To Kill a Mockingbird

It had been 17 years since she'd written the wildly successful, yet at the time divisive, To Kill a Mockingbird.

James Baldwin for colored girls to kill a mockingbird.

you being obsessed with the color purple yeah james baldwin for colored girls to kill a mockingbird

I keep coming across these little details, like you being obsessed with the color purple. James Baldwin for colored girls to kill a mockingbird.

I went down to buy the paper...and the front page of the paper is one of those stories that is so fucking sad, but it's happened to an individual and nobody did it to him. He did it to himself.

So my parents went down. I took him to go see the, uh, to kill a mockingbird. My buddy actually got the tickets. It was hilarious.

He highly underrated Jeff Daniels...Absolutely crushed the role. It was fucking amazing.

It's like two hours and 40 minutes long, which I was like, Oh fuck man, this has got to be brutal. And it wasn't, it flew by, it fucking flew by.

So we're watching, we're having a good time. Now, are you familiar with the movie to kill a mockingbird? You know, came out a long time ago, Robert Duvall, a young Robert Duvall was in it.

I'm guessing you didn't get a good grade for your seventh grade book report on To Kill a Mockingbird

You know, I am not a trained person and I'm worried at some point someone's going to take my advice, they're going to get punched in the face and I'm going to get sued. So you got to understand that you're talking to a comedian here who's maybe read three books in his life. Two of them had pictures on every other page alright.

So we saw to kill a mockingbird starring Jeff Daniels.

He highly underrated Jeff Daniels.

If you're in New York, you get a chance to see it.

It's two hours and 40 minutes long, which I was like, Oh fuck man, this has got to be brutal. And it wasn't, it flew by, it fucking flew by.

This is something you should definitely check out.

I took him to go see the, uh, to kill a mockingbird.

He highly underrated Jeff Daniels. You know, people just think he does comedy because I think the first time mainstream people learned about him was dumb and dumber.

Absolutely crushed the role. It was fucking amazing.

If you're in New York, you get a chance to see it.

It's like two hours and 40 minutes long, which I was like, Oh fuck man, this has got to be brutal. And it wasn't, it flew by, it fucking flew by.

I'm guessing you didn't get a good grade for your seventh grade book report on To Kill a Mockingbird

I'm guessing you didn't get a good grade for your seventh grade book report on To Kill a Mockingbird

He's not like Harper Lee.

We don't have to wait 50 years for the first draft.

Finally though, a good Harper Lee book.

Well, hopefully like To Kill a Mockingbird in 50 years there will be a sequel to it After David E. Kelly's death His publisher will be like

And the irony for me is that this community where this crime took place, where this trial took place, is the very same community where Harper Lee grew up and wrote the beloved American novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

And people in that community love To Kill a Mockingbird. They put on plays about it. They name streets after characters. They have stores named after it. They've dedicated a museum to it.

But they were completely indifferent to the plight of an innocent black man being wrongly convicted and condemned.

It's also a movie. How many books do you know to me to read? Okay, if I quote something it's from a movie. You were probably forced to in high school, yeah.

It's like when I tell jokes you're not supposed to tell now, I tell people about the joke. Oh, right. I don't tell the joke. I'm like, you should be aware there's a joke that goes like this.

I read To Kill a Mockingbird in high school. Well, now that one holds up. I think To Kill a Mockingbird, the movie, is also great, and the book.

Boo Radley. He also played Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird. ... you guys have not mentioned To Kill a Mockingbird. ... That's a great film.

Michael Jordan's copy of To Kill a Mockingbird goes up for auction.

It was his that he owned.

$24,000.

Harper Lee signed it to Michael Jordan.

Two Michael Jordan best wishes, sign Harper Lee.

I would wager to kill a mockingbird. Certainly, I would bet the most read just about book of the American 20th century work of fiction.

Atticus Finch is the heroic lawyer, and I believe Maycomb, Alabama, if I'm remembering the specifics, scout his daughter coming of age, Jim, her brother. He is defending Tom Robinson, who is a black man accused of sexually assaulting, raping a white woman.

And some of you, by the way, probably cheated and wanted to watch the Gregory Peck movie because you should have read the book, but you watched the movie instead.

So you're seeing this in the context of the movie as opposed to the book. I'm on to you. You can come clean now, go back and read the book now.

But the idea is white woman is the liar. Black man is the victim.

She for some reason was in Texas when all of this was happening in Chicago, Buck, posting herself wearing a mask in a Texas bookstore, reading To Kill a Mockingbird, arguing that she was not going to be banned by what she could read.

When the reality is most of the places trying to ban To Kill a Mockingbird are left wing lunatic cities and school boards.

She, for some reason, was in Texas when all of this was happening in Chicago, Buck, posting herself wearing a mask in a Texas bookstore, reading To Kill a Mockingbird, arguing that she was not going to be banned by what she could read...

Something that I have wanted to talk about now you all know to kill a mockingbird boo Radley and Atticus Finch and Scout story about good overcoming adversity overcoming the system it's been around for quite some time childhood classic has been stage play for a very long time you may have also heard that Aaron Sorkin wrote a version of to kill a mockingbird that is currently being staged on Broadway starring I believe Jeff Daniels in the role of Atticus Finch

the producers of this production on Broadway has shut down community productions of the other to kill a mockingbird the old to kill a mockingbird play and there was this New York Times story in which this amateur actor who also runs the Playhouse had to tell Scout that she didn't get to be Scout anymore because the New York producers of to kill a mockingbird decided to shut down the Dayton Ohio production and how ironic is this they thought they had a good case but they were afraid to fight him in court they were afraid to take their chances in court to win their righteous cause to perform to kill a mockingbird

but don't worry there was a compromise and the compromise is some of these local groups they can still do to kill a mockingbird but they can only do the Aaron Sorkin version so basically because New York City has a Broadway production of to kill a mockingbird Scout in Dayton the little girl doing the amateur production has to learn a new version of the play that that is the compromise it is fucking insane

why do they care what happens at the local Dayton production of to kill a mockingbird just let them do the other version who gives a shit sorry guys this Broadway production starring Jeff Daniels has to shut down we're facing too much competition in Dubuque

Some shenanigans involving To Kill a Mockingbird

He even gets an early copy of Go Setta Watchman, which is Harper Lee's surprise prequel to Kill a Walkingbird.

He even gets an early copy of Ghosts That A Watchman, which is Harper Lee's surprise prequel to To Kill A Mockingbird.

You have some groups that want to take away classic books like To Kill a Mockingbird, but they want things like Gender Queer, a memoir,

You have some groups that want to take away classic books like To Kill a Mockingbird, but they want things like Gender Queer, a memoir, which is a cartoon style book with graphic images of children performing sexual acts.

There was an Atticus Finch-like character who testified before the January 6th committee.

If I'm calling him Atticus Finch, let's say, this is like Atticus Finch saying Bob Ewell is a racist.

Here is a storyteller justifying the novel as a form that transcends time and place.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins.

The Pulitzer is one thing the approval of my own people is the only literary reward I covet.

What happens in a small southern town when citizens learn that one of its natives has just become a Pulitzer Prize winner? Well, the word travels fast telephones ring bulletins go on the radio people jump in their automobiles and travel to the next block to tell their neighbors.

I read To Kill a Mockingbird

I saw this quote and it said it was from to kill a mockingbird and I didn't recognize it at all. I hadn't read it in a while but I do love the book and I hadn't find it.

I think you said the kill of the kill.

Yeah kill the monkey bird.

Kill the Mockingbird.

What's that about?

I forgot.

For maybe the younger people in the audience, Justin, do you want to talk about who Boo Radley was?

That would be from To Kill a Mockingbird, right? And kind of the questionable creepy guy that lives down the street. The misunderstood character.