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This is an excerpt of an interview with Lewis Black, he really nails it. The edited interview can be found at www.motherjones.com..
MJ: Along that line: you seem angry a lot in your standup. Is there one thing that enrages you more than anything else?
LB: Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity. And I think that's the reason my act has become more political. I've become somewhat more of a political comic because these guys--the level of stupidity I've watched over the past several years is staggering. I mean it is really like the mother lode. It got to the point where I'd be on stage and I'd go, "I can't keep up anymore, I'm sorry. I know you people want me to talk about something that happened today but there are 16 things that happened in the past three days and I can't keep up." And I knew for months that the housing market is absurd. How do I know that? As much as I'd like to see everybody own a home, if you can't afford to own a home--you can't give people mortgages who can't afford to pay for the mortgage! You're giving people mortgages at the same time that the housing market is exploding. What planet are these people on?
The other thing that really gets me going is the complete inability to educate children anymore. I don't have children, and I really don't understand why if you can't do it, why are they having children? What's the driving concept if you're not going to pay attention to them, if you're not going to worry about their education? In the course of my lifetime, my generation has allowed its educational system to march into the shitter. And then people are allowed to say, "Well, I'm not going to pay for my property taxes because I don't have children." Are you an insane person?
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