Lewis Black speaks at the National Press Club - April 14, 2014

[@avvvora]

Salute to his parents for raising a son like Lewis.

[@roberthaley3117]

He was fortunate !

[@sueblack3903]

20:20 -- THANK YOU, SIR! I hope more people in this spoiled rotten country will listen to you.

[@HeSaid007]

LOUIS BLACK, a true Patriot, thank you for all that you do. Jim in Lewes, Delaware.

[@fredbazoo]

A moral and centered man. With a big heart. I wish him only the best.

[@racheladkins6060]

Greetings from England, why isn’t Lewis President? He’s the best guy, he knows his shit, he knows how things should should be done Ffs?

[@sonamben2]

Thanks for having Mr. Black on and filming and sharing this on KZbin. I was inspired and am very grateful and happy to have had the chance to see him

[@ianmartinezcassmeyer]

That he's so funny makes him a good person. That he's funny and smart makes him a great person. That he's funny, smart, and takes the opportunity to advocate for Veterans, as he did right at the end when he could've just dropped another punchline, makes him a class act.

[@NewYorkFloridaMan]

Don't forget.. He also helped Jonah Hill start a fake school to fool Justin Long's parents into thinking he got accepted into college.

[@damienhickman-q8r]

Well said

[@DavidHenderson227]

I greatly enjoy and respect Lewis Black. He is smarter that most people in DC.

[@ddab918]

Thank you for having Lewis Black. As always, for me, he provides so much food for thought as he makes me/us laugh!

[@tomgardner8825]

it's 2022 i am 70 and living inmexico for the rest of my living days. i have fecently watched many of Mr. blacks rants on you tube. he's intelligent, well versed, pragmatic and seriously funny and i am a Socialist it gives me great pleasure to watch and listen to these orograns. thank you

[@ioofmoore5940]

Tom, you might want to do a spell check before hitting the send button buddy

[@mad_cat_1st]

20:20 -- THANK YOU, SIR! I hope more people in this spoiled rotten country will listen to you.

[@williamsams5288]

With George Carlin gone now, I listen to Lewis a lot more.

[@millieo7155]

William Sams ... Carlin is still surprisingly current.

[@JonROlsen]

@@millieo7155 That's right. Carlin still speaks to us.

[@DH-xm3hc]

I agree Also Denis Leary Both will make you think RIP George Carlin ❤

[@kmbroge]

I don't care if you didn't get laughs in the room, I thought this was HILARIOUS!! You truly are an artist Mr. Black, and I deeply appreciate your comedy. You speak so much truth, with so much passion and put it in such a perfect perspective that you would have to be fuckin' brain dead not to laugh. You are SO correct about all of this, our country is in the shit-hole and its ALL due complete stupidity. The problems are simple, and its right in our faces. The part thats mind-boggling is how simple the solutions are. Thank you for this, and for continuing to speak about and poke fun the most important issues that we face today. You TRULY are one of the smartest people I have never met!!From one of your BIGGEST fans (who has sadly never seen you live but has listened to every single second of material I can get my hands on, including all your albums and your book) THANK YOU and KEEP KICKIN ASS!!

[@RetroGaming_07]

very well said @Kyle Broge. I know I'm responding to an old comment but I wanted to. Yep I'm done supporting all politicians myself dnc and dems are no longer for the people for sure. Politics is all theater now for sure, like the mgs2 quote its all a show democracy is just a filler for texbooks, one of my favorite quotes from metal gear solid 2. Very good game if you played it like I have. All politicians are sellouts and are in it for themselves and serve the elites.

[@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491]

we are under Serious Attack.. thank God for Lewis and Pray.

[@kzinful]

You see America, you should've listened to Lewis about trump.

[@johntechwriter]

He gets emotional when talking about his parents.

[@musicsunhappy]

Love your mind Lewis.

[@nancymathisen9707]

He described Donald Trump, exactly, before the entire POTUS thing.

[@lopvoxlive4812]

Thank You Mr. Black for the inspiration to follow my calling sir, I have been to your live shows several times and you have always been a true inspiration. You are salt of the earth my brother, I wish you "Good Journey"

[@clumsiii]

Beautiful - Thank you Lewis! --- stories of conscience --- we need them - DO ANOTHER STAND UP SPECIAL PLEASE!

[@pevensielavere22]

Lewis Niles Black is in my top 5 people of all-time who continue to inspire me!! :*]

[@victorsanabria5479]

Who are the other four? If you'd be so kind as to share that on KZbin...

[@reginaldbowls7180]

Yes tell us :)

[@jasonsenner3276]

She doesn't know, but it probably sounded good.

[@thecalmbro]

Really happy to see lou is still doing stuff. He is a very great and underrated comedian. Hope he gets more specials out soon.

[@booza650]

Like every great from Einstein to Tesla all the way to Shakespeare, they usually don't get proper credit until they pass away unfortunately. I'm amazed that most science text books mention little to nothing about Michael Faraday

[@richardburton6838]

If I had the power to, I would put the handcuffs on Donald Rumsfeld. No hesitation.

[@deanlaxer608]

This is one hell of a great speech. Made me think and laugh at the same time. Almost better then his live recordings :-)

[@sarge420]

I remember those days growing up in the 60s. Circa1957

[@markbrownner6565]

and now to think that don is prez….just freakin astounding..!!

[@booza650]

If Lewis Black ran for president I'd vote for him. He actually has thoughts

[@madracer54]

I was literally just telling my wife that as I read this.. I would totally vote for him!

[@Xhanthan]

I get what you are saying, but isn't it somehow sad, that "having thoughts" counts as a valid criterium, that one has to look out for?^^

[@LeSeulViolet]

@jason h, one can allege having thoughts is precisely the reason he'd never run for presidency.

[@jeffbell2668]

jason h trump to stupid to be president Lewis is too smart, he is speaker of truth shouting in a hurricane.

[@TheNeeenha]

@Henry Coy A men brother..I totally agree

[@louiselasinski7623]

Now we only have the working poor and the 1%.

[@LadyYoop]

I just love him...crack me up!

[@donh7909]

Here it is, 2020...! And what he said about Nam, rings true today... Scary..!

[@MrAlsfan5]

This was great. Lewis Black is brilliant as usual.

[@beauc7992]

30:56 is the best part. An adorable old mother falling back into her seat with the boyish laughter of her middle-aged son following soon after. Beautiful.

[@IvoMiller]

Gulf of Tonkin. Remember? Propaganda our worst enemy

[@rosefincher7631]

*Fort Sumter ~ 12-14 APR 1861* .....and so it begins..... USS Maine ~ 15 FEB 1889 Lusitania ~ 7 MAY 1915 Pearl Harbor ~ 7 DEC 1941 **38th parallel created SEE: Potsdam Conference ~ 17 JULY-2 AUG 1945** Korean War ~ 25 JUNE 1950 Gulf of Tonkin "incident" ~ AUG 1964 September 11, 2001.......and the beat goes on. *This 1st attack ~ on Fort Sumter ~ forever changed the "course" of our country into the exact type of entity that the "Founding Fathers" not only had escaped, but vehemently warned us about becoming!!

[@danielmurray6068]

All Hail Lewis!!!

[@cbergland]

Profound!

[@HexxuSz]

Since george has passed away i have been looking up to Lewis, amazing mind.

[@CS-pi5oc]

I love your parents more than I can express. I can’t even imagine ppl like them let alone being related to.

[@grlewycky]

Run for office - we need you

[@freighttrain1695]

I love CSPAN but watching it is like being behind someone doing 50 in a 55mph zone, hurry the fuck up or get out of the way.

[@pretzeltime3900]

First time I’ve ever watched or listened to Lewis Black and there wasn’t enough laughter to fill an 8 ounce glass container!! This is an amazing man who understands where this country came from and where its going.

[@MudderFukker-m6g]

Lewis Black starts at 5:10

[@frankguinan9927]

Lewis Black is BRILLIANT!!! Side note: the guy who introduced him, etc... used the word “penultimate” correctly! This is a rare occurrence! Kind of random and unimportant, but.... kudos!

[@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491]

ohmyGod: what a wonderful human. and a Conscience... is anyone listening ? lewis is The True Good Human American

[@eddiemaxblack]

We need health care, not health insurance -- :) We need single-payer. We need free university. We need to cut the military budget by 90 percent. And we'll go from there -- :) Socialism is, well, democracy, meaningful democracy. Noam Chomsky is a democratic socialist. Lewis Black would also be a democratic socialist.

[@victorsanabria5479]

Lewis Black! My hero!

[@2nd3rd1st]

"The National Press Club is commited to forstering a free press worldwide." ...invites Donald Trump to speak... It's the ultimate irony, isn't it.

[@ssejr01]

I thought this was great!

[@Lorlic1138]

Skip to 5:10 for Lewis

[@rogerhwerner6997]

It's nice to hear someone, anyone, address the socialism issue forthrightly and accurately. Socislism as an effective movement hasn't existed in the US for more than a half century. Black is my age and what he describes in my life, how I grew up. What he says about the way things were is absolutely true. And yes, stupidity makes me mad as hell, stupidity and absurd behavior. I love comedy that makes fun of stupid and absurd.

[@snowman374th]

You know pumping gas was a job uppity people didn't want their kids doing. But families grew up because of a man who did. Those are pretty much gone now, replaced by foreigners. Then it was the burger stand. Replaced by foreigners to. Then the ice cream parlor. That's still American owned & ran. I think you will find that all of these stereotype employments are being taken away by people who don't wanna be made fun of for working at one, and the parents who don't want their children working at one. But it's America being taken away, not just the jobs.

[@ferocioustick]

His comment about trump (around 42:00) seems incredibly prescient now. Free advertising on mainstream media is how trump got elected.

[@Dominick_Calvitto.]

I Love Lewis Black he is so truthful it's the greatest..And he's Very Intelligent.and Hysterical AS FUCK..

[@RetroGaming_07]

I know this video is old but Iove lewis black hes one of my top 10 comedians for sure. Right up there with carlin. We need more people like Lewis Black for sure. He reminds me of magri my old art history professor at american river college. He doesn't teach anymore but when I had him he reminded me of Lewis Black for sure.

[@robertherberg9595]

Lewis usually makes me laugh. You make me cry on this day...

[@TR-rf4wh]

Oh man if he only knew then who would win....not Sarah palin, not Ted Cruz....

[@delphiprogrammingtutorials2280]

And certainly NOT Nancy Pelosi!!!

[@joannilson2900]

Just found this clip now! Egad! Lewis is phenomenal as always! This was almost as good as his Commencement Address at UCSD in 2013! My favorite line here though is about socialism: enforced Christianity!! OMG - too funny .. or better: more truth than poetry. Lewis Black: you are a national treasure!

[@mattincinci]

awesome

[@randallebritt582]

Long live Lewis Black!!!!!

[@KategariYami]

For more information, please visit our website: www.whatever... *Me on the table* Oooooh good thing I brought my laptop! Don't forget to use our Hashtag. *Ooooooooooh such swag, much hip. Very now*.

[@harrygrimley4352]

A brilliant man. Thanks for sharing this with us

[@ernestcruz6316]

Lewis recently lost his mom at the age of 104, and his father passed at 101 in 2019. So apparently longevity is in his genes. At least they lived to see him become a real success in his field.

[@eddiggs5993]

BLACK FOR PRESIDENT

[@Electrica990]

LEWIS BLACK. BIG HUGS.

[@mjf712000]

Love Lewis Black's thoughtful comedy. It always surprises me how intelligent people can advocate socialism, however, a system that has failed over and over again throughout history. In fact has never worked. A failed government system can not help the poor.

[@jackal59]

I think that people in several Nordic countries might be a little bemused by your ideas about socialism.

[@mjf712000]

Like to see em try it with 300,000,000 people. It only works where the populations is low and the majority of people make the same amount of money. If history serves it failed in big countries like Russia and Germany and only works in China due to Military control of the people.

[@AperturePowered]

Matthew Frederick Examples of failed socialist regimes that are enacted on a large scale? And not failed due to a poor government or leader, but failed because of the system itself.

[@THX1138A100]

Matthew Frederick Did you pay the hospital cost when you were born? Did you pay for your primary and secondary education taxes? Did you pay for your dental expenses. When you became eighteen did your family invoice you for the total cost of your room and board from birth? Did your mother invoice you for childcare and preschool education? Capitalism is based on the social family system; social reproduction is a totally socialist system and without it capitalism could not exist.

[@Rickwmc]

As a child, teen and young adult in the 60's and 70's I lived in a house paid for by my father. We even had a small swimming pool in the backyard. My dad bought me a new car every 3 years. I had nice clothes to go out on dates, parties and dances. I went to the movies twice a month and restaurants once a week. I went to the dentist three times a year. I could do impulse shopping for small expense items. I was on a band playing my own keyboard. My dad put me through college and I only worked summers getting the job after job hunting for about a week. Today I have LOST ALL OF THIS! All of it!

[@johntechwriter]

I'm from the same generation. Like you I'm poorer now. But I take consolation from knowing there was an extended interval in my life when I was free from care. No generation since ours has enjoyed that privilege.

[@davidgouin8420]

Give them hell Lewis!!!

[@ybrix101]

lewis black is very funny and intelligent. but he's got some serious gaps in his logic. his dad had and still has the same health insurance that congress has(which is nice). the people who don't have the federal government jobs may be stuck with obamacare. do you think for a minute that congress would have voted for obamacare if they themselves had to be on obamacare? what about the rest of America lewis?

[@amandaleeharig7300]

I do not understand how you're splitting those hairs, but in either case, if the Public Option had been offered, we could ALL enjoy healthcare that is unparalleled by what is currently offered. By the way, Federal Healthcare is a self-funded option that isn't the same for a paper pusher as it is congress. Those rules change per the employer.

[@ernestcruz6316]

At 34:53 - Re presidential candidates: "Can't we get somebody else? Where's Deputy Dawg?" Ah, Deputy Dawg...the nominee of the "Dagnabbit" party...

[@bartbullock9742]

Lewis Black, waxing poetic..."YOU DON'T WORRY ABOUT MONEY"

[@gustavocabrera-mw4vl]

Politics is the "art" of modulating human and national development through the discretional manipulation of the TRUTH.

[@Brian-uy2tj]

Lewis Black....this is the future calling out to you in 2014...... Hold on to your shorts, it's going to get worse for a few years and you'll never guess who gets elected in 2016, hoo boy.........😳

[@MrDunkin2000]

Canada has an entrepreneur background. It really depends on the approach. Don't go nuts. Don't be nuts, Don't allow nuts. Unfortunately, that's the Conservative Party. Liberals are completely different.

[@concept2872]

Wow, I met him in person a couple of weeks ago and he looked a lot skinnier. I hope he is alright.

[@crazycarl00]

Lewis Black is a bottom-feeder of Carlin-esque material. His shtick is being a stereotypical Jew.

[@richardjarrell3585]

53:34 The “Disneyland Memorial Orgy” by Wally Wood was published in the May 1967 issue of THE REALIST, when Black was 18.

[@robertguida8997]

There are 2 people who the older I get, the more I realize they are so correct on everything they say!! Lewis Black & Larry David, its so incredible to me, that both men are in there 70s, yet have the pulse of everything going on in the world better than anyone alive!! The world needs more of these men of old world thinking!

[@ScreamBloodyMetal]

I came here to watch Lewis Black spit some truth, but I stayed for the angry MAGAs punching air in the comments.

[@jennefercochran259]

I have no problem with redskins just as I don't with orioles or Bluejays. They can have a chirp off at their games.if they so desire .

[@labspeciman7402]

Hey Lewis.. You wanted deputy dog? Herschel Walker is a real copper.

[@joelstein4657]

A true dinosaur. Left from a different age who cares more about people, his community and his world than he does about making millions. The last of a dying race. The accumulating bill will come due.

[@jennefercochran259]

I agree about Colbert as he doesn't bring anyone who doesn't have his same ideology which makes his program a bit pedantic..

[@BOB-wo2nb]

The only problem is that socialism, as a form of government, does not include a middle class. Under socialism you have the exceptionally, filthy, unabashed RICH and the extremely, beyond comprehension POOR. The corruption that is inherent to socialism does not allow for any middle ground. As China, the US, Japan, and almost all of Europe have clearly demonstrated, only a hybrid system works, and even that is not, and never will be, perfect. How can an intellectual ever tout something that has failed on the scale of socialism? I do not understand that. Otherwise, I love Lewis Black, he sometimes makes a hell of a lot of sense.

[@CPLTarun]

Bernie & Lewis 2020

[@FlaGordon2]

nothing better than a guy admitting he was raised in a middle class life talking about his house keeper...because, I'm sure they paid that housekeeper a living wage.

[@janestarr4403]

When the Blue Laws were ended in Pa., my mother-in-law, who worked at a store, quit, because she refused to work on Sunday. I admired her for that choice.

[@googleboy7]

Why don't you distribute your wealth among the poor? Oh I get it. What you really mean is distribute others money among the poor. You just might be à hypocrite.

[@robertdemitro1520]

It's really hard not to like Lewis . I grew up around people like him . Trust me you watched what you said . Lol

[@freighttrain1695]

The middle class thrived off of the taxation of the rich at 91 % because the rich paid most of the taes back in the day . That changed when Reagan took office and took the effective tax rate from 71% down to 25% which put more of the tax burden on the middle class.

[@katherenewedic8076]

*Appalachia, golf, yes. Look at Garrett county Maryland million dollar homes for tax write-offs

[@notme2day]

Dealing with the American people is like dealing with a stroke victims is a perfect analogy

[@ernestcruz6316]

If we had just followed the advice Lewis gave us about Donald Trump in this video, we could have been saved a whole hell of a lot of misery and trouble.

[@gordontheseal]

I’m a huge fan of Lewis Black and at the time of this, I am currently in the same room as him in this video. Was very surprised to see a signed picture of my favorite angry comedian.

[@alexciocca4451]

National press club server boloney sandwich’s to all the members no charge

[@eddybrevet6816]

This I proof liberty is the fountainhead of much good, the only way sucha genuine can b

[@007vsMagua]

To hear Lewis' story is also my early childhood story. Born in Southeastern Minnesota, , raised Catholic, I'm about three years younger than Lewis. The "Recreation Departments", the "Little Leagues", the YMCA "Youth Programs", from the 50's and 60's are no longer easily viable for parents with children. We had a shit load of freedom to roam as young kids and got into trouble sometimes. Exploring new construction sites, sneaking in to our local college tunnel steam heating and maintenance system, was somewhat exciting...lots of secret doors. The sense of real community is missing, and that's because the middle is being "Rubbed Out".

[@fredbazoo]

Can someone tell me what is wrong with the National Press Club? Is there not one member with a sense of humour or irony? Are these boys all Republicans hacks? Just asking as a lost Canuck looking for a wise man.....

[@racheladkins6060]

Is this audience dead? They’re not responding to Lewis common sense and humour.

[@TREYOLDHIPPIE]

My hero, Lewis, its an honor to have you in the world today. And wow, you sure got it. Lost me bro after he came home. '67, an early AWOL and lost all the same. Frm.Nam that is.

[@chuckrymal9091]

To bad his passion is so misdirected. If he really understood human nature is to be free and the United States is the only country left on earth with some freedom left because we respect natural rights and that everything we have is based on those rights, if he actually understood that, he would have to abandon his socialist beliefs.

[@patricelauverjon3177]

It appears to be crazy when one says that matter has a fantastic memory eventhough that view may change in a few decades! On the other hand to say it does not matter is common language! This can be food for thought for a few, but most of us need to be fed with more true knowledge, not manipulations and lies

[@jennefercochran259]

Thanks for introducing your wonderful parents..

[@jennefercochran259]

Thanks for introducing your wonderful parents..

[@verisimilitudeteller]

What the fuck is with Myron Belkind and his insistence on saying "www" as if the internet requires that still. It sounds so labored when he says it too.