Salvadore Litvak Pt 2 - About Funny

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All right, we're talking with
Salvador Ludvik.

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He's a humorist by trade.
He's got a he's also a director,

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filmmaker and author.
He's got a best selling book on

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Amazon all about Jewish jokes,
you know, and I think that's

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kind of cool.
He's he's back.

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We're talking about comedy in
general, the state of comedy in

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our country.
Sydney Sweeney, all of it.

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And your movie sounds wonderful.
Continue on please.

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When will it be out?
When can we see a guns?

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Guns and Moses.
You know, it's funny what's

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happened to us.
It came out on July 18th.

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We're an independent film, so we
were supposed to get 300 screens

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and we ended up getting only 77
because of what's going on this

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summer.
You know, used to be that when a

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movie from Hollywood open wide,
they would do 2000 screens.

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Now it's 3 and 4000 screens and
usually they do crap.

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Last year, you know, they just,
they did so poorly because they

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were so woke.
Well this summer they seem to

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woken up a little bit in
Hollywood and they're just

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making movies that are for
everybody and people are back to

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the movies and going.
So that made it so hard for us

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to get screens because you know
what happens when they get 4000

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screens is Superman, F1,
Jurassic Park.

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They're not just in every
Multiplex, they're like two or

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three screens in every
Multiplex.

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Makes it hard for the
independence like us.

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But we came out, we did good
numbers.

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People want to see the movie.
And so I I can't say exactly how

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it's going to happen yet because
it's going to be announced next

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week.
But in September we're going to

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be in a lot more theaters.
Thank God because it's popular

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demand.
People want guns and Moses and

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they could see the trailer at
Guns and Moses movie.com and

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it's going to be in a theater
near you.

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Thank God in September.
So I'm going to go.

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Updates there.
I will go exactly when and

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where, yeah.
I will go in support of you.

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Tell me about your comic
influences growing up.

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Who are who are some of your
favorites and why?

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You know I love George Carlin
when we were kids, that the

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seven words you can't say on TV.
We love that.

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Listen to that album class all
the time.

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Yeah, he was also very wise.
That was the thing.

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He was very, I mean, I still
play some of his stuff here

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that's relevant to today.
All this stuff about, you know,

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vaccines and the climate and all
this stuff.

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I mean, he was spot on, smart
man.

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He got bitter at the end, yeah.
Yeah, he got bitter.

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But.
But the thing about comedians

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then is they they made fun of
everybody.

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You know, they didn't limit
themselves to one side of the

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political aisle.
It wasn't that, you know, there

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was permitted comedy and
unpermitted comedy and it just

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went after everybody.
That was so much fun.

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And you had like.
Go ahead.

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Yeah, I was going to say it's
interesting that you talk about

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that because one of the
criticism that Stephen Colbert

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and some of these other guys is
that they they broke the Johnny

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Carson rule by by segmenting the
audience and and going after one

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political side.
And it is literally true that

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nobody ever knew what Johnny
Carson's politics were.

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And there was a good reason for
that.

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And save with David Letterman,
although you could almost sense

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a little bit of a left approach,
but it really got bad.

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Why did they allow that to
happen?

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And and tell us about this whole
controversy surrounding Stephen

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Colbert and why he's getting
fired.

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Well, because the mainstream
media just started moving in

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lockstep.
And so all the people who run

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that business, who attend the
same cocktail parties and have

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the same approved views, you
know, and, and anybody who was a

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conservative in that world would
have to keep his mouth shut if

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you want to keep his job.
And so in their echo chamber,

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they came to believe that all
decent, wise and intelligent

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people must think the same way
they do.

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And therefore, the way they're
going to succeed with late night

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comedy is just to, you know, be
the poking fun at Trump Network

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all the time.
And all of them, we're doing the

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same thing.
And, you know, OK, so for half

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the audience, that was pretty
funny for a while.

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But eventually, like, that's a
pretty limited topic of comedy.

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And certainly you've alienated
half the audience.

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So already you're competing in a
world against, you know, the

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phones.
Everybody's on their phone.

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They're not watching so much TV
anymore.

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These young people, they don't
even have cable TV.

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They've cut the cord and so it
just got less and less audience

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that they're competing for.
And so who was the top guy?

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Colbert, right.
They keep telling us, well, they

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cancelled him.
He was the number one show.

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He's the number one show.
And it's such a limited overall

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numbers.
It's not like when it was

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Letterman and Johnny Carson and
Jay and Jay Leno.

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Like there's much more audience
for fewer channels now.

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These guys are competing for
eyeballs and much fewer overall

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eyeballs.
And yet, because he was the

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number one guy, they were paying
him like the show was getting

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$40 million a year, staff of 200
wasn't paying for itself.

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And they're finally just said
enough.

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You know, I'm sure what's going
to replace him is going to be

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some young person who's
genuinely funny, edgy, doing

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something that we haven't seen
before in late night television,

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and it's going to cost them a
lot less.

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That's good business.
Now, do you think that they'll

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run the risk of maybe finding
somebody like a Greg Gutfeld,

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somebody who's has sort of an
appeal to the right, like a

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Peter Holmes or somebody like
that?

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Jim, let's not go crazy.
I guess so, right?

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A man can dream a.
Man can dream.

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I'm not sure I would like that,
though.

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That's the whole point, is it?
You know, like Greg Gutfeld, I

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don't think he's funny, but he
appeals to the right and they

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don't have anybody up there that
represents their point of view.

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I think the guy, I think the guy
on his show, Tyrese, he's

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genuinely funny and they're
doing viewpoints that you don't

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see anywhere else.
So absolutely everybody's over

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there and having fun.
And I, I, I suspect whoever they

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bring will be just centrist, you
know that I think everybody's

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going much back, you know, a
little bit or more than a little

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bit back to center.
And that's good because at the

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center, how are you going to
stand out?

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You can't just make fun of the
other side and get ratings

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without being funny.
You're going to have to be

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genuinely funny.
I mean, I think what's generally

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going on in America is that
we're getting back to the idea

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of a meritocracy, thank God.
Because if we keep promoting,

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you know, people who are
incompetent and they keep rising

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through the ranks because nobody
wants them in their department,

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they can't fire them unless
they'd be racist.

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So you promote them, and then
pretty soon the lunatics are

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running the asylum, and then you
have lots of businesses failing

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for that reason.
But I think that now we're

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starting to say, you know,
America needs to be competitive

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in the world and we need
competent people running

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businesses.
I was just listening on the

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radio before you and I got
together about, remember all the

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doom Sayers saying that these
tariffs, that Trump's idea of

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tariffs is going to kill America
and clode the economy, doom and

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Armageddon.
And lo and behold, already just

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six months into it, it's going
great.

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We're making deals everywhere.
American businesses come back to

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America.
It's like it's going great.

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Cindy Sweeney has a hot new
video out sponsored by DID.

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You see the did you see the
statement?

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I mean it was a parody
statement, but the the parody.

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Statement I did.
It was pretty.

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Funny by American Eagle, Yeah.
It was pretty funny, actually.

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How?
Big our boobs would.

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Be Yeah, I played it 15 times.
That's how much I enjoyed it.

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And, and and let's get back to
that because we're talking with

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Salvador Ludvack.
He's not director or producer of

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the name.
Did you direct it as well my?

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Wife and I wrote it and I
directed.

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It how exciting that must be fun
for you.

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I can't wait to see it guns and
Moses.

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But what about I mean, I think
that the the signal is clear.

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We want more sex.
We want more sex appeal and we

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we don't want Disney querying
everything up for us.

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I think that's really the take
away from Sidney Sweeney.

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Yeah, apparently sex cells in
America, and thank God.

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Who would have thought, you
know?

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Who would have thought?
I'll say one more thing.

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You know, we do have a problem
in America is that people are

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not having enough kids,
especially married people are

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not having enough kids.
We don't we don't have a

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replacement rate for our
population.

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So I think, you know, hot sex
within marriage, I'm all for it.

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Yeah, so is God.
Yeah, otherwise we're going to

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end up in a children, children
of men scenario where, you know

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what, if we become infertile and
we can't have kids, then we'll

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all be dressing up our dogs and
cats as humans.

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Anyway, it's really nice hanging
out with you and I'm going to go

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see your movie Guns and Moses.
What's the name of the book

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again that's selling?
Let my.

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People laugh, Let my people
laugh, let my people laugh.

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They could just find it on
Amazon very easy.

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Let my people laugh.
And then when it makes you

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laugh, please put a rating, a
five star rating because that

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helps you sell more books.
I appreciate that very much.

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I think David Chappelle is the
best comic right now.

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Who do you think is right now?
Who is your favorite right now?

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I like him because he's
fearless.

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He could care less what people
think and he'll go there.

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Yes, and he's not always going
for the laugh.

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I mean, he's kind of a
philosopher as well as a

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comedian.
So yeah, I like him a lot.

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You know, I haven't been to a
comedy club in a while.

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Having this conversation with
you.

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I'm thinking my wife and I need
to go to a comedy club.

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See what's out there.
Yeah.

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All right.
Well, Sal, thank you so much for

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spending time with me today and
I look forward to having you

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back on again real soon, OK?