The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Thu, 9 Jan 2025
Jordan Peterson sits down with actor, author, and comedian Rob Schneider. They discuss the unpredictable changes to both major political parties during the last presidential election, the fall of Hollywood and celebrity culture (by their own hand), how new and independent media finally broke the machine, and why Rob began speaking politically in spite of personal cost and sacrifice. Rob Schneider is an accomplished actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the award-winning NBC sketch comedy series “Saturday Night Live,” Schneider has gone on to a successful career in films, television, and continues his worldwide stand-up tour. This episode was filmed on November 25th, 2024. | Links | For Rob Schneider: “You Can Do It!: Speak Your Mind, America” is on sale now https://a.co/d/5tP1vbW On X https://x.com/RobSchneider?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/iamrobschneider/?hl=en
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When there was only 200-odd million people in America, they would all watch the Academy Awards.
And happily.
And everyone was thrilled to do it. And then what happened was, they started making these decisions. You cannot win an Academy Award unless you have 40% LBGTQ, unless you have people of a certain percentage of color. The crew is this. And so from that, I think it became an easy kind of pincer move to just kind of continue closing the door quicker.
It's a pronounced minority of people in the world who have anything approximating the right to free speech. So the fact that we take it for granted is something like a miracle.
What happens is there becomes the machine that comes into place and that takes advantage of certain situations like this. That doesn't want to go away because that machine is making money.
When the king dies, chaos breaks out everywhere. It's like the rise of a hydra. Something like that seems to be occurring in the West since about 2012.
The system is crumbling. If this doesn't change, nothing else matters. This shit has to stop.
So I had the opportunity today to sit down in Scottsdale, Arizona, with Rob Schneider, and Rob's been, what, stand-up comedian, a movie star, an author. He's got this new book called You Can Do It, entitled You Can Do It. So we discussed his book. We discussed, well, to some degree, the origins of comedy in Hollywood and the collapse of the Hollywood star system.
We talked about the direction in which entertainment is likely to go in the near future. We talked about the role of Hollywood in its own demise, preferring the politically correct pathway to the pathway of genuine artistic commitment and also genuine humor. We talked about our hopes that maybe that is coming to an end.
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