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Conservative comedians Kevin Jackson (L), Tim Wilkins (C), and Brad Stine are
Unapologetically American in their lampooning of leftists. Here, the trio pose
backstage during a comedy tour stop in Scottsdale, Ariz., on March 31. (Allan
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CONSERVATIVE COMIC TRIO WANTS TO WIN AMERICA BACK—ONE JOKE AT A TIME

By Allan Stein
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Allan Stein is an Epoch Times reporter who covers the state of Arizona.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Three conservative comedians with three different styles of
humor are all bound by a common belief that to be an American means never having
to say you’re sorry for speaking out.

Together Brad Stine, Kevin Jackson, and Tim Wilkins make up the Unapologetically
American Comedy Tour of 2022, taking no leftist prisoners as they fight to win
America back through laughter.

And on March 31, the stand-up comics delivered their message of raucous
patriotic revival before a large, conservative audience at Venue8600 in
Scottsdale, Arizona.

The show was billed on HappeningNext as an “intervention for crazed Americans
who are high on nonsense or political correctness: it’s time for a detox!” 

“Sorry, no cry closets or safe words allowed.”

Whether the topic was race, Joe Biden’s economic policies, COVID-19
restrictions, LGBTQ antics, or the “woke” cancel culture assault on American
values, everything was fair game for these comics.

Their mission, since they chose to accept it: “Make America Laugh Again.”


‘DO SOMETHING TOGETHER’

“So, the idea that: One, black people should be getting reparations, is stupid.
And white people should be paying—stupid. Okay. Let’s make a funny stupid little
thing about it, and that’s how we started,” Jackson said during a back-stage
interview with The Epoch Times. 

“Here’s the thing. We’ve got all this insanity and you’re not supposed to talk
about it. We needed to figure out how to do something together.”

Russian collusion. Banning of conservatives on social media. Hunter’s laptop.
The 2020 “Big Cheat” election. 

“If we can’t talk about it, nobody can, and then we’re done,” Jackson said.

Jackson is also host of a nationally syndicated conservative talk-radio show
revolving around politics and pop culture but with a heavy dose of comedy mixed
in. 

He makes no apologies for being fired as a FOX News contributor in 2018 for
calling out those who accused Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh of
committing sexual assault in his youth.

Florida comedian Tim Wilkins talks about his experiences with airline pilots
during an “Unapologetically American Comedy Tour” in Scottsdale, Ariz., on March
31. (Allan Stein/The Epoch Times)

As the comedy tour’s organizer, Jackson said the show’s real humor can be found
in its hidden political messages. Though their comedic styles are very
different, “Mine’s better,” he joked. “I like to focus on race and class.”

“When he doesn’t get laughs, he sues. He’ll go to litigation. I’ve seen it
happen,” Stine clarified.

Jackson also did a “Reparations Comedy Tour a number of years ago and joked that
having four white guys working under him was reparations enough.


‘NO CONSERVATIVE VOICES’ IN COMEDY

“I’ve always been a big fan of these guys’ work,” Jackson said of Stine and
Wilkins. “We always wanted to keep the concept going. So when the new series of
politics came along, I said, ‘Let’s keep it going.’

“We all find there needs to be a voice for our comedy [and] for a way to defuse
the issues and make light of the things we find important,” said Stine, a
30-year veteran stand-up Christian comedian.

“Right now it’s dominated by the Left. It’s all packaged by them and fed to the
country.”

“It’s sickening. It’s not even comedy. It’s just attacking us with no
counter-voice,” said Jackson. “If we can’t make those observations that the
emperor has no clothes, who’s gonna do it?”

Sometimes, it’s hard to tell the difference between modern politics and comedy,
since it’s all a comedy show now, the trio agrees.

“I’ve been hiding my views for 30 years,” said Wilkins, a 20-year stand-up
comedian, and TV-radio personality. “Now, I’m seeing we have to fight back.
Everybody get behind us. It’s time to defuse this.”

The material they use is heavy on social commentary and how the ideal of
America’s Founding Fathers is being discarded by the Left.

Stine said he considers himself a constitutional “originalist,” believing in
America “not as judges have reimagined it,” but solidly enshrined in the United
States Constitution, which is “not a living, breathing document, manipulated
into something else.”

“Ultimately, the comedians can’t make fun of everything. If we are stifled, then
there’s nobody left. It’s crucial that we do it,” he said.

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic, everything once hailed as scientific
went out the window, Stine said.

Stine, in his routine, lampooned the No.1 symptom of COVID-19 is having “no
symptoms.”

“How are you feeling?” the doctor asked.

“Good.”

“Oh, that’s too bad. You better get your affairs together.”

Stine followed with a philosophical observation, “Two years ago, people were
paranoid because they ran out of toilet paper. What happened to America?”

Today, he sees “an existential threat to the existence of this country,” and a
general lack of courage to do something about it. 

“We can play around all we want. But there is a real problem whether we will
exist or not. That’s what we’re trying to do is to get people—Americans—to
realize you’re the government of the United States of America. Start acting like
it.”

“As of tonight, I’m working for gas cards,” Wilkins joked backstage. “I have to
wrap my show quickly before they lose value.” 


A SLAP IN FACE OF DECORUM

Regarding the delicate matter involving Will Smith’s conduct at the Oscars 2022,
the comedians pulled no slaps—er, punches.

“Will Smith already knew that he was slapping somebody who probably couldn’t
defend himself,” Jackson said. “I’ve never known [Chris Rock] to be a pugilist
of any type. He’s probably laughed his way and talked his way out of many
fights.”

Though Rock “handled himself very well,” Jackson said, “I would have put a beat
down on Will Smith. He’d be in a coma. That’s No.1. Number No.2 … Will Smith
hits like a girl.”

“No guy that’s defending the honor of his woman is gonna slap a dude. If you
insulted my wife I’m gonna lay you out in so many ways you’re gonna be filleted.
By the time you wake up you’re gonna be Rip van Winkle.”

Of Rock’s response, Stine said, “To me, yeah, it was good the way he tried to
reel it back in, but that’s what you do when you’re a host and a professional in
that venue [and] assuming that people are going to take care of the problem.
[But] you’re on live television. What are you supposed to do?”

“In that instance, I would have accepted it and dealt with it later because I
had a job to do. I was being filmed at that moment.”

Wilkins said the lack of consequences for Smith means “open season” has been
declared on comedians who offend people.

“I think more people are going to take it upon themselves to charge the stage,
throw drinks, be unruly. It’s gotten progressively worse over the past decades.”

On this point, the comics were all of one mind: that Smith’s public slapping of
Rock was not staged.

“He [Smith] is not that good an actor. I’ve seen all of his movies,” Wilkins
said.

Allan Stein

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