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CHICAGO — Thousands of people are filling up several blocks in Pilsen for the last day of the 51st annual Fiesta del Sol, a celebration of Mexican and Latin American culture on Chicago’s South Side. “First of all, it’s a beautiful day,” said Lupe Perez, an attendee of Fiesta del Sol. “We picked a great […]
hello, everyone. welcome to you, america. and this talk we have with josh chin and liza lin and from the wall street journal on surveillance state. your new book. i'm super excited to host is because josh and i were a longtime colleagues at the wall street journal and china. so first things first, a couple of housekeeping rules before we get into the meat of the audience, before we start. if you do have questions, do the event please submit them through the q&a function and we'll get to them in the second half of the event. and of course, more importantly, copies of surveillance stat...
and joining us now on book tv is comedian lupe perez, who is also an author now. the book is called joke isn't funny anymore. on the death and rebirth of comedy, mr. perez what were you trying to achieve with this book? oh, we trying to achieve. oh, man. i have to have goals in life. well, i think the big is with comedy i think a lot of people have been down on comedy and say, oh, it's too serious and you can make fun of this, can make fun of that. so i want my book to be a i don't know, a cure for that and to point out that actually now is the best time to be doing comedy and to be ...
book? oh, we trying to achieve. oh, man. i have to have goals in life. well, i think the big is with comedy i think a lot of people have been down on comedy and say, oh, it's too serious and you can make fun of this, can make fun of that. so i want my book to be a i don't know, a cure for that and to point out that actually now is the best time to be doing comedy and to be making comedy in current social environment. are some jokes off limits? well, the funny thing is, i don't think any joke is off limits. the fact that it's a joke, it has to work. you know, there are so many people ...
i'm so excited to welcome you to event tonight with voyage farah presenting his new book, america made me a black man, a memoir. he will be joined in conversation by abdi often where affairs essays have appeared. numerous publications, including harvard's kennedy school review, the guardian, truthdig, penn writers magazine and the post. he is the winner of salon's best essay of 2017. he recently founded barry school and girl somalia, which offers instruction in english, math and science to students. age 13 to 24. he is joined in conversation by author reporter and columnist abdi it a...