Hillary Clinton might have taken hold of the music vote, but Bernie Sanders is performing well for Hollywood actors.
Comedian and actor Lewis Black, who voices the character Anger in Pixar’s Inside Out, followed actor Mark Ruffalo in endorsing Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination during a recent interview with The Daily Beast.
“I’ve said from the beginning that I’m a socialist,” Black explained. “And now I have a candidate running: Sanders is running for the Democratic nomination, which is a little upsetting to me, because I wish he’d just say, ‘F–k ’em.’ But that’s the way of the world.”
Black colored himself “excited” to see how Sanders pushes the rest of the Democratic field (read: Hillary Clinton) to the left.
“I’m mostly excited that he’s just stating stuff that needs to be reiterated that the [Democrats], basically, don’t reiterate. And it’s in terms of financial inequality,” the comedian explained.
While Black maintains optimism for the Independent senator from Vermont, he labeled presidential candidates in general “a group of idiots.”
“Yeah, I can write funny about all these guys,” Black alleged. “I mean, I don’t even have to write funny about them, because they’re going give me the stuff. They’re gonna hand it to me. ‘Donald Trump is running for president.’ That’s already a punchline. That’s the joke! The joke’s done!”
Not even President Obama excites Black anymore.
“Nobody makes a better speech,” the comedian detailed of the president, “but I don’t think he spent enough time down there dealing with those jackasses in Congress.”
As for his own speeches, Black will continue to visit college campuses to make Millennials laugh, straying from his comedic colleagues like Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock who have deemed universities too politically correct.
“I think that some [college kids] are too politically correct, but I don’t think that it’s a sweeping thing,” Black explained. “If I feel it’s in the audience, I just go after them. I just go after them for what they’re trying to pull. You don’t pull that kind of s–t at a comedy show. I just turn it around on them.”
Nevertheless, he did voice his understanding of comedians who so choose to avoid the PC culture.
“If someone doesn’t want to [play college campuses], I can understand that,” Black explained. “But I have not felt that deep-seated sense of political correctness. I see kind of uptightness. There are things they get a little uptight about, but I don’t see it as an overriding thing.”
“I’m not going out there to teach stuff, but that’s something you can teach them: to lighten the f–k up!” he added.
