Off topic but does anyone know:
1. When exactly did comedy and comedians become so overtly political?
2. And why is it, that the jokes are always liberal, that you have to be liberal, to think this crap is funny?
3. How is it, that these alleged comedians, just assume that their audience is liberal? Don’t they want the broadest possible viewership?
I read some years ago that about half the country gets their “news” from these late night “comedy” shows. Just look at how crazy SNL Is these days.
Late night “comedians”, Trevor Noah - South African, Samantha Bee - Canadian, John Oliver - British, there are probably other snide little foreigners who want to change this country through “ comedy”.
After Johnny Carson the greatest late night show. He was very neutral. The first thing he taught Jay Leno was to be neutral on politics. Nobody wants to here pontificating for either side. Joke each side equally.
Apparently Jay didn't listen.
1. When exactly did comedy and comedians become so overtly political?
2. And why is it, that the jokes are always liberal, that you have to be liberal, to think this crap is funny?
3. How is it, that these alleged comedians, just assume that their audience is liberal? Don’t they want the broadest possible viewership?
I’ll take a stab at it:
1. In the old days no one would pay for this kind of crap. Now people who are adamantly opposed to their point of view actually pay them to do it. If you pay for Netflix, cable/satellite tv, Showtime, etc., you are paying for this.
2. Because the people in charge of Netflix, Showtime, cable/satellite tv, etc. want it.
3. Because they are. While those I described above inadvertently support them, their actual audiences are liberals.
I don’t think there would be a market for a conservative comedian whose total gig is making disgusting comments about liberals.
“Off topic but does anyone know:
1. When exactly did comedy and comedians become so overtly political?”
I read that it started during the Clinton administration. Clinton started regularly inviting Hollywood actors to the White House for social occasions. He’d pretend to listen intently to their ideas, and, of course, hit them up for money. He was hugely successful on getting money. After he left office and the Hollywood types were no longer getting invitations to the White House they became resentful, because, Clinton had made them feel important, so, therefore they were important. I read that Barbara Streisand has several top Democrats on speed dial and regularly calls them to “instruct” them. Nancy Pelosi was mentioned in an article as getting regular calls from Streisand. So, I blame Bill Clinton for the current state where every actor feels its important that we know where they stand.
“2. And why is it, that the jokes are always liberal, that you have to be liberal, to think this crap is funny?” You can actually find conservative humor, but I don’t think it gets the air play of liberal media because the venues are mostly owned by liberals. Jeff Foxworthy comes to mind.
“3. How is it, that these alleged comedians, just assume that their audience is liberal? Don’t they want the broadest possible viewership?” They truly see a world that is filtered to view only liberalism. The audiences pretty much know what they are getting into so conservatives stay away and liberals flock. The interesting thing is that liberal audiences frequently just applaud rather than laughing. That means they agree with what was said but that what was said was not funny. Sometimes they do misjudge their audiences. Gabriel Iglesias recently got boo’d off the stage when he went full anti-Trump. He wasn’t gracious about it, either. As to why they don’t want the widest possible audience? I’d say it’s because being liberal is more important than money. They are what they are in the same way an alligator is what it is. You’ll never find an alligator that self-identifies as a deer. (Although, now that I think about it, that will probably be a new addition to the alphabet people, Trans-deer, or TD.)