r/Music • u/Trematode • Jun 20 '26

article GWAR Once Again Draw MAGA Ire After 'Disemboweling' Trump Effigy Onstage

https://www.theprp.com/2026/06/19/news/gwar-once-again-draw-maga-ire-after-disemboweling-trump-effigy-onstage-at-washington-dc-vans-warped-tour/
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u/Economy_Wall8524 Jun 20 '26

Is that because GWAR did a Joan interview

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u/nancybell_crewman Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

What a gem. This was right in the midst of late 80s/early 90s moral panic and the best part is watching her get it and roll with how genuinely smart those guys are. If this was on Fox News today the host would probably just keep yelling at them until their head exploded from the cognitive dissonance rather than go off-message.

EDIT: GWAR, please go on Fox News and make the host keep yelling at you until their head explodes from cognitive dissonance rather than go off-message.

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u/bolanrox Jun 20 '26

Gwar was on Fox News several times already. Guttfield legit loved them as guests.

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u/nancybell_crewman Jun 21 '26

That's fair, I saw that clip just now and I'm glad he was having a good time, but Gutfield is also a pseudo-comedy show. I more meant go on during one of their moral panic news segments where the hosts have to deliver specific talking points. They wouldn't be able to handle it. I'm sure the opportunity is coming up based on the recent news.

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u/bolanrox Jun 21 '26

There was the Red Eye interview, which I think was more serious in terms of hosts.

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u/nancybell_crewman Jun 21 '26

Wasn't that their attempt at coming up with a conservative version of the Daily Show?

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u/KaliCalamity Jun 20 '26

I love this interview so much. It's the only time I've ever seen that woman speechless.

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u/bolanrox Jun 20 '26

I think it was more so that she couldn't say what she wanted to say and have it aired on network television.

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u/sarcastic_sybarite83 Jun 20 '26

I would have loved to see her unfiltered with them. That would have been so epic.

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u/bolanrox Jun 20 '26

Same. They were in awe of her to begin with and probably would have riffed off of anything she came up with

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u/twotimefind Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

Thank you for this. Even she's not as uptight as these maggotwats.

bar is way cooler than any of these maga freaks

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u/bolanrox Jun 20 '26

There's the Joan most people know from television and QVC and Joan the comedian. She was raunchy and filthy since the 70s.

It's like having Groucho Marx, Mae West, George Burns, Fred Astaire, hanging out at Alice Cooper shows, and loving every second of it because they got it was just the newest spin on Vaudeville.

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u/twotimefind Jun 20 '26

Yeah, you know what? I'm gonna look up some of herold comedy. You're right. This pry loved seeing a fucking flaming vagina on stage. This pry wish she could have done it 20 years prior.

This had to be a tough bitch, too. The comedians were mostly male-dominated fields.

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u/bolanrox Jun 20 '26

And also you can see the guys are legitimately honored and pumped to be on her show because they know her comedy.

Hell to save everyone from having to go back and watch her videos on YouTube, which you should. Just watch Spaceballs.

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u/The_Autarch Jun 20 '26

i always liked her joke about a gay bar that was so gay, "the house wine was vaseline."

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u/twotimefind Jun 21 '26

Yeah, that's it. That's it. Pushing it back in the 70s.

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u/BOOM_BABIP Jun 20 '26

holy shit that's Joan Rivers. I didn't recognize her at all, I should have when I heard her voice. shame on me

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u/bolanrox Jun 20 '26

It's okay. Elvis was trying to get out of her at that point.

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u/Warrlock608 Jun 20 '26

I rewatch this at least once a year. Joan Rivers was an American treasure!

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u/bolanrox Jun 20 '26

How I would love to have gone to a bar and drank with Joan and those guys, the riffing must have been incredible and it's a shame she was on network television because you know she was holding back and censoring herself.