Twitter Wonders When Andrew Schulz Stopped Being a Comedian After He Argues Against Due Process

Andrew Schulz just came out in support of the U.S. military using drones to extrajudicially destroy boats and kill people in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea. We're still waiting for the punchline.

The past election cycle saw certain stand-up comedians take center stage in the nation’s political discourse, sometimes literally. Schulz, Tony Hinchcliffe, Joe Rogan, Theo Von, Tim Dillon and more vaguely-to-staunchly-conservative comics promoted, interviewed, and palled around with Donald Trump and J.D. Vance on the campaign trail, and, now, we’re forced to engage with these figures not just as professional funnymen, but as influential political operatives with direct ties to the highest office in government.

For his part as one of the President’s official podcasters, Schulz has been a bit of an erratic voice in political discourse over the first year of Trump’s second term, and it’s been hard to pin down his exact politics as he opines on everything from Jeffrey Epstein to SNAP benefits to the ongoing military action against supposed drug boats coming from Venezuela.

During a recent episode of Schulz’ podcast Brilliant Idiots, which he co-hosts with Charlamagne Tha God, Schulz went on an impassioned rant about the hypocrisy of people who made poor-taste jokes about the death of Charlie Kirk, but who criticize the execution of supposed drug smugglers without trial.

Ba-Dum Tiss.

How, exactly, Schulz expects the federal government to prove which aquatic corpse belonged to a drug dealer without due process remains a mystery. But, more than that, the mere fact that Schulz is using his massive platform to careen wildly between conservative talking points without even attempting to sneak in a Elon-Musk's-Twitter-level joke makes it seem like Schulz has truly given up on the comedy angle of his public persona.

Back in June, Schulz bragged about his growing influence in the non-comedic political media in a conversation with The New York Times, glibly suggesting, "I might be the foremost political journalist of my time." Now that he's using his podcast to weigh in on whether or not there should be any sort of legal process in place before the government blows mariners in the Pacific ocean to smithereens, it's clear that Schulz is prioritizing this superlative, self-imposed duty over actually making people laugh.

But if Schulz is going to deliver humorless, half-witted, stream-of-consciousness speeches on the comparative political value of human lives, he can at least start to take his posture as seriously as he takes himself. It's hard to engage with Schulz' opinions on morality and foreign policy when he's slouching his crotch towards the camera like he's a stoned frat boy debating whether Inception or The Dark Knight was Christopher Nolan's best work.