. It's all part of the plant.
Speaker 5: Wait wait, the Democrats plan is for Joe Biden to
Speaker 5: go to prison while Donald Trump becomes president.
Speaker 4: That does not make any sense to me. Well, of
Speaker 4: course it.
Speaker 8: Doesn't, because you're too busy rummaging for nuts and berries
Speaker 8: and this sun soaked meadow. As you gallop right into
Speaker 8: the Joe Biden smoke screen.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 5: I'm a beautiful dare understood. So when will Republicans finally
Speaker 5: be happy when Joe Biden wastes away in prison and dies,
Speaker 5: leaving Donald Trump dictator for life?
Speaker 4: Then will they be happy?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 8: That would be great for Joe Biden. Now he gets
Speaker 8: to be a ghost, unmoored by the laws of physics
Speaker 8: and time, able to consolidate his nefarious powers across multiple
Speaker 8: dimensions for socialism.
Speaker 4: Okay, so just to be clear, Just to be clear, Joe.
Speaker 5: Biden's master plan is to die while Donald Trump becomes
Speaker 5: a dictator.
Speaker 8: Oh my god, you're missing the whole point, Jordan. This
Speaker 8: was never about Joe Biden. He's just a red herring
Speaker 8: for the real mastermind, Barack Obama. He's just sitting pretty
Speaker 8: in Hawaii waiting for a multi dimensional Joe Biden to
Speaker 8: consolidate his ghost power.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, So now Obama is the one that has
Speaker 5: to be locked up.
Speaker 8: Oh sure if you want to get a mid level guy,
Speaker 8: because he's just a red herring for George Soros.
Speaker 3: And who is here?
Speaker 4: Who is he? A red herring for Hillary Clinton? And
Speaker 4: she's a red herring for Hunter Biden. See it loops
Speaker 4: back around.
Speaker 8: Right all the way.
Speaker 4: Desie.
Speaker 3: It seems.
Speaker 5: Seems to me that every time something that Republicans want
Speaker 5: actually happens, they just find some other conspiracy that keeps
Speaker 5: them in the pole position of victimhood.
Speaker 4: Why can't they just be happy, Jordan?
Speaker 8: If Republicans are happy, they can't raise money. What's the
Speaker 8: what's the email gonna say, Hey, everything's great, send us
Speaker 8: five bucks. Come on, you know how to hear you
Speaker 8: take infested by mother.
Speaker 4: That denied it to everybody. When we come back, Charlemagne
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Speaker 5: We all know I've got great opinions, but I'm not
Speaker 5: the only one. Studies show that other people also have opinions.
Speaker 4: So here with another installment.
Speaker 5: I'm in my opinion as our good friend Charlemagne the God.
Speaker 2: Hey, listen, man, Democrats have a problem. It's not their policies,
Speaker 2: it's not their fundraising. It's not that Joe Biden started
Speaker 2: buffering at the Junior teen Party. No, No, the problem
Speaker 2: they have is their messaging, or to say, a planner,
Speaker 2: is how they talk.
Speaker 3: Nobody wants to hear the normal political voice anymore. I'll
Speaker 3: give you an example.
Speaker 2: Republicans made abortion illegal and half the country, which is horrible.
Speaker 2: It should be a winning issue for Democrats. But here's
Speaker 2: how Democrats talk about it.
Speaker 3: Let me say it again.
Speaker 6: Past laws restoring the protection of rov wait for women
Speaker 6: in every state.
Speaker 5: That's what can be done under this on the If
Speaker 5: you're owner of the opposition.
Speaker 9: Every senator must take a stand. If you agree all
Speaker 9: Americans deserve access to contraception, then vote yes on the
Speaker 9: Right to Contraception Act.
Speaker 11: This Friday, June seventh will be forty nine years since
Speaker 11: there was a decision made in the in the in
Speaker 11: the role versus Wade question, Bro.
Speaker 2: Why is this sentence taking you forty nine years to say?
Speaker 2: How about try this instead? These religious nut ass Republicans want.
Speaker 3: To force you to have a baby period. And that's it.
Speaker 2: But I know, I know politicians aren't supposed to talk
Speaker 2: that way, but they should. In fact, before Democrats even
Speaker 2: worry about explaining their side of an issue, they need
Speaker 2: to learn something more basic, how to talk like real people.
Speaker 2: Yeah and I'm sure that possible. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure that possible because you know it was good
Speaker 2: at it.
Speaker 3: Total nut asked Republicans.
Speaker 11: The Biden administration sucks, said communists, they're Marxists, they're radical
Speaker 11: left Democrats, they're sick people.
Speaker 8: There were riots burning down the country over George Floyd.
Speaker 8: And I'm really sick and tired of the bullshit innex
Speaker 8: I have to deal with constantly.
Speaker 2: You see that, You see that Congress could pay off
Speaker 2: the whole deficit by giving Marjorie tail A Green a
Speaker 2: sweag jar. Yeah, and yes, I know Marjorie Taylor Green
Speaker 2: is a whole fool's market.
Speaker 3: But that's authentic. Okay, that's real America.
Speaker 2: That's what a waffle house sounds like at three am. Okay, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: that's making a scene at Ann Taylor Loft because you
Speaker 2: can't make a return.
Speaker 3: Without the receipt. Same with Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Here's a guy who knows what he wants and knows
Speaker 2: how to get it. The message is terrible, but it's
Speaker 2: clear when he says, build the wall, lock her up,
Speaker 2: I hate sharks, No one goes.
Speaker 3: I wonder what he means. Okay. Folks appreciate when.
Speaker 2: Someone sounds authentic, even if their ideas are terrible. But
Speaker 2: with Democrats, even when they talk about the good things
Speaker 2: they've done. It sounds fake, and I know that they're
Speaker 2: capable of sounding real. I talk to a lot of
Speaker 2: these politicians.
Speaker 3: Behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: I hear how they speak when the MIC's not on,
Speaker 2: and it's two totally different people. Take Hillary Clinton during
Speaker 2: the twenty sixteen campaign, she sounded like this.
Speaker 13: Now, there may be some new voices in the presidential
Speaker 13: Republican choir, but they're all singing the same old song,
Speaker 13: a song called Yesterday, you know the one. All our
Speaker 13: troubles look as though they're here to stay, and we
Speaker 13: need a place to hide away. They believed in Yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Paul McCartney heard that and was like, John got the
Speaker 2: easy way out.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing though.
Speaker 2: Off to Hillary behind the scenes, and trust me, she's
Speaker 2: a real human. I know you won't believe this, but
Speaker 2: she can even say a great mother. Yes, I've heard
Speaker 2: it the way she says.
Speaker 3: Mother rival Samuel L. Jackson.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you she should have used it in public,
Speaker 2: like I'm sick and tired of my mother's husband on
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein's mother plane.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, now that Hillary.
Speaker 2: That Hillary would be at the end of her second
Speaker 2: term right now, But Democrats only talk authentically when it
Speaker 2: slips out. In fact, DIM's had a viral moment in
Speaker 2: the House recently. It started with Marjorie Taylor Green doing
Speaker 2: what she does best, but it ended with a Democrat Representative,
Speaker 2: Jasmine Crockett, finally clapping back.
Speaker 5: A late night committee meeting devolved into chaos, with members
Speaker 5: hurling insults at each other.
Speaker 1: It quickly escalated into a heated back and forth.
Speaker 4: After Republican Marjorie Taylor Green my Democrat Jasmine Crockett's eyelash,
Speaker 4: I think your fake eyelashes are messing up on.
Speaker 14: Crockett later fired back with her own personal insults as
Speaker 14: Chairman James Comer struggled to regain order. I'm just curious,
Speaker 14: just to better understand your ruling. If someone on this
Speaker 14: committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach blonde, bad built,
Speaker 14: butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities.
Speaker 4: Correct, Oh what now?
Speaker 3: What? What now? What now?
Speaker 2: That would be a bleached blonde, bad built, butch body. Congressman, Okay,
Speaker 2: and you know what I love about this. Everyone was
Speaker 2: so excited to hear someone slamming Marjorie Taylor Green.
Speaker 3: Most liberals didn't even care that.
Speaker 2: It was sexist, it was homophobic, it was body shaming.
Speaker 3: It was like the nineties were back.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, yes, Now, Congresswoman Crockett had a great moment
Speaker 2: that went viral because she showed something that Themocratic Party
Speaker 2: rarely ever shows, and that's courage.
Speaker 1: Yes, we.
Speaker 3: All hope is not lost.
Speaker 2: In fact, just recently, even Vice President Kamala Harris showed
Speaker 2: a glimpse of her actual personality.
Speaker 14: We have to know that sometimes people will open the
Speaker 14: door for you and leave it open.
Speaker 4: Sometimes they won't, and then you need to kick that
Speaker 4: door down.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, madam Vice president kicked that door down.
Speaker 2: That's how you know she's still a cop. She's giving
Speaker 2: little girls and no knock warrant.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: And you know that type of talk is effective because
Speaker 2: conservatives immediately started clutching their pearls about her lack of decorum.
Speaker 2: Republicans are so hypocritical. It's not okay for Kamala to say,
Speaker 2: but it was cool for y'all to have a vice
Speaker 2: president named Dick for eight years. I mean, this was
Speaker 2: Trump last week in a church with kids in the audience.
Speaker 5: I don't like using the word bullshit in front of
Speaker 5: these beautiful children, So I won't.
Speaker 2: Say, my god, Donald, do you kiss your mistress with
Speaker 2: that mouth?
Speaker 3: Look?
Speaker 2: I know this is, you know, all a little off
Speaker 2: brand for liberals.
Speaker 3: They love to say stuff.
Speaker 2: Like hate has no home here, but you could at
Speaker 2: least give hate a guest room or something. All right,
Speaker 2: Let hate keep a toothbrush in your bathroom. And no,
Speaker 2: you should never hate someone for who they are, but
Speaker 2: it's okay to hate them for what they do, especially
Speaker 2: if what they do is hateful. Okay, like it or not,
Speaker 2: this is the age of hate. Kendrick said he hates Drake. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: Kendrick said he hates the way Drake walks, the way
Speaker 2: he talks, the way he dresses. And Kendrick won that beef.
Speaker 2: And if Democrats want to win, they need to turn
Speaker 2: on the Kendrick. All right, yes, yes, yes, turn on
Speaker 2: the Kendrick.
Speaker 3: Trump got a weird tase. Why is he around?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: And good news for Democrats they have someone who can
Speaker 2: help them with their messaging. When I heard Republican Congressman
Speaker 2: Byron Donald say some wild shit about black families and Jim.
Speaker 3: Pro I knew just who to call.
Speaker 2: Congresswoman Japmin Crockett, How are you.
Speaker 3: I'm doing well.
Speaker 4: It's good to see you.
Speaker 3: Good to see you too.
Speaker 2: Now, a colleague from across the Aisle, Byron Donalds, recently
Speaker 2: said that black families were better under Jim Crow, which
Speaker 2: was a period of forced racial segregation.
Speaker 1: What would you say to that?
Speaker 14: Yes, I'd say, is it okay for Uncle Tom, Uncle Brooks?
Speaker 14: Or maybe under this scenario, an uncle Clarence to try
Speaker 14: to tell us what it is to be black in America,
Speaker 14: considering the fact that he is married to a white woman, kind.
Speaker 4: Of like his uncle Clarence.
Speaker 3: That would not have been allowed.
Speaker 14: So yeah, he probably needs to go back to the
Speaker 14: history books that they keep trying to take out of
Speaker 14: our classrooms.
Speaker 3: It's right, tell them out.
Speaker 5: The God Everybody is New book Get on Us or
Speaker 5: Die Line Why Small Talk Sucks is available now. When
Speaker 5: we come back, jereme O Harris will be joining me
Speaker 5: on the show Don't Go Away.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 5: I guess today is the slave right and they critically
Speaker 5: claimed slave Play in making his directorial debut with the
Speaker 5: new HBO documentary slave Play Not a movie, a play.
Speaker 12: Please welcome jereme O Harris, okay.
Speaker 3: The book.
Speaker 4: First off, congratulations on your directorial debut.
Speaker 1: You thank you.
Speaker 4: I saw it last night. It's fantastic.
Speaker 5: For now, it's it's a movie based on a play,
Speaker 5: slave Play for folks who didn't know slave Play twelve
Speaker 5: tony nominations in a nutshell, what a slave play for
Speaker 5: people who didn't weren't cool enough like myself to go
Speaker 5: see it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 10: I say this in the dock and I'm going to
Speaker 10: keep saying it till dad die. I don't tell people
Speaker 10: what slave Play is about. No, I mean it's it's
Speaker 10: you know, listen, it's more fun if you don't know,
Speaker 10: if you go on a little confused.
Speaker 1: But you can also just go to Wikipedia. If you
Speaker 1: on Twitter, just post the Wikipedia article.
Speaker 5: I was in New York when Slave Play came out,
Speaker 5: which was just before the pandemic. When it when it
Speaker 5: moved to Broadway, and it was it was it was
Speaker 5: all the talk.
Speaker 12: Nobody would tell you what it was about.
Speaker 4: But people were angry.
Speaker 5: People like it was great, but it was something that
Speaker 5: I think you found unity and that you pissed off
Speaker 5: people of all races.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 10: Yes, yeah, I'm a Gemini, so I'm an equal opportunity offender.
Speaker 1: People are like that guy all the time. Can you
Speaker 1: say that here? I don't know.
Speaker 12: You can say whatever the hell you want. Great, right,
Speaker 12: So you do slave Play?
Speaker 5: Right, But then you make a documentary about slave Play?
Speaker 5: Why make a documentary and why night write a book?
Speaker 5: Were you afraid Florida would ban it?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 10: Absolutely, Actually I was afraid my homestate, Virginia would band it.
Speaker 10: I mean, like, who knows most of the places I've
Speaker 10: been are banning the books. But no, I didn't want
Speaker 10: to make a documentary to begin on.
Speaker 1: I didn't know.
Speaker 10: I literally the title of the movie comes from an
Speaker 10: email I sent to a very big movie studio.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say which one you can guess? You can guess,
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 4: Try Warner Brothers.
Speaker 10: Now, I'm just kidding. They know, but they they're like,
Speaker 10: we want to make slave Plan into a movie. And
Speaker 10: another one was like, we want to make slave Plan
Speaker 10: into a TV show. And I said, slave Play is
Speaker 10: not a movie, period, it is a play, period and
Speaker 10: sent it And then when HBO, so.
Speaker 1: Here's what nitty gritty.
Speaker 10: In twenty twenty, our play left the Golden Theater because
Speaker 10: it was gonna close early. I mean because another show
Speaker 10: was coming in. Mart McDonald show was coming in, The Hangman. Sorry,
Speaker 10: this is long, it's so stupid.
Speaker 1: Anyway, the Hangars coming in. We couldn't go. We couldn't
Speaker 1: be in that theater anymore.
Speaker 10: And then someone was like, hey, another played this on
Speaker 10: Brobbe right now is going to close early, so you
Speaker 10: can take that theater. We were like what, and they're like, yes,
Speaker 10: you can sign the papers March fourteenth, twenty twenty. We're
Speaker 10: like yes, and they were like and they were like,
Speaker 10: all you need to do it is an extra, like
Speaker 10: I don't know, I'm gonna say a number, but it's
Speaker 10: probably not real fifty thousand, and I was like, great,
Speaker 10: I just signed a deal with HBO. HBO does documentaries.
Speaker 10: My friend filmed the last day. My friend was a
Speaker 10: very famous documentarian. He had filmed our last performance. I
Speaker 10: was like, what if the documentary is like they're closing. No, no, oh,
Speaker 10: it's so sad.
Speaker 3: Then bam, it's open to get on Broadway.
Speaker 1: You never expected that.
Speaker 4: For a black play.
Speaker 10: So so I was I was gonna do this little
Speaker 10: hat trick documentary. And I signed the papers and they
Speaker 10: gave us some money. And then March fourteenth happened and
Speaker 10: I was stuck in a home in I was stuck
Speaker 10: in a place in Finsbury Park in London.
Speaker 1: I was I had COVID in London.
Speaker 4: That's lovely. It was a very British.
Speaker 1: Review, guys.
Speaker 10: I only did it because I didn't want to. I
Speaker 10: wanted to get an alien environment. I didn't want to
Speaker 10: be like I didn't want to see like, you know,
Speaker 10: Canal Street empty, like that would be that would actually
Speaker 10: mean I was in a horror movie. If you don't
Speaker 10: see those little weird little upside down buses like on
Speaker 10: the street, you don't know.
Speaker 1: That it should be there.
Speaker 4: Wait, do you think double decker buses are upside down?
Speaker 3: They look a little upside down.
Speaker 10: I feel like it's like if someone made a double
Speaker 10: decker bus a cake, they would call it like some
Speaker 10: sort of version of an upside down or like inside
Speaker 10: out like a.
Speaker 3: Topsy turvy game.
Speaker 4: Are full of shit.
Speaker 1: Anyway. So then twenty twenty one comes around.
Speaker 10: HBO calls and like, hey, we wrote a check for
Speaker 10: your for you to write this documentary. You cash the
Speaker 10: money during twenty twenty where's the doc? And I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 10: got it. I'm supposed to make a dock and so
Speaker 10: then the next the last three years, I've been learning
Speaker 10: how to make a movie by making this doc. And
Speaker 10: the doc is just it is just theater supremacy. Like
Speaker 10: I say, it's not a movie, it's a play. And
Speaker 10: the whole spoiler alert from my movie, guys, the end
Speaker 10: of the movie basically articulates why plays are better than movies.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I know.
Speaker 10: Listen and as I say there, one art form is
Speaker 10: new and one art form is old. We've only been
Speaker 10: making movies since the beginning of the twenty ofth cent.
Speaker 10: They're already trying to take that away from us. They're
Speaker 10: not trying to get computers to make them now, so
Speaker 10: I'm like, they're not going to give computers to make plays.
Speaker 10: People barely see them, no one wants to pay for them.
Speaker 10: So cheap making plays and changing lives of people are everywhere.
Speaker 1: And speaking of which, this is a lot.
Speaker 10: But I'm producing a play right now. It's called Invasive Species.
Speaker 10: It's at the Vineyard Theater. And I want to give
Speaker 10: you this hat and merch merch.
Speaker 4: Go to a play like your mind change and leave
Speaker 4: with some fricking merch invasive species.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4: Do you do articulate in the movie why you Love Theater?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: And I will say we talked a little bit backstage,
Speaker 5: and it is true. I went to go see Slave
Speaker 5: Play with my wife and a friend and we left
Speaker 5: slave Play and we were like, we need to go
Speaker 5: talk about this.
Speaker 4: And you don't get.
Speaker 5: That with a lot of a lot of a lot
Speaker 5: of experiences anymore, right, we really make space to actually
Speaker 5: try to parse something and try to find where the
Speaker 5: meaning is what it meant to us. And I think
Speaker 5: Slave Play was one that pushed a lot of buttons
Speaker 5: but started a lot of conversations like, yes, you're a
Speaker 5: theater supremacist, but.
Speaker 1: You are the only supremacist you can be.
Speaker 5: That's a yeah, it's a good one, right, Yeah, if
Speaker 5: you're gonna pick one, But how do you still use
Speaker 5: the I used the medium of film to start those conversations.
Speaker 10: Well, I mean I think that like one of the
Speaker 10: things that I grew up on was like this sort
Speaker 10: of theatrical effemora that like sort of created a generation
Speaker 10: of people who like theater. I mean, the people who
Speaker 10: are watching the plays on Brober right now are all
Speaker 10: a golden generation of people who are the same age
Speaker 10: as every congressman and senator, meaning that sure they're.
Speaker 1: Not long for this earth, yes, and they're amazing. But
Speaker 1: when they were seeing when they were seeing.
Speaker 10: Plays, they were also going home and watching television shows
Speaker 10: or hearing radio plays on the thing, and theater was
Speaker 10: everywhere around them. We had, you know, we had a
Speaker 10: taste of it with like inside the actress studio or
Speaker 10: like those amazing like Udha Hog and videos of her
Speaker 10: like talking to weird actors and smoking in the room,
Speaker 10: and like there were like you know, Company, the Pennybaker
Speaker 10: doc where you saw like you know, all of these amazing,
Speaker 10: you know, phenomenal actors struggling and failing in front of
Speaker 10: you to make the company soundtrack.
Speaker 1: Company was a.
Speaker 10: Failure on Broadway, but they made a documentary about it
Speaker 10: when it came out. Because people care about the a
Speaker 10: Femora Theater. What happened when live people got together and
Speaker 10: did a thing right. And now the only time we
Speaker 10: do that. We care about you guys. You guys are
Speaker 10: great comedy. We let comedy do it.
Speaker 12: But like thank you a pretty scamanna.
Speaker 10: But I think that like as a culture, we should
Speaker 10: care about the live theatrical experience outside of just SNL,
Speaker 10: the Daily Show, you know, mad TV when it was here.
Speaker 10: You know, we should care about We should care about
Speaker 10: the people in Oklahoma who like, are gathering around to
Speaker 10: tell the story of Black Wall Street in a play
Speaker 10: in the middle of Tulsa.
Speaker 1: Because that play, it.
Speaker 10: Might seem small, it's not as big as a movie.
Speaker 10: It won't be seen by two hundred million people. But
Speaker 10: the two hundred people a night that see that play
Speaker 10: will leave talking about it, even if they're talking about
Speaker 10: how much they hate it.
Speaker 4: And what do you think that is? Though?
Speaker 5: Like, I mean, I totally agree with you, But do
Speaker 5: you think that is because it is a communal experience
Speaker 5: because we are all in a space together, which we
Speaker 5: also get in movie theaters. And people still talk about
Speaker 5: how horror films do so well because you have this
Speaker 5: shared fear in a space, and comedy films do well
Speaker 5: in that sense. Or is it or is it the
Speaker 5: the fact that film has gotten so good at replicating
Speaker 5: reality or taking us to feats of fantasy and that
Speaker 5: theater still lives space for for imagination that we can't
Speaker 5: fill in.
Speaker 4: The gaps like where do you see the special sauce
Speaker 4: in that.
Speaker 10: I think that, Like, so, there are definitely filmmakers and
Speaker 10: films that like, don't ask you to have a passive imagination.
Speaker 1: A lot of films do, though.
Speaker 10: I think a film that required you to like lean
Speaker 10: in past your your passivity was like don't Adventures from
Speaker 10: Last Year? Right, A movie that like like, you're you're
Speaker 10: in that movie and he's holding onto you tight, He's like,
Speaker 10: can you better watch and make sense of all this
Speaker 10: and fill in the blanks yourself, right, because there's a
Speaker 10: lot on the corners you had to fill in. Most
Speaker 10: movies don't give you that space. They don't trust their
Speaker 10: audience enough. Players have to the by the very nature
Speaker 10: of being going to play. If I'm going to play
Speaker 10: and I tell you that I'm going to Mars, You'll
Speaker 10: believe it, whether there's special effects doing it or not,
Speaker 10: because I've just told you I'm going to Mars and
Speaker 10: you have to buy it, because I think the contract
Speaker 10: you I'm going to a theater.
Speaker 1: Again. That's why a lot of people don't like it.
Speaker 10: It can be bad, like see like I'm low on
Speaker 10: the Mars You're like, no.
Speaker 5: I mean there is something too that that moment is
Speaker 5: an invitation to the audience and we all have to
Speaker 5: agree on the inherent silliness of believing something yes, right, and.
Speaker 10: But that conversation that belief inside of a micro community right,
Speaker 10: It is so necessary for the for political change in
Speaker 10: my opinion, because I think that when you when you
Speaker 10: when you've worked really hard to see the same thing
Speaker 10: with a bunch of people around.
Speaker 1: You, when you leave, you want to engage.
Speaker 10: With them to talk about how the ideas inside of
Speaker 10: the thing you just you just saw or whatever can
Speaker 10: be tangibly made manifest in reality and not just in
Speaker 10: this fantasy you've engaged.
Speaker 1: Do you see it?
Speaker 4: And that's interesting?
Speaker 5: Do you see that you see that as possible in
Speaker 5: film or or wider wider art forms that can reach
Speaker 5: more people. And is the is somebody dropping the ball
Speaker 5: on that like doing or are we not engaging the
Speaker 5: ability to use some of these other art forms to
Speaker 5: have these conversations to act more?
Speaker 1: I think are people are doing it all over?
Speaker 10: I mean, like there's amazing painters, amazing performance artists, amazing
Speaker 10: musicians who gotting, like you know, Mustafa the poet just
Speaker 10: made this amazing song that just came out the other
Speaker 10: day that I think it's galvan is an entire entire
Speaker 10: community of people around like thinking about Goza in a
Speaker 10: different way on a musical level, right, I think that
Speaker 10: like one of the things that one of the things
Speaker 10: I don't want us to lose, though, is like in
Speaker 10: our in our in the ease of Netflix and and
Speaker 10: Max and whatever channel you're watching this on, I don't know,
Speaker 10: you might.
Speaker 1: Be streaming it or stealing it, streaming stealing.
Speaker 4: Whatever we're watching it literal COmON Central, thank you.
Speaker 10: Very much, But no matter how, no matter how you
Speaker 10: might have gotten this, I don't I don't want the
Speaker 10: other tools in our toolboxes as a society to get
Speaker 10: lost along the way because this is easier, right, Like
Speaker 10: going to a theater is hard. Getting forty people together
Speaker 10: to make a thing happen every night for for weeks
Speaker 10: is difficult, you know, and and and and yet it's
Speaker 10: a necessity because I think it It helps us see,
Speaker 10: It helps us se imagine in a different way, and
Speaker 10: the same way that a painting helps you see an
Speaker 10: imagine a different way than a novel, the same way
Speaker 10: that like a novel helps you see an imagine a
Speaker 10: different way than a poem. And what a poem can
Speaker 10: do in forty words, is like so delicious. You don't
Speaker 10: want that to fall away just because like I don't know,
Speaker 10: we can tweet now, right, I mean.
Speaker 4: Which is still pretty fun?
Speaker 3: Is that? It's so fun? Agur it?
Speaker 5: Slaveh play is about to open in London, yes, right,
Speaker 5: and there's been a little drama in London.
Speaker 1: Oh god, oh.
Speaker 3: God, I try not to talk about this.
Speaker 4: Well, you're on TV now, man, buckle up.
Speaker 1: I did. I did give you the hat, so I
Speaker 1: think you give me that. You gotta give me the drama.
Speaker 1: A drama you do.
Speaker 5: Just have to call blackout dates, right and I'll let
Speaker 5: you what is it? What is a blackout date?
Speaker 1: So okay, I've done.
Speaker 10: Okay, London, Hi, I'm so so so so sorry you think.
Speaker 3: We have that reach.
Speaker 4: I think we really are speaking in London.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Listen, this is television, it's not a theater.
Speaker 12: It can go everywhere there go speak to speak to
Speaker 12: love London.
Speaker 10: I am so so sorry that my BBC interview about
Speaker 10: a thing I had done in London a year.
Speaker 1: Prior calls so much ire this time.
Speaker 10: I don't know why I didn't do it to cause
Speaker 10: any ire, but I do think that, both in America
Speaker 10: and in the UK, thinking about the architecture of who's
Speaker 10: in your audience matters.
Speaker 1: Right, Having an audience of.
Speaker 10: People like this is what comedians do every time they
Speaker 10: have someone come on and warm up the audience, and
Speaker 10: they warm them up specifically, right, Like, if you're gonna
Speaker 10: do like an audience of like college bros, you better
Speaker 10: arm whoever's going out there to know what.
Speaker 1: Kind of humor gets them going. Right.
Speaker 10: Yes, I think that we have to think about the
Speaker 10: architecture of the audiences that we've invited into a play.
Speaker 10: My play London is a really intense play about race, trauma, colonization,
Speaker 10: et cetera. And because of that, when you are a
Speaker 10: black person or a brown person in that audience, it
Speaker 10: can feel complex to sit next to a white person. Now,
Speaker 10: that complexity was a part of the play. I wanted that.
Speaker 10: I love a mixed audience. That's how I grew up,
Speaker 10: That's how the plays. The play is a mixed play.
Speaker 10: Yet I had an audience member asked me what would
Speaker 10: this feel like to see the show with only black people?
Speaker 10: Can you give me that? And I said, why not?
Speaker 10: It'll only be one or two nights so we did
Speaker 10: two nights where it was where I only invited black people.
Speaker 10: Now you could come if you want to do Tanya
Speaker 10: Pinkins brought a white friend. She was like, I wanted
Speaker 10: to know what it's like when I go see a
Speaker 10: check off play. And I was like, that's great, but
Speaker 10: it was mainly black people. It's Kiki Palmer was there.
Speaker 10: It was like, you know the kid from NYU that
Speaker 10: DM me the night before, being like me and all
Speaker 10: the Black Student Union want to come. And it was
Speaker 10: the first time that I saw my play and everyone,
Speaker 10: everyone in the audience laughed when I laughed when I
Speaker 10: was writing it, which was crazy because when you see
Speaker 10: my play, and I think there's a lot a lot
Speaker 10: of times that white people are nervous about when they're laughing,
Speaker 10: and when black people are nervous when they're laughing, and
Speaker 10: no one wants to give the other people permissioned to
Speaker 10: laugh because like you see laugh what you're laughing at,
Speaker 10: and then you laugh and you're like, well, what are
Speaker 10: they laughing? And it's like becomes this whole thing. You
Speaker 10: see the races. That was a little the racial voice
Speaker 10: play I did there, but but it's crazy. Thanks guys,
Speaker 10: you're also seen.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think what you're when you're speaking to
Speaker 5: is something that there is a play that's happening on
Speaker 5: stage right. But what is also compelling in this experience
Speaker 5: is the tension that we're experiencing in the theater. And
Speaker 5: if we're given this space to articulate that and think
Speaker 5: through what we are feeling based on what we're seeing
Speaker 5: other people react to that and of itself is a
Speaker 5: separate performance, and you're trying to curate that in a
Speaker 5: different lens.
Speaker 12: That's how I came up with the why didn't you
Speaker 12: tell London that?
Speaker 1: Because I didn't. You did it, You did it so well.
Speaker 10: No, But at Yale, when I did this way Yale,
Speaker 10: which is like a part of the thing, I don't I.
Speaker 1: Should put this in the movie. Yeah, you know what,
Speaker 1: I wanted the movie to be short. I don't think
Speaker 1: the movie should be that long, So.
Speaker 4: Think about sequel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be in the extra bits on HBO Max.
Speaker 10: But but when we did it at Yale, it was
Speaker 10: the first time I was woke class at Yale, like
Speaker 10: the class where they told us this is the most
Speaker 10: diverse we've ever had a student body at Yale.
Speaker 1: For the first time ever.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there's the same number of men and women in
Speaker 10: the class of actors.
Speaker 3: Who are like what in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5: Absolutely were they saying that while they were patting themselves
Speaker 5: on the back.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, absolutely, and no shades are our teachers. They were great,
Speaker 10: they were they were trying whatever. Anyway, we had a
Speaker 10: lot of people of color and women for the first
Speaker 10: time in our in our class. Again, for years, no
Speaker 10: acting conservatory in the country had as many women as men.
Speaker 10: You know, why not as many roles for women? What
Speaker 10: are gonna do with all those women? There's not no roles.
Speaker 10: Instead of just saying why don't we find plays where
Speaker 10: there or invite writers to write more roles for women
Speaker 10: by just having an influx of them.
Speaker 3: They just said we need less. We have three sisters.
Speaker 1: We only have three sisters.
Speaker 12: Sisters, So anyway, it's uncle Vin, it's not Vine.
Speaker 3: Keep moving.
Speaker 1: But at Yale, one of.
Speaker 10: The cool things and things about going to Yale is
Speaker 10: that you're in a community. You're in a full town
Speaker 10: called New Haven, where there are people who saw Lapita
Speaker 10: and Neango do her first play at Yale. So not
Speaker 10: only are you watching people like not only are people
Speaker 10: who were watching all the students play as the student body.
Speaker 10: It's also a bunch of like older, mainly white people
Speaker 10: who have seen every play that's ever been at Yale
Speaker 10: watching the plays too. And my play was in a
Speaker 10: three quarter thrust. And when Slave Plays started, because it
Speaker 10: was so small, you could see everyone seeing everything. So
Speaker 10: imagine seeing like thirty young black brown kids right here
Speaker 10: and then right across the road rope for them, also
Speaker 10: lit by the lights, like fifty older white people just
Speaker 10: like looking and like and the laughs are like ha ha,
Speaker 10: and then everyone gets really nervous and scared. And then
Speaker 10: people felt implicated because they're like, why are they looking
Speaker 10: at me so much? They're looking at me so much.
Speaker 10: It's like, no, they weren't even look at you. They're
Speaker 10: looking at the play, but it looks like they're looing
Speaker 10: at you because they're looking right here.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: And so when we did the when we were doing playoffs,
Speaker 10: like the play has happen in the round, it has
Speaker 10: to happen in the round.
Speaker 1: And New York Catey Workshop was like, we can't afford
Speaker 1: the round.
Speaker 10: But Clinton ram and Robert O'Hara my director, and my
Speaker 10: director is Robert Clint is the set designer, We're like,
Speaker 10: we got this. Put those mirrors back there and mirrors
Speaker 10: behind it all and the entire show. You get to
Speaker 10: watch people watch the play, and like that becomes the
Speaker 10: play for me in so many ways, like watching people.
Speaker 1: Squirm.
Speaker 10: It's fun for me, yes, and it's and it's fun
Speaker 10: for other people. Yet like the first time you see
Speaker 10: you'll be squirming.
Speaker 1: You won't like it. It'll be like, I don't know
Speaker 1: how I feel about this.
Speaker 10: But then the second time you come, the third time
Speaker 10: you come, you get to watch everyone else you like,
Speaker 10: I know the secret and you know.
Speaker 5: And for a narcissist, it's great for me because I
Speaker 5: can just watch myself.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at you, you look so great, blue
Speaker 1: eyes beautiful? Right they are? They are?
Speaker 3: You get those guys.
Speaker 4: See, these are the type of conversations we should be having.
Speaker 5: The documentary Slave Play not a movie, a play Well
Speaker 5: debut June twentieth, HBO and available to stream on Max.
Speaker 4: Also go see Invasive Species. This is Jereme o'harris. It's
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