Name: Ro Khanna on Basketball with Bernie, Congressional Poker Night, and Morality
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ro Khanna on Basketball with Bernie, Congressional Poker Night, and Morality' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-06. Transcript available.

I want to know, I think this is an interesting question that you're never asked,
but like,
like you're in Congress, right? Right. You have a cafeteria on Congress? We do.
It's like the
Longworth Cafe. What's your go-to in the cafeteria? I would get tacos. They got
a good taco? They have
a decent taco. You know where they have a good taco bowl? Trump Tower,
apparently. Do you go in
there? Is there a poker night? I don't do poker night. I'm sure there are. They
play basketball?
I do, but not with people in Congress, no. Really? No. I'm like with my, with
my family when like,
or, but I'll go out for a drink. You only play against Indians. I only play
against Jews.
Seriously, as a matter, the tenacity on display when it's an all-Jewish
basketball game,
it's, the skill level could not be lower, but the passion, I can't explain to
you.
We play, like Thanksgiving, it's a family tradition. They'll all go to like,
play basketball.
You've never hooped with Bernie? I have not hooped with Bernie.
I imagine it's just the sharpest elbows. I've heard he's pretty good.
The sharpest knees. I've heard he's pretty good, actually.
Who are your boys? Jonathan Jackson. You go to, you, you go to like the bar
with him?
Yeah, I mean, we'll have a drink here. Yeah. Um, you have movie night ever?
Congress?
These are stupid questions. I don't know why these are on the card.
They, they, they, you know, the movies they have. It's like Ronald Reagan, the,
the, you know,
Ronald Reagan. Oh, they made a movie, right?
They made a movie of Reagan. So they're the movies like that.
They showed that? They showed that. Oh, because the Republicans are in charge?
They get to pick the movies? Well, I mean, I, I, I mean, you could, you could
have any movie,
but the, the, the. So the Democrat, wait, so. So there's an FPL.
So when Pelosi was, was speaker, she got to choose like the birdcage and stuff.
And then they pick what? What do they pick? Any, any, any, any memory. If you
could get the actor,
director, I mean, or sometimes they'll have these things where they, they'll
bring them in for a movie
showing. But the last one they did was Reagan. What's it like being in Congress?
We do do stuff.
What's your day? We go vote. You know, that's the basic first. Yeah, but no one
shows up. We watch C-SPAN.
It's empty. Well, they show, they don't show up when you're making speeches
onto the.
It's very rude. They don't show up because, but they make, they show up. The,
the bells go off.
It's kind of like school. You know, a lot of being in Congress actually is just
having a voice and
speaking out. And so. That sounds like a bullshit. No, I mean. What does it
mean? Like you have to,
you're surrounded by some of these people are the dread, the dregs of humanity.
Right.
You know, in these marble halls, you see a guy walking down the hall. You're
like,
oh, that guy's been accused of like potentially sleeping with a minor. Like how,
how do you like
function in like a world of scoundrels? You know what I mean? How do you like,
I mean, the nation is a nation. No, no, no. Come on.
I mean, it's how, how do you like function in that world and not like, uh, you
know,
you're also a politician. You have to play a game, right? Yeah. You have to
make deals. You
have to co-sponsor legislation. You have to find Republican partners. There are
two ways you can
do it about it. You go out of being, okay, I'm not going to work with anyone
who doesn't meet
a certain moral threshold. Yeah. That hasn't been my approach. My approach has
been,
I want to go there and get stuff done for people of what, and pass my bills.
And so I'll,
uh, they were elected and I, I will, uh, work to, to see how I can get them to
support it. I mean,
that's, you know, that's the, uh, the, the, the reality is you don't get people
who are pure or
coming into these positions. Well, you got you. Yeah, I'm not pure. You're not
pure? Come on.
How can you be pure? I mean, you're like demons. You know, Bernie, Bernie may
be the closest to
being pure, but Bernie's got, you know, but, but Bernie, but Bernie, you know,
Bernie really,
uh, has a very, very high, uh, standard that he set.