Comedian and Horace and Pete creator Louis C.K. had quite a lot to say in his new interview with Vulture. The Jeopardy! winner recently returned to the stand-up scene with a slew of new shows in the United States and abroad, so he and New York magazine’s popular entertainment website had plenty to discuss regarding the occasional downs and increasingly frequent ups of his career. However, it was a brief tangent concerning the 2016 presidential race that caught the attention of many readers, especially when the Emmy winner compared it all to quizzing an airline pilot about his or her flying qualifications.
It sounds like a really terrible job interview question, to be honest, but C.K.’s explanation for the analogy is quite sound. To the degree that prompts akin to this should probably be asked by moderators at the inevitable shoutfests presumptive nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and somehow-still-in-the-race Bernie Sanders, will be having in the coming months.
“Sometimes I think the system is so deeply f*cked up that somebody as disruptive as Bernie [should jar] something loose in our system and something exciting happens,” C.K. begins when asked how he’s “feeling about Hillary and Bernie.” Turns out he isn’t feeling all that great about it, because he goes on to describe the federal government as “a very volatile, dangerous mechanism.” This spurs the aforementioned airplane analogy, which starts with a rundown of Clinton’s imperfect-but-existent qualifications:
It’s like if you were on a plane and you wanted to choose a pilot. You have one person, Hillary, who says, “Here’s my license. Here’s all the thousands of flights that I’ve flown. Here’s planes I’ve flown in really difficult situations. I’ve had some good flights and some bad flights, but I’ve been flying for a very long time, and I know exactly how this plane works.”
Ignoring whether or not Clinton would actually say all of these things in a single sitting, C.K. moves on to the “disruptive” pilot Sanders’ flying experience:
Then you’ve got Bernie, who says, “Everyone should get a ride right to their house with this plane.” “Well, how are you going to do that?” “I just think we should. It’s only fair that everyone gets to use the plane equally.”
And, finally, Trump — the man who congratulated himself for being “right” about the horrific night club shooting in Orlando, Florida on Saturday.
Trump says, “I’m going to fly so well. You’re not going to believe how good I’m going to fly this plane, and by the way, Hillary never flew a plane in her life.” “She did, and we have pictures.” “No, she never did it.” It’s insane.
It’s too late for 2016, but the Horace/Pete 2020 ticket still has plenty of time to get the ball rolling.
(Via Vulture)