Catching up with Lee Camp: Lee and Negin Farsad have the nerve to try to deliver a petition to Jpmorganchase CEO Jamie Dimon

This is the amazing Lee Camp's Moment of Clarity #159.

by Ken

Okay, the petition in question suggests that CEO Dimon resign, but I thought that in the land of the free it was okay to deliver a petition. What our Jamie would have done with the thing would of course have been up to him. (I'm guessing he wouldn't have called an emergency board meeting to tender his resignation.) But when crazy people show up in your lobby to deliver a petition, isn't the American thing -- as well as the right thing -- to do to, you know, relieve them of the damned petition? If only to get them the hell out of your lobby?

I don't think I've updated you on Lee's piercingly hilarious doings since February, when I passed on an assortment of news Lee had shared, including that he was about to tape a comedy album. (That post followed close upon a January post I still love just for the quintessentially Lee title: " 'I thought one of the gifts of comedy was supposed to be the ability to tell the fucking truth' (Lee Camp).")

Well, the album is out now, and there's a whole bunch of other stuff to check out on his website, leecamp.net. In an e-mail sent out to his mailing list yesterday, Lee urged:

Check out my new live comedy album Pepper Spray the Tears Away as well as my new book and e-book Moment of Clarity. You can get them and see/hear samples at iTunes, Amazon, SmashWords, Barnes & Noble, and LeeCamp.net.

There are five recent video clips, including MOC #159 above:

* "Me on The Point with Cenk Uygur"

* MOC #158, "The Euro Was DESIGNED to Fail!"

Okay, the title of this video might be a bit misleading. The euro wasn't designed to fail. Instead, it was designed to do what many of us view as failure. It was designed to fuck the average workers 12 ways to Sunday, and right now the fuckfest is in full stride. . . .

* MOC #157, "In Defense of Bad Words"

Fu-u-u-u-u-u-uck. There, I said it. I said a curse word. I hope you got through it okay. If you're listening to the censored version of this, then you just had to sit through a long, piercing bleep. It was probably far more fucking annoying than the simple word "fuck." . . .

* MOC #156, "America Is Too Fat, Skinny & Free!"

The United States of America has the most obese people in the world. We also have the most anorexic people. That's mind-blowing. We are literally the land of the thin and home of the fat. That's like being the land of the free and home of a police state. Well . . . .

Then there's a link for both the new comedy album, Pepper Spray the Tears Away, and the Moment of Clarity book and e-book, with links for free samples.


If you know Lee's work, and haven't been keeping up, then all you need is the links. If you don't know Lee's work, then you're in for a real treat.

As I always point out, if you read a transcript of any of Lee's pieces, or read one of his actual writings, you think you're dealing with the most articulate -- as well as bluntest and funniest -- of political deconstructors. Which he is. But when you see him perform his stuff, in his unrelentingly high-voltage, take-no-prisoners mode, you get another whole perspective. And yet the material is still every bit as smart as you thought it was in written-down form.

Either way, enjoy, and consider signing up as a member, to help make it financially possible for Lee to continue his uncompromisingly comic subversion.

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