A classically trained double bassist from an elite conservatory gets beaten up in a WWE ring, voices cartoon creatures for Disney, and drags airport police into a federal appeals court. The chaos of Eric Andre looks like anarchy, but it runs on the discipline of a musician who mastered the rules before he shattered them.

This episode looks past the broken desks and cringe pranks to examine the philosophical, politically active mind behind the noise. We explore how a psychiatrist father and Berklee training built his comedic Trojan horse, how he smuggled surrealism into billion-dollar franchises, and how the same instinct that dismantles a fake talk-show desk drives his real-world legal and political battles.

• How his father's psychiatry and his Berklee music theory translate into weaponized comedic tension and release
• The  ...