Tony Rock
Trump Time period No. 2 No Comedy Gold Mine
… However Nonetheless Gotta Discover Humor in ‘F-ed Up’ Stuff
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Tony Rock says he is not cheering on a second Donald Trump time period as president … admitting there will likely be extra joke alternatives, however he is not feeling like comedians have struck gold.
We caught up with the comedian at LAX Wednesday … and, we needed to ask him about Trump ascending to the best workplace within the land, once more, earlier this week.
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Rock begins by joking about an interplay he had with a drug-sniffing canine whereas getting off the aircraft in L.A. … claiming he hadn’t seen one shortly, however he did at LAX — when its handler was allegedly encouraging the animal to test solely Black vacationers for medication.
TR says he instantly thought “Automatically, we back on that bulls***.”
We then requested if comedians can at the least rip extra content material for jokes relating to Trump’s headlines … and, whereas Tony says they’ll as a result of they’re reporters who put a humorous spin on the information, he says he would not use the time period “gold mine” as a result of he is not feeling quite a lot of success.
Rock says it is the job of comedians like him to attempt to discover humor in “all the f***ed up stuff” Trump plans to do.
As you already know … Trump was inaugurated because the nation’s forty seventh president Monday — and instantly went about signing a collection of govt orders doing all the pieces from pulling out of the World Well being Group to altering the title of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
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Tony talks about a few of these govt orders, too … hearken to the tip of the clip to listen to his uncooked ideas on any particular person of coloration who voted for DJT.
Backside line … Tony says comedians must search for jokes within the silver lining — however, 4 extra years ain’t a gold mine!