Comedians as the Pressure Valve and the Free Speech TV Pitch

• 1:14:39Tim criticizes AOC for arguing the government needs more money while listing examples of government waste like $700 pens.
• 1:15:35Cornel West is sophisticated and erudite, unlike the Squad members Tim considers radicals.
• 1:16:04Bill Maher has the courage to criticize his own side, unlike most liberals who won't speak against political correctness.
• 1:16:48Tim's approach on the show: putting people from opposite sides in a room to find they actually disagree on very few things once they have the facts.
• 1:17:44Samantha B is a great person and excellent mother, despite their political disagreements; David Cross donated vacation money to Wounded Warrior Project.
• 1:18:17Tim doesn't have fixed views, just forms hypotheses from data and changes his mind when presented with contradictory evidence.
• 1:19:51Fundamentalist attitudes—whether Christian or Muslim—are bad for thinking and therefore bad for comedy, which requires issue-by-issue analysis.
• 1:20:41Politics has become a refuge for uninteresting people, with Twitter fights consuming the entire lives of those with nothing else to offer.
• 1:21:42Political correctness has wrecked movies and music, but attacking comedians and pundits is dangerous because they're the pressure valve that releases tension in society.
• 1:22:26Comedians function like cops who need to laugh or cry about horrific things; without that release valve, cop suicide rates are rising due to increased scrutiny of their humor.

Alexandria Ocasio-CortezDavid CrossBill MaherSamantha BeeSarah SilvermanCornel WestIlhan OmarWounded Warrior ProjectJordan PetersonDave RubinNoam ChomskyMark Lamont HillRashida TlaibCharles MurraySargon of Akkad