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People call him a comedian, and if you define comedy as "something you find funny", then yeah. By that definition, he's a comedian.
But really he's just a philosopher who points out lifes absurdities, and it's the contrast between the truth, and what people feel permitted by society to say outloud that's the basis of his comedy.
He makes you get feelings such as "What? You can't say that!" And then he does a routine, and you think "Actually, he has a point, it feels wrong to say that, but he has a point"
And here's the biggest thing about him that people don't understand. He died in 2008. So people always like to say "Oh, I wonder what he'd say about politics and society today! He'd probably have a whole thing on trump!"
To which I say he already did that. His material holds up because society doesn't change. The same shit that was true in 1844 is the same shit we're dealing with today. Race, power, money, status, war. It's a tale older than recorded history. We don't learn. We keep repeating the same paterns as our fathers generation, just as he did for his fathers generation, just as he did for his fathers generation. And so on and so on and so on. Small details change, but the landscape of human behavior is unaffected. History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Anyways, here's a bit from him. I didn't watch it but based on the title, I'm fairly sure it's the clip you reminded me of