Jeff Dye

Nobody goes, wow, you're really leaning into this left stuff.

When comics are going up and talking about all the things they talk about, I don't go, oh, trying to make that Obama money, huh?

No, they just are saying what they think.

Nobody ever accuses people of pandering until you do it on the conservative side.

Then they think you're pandering.

If you can catch them, but how do you know?

Bingo.

And our community, as far as stand-up comedians, has been very left-leaning.

Always.

And I've never once gone, oh, you're pandering to fit in here, or you're pandering to get on The Tonight Show, or you're pandering to get on Jimmy Kimmel.

For sure.

But I never accuse them of that, because how am I supposed to know if they really feel like that way or not?

Oh, yeah.

I'm guilty of it sometimes lately, for sure, just in certain scenarios I've done it.

100%.

Yeah.

Yeah, and I think also, too, it's like, that's why it's hard, that's why it's really rough to accuse someone of it.

Yeah.

Because you don't know, like, what is the difference between pandering and just playing to a crowd?

Mm-hmm.