Extreme Mortman

Howard Mortman

dmadmin@c-span.org

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Booking Overview

A weekly political-history and comedy program built around C-SPAN archival clips, trivia, and occasional interviews with recognized authors, biographers, and comedy writers. Credible pitches include political historians, presidential or Supreme Court biographers, government experts, and established political-comedy writers with relevant publications or media credits; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 487

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.4/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 1.9M subscribers

Instagram: 950.0k followers

Contact Information

dmadmin@c-span.org

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Host

Howard Mortman - C-SPAN communications executive and author.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Published authors, biographers, political historians, government experts, and established comedy writers with specialized knowledge of political figures, institutions, history, or political humor.
Required Achievements:  
Published books, Recognized biographical or historical scholarship, Notable television or political-comedy writing credits

Recent Guest Discussions

Jon Macks - British Prime Minister's Questions Jokes, Political Comedy, And How To Evaluate And Improve Political Jokes.

James Rosen - Antonin Scalia's Humor, Jokes During Supreme Court Oral Arguments, And Scalia's Comedic Legacy.

Recent Topics

Political Humor, Politics, History, Government, Comedy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Extreme Mortman
:

Keir Starmer Jokes About Sex and More British PMQ Comedy– With Special Guest Jon Macks

July 16, 2026

Keir Starmer departs soon as British Prime Minister... But not before telling a joke or two — about sex ..."On consistency, don’t get me started: five Prime Ministers, six Chancellors, eight Home Secretaries 16 Housing Ministers—they had more positions in 14 years than the Kama Sutra. No wonder they are knackered; they left the country screwed."That was Prime Minister's Questions. .... January 14th, 2026 — Turns out, during this past year of PMQs, Keir Starmer told many jokes— and not al...

Supreme Court Comedy Festival: Justice Scalia's Funniest Moments – with James Rosen (Part 2)

July 09, 2026

Quick comedy question: Can you name a time when, during an oral argument, a Supreme Court Justice made everyone laugh? How about December 11th, 2000: KLOCK: I think what the Florida Supreme Court should do in that instance is note the very tight restrictions that exist under the protest phase. They require that you find voter intent with respect to a damaged ballot. They also vest it in the canvassing board, and the canvassing board is composed of a defined group of off...

July 4th Special: How the British Burning Washington Became One Big Joke

July 02, 2026

Happy Fourth of July! 250 years ago, America declared independence from the British. And 212 years ago … the British burned down the White House. And now … it's become one big joke …   And if I may say so, it is a particular pleasure to be back in this wonderful building, the heart of your democracy. On this occasion, I cannot help noticing the readjustments to the East Wing, Mr. President...following your visit to Windsor Castle last year. And I'm sorry to say that we British, of course...

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