Name: Theo Von - Grateful for 2017
Uploaded: 2018-01-03T14:00:04.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von - Grateful for 2017' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-01-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von - Grateful for 2017' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-01-03. Transcript available.

2017 is over.
If you had something flashing back there, you know,
if you had a little bit of greased lightning electrocuting your insides,
then that's over.
If you had something, I bet you had something good happen too.
Everybody looks at 2017.
I see all these things so glad it's over.
Dude, 2017, that shit was wild.
You know, I've been alive for 37 of these things,
of these spatial roundabouts.
You know, I've been alive for 37 of these outer space disco spins.
And I'll tell you this, that this one was the wildest.
People are feeling lit up.
People are feeling erect in their souls, I think, fired up.
You know, people want this or don't want that.
People are, you know, standing up for this and, you know, uncertain about that.
Last year made me think.
Last year made me think about who I was.
Made me think about who I was, man.
You had a lot of stuff last year.
You had the election going on.
It made you think, like, you know, what's your line in the sand for,
you know, what America is and what America isn't and what you want the future
in this country to look like and who represents that.
You know, even if you don't think, I mean, and I'm not a fan of politicians.
I think the past, I'd probably say maybe 30 years in politics have been sold
out in America.
Where it's, you know, it's just big businesses.
These politicians are just puppets.
But, you know, it's like we had this past year where at least you had to kind
of pick a side in your heart a little bit.
Or you had to see, you know, and you can see through the cracks now of these
people.
You know, you can see how, you know, how grimy and gritty these people get to
get this office
and how much of an egomaniac you have to be to live, I bet, in that whole
political world.
But it made you stand up last year and think.
You know, you had the Black Lives Matter that, you know, that was abundant last
year.
Made you think, man.
Some people were like, yeah, well, fuck it, you know, this.
And some other people were like, well, you know, what are you kneeling for?
You're at your job. Do your job, you know.
I don't call, you know, I don't, you know, stop by Starbucks to ask the barista
how they feel about something.
I stop by Starbucks to get coffee, you know.
So I stop by the NFL to get football.
You know, it's an escape from, you know, the callings and the questions of
society.
But last year it was inflicted.
You know, one, everything was on top of the other thing.
There was no walls.
There was no separation.
Everything was flooding into everything else.
And I, you know what, I, it was tough.
I mean, there were some weeks there where I just couldn't friggin' stand.
Uh, just the media, just how the media just, just has so much blood on their
hands but takes no accountability.
There were times where I couldn't stand how, the lack of empathy.
You know, there were times where I couldn't stand it.
But, but it also, it made, it just made me question, it made me question, well,
do I, do I have racism in me?
Do I have, do I, you know, you had the, the woman gate at the end of the year.
And I'm gonna call it woman gate.
But you had, you know, this, and all year you had this, you know, this fire,
this fire by a lot of feminists.
And look, feminism, I support a hardworking woman getting what she wants in the
world.
I support a woman not having to feel like they, um, like that they don't matter.
And not having to feel like they don't have any value.
I support anybody.
I want anybody to feel that way.
But then there's also a band of straight up man haters out there.
Who don't want anything good for men.
Who want to be evil.
You know, and who don't even want to acknowledge the beauties of women, some of
the natural beauties of women.
Being able to make children and be able to, you know, have the ability to
mother.
You know, it's just women that just want to make money.
And I don't, dude, if you asked me honestly, as a soul, not as a man, but if
you could make money, or if you could be a mother, create something with your
body, dude, I'd be a dang mother.
All right, I'd be a mother with a mustache, though, you know what I'm saying?
I'd still keep my manhood.
But, but it made me question, you know, that whole, you know, and it's, it's,
it's still going on.
And I'm not saying it stopped, but there was a lot of like stoking of the fires
asking us last year who we were, who we are.
And it's, man, it made me think, do I look, do I look at women, do I treat
women a certain way?
Have I always, you know, if I do, where does it come from?
Is it because of a relationship I have in my, in my, in my past, in my family?
When a woman talks, am I listening to her differently?
Am I looking at her differently?
It made me ask myself these things.
You know, it made me ask myself about race, where, you know, racism, about
where some of, do I have, do I have views?
You know, if I'm walking past, I mean, I, the town I grew up in, it was black
and white.
So my history with a lot of race and a lot of the racial issues in America are
black and white.
So I would think, do I, do I listen if I, if I'm talking to a black man or if I'm
talking to, if I'm meeting a new black friend, do I have certain views or
certain, do I feel different than if I'm meeting a white person?
I mean, it made me ask myself some questions and I like that.
Some people don't want to feel some of that discomfort of asking themselves
questions and that's fine.
That's fine if you don't want to, but I don't think you have anything to lose
by doing it.
And I think even though 2017 was wild and it was fiery, you know, and Trump won
office, you know, but look, I'll say this, dude, that was the most sad, or that
was 2016 that he won or whatever, but he got inaugurated.
That was one of the most savage things ever, you know, I mean, that was gangsta.
That that dude snuck in, Mr. Steele, yo, office.
Because there was a, there was surely a moment when everyone was riding down
the street after Trump got elected thinking to themselves, man.
Fuck, I could be president.
I could be president.
Like, you want to talk about giving everybody hope?
Man, again, I mean, look, the guy is certainly an egomaniac.
He's an empath.
You know, he probably never was loved in his life.
It seems like if you look into the history about him and his father, you know,
he probably doesn't know about love.
He probably doesn't, you know, he's probably, he's probably just has a lot of,
you know, is not very empathetic at all, but, but he's, you know, he's a dirty
businessman.
That's what he is, but also that's what most of this fucking country is these
days, you know, and that's what most of politics is these days is dirty
businessmen.
So am I surprised that he ended up there?
I'm not at all.
I am not at all.
Um, you know, and I think he captured some of that, that, the, I don't want to
say the poor white vote, but just, dude, white people have been looked down
upon so much.
When you're poor and white, dude, the only thing you have a lot of times is,
you know, your belief in America and your, and religion and Hollywood beats
those things up, you know?
So I think Hollywood kind of even ruined a lot of that vote, you know, by just
saying, you know, uh, you know, just being very anti kind of the red, white,
and blue idea of America.
Even if that's an advertised old fashioned idea, I think Hollywood beat that
idea up, you know, and Hollywood's always, you know, it's just, I mean, so many
shows I feel like beat down on religion a lot.
And when you're poor, man, trust me, look, dude, I've been right there.
You know, there were many years of my life where the only thing I felt like I
had somewhere inside of me was the, the hope that a higher power or a God out
there cared about me or loved me.
So when you beat up on that kind of stuff, man, you're going to have people
rebel, you're going to have people angry.
And, uh, and it's rocky, man, it's rocky, but 2017 made me personally think a
lot, made me think about things.
And here we are, man, we're in 2018, and I'm not going to, you know, I'm not
dwelling, but, but we got a lot of cool stuff happening here on, uh, on this
past weekend.
Yeah.