Interesting thing happened on
Fox News the other day.
They came back from break and
Sean Hannity was actually doing
something that he apparently does
all the time and it was being real.
First of all, Sean Hannity being
real is already breaking news.
So let's go to the clip and then
we'll talk about it afterwards.
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Now our villain of the day,
Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell.
[LAUGH] >> That's just awesome.
[LAUGH] >> So
if you caught us coming back from
a break, we'd look just like this.
[LAUGH] >> I think I might like
break Sean Hannity more than I
like on air Sean Hannity.
Of course what America really wants
to know is what's he vaping,
[LAUGH] that I really,
really want to know.
But I think he's mainly embarrassed
because he looked like
the Penguin there.
Like, I tell you.
Okay, here's what's
coming up next with Adam Schiff.
[LAUGH] I love the padding too,
there's nothing better than this.
All right, David, what's your sense
of what Darth Vaper was up to?
>> Well, first of all,
I thought he was a contacts guy,
not a reading glasses guy.
So that was sort of surprising.
So the gig is up on that.
I mean, Sean Hannity has been
around broadcasting so long,
he must have had plenty of
experiences, as we all have,
of you have a technical problem.
The IFB doesn't work,
the producer forgets to cue you or
they cue you early and
suddenly you're on air.
That's why they always say back in
journalism school, 15-20 seconds
before the little light's supposed
to come on, maybe you just want to
be ready for anything.
So I'm sure he's had this
happen before.
I'm not surprised that it happened,
I'm surprised that
he seemed to get so upset about it.
I mean.
>> Yeah, yeah, that's right.
To me it's like, okay,
you were human for a second.
You'll be all right, dog.
[LAUGH] >> Yeah, to me this is
Hannity hamming it up.
He's a professional wrestler.
That's what he is,
he's playing the heel, so to speak.
He's no different than a Bam Bam
Bigelow, or King Kong Bundy, for
my old school, WWE fans out there.
And [LAUGH] I'll never forget
watching I'm a Jon Stewart
interview where he talked about
meeting Hannity for the first time.
They were at some convention or
something and Hannity was being
really gracious to him, like,
hey, man.
He's tapping him on
the shoulder like it's just an act.
We're just having fun, right?
We're just playing characters,
none of this stuff is real.
To Hannity, it's all performance.
The whole thing is just one long,
like you said, he's a method actor.
He never stops performing, but
it is a performance.
He's conscious of what he's doing.
He's good at understanding that
little wink and nod to the camera.
He's an actress, I mean an actor,
excuse me.
[LAUGH] >> He knows what
he's doing.
>> He's that too.
[LAUGH] >> All right, well then,
Method Man wound up talking to
Laura Ingraham about it
in the transition to their program.
So they decided, okay, well that
was a little too red-handed,
let's play it off,
let's joke around about it.
Okay, that's good thinking,
let's see how it turned out.
Laura Ingraham, sorry,
I took your time.
>> Wait, am I on camera right now?
>> Yeah, I know.
Hi!
>> [LAUGH] I'm sure we'll make
the headline somewhere tomorrow.
>> It happens to the best
of us, Hannity.
I mean, those little
moments are cute.
Those are in the forever reel of
the real Hannity.
>> That is the real Hannity.
>> We want to know you.
>> So I made bar stools with my one
day and my son calls me and
he goes, Dad that's so cool,
you made bar stools.
My daughter calls and says, Dad,
that's humiliating.
Well- >> I can't please everybody.
>> The real Sean Hannity was
awesome show.
[LAUGH] >> Thank God.
All right. >> All right.
>> Enjoy it. >> Thank you.
>> Everybody at my expense.
I have a good sense of humor.
>> It's fine,
I will get back to my water.
>> Yeah, it didn't look like he
enjoyed it.
[LAUGH] Look, I like that
they tried to play it off.
And look,
nobody on the right is funny.
So that was as good as it gets with
Laura Ingraham,
like was I drinking water?
You see how I was
making fun of the situation, Sean.
I do, okay.
But at least they were half human
there.
[CROSSTALK] >> Yeah, semi human.
>> A little disturbing though, for
a lot of people who don't know that
Sean Hannity has kids to think,
my god, this guy has reproduced?
I mean, who would want to do that
with him?
[LAUGH] >> So there's that element
of the story as well.
But- >> Well, on that front,
they probably think the same of us.
Let's keep it real.
>> Indeed. [LAUGH] >> And
also it must be nice to have
a really rich dad.
Sean Hannity is filthy freaking
rich, so that's nice.
[LAUGH] >> Is there any chance that
that's pot?
>> Well.
>> Yeah, I think there's a chance,
I think there's a chance,
absolutely.
I can see Sean Hannity getting down
and partying, for sure.
I could see.
>> Well, I was going to say it'd be
hard to remember his talking
points if he's doing a [INAUDIBLE]
[LAUGH] >> On the other hand,
he's got a prompter, so
he doesn't really have to remember.
>> Yeah,
I could see him getting down.
But that's more than likely that's
just a regular e cigarette.
But Sean Hannity, I would imagine
is decent at parties, definitely
better than Bill O'Reilly, who just
seems like the biggest freaking
stick in the mud that ever was.
But Sean Hannity, I could see him
getting down on the dance floor,
having a good time,
chugging some beers.
>> Full disclosure,
I was at Fox News for
the first five years,
from 96 to about 2002.
And I remember playing pool,
and having beers with Sean Hannity
at some event in New York, and
he was a gem.
He was funny, he was kind, he was
outgoing, he was engaging, and even
back then he would sort of joke
about his on air persona, whereas
Bill O'Reilly would sort of sit in
the corner if he came at all and
would just sort of be a curmudgeon.
So yeah, you're right.
Sean Hannity is sort of a nice,
fun guy, it's just,
I wish, I don't know, that sort
of human side of him- >> Right.
>> Was actually a greater part
of the TV stuff.
>> He's a huge freaking sell out,
of course, but again,
I'm sure he's nice to his kids.
>> Yeah, I say one more.
>> Even right wingers are nice to
their kids, Cenk.
>> Of course.
[LAUGH] >> Of course, but I'm sure
he's totally great to his kids.
No, I'm serious,
I don't know if they smoke too.
[LAUGH] I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
But no, seriously,
look, the problem with people like
Sean Hannity is one that's similar
to the problem that the right wing
has overall, which is they do have
empathy just for a really
tight circle around themselves.
And for some of them,
that circle is so tiny,
it's just them.
Okay, so
that's Donald Trump, right?
Donald Trump maybe extends to
Ivanka, and that is about it,
right?
No empathy for him, but
if it happens to him, he's like,
whoa, watch what happened, right?
And so Sean Hannity is,
by all accounts,
nice to the people around him,
but they just circle the wagons.
And so, if you're an inch outside
those wagons, then he brings out
the penguin, right?
And he's, lock them up in cages,
I say.
Yeah, and that's it, right?
But he wouldn't do that to anyone
he knows, and that's the problem,
the lack of empathy that the right
wing has.