Posted on 08/11/2017 5:38:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
The world of television and how Hollywood delivers it keeps changing. Streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon have become prestigious brands whose original programming draws a pile of Emmy nominations. In 2017, Netflix has received 91 Emmy nominations, second only to HBO's 111. Hulu has 18 nominations, and Amazon has 16, just a few less than Fox's 21.
But as much as technology changes, some things remain the same. The entertainment factories keep ripping on Republican politicians in the crudest terms. Hulu has created a sitcom called "Difficult People." The characters are two unlikeable, self-absorbed stand-up comedians. In the new season, they're taking out the political pitchforks.
One of the comedians, a gay man named Billy, mocks Vice President Mike Pence as a "failed prototype for one of those Japanese sex robots." The ridiculous plot involves Billy pretending to participate in a new Pence program called Sixpence None the Gayer, where the federal government pays gay people $6,000 to become straight through electric shock therapy.
When Billy joins this purported Pence program to get the cash, a package arrives in the mail complete with beer, a "Make America Straight Again" hat and an electric shock therapy kit. Liberals have tried to insist Pence favored government funding of conversion therapy, pointing to a pledge on his 2000 campaign website that favors "assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior." Lost on them is the irony -- or hypocrisy, really -- that they favor transgender people in the military or prison doing that very thing.
Billy also notices a new vice presidential seal on an envelope: a red, white and blue swastika. You see, stupid voters put Nazis in the White House.
"Difficult People" viciously mocks the Reagans, too. When an elderly man has trouble with a computer at work, a younger man complains, "I don't need to watch you fumble around like Ronald Reagan." Later, a sobriety sponsor for one of the comedians proclaims, "Nancy Reagan was an AIDS-ignoring monster."
The Reagans ignoring AIDS is one of the sturdiest lies of the Hollywood left.
But that show looks like "Masterpiece Theater" next to Netflix's comedy "Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later." The show is based on an old movie about kids attending summer camp at Camp Firewood in 1981. It is set in 1991, and its plotters inserted former President Reagan boasting that he stole a nuclear weapon after he left office so he could blow up the summer camp. This is just too asinine to be funny.
And it gets more stupid by the minute. Reagan and then-President George H.W. Bush come to camp, and someone proposes -- complete with a diorama -- that instead of blowing up the camp they rebuild it as a Reagan tribute. Crazy Reagan throws the diorama on the floor and urinates on it. But that's not enough. Then he defecates on it. That's still not enough. He then makes President Bush defecate on it, because Bush did whatever Reagan ordered him to do. See?
On some TV shows the Reagan bashing is much more realistic. A recent episode of the FX series "Snowfall" -- the feverish one trying to connect the explosion of crack cocaine in Los Angeles to Reagan backing the Nicaraguan resistance -- had a scene in which a former Black Panther is throwing darts at a painted image of Reagan's head. Imagine anyone in TV Land uncorking plots and visuals this mean-spirited on the Kennedys, the Clintons or the Obamas.
We know the left remains emotionally overwrought by the reality that Donald Trump was elected president, but its never-ending demonization of the Reagans shows that its anger never softens. Its bitterness never relents.
A good sentiment, but I doubt that it would have much effect. Their bottom line might be a little less, but they will still have plenty of customers. There is some saying along the lines of : No one ever went broke by pandering to the lowest common denominator.
“Make America Straight Again” hat
Sounds like a great product. Someone should be selling these!
It will do more damage just from the knowledge of it getting out. The secret to politics is meme penetration of the masses.
Excellent point!
These late night so called comedians are the jokes. Samantha b is the worst, every commercial for her show is a Trump bash. And you know the punchline before she says it.]
I don’t watch any of this garbage. History Channel, Military History and TCM are pretty much all I ever watch, and very little at that.
I think Hollywood is angry over the election results for a few reasons. They are angry that the “little people” didn’t listen to them and vote for Hillary. That was a huge blow to their huge egos. They also aren’t affected by the economy, Obamacare, jobs, etc, and really only care about social issues and pet causes (climate change).
Some of their shows have become unwatchable. I had to quit watching Orange is the New Black when they portrayed military veterans as evil.
An Emmy is nothing more than a peer recognition award (ie a popularity contest).
“I didn’t know that Amazon, HBO & etc. manufactured tv sets.”
Interesting observation.
The actual TV manufacturers, those that make the “hard”ware I imagine tend to lean conservative, whereas the “soft”ware makers, the shows, are libs.
That’s a key difference between conservatives and liberals in life in general. Conservatives are the makers of the hard, material stuff, liberals the soft, ephemeral stuff.
TDS is real. Millions of leftists suffer from it and will never recover. They will die with massive amounts of hate in their hearts for people who disagree with them in an ideological way. Their world view and mental illness manifests itself in this Trump Derangement Syndrome until they become what they claim to hate; fascists.
I do remember those days too, and I miss them.
I have tried joining Netflix about 10 years ago, but could never find any movies that I wanted. Oh slight correction. I did find movies that wanted, they just didn't have them
I didn’t know that either, but it must be something new. I have Firestick and watch occasionally a movie from Amazon. I don’t watch HBO.
My husband and I used to go to bed practically every night Monday - Friday with Johnny Carson on TV.
Bob Hope and Red Skelton, were my favorite comedians
Especially those boring and stupid award shows
Actually, I was making a sarcastic comment toward the unknown person who wrote the headline for the article, because it said something different than he meant.
Bob Hope and Red Skelton were hilarious
Skelton and Danny Kaye were genius defined...
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