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First up,
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And
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And he's performing through June at Joe's Pub at the Public
in New York City, very funny French comedian Gad Elmaleh.
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Um, so as I mentioned earlier, um, Iowa caucus is tonight.
-Yes. -Exciting. -So I think that probably as we're here,
I'm sure the results are-are in. What was that?
-It's exciting times. -It's exciting. -Yeah.
-Can you feel it? -We're gonna find out. We're gonna find out.
-Ooh. -Entertaining. Yeah. Entertaining. -Yeah, I know.
I do want to talk about one of the issues of the election.
Uh, how people keep saying anger is driving this election.
So let's accept that as a premise.
What are people so angry about?
-What are people so angry about in this? -Mm-hmm.
Uh, I-I think Americans love to be outraged anyway.
I mean, they're outraged... Right?
That the McRib only comes once a year, you know? That's...
-that's... -I thought... I thought French people
-would be like this. -Yeah? The French... the French hate this
-as well? -Complaining and... -French people are
-always outraged though. Sacre bleu. -Yeah. Yeah.
-Come on. That's-that's why -(mocking laugh)
-I'm not surprised, right? -Mmm. -Yeah.
-That's just normal to me. -Absolutely.
I mean, I-I think also what it is is some... you know...
whatever you want to call it, the silent majority is losing
certain ground, culturally speaking, in the culture war.
I mean, in essence, they've been, like, manspreading, right,
for a long time and putting their balls here and there
-and... -I don't know.
The silent majority is manspreading?
I'm just trying to break it down so everybody can understand,
you know what I'm saying? I could stay up here, you know...
-I like that analogy. -Thank you. Thank you. I just...
I just tucked my legs in, by the way.
-You just stopped manspreading? -The silent majority's balls
-are spreading out over... -Yes. Well, no, they have spread
-far and wide over a lot of... a lot of people, -Okay.
in their eyes and stuff. And it's like, "Hey, enough."
-You know? Um... -Where do you think that anger's from?
I think if people are angry now, wait till they see
Trump-Trump presidency. They'll be angry as (bleep).
-(audience reacting) -See? They mad already. -Wow.
-He didn't even win yet and they're mad. -It's becoming...
I think that might produce sadness.
-I don't know if it'll produce anger. -People are gonna be
-like, "What?!" -How-how does it feel like to the rest
of the world? D-Do... When-when you hear Americans are angry,
does it seem like we're just petulant children or...
No, no, no, no. I have to say, when I... I got here,
-and it was the beginning of the campaign, right? -Mm-hmm.
And you know what, one day, I was watching television
and it was on mute and I saw the debate.
And I swear, I thought it was a game show.
(laughter)
-And, you know, there's guys -It does kind of feel like that.
-behind the podiums -Right.
and, you know, just one minute for the answer. Like, just...
And that's too short. It's, uh...
You know what I... Okay, you know what I would do
if I was a candidate and they would give me one minute
to say something important to a big country like America?
I would take this minute and offer it to another candidate
and tell him, "This is for you.
Use it to think, really think about what you just said."
(laughter, applause & cheering) -WOMAN: Yeah!
You know, it's interesting, but it-it...
ELMALEH: Because it's going too fast even on Twitter. -Yes.
-I know. -Even on Twitter, we have more characters than that.
-WILMORE: Yeah. -YARD: Yeah. -CARLOS: Yeah.
It's so interesting, Gad, is that
what started the whole thrust of the campaign
was just the small thing that Trump said,
-when he trashed Megyn Kelly... -Mm-hmm.
and, like, Rosie O'Donnell in one sentence,
-race was over at that point. -Yeah. -YARD: Right.
The trashing of women launched him into first place
-from the beginning. -YARD: Wow. -CARLOS: Yeah, yeah.
-Yes. Yeah. -From the beginning where he called Rosie O'Donnell
"a disgusting pig,"
and pretty much threw Megyn Kelly under the bus.
-Yeah. -That shows you anger right there.
-Yeah. -Why would you get mad...?
Why would you support a guy who trashes women like that?
People got to be losing their mind in this country right now.
WILMORE: But what do you think...?
-(applause and cheering) -Yeah, all right, tell me.
So what do you think is fueling it?
Do you think it's jobs? Do you think it's, uh, taxes?
I mean, when Clinton ran in '92, he said... he said,
-"It's the economy, stupid." -CARLOS: Right. -YARD: Mm.
I mean, is Trump saying "It's the Muslim, stupid"?
I mean, what is his thing? Is it...?
Trump is saying it's everybody else except white people
-in America is stupid. That's what he... -CARLOS: Yeah.
That's what he sounds like he's saying.
'Cause I said it before.
Trump came out, and his campaign basically assaulted everybody
-that wasn't Trump or like Trump. -(laughter)
-"It's the Mexicans! It's the Chinese!" -WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
"It's the... it's Middle Easterners
that are coming here and ruining it."
Ain't got nothing to do with the people
that have been running the country forever.
-Yeah. Yeah. -I feel bad. I just got here. I... you know...
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YARD: Ain't got nothing to do with that. -I...
WILMORE: Yeah, yeah. Go ahead.
I feel bad because I just arrived, you know, in America.
YARD & WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
And so, I don't know what to think, really.
But it's very interesting and funny
because I've always think America is great.
-Mm-hmm. -That's why I came here.
And I come here, and I hear this guy.
-He said he's gonna make it great again. -WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
-CARLOS: Right. -So...
-I'm confused, so... -(laughter)
-You know, I get that. I get that. -ELMALEH: No, no, I mean,
-if it's not great... -YARD: Yeah.
-...I want my money back! -YARD: Exactly!
-ELMALEH: Because... -Exactly. -(applause)
What about the the energy that's around Bernie Sanders?
Do you think that's angry energy? Is it restless energy?
-What is it? -CARLOS: I think it's dissatisfaction.
-People feel... -YARD: Yes.
-It's crazy. -WILMORE: It's not anger? Mm-hmm.
It's not anger. It's anger with...
In some ways, it is anger with Obama
-that he hasn't gone far enough to the left. -WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
He hasn't been progressive enough
for some people's tastes. You know what I mean?
Like, Guantanamo's still there.
And, uh... and people thought
that was gonna be closed within the first 100 days.
-WILMORE: Right. -You know?
I mean, just for example. Just for example.
YARD: Yeah, I think with Bernie, people are just sick
and tired of watching the top two percent
-keep getting more richer and richer. -Yeah.
I'm angry about that. I can't speak for other people.
-(applause and cheering) -WILMORE: Well, there is anger.
But I am very angry about that. I am very angry.
I think there is an anger about the divide in the economy.
YARD: Yeah, definitely. I'm sick of that.
The people at the bottom keep getting further
and further on the bottom.
YARD: Not even on the bottom.
Like, people in the middle. Look, I...
WILMORE: Well, the middle is disappearing.
I got to watch these people show off their new yachts
and all this stuff on TV.
-ELMALEH: I show you my yacht? -In the meantime,
I'm sitting on the train. You know what I'm saying?
I'm sitting... I'm on TV, and I got to ride the train to work.
-WILMORE: Right. -CARLOS: Right.
Next... You know what I'm saying?
-So, I mean, right...? -(applause and cheering)
Right, right.
Larry, when I got this job,
I thought those days was over, brah!
-What's going on? -CARLOS: It's true.
WILMORE: Right. Let me ask you this question.
Which candidate...? There's a lot of...
I think there's fear out there, too.
Which candidate do you think scares America the most?
-YARD: I have a tie. -CARLOS: It's a tie.
-My tie is Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. -(applause)
And I'm gonna take it to another level.
WILMORE: All right.
What's scarier than those two being pres...
either one of them being president
is if they run together! That's even scarier.
-That's not gonna happen. -Could you imagine
if something happened to Trump, Cruz is president,
if something happened to Cruz, Trump is president?
-Yeah. -Y'all think y'all mad now, do that!
(laughter, applause)
-Do that. Let's see if you ever smile again! -I...
-We'll be right back! -YARD: Yeah. No...
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