Lewis Black's Rantcast

[@OfficialLewisBlack]

Catch Lewis on the road this fall! All tour dates can be found on www.lewisblack.com

[@-FALKOR]

[@lrritt6309]

School system in AL ranks at the bottom 5th in US. Not smart people down there.

[@beckiskiss]

✌️

[@Lisa1111]

See you in Seattle Lewis! ❤

[@markgigiel2722]

I believe the cornhole game probably got its name from the "bean bags" being filled with corn kernels instead of beans. So you try to throw your corn into the hole. Due to my age and condition, I can no longer play horseshoes very well and have actually switched to cornhole games when we have BBQ's and friends over.

[@johnbrown6189]

This reminded me of George Calin saying "When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat."

[@daviddaydodge8985]

Backstage passes too

[@sanandaallsgood673]

Or, in some cases, as in Trump, you get to be the leader!

[@henrifischer1119]

trust Americans to claim first prize in the freak show. relax, it's a game that never ends and has a winner.

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

More like "If you are born in America, you are one of the freaks on display"!!

[@johnbrown6189]

@@sanandaallsgood673 Yes. And what happens to those freak show leaders? Mussolini, Hitler etc.................

[@DeeReuter]

You can't buy cigarettes in a vending machine but you can buy bullets? Are you kidding me right now?

[@freewill8218]

Murica 😂😂😂

[@llamamama75]

A different kind of coffin nail. 😅

[@brendapaint]

unreal , right? this country is sick .

[@marilynjarvis8228]

Ah, Texas. Also, Alabama and Oklahoma.Coming to Colorado.

[@macsmith2013]

I've heard you can't buy a handgun in the US until 21 but a AR-15 styled rifle by 18? Is that true? (I'm not an American)

[@PacesIII]

Carlin would be having a field day with current events.

[@13699111]

He warned us all

[@canopusstar5157]

As far as I am concerned he is Saint George of the Church of What’s Happening Now

[@pearlamoler6043]

We listen to yours rants making us feel less alone in the bombardment of media driven insanity. Thank you for the reprieve.

[@bettybotterbutter]

I am Canadian and I am stunned at the collective events of the past week in the US - and scared.

[@edwardlulofs444]

Me too 😮

[@elvinmcnew73]

Don't worry,,, CHINA DOESN'T WANT,, Canada 😀

[@sclaw954]

Dear Canadian, please invade!! We r scared too.

[@ceceenglehart9330]

I'm oh so close to the Canadian border and considering requesting to retire as an expat to Canada. My brother married a Canadian. 😅

[@heartofahobbit]

We live not far from the Canadian border and thinking asylum is in our future! We are scared here, especially seeing how many Orange Moose Knuckle supporters there are around us!

[@cor-z8m]

Great to hear an “American” with some common sense.

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

Well, it's not common sense, it's real sense. "Common sense" is often way more common than sensible.

[@lilmoe4364]

Common sense is actually very uncommon, as Mark Twain said

[@EpicJasonX9000]

Common sense is like deodorant. Those who need it, don’t use it.

[@JohnSmith-pn2vl]

common sense means " i have no idea so i pick somethign out of my nose"

[@devildiamond68]

Indeed ❤

[@billybobwombat2231]

Aussies of my generation grew up thinking the US was the pinnacle of Western civilisation, shit did we get that wrong 😂😂

[@adraboranlovesIronman]

Yep!

[@Justasayn]

@@adraboranlovesIronman whole world a fckd up disaster 😊

[@mintybadger6905]

To be fair, we American kids were raised being told that America was the pinnacle of human excellence.

[@billybobwombat2231]

@mintybadger6905 I would suggest that wasn't a particularly good idea

[@lindabaumert2992]

The US was a role model before Regan.

[@beltonite2243]

I'm too old for this shit Lewis.😮

[@13699111]

Extremest of any kind are exhausting

[@rd264]

what are you not too old for, beltonite? do you have a rocker?

[@erniehanson5492]

Sensible people are all "stunned", Lewis. God help us.

[@leonahearted2585]

I was born in 1955 The country was getting better until Reagan got in It has gotten worse through the years I don't see how it starts to get better

[@JorgeRodriguez-iq7vb]

It will NEVER get better, we are but pawns to be played.

[@PacesIII]

Reset the tax structure to what it was under Ike.

[@jojoleaf2112]

Reagan was the most overrated president in history. Yeah inflation came down, but it was Carter who put in the plan and it took years for it to succeed. Yeah the Berlin wall came down, but it had nothing to do with him. Reagan was old and slept through most of his meetings in his second term.

[@sicottish]

@@PacesIII Reset? Income taxes are unconstitutional.

[@johntresemer5631]

His abolishing the Fairness Doctrine, among other things, really fukked USA.

[@Rcoutme]

17:10 LB, "Maybe it will bring both sides back together..." Sorry, but you cannot reconcile those who want democracy and freedom with those who want autocracy and thought control.

[@tomheringer]

Very well said!!! Right on!!

[@RebeccaOre]

Which is which. The Trump side think they're fighting Marxists. Theocracies are always a problem.

[@danielbaker4510]

​@@RebeccaOreI didn't know they thought. They don't think therefore they aren't

[@DurzoBlunts]

​@@danielbaker4510and this is the problem with current America but they can't see themselves or hear themselves ... Continue to think you're on the right side of history though by name calling 😂

[@patlynch6517]

When the going gets weird, the weird get busy-Hunter S Thompson

[@Tropicalpisces]

😮 I wonder what he would think of this world. 🤔

[@OakleyMoodie]

Thanks for that hopeful message. Motivational shit right there. :)

[@chrismoller4272]

No. Hunter said " When the going gets weird , the weird turn pro"

[@muddywolfking]

From Canada ... it's like watching a bad traffic accident.

[@silvershadow013]

In slow motion

[@turboponies]

And… you… can’t… turn… away….

[@sharongarrett4356]

...where no one will walk away safe.

[@johnspooner1403]

...right outside your front door.

[@terriem3922]

Remember good sportsmanship? It used to be taught to children.

[@turboponies]

Nope. Who voted in participation trophies???

[@OakleyMoodie]

@@turboponies "Participation Trophies" were not even a concept when terriem and I were taught HOW TO LOSE GRACEFULLY. Hard for you to believe Turbo, but we WERE taught to shake hands, keep your head UP, and take the defeat.

[@turboponies]

@@OakleyMoodie Oakley, the same kids who were taught sportsmanship back then became adults who demanded those trophies for their kids. It is in second generation now not being part of life’s lessons. And while you and Terriem and I still remember it, that skill is nothing but an urban legend for a current digital generation.

[@EvoraGT430]

@@turboponies No, completely wrong.

[@turboponies]

@@EvoraGT430 If you are against everything, so you stand for nothing.

[@MindyI0628]

Your rants keep me sane! 💙 you Lewis.

[@betty-jocarlo5980]

It's amazing how far down the totem pole we have fallen. I'm stunned that Americans can be so callous toward each other lately. Remember "love thy neighbors".

[@sanandaallsgood673]

Funny that is the cry of Christianity, yet they forget it at many turns of sanity. At least the Christian Coalition.

[@Justasayn]

@@betty-jocarlo5980 careful indians may take offense at the totem pole lol. We seem to have to walk on egg shells anymore and not allowed to think or feel

[@lesliewolfe7643]

​@@sanandaallsgood673 exactly 💯

[@edwardlulofs444]

Wealth breeds corruption, selfishness, and movement away from civility ( and God ).

[@wendyscott8425]

@@edwardlulofs444 The shortsightedness of materialism always mystifies me. You can't take it with you. We're all gonna die. Now, if there is an afterlife, you don't have to believe in it to experience it after you die. What will your life review reveal? How much you screwed others over to get more money? Somehow I don't think that will make you very happy. People who have had near-death experiences say we feel the joy we have caused others in this life as our own joy. We also experience the pain we have caused others as our own pain. It behooves us, therefore, to cause as much joy in this world as we can, helping ourselves and others. It couldn't hurt even if you don't believe anything about an afterlife.

[@Jen7867]

Thank you, Lewis! 🙂 I agree - how dare this man have the gall to propose that he should get anything but some sort of punishment when HE is the one who made the choice to rush to attack someone else? It's delusional. Kudos to you for sticking up for your fellow comedian and for their/our right to free speech. We must not allow ourselves to become physically violent because of something that someone else has said. We have to be better than that!! We just have to. (If you think you have a case, then take that person to court.) But physical violence is not the answer. You are so clear-headed, and I appreciate you. 🙂 I know we don't actually know each other personally, but I love you. ❤️

[@user-pl3lo8cc8y]

I’m tired of everyone acting so surprised that this happened 🙄

[@richardpagan7690]

What we laughed at in the 90s, because it was so absurd! is our reality today. God help us all.

[@mgebi1]

Lewis, you're an American treasure. We need people who will speak the truth. Seems I remember watching walter Cronkite for real information. Now its comedians like you, jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, etc. You guys give us the real news. Thank you. And you entertain at the same time. Bravo. It's appreciated by serious people.!!

[@PhelesDragon]

Isn’t it funny how every two weeks in America feels like a new film in a series directly by a completely different, but equally fully insane director and writer?

[@mikeridgeview9557]

I can't wait for Tarantino's America.

[@PhelesDragon]

@@mikeridgeview9557 I have bad news.

[@AloysiusOHare-fk4yq]

​@@mikeridgeview9557😋

[@lesslycarthan956]

It is all entertainment if you look this up you'll gonna be like wow. Trump is wwe hall of famer his campaign manager in 2016 was Linda mc mahon Vince mc mahon wwe owners wife. The wrestling story lines changed every week this is entertainment

[@Justasayn]

I don't feel we had this intense inflammatory rhetoric(name calling, harassment) disrespectful until TRUMP became part of politics!!

[@rextrek]

1000%

[@niradnagrom2356]

FACT!😊

[@realalien1]

We didn’t.

[@JorgeRodriguez-iq7vb]

Exactly!

[@BUDDYCB4]

If you go on KZbin and watch the 2012 debate between Romney and Obama, they both showed respect for each other, and they didn’t vilify each other. I wanna go back to that.

[@garycard1826]

Beautifully done. "Patsy" comes to mind... History repeats.

[@daniellatanswell3990]

Hi Lewis... Saw you years ago, in Morristown, NJ, for your show "Red white and Screwed!" To think we all thought we had seen the worst of it!

[@garyb.4080]

Born in 1948, and every election, I ask myself, it this the best Americas got! Damn, you, and I would get along very well!

[@thealuminati520]

i am a firearm instructor in alabama and i think that ammo vending machines is insane. haven't seen em here, but i could tell you tons of similar firearm insanity from my home state

[@citizenVader]

Being a security person for him must be a horrible experience

[@edbateyjr.517]

Thank-You Lewis! I was waiting for this episode to come out after Saturday's "incident".

[@BadOompaloompa79]

Could this be the island of sanity I have been looking for as I drift across KZbin?

[@vendora1]

it is i watch it to keep my balance

[@MindyI0628]

You should look up his rants from the daily show. They are freakin hilarious!

[@Jen7867]

​@@MindyI0628Agreed!! 😂 That is how I found out about him. 🙂 It's probably been 15 years now.

[@lilmoe4364]

Not the only one, but yeah

[@jonhall3151]

Not likely. Stay tuned...

[@Bondek1996]

Since I was a child, I was and am keen on US history. I once had an American dream, run away and live in the States. Growing up on American shows I watched with my dad left a heavy mark. I'm keen on presidential history. An American friend said once I know more than most Americans do...ha but in short, though I'm British, it feels past decade, I'm seeing a best friend going a certain way.

[@willchristie2650]

You would not be happy here unless you found a secluded cabin in the woods.

[@Bondek1996]

@@willchristie2650 dare say you're right. Why I joke with friends about moving to the Falklands.

[@canopusstar5157]

I feel the same about UK; so glad you booted the Tories! I’ve been to the Orkney’s; that’s a good place to hide out, if a bit inconvenient in winter!

[@PraxisAbraxis]

@@willchristie2650 Or an egregious bank account. A tunable moral compass or sociopathic tendencies helps, as well.

[@Rottingboards]

It is like we don't have any young, talented, educated, and articulate person to run for president.

[@kellywalker1664]

We have them, the trick is to get them past the status quo.

[@doviebruder1285]

Oops..2028 not 2038!!!!!!!!!

[@sharongarrett4356]

PETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jimstuckey1148]

Agreed!! The pool of candidates is that fucking dry?????

[@phylliselizahb1041]

Because politics are so very expensive. The elected folks should dress like NASCAR drivers, sporting the decals of which conglomerates own 'em.

[@Rcoutme]

3:58 Lewis Black, "When you decide to put ammo in a vending machine I cannot trust your intelligence." So, the fact that they voted in a football coach as a U.S. senator did not clue you in?

[@null6634]

Gerald Ford used to play football. He was a decent person.

[@wesleystreet]

@@null6634 He had other jobs. He wasn't a coach. Also, he pardoned Nixon so.........

[@ElizabethHalloway-nz7wb]

Why not Pez dispensers for kids?

[@sicottish]

@@wesleystreet LOL...Why do you think he pardoned him? Do you think Nixon was doing anything different than other President's/politicians?. He just got caught. Hell, Obama got caught spying on Trump and nothing.

[@sicottish]

@@wesleystreet Why do you think he pardoned Nixon? Because every politician is doing what he did. He just got caught. Obama got caught in '16 and nothing.

[@monicalinzy4810]

I’m sooo happy I found your podcast. This is my first view and will go backwards and listen to all. We have definitely entered Bizarro World. I’m a 70 year old black american female I have experienced seen and heard some real bs throughout my life. This is the worst time ever in my lifetime for the USA and the world for that matter. Scottie beam me up. I’ll take my chances. Where is the love 🤬🤬

[@auntieangie6546]

Welcome! Glad to have you here!

[@luckyrocks1]

Yes, we have finally reached Idiocracy!

[@kimsteinke713]

I'm here Lewis. Kim from cedar Park Texas You can't make this s*** up. 🏳️‍🌈💙🙏😇

[@marclaguardia3529]

A somewhat softer, but as ever fervent Lewis Black - PREACH!

[@dmorgan6503]

we need international observers to watch the presidental election

[@catpaladin1]

Everytime i have written this my post gets scraped. Thankful yours is here

[@dmorgan6503]

@@catpaladin1 we have too keep trying

[@kellywalker1664]

​@@catpaladin1keep reposting it, then. All of us.

[@kellywalker1664]

Lewis, have your people pin this one!

[@gregorydesimone8421]

Thank you for telling the truth! It is rare these days. We love you Lewis!!

[@tracyclark7560]

The United States of Insanity. Love the title, had to check in. Love you Lewis and what you do.

[@craneteam87]

i always think of your bit from black on broadway where you talked about going from electing roosevlets to nixon to clinton and bush. if that is progress, we were gonna end up voting for plants. you couldnt have been more correct

[@donnadenham4110]

I'll go with the plants!

[@markbonner1139]

I don't know about plants,but the current White House resident's a VEGETABLE!!

[@MissMoxie]

😂 Hear! Hear! He pegged it (but oh so unfortunately).

[@MissMoxie]

@@markbonner1139😂

[@null6634]

Lewis! You can still be the Democrat nominee!

[@sharongarrett4356]

Lewis & Bernie!! Lewis & Booker!! Hell, Lewis & Commander would be great!

[@EpicJasonX9000]

At this point, Idiocrisy isn’t a comedy film, it’s a documentary.

[@denaseright3579]

My favorite comment, so right.

[@ray_donovan_v4]

Costco loves you. 😂. Don't forget your electrolytes. ✌️🤣

[@kenbranaugh8251]

Good listening to you Lewis

[@Kelleeart]

"Is this real life?" Is the title I'm going with.

[@richiebricker]

I feel everything your saying and Ive been speechless for many years now. Ive suffered so many losses, 4 to covid, then after that out of the blue I lost 3 of the closest people to me. My fiancée, step Mom and Sister all within a couple months. and all along dealing with this Trump. Ive lost my daughter and father to trump and fox news. The country has truly been brainwashed and they say theirs no way to get them back.

[@doviebruder1285]

😮😮😢😢😢😮😮 So very sorry for your losses..vote blue, do not despair or give up hope...we can still fix this mess if we unite under blue, and we must!!sending you my ❤❤❤ 🕊👍😍💪😍👍🕊

[@tonygrowley5275]

None of my family is a trumpanzee.. Well, just one. She is also an Evangelical christian. Double dead brained.

[@riverdalepilates9922]

Well done ! I’m so glad you say what we all are thinking !!! Bravo Lewis !

[@Pythone55]

I've been patiently waiting for your commentary on the crazy.

[@marisamcginnis5059]

Yes. It is completely insane. Ammuition vending machine????? Alabama of course.

[@lrsco]

❤️ FROM SCOTLAND ❣️❣️❣️❣️

[@dwightmcfee9521]

I just hope you don't take Canada with you...down the road to horror.

[@kellywalker1664]

They may have to close the border.

[@jdnelms62]

Thank you sir, this made my day.

[@ethelynsmyley7381]

It is therapy! I’ve enjoyed you through the years, on KZbin you can really let loose! It feels so good to just laugh! Thanks, Lewis! 😆🤚🏼

[@ashlaunicaalpari4584]

I’ve been reading the Project 2025 plan…. It’s horrifying beyond what we ever thought possible. Once reading it… it becomes very clear.

[@rd264]

its pretty much the Plan Trump followed when he got in the WH back 2016. Dubya followed a similar plan -except he didnt reveal it when he campaigned.

[@The_Real_Grand_Nagus]

When I was growing up, we were told "don't believe everything you see [hear] on TV." And that's back before all of this. It's 100x true for the Internet.

[@Kevin986_]

Absolutely miss your Daily Show days. You used to make me laugh so hard, I would almost pee my pants. Love your work sir. Love your work (deserved it said twice)

[@elainenaylor9929]

Just listened, Lewis. You are so right. Infestation!

[@MattKleinschmidt]

"And there I am, being inflammatory!" 😆

[@timothyduch948]

Hey Lewis. First, thank you thank you thank you. Second, it was the husks not the cobs. Third, the bags used to score points by going through the hole in a board were originally filled with dry corn. I'll be there to see you in Buffalo 😊

[@ms.r1565]

Thanks for trying to help the afflicted. Can’t fix crazy but your sincerity is uplifting.

[@rebelforacause2589]

I need to watch this more for validation. In your nonverbals as much as your words-we feel the same!!! It’s exhausting. Thank you for sharing. You make sense and seem to speak reason to me….

[@melorbode]

THANK YOU LEWIS! LOVE YOU MAN>

[@rebelnfisher]

Two teams play their best game. The loser shakes hand with the winners and they both say good game. Then they go on to support the league as one!

[@markbonner1139]

WHERE??? WHEN???

[@intomnia3313]

⁠@@markbonner1139I see it in virtually every premier league football game.

[@Rottingboards]

This should be called, Have a beer with Lewis Black. 😂 Great talk...

[@pcatful]

Thank you, Mr Black. I’ve taken some things to think about from this rant. Not just rants, but more like contemplation.

[@kellyparkinson8594]

I love you Mr. Black! You help me realize I'm not the one who has gone insane and lost my GD mind. Thank you for saving my sanity.

[@closm1180]

Holy shit this channel needs more views

[@daveroush4896]

Thanks Lewis... Love your Rants! and the Audiences Rants too.

[@CCampana64]

Lewis Black for president!!!

[@jonhall3151]

Everyone can repeat the problems. Who can prosose solutions?

[@luvurobert]

I've just found your awesome channel, and I've subscribed!! You say EXACTLY how I feel!! Thank you!

[@tracyclark7560]

"I've got to get my shoe"

[@paulholmaniii9691]

Thank you Lewis for a fine program!

[@neysajoseph-orr3053]

Thank you so gd much, Lewis. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[@troubledsole9104]

Thank you, Lewis Black. Rant on and vote blue!

[@Bricameron]

The first time I crossed the border from Canada to the United States visiting from Scotland in 1988 the very first sign I saw said, ‘Gas, guns and beer’.

[@erinfindsen4953]

I’m shocked I did not know this channel existed before today.

[@whtmasterd]

My lottery ticket did not have the numbers that were drawn so I contacted the lottery administrator and told them I did not agree with the numbers because I did not win. Still waiting to hear back on when to pick up my winnings.

[@cherylpetersen2493]

I'm Canadian and don't know the US functions. Half the people are top notch, and intelligent and decent and then half the country is cra cra crazy crazy mental. I can't see how it will end.

[@nerfherder4284]

FYI: The bags that are used in the game Cornhole are (or were originally) filled with old dried corn, which you throw in a hole while drinking beer, hence the chuckle inducing name

[@sharongarrett4356]

That's what I heard. The dried corn got replaced with flax seeds at some point.

[@NajiHaddad-b9m]

Your the only podcast that ever replied to a comment I posted Thank you, it means so much to me Please keep talking about guns - it’s becoming insane

[@revinhatol]

Mr. Black, insanity sure is NUTS!

[@enzos711]

"The Frog is boiling" ..

[@2SNesbit]

Elaborating on the use of telephone books when out of toilet paper... When I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa in the early 1970s, the country's only toilet paper factory went on strike. Not having telephones, we had no telephone books so we used our Time magazines which came by air mail weekly. We found them to be slick but not very absorbent.

[@PraxisAbraxis]

Reading this comment made me realize that I must have had to use a magazine page for this purpose at some point, because that description brought out too visceral of an understanding.

[@nitaparker2042]

Lewis, I like your thinking. Plus you crack me up

[@zaaz1471]

Our democracy: A thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. Thanks Vision, perfectly stated.

[@eilenecorcoran2094]

it's not usually the educaton system...it's usually the parents!

[@CliffSedge-nu5fv]

Parents and administrators won't let teachers teach.

[@MikeDuncan-k4m]

Bring more of the light of love into the world. And that will make things better.

[@ego73]

I'm from SE KY, Harlan County, "Appalachia". Kentuckians have an amazing tendency with Verbal Politeness and an affinity for euphemism that "Acknowledges" a horror without addressing it...e.g. "cornholing". Reality Denial abounds, eh!

[@patrickdunn8918]

Ammo in a vending machine… What could possibly go wrong?

[@KoPilotFlys]

Personally I think "The United States of Insanity" is a more than fitting title and describes the situation perfectly. I can't say I disagree with a word you said. It is a sad and ugly day when the truth becomes inflammatory. But what the hell do I know!

[@waynesmith6941]

RE: Corn cobs for wiping, my grandfather, born 1886, preferred them for the mentioned purpose. We did have a privy when I was a child and graduated from small hole to adult size, whoopee.

[@heathercrews407]

I empathize, John. I’ve cleaned in hospitals . People who’ve never done this kind of work can be oblivious. Not all, but some. There is a dismissive attitude towards these workers. However, every person has a story: you don’t know mine; you presume.( I really need to relearn punctuation. I should know better). I also like a job where I can let my mind wander.😺❤️

[@heathercrews407]

And, of course I’d be fine with Lewis leaving a little coffee in the trash. But, is he aware of how little these workers get paid? I made my own choices in life. But, I wish there was more respect for manual/ physical laborers. It’s hard work for low pay. Each person has a story; don’t presume to know mine. Or others’. We had dreams too. Wow. That’s a rant.

[@heathercrews407]

I always like my own stuff. wtf not?

[@gingerfoxx1476]

As a yarn crafter, I can say it does make a small amount of sense for craft stores to release holiday items a few months early and put them on sale. People who knit, sew, crochet or otherwise create different handmade decor items and gifts appreciate the head start to be able to make finished items in time for whichever occasion. Halloween is a big one crafters love to decorate for.

[@TheLAGopher]

It was all down hill since American politics got married to television. The old timers got it right political parties should pick the candidates in party run caucuses. Once it was opened up to the voters it became which candidate could appeal to them across a tv screen.

[@bobdegroff1683]

I fear for our republic.

[@agh0x01]

Nice rant, brother! Not in USA, but very concerned about where your country is heading. Subscribed.

[@mindbegone]

I think this country is going to change in a bad way. It makes me so very sad.

[@thedarknessthatcomesbefore4279]

I hope you are wrong but I certainly ain't confident.

[@CliffSedge-nu5fv]

The change has already happened. We are suffering the aftermath.

[@trixiesilver4030]

We can’t allow ourselves to be confused into anxiety, agitation, or numbness.

[@Kevin-mz1ni]

100 percent!!! INSANE!!! No Sugar Honey Ice Tea!!!