Sympathy For The Joker | Chapo Trap House | Episode 356 FULL 

i'm glad Nick is there to occasionally chuck a low-brow joke in the room like a flashbang, for all of us dumb boys.

Nick sounds like the bad kid who started participating in class discussion at the end of the semester in a last ditch effort to pass the course

Nick’s bodybuilder Bane joke is so good I keep coming back to this episode every year.

“Adam can introduce both of us.” Why is Nick like this? 😂

Christman owned this one.

Our large son Matt is just trying to express his feelings, stop bullying and interrupting him please. #ProtectMatt

While Matt most definitely popped off this ep, the highlight was definitely “I’m Indian, yeah baybay”

I really like this image. Whoever made it put a lot of care into it.

I always love Cum Town/Chapo crossovers, it's like an Avengers movie

“The two things that stop you from killing your self are novelty and meaning”

i'm an indian guy baby! yeah!

Mullen : " Do I make you randy baby? I'm from India." *laughing hysterically at his own joke* Jacobin chick: "......Ok so on the subject of Ken Loach..." That shit made me laugh so hard I thought I was gonna faint.

Neo-Lib: Uhhhmm, the plural of mouse is mice Mr. Biederman. Felix: Mmkay, more mices.

The joke about the son dying is funny because the entire joke is just pain, which is the essence of comedy. He boils down the whole idea of comedy to it's most basic form. In a way, it's funny because it's not funny

Nick and Matt worked well together in this one

The Florida Project was easily one of the best films of the decade. There is no more humanist director than Sean Baker.

I knew there was a reason I got into this show... seriously, the class warfare, the denial of medical treatment, it was all plane as day.

Obama was the best Joker

Christman went off but only because he knew how right he was

Matt is the MVP of this one

The scene with bruce wayne getting forced to smile, reminded me of the scene in the house that jack built, of the dead boy getting a facelift by the protagonist to smile.

Amber stop bulling Matt just because he looked like prettier girl at 21 than you

Is there literally any media Felix enjoys besides Fortnite and UFC?

Love Mad Matts SCP style rundown in the beginning

God this is one of their best episodes

Even on a guest appearance Adam interrupts Nick

Amber contradicts herself every other episode. She won’t allow herself to be criticized on anything & her response is just raising her voice. Matt was amazing; he nailed it.

Its just nice to see a comic book movie that isn't storyboarded by the 2000s remake of comic book storyline from the 80s

An anecdote, in the 1970s as a kid I thought bedbugs were an old timey thing that didn't happen anymore after 2000 I discovered they were a thing again.

This is my infinity war. Nick's Love Guru joke is my thanos snap.

That was one zinger of a Lavrentiy Beria reference like 53 minutes in woof

I wasn't that into Joker but Mathew Brady's take is incredible. "Future generations, if there are any, deserve to know what happened in the before time."

Comic books have been political since their inception. I don't get why they keep bashing on comics like they shouldn't be political.

Amber thinks taxi driver is highly reactionary and death wish is high art?

I was one of these incel white men that these Chapos are talking about; I was isolated and mentally/emotionally distressed for years, ceaselessly. "All I have are negative thoughts" was a line that really took me back to those days. Nevertheless, I was horrified when Trump won, and I was angry at the dems for cheating and failing. So I started to watch progressive media, volunteer for Justice Democrats, and read books about class, propaganda and history. Now I'm a staunch anti-capitalist who FUCKS, and whenever I see stories about Bernie or The Squad I feel like I'm a part of something wonderful. So I just want to say thank you to The Left :)

Nick and Adam made this 100% better

I thought the "joker song" was Doctoring the Tardis by the KLF...

Y'all are the first people I heard talking about this movie now I want to see it.

Probably my favorite Chapo ep

They joke but unironically it’s all been downhill since Joker released

Attention: I Have a Seriously Tramatic Brain Injury That Causes Me To Laugh Hystericly At All Chapo Trap House Video's!

I want to read Felix's articles. Where can I find them??

Great ep

I went on a second date to this movie lmao. Luckily we both loved it and vibed well when it came to tastes and interests.

I'm from the future. 2020 happened, covid 45 got us to the #1 at covid deaths, we don't talk about The Joker movie very often.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who actually saw this movie as a class warfare movie.

What a shame when you talked to Zizek about this, one of you didn't say, 'That's a great critique of the movie you imagine this to be. The actual movie is rather different and relates interestingly to your work, especially your book "Violence".' To be fair, he was talking so relentlessly, it was pretty much impossible to say anything at all.

The thought I had when I left the theater was smash fascism, eat the rich.... It was a f*ck!ng brilliant movie! I wasn't that sure if he actually ended up killing his neighbour or not, but if he did, then it had nothing to do with toxic masculinity - it was however a great movie about mental disintegration in a world where society is failing the poor.... Also, I was the only one giggling over the "my mom just died, I'm celebrating" scene....

I come back just to specifically listen to Nick's Love Guru bit

31:10 perfectly articulated

29:02 here’s a reminder that Nick is actually a smart and observant person who can call shit out hyper accurately when he wants; but 99% of the time he doesn’t want to because it’s not funny

It wouldnt have even been a comic book movie if it didnt pay lip service to the Thomas Wayne murder

I actually didn't know of Garry Glitter until this podcast, sorry for my rant earlier

Joker needed communism is the best take.

Gotta say... stronger takes than the avatar thing.

Amber is 100% spot on about The Florida Project. It's a gem of a film.

8:00 podcast starts

This is wonderful. And i still haven't seen this movie.

Amber is really acting sorta snobby in this. "I hate that they're using comic book movies to tell Ken Loach stories" yet she goes on to praise The Florida Project for being the most beautiful film on the American working class, call the guests out as middle class, and say that Bourgeois people make good art?

Matt is too mature for this group on the topic of this movie.

But art IS witchcraft.

49:20

100 percent agree.

I love the George Romero Joker

"I could write that this movie is about inequality, but I'm rich with a make-work job writing about a world that I don't know anything about or sympathize with, so I'll write that it's about incels."

when the broad made "the woker" joke i would've loved to see Nick's face.

why, in an episode about dumb opinions on a movie, did they not bring stav?

Matt is an island

This podcast saved me from the far right pipeline

GOOD ART

that one guy has the same voice as ari shaffir

There's a conversation that happens a lot online, where they'll be a post on social media about privilege, someone will scoff at the idea of privilege in the comments, somebody else will assert that the concept is valid in their replies, the original scoffer will outline the hardships of their life and ask how their life can be hard if they have multiple privileged aspects to their identity, and then either the original replier or a new commenter entirely explains that it's still possible, but the privileged aspects of the scoffer's identity simply didn't contribute. The scoffer will then either begrudgingly accept this explanation or rejects it entirely. But assuming that that rare acceptance happens, it's then undermined because the scoffer sees the explainers of privilege have the unsympathetic stance on this Joker that Amber described.

Bane miy Baaby boy you look so bootiful

that episode art tho...

I worked at Alamo Drafthouse for a year + 1/2... there’s not much worth defending

For all the talk of how painfully forward and beaten over the head the messaging was, my right wing friends saw the whole movie as a reason why state mental health is inadequate and if it was a truly free society without government he would have been free to experience his life without a mental asylum.

So according to matt Brady, this movie was like at the mouth of madness by John carpenter

A thousand clowns is a much better movie

jack nicholson's joker murdered thousands of people, though

The inverse of taxi driver 😅

This lady isn't Amber is she? If so I'm sad. Let Mullen speak!

Gang weed, society time.

Have these ppl never heard if an "anti-hero" protagonist role?

Pepe? More like pee pee amirite?

23:57

Ill be honest, Arthur Fleck didn't do anything wrong. Everybody he killed was an awful person, besides maybe his mother who is another victim of the same bullshit Arthur went through. Liberals who thought this movie was misogynistic only display their own complete lack of awareness of anything But like, going through one of my worst psychological crises at the time and not being able to get any help and struggling for food, this movie was so beautifully cathartic and motivated me to A.) Get psychiatric care and ask my friends for help and B.) Reenter radical politics

22:02

Man i don't think i've ever seen a joke on the pod die on it's arse as bad as that "woker" line

good point at the end. i work with a bunch of 20 year olds and theyre all obsessed with the marvel movies and star wars. i feel sorry for them because those movies are such trash

29:30 Amber owns Nick pretty hard 😂

did chapo trap house get their name from alamo drafthouse?

Amber: “like”

Nick uses word reactionary, and now remeber how is he perceived by fans and wider twitter culture

I want this with amber edited out

Jen, you make very good points and I enjoy your commentary on the topics. Please stop yelling over other people when they are speaking.

15:41 lol gritty cinema was invented in the 1970s, Italian neorealism and film noir might disagree.

ya'll should watch Bacurau

The hysterical moral panic people are still winning-Ken Loach was brought up during this episode, and he's been purged for having wrongthink about the supposed antisemitism crisis in the UK Labour party.

I'm a classic Obama style neolib, but I listen to Chapo religiously, fascinating insight, and have moved me on a few issues.

Why are you attributing tertiary information to this film? "THE JOKERS BAGGAGE" or what ever the fuck that means has nothing to do with Arthur Fleck. Its also annoying how they can just subjectively say "ITS A COMIC BOOK MOVIE" as an insult. Honestly shit takes all around besides from Matt, Adam and Nick.