Posted on 01/28/2023 12:10:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
The generally agreed-upon rule of thumb for comedians who delve into dark comedy is to always try to be more funny and more clever than offensive – the darker you go, the more creative you get to justify tackling the sensitive subject matter.
This past weekend, anti-vax comedy icon Jim Breuer bravely defied this simple standard by making the most sophomoric, obvious and distasteful dig on the cardiac arrest suffered by Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin during Monday Night Football on January 2nd. While performing on the “ReAwaken America Tour,” an event branded as a coming together of conservative Christians, Breuer co-opted the incident in which Hamlin’s heart stopped for several minutes in the middle of a game to make a terrible vaccine joke that the worst parts of Twitter had already been spouting since the moment Hamlin collapsed.
Notice the uproarious applause from the “devout Christians” when he mocks Hamlin’s near-death experience and blames the heart attack on vaccine side effects.
Anyone who was on Twitter in the moments following Hamlin’s collapse during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals saw scores of anti-vaxxers immediately pointing their fingers at the NFL’s long-retired COVID protocols and its promotion of the vaccine among players and coaches. As is the case whenever a tragedy occurs, the dumbest and most selfish among us took the moment as an opportunity to promote their objectively ignorant views – with Breuer getting the memo three weeks late.
Breuer’s career has made a series of steep left turns since his early collaborations with Dave Chappelle and other comedians of note – back in 2021, he went viral for another performance on the ReAwaken America Tour with a different display of vaccine fear mongering thinly disguised as comedy. Breuer sweatily stomped across the stage in an attempted impression of a cockatoo while repeating phrases like “trust the science” and “numbers are up,” because repeating the words of people who disagree with you in a mocking tone is literally the bare minimum required to call yourself a comedian in ultra-conservative circles.
The former Saturday Night Live cast member has clearly found his calling amongst the conspiracy crowd long after the mainstream comedy world realized that his “loud voice/silly face” brand of physical humor could easily be replicated by any one of a couple hundred thousand amateur comics with a couple weeks of improv classes under their belt. Mocking Hamlin with a run-of-the-mill pratfall is par for the course in this stage of Breuer’s career, and stunts like these are likely the only moments he’ll find any recognition outside of the alt-right rallies where simply saying the word “snowflake” is enough to earn a standing ovation.
Breuer’s next step should be to launch his own conservative comedy tour for SNL alumni who had to start skewing alt-right once everyone realized they weren’t funny and their more talented friends stopped offering them roles – call it the “ReAwaken Rob Schneider Tour.”
What’s he got for Jeff dahmer?
I hope he wins the game tomorrow.
Who?
So, vaccines are now a sensitive taboo subject matter? Leftists are not only Godless, they are humorless. Must be horrible to go through life as one.
What was the joke?
There is a twitter video on the link.
Breuer’s bit where he talks about Brian Johnson of AC/DC singing The Hokey Pokey is comedy gold.
I don’t think there really was a joke....looks to me like the little known person that wrote this “piece” is just taking nasty shots at Jim Breuer and anyone else that dares question the legitimacy of the covid shot religion.
I’ll check it out, thanks.
These same “offended people” are the ones who wanted lockdowns, mandates, firings, and some even wanted forcing vaccines or imprisonment.
I don’t care one iota about their feelings.
Its because hes conservative, they can’t abide his comedy.
I guess it was an NFL player falling over. Didn't mention Damar. Just some snowflake at Cracked looking for something to be offended by.
I happened to have caught one of his gigs on a channel on my streaming service recently......his closing bit was about being a smart-ass 20 year old working at Sears in the 80s...he calls a new employee in another department and does his Muammar Gaddafi impression saying he’s gonna send missiles to blow up sears.......the new employee calls the law reporting a bomb threat and the whole mall gets evacuated......it was freakin’ hilarious!
Funny how almost all the late 80s/early 90s SNL folks are conservatives
It wasn’t out of bounds. As a comedian, he isn’t exactly Robin Williams or Rodney Dangerfield or even Henny Youngman about keeping the act moving, though.
The writer has to understand that the people in the audience who are laughing have been accused by leftist “comedians” of murder and every other crime against humanity, and joke about killing us. This is tame by comparison, and THEY did the escalating. Also, if YouTube, Facebook and the entire MSM is going to block commentary, we are forced to become more creative in getting the word out.
The left hates to be on the receiving end of mockery.
Apparently this supposed to be the online version of the old satirical magazine Cracked .....if they’re try to compete wth The Bee they’re gonna go down in flames.
Snotty little no talent cheapshot artist writers is a stupid ass business model.
Libs are a thin-skinned bunch to be sure
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