Kanye West Implies That Anthony Jeselnik Is Greater Than God
If Kanye West is God and Anthony Jeselnik is on a higher level than Kanye West, then is it the Pope’s responsibility to start working on the Divine Tight Five?
Last week, the controversial rapper, fashion mogul and self-professed Nazi West returned to Twitter after years of social media inactivity to remind Elon Musk that he’ll never be the biggest Hitler-lover on his own platform. West, who insists that he started his most recent crash-out completely sober, spouted off about his favorite targets — Jewish people, doctors, women who have accused him of assault — but, for some reason, the pro-genocide pop-culture giant also took aim at stand-up superstar Dave Chappelle.
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Despite the fact that, following West’s last complete Nazi meltdown in 2022, Chappelle used his entire opening monologue on Saturday Night Live to defend his old Chappelle’s Show buddy against completely reasonable accusations of anti-Semitism, West went on a diatribe describing Chappelle as a traitor and a medium-talent, listing all the comedians he considers to be better artists than his biggest fan. In his rankings of better comedians than Chappelle, West named the usual lineup of comics that guys in their late 40s typically adore — Chris Rock, Mitch Hedberg, Louis C.K. — but the stand-up rant also included a curveball that has both comedy and Kanye fans scratching their heads and praying to Jeselnik for guidance during this confusing time:
Everybody who is familiar with West knows that he’s fanatically convinced of his own divinity, as he’s proclaimed himself to be God the Almighty in both hit songs and in the manic monologues he mutters to himself. As such, if West thinks that his explosive outbursts that are apparently intended to be humorous are “almost” at Jeselnik’s level, wouldn’t that mean that West believes that Jeselnik’s comedic excellence is somehow even greater than omnipotence?
West has a long history of public comments proclaiming Jeselnik to be one of his all-time favorite comedians, but it’s unclear whether or not West is actually in on the joke of Jeselnik’s intentionally offensive, pitch-black style of dark humor. When Kanye’s enthusiastic embrace of Nazism first made headlines in 2022, he went on The Lex Fridman Podcast to publicly wonder why Jeselnik doesn’t make headlines on CNN and lose endorsements when the comic invokes the Holocaust for a punchline, “But then, it’s, like, hurtful when I do it.”
Just days after West’s latest Nazi bullshit started, the rapper deactivated his Twitter account and retreated back to being a Nazi in his personal life rather than his public one. But based on West’s continued unironic hate speech and subsequent name-dropping of Jeselnik, it really does appear that West thinks that Jeselnik actually believes every horrible, heartless line he delivers onstage, which makes it almost logical that West worships Jeselnik as something higher than a God, because if Jeselnik believed everything he said onstage, he’d be ideologically in line with Adolf Hitler.
And if there’s one thing Kanye loves more than God/himself, it’s Hitler.
