The Full Babylon Bee Interview on Censorship, Cancel Culture & Anti-Woke Comedy
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2022
- The conservative Christian satire group is part of a growing movement of new, anti-establishment comedy.
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I recently did a short video with comedians from The Babylon Bee- but it hardly scratched the surface.
In my full interview, we go into the rise of anti-woke comedy.
“Leftists have become so…religiously zealous about their beliefs,” says Editor-in chief Kyle Mann.
Preachy establishment comedy created a market for something new.
“We have to create our own platform,” says Bee actor Chandler Juliet.
It’s good that comedy like this exists.
I find it endlessly amusing that one of the biggest satirical outlets is Christian conservative.
Truly Twilight Zone levels of irony.
Why I’ve been conservative my entire life my family’s hilarious and I’ve always found most people get but hurt and can’t take a joke. I always told my friends if your feelings hurt easy don come around cause if my family giving you shit they actually like you.
@Rodney 1984 sounds like my kinda place🤣🤣
@Rodney 1984 can’t wait to visit!
Trump (2024)❤️
Thanks so much for having us, John! It was an honor to be on your show. 🙏🏻💜
My favorite chick with a dude name.
@@lukasrael1211 Why, thank you
Your remind me of "Paula Priesse"
@@ChandlerJuliet
Am I allowed to notice that you are very pretty?
@Chandler Juliet
Hate to admit I’ve never heard of you guys but cannot wait to see your material. As a convert to the right back in 2017, it’s been tough trying to find good comedy, from what I saw here your group has so much potential seeing as there’s no market competition to really speak of. Best of luck and look forward to seeing your stuff!
Favorite quote of the interview: "It's a real badge of honor when you get fact checked. We wrote a joke so close to the target, so representative of the group we're making fun of, that people couldn't tell the difference between our satire and something Bernie Sanders said." LOL so true
"I don't think that womanhood should be a costume you can put on." Spot on.
She killed it with that comment!
Depends on the context. Seeing no specific timestamp this remains a philosophical question. Worthy of debate.
Brilliant comment!
@@garrysekelli6776 Do you mean womanhood can be a costume say on Halloween? Like if a man dresses up as a Nun? Wonder woman? Or other famous woman in history?
@@nancyj5490 i meant the guy didnt timestamp the quote.
Best humor is based on truth.
"It's funny because it's true." - Sheldon Cooper, Big Bang Theory
@@LeFraudHasChokedInSIXFinals Homer Simpson said it way before him.
Unspoken truths
That’s why I loved Bill Hicks and George Carlin!
Thats y conservatives are not funny
"Its funny because its true" comes to mind
As Jeff Foxworthy once said, "True stuff is the funniest stuff."
The reason the Left's defense of their beliefs is so fierce is because at some level they must know their position is so terribly fragile because it's founded on mere emotion.
Says the folks desperately hanging onto a farcical myth and praying to fictional daddy figure that lives in the clouds
If you think that Leftists are the only ones still defensive about their beliefs, try challenging some Christians sometime. However, I don't think their attitude comes from a place of deep-seated insecurity or doubt, on the contrary, it likely is due to their self-righteous sanctimony. They see themselves as these Quixotic crusaders who have to save the World. They believe themselves innately superior morally based on nothing other than what they believe. In short, they're defensive because they're so steeped in a view of themselves as these righteous crusaders that it makes them feel entitled to power and above reproach, so all criticism or challenge is seen as unjustified and usurpation. Ironically, attitudes shared by some Christians.
@pepper jack
Mid wit
spot on friend
@@pepperjack6749 hey bro, you don't believe in God, I say he does . so let's just say we both died today, if you're right I lose nothing, if I'm right you lose everything
12 minutes into the video, I get an ad telling me how great the democrats are for passing the Inflation Reduction Act. There's something you can't make up!
Covid tests came up for me
Now it’s ad how bad trum was doing his presidency and show pictures of the riots… and ads trying to get rid of electoral college..again.
I did not know was a Christian group. Im an atheist but love the skits they put out.
I hate the fact that my lack of religious belief has been stereotyped as a leftist thing. Im slowly becoming a closet atheist because of this. I don't want to come off as a leftist, blue haired clown that follows blindly. I'm not ashamed of my beliefs. I'm ashamed of the people that grouped me in with people that ignore facts.
Athiesm is a lie. You have to know everything to prove something doesn't exist. So they are living a life as though one of their guesses is true. Guesses are only guesses and do not deserve to be lived by. I don't know unites both sides. That's all we can know...
True Christians will make themselves known through their actions rather than their words. So a true Christian has the light of Christ in them…and it shines. But if someone is shoving religion down your throat, it’s zealous…not Godly.
That screen name and profile picture has me busting up laughing rn bro hahahaha
I'm also atheist and support the complete irradication of all religions. Mao was really on point in this one issue.
The Rachel Levine wins man of the year bit had me literally crying with laughter. Genius with brass cojones
"The Late night lecture shows". A totally accurate sentiment! Nailed it. Every night these bone heads are still obsessing over Trump. All of them, each night.
Let's call fact checkers what they really are, the thought police.
White coats
Well put.
Disinformation dogs that's what fact checkers are disinformation dogs
Amen from taiwan
Name one false factchecking claim
To hear that BB reaches more people than the stale Onion brings a tear of joy to my eyes.
Babylon Bee is where I get my news from. :-)
Yeah, it's great to get the news days, weeks or months before it happens!
I’m agnostic and I love the Babylon Bee. So refreshing and hilarious!
Exactly the reason Saturday Night Live is no longer funny. They used to snipe at both sides, albeit left leaning, but they're pretty monolithic now.
I'm an atheist fan of these Babylonian comics - love your work guys!
Suggestion: call your SNL ripoff, "Sabbath Night Live"
Please don't stop being funny!
Clever!
Except it has to be taped on Friday
@@mehib2340 - Ha! Nice...
@CnR Spiller - ...jealous i didn't think of that....haha
This is perfect
As a an atheist I can say even with the occasional religious overtones I find the Bee much more entertaining than other comedy outlets. I honestly can't remember the last time SNL made me laugh, it's probably been over a decade. These guys are spot on, the left's comedy comes from a place of smugness and condemnation, it really comes off as having a mean undertone. Talk shows are also unwatchable now. There are no real discussions, it's all posturing with all of them trying to climb the same greased pole.
Amen. pun intended.
The last time a company/website asked me for my pronouns, I replied I identify as "non-Bidenary".
Hilarious!
I am SO going to steal that
@@jimwerther In all fairness, I saw that on a T-shirt that Facebook, in Zuckerberg's infinite wisdom, posted on my feed as an ad. Do a search (if you want) for NGN Non-Bindenary. A disclaimer - I am in no way associated with NGN nor do I get any money for this. Damn
I just say guess.
and that's where I saw it, too. Was so hilarious, I shared it to my feed. I thought the choice of model was great.
The fact checkers should have to run disclaimers and share openly who really owns/ runs them.
I recall The Onion, pre internet, when it was a free, printed newspaper in Chicago and ripped on absolutely anyone regardless of politics or persuasion. It was truly no holds barred. That changed around 2008 (wonder why?) and they blatantly shifted their focused. Readership suffered predictably.
How did I never know the Bee was Christian? Lmao. They are so good.
Because they don't push their beliefs on everyone
Probably because they aren't constantly preaching to you about walking with the Lord.
People GADDIS created everything so why not believe He also created our wonderful sense of HUMOR!!!!!!
@@paul-a-couch they rarely mention religion, and even if they do, it's pretty authentic. The content is just THAT good.
@@Tential1 Au contraire. There is loads of religious joking and parody (a lot of it very much insider) on the site. Just what gets put on RUclips is mostly not that.
John Stossel is a national treasure. !
I remember that “National Lampoon” was the satire group in the 70’s.
We’re definitely in The Twilight Zone alright!!
The current “reality”, reminds me of the movie, “Idiocracy”!
Two relevant movies for our times ; “Idiocracy”, and “1984”
Agree 100%. We're living in a mashup of those two.
I’m an atheist and i love this stuff. I can’t stand what happened to comedy. Leno, Conan, letterman. Those were good. Now a days it seems like all the comedy just hates other opinions
Athiesm is a lie. You have to know everything to prove something doesn't exist. So they are living a life as though one of their guesses is true. Guesses are only guesses and do not deserve to be lived by. I don't know unites both sides. That's all we can know...
Unfortunately Hollywood is playing it's role in the great reset by disguising indoctrination as entertainment.
@@gregorykelly8000 okay
Be careful- you keep that open mind and you won't be an atheist for long. Good reminder that there are reasonable people of many persuasions, not just the one I or you share.
Letterman became angry and unfunny for the last decade of his show. But his earlier stuff was great. Jay never lost his stuff. He’s still doing standup locally here.
I love the Babylon Bee. Excellent interview. God bless everyone at the Bee!
8:26 The "left": We're so fed up we're going to burn buildings down!
The "right": We're so fed up we're going to make fun of the "left".
I guarantee you that if George Carlin were alive, he and Dave Chapelle would be texting buddies!
"George Orwell is recognized today as one of the most original political writers of the twentieth century, particularly in his understanding of the evils of communism, most famously expressed in Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). While Orwell’s anticommunism dates back to the mid-1930s, especially his experience during the Spanish Civil War, he was at first less insightful about the other great totalitarian movement of that “low, dishonest decade,” fascism. (Orwell rarely distinguished between fascism and Nazism.) The outbreak of war in September 1939 and, in particular, the fall of France in the summer of 1940 clarified Orwell’s recognition of the danger that Nazism posed for England.
Orwell’s critique of communism is both incisive and original. He was among the first writers to recognize that communism was not a revolutionary force but instead was a new, dangerous form of totalitarianism, a powerful tool for controlling the masses. Conversely, his initial comments on fascism were curiously flat and imitative of the standard left-wing interpretation-that is, fascism was nothing more than the capitalist system in extremis....Orwell further angered his comrades on the Left by arguing that fascism and communism were not ideological opposites but instead shared similar views. In a review of Eugene Lyons’s book about his time in the Soviet Union, Assignment to Utopia, Orwell pointed out that both fascism and communism concentrate power in the hands of an elite, and that the working classes are reduced in both systems to “a status resembling serfdom” (CEJL, 1:370). Orwell On Fascism June 4, 2015 By John Rossi
He was also a democratic socialist himself.
I thought orwell himself was a socialist who happened to be keenly aware of the dangers when the people in power are allowed to keep consolidating it.
The left has jammed their collective heads so far down the unflushed toilet of American politics that they can’t see, hear, think rationally, or find anything to be remotely funny anymore. Kudos to the Babylon Bee for making Americans laugh again (MALA???).😂😂😂😂😂
I find their comedy quite refreshing as well as funny. I used to watch SNL and some of the late night talk shows but not anymore because they keep stuffing left-wing dogma down my throat when all I want is to be entertained and laugh. But SNL and the late night shows haven't been funny in years. I will have to watch BABYLON BEE whenever I get the chance.
The Bee should totally do a Saturday-Night-Live-type show. Call it Friday Night Pre-Recorded and show it Saturday night. 😂
now that i am openly BEE-sexual i can finally feel accepted with the LGBTQ2P+ ETC...... community
LG4KUHDOLEDTV+
Now *that* is stinging wit. 😉👍
That's racist............... you are a wasp-phobic..................... lol.
I am a big fan of Babylon Bee they are so funny. So glad they are having rising success.
I love the Babylon Bee! Anything that makes me laugh everyday has all my love.
I asked a question on facebook, and that question was fact checked. How do you fact check a question?
They speak a lot of truth. 🌻
I am a Christian and love the BB...thinks its awesome!
I was bullied mercilessly growing up and the one thing I learned is a sense of humor. Some of the crap bullies called me made me laugh. What sucked were the ass kickings I received lol. The words were just words. I don't understand why the left gives SO MUCH POWER to words.
Words are powerful because they can control and manipulate people without them even realizing that is what is happening. This is why the left has been changing the meaning of words.
*_Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance that he himself has spun._* ~ Geertz
I know of what you speak. I was smaller than my classmates, so on occasion I'd get the crap kicked out of me for being a wise ass, so I'd be a bigger wise ass. Whatever works.
If you're sincerely asking, the Left wants sole power, and re-defining words and shaping speech / rhetoric / messaging, i.e. brainwashing, is a POWERFUL tool against the masses. Otherwise, Wokeism is their Religion of Choice, wildly popular with narcissists. "Feels" good to believe they are THE smartest on Earth.
*_When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty._*
*_Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues._*
~ Confucius
I'm a paid subscriber to the Babylon Bee and their social media site Not The Bee. Great community full of fun, funny, and sincerely nice people!
The best comedy will sting a little. Go bee!
I love these guys, and John Stossel. Thanks for keeping things real
Just discovered Stossel's RUclips channel...Yes, I was a nerd as a kid and loved watching Stossel's segments on 20/20 (yes, even the wrestling one).
Thank you John Stossel. Love everything about this post.
Great Interview, stay strong Bee !!!!!!
Amen from taiwan, Babylon Bee is another reason why USA is a great country 🙌
Sol Alinsky in Rules for Radicals states that satire is one attack that there is no defense against. In the 60's people like Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman used satire and humor constantly. But now that the radicals have real power they want to shut down anyone using this weapon against them.
*_[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon, laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution, these can lift at a colossal humbug, push it a little, weaken it a little, century by century, but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand._* ~ Mark Twain
When comparing Saul Alinsky's *_Rules for Radicals_* to Alexis de Tocqueville's *_Democracy in America,_* one finds that in the 19th century the common man felt fully empowered to help himself in voluntary cooperation with his fellow free Americans, while in the 20th century supposedly all the common man can do is bitterly complain for he has no agency of his own,.. only the other, the powerful, the oppressors have power to effect change themselves. Government schools today teach dependency, and self-esteem as something everyone can be given,.. rather than each of us having to achieve self-esteem, each for ourselves,.. ultimately by our own responsible choices, alone.
*_The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivalry of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in time, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise._* ~ Mark Twain
Well said, steverlfs.
Thank you John for such a great interview! It takes real talent to ask questions as if you don't know the answer. Thanks for helping the Babylon Bee who makes me laugh every day in this world of the Twilight Zone.
Three of my favorite people on the internet talking. I love it!
Good people. Keep up the good work; with humor of course!
I love the humor from the Bee.
John, Thank you for this interview! I’ve been following your work for decades.
I love these guys!
Just when I thought John couldn't top himself... dude doesn't quit.
Great interview! The truth will always be stranger than fiction.
I would have loved to see John play "Is it Babylon Bee or Not The Bee?"
This was hard to get through because I kept wanting to go rewatch all my Babylon Bee favorites!
Thank God we still have a lot of people with common sense. Great job guys.
Great interview, much appreciated Mr. Stossel.
Please produce more content that spotlights this woke effect on our great country
Babylon Bee is hilarious. Period. The left/woke basically hand delivers the material daily.
This was awesome! I just found BB a few weeks ago, but I've been a fan Stossel forever.
Make memes of them until they cry 😭, then make memes of them crying 😂
Used to be satire, now it's news.
I love The B. I love Chandler's beautiful, wholesome look and her comedic timing is impeccable. One of my favorite shorts is her doing "If Conservatives Acted Like Liberals". Kyle is a genius for his writing.
Stossel is an amazing reporter.
George Carlin was the greatest example of there being more comedy rooted in truth.
Yes, but he also popularized the style of making the audience cheer more than laugh, which has since descended into making them cheer instead of laugh. No comedian should be satisfied with that.
I'm a fan of Carlin but he never made me laugh. I watched him for his realistic views of the world.
I'm spreading the word for everyone to follow John and the Babylon Bee... How refreshing! BRAVO
Stossel don't ever stop doing your shows....been watching you for years. Always the best material. Babylon Bee you guys and gals are the bomb. Keep tweeking the lefts mind out of wack....
Gives a new meaning to “I started a joke” by The Bee Gees.
It looks like I’m going to be martyr soon. I enjoyed you information. Thank you. God bless
Bongo is plotting to kill me
John, Kyle and Chandler are all really great. I wish there were more like them out there.
God bless John Stossel and God bless the Babylon Bee
I have officially joined the Babylon Bee hive and it’s pure honey. Comb join us.
I adore the crew, short films, clips and the skits .
❤️ The Babylon 🐝 Bee!
LOVE the Bee! Thanks Mr. Stossel
I like what they had to say about comedy - that it gets you to think more than a debate. When we laugh, our guard is down. We can laugh with others, and think about why we are laughing. Comedy is often tragedy turned upside-down. A good example is the movie, "Blazing Saddles." I remember seeing it when I was younger and laughing at the racially motivated jokes. Almost immediately, I had to ask myself "Why am I laughing at this?" It helped me break down my own prejudices and laugh at them.
I thoroughly enjoyed the John stossel interview of the Babylon bee. Now I can't wait for the Babylon bee interview of John stossel....
Stossel is a legend.
God bless The Babylon Bee.
These are very good points about what has become of the nature of comedy.
Yep..."The older I get, the less I know for sure."
Twitter did the same thing to Jordan Peterson. He also refuses to recant. It's a trait of greatness.
You cannot fully appreciate the level of propaganda these poor bastards are being subjected to without watching what they are exposed to. We must break out of our personal echo chambers to grow.
That is true about comedy. Shows like “All in the Family,” “The Jefferson’s,” “Good Times,” “Murphy Brown,” “Maude,” etc. couldn’t be written today. Someone would get “offended.”
I’ve had a 24 hour ban from “Facebook.”
BTW, is that really his wife trying to change the tire?
I'm still singing "Movin' on Up" in my heart. Those shows were so good - they were controversial, but clean. As a very young person, those shows were very influential and made the topics of the day understandable in a non-confrontational, non-violent way. They're never be anything like them again.
You clearly don't understand any of those shows.
@@Melanie-yb1bz oh?
Imagine Mel Brooks making Blazing Sadles today. The Earth would fall off its axis.
@@oldsguy354 People would be threatening Mel Brooks, IF he made “Blazing Saddles” today.
Great interview! Love them and need to thank them for all the belly laughs, intelligence and artistry. Thanks so much!
I'm an atheist, started hating the onion and love few Babylon bee posts . Criteria not being hypocrite or strawmanning or lying or propaganda.
Funny how all you have to do to satirize a woke conversation is to literally quote them.
They have taken aim at your dignity, safety & prosperity-
time to reassess your approach now
Thank you for doing this interview! The Bee is the funniest outlet there is right now. The satire is so spot on.
"Imagine all the people living in the gulags." 🤣
I love the bee🤣❤
The Babylon Bee is awesome...
There is one thing driving me crazy about this. It is definitely the most intriguing aspect and yet no one has commented on it yet though it’s the most important thing. And that is the thought that someone will be reading my comment here, making me nearly as famous as the person who posted the video in the first place. And I'm thrilled to think that maybe you who are reading this might respond to my comment. Or will the video poster be so arrogant as to think I should be commenting about the video and therefore delete my comment. That would be the greatest injustice.
100x more funny than SNL. Not even a contest. They should go full steam ahead. love BB!
I just subscribed to the Babylon Bee youtube channel. Thanks John!
Their app updates almost daily. Pure joy!
@@KENFEDOR22 Awesome, I just downloaded their App. Their Instagram is hilarious. Has brought me many laughs and the pure joy you mentioned. I've shared many screenshots with friends.
Great interview John and Babylon Bee ! To me it's like the Jerry Seinfeld TV comedy show of old and a mix of Rush Limbaugh radio of the past as well. All being an awesome mix of humor and reality . Please keep it coming !
Rush and reality? Lol
Great stuff. People hate others being right. They want you to be wrong so they feel better. Misery loves company.
How cool is the Bee.
Never seen anything of their stuff. I am now going to keep an eye out.
My God Bless.
We laugh so we dont cry
I picture a Monty Python skit, with the King on the horse talking to the peasant and it is the King claiming he is being oppressed.