Anthony Atamanuik and Sarah Cooper as Donald Trump. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Photos by Comedy Central and Sarah Cooper/YouTube Around Donald Trump’s inauguration, there were people — the sort of people who refer to sketches as “skits” — that confidently proclaimed he was a boon to comedy. Soon after, it became pretty clear that that definitely was not the case. But looking back now, in 2021, it seems like the answer was not always that simple.
I think my videos revealed something that other impressions didn’t. Mimicry tells you what you already know. My videos told you something else. That something else was just: A woman like me speaking like this is so bizarre. It’s so bizarre, so you really are listening closer and you’re watching closer in a way that, by April 2020, we had sort of tuned out, because Trump was so freaking annoying that we just didn’t even want to deal with him anymore.
Jenny Hagel: Trump wasn’t good from the experience of making comedy. So much is based on exaggeration as a comedic device, especially when you’re writing about the news. The thing he does that you read about in the news is already the joke thing you would make up about an incompetent president or a racist person. Plus, some of the things he did were so horrifying I didn’t know the comedic way into it.
The Veteran Stand-up Who Thinks Trump Was Good for Comedy Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. was happy with some of the ways stand-up responded to Trump, but he knew it was unsustainable. If you had to watch three specials, I’d say Chris Rock’s Tamborine, Michael Che Matters, and Nanette. With all three, they’re processing the outside world through inner self-exploration. I think the next two years of specials — the good ones at least — will be inward journeys into the comedian’s anger and emotions as it relates to what’s happening in the world. How do you see the world and how do you see yourself? You’ve had a lot of time to sit and really think about yourself.
When we look back at this time, it will be a lot of reckoning and upheaval, to be honest. But at the same time, that also means that in this upheaval, really cool and interesting and weird stuff was happening, and there were great specials and great jokes and great people who popped up. I’m excited to see where my friends’ careers go and where my career goes.
My thing was sort of threefold. I don’t want to get stuck fucking doing him for the rest of my life. That’s awful. Two: It’s not a psychological burden to do him, because in a way, I’m actually processing elements of myself, and I feel it’s good to let them have their time. But then I’ve worked through them, so it’s easier to not do them now. And then the third one is that it runs out of steam. I like that character. I like my Trump, which I don’t think is Donald Trump.
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