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Echo i am so excited to welcome you to this doubleheader with teethree and Amir Alexander this is part of the homecoming festival i hope many of you could be m returning to the building for the first time after a couple of years we remodeled the space maybe this is your First Time Ever this is exactly the type of thing we exist to do i am so pleased to present these two fantastic authors. All the lecture programs in political talk without a mathematical approach to look at the world so having a chance to interview Amir Alexander and teethree as a doubleheader is a great opportunity for this homecoming festival. So pleased to see everyone here tonight and our partners. We will open with a solo presentation from eugenia then take a short break while we switch over to Ami ....
Kimmel live. I am your guest host for the night. Brie larson. [cheers and applause] thank you. Jimmy couldnt be here tonight. Hes recovering at home. And jimmy, if youre watching, were thinking of you, and wish you the best of luck with your new butt implants. Actually, jimmy had a big primetime special with norman lear tonight. So he asked me to fill in. He told me to make myself at home. So i went into his office, took off my bra, and drunkordered a bunch of quilts on etsy. This is an interesting place to come into work. Right outside that door is the hollywood walk of fame, which is overflowing with tourists and people dressed as superheroes. Today i got to see what captain marvel would look like as a chainsmoking old man in a wig. Yeah, and it as still kinda hot. 2019 has been pretty big for me. [cheers and applause] thank you. Between captain marvel and avengers endgame, my films grossed almost 4 billion dollars this year. [cheers and applause] yeah. And tonight, im getting 800 bu ....
It is so nice to be here with you talking about your new book the witches are coming. I want to start by asking you because your writing in this book is always is very funny. Would you call yourself a humor writer . I think so thank you. [laughter] people love to call me a comedian which i dont think it is accurate because i dont do standup comedy. I did a long time ago its very hard and i do not like it. I am a comedy writer with the comedy tv show and i am a humor writer thats my main mission. As a writer Political Writer and cultural critic how is humor a useful entry point . And thats like to write but it feels like a great way to sell challenging concepts or con people into consuming challenging ideas. Because even back when i was a film critic i always try to make everything funny or everything piece of entertainment in itself. Because if you can make something funny you can get people to swallow stuff like big feminist id ....