The jokes come fast and fall quickly, sometimes cramming in multiple topics in just a minute. O’Donnell and Phillip Chang - and follows the same format as "The Daily Show." Being not only Camp's first television show, but also the first comedy show for the Russian-owned network, it's clear that the show is still trying to find its voice and tempo. "Redacted Tonight" runs for 30 minutes each week with a scrappy team of just four people - Camp, Sam Sacks, John F. It was then that RT America, a network already familiar with his commentary from its shows "The Keiser Report" and "Breaking the Set," invested in Camp and gave him free reign over a comedy show oriented around the news. In 2011, he started a YouTube series called "Moment of Clarity" that produced about 300 episodes tackling darker issues like the government and global warming. Camp has been performing stand-up for 15 years. But there's one comic who brings Russell-Brand-level wrath to the format of the "Daily Show." He has gone largely unnoticed by the American media the past few months: his name is Lee Camp and his show is RT America's "Redacted Tonight."Ĭamp has comedy in his blood (or at least in his extended family): His brother is Dean Fleischer-Camp, filmmaker and co-writer of viral hit "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On," narrated by comedian Jenny Slate, who also happens to be Fleischer-Camp's wife. Then there's Russell Brand's YouTube rants against Fox News pundits, which are angrier still. "Last Week Tonight" has become America's moral compass in just a few months on the air. In the world outside cable news, Bill Maher and John Oliver dial the anger up a few notches. Liberal as their leanings are, their targets are outlandish enough that many moderates and conservatives can enjoy their takedowns, too. On one end of the spectrum, we have "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," which offer a temporary reprieve from the lunacy of the 24/7 news cycle. To learn more about comedian Lee Camp, check out his official website.Americans are looking to a growing assortment of comedians to help them digest the news and respond to current events. 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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