There is - you know, I think comedy is a superpower. SIMON: Surely, as a man of comedy, just the fact that he can make you laugh is worth a lot, isn't it? And that's a little troubling, especially for someone who's in the satire business. And you know what's not there? Any talking about hacking the election, any talk about, you know, Putin's misdeeds. When you find out that it's financed by Russian television and the Russian government, you start to question what's not there. KELLY LEONARD: It is funny, but there's a problem. SIMON: We asked Kelly Leonard, executive producer at Chicago's Second City, simply, is "Redacted Tonight" funny? They created more of an abstract government. And in Central America, the CIA eliminated any recognizable self-government.
NAOMI KARAVANI: The CIA promoted modern art movements such as Abstract Expressionism, including artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, in contrast with the social realism of Soviet painting. One of the show's reporters, Naomi Karavani, did a story on a Berlin exhibit that shows how the CIA encouraged abstract art during the Cold War. support for a repressive regime in Honduras. SIMON: Lee Camp ridiculed Republicans and Democrats and jeered U.S. So in that last segment, I went over how the ruling elite are stealing every last dime from the American people. SIMON: We attended a show recording last week with little more than 20 people in the studio who laughed and cheered when prompted - but sincerely.ĬAMP: Welcome. ROOFTOP REVOLUTIONARIES: (Singing) We're all sick, tired and wasted. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SICK, TIRED AND WASTED") intelligence agencies call RT America a Kremlin-financed channel that tries to disguise its ties, and is part of what they call Russia's state-run propaganda machine. The BBC and Al-Jazeera, which also have American services, aren't required to register. Justice Department ordered RT America to register as a foreign agent last month. IOFFE: And it just - it looks like, you know, the kind of rantings that I would engage in when I was an angry 15 year old. SIMON: Julia Ioffe, who writes critically about Putin's regime in Russia for The Atlantic and other platforms, has seen "Redacted Tonight." And Lee Camp can be devastating.ĬAMP: This is the last call on the remainder of the quote, unquote, "American dream," Which has turned into a fever dream where you were already kind of sick to begin with. But the show is also pointed and packed with information from a certain point of view, delivered with flip irreverence in what they may hope is the style of "The Daily Show," "Full Frontal With Samantha Bee" or "SNL." "Redacted Tonight" doesn't proselytize for Russia. Actually, one profanity over and over is bleeped, if not redacted. And then the representatives go, no we want to (expletive) them this way. And the senators go, we want to (expletive) the American people this way. Now it's in reconciliation, which means they all - they get into a room together. Welcome to "Redacted Tonight." The Senate and the House have both passed their version of the new tax bill.
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(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "REDACTED TONIGHT") The show is hosted and written by an American comic in black jeans with a hipster beard and long, bobbed hair, Lee Camp. Look at a show called "Redacted Tonight" on RT America, a Russian network broadcast in the U.S. Russian programming is no longer breathless proclamations about tractor production or accolades to the Kremlin.
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