"Looks like you hate free speech because you think I'm an asshole" -conservatives, 100% of the time.
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I couldn't say I didn't watch the new Chappelle specials for MONTHS because there's no world where I just didn't give a crap about some old comedian whose been holed up for 20 years - it could only be because I hate free speech and personally killed comedy.
I can not FUCKING STAND this new conservative take that even not paying them attention is hurrdurr woke evil commie shit.
Right wing humor separates oxy from moron. That's their science.
They then put it back on contin, which helps with the pain. Initially
Conservatives: "Hey want to hear a joke?" Transphobia
Followed by hur hur hur.
Then why is no one booking me, I must be getting canceled!
There were, and are, funny conservative comedians. Norm McDonald is the first one who comes to mind, but there have been others.
Examples would be P. J. O'Rourke, Rodney Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, Jeff Foxworthy, Louie Anderson, and my personal favorite, Mike Nelson of Rifftrax and MST3K.
The thing is, none of those comedians were especially political with their humor, or if they were, they hit everyone's politics, and none of them punched down. They aren't really conservative comedians, they're comedians who happen to be conservative.
It's not that conservative comedians aren't funny, it's that what a conservative audience now considers comedy is just someone being mean.
Norm McDonald is the first one who comes to mind
Was he conservative? I know conservatives latched on to him. But they also latched on to Steven Colbert in his early years, because they couldn't detect sarcasm.
The thing is, none of those comedians were especially political with their humor,
PJ and Jeff Foxworthy were heavily political. Tim Allen, too. What generally worked for them as comedians was the absurdity (or, perceived absurdity) of a shifting culture.
The observational "I'm just a normal guy and look at all these freaks!" act isn't conservative on it's face. It just doesn't age well, as views change.
Norm was definitely conservative.
Although he is not a U.S. citizen, he has publicly stated his support for Republican politicians George W. Bush and John McCain and has said that he considers Ronald Reagan to be the best President in U.S. history.
Remember when douche bags were as shitty as humanly possible to everyone until they were called out just for them to say i WaS jUsT jOkInG?!
Now they preemptively call anything a joke.
Life eh…finds a way.
The ol shit joke
The problem is that humor is often baded upon the subversive of expectations, so if a right wing person want to be funny they have to make a joke that the world is somehow different than the idiotic view they have of it. Often this ends up just describing reality cruelly. For example, a man dressing up as a woman is instantly funny, because as everyone knows there are only two genders and they have roles.
After all, where would a woman put the coconuts?
In a safe place, so she could use them to extort favors out from the other survivors.
The other 10% is "atheists pray to the nothing, amiright?" Not so much offensive as completely misunderstanding on a deliberate level.
The misunderstanding is deliberate. That way they have something additional to attack.
"You are a horrible person based not on the merits of what you do, but because you exist at all!" taps microphone "Wait, why didn't you laugh? That was the joke!"
Tangential but Jim Jefferies had a good trans bit in his standup. I think it's called High & Dry.
He's hilarious and also not right wing
I know, that's why I said tangential.
transgential.
transgenital
Come on, it was right there. Dangling.
"Ha ha, people who don't fit my extremely narrow worldview of being acceptable suck so much and people like me are so awesome!"
conservatives: edgy humor
liberals: conservatives are nazis
conservatives: WHAT NO YOU CAN'T SAY THAT
Your boos mean nothing! I've seen what makes you cheer.
Conservative "humor" is always dumb, blunt and obvious.
Nope. They're all just so unfathomably, insanely stupid that it actually infuriates me
I don't know what the appeal is of being a conservative. It's like being a degen on Letterkenny.
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I know anti right-wing humor exists (E.g making fun of right-wing hypocrisy), but does left wing humor exist?
What are some good left wing jokes?
George Carlin has entered the chat.
Lol, maybe “We don’t change light bulbs. We make you switch back to kerosene lamps.”
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The Onion is chock-a-block full of them.
q: How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb?
a: pointing at a burned-out bulb: "We already changed it, can't you see it's working perfectly? Nothing's good enough for you people. What do you want us to change it to now, a gas-light?"
“DAE hate gays!?!” Puppet farts, crowd goes wild
some flavour of rotten asshole
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