Ben Palmer

Was it political in any way?

What was the?

So Ben was doing straight up stand up, just him and a mic.

And then he started experimenting with new places to try out his absurd style of comedy.

At first, Ben would just use his personal Facebook account to respond to these consumer complaints.

He'd sign his posts, Ben Palmer, freelance customer service representative.

Ben replied to Gina, posing as a Walmart employee.

At first, he was just playing this character behind a keyboard.

But then he started to up the ante, doing this bit on video, where he has to keep a straight face to sell his deadpan delivery.

Like in a Zoom interview for a job with a multi-level marketing company.

I can tell you my experience as a viewer, which is like, I am wanting the person to believe you for as long as possible.

Because...

I'm trying to delay the moment of realization that something is up.

I don't want the jig to be up too soon because I'm so uncomfortable when it is.

This was Ted Yoho, a former Republican congressman from Florida.

That's Ben politely avoiding what Yoho really called Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2020, a fucking bitch.

At the time, Yoho told Congress that AOC had misheard him.

Parler is the social network that was launched as a free speech alternative to Facebook and Twitter in 2018 and is mostly associated with conservative or right-wing users.

Ben contacted the lawyer for Sasha Baron Cohen, the comedian who plays Borat.

That lawyer provided Ben with a release form that Baron Cohen gets people to sign when he's interviewing them in character.