Featuring Cave Comedy Radio mainstays Ben Kissel and Marcus Parks, Abe Lincoln’s Top Hat is a twice weekly take on the politics of our time, despite the fact that none of it really matters and everything is one a rapid downward spiral anyway so we might as well have fun with it all in the meantime.
Today on Top Hat: Ben and Marcus discuss Dear Fat People, Hillary Clinton’s terrible attempt at rebranding, and the terror that is Huckabee.
In this companion piece to the Last Podcast 9/11 series, Ben and Marcus expand on the wars in the Middle East and why whoever we elect in the next election is going to continue on the same pattern as all the presidencies of the last 20 years.
Mark Normand joins us to talk about the Bill Burr controversy, the Fat Jew controversy, and the Trump controversy. Which one, you ask? Tune in to find out.
Travis Irvine joins us to talk about the Iowa State Fair, Trump’s Batman-like qualities, and what it’s been like for Travis to hang out with Roger Stone, one of Trump’s up-until-recently top advisers.
Today on Top Hat: Katherine Timpf joins us as we cover the aftermath of the Republican debates, the Bernie Sanders/Black Lives Matter controversies, and the eventual entering of Joe Biden.
It’s time for Ben to triple down on Team Trump as we approach the first official debate of the 2016 Republican primaries.
Today on Top Hat: Ben and Marcus talk about the insanity that is the left turning on Jon Stewart, the recent gotcha journalism involving out of context quotes from Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, and of course Ben’s favorite candidate, Trump.
Today on Top Hat: Katherine Timpf joins us to talk about the supposed race problem of Bernie Sanders, Trump’s continuing appeal, and Hillary’s unlikeability.
Today on Top Hat: Saman Arbabi joins us to talk about the Iran nuclear deal and why it’s actually a pretty solid deal.
Travis Irvine of The Guardian joins Ben and Marcus to talk about the gun control record of Bernie Sanders, why Donald Trump is running for President, and the extreme challenge that making climate change funny is.
Ben and Marcus talk about the different perspectives the two got on the gay marriage Supreme Court ruling from two different areas of the country and how one week changed everything for a significantly large group of Americans.
Kevin Barnett joins us this week to talk about the Charleston shootings, the Confederate Flag, and how the brain poison of the Internet helps fuel it all.
