Brian Copeland’s Visionary Joy Proves “Kamala Gives US Hope!”

by Barry David Horwitz

Once again, Brian Copeland, our super-hero storyteller and political wise man, is standing up at The Marsh and telling it LIKE IT IS.

Brian is still down-to-earth, in touch with life on the street, and a force for CHANGE. He does it with humor and honesty—unique to his friendly, folksy style. Anyone would want to hang with Brian Copeland, for sure.

And Brian is putting it all right out there, inspiring us to work hard and to vote for Kamala. Listen to Brian, always a reliable and incisive reporter, recount how we got here.

Brian tells us how, on the day the “former guy” was “elected” in 2016, on that very day—some old white guy screamed THE N-WORD at him while driving on the Bay Bridge!

These slurs roll on so long as hateful people think that the Orange Guy is some kind of perverse savior. We have been living in a fake nostalgia about those Dark Ages of The Fifties for so many years.

Brian breaks it down, recounting what life was REALLY LIKE in these supposedly “Great” days.  As anyone who lived then knows, it was NOT like “Leave It to Beaver.”  That’ was the sit-com world that has been sold to us as real.

The real 50s world was a time when women could not sign a mortgage without a man, a time when people took Valium to chill out and meth to stay awake. There were cigarette commercials on TV, with fake doctors touting the “health” effects of smoking!

There was rampant sexual exploitation of women, all swept under the rug and the “casting couch.”

It was the days of the H-Bomb, the lies of Vice-President NIXON, and RACIAL SEGREGATION was the LAW of the LAND.

Where is the “Great America” they talk about? Even more recent times still feature abusers like Epstein, Weinstein, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey, and Cosby.

The idealized world we are supposed to look back at NEVER existed. It started as political trickery in the movie-mind of Reagan. It’s all lies to make folks think life was better in some mythical past.

When the Former Guy somehow slunk into office, all those evils started returning—culminating in the end of Roe v. Wade. We don’t want to go back there, as Brian shows in his brilliant reincarnations of folks who were once friends who have now, strangely, joined that know-nothing camp.

His hilarious reenactments of trying to de-program friends who have drunk the Kool-Aid are touching and funny. As always, the consummate actor and comedian, Brian talks directly to each of us, stirring us to go forward and not back to the bad old days.

Go See Brian Copeland to get in touch with who we really ARE. And of course, Brian has met the opposition with his own MERCH!

Now we can buy a “Make American THINK Again” cup or bumper sticker or yes, even a baseball cap! But only in BLUE!

 

“The Great American Sh*t Show” –written & performed by Brian Copeland, directed by David Ford, at The Marsh, San Francisco. Info: themarsh.org – on Thursday, October 24, 2024.

Cast: Brian Copeland (in many roles). See: briancopeland.com

Banner photo: Brian Copeland [“Make American THINK Again”]. Photo: Alexa Aimira