Posted on 03/14/2025 4:20:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
'Everybody's Live With John Mulaney' featured Joan Baez alongside Michael Keaton, Fred Armisen and Cypress Hill
Netflix continues to lean into live programming with the new talk show “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney.” And although the show takes much inspiration from its home base in Los Angeles, including a performance from hip hop group Cypress Hill, the first episode had a surprisingly big Bay Area presence.
The title of the episode was “Lending People Money,” and most of the conversations revolved around financial matters, with San Francisco Chronicle personal finance columnist Jessica Roy earning a place on the couch alongside Fred Armisen, Michael Keaton and Bay Area folk legend Joan Baez. (The Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms.)
Baez, who recently performed a star-studded concert in San Francisco, has lived in the San Mateo County town of Woodside for many years. She rose to prominence as one of the most popular political voices in the folk music scene of the 1960s, and her music was recently featured prominently in the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown.”
Mulaney began the conversation with her by bringing up the iconic concert at the March on Washington in 1963 in which Baez played for 250,000 people — and how much she might’ve earned if they had charged tickets. Then he asked about how she knew the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and how she’d reportedly said he had a great sense of humor. Before answering, she made her thoughts known on our current political landscape.
“First I have to set a context I’m here in. You said I could say anything I want out here,” Baez said. “We’re all here to be silly and have fun, as long as we recognize that our democracy is going up
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Bob Dylan dodged a bullet.
Joan Baez is still living?
“Joan Baez, LIVE - I do not think that word means what you think it means.”
Always getting older; never getting wiser.
The New Three Stooges, Joan Baez, Michael Keaton and Fred Armisen, n’yuk, n’yuk, n’yuk.
Kinda liked her music early on but she made an album in an air raid shelter in North Vietnam. Wrote her off any future list thinking she was anything but a hard core communist loving capitalist money
Joanie Baez the multi-millionaire is lecturing us proles about the mean old billionaires.
She can STFU and sing.
> Kinda liked her music early on but she made an album in an air raid shelter in North Vietnam. <
I too liked her music. And as I noted in my post #5, Baez has made more than a few anti-communist statements. But I never heard of that “air raid shelter in North Vietnam” thing.
So I just looked it up. By golly, you’re right. That did happen. So perhaps I should add “stupid” and “naive” to my previous description of her.
And I think that’s being kind.
“”””She can STFU and sing.”””
You had me at She can STFU.
I saw Joan in a concert in Colorado. Excellent music, excellent concert, yet not one political statement. It was in Boulder!
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
YW.
“The New Three Stooges, Joan Baez, Michael Keaton and Fred Armisen, n’yuk, n’yuk, n’yuk.”
“Oh, you want to see crazy? I’ll show you crazy!” said Mil Gibson to the three stooges! ;-)
How are billionaires “incompetent?” Most critical thinkers would consider them to be very successful. Too much pot apparently scrambled her brain.
I completely ignore the political positions of people like Joan Baez and concentrate on the creations they’ve made that I enjoy. Some of my favorites of hers include:
Fine Arts - Surrealism - Villa Lobos - Joan Baez
https://youtu.be/dvW4GpGjGS8
Dr Who - Forever Young - Joan Baez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldL0sO0gol8
Big time
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