I don't mean this to sound hyperbolic but there are increasingly, albeit really minor, similarities between now and how Germany was lulled into what happened pre-WW2.

There are really funny alternative comics and really funny straight comics who write and perform traditionally.

I'm a professional comic. Whether you think I'm funny or not, that's, again, subjective.

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel-selling-ring-tones act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride.

I did one of the worst shows for that kind of thing in Northampton, Massachusetts, which is one of the most liberal spots on the planet. There were numerous people who walked out, somebody had thrown a beer, I had people yelling and screaming.

Because you've been on dates where y'know, you forget to open your eyes and wear pants and speak English.