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The Great Republican Political Strategy of Insult Puerto Rico for Some Reason (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Good comedy can punch up, but very rarely works when punching down. Punching down is generally just bullying in disguise.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

When punching up it's funny, punching down is called bullying

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think Anthony Jeselnik sums it up pretty well

https://youtu.be/4mCAl85hLkU?si=vwEMzE15kfHJMddV

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Jeselnik is a class act. What's interesting to me is that the guy in the op, essentially has the same Roast style as Jeselnik. But the way they execute it is key.

I saw some of the ops bits from a comedy central roast, and they were really funny... But when you put him in the context of being at a trump rally wave saying stuff like this it's like "ohhh, you're not making subvertive jokes, you're just a bigot hiding behind 'comedy'"