Culture is downstream from entertainment Rob Schneider is an American comedian and actor. He was a cast member on the long-running live sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live on NBC between 1990 and 1994, then went on to star in such comedy movies as Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999), The Animal (2001), Hot Chick (2002), and Grown Ups (2010). He has had a long creative partnership with fellow SNL alumn Adam Sandler, appearing in many of his films, such as the aforementioned Grown Ups, as well as 50 First Dates (2004), and The Longest Yard (2005). Mr Schneider was gracious enough to give an exclusive interview to our site before his lecture at MCC Budapest. What made you turn to politics? Was it the era when the left was aggressively coming after comedians? Yeah, when you get attacked, when people try to prevent you from working, and you survive, you get emboldened to go: 'Who are these assholes trying to take me out?' I've always been a contrarian. So you have a left that is totalitarian in the sense that they're not for free speech. They don't really have the best interests of the culture in mind. They're not open for debate, they're open for demonization. They want to demean you, they want to demoralize you, they want to prevent you from speaking, and they want to take away your ability to make a living. That sounds authoritarian. As a matter of fact, that sounds like communism. That's why I'm so particularly supportive of Viktor Orbán because he managed to keep the barbarians out. Just to go back a little bit, when they asked Mikhail Gorbachev what the biggest surprise was that he had seen since he stepped down, since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the fall of the Soviet Union, he said very directly: the biggest surprise was the Sovietization of Europe.#rob_schneider #adam_sandler #mcc_budapest #viktor_orbn #mikhail_gorbachev
