post me too era. my friend cara swisher flagged this extraordinary new york times op-ed and the writer is here. the writer and producer behind the shows like the simpsons. mor murphy brown. and recently the author of the new book, just the funny parts. she joins me now. all right, nell, why are we in post-me too in hollywood, a very, quote, sexy industry? i hope we re not post-me too. i hope we re just at the beginning of me too. i think awareness has been raised. and with awareness you get education, you get empathy and you hope that will change behavior. i don t see any systemic reform since these the news stories started breaking. that s unfortunate because that s how you speed along change behavior. and also if there s one thing we ve learned from all these stories, the system isn t
night live comes before the next republican debate on tuesday and at a time when recent polls show him neck and neck with dr. ben carson. joining me is jeremy peterss for the new york times. good to see you again. let s gauge this impact with trump s appearance on snl. does it register in any significant way? i was trying to think about this and why i felt it didn t quite work. something a little off about the humor. i think that s because the snl paroddy version of trump and the actual trump are not that far apart. when it comes down to it maybe the actors are a little funnier. trump is a performer. he s a character. and trying to make him into something else is just not really going to work. i kind of agree with you. it fell a little flat, although there were some funny parts. his dancing in the drake video. that was pretty good. let s go now to ben carson because here s his response to
silver linings. but they always have some romance and hope and enchantment. i was drawn to the character based on angelo of all the politicians because he was guy who was gloved by his community. and the the fbi guys who busted him who a couple months ago tell me they really liked him, they thought he was a really good guy. so that allowed me an avenue to not i think i would have a hard time, you know, doing it otherwise. if i couldn t find somebody people with some real hearts in the story. well, the funny part was david there are so many funny parts. by the way, people really laughing out loud in the theater. i saw it the other night in d.c. again. the screening among the sophisticates, they didn t know how to laugh, later on when the regular people see it. show the lineup of politicians one after the other from jersey, including the senator reaching for the bag, the guy, con man moved the bag of money over toward the politician and just reached their hands out and instinctivel
he issued a press released which is basically a complete melt down. this is what i love about this. let me read one sentence and then i will get to the funny parts. i will just say this, in my opinion, f news whose options who have been severely limited by their extreme intolerant views. now let me explain about extreme and intolerant. this is a guy that insulted most of america and danced on the grave of heston. jim carrey is threatening legal action in this letter, something hestoth can t do becaus te heston is dead. that was the point to stand up to somebody who can t talk back to a fool like jim carrey. he first c tweeted about this on monday.h basically what he said is all gun owners are i can t say the word. mf. mf. and then he released this video and then retreated.
you got it. press release which is basically meltdown. this is what i love about this, let me read one sentence and i will get to the funny parts. in my opinion, i won t say the last resort for kind of sort of journalists and have extreme intolerant views let me explain. this is guy that insulted most of america and dance order the grave of charlton heston. jim carrey is threatening in this letter, threatening legal action something that that charlton heston can t do because she dead. that is the whole point. to stand up that couldn t talk to a fool like jim carrey. he first tweeted about this on monday. basically what he said that all gun owners i can t say the word. mf. then he re-tweeted.