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The Jimmy Dore show starts right now.
Last Tuesday night, Florida Senator Marco Rubio intended to deliver the Republican rebuttal to President Obama's State of the Union address, but ended up creating an extremely depressing ad for Poland Springwater.
His speech ran less than 15 minutes, but somehow felt longer than the eighth grade.
Rubio is at this moment considered one of the great hopes for the GOP because he's young.
He's from Florida and his last name is Rubio.
He came up through the Republican farm system, and though he's a little wet behind the ears, Tuesday night he looked drenched in what we in show business call flop sweat.
Just watching him made me thirsty.
But then listening to Republicans always makes me want to drink.
He's the perfect example of the GOP's new strategy.
Don't change the message.
Get a Cuban in there.
He's what they think they need right now, a guy who talks like Romney, but whom Romney would mistake for the parking valet.
When Rubio stopped his speech and suddenly leaned over to take a sip of water, he glanced furtively at the camera as if making sure we were still there, which of course we were because finally he was entertaining.
The gaffe wasn't drinking the water.
It was how sneaky he looked about it when he should have felt just as sneaky about opposing gun control, tax increases, and Obamacare.
Now Ruby's using that rookie mistake to raise campaign funds.
He's selling bottled water to donors with a message something like, hey, I may have been parched, but at least I'm not pissing away our grandchildren's future.
Sure, Rubio's young, but who says child stars can't have long careers?
If he lasts, we're going to be able to say we saw him grow up on TV.
Meanwhile, Bobby Jindal is suddenly excited about life again.
I want my heart to be back.
It's the Jimmy Dore show.
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Hey, everybody, welcome to this week's episode.
I'm joined on the phone all the way from New York City from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
It's TV Frank, Frank Connoff.
Hi, Frank.
How are you?
Hello, there.
All right.
They're giving you applause there, Frankie.
Oh, I appreciate it.
Across the closed glass from me, the host of the David Feldman Show, three-time Emmy Award-winning writer and 21-time Emmy Award loser.
It's my hero, David Feldman.
Hi, David.
How are you?
Hi, can I?
Thank you.
And that was Steve Rosenfield.
You really outdid yourself.
Can I give Frank a special current greeting?
Sure.
Sim Shalabim.
Next to David, it's a hilarious comedian from Team Yasamura.
It's Robert Yasimura.
Hello, Japanese man.
Yeah, hi.
Across the table from him, across the table.
Please hold our applause to the end of the show.
Across the table from him, it's the host and originator of the Uncabaret.
It's Beth Lapitas.
Hey, Beth, how are you?
Hi, I'm great.
Thanks for having me.
Great to have you.
And you heard him at the top of the show.
It's hilarious comedian, former writer for the Daily Show, Steve Rosenfield, is here.
Hey, Steve.
Hey, Jimmy.
Great to be here.
That was brilliant.
Fantastic.
And sitting in the studio with me, our resident Latina, the host of Comedy and Everything Else.
It's Steph Semorano.
Hey, Steph.
Hey, Jimmy, I just want to remind everybody that I'm a Mexican.
Yes, she is a Mexican, Mexicandy.
And here we, you know, it's Valentine's Day.
We're recording the show right on Valentine's Day.
Well, that's what the universe calls it.
The world calls it Valentine's Day.
Frank, what do you call it?
I don't call it Valentine's Day.
I call it Enhanced Depression.
Very nice.
And this is a day.
Valentine's Day falls a day after Ash Wednesday this year.
And Ash Wednesday, it's when people wear a filthy smudge on their heads.
Why do they do that, Frank?
Well, because Catholicism isn't already creepy enough.
And Marco Rubio, he voted against, he was one of the 22 male senators to vote against the Violence Against Women Act, but America will not let him get away with sipping water.
And I don't know if you all watch the State of the Union speed.
Did you see John Boehner sitting behind President Open?
I don't even know why they're in the show.
I think boy John Boehner gets through that speech is by telling himself he's photo bombing Obama.
He did look like he had a football site shit waiting to come up.
He definitely looked like he was spending that time passing his stuff.
He needed a smoke.
He looked like he could have been on a cruise ship at that point.
We will talk about the cruise ship later in the show.
And did you see that?
I don't know if you got a good look at the Supreme Court justices, but they all looked really embarrassed.
Did you know why, Frank?
Oh, I think I heard why, because they all came wearing the same outfit.
And Ted Nugent got invited to the State of the Union.
And when he entered the Capitol Dome, he looked around and said to himself, this is what I defecated on myself to not defend.
Hey, did you hear that the Pope, the first Pope in a million years, is stepping down.
He's resigning.
The Pope said that protecting pedophiles is a young man's game.
Okay.
What's coming up on today's show?
We're going to talk about the big standoff out here with the LAPD and Mr. Dornan, who got burned out of his cabin up in Big Bear.
Black guy goes to the mountains.
How can they find him?
Anyway, we're going to talk about the drone controversy we didn't get to last year.
Last week, I'm talking about, plus, CNN comes in with another post office story that completely misses the point.
We're going to talk about immigration, what was on this week with George Snuffalopagus.
And we're going to have phone calls today from John Boehner and Haley Barber calls in.
That's all today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
So I don't know if you guys have been following the news, but there was a manhunt here in Los Angeles, and a lot of things happened.
So this guy wrote a manifesto.
You know the story about Dornan, right?
He was an ex-LAP Dorner.
Dorner, I'm sorry, what did I say, Dornan?
Dornan Dorner.
You're thinking of the Congressman.
I am thinking of the Congressman who was.
And that would have been great.
So Dorner.
So Dorner.
So you all know the story.
You saw it on the television.
The thing that's not really getting coverage is the way the police handled it, and they went after this guy.
So he had, I guess apparently in his manifesto, there was 40 other police officers or affiliated policemen that he said he was targeting.
He was going to go kill them.
So police, the LAPD sent other cops there to guard those people's houses, 40 Of them, right?
Five and six in the morning.
There's these ladies delivering a newspaper.
Two women delivering newspapers.
They're in a pickup truck that the police mistake for Dorner's pickup truck.
They opened fire.
Now, they opened fire.
I didn't return fire.
They just initiated fire.
They didn't wait to see if someone was going to.
They didn't even wait for physical contact.
They didn't even do the thing, get out of the truck with your hands up.
She threw a newspaper.
They did.
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So that happened.
And then there were some more cops who heard that shooting.
They raced towards that shooting.
They saw another pickup truck.
They smashed into it and started shooting at the guy in that pickup truck.
Okay, so the first pickup truck was two women.
The second pickup truck was a guy.
All right, so they just sucked it.
But he, yeah, that second guy had it coming.
He was a guy.
And then they shot at someone else.
The next day, they shot at someone else who it wasn't.
So they were also in a pickup truck.
Also in a pickup truck.
The message is: Wayne LaPierre is right.
When it comes to maintaining law and order, leave it to unprofessionals.
So, yeah, see, these are cops.
These are the professionals, right?
They have training and they're shooting innocent people left and right.
So I'm watching Sean Hannity, right?
I have no idea why.
So I'm watching Sean Hannity, and he's covering the shooting.
And here's what he had to say.
He had on, by the way, he brought on his police expert, Mark Furman.
If you don't know who Mark Furman is, he's famous for one of the most famous racists of the 90s.
One of the most famous racists of the 90s, Mark.
Furman, Hannity or Furman.
Can I mention something about Officer Furman?
Sure.
When he was living in Los Angeles, he lives like in Montana now.
Idaho, I think.
Idaho.
That's where all the people are.
That's where they live.
Yeah, Coeur d'Alene is where the Nazis are.
So he said, I'd like to be on your show, Mr. Feldman.
And I said, Do you have a card?
And he said, no, but I've got this bloody glove.
That's what he does.
He leaves bloody gloves.
He's a calling card like no other.
I don't know if you heard, but in Idaho recently, his militia named him Hoarder of the Week.
So here's what Sean Hannity had to say.
As we look back, this all started on Super Bowl Sunday, Mark.
It seems every step of the way, he was a little bit ahead of the cops.
They stayed adamant in sticking to that area.
Seems like everything paid off, that they did everything that they could and they did everything right.
You see anything that else they could have done?
Well, they could have shot someone else who was innocent.
They could have done that.
Yeah, the pressure is when the pressure's on and lives are at stake, count on the LAPD to shoot anything that moves.
They did a great job.
That's what he, I can't see anything they did.
They just shot four people, Sean.
Isn't that a little bit of a screw-up?
A little bit?
And then they started a fire in a California forest.
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly?
Yes, and they did burn that house down, even though they're denying that they did, right?
Yes.
It's not what they didn't do.
It's what they did do.
They should have done less, not more.
Of course, they're looking for more.
Of course, they're out gunning American.
They're out shooting people in pickup trucks in Torrance.
Meanwhile, the guy's in a cabin right next to their headquarters.
He was right next to them.
It was literally.
It's always the last place you look.
You know, it's like the car keys.
So they bring on Furman, and so here's what Furman has to say about it.
But there's one thing that I would like to say, Sean, that this example of Christopher Dorner and what he did and the commitment law enforcement, the men and women of law enforcement, this is what they get paid for, and they don't get paid enough.
So instead of second-guessing law enforcement, people should start thanking law enforcement.
This is what they put up with all the time.
That's the longest Furman's gone without saying the N-word.
Wow.
Right, they don't get paid enough, and they should all get residuals for their manifestos.
You know, if only the police had been able to do their jobs when O.J. Simpson was arrested, maybe he wouldn't still be alive now.
They blew that one.
They blew that one.
Yes.
You know what the great thing about Furman is?
He's the last guy in L.A. to be caught on tape saying the N-word, not at the laugh factory.
Ow!
You know, that's the great thing.
He's old school.
That's the great thing about being a police officer.
You can never be too disgraced or too corrupt to be sanctimonious about cops on television, right?
That's what he's doing.
Mark Furman, they bring on.
This is the guy.
Okay.
By the way, you know what?
They could have also done investigated the incident that Chris Dorner brought to their attention that led to all of this.
Well, they say, no, you know, the police chief, he did say he's going to investigate it now.
Well, it should have been better investigated in the first place.
And people are saying that these, you know, oh, I think the LAPD is all cleaned up now, right?
It's all better.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know.
What world.
The investigation has already started, but the first step of that investigation was burning the only person who could testify.
And they said they found his driver's license near his body.
Oh, I'm sure, just like they found the passports of the guys on the plane in 9-11, right?
I'm sure that everything else got burned except his driver's license.
We found it.
And in keeping with American tradition, like with Osama bin Laden, the guy who was responsible for the kill shot here is also going to be denied health care.
There's a long way to go for that one.
That's nice.
That's good.
That one was the trip to Big Bear.
Well, I wasn't sure.
I thought, do they know that the guy who killed him?
So they gave a million-dollar reward.
They said they made that announcement.
We're going to give a million dollars.
Anybody gives us a tip that leads to.
So the way he got caught was two cleaning women.
He was holed up in somebody's cabin and two women came to clean it and they surprised him, right?
And then there was another guy whose car hijacked up there and he also told the cops about him.
So those three people want the million dollars.
Yeah, the cleaning lady's going to get the tip underneath the coffee pot before you check it.
Yes.
And those, you know, and they're not going to give them the money now.
What?
What?
They're not giving the money out.
They asked Villa Villa Rogosa about it today.
He's like, I can't talk about it.
And, you know, those cleaning women, they live on tips.
That's the point.
And now that the cabin's been burned, there's no evidence of what a great job they did.
That's why they burned it.
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Welcome back to the Jimmy Door Show.
We've got a full studio today.
I'm joined by three-time Emmy Award-winning writer David Feldman, hilarious comedian Robert Yasimura, the originator of the Uncabaret.
It's Beth Lapitas.
Former writer for the Daily Show.
It's Steve Rosenfield, the host of Comedy and Everything Else.
It's our resident Latina, Stev Samarano, and on the phone from New York City and Mystery Science Theater 3000.
It's TV's Frank Frank Coniff.
So let's talk about the drones, right?
The big drone controversy that happened last week.
Michael Issakoff, I believe is his name, reporter for NBC News, broke this story on the Rachel Maddow show.
And I learned a lot watching that.
Did you know that now, so he got a hold of a document that kind of laid out the rationale and what the administration thinks is their legal cover for killing Americans abroad?
So the president, if he thinks that you're doing bad things to America, he can kill you without telling you about it.
He doesn't have to give you a chance to surrender.
They just kill you.
It's like living in L.A. It's pretty much, it's very much very much like that.
Well, that's the power, that's the power that I feel very comfortable, not just giving to Obama, but any president who happens to come after him.
Yes.
By the way, Bob Gates just said exactly what Frank just said.
He said that I trust Obama.
I don't trust anybody who comes after him.
He said, like, I think this is a good policy for the moment, but it's not going to be in the future.
Yeah, well, you know what?
I don't trust Obama.
How about that?
He's done some pretty nefarious stuff.
He killed a 16-year-old kid on purpose.
So I don't really trust him.
Not only that, but the drone that fired that shot is now being denied health care.
Don't you think they can get you anywhere?
I mean, if they want to get you, don't they just get you?
You know, it's just weird.
It seems like this is a new policy, especially since they're using drones.
And well, let's go to the clip, right?
So here's what Michael Isakoff says.
And it's weird because now the president can kill you even if you're an American citizen and neither the Fifth Amendment nor due process applies.
You don't get any due process.
The Fifth Amendment doesn't apply.
Nor does the U.S. law against killing Americans abroad.
There's a law against that.
Nor the U.S. law banning assassinations.
Do you know there's a U.S. law that you can't assassinate?
There's actually several laws that ban assassinations.
Yes.
So nor just the regular law against murder.
None of those laws constrain the president from ordering a hit on an MF.
That's right, an American citizen.
That's right.
And so here's the guy who broke the story.
Here's Issakoff.
And he was talking about Leon Panetta was on Press to Meet with David Gregory, and he was talking about how hard these decisions are for him to make, who gets killed and who doesn't, right?
So here's what Michael Issakoff says about that.
She said, you know, making these decisions about who should go, should die and who should not, who should get targeted were really tough ones.
And he agonized about that.
And that ought to give you a clue that these are not all open and shut cases.
So he's making the case.
He's saying that if Leon Panetta is admitting these are hard decisions, and they're not open and shut cases, and who you should be killing.
This should be a slam dunk, shouldn't it be?
It shouldn't be no question.
This shouldn't keep you up at night who to kill.
I should point out, if I may, that Michael Issakoff also broke the Monica Lewinsky story.
So he's an expert on sloppy presidential shots.
Really, David?
I'm all for that one.
I'm all for that.
You know what's funny?
He goes, yeah, it's an extremely difficult decision for Leon Panetta to make.
Not as difficult as getting hit in the ass with a rocket.
How about that?
Oh, yeah.
That's tough.
And also, you know, I have to say, Obama is not, I wouldn't expect a hard-ass drone attack from him.
He has the kind of demeanor I would more expect if he would kill me softly with his song.
What I say is, sure, it's tough having to kill Americans traveling abroad.
But let's face it, Americans can be pretty obnoxious, especially when they're on vacation.
That's very true.
And you know the thing that makes those decisions of who to kill and who not to kill?
You know what makes those decisions easier?
Is not having a Congress demanding that you explain it to them.
Yep.
Doesn't have to explain it to them.
There's no oversight on any of this stuff.
They just kill people, American citizens, whenever they feel like it.
So here he is.
So here's Chris Hardball, and he was talking about the drone strikes.
And how do you think he comes down on it?
Chris Hardball, he was on board with the Iraq war with George Bush.
He's all on board with Barack Obama, Afghanistan.
He's all aboard.
He's all about it.
So here's what Chris Hardball has to say about the drones.
I think Leon is a very conscientious guy.
He goes to church every day.
But I still think.
He's talking about Leon Panetta, and he thinks he's a conscientious guy.
I think Leon is a very conscientious guy.
He goes to church every day.
Yes, and he's constantly washing his hands, but he can never get them clean enough.
Okay, here he goes.
I still think sometimes you have to do things that are not nice.
Fight no war.
I don't think.
It's a tough one for me.
Robin, I'm on the tough side of this one.
I think we've got to fight our enemies.
Yeah, see, and that's not a false choice, is it?
So I think we have to fight our enemies, as opposed to the people who are against these drone attacks who say, hey, let our enemies take over New York.
Is that who you're talking about, Chris?
You know that they're actually giving medals now to soldiers who sit in Arizona with a joystick and fly the drones?
No.
Yes, they do.
What's the medal?
For kills?
For kills.
For kills, yeah.
And Purple Hearts for Carpal Tunnel.
I'm being serious.
You can actually get a medal now for flying a drone.
That's unbelievable.
And this is our liberal station, by the way.
This is Chris Hardball on the liberal station.
MSNBC.
MSNBC.
And yes, Chris, sometimes you have to do things that are not nice.
Yeah, when I hear not nice, I think that means, you know, he has to tell me if I had a bad set.
I don't like that too.
Like, that you have to kill innocent people.
Yeah, not nice kind of implies you're going to give it to me straight about my haircut.
You know what I mean?
And also, you know, just the, I just hate that he says that he goes to church every day as if that's an indication of his virtue.
Whereas George W. Bush actually told Carl Bernstein that he consulted with the Heavenly Father when he went to war with Iraq.
You know, so it's like bringing religion into it just makes everything much worse in terms of war.
We all know people who are religious can't possibly be immoral or horrible people.
Yeah.
Right?
It's not like they harbor pedophiles or anything.
Oh, no.
Yeah, Cardinal Mahoney, he's a good guy.
He's a really good guy.
He's a really nice guy.
He lives in church.
The 16-year-olds who see a rocket from a drone coming at them are probably going, well, at least the guy who ordered this goes to church everywhere.
He must know what he's doing.
He must know what he's doing.
At least he's not arresting me.
Sometimes you have to do things that are not nice and don't really work and explode in our face somewhere down the road and are illegal.
Glad we settled that one.
Is it anybody at all worried how this is going to go down in five years, in 10 years, when all the other countries start having drones?
How about L.A. getting drones?
How about it?
Well, that's the bigger question.
So now we're killing people in other countries that we're not at war with.
So now what happens when those countries like Yemen and Pakistan and Afghanistan and wherever else we're killing people.
I'm sure in Egypt, I'm sure all over.
What happens when those people get drones, when those countries get drones, and they want to kill their enemies in our country, and they just start dropping bombs in our country?
That won't happen.
As long as they buy the drones from us, it will be okay.
It won't happen.
We will shoot them down so fast it'll make their heads.
But isn't that the thing?
They'll end up spending $500 a week just on drones.
But the thing about the drones is that, isn't it that they go under satellite?
Isn't that the thing?
But we have.
They go under the radar, much like Frank and my career.
And just as deadly.
Okay, so here we go.
They don't have stealth drones.
Don't worry.
My career can infiltrate Russian airspace.
So here I'm watching Morning Joe, and here's what they had to say.
They were talking to Donnie Douche.
I don't know if you know who that, Donnie Deutsch, Johnny Deutsch.
I'm sorry.
I seems like a douche, but it's Deutsch.
He shortened it for show business.
So here's Donnie Douche.
Heutschmarks.
He does get paid in douche marks.
So here he is talking about, they asked him, Willie Geis, they asked him a tough question.
And again, the self-here's here's Joe Scarborough, and here's what he has to say about it.
And again, the self-righteousness, the hypocrisy of the left to go suddenly silent when we're now talking about targeting and killing Americans without any due process, without any evidence.
There's a double standard here.
And I just want everybody that said what they said about George W. Josh, who, by the way, briefed Dianne Feinstein, briefed Jay Rockefeller, briefed Democrats in charge of the Intel Committee.
Yes, so when George Bush briefed Democrats about exactly what he was doing, the only thing Bush didn't tell them was that he was making shit up so he could start a war.
Left that out.
He's got a little bit more to say.
Meeting back in 2002 about exactly what they were doing.
I want those people to apologize to George W. Bush.
So I don't know if you caught that.
So he's saying that Democrats who are okay with Barack Obama doing his drone attacks, they're hypocritical because they criticize George Bush for all the illegal war crime stuff that he did.
So what do Joe Scarborough is not saying, hey, why don't you hold Barack Obama to the same standard you held George Bush?
What Joe Scarborough is saying is, hey, let's not hold anybody to any standards.
He's upset that we ever hold our political leaders to standards.
No, a double standard is worse than no standard.
Yes, at least you have a standard somewhere.
He's saying literally, apologize to George Bush because we should never hold presidents accountable for anything.
And when, you know, whenever the Constitution is being shredded, the first thing I always think is, we should apologize to George W. Bush.
That's the first person I'm concerned about.
That is.
And now.
When I saw George Bush's paintings the other day, I apologize to David Hockney.
Good job.
Have you seen Bush's oil paintings?
They're literally pictures of oil.
LAUGHTER I'm sorry.
Joining us now, Speaker of the House, John Boehner.
Hey, Speaker, how are you doing, buddy?
Hey, Jimmy.
Hey, before we start the interview, how about a little foreplay first?
Okay, Speaker Boehner, I just want to talk to you about Obama's State of the Union speech.
Can we talk about the State of the Union speech, please?
Geez, Jimmy.
It's Valentine's Day.
You're not romantic at all.
I feel sorry for your wife.
I really do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, guess what?
My wife isn't an orange man, okay?
Well, she could be if you just showed all creativity of a sack.
Can we talk about the state of the union, please?
Can we just talk about the state of the union, please?
Jesus, Jimmy, what do you expect me to say?
You know what I think of Obama, so you know that I thought it sucked ass.
Yeah, yeah, you really didn't look like you were enjoying yourself even a little bit back there.
The only positive thing I'll say is that it was very restful because I barely got up out of my chair during the whole speech.
A lot of the stuff Obama went on about voting rights, putting country before party, economic opportunity, is not the kind of thing anyone would stand up and cheer for.
You don't believe in putting country before party?
Of course not.
What am I, gay?
Fair enough, I will say I like Obama's drone program.
Death from the sky with lots of collateral damage.
Fuck yeah.
But Boehner, his foreign policy, yes, Obama is decidedly bush-like.
Oh, there's that SE Cup again.
God damn.
I'm sorry, watch an MSNBC while we're doing this.
Okay.
Can we get back to the can we get you're saying that Obama is decidedly bush-like?
That's what the truth is.
Oh, give me a break.
Could you imagine Obama strutting across an aircraft carrier in a flight suit, maybe a bellhop uniform?
Listen.
Speak it up.
Who put that Touré guy on television?
Okay, listen.
Can we get back to the president?
Turn off MSNBC, would you?
And let's get back to the President's State of the Union speech.
Can we, please?
Oh, you mean his manifesto?
Yes.
Why doesn't Obama have the decency to hole up in a big bear cabin and get himself burned?
Wow.
Well, excuse me, Mr. Boehner, but you seem to be a bit of a racist terror today.
Racist?
How could I be a racist?
Before Obama came along, I was the most colored man in Washington, D.C. No, Grant.
Speaker, you're sounding a little bitter today, really.
Nothing of a smart.
I am deeply passionate about jobs and equality and opportunity, and I'm even more passionate about obstructing all of those things.
But why must you obstruct everything?
What about the laws to stop gun violence?
Do you have to obstruct those too?
Well, I am much more concerned with preserving a little thing called the Second Amendment.
Ever heard of it?
And if innocent men, women, and children have to be massacred once or twice about to help preserve it, well, I think that's something we could all live with.
You know, yeah, well, guess what?
I can't live with that.
I don't want to live with that.
And a lot of other people can't live with that either, Mr. Speaker.
I have to tell you that.
Look, Jimmy, okay, I bet a lot of families were totally devastated by the tragedy of Newtown.
But what about all the families that weren't affected by it?
Who speaks for them?
Speaker Boehner, you know what?
I've heard enough.
I'd like to thank you for joining us.
Have a happy Valentine's, happy Valentine's Day to you, Mr. Speaker.
Jimmy, why don't you take a heart-shaped box of chocolates, shove it up your ass, then rub your date dry with an assortment of fruity flavors, you stinky WAP piece of shit.
Okay.
All right.
Thank you.
Goodbye, Mr. Speaker.
I hope you enjoyed that John Boehner sketch as much as I did.
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A lot of fun stuff coming up.
We've got Haley Barber, the phone call from the cruise ship guy, and a lot, lot more.
We've got Haley Barber.
Welcome back to the Jimmy Door Show.
Coming up in this second half hour of the show, we're going to have some phone calls from Mississippi Governor Haley Barber, who offended the tea party.
Plus, we're going to get a call from a comedian who's on the Carnival Cruise Ship that's stranded at sea.
Right now, I'm joined in the studio by Frank Connoff from Mystery Science Theater 3000 and by former writer for The Daily Show, Steve Rosenfield.
Three-time Emmy Award-winning writer David Feldman is with us and the originator and host of the Uncabaret Show.
It's Beth Lapitas, plus hilarious comedian Robert Yesamer and the host of Comedy to Everything Else, Steph Zamarano.
Let's get back to the studio.
So here is Harry Reid.
Now, this is what I call my I'm not gay moment.
So, you know, in order to be for gay marriage, you know, I'm not gay and I'm for gay marriage.
So this is the guys, anybody who wants to regulate guns.
By the way, why are we letting gun lovers regulate guns?
It's the only people who seem to get a seat at the table are people, even Gabby Giffords.
Gabby Giffords is like, we're gun owners, right?
Here we're not, we're gun owners, and we want, you know what, let me just say, I love bacon, and if I regulated it, each package would have eight slices instead of 12.
And you know what would happen?
Instead of just dying of a heart attack, I'd first get pissed off, and then I'd die of a heart attack.
And my friends, that is the kind of reform we need.
So here's Harry Reid doing his I'm not gay moment.
He sat down with George Snuffle up again to let us know how much he loves guns.
But let me just give you a little background here.
I had guns from the time I was a little boy.
I don't want anymore, but I did.
I've got lots of guns.
I keep them for sentimental reasons.
But I'm a police officer.
Right over here is my badge.
I was a police officer.
I carried a gun.
That was what he did.
Put myself through law school.
My dad killed himself, shot himself with a gun.
That's why he keeps going for all the reasons.
I really hated my gun.
You can't have this gun.
I really hated myself.
This gun fulfilled my edible conflict.
Because there's nothing.
What's more romantic and sentimental than a bloodstained muzzle from your father's gun?
It's like I was waiting, you know, if that interview would have went on two more minutes.
I was expecting Harry Reid to take him for a little like spinal tap tour of all his guns, you know, when the guy did the guitar.
It's like, you see this gun?
If you listen really closely, you can still hear the bang from when my father blew his head off.
Wow.
Yeah.
And this gun over here goes to 11.
Well, you know, a lot of people don't know why his father committed suicide.
He suffered from having Harry Reid as a son.
And Harry Reid is a Mormon.
So in Harry Reid's life, caffeine bad, guns good.
I know.
Nice priorities.
He's also married to a Jewish woman.
Maybe if Harry Reid's dad.
Go ahead.
My father, my father died of a heart attack.
So, you know, I'm hoping to get a stroke for sentimental reasons.
Frank, isn't it?
So anyway, Harry Reid, Frank.
He's Mormon, but he's married to a Jew.
He believes in multiple nags.
You know, let me just say this.
You know, him being a Mormon, maybe if Harry's dad had a little scotch and coffee from time to time, maybe he wouldn't have blown his head off.
You ever think of that?
Who doesn't need a drink sometime?
This Sunday, I'll be performing on a legendary show in Los Angeles called the Uncabaret, which is at First and Hope downtown Los Angeles.
And Beth Lapitas, who originated the show and hosted, is here right now to tell us about it.
Let's sit down and talk with Beth.
So we're here with Beth Lapitas, and she is the curator, originator, and performer host of the Uncabaret Show, which is a famous show here in Los Angeles.
I remember when I first saw it, I was thrilled by it.
And now I'm even more thrilled that I get to be a part of it sometimes.
It's thrilling for me to have you.
Oh, it's super.
Scent to be here.
We're all thrilled.
We got your coffee.
We're very excited.
Yes.
Now tell me, where do we do?
Tell people what the Uncabaret show is.
Well, Uncabaret is a comedy show that has a large storytelling element without being a storytelling show.
It's more personal point of view.
First time out material.
We mix comedy and music now.
We've brought music in.
And it's what's known as an alternative comedy show is one of the first alternative comedy shows.
And because it's first time out material, it's very conversational comedy.
Do you think that describes it?
Was that way to describe it?
Yes.
Do you want the three-hour answer?
No, that's the good one.
Okay.
That's a good one.
Every show, every show has its own unique flair.
But it's not going to be the kind of comedy you hear on a carnival cruise line.
Generally, that's a great, I would say an under, it would be un that.
It would be uncarnival.
Uncarnival.
And tell the people some of the performers who've graced your stage over the years.
That's why I bring the paper.
Cracing the stage.
Margaret Chow, Roseanne Barr, Patton Oswalt, Rick Overden, you, David Feldman, I believe, was there.
Jeff Garland.
Jeff Garland.
Kevin Nealon.
Go ahead.
Because this is Kathy Griffin, Scott Thompson.
First time I ever saw Kathy Griffin was at your show.
Janine Garoflo, David Cross, Bob Oden Kern.
Wow.
Andy Dick, Andy Kindler.
The whole Andy's.
All the Gregs.
Greg Proops, Greg Barrett, and Greg Fitzsimmons.
All the Greggs.
And in fact, those three Gregs, all three of them were on the Amazon.
We just finished four episodes for Amazon Instant Video.
Oh, that's great.
Thank you.
And all three Gregs are in them as well.
Sandra Bernhardt, Tig Nataro.
Now, when I did the show, the first time I did it, it was also Ileana Douglas was on the show.
Yes, she's just started doing it.
And she did a great job.
She told a fantastic story.
And then I went over to say hi to her, and I was like, hello, dude, and I didn't know what to say, and I walked away like an idiot.
I just re-saw her Cape Fair thing.
She was amazing.
Oh, really?
Well, we've tried to bring in some of the actors and actresses to do the storytelling.
I like to mix people who do a lot of stand-up, but this isn't their act with people who don't really ever do stand-up but are in great command of their storytelling and musicians who have a little bit of funny in between the songs.
So those are the three kind of main areas.
And the venue is different now.
Yes, we've moved.
This is probably our fifth venue, all told.
And I love it.
It's a beautiful showroom called First in Hope downtown across from Disney Hall, Caddy Corner from the Music Center.
Wow.
The Colburn School.
Yes.
Yeah, I think it's a good idea.
I want to say yes.
I love that area.
It's beautiful, isn't it?
Yeah, it's like a little cultural hub of downtown Los Angeles.
It's a great space to do that show.
I love it.
And you like it.
Performing in it.
It's very performer-friendly.
It's 90 people packed.
This sounds so corny, but the seats are really comfortable.
The seats are really great watching seats.
And I've had musicians say this is a great listening room, which doesn't really exist that much in Los Angeles.
It's a great room.
And so hang out.
I've always tried to create a place with Uncabaret, not just a show, a place where you come.
You can come.
Audiences can come and come back because everybody's, there's not an act, so you can see the same person over and over.
Julius Weeney, that's another name she's probably mentioned.
Pat, it's Pat.
So who's going to be?
Now, I'm going to be on the show this Sunday, right?
You are.
You are going to be on the show with Pat and Oswald.
Oh, really?
A guy named David Mills, who comes to us from London.
He's a friend of Margaret's shows, and she brought him in.
Kara Soltanovich, who I believe is the case.
Oh, sure.
I know they are very well, yeah.
And a beautiful singer who's married to Harry Schur.
Oh, no.
And Judith Owen.
Look at that.
And she's also British, so there's a little British flair this weekend.
And where can people go?
Now, if people want to get tickets, where can people go?
They can go to uncabaret.com, U-N-C-A-B-A-R-E-T.com, and that will take them to our, I think we've all become very familiar with Laugh Stub.
Yes.
Of course.
Yes, I am familiar with that.
They can go directly to Laughstub if they like.
Or our Facebook page will also take you to the show.
Okay, so uncabaret.com.
Yes.
And that's this Sunday shows at 8 p.m.
The show is at 8.
And this week we will start, for those of you who are coming to the show, I know we usually start late.
We will probably start closer to time this week.
Okay, so you know, so the U.S. Postal Service is now, the Congress passed a law in 2006 in a lame duck session on a voice vote, and the intention of it was to bankrupt the post office.
And guess what they did?
Because up until 2006, the post office had zero deficit.
And let's remember, the post office takes no taxpayer money, and it pays for itself.
And all the workers at the post office are union and well-paid.
So there's a business that delivered a service that everybody liked.
It pays its workers well, and it had no deficit.
And so what did the government do?
We got to get rid of that.
We can't have that because that's sitting around.
Everybody could point to the post office as a government that works.
So they had to get rid of it.
And they did.
So they're getting rid of it right now.
And so what they've done is passed a law that makes that United States Postal Service have to fund, pre-fund their health and benefits to their employees for 75 years.
No other company, no other agency has that burden.
But they put that on the post office because they knew it would bankrupt them.
So right now they're like $16 billion in deficit.
And like most of that is because of this, because they have to spend $6 billion a year to fund their 75 years of health care for their workers.
So it's great.
I'm sorry, but I was going to say that the line that the people who are anti-post office give you is that email and the internet has killed the post office where it is, in fact, the internet has increased people buying things through the mail, ordering stuff from Amazon.
So it's actually been a good thing for the post office.
Also, Frank, the last year that they have statistics, there was a billion point zero seven visits to brick and mortar United States post offices in 2010.
A billion point zero seven visits to brick and mortar, brick-and-mortar United States post.
So people are still using it.
Yes, first-class mail is down by about 30%.
But they won't let the post office explore other opportunities to make money because then they're competing with the lobbyists with the private sector.
So the post office is a public option when it comes to mail delivery, right?
And they do it.
By that, it is a hugely stabilizing factor in the market.
Yes.
It keeps DHL and UPS and FedEx from raising their rates to insane levels.
Which they would.
And FedEx, by the way, is set up in a way where all their drivers are contractors.
They're not workers.
So there's no union at FedEx, right?
And UPS showed about five years ago their unwillingness to pay their people and also to take on full-time employees to have to pay them.
Right.
I don't know.
I just think we should let the market decide to destroy this.
Yes.
So there's a lot of people.
Don't forget, though, that when FedEx merged with Kinko's, it made going their so pleasure.
Oh, yeah.
You see how the private sector, the people go, why don't you let the private?
I have a friend who says, why should the government have a monopoly on first-class mail?
Why don't you let people compete?
Yeah, so we can turn.
So FedEx is going to merge with UPS, and they're going to call it FedUps, which is what I am with these sons of the bitches.
Yeah, I said it.
I'm not afraid, Jimmy.
Hopefully they'll privatize the paper.
Just be positive about it for a minute.
You know, this was a big deal for me.
A few months ago, I went to a Kinko's, and I actually made eye contact with one of the people.
Yeah, so maybe, you know, if they privatize the post office, we'll be getting the kind of top-knop capitalist service that we get when we, you know, fly in an airline or go to the Kinko's or our cable.
Or our cable.
You know how we can.
Or our phone.
You know how responsive the cable company is to you, right?
ATNC.
I can't get my iPhone to work in my house.
And the lady from ATT said to me, maybe you should try Sprint.
I say give that woman a race.
So I'm watching CNN, and they're covering the problems with the United States Postal Service.
Now, I showed it last week on the show.
They mention it, what the real problem is, but this time they don't even mention what the real problem is.
Here we go.
Historians note.
Post offices are forever stamped into the Constitution, but the Postal Service still suffers from a bloated bureaucracy and legacy costs like paying for the health care benefits of future retirees.
So there you go.
Again, I'll play it again.
Historians note, post offices are forever stamped into the Constitution, but the Postal Service still suffers from a bloated bureaucracy and legacy costs like paying for the health care benefits of future retirees.
Yeah, so it makes it sound like it's just this big, inefficient organization.
Yeah, the hardest part about fixing a bloated bureaucracy, David, is pretending it's bloated when it isn't and pretending you want to fix it.
They don't want to fix it because then they went and they talked with what's that guy's name?
Daryl Issa.
Right?
So he's in charge of the friend of the show.
He's in charge of the committee.
House Oversight Committee.
Yes.
So that kind of deals with the post office.
And here's what he had to say.
House Oversight Committee Chairman, Daryl Issa says changes are long overdue.
Yes, of course.
Long overdue.
Sure.
I mean, come on, forever stamps?
What eagle maniacs?
Okay.
Nothing lasts forever.
How long are they going to bleed us dry with 46 cents first-class postage?
Come on.
It's time for way overdue.
Times are changing, Jimmy.
Come on.
I'm no longer mailing it anyway.
Daryl Issa is considered an expert on the post office because his committee on contraception was all mail.
Site committee chairman Daryl Isa says changes are long overdue.
Yes, change is long overdue because no matter what Congress does, the United States Postal Service refuses to roll over and die.
And so as long as the government runs the Postal Service, people will always be able to mail letters for a reasonable price.
And that's got to end.
This is what Daryl.
So here he goes on.
Daryl Issa says this.
Now, Daryl Issa, if you don't know, he's been working actively to try to screw over the United States.
He wants to get rid of the Postal Service, right?
But he's pretending he doesn't.
And it's like when they go, hey, we need to reform Medicare.
What they mean is they need to come on into this.
So we need to reform the post office.
He means we need to screw it over so it goes out of business.
This is the beginning of the end of the postal service, Steve.
This is not the beginning of the end of the post service.
This is, in fact, the beginning of the reforms that will allow the post office to deliver a world-class product to every point in America for an affordable price.
And that's what Daryl Issa sounds like when he's completely lying.
That's the tone of voice.
Once again, CNN gets to the bottom of the issue by accepting a douchebag politician's premise at face value.
By the way, he's clearly also positioning himself to attack the public unions in this instance.
Oh, of course.
Yes.
I mean, that's the biggest thing he does.
Yes, these are big.
They're the second biggest employer in the United States.
Walmart is the first.
At CNN, follow-up questions come slower than the mail time.
Yeah, so they're second.
So Walmart is the number one employer in the United States.
The post office second, except everybody at Walmart lives in poverty, and everybody at the post office has a middle-class income.
Right.
Isn't that interesting?
And they want to get rid of it.
Of course they want to get rid of it because it proves it works.
Haley Barber is in the news because he gave an interview in the National Review where he told people not to fund the club for growth, which is really ticking off the Tea Partiers, right?
So Haley Barber, there's that civil war that's happening within the Republican Party of the really wingnut, crazy conservative Tea Partiers and then the regular mainstream Republicans.
So they're having a fight against each other.
And Haley Barber came down on the wrong side, according to the Tea Partiers.
And let's see, I'm going to get him on the phone.
Hello, Governor Haley Barber from Mississippi.
How are you, Governor?
Are you there?
Are you on the line?
Can I hear you?
Hello?
Jimbo, it's me, Haley Barber.
Former two-term governor of Mississippi, a living parody of an old southern redneck.
Hey, Heidi.
I'm Haley Barber.
I know who you are.
Okay.
People are making a big deal out of this interview I did for National Review Magazine because I said Republicans shouldn't give to the club for growth.
Yeah, you know that's going to tick off the tea parties.
What did you think was going to happen, Governor?
What did you think?
Well, hell, I don't know any of those tea party types could read.
I mean, I don't normally say anything negative about it, fellow Republican.
Brownie Reagan told me that.
Back when he would let me sit on his lapping juggle from the band.
Yeah, you can give milk.
A lot of people don't know that.
Are you eating?
Are you eating again while you're talking?
Haley.
Sorry about that, Jimbo.
I had a Tigfoot cutting my lip dial.
A pigfoot?
Now, where have you been?
I've been looking for you everywhere.
You're talking to the Pigsfoot, aren't you, again?
Who's Hallie Barber?
I know who it is.
At least Tea Party Weirdos are killing my beautiful Jesus party.
I didn't miss.
I missed that last part.
What did you say, Haley?
Well, at least Tea Party Weirdos are killing my beautiful Jesus party.
But what do you mean?
What do you mean they're killing your Jesus party?
What are they doing?
They're all like, I believe in stuff, and I'm going to act accordingly.
What?
I don't know.
Yeah, well, I used to believe in stuff, too, until I grew a patch of cubes and found out the price of a BJ in downtown Jackson.
I have no idea what you're talking about, Governor.
We are Republicans' people.
We don't believe in stuff.
We just save shit to win elections.
We don't care about immigration, but the elderly racers vote used to be a sweet blood.
I hear you.
Bounce not.
So Republican Party headquarters headed to Taco Tuesday in the commissary as a little buenos DS to our new light brown masters.
Taco Taco Tuesday sounds fun.
Doesn't sound like it could hurt you guys, right?
I'm Ali Barber.
I know.
I know.
We know who you are.
We know who you are.
Look, I'm going to have to call you back, Jimbo.
Wow.
I've been waiting on a bowel movement for three days now, and I'm finally feeling lucky.
You're feeling lucky about a ball movement.
Is that what you're saying?
Cue the banjo chase music because Haley Barber is out of here.
Okay, that was Governor Haley Barber.
Checking in with us, Governor.
Okay, so I got a Haley Barber.
I got him back on the phone.
Haley, are you there?
I'm back, Jimbo.
False alarm on the pooping thing.
The baby's got to turn downward, and I got to get the town centimetered before anything's going to happen.
Okay.
All right, that's enough about the pooping.
By the way, have you ever heard of one of those Tea Party mole heads?
No, I never have.
They're always going on with smaller government this and smaller government that.
Jesus Christ, don't they know that that's just something we say to make sure our corporate donors don't get properly regulated.
Yeah, we don't mean it.
So you don't mean all the smaller government BS.
You don't even believe it, do you?
Big government is what plays for Riceyon and Alibarton and NCIS Los Angeles.
I'm from goddamn Mississippi.
If it weren't for big government, we wouldn't have electricity.
I mean, we'd have a ringworm down here if it weren't for government that they don't know not to walk barefoot their own faces.
Okay.
Speaking of which, I'm going to call you back, Jimo.
I don't know if this dump is going to happen or not, but I'm going to have Marcia give me an epidural just entice.
Okay.
Okay.
Haley Barber.
Frank, we still got you.
Here's our last Haley Barber.
I'm here.
Here's our last Haley Barber, right?
Okay.
Hello, Haley.
Are you there?
Hayley, Hayley, Hayley.
Jimmy, okay.
I figure I've got about three minutes here before the mighty Kong emerges from a flyer sounding quick.
What the Slam Hale kind of name is Club for Growth anyway.
Yeah, or a serious political organization just like the little rascals.
No, the Club for Growth.
It actually is a catchy name, I think.
It's a good name.
When I imagine the Club for Growth, I picture a bunch of hoodlums hanging out in a converted garral, all carefully scanning the Constitution to see if it says anything for or again getting a BJ in the parkour.
Honestly, Jim Oper Republican, it would be more useful to give money to the Hair Club for men than any club for growth.
Because when they say growth, they're talking about a cancer within my beloved beautiful Caucasian Republican Party.
I'm Haley Barber.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I know who you are, Haley.
Oh, that seems to have taking something loose.
What do you mean?
You mean you're poop again?
Marsha, just put a curtain around me now and light some sage because this thing is happening.
Okay.
Okay, that was Haley Barber.
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So there's a Carnival cruise ship that had a fire in its engine room and is dead in the water in the Gulf of Mexico.
We got a phone call into the comedian who's on his ship there, and here it is right now.
I'm on the phone with the comedian from the Carnival cruise ship that's lost at sea.
It's Gerd Gunderson.
Hey, Gerd, how are you?
Hey, Timmy Dora.
I think we worked together back in Chicago in probably about 1987.
Oh, Kevin.
You know, you remember me?
No, I didn't start comedy then.
I was still nuts.
I was in college.
Oh, wrong again.
Okay.
Hey, but life is nuts, right?
Sometimes you forget stuff.
How are you doing?
I'm doing good.
How was it going on that ship?
Oh, great, great.
I was just trying to figure out what time the midnight beface tied.
Hey, is this elevator going to the front of the ship?
I don't know.
I do not know.
How are you?
Oh, it's good to hear some ship humor.
That's great.
Hey, yeah.
I've been on the boats for a while.
It comes out of me like it comes out of my pores.
Now, I understand that there's a problem with the electricity.
There's only five bathrooms working.
Yeah, a little cramped there as far as that stuff goes.
But yeah, we're just, you know, doing the regular old pooping in bags and tossing them over the boat, you know, into the water.
Probably, you know, that old thing.
But hey, whatever.
You know, life is nuts.
I'm getting a lot of great material out of this.
A lot of great, a lot of funny, crazy stuff.
Two men almost had a knife fight last night on the deck.
Wow.
Well, it's amazing that you're staying so upbeat.
Hey, what are you going to do?
You know, I mean, the life is nuts.
I'm a dad.
You know, I got three kids.
You know, everything's unpredictable.
You know, you make plans, and then God laughs at them and everyone else around you, apparently.
It's crazy.
So, yeah, just trying to, you know, have a good time.
Keep it clean.
The eight o'clock show is clean still.
Still doing some.
I'm doing, I'm kind of, you know, there's the kind of activity schedule sort of broken down on a cruise at this point.
People are kind of doing their own thing.
But I'm still trying to do, you know, I'm still doing my part, you know, kind of walking around the deck, you know, trying to do some just table jokes for folks, you know, trying to enjoy look to the cruise, trying to, you know, give, you know, people are pooping in a bag or something.
I'm not going to walk up to them and start cracking wise, of course.
But, you know, there's times.
Yeah, you really sound like you're really handling this in an upbeat cruise ship comedian manner.
It's really, you know, sewage, raw sewage kind of coming up from the carpets in a lot of the cabins and going down kind of, you know, on the walls, kind of like Amdeville horror.
But hey, you know, stuff happens.
I'm not going to, I'm going to keep that one clean, but it does.
It does happen.
But so now, are you angry at the Carnival Cruise Line for letting people?
Oh, no.
I'm telling you, I tell everyone, Carnival is still the way to go if you want an affordable cruise, especially in the Caribbean.
They're a bunch of first-rate kind of folks, stand-up folks, and I get a lot of work from them.
They do a lot of the boats, and I really am going to stand by them in this situation.
The bags that they handed out to us to poop in are nice.
They're not bad plastic bags.
They actually are doing the best they can.
They're good, you know, soft bags.
They're not irritating.
Okay.
You know, I'm getting a little bit of a rash around what we call the red rings now, which is what we call the irritation around our bums from pooping in bags.
But that's Carnival says that's normal.
Sure, sure.
That's normal.
Okay.
Well, do you have, so do you have any date?
Do you think when you're going to make it back to land?
I think today we're going to land in Alabama.
And that'll be great.
Hey, look out.
You know, I'm going to try not to marry my sister when I get there.
Just kidding.
Good people there in Alabama.
A lot of fun.
I've done some fun shows there.
I've never heard somebody.
I did some sobel dates down there.
I never heard of somebody taking a cruise ship to Alabama, but I guess there's a first for everything, huh?
Hey, mobile, you know, they would say mobile, but, you know, you got to say mobile when you're down south.
more like mobile home you know what I mean because they're poor I'm just kidding they're great folks and just jokes just jokes and faith okay okay well Gerd thanks for talking with us taking time out from your hellhole hey check me out at gerdgunnerson.com slash Facebook okay okay we'll we'll like you on Facebook it's basically my my website now just goes to my uh Facebook
page so really it's uh gerdgunnerson.com slash Facebook slash Gerd Gunnerson okay so you'll see all my upcoming dates uh on earth and on sea hey maybe a few in space too who knows sometimes I go a little crazy uh you never know where you'll see me I've got some YouTube clips too oh okay we will check we weren't together maybe it was early 90s I don't know you were funny man you
were you were funny i remember you funny that's very funny gert it was uh just funny that's very nice of you to say i appreciate it gert thank you very much okay can you get me in with lewis in vindiapolis um i'll see what i can do you know says sure i'll send them these boats are great but you know sometimes they they uh you know sometimes things break down and you're yeah you know in sort of a Lord of a Fly's shit
situation, and
on a shit boat you know i'm just kind of you know i'm 30 years in trying to avoid that kind of stuff yeah i understand 30 years in i got it yeah yeah okay gerd well uh good luck to you and good luck telling jokes on the seas hey look i'm gonna need it pal thanks for calling okay gerdgunerson.com thanks for listening today's show was written that's right it was written by frank conniff robert yasamura steve
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