{"id":300698,"date":"2019-02-22T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=300698"},"modified":"2019-02-22T20:13:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T01:13:42","slug":"chuck-barkley-brings-back-late-night-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/22\/chuck-barkley-brings-back-late-night-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Barkley Brings Back Late-Night Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number three. The TNT network does television coverage of the NBA. Now, we all know what\u2019s happened to late-night comedy. It doesn\u2019t exist anymore. There isn\u2019t any. Late-night comedy has become left-wing agenda-driven anger and hate. Rather than looking for laughs from their audiences, late-night comics and stand-up comics are seeking applause for when they themselves endeavor to start getting into the hate game.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-300703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022219-Barkley-TNT-2222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022219-Barkley-TNT-2222.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022219-Barkley-TNT-2222-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The hatred of Donald Trump, the hatred of Republicans, the hatred of conservatives. Well, this has left a void. There isn\u2019t any humor? There isn\u2019t any professional humor. I think it\u2019s an amazing thing (chuckling) what Donald Trump has done. Look at all of the industries that he literally is doing great damage to. Late-night comics? I mean, these are the people that inherited the mantle and the role of Johnny Carson, David Letterman and all those?<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t find any humor on these shows! It is nothing but agenda-driven, left-wing hate &#8212; as I say &#8212; seeking applause. So, since it\u2019s absent there, it surfaces elsewhere. The comedy isn\u2019t gone. It\u2019s just being mined and found by others. Last night, during the halftime show of an NBA game, my old buddy Chuck Barkley just unloaded on Jussie Smollett &#8212; and we have the audio sound bite of the highlights. It runs about a minute.<\/p>\n<p>(background noise\/music)<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: Jussie!<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: You wasted all that damn time and money.<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: You know what you should have done?<\/p>\n<p>SHAQ: What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-300667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/3APP-022219-Barkley-TNT-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/3APP-022219-Barkley-TNT-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/3APP-022219-Barkley-TNT-3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: Just went over to Liam Neeson\u2019s neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: You coulda solved &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughter)<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: &#8212; all you damn problems!<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>SMITH: (looking at a series of Post-it Notes with predictions for the NBA season) Pick a ridiculous one over there that you say has no chance of happening?<\/p>\n<p>JOHNSON: Ummmmmmm.<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: Two black guys beating a black guy up?<\/p>\n<p>SHAQ: (choking for air laughing)<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>SMITH: And having a MAGA hat on!<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>SMITH: Charles, say it out loud!<\/p>\n<p>JOHNSON: Uh, that\u2019s not on here, man.<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>SHAQ: What kind of hats they have on, Chuck?<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: MAGAs.<\/p>\n<p>SMITH: MAGA hats.<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: MAGA hats.<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>JOHNSON: All right, I think that\u2019s probably&#8230; I think that\u2019s probably it.<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>JOHNSON: The Lakers will not make the playoffs; the Kings will is the latest addition.<\/p>\n<p>SHAQ: You\u2019 pay \u2019em with cash, Chuck?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LCvrzs2z3Ag\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>JOHNSON: Go ahead, Kenny.<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>JOHNSON: I can\u2019t believe you, Chuck.<\/p>\n<p>SHAQ: Would you pay \u2019em with cash?<\/p>\n<p>JOHNSON: Chuckster?<\/p>\n<p>SHAQ: You pay \u2019em with cash &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>JOHNSON: Chuckster?<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>SHAQ: &#8212; or you writing \u2019em a check, Chuck?<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: America, let me just tell you somethin\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>(laughter)<\/p>\n<p>SMITH: What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: Do not commit crimes with checks.<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: If you\u2019re goin\u2019 to break the law, do not write a check.<\/p>\n<p>SHAQ: (choking for air laughing)<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>SMITH: &#8216;Cause you\u2019re writing a check, then what?<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: Hey, get cash man!<\/p>\n<p>SHAQ: (choking for air laughing)<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>SHAQ: Charles, stop, literally stop. Literally. Come on.<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>(music flares)<\/p>\n<p>SMITH: Chuck, I have one more question to ask you. Do you buy the face mask, the rope and the thing in the same store?<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: No!<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: Hey, Kenny? You think they put that on the receipt, &#8220;face mask, rope, bleach&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>SMITH: In the same store?<\/p>\n<p>BARKLEY: In the same store!<\/p>\n<p>SMITH: They ain\u2019t even going to three different stores.<\/p>\n<p>SHAQ: (choking for air laughing)<\/p>\n<p>ALL: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-300702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/3APP-022219-Barkley-TNT-555555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/3APP-022219-Barkley-TNT-555555.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/3APP-022219-Barkley-TNT-555555-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Shaquille O\u2019Neal could not stop laughing. (laughing) Shaquille O\u2019Neal was begging Barkley to stop. &#8220;Please stop, Chuck. You have to stop. I can\u2019t stop laughing!&#8221; Later in the segment, they put this up. You on the Dittocam will see it. Barkley put up a check made out to &#8220;Muggers&#8221; for $3,500 and the memo section is for &#8220;mugging supplies&#8221; and it\u2019s signed Jussie Smollett. And they are plastering this all &#8212; and Barkley can\u2019t keep a straight face. He can\u2019t talk about basketball.<\/p>\n<p>He just totally destroyed Smollett in the way professional comedians used to, but they won\u2019t go near this today. They will not go near it. They are not going to destroy anybody who is trying to destroy Trump. They are not going to call out anybody who is trying to destroy Trump. They\u2019ll circle the wagons around him &#8212; and Barkley just couldn\u2019t help himself. You can\u2019t watch this&#8230; What you\u2019re missing by listening to this, are Barkley\u2019s facial expressions.<\/p>\n<p>They want to get him back to basketball talking about the game and the highlights, and he can\u2019t. They throw a serious comment to him about the game and he\u2019s got this deadpan look on his face and he just can\u2019t shut up about how stupid Smollett was and (laughing) &#8220;pay to the order of muggers,&#8221; $3,500 (laughing) for &#8220;mugging supplies.&#8221; We will put a screen shot of this up at RushLimbaugh.com so those of you not watching the Dittocam can see this.<\/p>\n<p>It just is a reminder of how the left has abandoned so much. Their hatred and their vitriol is just causing every left-wing industry to implode upon itself &#8212; including our intelligence agencies, including the FBI, including the Drive-By Media. And now this politically active Jussie Smollett who has, as I say, been written out of the final two episodes of this TV show, which is on its last legs anyway, Empire. Let\u2019s take a brief time-out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: He just totally destroyed Smollett in the way professional comedians used to, but they won&#039;t go near this today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":300703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chuck Barkley Brings Back Late-Night Comedy - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/22\/chuck-barkley-brings-back-late-night-comedy\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Chuck Barkley Brings Back Late-Night Comedy - 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