{"id":1827572,"date":"2023-01-29T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1827572"},"modified":"2023-01-29T08:24:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T13:24:52","slug":"landaus-normal-world-challenges-comedic-status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/landaus-normal-world-challenges-comedic-status-quo\/","title":{"rendered":"Landau\u2019s \u201cNormal World\u201d Challenges Comedic Status Quo"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flandaus-normal-world-challenges-comedic-status-quo%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1827572&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Dave-Landau-Normal-World-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Comedy is a funny genre that avoids the modern rules of life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dave Landau is not the one.<\/p>\n<p>Stand-up comedian \u201cLouder with Crowder\u201d Player finds the funny no matter where it is, be it political hypocrisy or Identity Politics.<\/p>\n<p>The power of the free spirit \u201cNormal World,\u201d Landau\u2019s bid for sketch comedy fame. The showcase, available on YouTube, serves up a half hour of satirical bits, quasi-horror beats and jokes you won\u2019t hear on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/shane-gillis-should-thanks-snl-canceling-gilly-keeves\/\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HiT reached Landau in order to get more information about the series and his thoughts. \u201coffensive\u201d Comedy and how his politics have changed after he joined forces with Anthony Cumia, Steven Crowder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HiT: You\u2019re a touring comedian and member of \u201cLouder with Crowder\u201d \u2014 what inspired you to take on a new project like \u201cNormal World?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Landau:<\/strong> Film and sketch were my first loves. I started making sketches when I was around five on my Dad\u2019s Zenith camcorder. They were my favorite skits. \u2018SNL\u2019 Like John Belushi in Samurai Hotel, or Dan Aykroyd playing Julia Child.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I found in \u2018Living Color\u2019  \u2018Kids in the Hall.\u2019 [Sketch comedy] Film is my favourite medium. I took classes in The Second City Detroit and The Planet Ant Theatre straight out of highschool. I continued my film studies for one year.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Boggs, me and Bryce Olejniczak tried to find a series to produce. We kept coming back to sketching.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HiT: This episode&#8217;s debut has a hint of \u201cBlack Mirror,\u201d The irreverence of the old \u201cSNL\u201d There&#8217;s even some horror. What\u2019s your vision for the show?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Landau:<\/strong> Matt McClowry co-wrote the series. He grew up loving comedy the same way I did. This is a common trait. Both of us enjoy dark, direct humor. The fact that we\u2019re really living in a dystopian society now is what we wanted to capture. We all accept that everything today is insane.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great fodder for comedy. Bryce Olejniczak is a great talent and the director of the film. He was able create the \u201cNormal World\u201d It was far more than we could have ever imagined. Ken Kuykendall also served as an editor and made each sketch look incredible.<\/p>\n<p>We had a lot of fun working together and everyone who helped was great. We do want the show to get picked up somewhere so, we figured the best way to show everyone what we\u2019re capable of producing, was by actually making it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HiT: Identity Politics, the wake revolution and related topics are avoided by most mainstream comedians. You don\u2019t, obviously. What\u2019s your approach with this material, and do you fear offending select audiences while writing\/performing comedy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Landau:<\/strong> No. I believe comedy is what you want to do. \u201cown the left\u201d it\u2019s just as bad as what \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/thewrap-com-trump-agree-cancel-snl\/\">SNL\u2019 Has become<\/a>. It\u2019s an echo chamber and it\u2019s boring. I don\u2019t worry about offending anyone because we\u2019re not coming from a place that is meant to be mean.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re happy to insult all sides of the political sphere. For me to enjoy comedy, there must be an edge and a feeling of danger. If you\u2019re just pandering to an audience, you\u2019re not actually doing comedy.<\/p>\n<p>My approach is to do what I find amusing. It\u2019s 2023, people will be offended anyway, so why write comedy around trying to guess what will upset people most and then leaving it out?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CnFk2w9gyMX\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>HiT: You\u2019re looking for a platform to embrace the show and share it with the public. Do you know of any great landing spots? YouTube remains its hope for the near future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Landau:<\/strong> We\u2019re just releasing the first episode for now so only time will tell. I would like to see the series released with someone who can understand us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HiT: You\u2019ve spent time with both Anthony Cumia and Steven Crowder, both unabashedly to the Right. You\u2019ve been center Left in the past \u2026 do you even label your views at this point, or have you drifted to the Right by default as the progressives shifted further Left, a la Adam Carolla?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Landau:<\/strong> I don\u2019t think my politics have changed much, but the landscape has for sure. Anyone on the far left seems to think I\u2019m hard right, and anyone on the far right seems to think I\u2019m too left.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t really believe in either side. I don&#8217;t believe in the extremes. They go so far away from each that they actually circle back and touch tips in the men\u2019s room. They are one and the same. People shout about how they should only be heard and respected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/dave-landau-woke-comedians-right\/\"><strong>RELATED: LANDAU &#8211; WOKE RULES PUSHING MEDIANS TO THE RIGHT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t believe for a minute that politicians give a s*** about me, and I know that sounds bleak but I\u2019ve never been proved otherwise. We pay taxes so \u201cour representatives\u201d It can further divide us. It makes them wealthy and drains us all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HiT: This site covers a>=&#8221;https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/big-tech-censorship-conservative-comedy\/&#8221;>comedians Authors whose work has been censored<\/a>, deplatformed or demonitized by Big Tech \u2026 have you dealt with that recently, and are you hopeful this trend will ease in the coming months?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Landau:<\/strong> I\u2019ve dealt with it a lot, and the problem is the censorship always seems to be over an idea that\u2019s not mainstream or a joke taken too literally or out of context. Comedy is often used to intimidate people. It really does exist for the opposite reason.<\/p>\n<p>Humor is a refreshing breath of air in times when things seem too stressful, difficult or ridiculous. \u201cNormal World\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy is a funny genre that avoids the modern rules of life. Dave Landau is not the one. Stand-up comedian \u201cLouder with Crowder\u201d Player finds the funny no matter where it is, be it political hypocrisy or Identity Politics. The power of the free spirit \u201cNormal World,\u201d Landau\u2019s bid for sketch comedy fame. The showcase, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1827575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5533,8999,16864,8699,7985,5026,4697],"class_list":["post-1827572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-challenges","tag-comedic","tag-landaus","tag-normal","tag-quo","tag-status","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}