V.415: The Fights Suck, Comedy Sucks. Life + Rage in the Age of Endless Crap. On The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper!

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit showstomper.substack.com"We're sitting in a stadium of people who want to get the joke. Waiting to get it. STILL waiting..." – Eugene S. Robinson 05.17.2026 The fights suck. Comedy sucks. Culture feels increasingly like a hostage situation where everybody knows the joke is dead but keeps waiting for permission to stop laughing. In this week’s Show Stomper, Eugene digs into race, performance, hack comedy, public humiliation as entertainment, and the strange transactional despair sitting underneath modern “fun.”– It's Time Again For The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper!!!______________Support the Show💰 PayPal: [email protected]💰 CashApp: eugene-robinson-28💰 Venmo: PlanetOxbow💰 Zelle: [email protected] & Support👉 showstomper.substack.com (Official Show Stomper)👉 eugenesrobinson.substack.com (“Look What You Made Me Do” Newsletter)👍 Like, share & subscribe over on YouTube or over on the Stompville FB page.Follow Eugene🐦 Twitter: @EugeneSRobinson📷 Instagram: @MrSleep3More on Eugene🎶 https://www.last.fm/music/Eugene+S.+RobinsonMore Content?Ask Euge – The Stomper Mailbag: https://showstomper.substack.com/s/ask-euge-viewer-mailbag-reelsEvery Wednesday Eugene replies to viewer questions. Submit your questions to subject line: 'Ask Euge' to [email protected] or [email protected] Bad Boss Brief Podcast: https://badbossbrief.substack.com/ Every other Wednesday 10am CST with your hosts: Eugene S. Robinson and Stephanie PeiroloA strategic guide on how NOT to be an asshole at work… What can an executive and an executive coach tell you about bad bosses, how they can be less so, and how to tell if you ARE one? Everything.If The Shoes Fit Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@IfTheShoesFitEvery Saturday with your hosts: Alexei Auld, John S. Nash and Eugene S. Robinson If The Shoes Fit is a long-form decision-analysis series examining how leaders and institutions make choices under reputational pressure, incomplete information, and public scrutiny. Each episode uses perspective-taking to analyze incentives, tradeoffs, and failure modes when no option is clean._________________🎵 Podcast Intro/Outro Music: Stigmata – The Calling of the Just (1991)• Track 05 – A Dream of Pain and Sorrow (Intro/Outro)• Track 01 – Intro-All of Nothing (Underlay)Stigmata (1989–2016) | Troy, NY | Bob Riley on Vocals | insta: @stigmata518_________________Podcast production, videography, syndication, graphics & logos by June M. Williams | [email protected]