Can Conservatives Be Funny?

New York Magazine ^ | Published May 20, 2014 | Frank Rich

[griswold3]

Who cares what Frank Rich thinks?

[clintonh8r]

Can liberals be heterosexual?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Rich studiously avoids mentioning P.J. O’Rourke.

[Steve_Seattle]

This article is so full of crap that it would be hard to know where to start to provide a counter argument. I’ll just say this: most humor is not political, and even if the people performing it are politically liberal, that does not make it liberal humor. Many conservatives liked shows like “Frasier” and “Seinfeld” and “Home Improvement” even if they were mostly written and acted by liberals. The notion that conservative humor would somehow have to involve bullying of the little guy is as wrong as it is offensive.

[vpintheak]

Are you kidding me!? Conservatives are the only ones who are actually funny! The lib’s depend of filth, sex, and shock value. NOT funny at all.
A truly funny person can make jokes out of any circumstance and crack you up without all the vomit the leftists attach to it.

[chrisser]

Started to read.

Suspected the author was a moron but gave him a chance.

Had it confirmed with the lines:

"What bugs Gutfeld now, as it does Dunham’s grumpy old Walter and many present-day American conservatives, is that this country insists on perpetually re-­creating itself, progressively whittling down old white men’s monopoly on power.

In this sense, a lot of conservative comedy both expresses and panders to today’s Republican base, older white men who see America changing and feel impotent about thwarting it"

And that's where I stopped wasting my time reading...

Life's to short to waste on drivel.

[polymuser]

"The Chris Christie scandal showed the right’s timidity in confronting its own sacred cows."

Proof that the writer knows conservatives not at all. The left is absolutely blind to true conservative nature.

As for humor, conservatives like intelligent, adult, witty humor, and appreciate subtle nuance, sarcasm and parody. We don't like potty-mouthed, genitalized, sophomoric outburts so much.

[bravo whiskey]

funnier than libturds.

[RatRipper]

“Here in Texas we have the death penalty for murderers. . . and we yoooouzze it!!!” Ron White

Of course conservatives are funny, unless you are a libtard with no sense of humor.

[albie]

It’s hard to have a sense of humor when communists are pissing on your constitution, raising your taxes, taking your guns and persecuting you because you’re straight and Christian.

[C. Edmund Wright]

….some states are thinking about stopping the death penalty, here in Texas, we’re thinking of putting in a drive thru winduh…...

[Alex Murphy]

PFL

[C. Edmund Wright]

Some of my stuff is pretty funny….in a way that tortures liberals: like my column “Sam the Sham”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/05/michael_sam_the_sham.html

I mean it’s not comedy, but it is political humor.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Some of my stuff is pretty funny….in a way that tortures liberals: like my column “Sam the Sham”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/05/michael_sam_the_sham.html

I mean it’s not comedy, but it is political humor.

[GeronL]

conservatives are not allowed on TV

period

[GeronL]

bump

[Responsibility2nd]

I started to read it too. Too long for that.

Tried skimming the article. Even that would take too long.

I know the comments will let me know what there is to know.

Thanks. I now don’t need to bother with reading more of the article.

[RichInOC]

How would Frank know?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

...and Norm Macdonald.