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Andrew Dickens: Comedians bring logic to a fight · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Okay, the comedian Jimmy Barr, Jimmy Carr, excuse me. Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Carr is coming back to New Zealand for a nationwide
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  Speaker 1: tour that culminates at Orchan Spark Arena. These are big
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  Speaker 1: hauls he's playing, and he can fill them because he's
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  Speaker 1: that good. The show is called Jimmy Carr Laughs funny,
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  Speaker 1: and he does. It's so true. That's what makes that funny,
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  Speaker 1: and that is Jimmy's thing. It's very easy to lump
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  Speaker 1: comedians like Jimmy and Ricky Gervas and America's Bill Maher
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  Speaker 1: into a conservative label simply because much of what they
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  Speaker 1: say is politically incorrect. But what makes them funny is
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  Speaker 1: that it's true. They point out the hilarity of our
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  Speaker 1: tribal positions, both left and right. So at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: I'm reading Bill Maher's book, What This Comedian Said Will
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  Speaker 1: Shock You. It's a collection of his best monologues over
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  Speaker 1: a year now. I used to think he was quite
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  Speaker 1: right wing when I watched his show, but that was
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  Speaker 1: because he was merciless against the Biden administration. Now that
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  Speaker 1: Trump is in power, he's equally merciless, and I like
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  Speaker 1: that I like that he's telling the truth. I like
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  Speaker 1: his pithy observation that conservatives govern without shame and liberals
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  Speaker 1: shame without governing. That's true in America, that's true here.
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  Speaker 1: Both sides are as baird as each other. And he
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  Speaker 1: says that is why the world is so full of
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  Speaker 1: people who want to break the shit up. I like
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  Speaker 1: all these comedians because they bring logic to the fight.
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  Speaker 1: They're neither left nor right. They just look at what
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  Speaker 1: it is and laughs at it, unlike politicians who will
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  Speaker 1: bring whatever might score them votes, and the media who
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  Speaker 1: will say anything that will get them clicks, which pay
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  Speaker 1: the bills. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge.
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