No More Punchlines: Vegan Gains, Onision & Donald Trump.

when i think about donald trump
vegan gains and onision the fundamental thing they have in common is that they all started doing comedy and let's be more precise here donald trump vegan gains and onision their form of comedy was a type of self-parody and self-mockery [Music] [Applause] [Music] we have a great country that's my thoughts this country no i'm not thinking about concession speech or except in the speech yet hopefully we'll be only doing one of those two and you know winning is easy losing is never easy not for me it's not and i just want to thank you because you're very very special people you were here long before any of us were here although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago they call her pocahontas but you know what i like you because you are special like you go person woman man camera tv so they said could you repeat that so i said yeah so it's person woman man camera tv okay that's very good if you get it in order you get extra points he said nobody gets in an order it's actually not that easy but for me it was easy and that's not an easy question do you think you'll miss him when he's gone do you think he'll ever wake up and think boy i kind of miss the sound of donald trump's voice on the news in the morning i think there were a whole lot of new yorkers already who miss donald trump not as we know him in the year 2020 but as we knew him just a few decades ago the fictional character he used to portray on new york morning shows the guy he used to come on the howard stern show not so much speaking as himself but representing this sort of cartoon version of the spoiled manhattan millionaire right this image of a tycoon that you know began in american culture in the 1930s maybe was reinvented in batman and superman comic books right it was donald trump playing lex luthor that's what it was that's what new yorkers love that's probably a character they'll miss i have footage i've used on my channel of donald trump sitting down with 50 cent the rapper you know with whoever the hot rappers are hamming it up you know uh sitting with puff daddy at basketball games for years and years before he was a politician really donald trump was a comedian and his particular style of comedy was self parody and it may be hard it may be hard right now in 2020 but i think there are new yorkers who as the years go by they'll admit that they miss that just this wacky character that's what he was he was on the cast of characters on howard stern he was coming up with one pretext after another to uh promote himself on the late show with david letterman do you remember that david letterman confronted him because he said he had a new line of neckties donald trump and he's here trying to advertise them on the guy show and taylor was oh yeah um tell me something can you can you look at the label there well what is it what does it say there where was it made made in china right at that time donald trump was you know pumping all this anti-china rhetoric against important things from china that was the donald trump people new and loved not the politician but the comedian i think i think it's fair to say donald trump in his own mind never really drew a distinction between fiction and fact he was someone who wanted to live a lie and for a little while he managed to lead a large part of the american public to to live a lie with him has a single person said to you about donald trump that you'll miss him when he's gone has even one person in your life said that to you how about an issue almost covered over with the uh rush of first-time gun owners stockpiling munitions in case of a civil war was the fact that over at anissian speaks here on youtube one of the most legendary uh dissident intellectuals among us ex-vegetarian ex-vegan onision has given up on youtube forever when i think about donald trump vegan gains and onision the fundamental thing they have in common is that they all started doing comedy and let's be more precise here donald trump vegan gains and onision their form of comedy was a type of self-parody and self-mockery figures like vegan gains and onision up to a certain point what they were doing on youtube was comedy it was specifically self-parity self mockery presenting in many ways an exaggerated version of their own character but in all three cases it seems as if these comedians themselves never really had a firm grip on when the comedy stopped when it stopped being funny and when it became in a strange sense all too serious at some point onision's channel ceased to have formally written scripts and wigs and you know satirical sketches right and it started being increasingly these sort of strange indeed overtly political social justice warrior rants and live streams and his weighing in on ethical issues as he saw on them vegan gains do you think he has do you think he was a point in which he made the decision that he was no longer going to write a script wear a wig active company at what point did he stop joking and start deadpan serious humorlessly engaging in quote-unquote debates about issues like gun control some of you your memories may not be long enough if you watched vegan gains during his first year the year where he rose to fame and i told you hey you know what just a couple years ago in the future this guy's gonna be sitting there deadpan serious not a single joke not a single wig he's gonna be sitting there dead serious staring into the camera lecturing you about gun control and abortion his political view and it's not funny and it's not entertaining and it's not intelligent and in all three cases i think these men utterly failed to appreciate the extent to which public enthusiasm for them and public support for them was simply based on a joke it's ties shirts cufflinks everything sold at macy's and they're doing great number one selling tie anywhere in the world eyes where the ties they have these are beautiful ties they are great the ties are made in where china ties are made to china well i'll tell you and and you know what david in all fairness i've been very open about that let's just let's just get to shut down the donald trump factory in beijing i would love to and and we'll put up a thai factory in the jamaica queen i love it and we'll make we'll make the donald trump either