Comedian Elon Gold doesn’t believe that Justin Trudeau is fit to be prime minister of Canada … because he’s too fit.

“He’s much too good looking,” Gold said of Trudeau. “I think a president should look like Trump. They shouldn’t act like Trump. A president needs to be weathered and beaten down, like they’ve been through a lot and now they can be president. It’s just like, oh, pretty boy, what obstacles did you ever have to overcome? Nothing.”

As anyone who has seen his Netflix special, Elon Gold: Chosen and Taken, knows, Gold is very funny. But he can also be very serious. Speaking with this reporter at the Olive Tree Café and Bar in New York, he explained how an incident inspired his show, Elon Gold: Pro-Semite (which he performed at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal at the end of July).

A few years ago, on Shabbat, Gold was walking with his family, when men yelled at his children.

“They told them to die,” Gold recounted with anger. “That incident was like, ‘OK, now I can personalize it, now it happened to me. Now that it’s personal, I really feel like I need to talk about it.’ Comedians talk about what bothers them. What bothers me currently is anti-Semitism … how it’s creeping up, how it’s become this new form, which is how you can hate the Jewish state. You can’t hate Jews out loud anymore, but you can hate the Jewish state.”

A few months ago, Gold did a routine at the United Nations, where he derided the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. Asked about Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame, who recently spoke out against Israel and encouraged performers to cancel planned performances there, Gold said he has zero tolerance for him and that nobody should be fooled.

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“I would say, ‘how dare you boycott the only free democracy in the Middle East and how dare you single out Israel when there are so many countries with major real human rights violations’,” Gold said. “He pretends it’s an apartheid, but if you ask any dignitary in South Africa, they’ll tell you, ‘How dare you call that an apartheid. We experienced a real apartheid.’ You see Israeli Arabs that are in the parliament and are judges and doctors. It’s just anti-Semitism. It’s just hatred.”

Gold acknowledged that people may wonder how such serious topics can be humorous, but said that it is possible.

“I love to find the funny in hate,” Gold said. “I talk about homophobia and racism. When you find the funny in hate, you get to expose the ignorance of bigotry.”

(At this point in our interview, Amy Schumer unexpectedly walked by with Jennifer Lawrence and complimented Gold’s hair.)

Gold had crowds laughing at Standup NY and the Comedy Cellar, with his bit about how Jews actually do have a lot of power over the media.

“Only Twitter is run by a non-Jew, ’cause no Jew can finish an argument in 140 characters,” he quipped.

He also said he was never athletic and was surprised that he was able to win the competition of fertilization against other possible children.

“I was probably doing the backstroke and then I hit an egg by accident,” he said to laughs.

But why doesn’t the comedian wear a wedding ring?

“If I advertise that I am married, how am I ever gonna find my soul mate?” he joked, to the crowd’s delight.

Asked if he ever dated Canadian women, Gold had an interesting answer.

“I never dated any girls,” he said. “I met my wife when I was 15, knew she was out of my league, held on for dear life, got engaged at 22, married at 23.”

He also said there is a slight difference between crowds in New York and Montreal.

“The crowds are a little more sensitive in Canada. A little more politically correct,” he said. “But Canadian audiences are still great audiences. That’s why I love going to the festival and I go almost every year.”

Gold, who once played Pamela Anderson’s love interest on a show called Stacked, said he’s lost touch with Anderson, but she was kind to him and he wishes her the best. Gold, who has done countless fundraising shows for Jewish organizations around the world, said he can tailor his sets to any audience, be it Jewish or secular. He also said he doesn’t worry that his new show is too Jewish.

“That’s what they said about Seinfeld and Jackie Mason,” Gold said. “I don’t worry about that when I’m doing a show called pro-Semite.”

Gold said that since Jews were the underdog for so long, many fear being Goliath, instead of David.

“Strength is a good thing,” he said. “We’ve been weak and bullied and persecuted for thousands of years – from the pogroms, to the crusades, to the inquisition, to the Holocaust. Now (that) we’re Wonder Woman, it’s about time we showed strength. The world is so used to watching the Jews take it lying down.”