The Shift From Actor to Activist

and we need a break like we need a break whoever we like Everybody can't be a political pundit like my aunt cannot be writing about trade on Facebook I think we just leave it all to Alyssa Milano. Yeah Looking forward to her tweets in November. I'm just gonna follow all that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, she was like She's got a podcast. We know that he's fine. Yeah, I mean it's relevance right? You're all trying to be relevant. Everybody's relevant like they have to be you have to get your opinion out there It's super important and that's the way to be relevant now is to just be You know like be political all day every day. We go from actor to activist Yeah, all in very interesting as soon as the fucking calls stop coming in you're like, all right. I'm an activist What's so funny is we know because we're like in the in this thing that Getting good at this whether it's comedy or being an actor. It's very tough. You're not spending your life thinking about other people Let's just be real for the most part. You're just not I didn't you thinking about your career Yeah, you think about your career. I spent the last decade thinking about myself my jokes How do I get ahead? How do I get ahead? How do I get on television for three minutes like so this idea that these people are now going to pretend That they've spent their entire career thinking about global warming It's just not true like I know These people like I've met these people Yeah And and my friends have opened for some of these people and I know that like these people are going out there and they're like You know, listen, we got to do this. We got to do that They got to move the country forward, but I've seen them make people cry Backstage in a theater because there's not enough water in the dressing room, right? So it's those same people Yeah that are really cruel Going out and telling everybody how good of a person they are all the time. Well, they find the pattern They find the pattern that the way they have to talk and the things they have to talk about right lock into those things with no Deviation they find whatever the line is where Hollywood wants whatever the line is always left Yeah, it's always super progressive always super woke and they fucking ride that line Yeah, like a fucking railroad train just choo-choo straight down. No deviation. Yeah, so obvious I know dudes I used to do open mics with who like they're tweeting it mayor Garcetti Tweeting about the budget in LA They're like the budgets being passed. They're tweeting Garcetti the budget I'm like God you can't you don't have the money to pay your rent Like you have no idea what's going on in the world and you're tweeting at Garcetti About and they're doing it so that they can get a job They're doing it so that somebody can see him ago. You know what? He'd be you know, he'd had a great Garcetti tweet He should write on Bojack Horseman That's the way it works it does kind of work like that I I've just I've never been more amused. It's very funny, but I'm also terrified. It's very we're gonna die It has both of those things. Yeah, it's like yeah out of me is laughing at how stereotypical everybody is and how cliche Yeah, but then part of me is like this is terrifying like the people had each other's throats It's people are enemies now like listen people never loved each other because it's a competitive business But like I like people it wasn't nearly as intense as it is right now Like the feeling of like if you disagree with somebody They are your enemy in comedy and they want you to not have a job like and I've never felt that way about anybody I don't care what you if you're funny. I truly don't care. If you're a Communist if you're out whatever whatever you are, you're not you don't have any power It's not like you're affecting my life. You can believe whatever you want. If you're funny, you're funny I don't like to say this in generalizations because I don't think I don't believe in generalizations, but right I love them I do too. They're fun. I need them. They're the best for yeah. I mean we need them without generalizations comedy. Yeah, but More people on the left are doing this than people on the right. Yeah, I don't see that many people on the right I see a few but I see as many people on the right calling for people to get canceled forever But the people on the left are like burn their house burn them to the ground