Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas
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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.
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.
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?
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
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the significance of humor in today's society?
0:01–1:04
2
How does Ben Bankas view the impact of cancel culture on comedians?
1:04–1:51
3
What experiences has Ben had with audience reactions during his shows?
1:51–3:57
4
How does Ben Bankas define free speech in the context of comedy?
3:57–5:29
5
What challenges does Ben face regarding political correctness in comedy?
5:29–6:07
6
What role does personal experience play in Ben's comedic material?
6:07–8:41
7
How does Ben Bankas perceive the current state of Canadian politics?
8:41–9:31
8
What future does Ben envision for comedy and free expression?
9:31–1:27:35
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