[PJ-Comix]

It's like O'Brien showing Winston Smith photos of Stephen Colbert and Samantha Bee and asking, "Liberal or conservative?"

And when Smith answers "Liberal," the electric pain needle keeps rising until he finally answers "conservative."

[aynrandfreak]

Seems to be a warning shot to any liberal comedians doubting the cause.

[wastoute]

Weiss...deliberately disingenuous... nah. That fruit is just hanging too low.

[allendale]

Imagine if somehow Colbert or Samantha Bee got hold of the reckoning list. Wonder how they would react seeing their names near the top.

[mjp]

 "Social science research has shown that liberals and conservatives are (on average) wired differently, with social and cultural conservatives personally more attuned to danger, worried about intruders, primed to protect an establishment under threat." 

So now liberal comedy is humorless....like conservatives?

There is no moral equivalency between leftard humor and conservatives. The emotional foundation of leftard humor is hatred and anger. The emotional foundation of conservatism is fear.

[HangnJudge]

His definition of Conservative is miscalibrated

The durability of Conservatism has depended, to a great extent,
on it being a disposition rather than a philosophy.
What marks Conservatives out, across the generations,
and whatever the environment they operate in,
is an attitude of mind rather than an adherence to dogma.
And that disposition
- skeptical, cautious, pragmatic, sensitive to the local and the particular
- has been politically successful because it has been in tune with human nature.

Michael Gove

[HChampagne]

.” Liberals under Trump, by contrast, are alarmed at a threat, which is conservative. “Social science research has shown that liberals and conservatives are (on average) wired differently, with social and cultural conservatives personally more attuned to danger, worried about intruders, primed to protect an establishment under threat.”
.
Absolute, perfect, categorical Bullcr@p.

[Mr. Jeeves]

They are indeed trying to “conserve” liberal orthodoxy against a dire threat - and perhaps due to their obsession with state power and the eventual ascension of a Marxist philosopher-king they are the real conservatives. We are the radicals trying to expand the American Revolution and the ideals of the Founding Fathers - which due to their requirements for individual responsibility are widely hated, in these times.

Leftist comedians are trying to conserve the examples of all-consuming state power shown us by 20th Century dictatorships, at any rate.

[babble-on]

It meant conservative comedically, not politically.

[virgil]

Perhaps comedians are threatened by the liberal PC agenda. PC politics has killed comedy, and their craft and trade is threatened.

[rockrr]

Two lions are busily eating a clown when one turned to the other and said, “Does this taste funny to you?”

[VanDeKoik]

Some have. Likely not whom the writer cites.

Most have because of the censorship and mob hits on them for telling a joke.

[Reily]

Social science research - Oxymoron!

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . it will be because comedians were less like Jon Stewart—the original version—and more like Sean Hannity and Trump."

Actually, Hannity and Trump both have a sense of humor, as do Tucker Carlson, Gutfeld, Jesse Watters, Ingraham, Judge Jeanine, Mark Steyn, and Kate Timpf. There's a lot more laughter on Fox News than on all of the other news networks combined. The ones with the least sense of humor are the ones furthest left - Chris Wallace and Shepard Smith.