Ed Salazar’s Punk Trump Christmas
Summary: Comedian (Comedy Central) Edward Salazar impersonates punk icon Jello Biafra bringing down the Trump administration. It’s a hilarious take on “T’was the Night Before Christmas.”<br> This BONUS EPISODE was recorded during the “Giant Tuesday Night of Amazing Inventions and Also There is a Game’s 15th Annual Holiday Special!” <br> Listen to another hilarious <a>sketch</a> from that show, with Adam Felber and Andres du Bouchet.<br> <br> About Jello Biafra on Wikipedia:<br> Jello Biafra (born Eric Reed Boucher; June 17, 1958) is the former lead singer and songwriter for <a title="San Francisco" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco">San Francisco</a> <a title="Punk rock" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock">punk rock</a> band <a title="Dead Kennedys" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys">Dead Kennedys</a>, and is currently a musician and <a title="Spoken word" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoken_word">spoken word</a> artist. After he left the Dead Kennedys, he took over the influential <a title="Independent record label" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_record_label">independent record label</a> <a title="Alternative Tentacles" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_Tentacles">Alternative Tentacles</a>, which he had co-founded in 1979 with Dead Kennedys bandmate <a title="East Bay Ray" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bay_Ray">East Bay Ray</a>. Although now focused primarily on spoken word, he has continued as a musician in numerous collaborations.<br> Politically, Biafra is a member of the <a title="Green Party of the United States" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_of_the_United_States">Green Party of the United States</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jello_Biafra#cite_note-Green-1">[1]</a> and actively supports various political causes. He ran for the party’s Presidential nomination in <a class="mw-redirect" title="2000 United States Presidential Election" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_Presidential_Election">2000</a>, finishing a distant second to <a title="Ralph Nader" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader">Ralph Nader</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jello_Biafra#cite_note-2">[2]</a> He is a staunch believer in a free society, who utilizes shock value and advocates <a title="Direct action" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_action">direct action</a>and pranksterism in the name of political causes.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jello_Biafra#cite_note-Green-1">[1]</a> Biafra is known to use absurdist media tactics, in the leftist tradition of the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Yippies" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yippies">Yippies</a>, to highlight issues of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Civil rights" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights">civil rights</a> and <a title="Social justice" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice">social justice</a>.<br> Biafra became a spoken word artist in January 1986 with a performance at <a title="University of California, Los Angeles" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Los_Angeles">University of California, Los Angeles</a>. In his performance he combined humor with his political beliefs, much in the same way that he did with the lyrics to his songs. Despite his continued spoken word performances, he did not begin recording spoken word albums until after the disbanding of the Dead Kennedys.<br> His ninth spoken word album, <a title="In the Grip of Official Treason" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Grip_of_Official_Treason">In the Grip of Official Treason</a>, was released in October 2006.<br> Biafra was also featured in the British band <a title="Pitchshifter" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchshifter">Pitchshifter</a>‘s song <a title="Deviant (Pitchshifte..."></a>
