Video taking off 14x its usual first day

A bowling pin bookends Josh Johnson's blue-wave set in Philadelphia

Between a street fight and the final punchline, the show takes on the midterms, Elon Musk's spending and a grown man's backyard seesaw.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,031,675 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (75,023).

Trump Gets Washed in Blue Wave

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1:03A man on a Philadelphia street pulls a full-sized bowling pin from his satchel.
7:48An acquaintance's drive goes wrong when a frog turns up inside the car.
13:42Johnson moves to the midterms and Trump's reaction, blaming the yes-men around him.
21:42He mocks Elon Musk's campaign spending on candidates who lost.
24:21A friend buys a backyard seesaw and tries to get grown adults to ride it.
30:47A rumor about Dana White and the press secretary job leads to a name mix-up; the closing callback comes at 38:21.

Philadelphia, Josh Johnson tells the crowd, gives New York real competition when it comes to madness. His evidence is a man on the street who issued a warning, reached into a satchel and pulled out a full-sized bowling pin. Johnson's own role in the fight was brief: he made it very clear he was not involved. "I'm not from here."

That story opens "Trump Gets Washed in Blue Wave," a set filmed at the Academy of Music during his Comedy Band Camp stop in the city, with animation by Luke Stone. It passed a million views in about a day, around fourteen times what a new regular video on his channel usually draws.

The title's politics come after a detour through a car with a frog loose inside it. Then Johnson turns to election night. His theory of Trump's surprise at the results is the problem of surrounding yourself with yes-men. Voting, he says, feels like friends ordering food for a party from places known for food poisoning, a bit he also posted as a Short.

Democrats get no free pass. He questions Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries for assuming they will lead without showing much fight against Trump, and he lingers on the $450 million he says Elon Musk spent on candidates who lost.

The set's most personal stretch belongs to a friend who bought a seesaw for his backyard and wanted adults to come over and ride it. "This is the most unemployed purchase I've ever seen in my life," Johnson tells him, before arriving to find the friend sitting on it alone. Later he admits a rumor about UFC boss Dana White and the White House press job nearly fooled him, and marks the anniversary of Rudy Giuliani's Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference.

In the comments, the bowling pin man has become a character of his own, and the frog story has viewers trading tales of animals turning up where they should not. The pin gets the last word too: Johnson brings it back for his closing line about Trump.

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