Beyond Insane, Beyond Cray Cray | Lewis Black's Rantcast

[@OfficialLewisBlack]

Catch Lewis on the road. Feb 23 - St. Louis, MO Feb 24 - Springfield, MO Feb 25 - Omaha, NE March 8 - Red Bank, NJ March 9 - Wilkes Barre, PA March 10 - Munhall, PA For all dates and tickets visit www.lewisblack.com

[@Rob_Moilanen]

"I didn't know they could stack shit that high.!" Thank me later!

[@ragtopdeluxezl1]

Made it to the show last night in Omaha was a great show and bonus was Jeff Stilson. Thanks Todd and Tyler for the morning show as well. BTW Dona Mae (RIP) was a big big fan of your comedy Lewis and we attended in her honor, I think she would have enjoyed the show!

[@JasonChurch1992]

Mr. Lewis, Thank you for your service and the vet rant. I was fortunate enough to see you perform in Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan back in 2011. Seeing you and Robin Williams made my year.

[@Summerbabe08080]

My dad is the one that introduced me to you many years ago and you were my favorite then and still are today! We went to see you in Hershey, PA a little while back. A fond memory I’ll cherish forever!

[@StevenMichals0812]

Lewis Black is my favorite comedian. He is the greatest of them all!

[@timothylarsen2885]

Similar to what Reagan did to Jimmy Carter with the Iran hostage crisis, because of Reagan our hostages sat in iran till after he was elected. Shows how much the republicans care anout us as citizens.

[@gingernightmare9152]

Not to mention Reagan GAVE the terrorists all the weapons and money they wanted in exchange and tried to keep that quiet.

[@pamlewis1183]

Professor Sutherland is from the same CO town as me. Canada helped us get those hostages home. Carter never got the credit he deserves, mostly because he utilized diplomacy rather than the illusion of power like Reagan.

[@leerussel2033]

Yep it is NUTS. Lewis I could not believe working class people voted for Reagan. That guy is the cause of everything that's fucked up today. Now we have Trump What The Fuck.

[@lyndakaye5198]

Absolutely true! GreT post! ❤

[@darleneaiello3228]

I absolutely love your Rants. It's a bright spot in my day ❤

[@heathercrews407]

I have always celebrated Mardi Gras; never enjoyed Valentine’s Day, whether I was in a relationship or not. But, this year I had fun with Valentine’s Day as a “Lew’s Lady Fan”. Wore my tshirts, opened a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc, and raised my glass to Mr. Black. Thanks for the laughs .

[@seanbatiz6620]

Glad to see/hear you’re still busy/active, Lewis!!! Wishing you (& this CRAY CRAY nation) all the best! 🌊🗽🇺🇸2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣🇺🇸🗽🌊

[@fistyann8434]

Love ya, Lew. Keep it coming.

[@kimloureiro177]

Love you Lewis!!!

[@mr.v3061]

Lewis Black, a living legend

[@heathercrews407]

Wow, Audrey, wow. So well-done. Mr. Black sure has some talented fans.

[@EpicJasonX9000]

Say hello to Jon Stewart for me since I’m very happy that he’s finally returned to The Daily Show. He has and always will be the best host that show has ever had, and it was thanks to him that lead me to becoming a fan of yours, which led me to bring a fan of George Carlin.

[@Belreyne]

Lewis, I got introduced to your act during the Bush Era, and loved both Black on Broadway and Red, White and Screwed... But you were the reason the movie Accepted was worth a damn!

[@ProctorsGamble]

Red Delicious 🍎 An apple better suited to paintings than eating! 🤢

[@Rcoutme]

8:35 Yes, it is beyond insane. It is called, "evil."

[@ivanterrible7362]

I had a nightmare last night that had me being swarmed by bats, so the rant about the weather forecast really hit home.

[@TheWeatherbuff]

It's great to see you well, Lewis! Relating to the whole cray-cray thing, I have to fall back to a stance I adopted a few years ago. It's all free entertainment to me now. Watch the idiot humans for a while, keep to myself, and watch the newest Rant Cast every week. 😊

[@SharynCollins-gi1le]

You are fantastic. You make me laugh. Thanks 🙏🏻🙏🏻💕💕

[@PapitoThomas]

I love you, Man. Don't blow a gasket over the stupid crap. We can't afford to lose your wit.

[@philwright2480]

Jon Stewart, Christopher Titus 2024, Lewis Black Speaker Of The House.

[@Smileybeeblevrox]

Sorry for all the heckling in Grand Rapids. I wish you could have stayed after to sign things, but I understand. Love your work!

[@heathercrews407]

The apple rant was delightful! Well done! Next time try a Co-op for your produce. Many delicious apples to be enjoyed. Including the effervescent Honeycrisp. Or, one of my favorites: Cosmic Crisp. Or the best apple of all- the pineapple. Such a joyful fruit. So, visit your local co-op market next time for all your fruity and boozy needs. ( that really was a charming rant.Enjoyed it immensely- thank you for writing it).

[@johnrusselljr89]

Got to say AMEN again Lewis! AMEN!

[@kimberlybroomell1744]

I just loved the apple rant, I know is pain. I had a similar event like that but an ambrosia apple.

[@heathercrews407]

I loved it too! Try your local co-op market. We try.

[@singingway]

25:12 "There are no bread crumbs. And I don't think we can get back through the woods again ."

[@gerardgauthier4876]

Here's one of the funniest stats I've read in a long time. The country(not including the US) which has the largest population of US citizens is Mexico. Now who has the border problem?

[@nancymathisen9707]

I agree with Richard about the red (so called) delicious apple 🍎.

[@andreawalker7138]

Same here, yuck😝 😁

[@frankbartoszak7637]

Hey Lewis, been following you for a long time, you feel like a buddy to me,you say what others are afraid to say 😉

[@ATChick]

It always pissed me off that I needed to do regular shopping the day that they would announce snow coming. Everybody was going crazy at the store to make egg and milk sandwiches when their power went out.

[@annsanse2935]

speaking of va medical care, there was a 60 minutes piece years ago on the topic that included an interview with a guy who had to wear a football helmet given to him by the va hospital after it botched surgery on his head. he couldn't go anywhere else for help and the va wasn't up to giving him the care he needed.

[@cguy96]

Heirloom Red Delicious are actually quite wonderful. We have a many decade old tree in our yard, and the apples have the yellow stripes of the original cultivar. It was their popularity that led to their demise. As the distributors tried to ship them farther and farther, they demanded changes that sacrificed taste, sweetness, and crispness for uniform red skin that was much thicker so that the apples would survive trucking them long distance. So my rant? Fuck the people that sacrifice all that is good (and local) in this world for their commercial greed.

[@heathercrews407]

Interesting info about the red delicious. Who knew? And, yup, local is always better. Can’t get a local pineapple though… maybe someday

[@cguy96]

@@heathercrews407 greenhouse (or hawaii trips)

[@singingway]

You read the Book Of Tribulations spectacularly! You should read us some of Ian Doescher 's "Shakespeare's MacTrump" you would love it!

[@kzinful]

We're tired and exhasted too Lewis. And watch out for those bats, Dr.Hunter S.Thompson had a problem with them also.

[@noahvr5675]

If it walks like a duck it's a duck. Believe what people tell you.

[@paulhindson7123]

Lewis, I understand your frustation with sports. I suggest going to a local high school teams and sit down and watch a group if kids learning, 18:55 playing and becoming future citizens..its our only help. Paul

[@gaehenry5086]

Thoroughly enjoyed your rant cast 161 - not all funny, but very meaningful! Be safe

[@direktive4]

politics has shed any shred of deserving to be taken seriously

[@alainsavard3680]

Fear sells... If you go on their sites, you just bought into it.

[@KvynMcThorne]

The weather people here in Colorado are just as nuts as the rest of the country. Used to be if we couldn't get the school busses running, then they closed the schools. Now if it snows 2 fucking inches, they close the schools!!!!

[@Rcoutme]

13:10 Lewis, we are dealing with people who believe(d) that the entire planet got together to try to thwart DJT from getting re-elected by falsely claiming that Covid-19 exists.

[@Rcoutme]

4:24 The giant tarantulas will be followed by Godzilla!!!!

[@terasesnyder1626]

Langford didn't vote against the bill. He's disgusted.

[@davidormond7984]

Thanks Lewis! You're awesome! The crazier it gets the more I have a need to laugh and externalize all this BS. Luckily, there are a few people, like you, that can still not take things too seriously and make me laugh. I don't know what I'll do once you retire. There are almost no funny (humourous) people out there now and I'm beginning to get the impression that there aren't too many people out there who even want to laugh anymore...everything has become too serious and extreme. Keep up the good work...let's get people laughing again!!!! People need to chill a little and then, maybe, we can find a few bread crumbs to find our way home again. What are you planning to do during your retirement (if it's not too personal)?

[@curtisbell2417]

Ghost of Christmas past LOL

[@Rcoutme]

25:00 Thinking that both sides are even is what got us here in the first place. That is what empowered the Republican Party to put people like M-T-G, Lauren Boebert and Ted Cruz in powerful positions. They figured that you would claim there were equally nutty people on the other side. So they could go as crazy as they wanted with no repercussions because, "both sides do it," or "both sides are equal." I know that you are trying to be non-partisan, but even in a non-partisan situation, one side using facts and the other side claiming the exact opposite of facts is not the same thing.

[@willeel3750]

Lewis, I'm 70 years old and watched every single super bowl for many years. I finally got so I watched football games muted so I only watched and didn't have to hear the inane chatter. Then the choreographed celebrations got so sickening I started just watching the highlights after the games. A man makes a tackle and gets up and does a dance and nonsense hand signals or whatever it is. He is making millions of dollars a year and does a dance because he made a tackle, even if his team is losing? There is no sportsmanship any more. It was bad form to celebrate in the middle of a game. NO such thing as being a gracious winner or loser any more. Don't celebrate until your team wins and then celebrate in the locker room, together. All the soap opera and drama now is just too much. They have ruined football for me. And don't get me going on the weather forecasts. I live in Maine and we have some pretty rough days, but these forecasters make it sound like the apocalypse. I've lived through blizzards and ice storms and all kinds of bad weather. You just prepare for it and enjoy it. Now they say something like, "Tomorrow will begin with a wintry mix followed by flying monkeys and the plague, more at 11." Finally, I don't let the news get me down, (time and age are doing that fine on their own). I was born at the end of the Korean War and lived through the Viet Nam war. I've lived through the presidencies of Nixon, Reagan, both Bushes and that NY real estate con artist. I've seen enough lying politicians on both sides of the aisle, as they say to know that they are in it for themselves and a few of the decent ones will actually do something for the people once in a while and the rest will do something to the people too often. Take a deep breath and relax. Think back on the history of our country. When were things ever really good? McCarthyism? Wars? Depressions, Slavery, Jim Crow, Disco? We live our lives and enjoy the passing of time despite all this extraneous crap. BE well.

[@H.pylori]

I am 78, and agree with what you posted.

[@marywelch2998]

And yet Pharaoh’s heart was hardened

[@lyndakaye5198]

Imo....the biggest thing that irritates me is i open a large package of face cream, or cereal, or potato chips, etc. I open the package and there is a jar of face cream, and it is the size of a drinking straw, but a little thicker and shorter. The potato chip bag, when opened bursts from a blast of air, filling out the bag, and the bottom of the bag is filled with crumbs! Ugh! Cereal?...now this is a real mess. The box is huge! When opened, there is a tiny bag. Inside this giant box, the bag is filled with air, with one bowl of cereal in it. Help. Help .... 😢

[@Huneidu]

I got my Lewis back.

[@markae0]

26:28 Apples yeah those red delish are not the best. I never considered peanut-butter on apples though. Apples are for myself a JOY to eat every morning. I thank God for them.

[@quakerninja]

Now that I'm older I'm starting to think the pilgrims were not escaping persecution as we were taught in school, they were looking for new targets for all their dumb ideas.

[@ermonhenson6574]

I thank you should be president you make more sense than all the rest of them

[@thebandplayedon..6145]

The only proof I didn't write that epic Apple Rant myself was the abomination of Smooth rather than Crunchy PB! ❤

[@VictoriaAlfredSmythe]

Thank you from Manhattan ©2024

[@ShannonJacobs0]

I enjoy listening, but sometimes the lack of solutions makes me feel more bleak... But I've sent in some solution-oriented rants and "never satisfied your current requirements", so I'll listen once in a while anyway.

[@noahvr5675]

I'm so happy you're back but no chicken ❤❤

[@dawngarland5566]

You're my favorite Curmudgeon❤😊😊😊

[@sarahk93882]

Big fan, have you done any commentary on the Middle East conflict or are you avoiding that topic

[@Profound_oz]

What happened to the Daytona 500? It used to be a big event to look forward to. I just happened to think it was about time for it, and it was a Sunday afternoon so I looked for it but not to be found. What happened to the "Super Bowl of NASCAR"?

[@acenasty1298]

Hey Canada here snow is jist frozen water get winter tires and you will be fine or dont and you will still be fine its jist snow I've shoveled my driveway scence I was 5 years old, and it used to snow more back then. learn to like it we live in the upside down now. Here in Ontario we got almost no snowfall all year and never went below -15,Last year it went to -32 for a week. We have truly screwed up the planet so strap in its guna be a bumpy ride down the crapper

[@alexandertucker6140]

its very very funny Lewis 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pamlewis1183]

🇺🇲 Luv you Lew

[@kenbranaugh8251]

i like hes always dressed in black its awesome

[@davestambaugh7282]

He's turning seventy eight in a few days!!!!

[@archaicsoul4597]

I’m not sure anyone expects a podcast to be funny, just honest. Life can be tedious and hard to satirize lol

[@johnvaughn2590]

We are a strange group whom should probably go the way of the dodo. And really, who misses the dodo other than the moa, which is also extinct.

[@KohalaLover]

Hi Lewis.

[@mightyone3737]

OG Red Delicious wasn't solid red, the new apple has almost none of the flavor of it's 'forebear', but it sure looks great in a store, while the old ones looked nice and stripey/splotchy, and barely had any knob on the bottom. Golden Delicious is a fantastic apple, but it's cross with Granny Smith, the impeccable Matsu apple, is easily one of the best main stream apples available. Try one picked late enough to have some red blush on it, the mix of sweet and tart is just out of this world, and the apples are inexplicably big. My Opa loved Golden Delicious, but I prefer the more tart Matsu if I have a choice, but both of us actually like Russet apples, the apple that thinks it's a pear!

[@nancymathisen9707]

It’s the end times Lewis!

[@joelaichner3025]

I bet George Carlins Brain is in a Jar , underground , secret location , being studied ! A.I. is learning !

[@Rcoutme]

11:10 It is fairly easy to find them. They are known as Republican elected officials.

[@Subhuman_Gamer]

There is only one way to fight it we all need to not participate. In video games we say vote with your wallet if it's good buy it if not don't. I believe the same can be applied to politics. If all of us as Americans don't play along and certainly don't reward these thoughts. If we all say no to this the only option will be to run on facts to win elections.

[@KristinFord-gd1pk]

awww Lewis...🤔...maybe do what i do? ...play all the noises that the 3 Stooges, Forghorn Leghorn & the song from Dumbo "when i see an elephant fly...followed by a Charlie Brown...AAARRRRGGGHHH!!! IF that doesn't work...pray a bunch of non-cartoon anvils find their perspective places squarely on the targets of the so-called strong men the traitor admires so g.d. much...love you Lewis. MY❤2U&URS it's not funny, but it feels good to know the most of us feel it too. ~~~kael~~~

[@theemporersnewclothes]

Snowmagedon ⁉️

[@theemporersnewclothes]

Rant on

[@bobbiewesthoff3860]

I am promoting COUNTDOWN with Keith Olbermann He is truthful and informative, You would love the man !

[@cherylcrawford5383]

❤

[@joelstein4657]

Lewis, you've got to chill out. You're going to give yourself apoplexy or something. I was always a lot like you. Trying to understand the insanity of the US at present. Now I'm very relaxed. I think maybe the lobotomy helped. George Carlin finally realized that it just doesn't matter and began to just enjoy the show going on. " I love individuals it's when they get together that things start to go to hell. "

[@markae0]

Thats his bit, the angry delivery is his comedy MO. I don't know where he finds the energy.

[@theresakaplanamuso6342]

Pushy. Lewis 😂😂❤

[@jjthompke5192]

Let's not forget that Biden stepped up and stopped him! Joe used his many years of experience.

[@dlite6999]

When ive had it with the constant hypocrisy and misinformation i cozy up to lewis blacks rants or id loose my mind 😂❤Keep speaking truth to light and point out all the lunicy around us every day its SOMETHING I quote gifa radners dad "ITS ALWAYS SOMETHING! ❤WHAT HAPPENED STARTED WITH FOX AND ROGER AILES PLAN TO DEVIDE THIS COUNTRY AND IT WORKED

[@acenasty1298]

I got some better math cray cray times 3.14 divide by the constant bullshit = America

[@acenasty1298]

When trump says he told a NATO country to pay up or be left to fend for its self does he mean Ukraine, does he know that's basically a confession perfect call my ass

[@sempressfi]

​@@acenasty1298 well, Ukraine isn't in NATO but given it's him that makes it a possibility lol

[@PaulMathews-p4o]

EU protect themselves no more American lives lost to bail out the EU, if they are still incompetent, you may need to go.

[@carrielemmon1549]

The apple rant, I soooo relate to. Red delicious and golden delicious are the two worst varieties and to be overlooked on every visit to the grocers. The furnace rant. OMG, I have an old furnace that the manufacturer likes to pretend they never made. Parts are not available. It runs, barely with some ranting and threatening and a magic spell or two cast to continue its ability to breathe warm air.

[@gregorygarcia7807]

louie, louie, louie, oh, me, louie louie, louie lew I.