get these things wrong. i don t think civil rights question shoes go to voters partly because you get into the thing of the whim of the voters and where the political whims are. we don t vote in this country on fundamental rights. freedom of speech will always be there for us. and these sort of questions like marriage and family fall within that. i mean, how would we like it if this four years people say, well, you can be married to jonathan, i can be married to rita and then the next four year, we don t like it. although i m sure he would make a wonderful spouse, i don t want to hopefully we ll find out one day. moving right along. but one point i want to make here is a lot of times the court reflects kints of where we are as a society and i think what s so interesting about this time right now is we re right on the cusp. you can really see the supreme court going either way where five years ago, you know, their decision would have been obvious coming down against same-sex
administration, they vote for amendments and they do things that actually kills any hopes of immigration reform. i think it s time that we actually took a positive step. i realize this is not everything we have to do on immigration, but it s a really positive first step for us to fix this broken system. i was an immigration lawyer for 15 years. i realize there s a lot of things we have to fix in the immigration system. but this is one of the easiest things to fix and i think we should do it thousand. i would push back a little bit defense your characterization of the democrats on this issue, but that s for another time. what i want to talk about is the importance for your party to do something to reverse the thumping that you got in 2012 among latinos and this concept that the latinos may soon become attached to the democratic party the way blacks have become. and i agree with you. i think if we don t reach out to the what tee know community to the african-american community, to th
comics who don t want to be self-deprecating anymore but they re still elaine boozeler said when she went on the tonight show, she injected her show with all these self-deprecating jokes she did not want to do. it was imposed on them for a while because that s the way you wanted to see it. through the 1980s you had a lot of female stand-ups getting famous. there were attractive women who did stand-up back then. they just weren t necessarily the ones getting sitcoms, getting, you know, a lot of attention or, you know, attractive and beautiful. there s a feeling you have to be vulnerable on stage. and if you are a beautiful woman you automatically assume she s got in problems in life. i don t think that s true. but anyway talking about women and
no more figures of speech over here. just concrete language. there s lots of incredible funny women from tina fey to sarah silverman, even the sweetly violence women i work with every day. really? really? all right. really. anyway, i don t want to live in a world without women came medians and neither does our next guest. the author of we kill the rise of women in american comedy. welcome, my sister. thanks for having me. so you can talk about smftd special challenges that women who want to enter comedy will face? i think i have to look at stand up and sketch a as two different art forms. the main challenge for stand ups is there is an idea out there that and this is true for a long time that stand up and telling jokes is masculine. and i think that s where a lot
members of the house moving in to the upper chamber and bringing that sort of, oh, i don t know, cantankerous nature? a good number are former house members. so that does give you sort of the mentality of majority or tyrannical rule which is the way the house works. always has. the senate is a different body. but when you put a bunch of old house members in to the senate, they keep thinking like house members. here s the problem with the senate. i ll be completely honest and i will catch a lot of hell for this. take cameras out of the senate chamber and members won t have a reason to sit down there and grand stand and they will make deals. it that s one way you could actually stop this slow moving senate, if you will. speaking of cameras, that split shot of john and jimmy was precious. battle of the shirts.