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BY RICK LEVIN
Paint it Fuck Black
Daily Show alum brings his scathing comedy to Hult
CLAY MCBRIDE
I
was scared shitless. When I got to my
offi ce, I taped a do not disturb sign
to the door, closed it, turned the lock
and, cradling the phone to my shoulder,
punched in the number the publicist
had given me. It rang several times
before that familiar voice — like Richard
Nixon gargling nails — answered.
“Yeah?” I asked for Mr. Lewis Black.
“Yeah, just a minute.” There was some
clanging around, some muttering,
distant noises of the road. “Yeah,”
Black fi nally said. “Hello.”
Comedian Lewis Black is the
Jesus Christ of humanity’s
insanity. He’s taken on a
permanent migraine for our
stupidity, and the thorn in
his side — a thorn from the
weed that chokes common
sense, blooming fl owers
of hypocrisy and political
bullshit — makes him
really,
really
angry.
Furious, in fact. That fury,
which on stage drives
Black to apoplectic
fi ts of rage sprinkled
with foul language and
frightening acuity, is his true
strength as a performer. It’s hilarious
to behold, and cathartic. It made him
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a hit on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show.
It’s won him two Grammys. And it’s
made Black one of the best stand-up
comedians around, a righteous social
critic in the mold of Lenny Bruce,
Richard Pryor and George Carlin.
“I was always kind of angry,” Black
tells me. I ask him what’s on tap for
this tour, which hits Hult Center
Thursday, April 7. “The usual, the
same,” Black says, his voice rising.
“The frustration, the disgust, the
cynicism, the sarcasm. We’ll touch on
the Democrats and the Republicans,
terrorism, the app, the iPhone, the
droid, talk about the economy… it’s a
sidesplitting conversation.”
Black fi nds his stand-up material
from several sources, including Fox
News, various editorials, political
magazines like The Week, as well as
clippings sent to him by his mother. “It
just kind of works like coffee,” he says
of exposing himself to various media
and political pundits. “And it helps me
fi gure out the joke because of their
logic, and what it is they think. If you
fi nd the fault in their logic, a lot of the
times that’s where the joke is. They
forget things like people are involved,”
Black says of unhinged politicians
like Minnesota Rep. and Tea Party
darling Michele Bachmann, who has
praised America’s founding fathers
for eliminating slavery and questioned
President Barrack Obama’s land of
birth.
“What’s amazing is they don’t
even care that they’re on tape,” Black
says about such modern politicos.
“These sons of bitches don’t give a
shit, they’ll say one thing one day and
another the next. They are completely
disconnected from a functioning
reality system. Both sides of the aisle
have no shame any more, no humility.”
Recently, Black was asked by Lenny
Bruce’s daughter Kitty to write a new
forward for a reissue of Bruce’s 1967
book, How to Talk Dirty and Infl uence
People. The choice is apt. One of the
most sidesplitting aspects of Black’s
routine is his odd conjugation of a
certain curse word (as in his rant about
“moo cow fuck milk”). “It was the
word that was given to us as adults to
express anger, frustration and rage,”
Black explains. “There’s nothing better
than busting a word open with ‘fuck.’”
Black says that some Americans’
outrage over that word is a vestige of
this country’s “conservative Puritanism
that’s just never been let go of,” and he
asks what’s worse for kids — a few well
placed four-letter words or standard
prime-time fare, where “they’ve got
tits fl ying on television and people’s
heads getting sawed off!”
And this is the way Black rests his
case — voice raised to the crescendo
of his own reasoning. ew
Lewis Black plays Hult Center 8pm Thursday, April
7; tickets at www.hultcenter.org; Black also hosts
the “Lewis Black Comedy Cruise” Nov. 6-13, info at
www.lewisblack.com
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