Sebastian Bach

There's a great book about the transition of comedy from the Bob Hope Room of Joke Writers to the Lenny Bruce George Carlin thing.

Did you ever have Cliff Nesteroff on the show?

He wrote a book called The Comedians.

It's coming out in paperback, I think, this month.

He's a really good friend of mine.

It's a brilliant book about the study of American stand-up comedy from the 1900s up to today.

It's phenomenal.

They've been arguing their points emotionally for years.

They don't know how to process this because they've also lived in a self-enforcing media bubble.

And, you know, that it was not conceivable that he would win in the media bubble in which we all lived.

And they have a lot of cognitive dissonance because they have to accept the fact that the world was not what they thought it was.

And the country's not what they thought it was.

Regret it.

And remember, there's only one response to fuck you.

So I think if Kasich or Bush had won, people would not be so apparently traumatized by it.

Because...

They didn't look at their opponents and say, fuck you.

Right.

And he did.

And they don't know what to do but say, fuck you, too.