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Chapter 1: What is the significance of humor in today's society?
Miks nää tavarat lojuu lattialla ja eiks meillä ole toimivaa pumppukärryä? Kaos varastolla! Hexaplan pelastaa työpäiväsi. Kun kalusteet ovat kunnossa, arki sujuu. Kotimaiselta Hexaplanilta löydät ratkaisut varastoihin ja teollisuuteen jo viidenkymmenen vuoden kokemuksella. Katso Hexaplan.pi. Hexa, Hexa, Hexaplan. Työtila tarvii pelastajan.
This whole idea that you don't feel safe because somebody's making jokes is so dangerous for society. Some guy was trying to get people to call the police during the show to have me arrested for hate speech. One of my audience members told me that her union, teacher's union, sent her an email saying not to attend my show.
Imagine an email going out to a company or an organization saying, please do not attend this drag time story hour. Improving your own life will do more for the country than marching around with a sign trying to get a comedy show canceled. Be successful, start a business. Clean your room.
Chapter 2: How does Ben Bankas view the impact of cancel culture on comedians?
Clean your room. And I sound like a parent, but the right needs to parent the left.
Your universities were incredibly prestigious. You've got literally everything.
They've all been infiltrated. All the universities are infiltrated by China.
We need to make the gay people in charge of the country. And then fill the country with mushrooms.
Ben Bankers, welcome to Trigonometry. Thank you so much for having me. Oh, man, it's awesome. You are absolutely blowing up. We were just talking before we started. The reason we really like your stuff, A, is you're very, very funny, just very funny.
But also, I think you're very authentic with the voice that you represent, which is like a lot of comedians who do offensive material, they play that sort of like guilty liberal card.
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Chapter 3: What experiences has Ben had with audience reactions during his shows?
It's like, well, you know, I'm not woke, but I'm also not that other evil thing, whereas you embrace the evil. What are we talking, Ricky Gervais? I think he stays out of politics, but you know what I mean, right?
Yeah. No, he takes good pictures of his cat. We're starting strong here.
I like it.
I mean, look, I say things that I think of and that's what the art form is. And there are things that I would say to probably my mom if she was still alive and to make her laugh. Growing up, my mom had a pretty dark sense of humor. She was a high school teacher, 35 years in Scarborough, Ontario, which is a...
bit of a rough suburb of of toronto and she always had you know there was always things happening at her school you know robberies and murders and um she had a student shoot somebody in the in a bus with a sawed-off shotgun on the you know and it was a kid that she had just thrown out of her class like a week before and so she you know she saw stuff and she had a real life and and you know her like she was born in 1948 so right after
the war and stuff so i always made jokes about whatever i wanted at home there was never a a line you know maybe if it was really bad joke my mom would go like that's what comedy is sometimes it is you you're making somebody laugh and they're going stop that's not the right time but when it's on a stage and the people have paid for it
it is the right time and i don't believe in censoring myself especially on stage sometimes i i make the joke with my audience i'll make a really bad joke i'll be like i'm not posting that one and then you post it and then i post it yeah no no i don't some some i mean some of my my worst stuff is not being posted yet because it's for the audience to come and pay and see you said i believe in free speech i believe in speech for pay
Well, you got into trouble, if you can say it that way, with your stuff about ICE, right?
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Chapter 4: How does Ben Bankas define free speech in the context of comedy?
What was your take on the whole ICE thing?
I mean, I'm Canadian, so I'm an immigrant.
and uh i think we need to get rid of these people i don't know what to say it's the same thing in canada canada does not have ice i think the number is now around 400 000 people waiting for deportation we've had or more maybe there's millions but officially i think there's four or five hundred thousand in canada there's no ice there's no deporting those people they are they just get a notice and they're supposed to self-deport and that's not good for the country
to just have a bunch of illegal... I mean, right now, in Canada, there's IRGC members and stuff in the country. And, you know, during this... Like, Canada's becoming a safe haven for, you know, IRGC members. I mean, is that a good thing? I don't think so.
So I think that... I believe in a safe... I want to have a safe, healthy, beautiful country, whether it's Canada, America, wherever I'm living... I want it to be beautiful and amazing. And the people who are pro or anti-ICE are also in favor of letting people out of jail for committing serious crimes and giving money to illegal immigrants. I just don't know how I can be in favor of that stuff.
But you didn't get in trouble for that. You got in trouble for a joke about ice, right? Yeah. Something to do with Rene Good?
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Chapter 5: What challenges does Ben face regarding political correctness in comedy?
Yeah. Yeah, I made a joke about it right when it happened, and...
You know, it was very funny for my audience.
And the people who are upset, of course they're going to be upset. But they canceled a bunch of your shows, right? Is that what happened? No. I think that, I mean, a lot of, this is interesting. A lot of people are like, are your shows all getting canceled? No, not at all. I mean, we had shows in Minnesota get canceled because there was an active riot. And I mean, I should have canceled it myself.
People were like, you should maybe not go. Like, people were worried about me. and the venue canceled because, I mean, they said it was for safety reasons.
Chapter 6: What role does personal experience play in Ben's comedic material?
The real reason is they were liberal, and the people who ran the business were liberal. So even though Democrats, because they believe in, like, communism now, they don't care about making money. So it's like, oh, six sold-out shows? Six sold-out shows? We'll cancel them because it's for the greater good of... the greater Rene Good. I'm just saying it's not... So...
yeah this this idea that shows are being cancelled is not in america is not true canada they cancelled a few they have these the canadian anti-hate network and all these uh organizations that are paid for they just found out are paid for by the liberal party in canada which is like the democrat party in canada uh through back channels apparently um and um that
organization's goal is to shut down people like me i guess that don't aren't censoring themselves or aren't woke basically if you're not woke you shouldn't be allowed to perform you shouldn't be allowed to be platformed you shouldn't be allowed to blah blah blah even when the shows are sold out and that's wrong i mean it's obviously wrong and a lot of it has to do with in canada if you're going to be at a venue a lot of them are city funded or
or or you know government funded venues and they're saying he shouldn't be allowed to perform there because it's government funded and they have a mandate to have dei and and you know not what you know all those things that they write in those you know our mission statement is that we acknowledge that we are on stolen land and there's no freedom of speech allowed in this establishment and if you say anything naughty you'll be
you know they have great names though those organizations they do the anti-hate ones like we have one of them in the uk called hope not hate and all they do is go around doxing anyone who's not well yeah it's like so oh you're anti-hate what do you do oh we hate ben bankers and we discriminate we don't discriminate against uh broad groups we discriminate about one person at a time and that's apparently
okay but the shows were sold out i mean we're talking i just had a show nanaimo bc 900 people sold out it's been sold out for like a month and a half and then they cancel it You know, there was a whole thing. They had a city... It was a city-funded venue, but not affiliated with the city or something. So people went to the... They protested. They protested the city council meeting.
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Chapter 7: How does Ben Bankas perceive the current state of Canadian politics?
They got into the city council meeting. They raised this concern. The mayor of Nanaimo said that well, we don't want to be part of censorship, even though his material is disgusting and horrific and awful. But we don't want to take part in censorship. So they basically said, we're not going to pressure the venue to shut it down, but we will make a statement. This is the new thing.
Something bad happens, we make a statement reaffirming our commitment to diversity, inclusion. What does that even mean? It means nothing. And so they sent that statement to the venue. Of course, there's somebody woke working at the venue who goes, finally, there's a statement. This means we can cancel. And then they get some woke lawyer to look at it.
And the woke lawyer goes, well, with the statement, you just say that we didn't feel safe.
Chapter 8: What future does Ben envision for comedy and free expression?
The staff didn't feel safe. This whole idea that you don't feel safe because somebody is making jokes is so dangerous for society. The idea that it's like safety has to do with words is not, it's just not true. It's a lie and it's being peddled. And that venue is getting bombarded by my fans, of course. So this is the weird thing.
Venues will cancel my shows in Canada if 10 people complain, apparently, if they're loud enough. Or, OK, oh, there was 50. OK, there's 50 that they gathered over. We had 900. just buying tickets, then plus the other thousands that wanted to buy tickets that couldn't get tickets, plus the millions online.
And the venue seems to just only worry about liberal complaints because the second they cancel my show, what do they do? They turn off comments on all their posts. They turn off reviews on Facebook. Any negative review on that venue that says, you guys canceled the show, I'm very upset about this, they just mark as spam and get it deleted.
So if they don't care about complaints coming from the right or from people who already bought tickets, who legitimately were going to go to your venue, but care about complaints from people who are never going to go to your venue, might not even live in your city, but are calling in, is that a free country? Is that a free speech? No.
And this, the left pushes back and goes, well, it is free speech, but it's not free of consequences. It's a sold out show. It's been on sale for seven months. We sold it out. I did my part. the venue decides to cancel it because they're getting complaints, that is a violation of free speech.
I'm sorry, in my eyes, maybe, I don't know what, you know, British Columbia and Canada has some really crazy laws, so I'm sure, you know, they were suggesting, the guy, some guy was trying to get people to call the police during the show to have me arrested for hate speech.
When did it become the case? that nerds like these people, like, I'm just really offended. We used to take the piss out of them back in the day. These people were losers, and we all used to laugh at them. Still are. Yeah, and they still are. They'd be the people at school who would grass you up to the teachers, like, he said something nasty. But now it's like, oh, we listen to these people.
I guess it's the payback we get for bullying the crap out of them in high school, right? We bullied them, and then we bullied them in university when they took liberal arts degrees. And we said, you're not going to have a job. You're not going to be anybody. You're going to be nobody. You're going to be working at McDonald's.
We used to do that at my alma mater in Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. the frosh week the first week like freshman week and they would you know the uh the engineers would say to the the arts majors that their thing was mcdonald's mcdonald's that you're gonna work at mcdonald's because your career your degree means nothing so those people got upset
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