Unconstitutional

The entire American experiment was essentially written during a four-month bender in Philadelphia, resulting in a national psyche that behaves like a boastful, irresponsible drunk. That is the core argument of the show, which strips the sacred mythology from the U.S. Constitution and frames it as a series of compromises made by sweaty men in wigs who just wanted to leave the room.

Filmed at the Tarrytown Music Hall in New York, the 2015 special catches Quinn at a productive moment in his career, released the same summer he appeared as Amy Schumer’s father in Trainwreck. Here, he trades standard club setups for a structured, history-minded lecture delivered with his signature gravelly, blue-collar skepticism.

Rather than taking standard partisan sides, the show aims at the broader cultural absurdities permitted by the document itself, arguing that everything from megachurches to the Kardashians is the logical endpoint of freedom of speech. His own ideology remains proudly inconsistent, summing up his beliefs as “pro-choice, pro-gun, pro-death penalty, pro-gay marriage,” which he notes simply adds up to being “anti-overcrowding”. He likens the three branches of government to three guys at a bar trying to agree on where to eat, and points out that the Founding Fathers banned the press from their meetings because they knew the whole thing would immediately turn into reality television.