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John Crist: "ChatGPT is My Therapist" & Finding Humor in War

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March 7, 2026 12:00 am

John Crist: "ChatGPT is My Therapist" & Finding Humor in War

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March 7, 2026 12:00 am

John Chris, a comedian, shares his observations on the current state of politics and satire, particularly in the context of the Iran conflict and the reactions of various public figures, including Trump and Gavin Newsom.

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So one of our favorite guests of all time, and I don't just say it because you can hear me, John Chris, comedian extraordinaire, just appearing in New York, even though you have nothing in common with New Yorkers. Why is that that you're selling out venues here? You don't understand New Yorkers. I live in New York. I'm from New York.

I don't understand them. Hell yeah. But you're thriving in a culture that you wouldn't think embraces John Chris' humor.

Well, you don't know who's out there. You walk out to the show. I mean, you've probably experienced this different areas of the country. You walk out there, you go, we'll see. Let's see.

We'll see. They did choose to come by buying a ticket, John. Yeah, I think that we did. You know what's the best? I'll say this to you.

The best cities for me to do comedy. Is Blue city surrounded by red. Wow.

Okay. That's what makes the best. Because you need a little bit of.

So you're always coaching me on where to do the shows. Yeah, the blue city surrounded by, like, if you do Asheville, North Carolina. Or Seattle? Yeah, very blue, but surrounded by. Normalcy.

Just like practical people. You just need a little, you need a standing ovation and two people walking out. That's the perfect shape. That's the perfect combo for you. You're going to be the Grand Old Opry in Nashville, March 8th, and on the 19th, Milwaukee at the Paps Theater, named after the beer at not definitely the beer.

Yeah, I guess every city is blue surrounded by the picture. The last time I had a Papst, I pulled off the tab and threw it on the ground. Remember those days? You didn't like it. You shouldn't.

In the 1970s, everyone was cutting their feet open because we didn't wear shoes and there were a lot of tabs. That sounds like something my parents would say. Back when we were growing up, everybody was cutting their feet open. The Michigan Theater in Jackson. That's going to be in Jackson, Michigan.

I mean, you have too many. Go to johnchris.com. Too many on there. Yeah. I'm out there spreading the good word.

So that's why when you take off, you really need off. You take off in the summers, right? Yeah. We take off in the summers and in the winters.

So when you were in New York City, what did you notice yesterday? Because you know what's going on with Iran? Yeah. Okay. Okay.

So we're just walking through Times Square, and I see, we come across this, you know, there's hundreds of Iranian flags. And so I go, everybody's yelling, screaming. And you're thinking, okay, another protest is going to be a little bit more.

Well, I go up to the cop. I go, hey. Are these people happy or sad? Like, are they you know what I'm saying? I go, what side are they on?

What side are they? And he goes, the one cop goes, I don't know. I I just got here. I asked this other cop.

So I go, I go, hey, 'cause I was like, is this like a dangerous situation? And he goes, These people are happy. These people are thrilled. People are crying in this. And what did you see with the signs?

Well, the signs said thank you. They were shouting Trump, Trump, thank you. In New York City. I could not believe, brother, Brian, I could not believe what I was seeing. We just stood there.

People were thanking me because they're like, you're American. Thank you for what you've done. I go. All right. Especially in today, I think, with AI, because you see something on Twitter, you go.

You know, like there was no trust, and no one trusted. No, remember, you would see like a kid in a cage, and they were like, This is what, and then he was like, Oh, that was from 2012. And you go, Oh, well, I don't know what I'm looking at here. You can't never trust what's in it. I saw that with my own eyes yesterday in this city.

So, I can't tell you how embarrassed I am, even though I don't vote in New York City, that we have a mayor who basically hates the country. And it does say billionaires should be illegal, okay, which you're in trouble then because you are a billionaire at this point. I mean, how many people? How none's on this show, man. Yes, but you sell out every venue.

It's got to be a billion dollars because you don't pay your crew for anything. I mean, you give riders, you guys, you give them college credit, but many of them are in their 50s. I'm asking you, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm asking you for tips. I don't pay my crew.

So listen to what the mayor says. And you said you were doing some mayor jokes last night. But he said today's military strikes in Iran, meaning Saturday, this was written on Saturday, carried out by the United States and Israel, mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression, bombing cities, king civilians, opening up a new theater of war. Americans do not want this. Really?

Well, it seemed like they did in Times Square yesterday. Right, absolutely. I will say this: it seems like we need to hear. Maybe white women on the left. Let's have a seat for a little bit.

Thank you. Let's hear from. If you live in Iran or have parents or family in Iran, I would like to hear from you. That's what I mean. If you live in Venezuela, I would like to hear from you.

You know what I'm saying? Exactly. And I was saying to myself, he's not even being smart about it. He didn't make a call 1-800 Iranian Muslim. Because if he did, he would go, yeah, this regime is not popular.

99% of the 91 million, maybe 95% hate the regime. Yet he's siding with the 5%. And is there a woman out there who don't have a hijab or a hi-jab on, you could be put in jail? For life or killed. When I asked the brain room, because I didn't even trust AI, I said, can you just run down?

We have a brain room at Fox's to get things right.

So you have a place to go.

So it's a ground, so all shows have the same information. Guttfeldt doesn't even know we have a brain room. He has no idea. He hasn't been fact-checked since 1981, and that didn't go well either.

Sorry. You asked the brain room. Yeah, I know that he's the only other guy you know besides me on the channel. In the brain room. Right.

Well, don't you, don't you think. But the women are just treated awful. I mean, you know, you can... They're supposed to get married. Your parents can give you away at 13.

And once you get a special dispensation, you can be married off at 11. Yeah. People have it. That's what Jane Fonda was protesting for. I mean, that's what she was doing over the weekend.

And there's no like. She was protesting against the Iranian regime. For the Iranian regime. For the Iranian region. Yeah, against Trump.

Yeah, because no more North Vietnamese, it's hard to really get some momentum going. You ever been in all these ICE protests? I've looked at them and I said. Where are the Latinos? Thank you.

Where are they? Yeah, who are you going to bat for? Game one. Where are the Latinos? I feel like, and I could be wrong, and I'll speak for them.

They're like. We don't want illegals in our neighborhood either. Right.

We we don't want crime in our neighborhood either. Like why why aren't they Here. Exactly. I've asked that about every protest. I go, it's elite, white elites.

So you're in the Hollywood world. I mean, you're a celebrity, right? You're in comedy, you're in entertainment. Yeah. But then why aren't you wearing a little button that says ice out?

Yeah, why? Because you aren't at the Grammy. You can't sing. But you know, it seems like. Uh the Everybody has to think for themselves.

And it's for career advancement. If someone handed John Christ a button to say anything, nothing. Take it back. I'll make my own button. I'll make my own button or I'm not wearing it.

I wouldn't even know where to make a button. It's all about. Can you believe we're still making buttons? It's 2026. Yes.

We're still making buttons. What do you have a button on? Yeah, it doesn't. I like how comedy comedy is basically going. You know, we're on the radio, but it's going about everything.

I agree. We used to sit in the back of church. My dad's a preacher, and you would go, we'd sit in the back of class in high school and go, And that's what we're doing with everything. You go, mm. And w and and Trump In his credit, he's gone off the, and we said to him, too.

Right.

So he, but he's, he's, that's fair. He's absolutely, yeah, it's okay to be crazy. Because there are times when he's being clearly sarcastic and they take him literally. He goes, I don't think I'm getting hit to heaven. I see this article in the New York Times: Donald Trump doubting the afterlife.

So I'm like, what are you talking about? He's kidding. What are you nuts? I mean, like, look, when Rod Reiner dies, you don't need to say he didn't like Trump. Yeah.

Right? But I would just lay the laugh. But that's what you're talking about. I think everybody on the right. could be like, yeah, it would be nice.

If he goes Yeah, the escalation in Minnesota. It's not good for anybody. He actually said that. Yeah, then everybody goes, oh. And if he did say that, we didn't know about it.

It somehow didn't get on the airwaves. Right.

So he somehow didn't get to anybody. Yeah, I don't think he goes, listen, I think we have to have a lighter touch. Nobody wants to see two people die. I'm like, okay. That's a good reaction.

And now he says, Tom Holman, you're in charge. That's called an adjustment.

So if you acknowledge the adjustment, I'll take your criticism more. John, we've had this every time we come in here.

So I want you to hear SNL, which I'm older than you.

So I remember when SNL, I used to sit there and laugh and just enjoy both sides being ripped. George W. Bush is dumb. Al Gore is stiff. John Kerry is problematic.

Bush, Clinton, too. They did Clinton news. Will Farrell played Double? They went out there. It started with Chevy Chase making fun of Gerald Ford.

Gerald Ford is clumsy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't remember that. Dana Carvey, sorry, Dana Carvey. We used to do George H.W.

Bush. And he was so good, Bush invited him to the White House. And then they invited Cheffy Chase to the White House. And he was going to say no. And Ford's like, listen, you've been killing me.

I'm asking one favor. Yeah, come to the White House.

So I want you to hear this weekend. I read about this, I read the headline, and Eric pulled the cut. Is this from Guys, is this from Weekend Up? Oh, it's cold open. Let's listen.

Of course. Good evening. Good evening and happy World War III to all who celebrate. It's me, Donald Trump, FIFA Peace Prize winner and Nobel Peace Prize taker. Yoink!

Remember when I did that? I launched this attack after me and my board of peace decided that we were board of peace. Little wordplay there. Did you catch it? As we all know, Iran has been two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon for like the last 15 years or something.

So we had to act now and we're doing war. War! What is it good for? Distracting from the Epstein files.

Okay. Yeah. Right, I mean it's it's like you've like any any uh um anybody that we kind of run into on the right or the left, it it we say As as comedians, like don't allow yourself to be co-opted.

So you're like, I probably wouldn't go to the inauguration either side.

So, a comedian has to stay back and go, what? What? And if that, like, SNL has been co-opted. Yeah. Does that make sense?

You can't trust what they're saying.

Well, it's the same thing with late night TV. Yeah. I mean, it's really the same thing. I mean, it was because they can't even afford to alienate their, what's left of their audience. And just declining by the day.

Right.

By the second. And I know we've been over this, but you could go find Carson Kotz. Him and Reagan were great friends. Yeah. He was killing Reagan.

I feel like with humor. Guys kill Trump, and I think he's fun with them. Right.

He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's so simple, John. Go hit Trump, but then you have somebody on the left come out there and goes, but by the way, Iran's a problem. But didn't you say 20 years ago they weren't a problem?

Well, that was them.

So then all of a sudden you're like, okay, they're showing the extreme on both sides. Yeah. And it like, if you stay silent, like what we wonder back during the election when you look at Charlie Kirk, that was going on like. Who This is an honest question for everybody listening. Who on the le like if they killed Charlie Kirk for what he was standing up for, right?

Who on the left? Are you scared of what they would say? Nobody. Kamala, talk all you want. Yes, please.

Like, go on every pod. I feel like the ideas. Break down. All of the ideas, they go, well, that doesn't make sense. You said the women shouldn't be in the bathroom.

But then all the ideas, once they are on long-form conversation, They fall apart. We wouldn't be scared of anyone on the left. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. It's like Dwarf.

Go ahead. Rachel Matta, go. Yeah. Go. Yeah.

Kamala, go. Joe Biden, go. What's his name in California? Newsome. Newsome.

Go. Yeah, and then and then all the clips show up of them looking Nuts. We're following All the War with war correspondent John Christ, who's also running UNFCAN. Say my title on my own. John Christ, yeah.

I want to add it to my Twitter box. John, I know you had you on next week, but you can move it up a week earlier that we're bombing Iran. Yeah, I didn't plan to plan. You scrambled to the country. You scrambled to the country.

New York City needed me. Right, but you were last night. It was very successful. Unbelievable. You were at Town Hall.

I said, thank you for Mamdani for getting these streets plowed. I used the mic stand. I was plowing all the time. It was great, dude. He was so terrible.

And also, sanitation forgot to pick up the garbage. They had no idea. They were just driving around with an empty truck. They said, shouldn't we be stopping? Is that true?

No, you had to see how bad the sanitation was. I don't know how he did it, but he got everyone in sanitation so angry they forgot to pick up garbage. Plow that. Yeah, oops. Yeah, they're probably shoveling.

It doesn't happen in Nashville where you were raised. Yeah, no, no, no, no. But he's so nice. Right.

So he woos you. You look a little like him. I hate to tell you. Have people told you to look a little Ugandan? I do.

I look a little Mamdani-ish. You do. More in this in a moment. We also.

So, Gavin News, you have an interesting way of winning over audience.

So, do Gavin News. I'm going to play his, and maybe you want to use this with your credit. Let's learn. Back in a moment. Hi, everyone.

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Netanyahu said it was okay. I can't believe our leader could just attack Iran with no vote, no permission from Congress or anything. I mean, what is this? Iran? There you go.

That's the weekend update over the weekend. An equal opportunity offender, John Christ is here. John, where do we get all? I mean, not that you need it, but because your social media drives everybody to your shows. But where do we get your whole list of shows?

Oh, man. JohnChristComedy.com.

Okay. Yeah, we got 35 dates in the spring. 35 dates? 35 dates. Get out there, brother.

It's a couple weekends. Even Billy Joel just called say dial it back. You know, I mean, this is like one stadium at a time. It's incredible. The people need to be encouraged.

Right.

And how much new material are you writing? 100. It's all new. I mean, it's not all new from last night to tonight, but it'll be. You're building.

Yeah, you throw a couple jokes at.

Now, I can't do the Mamdani jokes in Louisville. You might. It only works here. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So the weekend update?

Well, what's wild about what's wild about listening to that, and those are those are comedians that We all came up to stand up, yeah. What's wild about that is That's written for you. Like, that's not what they think. You know what I'm saying? Like, why would you, like, that's a serious, serious what you're saying there.

That's corporate. Yes. And you're saying it. Like, that's the, what's the antithesis of what a comedian was supposed to be? Do the opposite.

Saying corporate told me to write this. I'm not, like, remember what's his name that would go Norm McDonald. Would say why he goes not on the prompter and just go off the script. And Conan was they that's why they loved that guy because they were like, I cannot believe he's saying this. Yeah, imagine.

Being the cold read through and you get Literally from corporate. Say those words we just heard. And you and think you're the op like You're the v you're the You're the mainstream. You're not the opposition. Nobody.

Does that make sense? Yes. And by the way, John Christ is here, and that's just a little of the Saturday Night Live that nobody watched. But I want you to hear Gavin Newsome. I'm not trying to be funny, but tell me if you think this is an effective way to win over a mostly black audience.

Let's hear it. I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy.

Yeah. And you know And I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940. But literally, a 960 SAT guy, I cannot, you've never seen me. Read a speech. Because I cannot read a speech.

So, do you feel like you're more like an. Come over to my hotel room later. You'll be safe. You're like, why did you say you'll be sick? Why did you say that?

You're like, I'm just like you. Why did you say?

So, what do you think about me? It comes through. And yeah, and he blasts Foxy. I go, Cornell West. I go, what are you blasting Fox for?

Cornell West said that you're sister, that's the most racist thing he's ever seen. It's the wildest thing I've ever seen. Wait, 960 is bad. Right.

Very bad. But evidently, back then, that's average.

So he's saying, I have average SAT scores and he has dyslexia.

So one of the reporters asked, Can you just show me where the paperwork is that you have dyslexia? Because you just commented the other day that you read a book in an hour and a half. Yeah. And he's like, They said, hey, thanks to the infragrant. I remember that.

Yeah. F you. Yeah. That was from his communications director. You said, you said it.

Just help us. Help us. Yeah. Help us help you. Help us help you.

That's a yeah, it's it's wild that it all just kind of comes apart after you go, yeah, here's the mic. No, we see this all the time. If we get another one, will you come back? Yeah, I'll be here. You will be back.

Only if. Only if this, because I need the experts in deal. John Christ, there's nobody funnier. Thanks so much. Find him wherever he goes, where he visits, johnchrist.com.

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