>> It is the end of the week and so it's time to take out the trash.
Brett, this has been such a trashy week, man. How did you choose? Who is your garbage person?
>> My garbage person is Bizzaro Soprano Hasan Piker-
>> What? >> That's Steven Crowder.
>> I guess I needed to be on this thing. This is Steven Crowder. Steven Crowder
is the worst, and he did this. He, like many other bafflingly insecure right-wing talk bots,
has decided that since Ellen Page has come out as trans and become Elliot Page,
it is an opportunity for him to either cash in on what he thinks is a plug and chug easy segment,
or just be a total D-bag for its own sake.
Here's how he covered the Elliott Page news. >> Ellen Page, beloved actress to the
United States- >> Right.
>> Is now a man. Privilege card is now removed. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> Came out as Elliott, by the way. Ellen Page is-
>> I was confused. >> Now Elliott Page.
Listen, just be ready for the attacks. Because as
a straight white male, you are given no quarter. >> And we actually, this is something that's been
a long time coming in here. Louder With Crowder, we actually have the exclusive of the upcoming
first performance of Elliot Page. >> God!
>> Elliot. >>
None of it made sense. Part of it makes me so happy, because you know
that there is an attraction. You know that they get a little aroused by it, and they hate that
about themselves. And also just a side note, Steven Crowder, are you wearing a gun holster?
>> He is alone in a basement with his friends. And he lives a life of such fear
that he has to be armed at all times. That was one of the saddest things that I've ever seen.
Look, I understand that right wingers hate, and fear, are suspicious of transgender individuals.
And so they like the idea of laughing about it. But are they laughing when they see that?
Steven Crowder telling those jokes and getting that polite laughter from his friends.
>> From his best friends. >> That's such a sad existence.
>> From his best friends. >> They didn't think it was funny.
They don't think he's funny, but that's all he has.
>> I have friends like this. >> It's so sad, that is the saddest way to live.
>> I have a friend who, he doesn't have a sense of humor. I'm not gonna tell you his name.
But he doesn't have a sense of humor, but he thinks being mean is funny.
Does that make sense? >> Yeah,
I get that, you have a right winger friend. >> I'll just say the meanest thing I can think
about, and that's funny, because reasons. But there's a difference in that laugh.
There's a laugh when you see something and you're like it's an involuntary action.
But it's like this shout laugh, like all right?
It's like it doesn't pass the Turing test of, well, that's not an actual laugh. That's not
a sense of humor. You're not a person anymore. But I get it, he throws in these jokes. At least
to his credit, he's sometimes, in that video we cut out the part where there was a mistake.
And he called out the mistake in a way that was funny. He does have a sense of humor.
But in this situation, it doesn't even make sense. Elliott is the boy, and ET has a woman's wig on.
>> Yeah, it's so forced. >> It's just a phone it in, crappy.
>> So forced. >> It's not the joke
yet. You're not at even the joke, based on what you think the joke is. But yeah-
>> I will say, actually, I never see his stuff and I don't care. I almost don't even
blame him, either for doing the stuff he does or for it being so bad.
This is a weird thing to say, I guess.
He doesn't even really exist as a human being. He is just a product of a need in the market. There
are sort of base, fearful, hateful right wingers that want to watch videos. And so
the universe manifests someone like Steven Crowder to make videos for them.
>> Like this. >> I doubt he even
cares about this stuff. And then, why is it bad?
Because it doesn't have to be good. It's the same thing as Charlie Kirk. Why do Charlie
Kirk's tweets suck so much? Because he still gets 20,000 retweets without them being good.
Why would he put work into it, if he can get the retweets anyway? It's the
same thing for Steven Crowder. I'm sure there's probably thousands,
or tens of thousands, of right wingers that will think that that half-joke was funny.
And so why would he ever work? Why would he ever improve at it?
There's no reason to, there's no financial incentive.
>> A couple of things, first, I do wanna show this tweet from our guest Sloane
tonight. It's this one that says, imagine somehow managing to be this bad at transphobia.
>> That's funny. >> That's it.
>> See, that's funny. >> It is bad, so that's one point, you're right.
You picked up on it, he's bad at it, it's not. And even Ben Shapiro,
who's supposed to be the smart one, did you play that on the show this week, his response?
>> We did it on The Young Turks. >> Yeah, so on the Young Turks, you did that.
And he just gets it wrong. I also hate the ones who are like,
you're queer. If you're queer, that means you're gay. And it's like no,
the answer to that rhetorical question, you ask it like it's a rhetorical question, but there's
an answer to it. You just aren't, if it bothers you so much that this thing doesn't make sense,
this thing that incidentally doesn't affect you in any way, why not just look up the answer?
That is, and when Steven Crowder does it, he's like, now you're a straight white man. It's like
no, the reason to say queer is it's not, you're not born cisgender. And there's answers to all
that. It is an umbrella term for things- >> If you care.
>> That is actually what you're talking about, that is it.
And obviously, Elliott Page is not gonna get away from all this stuff. And I know
that was just a joke, he'll say. But Elliott's not gonna get away from this stuff, for exact,
that's the reason they use queer is because of answers like that one that you have.
Where it's like, it doesn't fit into my completely narrow-minded,
anti-freedom view of how people should be. >> Exactly, they should conform, exactly.
>> But yeah. Yeah, go ahead. >> Yeah, the Ben Shapiro thing,
I think I was talking, I don't remember who I was talking to about this.
But it's like, I think part of the reason they're so obsessed with transgender,
the process of coming to grips with who you are and then coming out against all these attacks, is
that they are as in a prison as any human is, in terms of identity. They've
come up with all these rules that, in their universe, puts them at the top.
That's why they're willing to do it. And the idea that someone would go against that to
be true to themselves, they don't understand it fundamentally. And they're also, I think, probably
pretty jealous of it. This is an individual that sits amongst friends wearing a gun,
why? Because that's a genuine thing about him?
No, it's a role he has to play. It's another one of these BS things that he has to try to
project as a form of strength, because they don't fundamentally understand strength. I don't know.
>> He's also anti-individualist. >> I hate to even engage with this for this long.
It's such a waste of time. Because these aren't fundamentally honest people. They
don't care about anything that they're saying. He doesn't care about Elliot,
he didn't care about Ellen. He said beloved actress, he didn't care about before Elliot
was Elliot. The whole thing is just so fake, and it's just so obviously driven by money.
Comedy, theoretically, makes you money. That's why some people do comedy. But it also is
supposed to be about something. It is actually art, and what you're seeing right there isn't.
It's just, I'm gonna get some money if I do this. I'll make the joke,
it's sorta required. I don't care, I'm not curious.
I'm just gonna do it. >> Yeah, the question I have for you is,
if he was good, would he be as popular?
You say that they don't have to be good? >> Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
>> I think if they did put thought into it, they wouldn't be in that category anymore.
>> Well, who is the most comedically skilled, conservative comedian that you can think of?
>> I mean, there was, well, he wasn't conservative at the time. But someone that I
bought the books of was Dennis Miller back in the day, cuz I liked obscure references. But
I will say that people like Gutfeld, I talked to a comedian who knows Gutfeld and as like,
okay, so two answers.
One, someone who talked to Gutfeld, it was like, Trump is a nightmare. I don't like this guy. And
he's fun to hang out with, but he's a nightmare and should not run the country. And changed every
bit of that tune, and won't say it in front of the cameras for obvious grift-affiliated reasons.
But at least I think there's probably, as opposed to Waters, who thinks he's the funny guy,
Gutfeld is a comedian. There's a comedian in there going, listen, I'm on stage. I'm gonna
do what I need to do on stage. There's an honesty in that flavor of dishonesty, right?
But Crowder doesn't have that. None of them have it. And I think the only one,
there are comedians that are out there that are skilled, who appeal to total D-bags on the right,
who can tell jokes and do tell jokes. But those comedians who are the most skilled
hit a wall with those people and are like, well, I'm definitely not going to that extent.
There's a guy named Sam Morril who was on Happy Half Hour once.
He has a bit. He's like, listen, the tough part about the free speech,
and I'm gonna butcher it. You should watch it, he has a new special out on his YouTube channel. But
he's like, it sucks that the people who are arguing for free speech are comedians and racists.
It makes it real tough for me to be in that category. Racists, he says something,
he has an analogy. I'm not gonna go into it, you should watch it. But essentially,
the racists latch onto the pro-free speech,
anti-cancel culture comedians, cuz they think they're on the same page.
But as soon as the right wingers keep talking past a certain point, the comedians are like, no, no,
you are crazy. Don't put me in that category. >> Yeah, anyway, that's as mentally engaged as
I wanna be into that whole thing. That is an issue for these individuals to work out for themselves.