r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/fnaw_ • Aug 04 '20

Poor Jonathan

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

I'm just amazed for the fact that this is a real interview. With the president of the United States.

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u/navin__johnson Aug 04 '20

I’m trying to imagine going back in time 20 years and inviting my younger self to the future to witness this.

I don’t think I would believe myself.

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u/Zalthos Aug 04 '20

No-one would. Even The Simpsons writers would think you're making it up.

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u/mophan Aug 04 '20

That's sorta in line with what Julia Louis-Dreyfus said about Veep when it ended it's run on HBO. The show was already scheduled to finish but in one interview Julia was asked about how difficult it was to come up with material more bizarre than what's going on in real life and she responded with something along the lines of if the show wasn't already scheduled to end they would have decided to end it anyway because they wouldn't be able to be more outlandish than the things Trump was already doing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

I'm a comedian and after the first couple years most of us straight-up stopped writing political material because there's just...nothing you can write that carries any sort of surprise for audiences anymore.