![]() As so many other comedians recently have taken to focusing on politics, Jeselnik has preferred to use society’s wickedness as a vehicle to emphasize his own. No matter where a joke seems to be headed, a hard turn for the terrible is looming just around the corner. This is trademark Jeselnik-a tension-building setup that ends with a twist of both the premise and the knife. “For example,” he says, pausing for a beat. For a solid minute, he talks about the importance of speaking truth to power, about calling out humanity’s wrongs, and about his disbelief that people in America can still obsess over the trivial with all of the horrible things happening right now. ![]() ![]() After a punch line celebrating how Christian Scientists abstain from modern medicine-and a self-satisfied sip of water-the comic asks the audience to indulge him for a moment as he gets serious. About 15 minutes into his new Netflix stand-up special, Fire in the Maternity Ward, Anthony Jeselnik sets up his political material. ![]()
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