Mark Klavan praises comedians Trevor Lewis and Sean Jordan for lighter, life-focused routines—like Lewis’s relaxed racial observation or Jordan’s IVF honesty—contrasting them with divisive "woke" trends he claims stifled comedy, while critiquing Luis C.K.’s divorce bit as hypocritical. He promotes Pre-Born’s research on post-abortion trauma, urging donations for free ultrasounds ($28) to "save babies," then ties this shift back to broader cultural relief, arguing comedians now lead meaningful conversations instead of shock-value dogma. [Automatically generated summary]
And comedians are actually kind of interesting because they pick up on things that are in the atmosphere and you will find new subjects coming up that weren't there before.
And so that's what we'll be talking about because these are very recent comedy shows.
And one of the most important things to know about comedians is they make very good comedians and very bad philosophers.
So we're going to see if they're philosophizing, we'll see how bad they are.
And if they're doing comedy, we'll see if they're any good.
All right, let's take a look at the first one.
My parents, they got divorced when I was about 10.
And I have kids now, and their parents are divorced also.
I remember when we told our kids that we were going to divorce.
Get divorced, you should tell your children.
So we had to do it carefully because they were five and two years old at the time.
So we had to put it in a way that they could comprehend.
So I remember we sat them down and I said, okay, listen, you know how you love your dog?
You love your dog.
Like sometimes you give your dog food from your plate.
You're not supposed to, but you do that because you love your dog.
Remember the other day your mom and I were like, don't give the dog any ham, but you did because you love your dog.
Okay, so that's why we're getting a divorce.
Because you don't listen.
We just can't take it anymore.
It's just too hard to not be listened to.
So we're going to move to separate homes and each have you for half the week because neither of us wants to have you all the time anymore.
That's Luis C.K. Always good to see that he's back and that he overcame the disgusting things that he was doing that got him canceled.
And that's a very funny routine about the fact that he's obviously a terrible human being.
Because if you get divorced when your kids are five and two, you deserve to go to hell.
I'm sorry.
That is a terrible thing.
You have just essentially blown your children's planet up.
Marriage is the planet your children live in and you've blown it up.
So at least at least his jokes was about what a terrible person he was.
And he's always incredibly funny.
He's a really funny comic.
In my experience, black people are less uptight about race than white people are.
I used to drive DoorDash in a ski town and let's be honest, not a lot of black people ski.
So I was driving DoorDash and I pulled into a busy parking lot and I called up my guy.
I said, hey, I got your food.
I'm in a silver Nissan rogue.
And he said, all right, I'm black.
I found him.
I was surprised he said that.
But he was being helpful because there were more silver Nissan rogues than black people in that parking lot.
All right, that's Trevor Lewis.
That was mildly amusing, I would say, but it was kind of relaxed.
It's kind of the woke cloud seems to have passed a little bit.
Let's hope that's true because woke was the death of comedy as it was the death of creativity.
It was the death of plotting.
It was the death of casting.
It was the death of art.
During the woke period, art died.
There was almost no good material that was not being written by me.
That is why you should only buy my books because I was there when there was nothing else to read and I'm still here now and you should support me.
So that was mildly amusing, but at least it was relaxed.
All right, here is Sean Jordan.
I have to say, I've never heard of these guys, so they're pretty new.
Let's see what he has to say.
I have a daughter.
Sure, you can tell by looking at me.
She was actually born in this blanket.
Seriously, we watched it, but she was born in this.
Our little miracle, I love her so much.
We went through IVF to get our daughter.
You guys know what IVF is?
It's expensive.
That's what it is.
About $20,000.
People ask if I'm going to bring that up to our daughter, if I'm ever going to mention that she cost $20,000.
If that's ever going to like work its way into a conversation naturally, that she cost $20,000 American dollar.
Yeah, I'm going to bring that up.
Of course, that's insane.
It's hard to talk about something else when somebody owes you $20,000.
Probably more like $30,000 by the time she finishes college, actually.
Which she will do.
All right.
She's going to go to the University of South Dakota and finish what her father started.
All right.
Again, mildly amusing, but also kind of nice, parenthood and honest about parenthood.
I try to bring up every penny I spent on my children, almost every time I see them, I think.
And, you know, and then just remind them that they owe me so big that they never really pay me back.
But they should try.
They should try, but it's an impossible thing.
So, yeah, that was all right.
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Family-Focused Humor00:04:27
We grew up like wild dogs in the 60s.
There was no nutrition.
Nothing of knowledge of nutrition, education, safety.
Can you even imagine the world I am describing?
No helmets, no seatbelts, no restraints.
Anything came to a stop.
We just flew through the air.
I was either eating 100% sugar or airborne.
That was my childhood.
My parents, they did not know where my school was.
They did not know what my grades were.
They didn't know where I was.
I was like a raccoon to my parents.
You know there's one around, but no one's tracking the actual whereabouts.
That's pretty funny.
The thing about Seinfeld is I've never really liked him.
George, is this funny?
It's funny.
You know, like I don't, I don't connect with him in some way, but he's genuinely funny.
He's just a genuinely talented writer and comedian.
And that's funny.
And I'm noticing now, I don't know if this is because I didn't select these.
So I don't know if this is because of the way they're picked, but family-oriented, kind of clean.
I mean, for a while, for a while, I think it started with Robin Williams, who did it.
His version of it was hilarious.
But for a while, every comedian was talking in this minute detail about their private parts, you know, like a little slice of hail in that room.
It's not that funny.
And it's also like if somebody were talking to me like this on the street, I would be edging away.
And it's not making me laugh.
So these guys at least are amusing so far.
These clips are amusing, and they're kind of about life.
This is one thing I've always liked about Louis C.K. that when he talks about sex, he's nowhere near as funny as when he just talks about ordinary life.
And I think observational comedy is where these guys should be, and they haven't been for a long time because anybody can stick his head up his own backside and describe it, which is a lot of what they've been doing.
So interesting, promising, I would say.
I'm not hearing anything that's cracking me up except for Louis C.K.
That was really the funniest one.
But it's promising.
I like that they're moving into more interesting subjects.
Go.
I've just been watching this durant stuff.
It's so sad.
It's like protests and kids crying and people getting killed.
And I realize, oh, this is Minnesota.
What the hell's going on in Minnesota?
Holy shit.
Did that state walk under a ladder?
I mean, it's just such bad luck over there.
It's like George Floyd and the Somali daycare shit.
Now this ice shooting, it's, I don't care what side of the aisle you're on.
This ice shooting is horrible.
It's a bummer.
I mean, who are they hiring?
Alec Baldwin?
Lady in the face.
Holy hell.
Oh, man.
That cop, he's a real Dick Cheney.
But holy moly.
I don't know.
Maybe Derek Chauvin and that cop should start a podcast called The Pizza Twins.
Okay.
Too much?
All right.
I feel bad for Tim Walz.
I mean, that guy, he looks like a Pixar dad.
But I don't know what he's going to do.
He's got to move to Greenland or something.
I don't know where he's going to go.
Okay, okay.
All right.
I thought that was funny.
He got it.
All right.
Don't look, will you?
All right.
These are just swastikas I'm drawing.
I like this guy's style.
Pretty funny.
You know, the little funny leftist stuff.
Yeah, you know, that was, I got to say, that was pretty mild political humor.
You know, I mean, it's been a long time since I've had to, since I've listened to political humor that didn't offend me, even though I was disagreeing with some of it.
It's just like it's been, political humor has been so mean.
Why do you have to be meh?
So I like that.
I liked his style, too.
I thought he was promising too.
Better material, but he could use better material, but his style is good.
So what I would say, if that is a representative selection of stand-up comedy, they're moving into more accessible material.
Not every other word is an F-word and not everything is about sex.
And they're actually talking about life, which I think would be a big, big improvement.
Because for a while, because of woke, things stopped being funny, they stopped being dramatic, they stopped being interesting.
And that would be really lovely if the creative world started to blossom again.
And comedians are oftentimes in the forefront of any movement.