Camp, however, says, “I have incredible freedom there and I do a lot of anti-corporate comedy, and I’m not allowed to do it anywhere else, basically.” Some have called RT a propaganda tool of Russian President Vladimir Putin. One curious twist here is that Redacted’s home base, RT, is the Russian government’s English-language news channel. I wish they’d gotten upset earlier, but hey, if this is what needs to happen, well, America has woken up and I think that’s probably a good thing.” “The grim reality of it may be people needed to have a big ugly face to the situation to realize how upsetting it is,” he says. Sure, Camp has been unsparing in his criticism of the new president - but no moreso, he says, than when he took Obama to task for bombing civilians or deporting immigrants in record numbers.Ĭamp acknowledges that more liberals are upset about Trump - the comic’s own biggest concern is climate change - but he considers our political crisis mostly an ongoing one. Smalls Funhouse.īut Camp, speaking by phone, says neither he nor Redacted are much changed by Donald Trump’s victory. In his two most recent Pittsburgh visits, for instance, Camp played Hambone’s Pub on March 11, he’s at Mr. The attention has also grown his standup act into bigger venues. Interviewed recently, Camp says the presidential campaign gave Redacted, which addressed issues like voter suppression and flawed voting technology, “a huge bump in viewership” and got it moved into a bigger studio in Washington, D.C. “In the first five seconds, they’re already taking credit for your life,” he noted in his characteristic high-keyed style, before skewering the ad’s schmaltzy aesthetic (“like a montage you’d play at a wedding reception”), its pandering to concern about veterans, and more.Ĭamp’s Chomsky-on-Red Bull approach is paying off, especially of late. In one late-February opening monologue, for instance, Camp ran a master class on deconstructing a feel-good Starbucks ad. To learn more about comedian Lee Camp, check out his official website.Nearly three years after the debut of his weekly online political-comedy talk show on RT.com, Redacted Tonight, Lee Camp is still basking in the freedom it gives him to fire away at big targets. I think you can have both: the laughter and get information across at the same time,” he concluded. I don’t think that by adding jokes or laughter to what I am talking about undermines the ultimate point.
The lies that are being told and the nonsense that is covered on our nightly news as having meaning, and it makes me angry, and that can be transferred into humor a lot of the time, and oddly, it can be done while still keeping the heart of what it is I am angry about. His comedic writing is inspired by “anger and disbelief at the system in which we live.” “That is the center of a lot of it. These big name guys allowed me to open for them and they gave me a taste of what it was like,” he said. “Within the first six months, I knew that I wanted to do comedy. He attended the University of Virginia where he opened for such comedians as Jimmy Fallon, Tracy Morgan and Darrell Hammond. “It was based on my political comedy essays on a lot of things, and it was based on my popular YouTube series, so that also played a factor,” he said.Ĭamp revealed that he has been performing stand-up comedy since the age of 18. His book, Lee Camp’s Moment of Clarity: The Rantings of A Stark Raving Sane Man, is a collection of transcripts from his first YouTube show, and it fared well, making the Top 5 on Amazon’s Top political humor charts list. Then, I was appearing as a humorous talking head in RT America, so when they decided to create a comedy show, they came to me and asked me if I would do it.Ĭamp’s show also produces website content outside of its original broadcast, which is primarily focused on high-profile interviews with major politicians, public figures, dignitaries and athletes. I was based in New York City, but I have been touring the country and some other countries. Regarding his new comedy show, he said, “I have been doing political stand-up comedy for 15 years now. He used to write comedy for Huffington Post and The Onion. He has seen both sides of thought-provoking comedy being involved in performing, writing and producing.
Camp not only likes to produce comedy to make people aware, but he tries to inspire action, as he is an activist himself, where he participated in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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