Lizz Winstead, creator of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, really was not a fan of this year’s Super Bowl commercials. First she melted down over Fox crowning Greg Gutfled “the new king of late night” and on Monday’s edition of The Daily Show she lamented “A hundred million dollar ads with people who are funding anti-abortion garbage” while “we are having bake sales.”
Winstead was being interviewed by temp host Sarah Silverman who asked about how The Daily Show relates to Winstead’s Abortion Access Front, “: Do you see this as, kind of, a natural evolution from The Daily Show for you?”
Only confirming what many already suspected, Winstead admitted The Daily Show was just another way of spreading her left-wing beliefs, “Yeah, the truth is, whether it was this show, whether it was Air America Radio, wherever I went it, it’s like, knowing that you can expose hypocrisy with humor and knowing that, done well, you can make change, it kind of was a natural evolution because no one was talking about abortion. People siloed it, they weren’t talking about it and so the reason I created it is because I wanted to speak truth to power.”
Exposing hypocrisy only exposes hypocrisy, it does not actually make any solid points in favor of abortion, but bad logic aside, Winstead continued hyping AAF and its programs, “I feel like people really want to get involved and so with us, it’s like, we just watched the Super Bowl. A hundred million dollar ads with people who are funding anti-abortion garbage and we are having bake sales or try to get people services, right? I am not going to say you should donate, but you should donate.”
As fun is it to see liberals, who dominate pop culture, lamenting the existence of contrary ideas in the culture, it is unclear what exactly Winstead is talking about. The much-talked about He Gets Us ads were about having childlike faith and loving your enemies. The Pringles ad was unintentionally pro-life, but appeared so because assumptions behind the pro-life movement are true. Furthermore, the idea pro-abortion activists are struggling for attention is laughable.
Later in the interview, Silverman lamented that pro-lifers are securing some victories, “Yeah, you know, a lot of people are seeing their rights being stripped away, and it’s really scary.”
Not nearly as scary as abortion and if Winstead intended to create The Daily Show to promote abortion, she must be happy as Silverman is just the latest temp host to use the show to do just that. No wonder viewership is plummeting.
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Here is a transcript for the February 13 show:
Comedy Central The Daily Show
2/13/2023
11:28 PM ET
SARAH SILVERMAN: Do you see this as, kind of, a natural evolution from The Daily Show for you?
LIZZ WINSTEAD: A hundred percent.
SILVERMAN: Well because they-- explain what it is, but they deal with abortion with humor.
WINSTEAD: Yeah, the truth is, whether it was this show, whether it was Air America Radio, wherever I went it, it’s like, knowing that you can expose hypocrisy with humor and knowing that, done well, you can make change, it kind of was a natural evolution because no one was talking about abortion. People siloed it, they weren’t talking about it and so the reason I created it is because I wanted to speak truth to power.
Also, if everybody felt freaked out when Roe v. Wade fell, like -- what do I-- did all of you feel like, what do I do? I wanted to give people an answer to that question. So with Abortion Access Front, we decided, what we want to do is create programs that folks can jump into, we'll meet you where you are. If you have 10 minutes, an hour to give, we have fun things in the street, we can help you legislatively.
You know, we have this great program called Operation Save Abortion. It’s pretty simple. It’s a five-part series, get together with your friends, do it, and learn how you can do more than just march, because I just feel like you are in anger fluffer at that point, right? Where’s the release?
SILVERMAN: Anger fluffer.
WINSTEAD: So, I feel like people really want to get involved and so with us, it’s like, we just watched the Super Bowl. A hundred million dollar ads with people who are funding anti-abortion garbage and we are having bake sales or try to get people services, right? I am not going to say you should donate, but you should donate.
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SILVERMAN: Yeah, you know, a lot of people are seeing their rights being stripped away, and it’s really scary. What can people do?
WINSTEAD: I mean, I'm just going to say, if you go to aafront.org, we can guide you nationally to were you need to be, we are connectors, we’re unifiers, we are the people who really wanted to do something and help you figure out what that something is.
