Posted on 08/10/2015 8:50:55 AM PDT by OddLane
hree comics sat around a café table in the chilly atrium of the Minneapolis Convention Center, talking about how to create the cleanest possible set. “Don’t do what’s in your gut,” Zoltan Kaszas said. “Better safe than sorry,” Chinedu Unaka offered. Feraz Ozel mused about the first time he’d ever done stand-up: three minutes on giving his girlfriend herpes and banging his grandma. That was out.
This was not a case of professionals approaching a technical problem as an intellectual exercise. Money was riding on the answer. They had come to Minneapolis in the middle of a brutal winter for the annual convention of the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA), to sell themselves and their comedy on the college circuit.
Representatives of more than 350 colleges had come as well, to book comics, musicians, sword swallowers, unicyclists, magicians, hypnotists, slam poets, and every kind of boat act, inspirational speaker, and one-trick pony you could imagine for the next academic year.
For the comics, the college circuit offers a lucrative alternative to Chuckle Hut gigs out on the pitiless road, spots that pay a couple hundred bucks and a free night in whatever squat the club owner uses to warehouse out-of-town talent.
College gigs pay easily a grand a night—often much more—and they can come in a firecracker string, with relatively short drives between schools, each hour-long performance paid for (without a moment’s ugliness or hesitation) by a friendly student-activities kid holding out a check and hoping for a selfie. For all these reasons, thousands of comics dream of being invited to the convention.
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...But almost all of them have internalized the code that you don’t laugh at politically incorrect statements; you complain about them. In part, this is because they are the inheritors of three decades of identity politics, which have come to be a central driver of attitudes on college campuses. But there’s more to it than that. These kids aren’t dummies; they look around their colleges and see that there are huge incentives to join the ideological bandwagon and harsh penalties for questioning the platform’s core ideas.
“...the infantilization of the American undergraduate,”
This also known as being well Socialized!
Leftists are known for not having a sense of humor. All happiness and joy must be stamped out of one’s being in order to be completely focused on the struggle.
SNL’S LORNE MICHAELS: LIBERALS LACK A SENSE OF HUMOR
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/02/snls-lorne-michaels-liberals-lack-a-sense-of-humor.php
Who Killed Comedy: Liberals, and not by accident
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3258648/posts
What kind of humor? Seinfeld’s? Dangerfield’s? or Jon Stewart’s?
Feminazis and towelheads have no sense of humor.
These snot nosed PC clowns remind me of the hippies of the 60s who were always looking for reasons to protest. All along, it’s nothing but a cry for attention. Brats who have spent no time in the real world, instead, living off the sweat of their parents.
They can’t even spell it.
In those days, despite the much publicized in-your-face radicalism of the college campuses, many of us, probably the majority of us, most certainly were not. As proof of this, I would point to George McGovern who would have not have lost to Richard Nixon so handsomely. After all, we baby boomers were a very large demographic!
It is sad that Garrison K. is not now what he once was; in those days he deserved his success.
You know who has the power when you cannot criticize them.
You know who has the power when it is a fatal offense to laugh at them.
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