In the midst of this week’s midterm elections drama, two very different comedians released two wildly disparate comedy specials.
The first was John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons, the actor’s Tony Award-nominated one-person show on Broadway that was taped by Netflix. Adopting a kind of professorial persona, the comic makes use of a classroom set (and actual classroom readings new and old, like Howard Zinn’s The Peoples History of the United States) to satirize American history from a Latino perspective.
John Leguizamo brings his Tony Award-nominated show to Netflix
Dennis Miller, meanwhile, takes his conservative politics to the stand-up stage
The second is Dennis Miller’s Fake News, Real Jokes! on the Comedy Dynamics network. The former host of Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” segment turned conservative comedy darling, Miller’s special is more of a traditional stand-up performance that, as the title would suggest, takes a somewhat different approach to contemporary events than Leguizamo does. Regardless of what your politics are, Fake News, Real Jokes! is a decent special from a proven comedian.
Of course, as divisive as content can be these days (political and otherwise), Miller’s new special might not be for everyone. Then again, Leguizamo’s might not appeal to some audiences either. As Miller explained it to Jimmy Kimmelthis week, “I refuse to go through life defining who I’m gonna be friends with, who I’m going to love, who I’m gonna hang with, from this D or R after people’s names.” It’s a nice sentiment, to be sure, but one that’s easy for someone with Miller’s privileged position to espouse.
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