EXCLUSIVE: Babylon Bee’s Kyle Mann says people ‘are ready to laugh’ about J6 hysteria with new satire film ‘January 6: The Most Deadliest Day’

He asks everyone where they were on that most memorable of all days in American history, January 6, and speaks to political pundits and commentators like Michael Knowles and Dennis Prager about one of the most fateful days in history, that is if you believe what Kamala Harris has to say about it.

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The Post Millennial caught up with Mann to talk to him about the film and if America is ready to move on from January 6, or at least laugh about it. The film is in the great satirical tradition of films like Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and television shows like The Office or Parks and Rec, Mann said.

"We've always felt like that tone and style is so perfect for the Babylon Bee because of the dry, satirical nature of our headlines," Mann said. The Babylon Bee has long since taken the mantle of the leftist satirical site The Onion as those headlines attempting to skewer the right fall flat in light of the absolute madness the Democrat left has been perpetuating on reality.

Mann said he interviewed "the actual people who are semi-in on the joke, but semi-clueless as to what we're doing when we're interviewing them," but also conservative pundits and commentators. The goal, he said, "is to actually get some real facts out there about January 6 and a different perspective on January 6, while at the same time doing it through the lens of satire and humor."

It turns out that when Mann asked people on the street where they were on January 6, most of them had no idea what he was talking about. Others, especially those in Washington, DC, gave their opinions on Trump and democracy. He asked them if they thought it "helps democracy to ban one of the candidates from running."

Making satire in an era when the very nature of reality is under attack by the progressive left is not easy. As The Babylon Bee so humorously points out, we live in a time when people claim that men can become women just by wishing it so and speaking their truth, where high school girls' athletic teams are injured by males claiming to be women on other teams, and where Americans arrested for trespassing at the Capitol Building are held without bail awaiting trial while violent criminals are freed without bond.

Mann admitted that it's not easy to make satire when it's well over the edge of the absurd, but that it's perhaps even more necessary to poke fun at the madness. "GK Chesterton commented 120 years ago that satire was impossible for people to write because reality had become so absurd, I'm paraphrasing, but it is so insane when you think about that, that as comedians, not only do we have to write funny stuff, but we have to write funny stuff that the Democrats haven't already done in real life."

In real life, male weightlifters compete against women in the Olympics. High school girls' field hockey and volleyball teams forfeit games to avoid injury when playing against trans players on opposing teams. The UK just cleared domestic abusers out of jail to make room for "keyboard warriors" who were found guilty of making unpleasant posts on social media platforms. In the US, people who trespassed on the grounds of the US Capitol have been detained years pending trial and a man was convicted for posting a meme about Hillary Clinton—and Clinton supported his prosecution.

"And so, how do you parody that?" Mann asked. "You know, you have Daily Wire just did the Lady Ballers movie. They did a comedy about men identifying as women to compete in basketball. And it's like, oh, that's a silly slapstick comedy thing. It's like, No, but that's not even a parody. Like, that's what's happening.

"Same thing with the same thing with this movie," he said. "I'm the main reporter in the movie, and I'm playing kind of a liberal reporter who is very serious, but the lines that we're writing about it—we're trying to exaggerate, but it's being like we're not saying things that Democrats haven't already said about January 6. You know, right in the beginning of the movie, we showed Kamala Harris and her statement that January 6 is as memorable and seared into Americans brains as 9/11 and Pearl Harbor."

"One of the funniest parts of the movie is when we just play with Kamala Harris actually says," Mann said.

J6 is still heavily used in Democrat rhetoric about Trump being a danger to democracy. It comes up over and over in debates, interviews, and political rhetoric. While it still seems to be a huge thing for electeds and pundits, is it still a big thing for voters? Are Americans ready to laugh at it? Mann hopes they are.

"I certainly hope people are ready to laugh about some of it," he said, "but in a lighthearted way. You know, it's okay to laugh about things that are tragic, but a lot of times, with satire, it helps us to see the truth about something. So it's not just laughing, 'haha' funny, it's mocking the ridiculous, so that people can kind of open their eyes to how ridiculous this kind of stuff is. So our hope is, through humor and satire, we can communicate that and people will be like, 'Yeah, you know what? This is ridiculous, the way that these people have been demonized and he way that this event has been treated against, you know, the worst day in western civilization and all these crazy things.'"

"I don't think ordinary Americans care anymore," Mann said when asked if he thought it still weighed on the minds of voters, "and that's part of the point of the documentary. Like when we play that Kamala Harris clip where she's talking about 'everybody remembers where they were.' We go around, we ask people 'Where were you on January 6?' And most people have no idea what we're talking about. They don't know January 6. It's pretty incredible."

The official trailer for "January 6: The Most Deadliest Day" was released on X and the film will be available to Babylon Bee subscribers.