{"id":3785,"date":"2006-11-13T14:28:50","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T22:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2006-11-13T19:04:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T03:04:47","slug":"video-brad-at-electric-city-political-comedy-special-on-the-saturday-before-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3785","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; Brad at &#8216;Electric City Political Comedy Special&#8217; on the Saturday Before the Election&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of reading me whine about problems with our crumbling electoral system? Now you can <i>watch<\/i> me whine about them instead.<\/p>\n<p>As if it&#8217;s not enough I&#8217;ve had to become a spokesman, a journalist, a broadcaster, an investigator, an advocate, a political consultant over these last two years or so..on the Saturday before the election, I was asked to become a Standup Comedian&#8230;of a sort.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3785#more-3785\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradFriedman_ElectricCityComedy_110406.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Click the photo for a quick 4 and a half minute video of an onstage appearance at the premiere of <a href=\"http:\/\/ElectricComedy.com\">Electric City: A Political Comedy Special<\/a>, in which I was shanghaied into appearing with a bunch of <i>actual<\/i> comics (such as Marc Maron, John Fugelsang, Rick Overton, etc.) on the Saturday night before the election.<\/p>\n<p>As I was exhausted at that point, I&#8217;m glad the bit was caught on video tape. Otherwise, for the life of me, I&#8217;d not have been able to tell you a thing I spoke about that night. The week(s) before the election are all a blur to me right now.<\/p>\n<p>The gig was smartly hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ben Mankiewicz of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.TheYoungTurks.com\">The Young Turks<\/a>. A two-minute trailer (in which I also appear briefly) for the entire evening is posted below as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><strong>Brad Friedman at Electric City Political Comedy Special&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n(<i>11\/04\/06, about 4 and a half minutes<\/i>)<br \/>\n<object width=\"240\" height=\"198\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NigyBFj62-M\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NigyBFj62-M\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><strong>2-Minute Trailer for Electric City Political Comedy Special&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n(<i>11\/04\/06, about 2 and a half minutes &#8211; WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE!<\/i>)<br \/>\n<object width=\"240\" height=\"198\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/28coMdWWbm4\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/28coMdWWbm4\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/results?search_type=search_videos&#038;search_query=electriccomedy&#038;search_sort=&#038;search_category=0&#038;page=2\"><i>Many more clips from the night to choose from available here&#8230;<\/i><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of reading me whine about problems with our crumbling electoral system? Now you can watch me whine about them instead. As if it&#8217;s not enough I&#8217;ve had to become a spokesman, a journalist, a broadcaster, an investigator, an advocate, a political consultant over these last two years or so..on the Saturday before the election, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,18,21,3,76,39],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","category-bruce-mcpherson","category-california","category-dieboldpremier","category-election-2006","category-sequoia-voting-systems","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}