History YMMV / LewisBlack

* AcceptableTargets: From the government to his fellow Jews, all's fair game.
** "How our government works... it doesn't."
*** "The Republicans are a party of bad ideas, and the Democrats are a party of no ideas."
*** "What's the difference between a Democrat and a Republican? A Democrat ''blows'', a Republican ''sucks''."
** About some people believing the world was created in a week: "I would love to have the faith to believe that it took place in seven days, but... I have ''thoughts''. And that can really fuck up the faith thing... just ask any Catholic priest."

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: His routine about realizing NSYNC was gay during their Super Bowl performance, "and I don't know who their manager is, but he's gay too." The band's manager, Lou Pearlman, was later revealed to be a pederast who molested several of the talent he put together.

** His bit about how President UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan scared the crap out of everyone, including U.S. citizens, is now less funny considering we went through the same thing with UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.

* HarsherInHindsight: "The Republicans are a party of bad ideas, and the Democrats are a party of no ideas."

* MemeticMutation: Black's routines about "A Starbucks across from another Starbucks" and "If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college" have achieved memetic status..

* MemeticMutation: Black's routines about "A Starbucks across from another Starbucks" and "If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college" have achieved memetic status.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Whenever he wades into social issues in his act. In "Red, White & Screwed", he called out Rick Santorum's statement that "homosexuality is a threat to the American family" as "prejudice and ignorance on a level that's staggering at this point in time."
** In the third ''Comedy Central Presents'' special, he criticized Jerry Falwell for saying 9/11 happened due to God punishing the country for allowing feminism.
--> '''Lewis''': ''That's'' what upset God? That God looked down into the kitchen, and there was not a stew on the oven, and the spice rack was in disarray, and He said, "I will ''smote'' them!" And I couldn't believe it, he said that God had actually talked to him and said, these were the people. That was the reason. It was those people, and that was the reason God allowed this to happen. And I thought, "That's odd. Because God had called me twelve hours before, and he said, the reason he was upset was because of people like Jerry Falwell."
** His bit about how we need to address mental illness in ''Black to the Future''.

** His bit about how President UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan scared the crap out of everyone, including U.S. citizens, is now less funny considering we're currently going through the same thing.

** In one of his televised stand-up performances (not ''Series/TheDailyShow''), Lewis Black related an incident in which he was on the New York City subway: the loudspeaker announced there was a bomb threat and asked the passengers to calmly exit the train. Nobody moved because no one took it seriously. He went on to say: "Who would be stupid enough to ''terrorize New York''? It's ''redundant''." Cue TheWarOnTerror.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Whenever he wades into social issues in his act. In "Red, White & Screwed", he called out Rick Santorum's statement that "homosexuality is a threat to the American family" as "prejudice on a level that's staggering at this point in time."

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: When he was being interviewed on CNN, he yelled at them about the constant news "crawl" and told them to take it off the screen. For a moment, they actually did.
--> "There's people talking here!"

** "I would love to have the faith to believe that the world was created in seven days. But... I have ''thoughts''. And that can really fuck up the faith thing... just ask any Catholic priest."

* HarsherInHindsight:

** His routine about realizing NSYNC was gay during their Super Bowl performance, "and I don't know who their manager is, but he's gay too." The band's manager Lou Pearlman was later revealed to be a pederast who molested several of the talent he put together.

* HarsherInHindsight: In one of his televised stand-up performances (not ''Series/TheDailyShow''), Lewis Black related an incident in which he was on the New York City subway: the loudspeaker announced there was a bomb threat and asked the passengers to calmly exit the train. Nobody moved because no one took it seriously. He went on to say: "Who would be stupid enough to ''terrorize New York''? It's ''redundant''." Cue TheWarOnTerror.

** "I would love to have the faith to believe that the world was created in seven days. But... I have thoughts. And that can really fuck up the faith thing... just ask any Catholic priest."

** "I would love to have the faith to believe that the world was created in seven days... but I have thoughts... and that can really fuck up the faith thing, just ask any Catholic priest."

* MemeticMutation: Black's routines about "A Starbucks across from another Starbucks" and "If it "If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college" have achieved memetic status.

* HilariousInHindsight: Lewis's slams against Rick Santorum (specifically, his anti-gay marriage remarks) are even funnier ever since Santorum ran for president in the 2012 election and his views became more well-known to the general public.

** "How our government works...it doesn't."

* HarsherInHindsight: In one of his televised stand-up performances (not ''TheDailyShow''), Lewis Black related an incident in which he was on the New York City subway: the loudspeaker announced there was a bomb threat and asked the passengers to calmly exit the train. Nobody moved because no one took it seriously. He went on to say: "Who would be stupid enough to ''terrorize New York''? It's ''redundant''." Cue TheWarOnTerror.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: When he was being interviewed on CNN, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwZ-I-bJJwc he yelled at them about the constant news "crawl" and told them to take it off the screen.]] For a moment, they actually did.