Mike Pesca

There was the Saturday Night Live sketch with Tom Hanks about poor people and white people and them voting for Trump.

That became one of those things that cut through because it was comedy and under and explained us to ourselves.

Yeah.

Comedians are not to be too highfalutin.

I don't think they like being called philosophers.

They're kind of public intellectuals.

They can be right.

Some of them just tell dick jokes.

And God bless them.

Some of them, you know, Louis C.K.

or Shane Gillis will want to essentially have a premise and comedically convince you of the premise.

It's more interesting for them and to fans of comedians like that, more interesting for us.

Wanda Sykes does it.

It's done on the left and the right.

So I wanted to...

take these comedians who are essentially doing humorous op-eds and talk to them, as I do every day on my show, about just like the people who write actual op-eds, right?

Why do you say this?

How do you back this up?

But I never lose sight of the real point with a comedian isn't to make a point.

It's to be funny.