Political comedian Lee Camp will perform at the Hi-Ho Lounge Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m., but these days he's most often seen as the host of Redacted Tonight, an online-only show that obviously mirrors The Daily Show. Political comedy dates back much farther than that, but it has become a television staple-one that has become more a part of national political dialogue as sharable segments become part of the way we talk to our political brothers and sisters on social media. It spun off The Colbert Report, The Nightly Show, and This Week Tonight. A year later, a still-funny Dennis Miller premiered Dennis Miller Live on HBO, then in 1999 Jon Stewart became an institution hosting The Daily Show.
All of a sudden you can see global movements which you couldn’t see before.For the progressive stand-up comedian, doing a weekly political comedy show online is consistent with his activist point of view.Īmerica didn’t know that it needed a steady stream of pointedly political comedy until Bill Maher brought smart, topical, funny commentary to television in 1993 with Politically Incorrect. It’s also how we’ve ended up seeing the first global movement and protest ever, at least spontaneous ones that traveled quickly such as Occupy or the Zeitgeist movement. All of our stuff, all of Redacted Tonight can be found online, which means even in the countries we’re not airing it can be watched. It means that information is global now and it can travel around the world very quickly. Hopefully your news will travel faster as well now right? So even though I try and center things around America and American issues, it all seems to be going international because our world is getting smaller and smaller by the minute and that means evil travels faster. Now luckily, or really unluckily for the planet, most things I’m talking about in terms of politicians, corruption, money in politics, global warming, evil trade deals, technology, massive corporations, most of it is international now. Outside of that, I really want to continue what I am and what my career is and that is an American, in America, talking about American subjects that affect Americans. I guess when I’m looking at various stories and I’m deciding between some, if one seems more like a global story I might be more likely to do it. And I’ve been getting some e-mails from South Africa so that’s pretty exciting.ĭoes it affect how you operate the show or what stories to go after and cover? Yeah, thanks! Redacted Tonight is now in 700 million homes around the world including countries like the UK, Germany, and Australia. Here’s our interview:Ĭongratulations on going International with Redacted Tonight! He’s performed at both Just For Laughs in Montreal as well as Edinburgh Festival Fringe and was featured in the book ¡Satiristas!. Camp bears a tattoo on his left forearm, a quote from Howard Zinn, which says “Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power that can transform the world.” I recently caught up with Camp to discuss the news of his show, Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp, going international and his home at RT America. It became a short podcast as well in June, 2011.
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As an activist, Camp is a supporter of Occupy Wall Street and has collaborated with Peter Joseph, the Zeitgeist movement founder – and his series Culture in Decline. He started a web series, Moment of Clarity, back in March 2011. He’s on his way toward two decades of stand-up, releasing three DVDs and two stand-up albums along the way as well as three books. And that person is comedian, writer, actor and activist Lee Camp. And that’s said to not take anything away from those who came before him, it’s just under much different circumstances. Well, a new generation is being ushered in including Trevor Noah to The Daily Show, Larry Wilmore hosting The Nightly Show, and someone who has been attacking the medium on a much deeper level, not just skimming the surface and joking about the trivial.
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The Colbert Report is no more, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has just come to an end, and the world seems to be more PC than ever. We are currently in a time where the face of political satire is changing.
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