as they began to gather the wagons they started launching a counterattack against bill maher and louis c.k. and now robert de niro they can distract us from rush limbaugh i wish the conversation stay with rush limbaugh and what he had said to me it's all an attempt by some on the far right not even mainstream right on the far right to get away from rush limbaugh so we attack the left not so we do it clouds the issue how is it for you dana i mean you're it you're a comedian i'm wondering if you can gauge how often you know what generates the most laughs is that when you're at a seems to me at least in the things i find most funny and how many are things that are a little bit offensive but they're true. well i think audiences when they're watching you in a comedy club they know when you're being the demon izing and hateful they understand instantly and we know as comedians we've gone too far the audience not laughing or don't laugh at all or actually get angry at you see it one on one when you're on t.v. you know if your audience is doing i see them comedy called sometimes people are like li

be on in a comedy called the new yorker hear so much worse things that were still in those set of louis c.k. but when you're not famous like most comics in new york and they're really television not famous shit they can say anything it's famous people held to a different standard that's part of this i'm wondering if you think i mean and clearly a comedy comedian on a stage in a comedy club is different than yes you know this whole political sphere that we live in here in washington especially but do you think things have changed though or has it always been have the us always been overly politically correct or have things gotten worse in the wake of sort of this more bipartisan era that we live in earth not bipartisan more partisan era that it was the opposite a hyper partisan exactly i agree with you i think in some ways dealing with political comedy it has gotten worse but look at our history ninety in the sixty's lenny bruce the comedian was arrested in new york the blues sitting in a blue state for cursing too much at a comedy club in the village of those days of change will evolve to t

maher, chris matthews, and this guy louis c.k. at the congressional correspondents dinner. when i hear denunciations on the left -- >> wasting time on rush limbaugh -- >> i didn't bring it up. >> let me go back to the point about mark and mitt romney. 1968 was different. that -- the economy may still e there, but not to the extent that he thought. >> for the record, at week's end, 8.3% added. >> richard nixon in 1968 stayed within his game. he never tried to be funny, never tried to be particularly engaging with widows and orphans and small children. he was he was. that is what i am suggesting that romney has to do. the problem mitt romney has is not unlike that of john kerry, the democrat. he was a dream candidate drawn up on its board to run in 2004 against the party who brought the country into war, and george bush, who had a spotty record, and big cheney, who had no military record and skillfully avoided it. john kerry did not turn out to be a natural candidate to engage people emotionally. mitt romney in many respects was drawn up to tough economic times, storage shed

the comedian louis c.k. recently he put his concert video on his own website for free basically he asked people all to donate five dollars if they for a download that was completely free of digital rights management technology without any f.b.i. warning without any r i am a or m p a a nonsense that we made over a million dollars in one week. this is obviously as you've been talking about here it cuts out the middleman the labels south the parasites so is this kind of what you're talking about that if you go directly to the fans you can make money touring you can make money through donations you can make lots of money right you don't have any problem making money you just have a problem giving money away to these parasitical labels right well what it comes down to is as musicians we have offended ace and kind of the understood agreement is that you know if we can make money from our music we can stay on the road and we can stay in the studio and we can continue to make music that's kind of the unspoken agreem

tax collector and the new wave director buyer success experienced recently like by comedians like louis c.k. as he's on sorry looks like that might be a thing of the past now it's not just digital property that states are trying to tax you there are multiple bills in the u.s. house and senate right now that would force online companies to collect sales tax on their products for states that they don't operate out of so small business in delaware that sells online may be forced to collect sales tax for the state of the person who purchases the item is from even if the business is based in a state with no sales tax so so much for empowering the small businesses right and don't think i forgot about innovation because the next set of laws look to stifle just that the struggling economy more people using the internet to spend more wisely there's been a boom an online services focused on making the consumers like easier cheaper or book guess what brick and mortar businesses have a really big problem with that and so they're fighting tooth and nail to take down the latest internet innovations when

louis c.k. did a similar thing a few months ago.. like, middleman. the money goes, you know, straight to you. it's really cheap. >> jimmy: the new thing. >> yeah. >> jimmy: business model. >> and it's great and i like it that way, as long as, you know, enough people buy it 'cause, if i don't get the money back, i will sell it to mcdonald's tomorrow. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. >> put the jokes in mcnuggets. i'll sell it to halliburton. they can write it on missiles and shoot it 'em at brown people. that's fine. [ audience ohs ] no, not really. >> jimmy: no. no, but this -- it's a big deal. it's on your website. >> yeah. >> jimmy: it's available for download. but you have to figure out that -- the whole tech side, too. >> yeah. i get -- that's another cool thing. it's like my thing so i got to hire everyone that works on it. i hired all white tech support to like buck stereotypes. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. >> but i make them talk in indian accents so people think they're getting good service. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's very smart. >>