Posted on 08/15/2018 9:42:01 PM PDT by Kaslin
It’s important to laugh at liberals, which is why liberals want to stamp out laughter. Laughter is subversive. Back when comedy was funny, before it got woke, the left used to use it to undermine traditional culture. Now that they have the wheel of the cultural car, they are afraid that people pointing and giggling at their hypocrisy, venality, and stupidity will make them lose control and crash.
Hence, comedy must die.
Sadly, it’s the comedians themselves who are carrying the wood to pile up around the stake. Now that liberals are firmly in control of the culture, comedy is no longer useful. And comedians, mostly being leftists and cowards, are only too eager to submit. But they still want the street cred that comes with being a truth-telling rebel. No comic sees himself as Dane Cook pandering to the bros; they all want to be Richard Pryor sticking it to the Man. It’s kind of hard to do that when you’re a mindless lacky reaffirming the Non-Binary Being’s received wisdom.
Let’s find some innocent guy from east of I-5, tape him for an hour, then edit up a 60 second bit to run on The Daily Show to reaffirm to the hipsters and Trump/Treason/Emoluments nimrods in the audience how much better they are than the rubes who actually make this country possible. But you can’t be funny unless you take on a potent target, yet liberal comedy only attacks those without power within the liberal culture – Normals and the president who supports you. Comedy that’s punching down is just bullying. What we see now with the routine mockery of Normals is less Evening at the Improv than The Lottery. Don Rickles made his harshest fun of people who could dribble him around the stage like a basketball. His target wasn’t the guy in from Topeka to see a show – Mr. Warmth went up against Frank Sinatra. Frank could have had him buried in a ditch outside the Vegas city limits, and everyone knew it. That’s why Rickles was brave.
The late-night comics are mere cheerleaders – they don’t get laughs, they get applause for adeptly repeating the shared wisdom of the elite. Watch them. The hosts drag Trump with the same drag lines we’ve all heard a million times and there’s no laughter, just the trained seals flapping their fins together.
Oh, and Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit loses an election and SNL sends out one of its stars dressed as the Hapless Harpy Herself to sing n’ cry and tell the baffled audience “I’m not giving up and neither should you.” Okay, that was hilarious, but not on purpose.
Everything has to reinforce the paradigm. There’s this woman – who would probably cry because I assumed xir gender – named Hannah Gadsby who looks like a Vox writer and who has a special on Netflix called “Nanette” that apparently features jokes (some of them funny) but also her confrontation of the audience because they showed up expecting to laugh. According to, of course, The New Yorker, the purpose of this exercise is to “challenge audiences to think about the comedian not just as a performer but as a person capable of pain.” Sounds fun, in the sense that leprosy is fun.
Don’t expect the comics to fight back. Instead, they’re like Lenny Bruce getting on stage and doing dead serious bits about how important it is not to offend the squares. But today, the SJWs and their allies are the squares. They are the Niedermeyers, the Judge Smailses, the uptight fussbudgets trying to make us turn down that damn rock n’ roll music and behave. Where’s our Bluto, our Al Cervik? Well, in the White House.
This is part of the vacuum in our culture that Donald Trump discovered and filled. Remember all those harsh takedowns of Barack Obama during his reign? Yeah, me neither. There weren’t any. He was a lib. But he was also ridiculous – petty, smug, pompous, and utterly incompetent, presiding over a coterie of scammers, hacks, and nitwits. Anyone who hired Ben Rhodes is a joke magnet, and we Normals saw it. But the liberal cultural gatekeepers closed ranks to protect the Lightbringer. Take that, random rodeo clown who dared not bow.
Donald Trump saw the need and filled it. He is funny – really funny. Watch his rally speeches (as opposed to his “serious” ones). Really watch them, live and uncut. I often think how much I’d hate to face a lawyer who can connect with an audience like that. And he has them laughing hysterically, because he says what all the allegedly brave rebels of comedy refuse to. The comics won’t laugh at liberals, but Trump will. And that’s why, except for on Fox, you never see his speeches live and uncut. The liberal establishment doesn’t want you to see them because, like all good comedy, his speeches show the left to be the fools they are.
As my upcoming book Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy explains with the kind of humor that might soon lead to my arrest, people are hungry for this kind of rebellion. We know what the establishment is telling us is nonsense. We want voices out there articulating our disgust and refusal to submit through humor. Donald Trump does that. Some of us online try to. But in the traditional world of comedy? A few lonely voices in stand-up comedy tell jokes about whatever they want – Dennis Miller and Nick DiPaolo come to mind – but not many. You get a few big names daring to complain a little about the everchanging boundaries of comedy (keeping the rules uncertain is a basic play by oppressors to ensure obedience), but that’s it. The French army that is our comedy corps has surrendered without a shot.
But have faith in the market. The hunger for truth is out there among real Americans. More outsider voices will rise to fill the void. The SJWs want to be the gatekeepers of acceptable thought, but eventually the walls will come tumbling down. Some big name, perhaps a Kanye of the comedy world, will inevitably say, “No. I’m going to tell any damn joke I feel like.” Then what will the SJWs do? Because their whining will be drowned out by our laughter.
I miss the old sitcoms and comedians like Bob Hope, Red Skelton, etc
I miss the old sitcoms and comedians like Bob Hope, Red Skelton, etc
I’ve been saying this for years. The last late night funny guys were Carson and Leno. Since then, nothing but hateful unwatchable garbage. Stands ups were unfunny even before that. TV shows, gag.
Me too.
Yep. Look at SNL. Look at all the Late Night Comedy shows. They’re all hardcore Leftists. Jokes are NEVER allowed to be made at the expense of Lefties or the Northeast and Left Coast - no matter how hypocritical they are and no matter how absurd their internal contradictions.
The fact that NOBODY is to even be allowed to touch these subjects shows how in the tank all the media/entertainment companies are. Any one that broke the taboo against making fun of the Left who was even moderately funny would instantly gain huge market share. The networks must know this. They are willingly sacrificing market share in the name of ideology. That right there should show everyone how much the NY/LA media is out of touch with vast swathes of America.
Do all of the writers at townhall constantly shill their books?
PS here are a few Leftist internal contradictions that could be mercilessly ridiculed:
Feminism and LGBT vs Islam - both are part of the Leftist coalition yet it is almost impossible to imagine groups that could be more ideologically opposed to one another.
Celebrities who claim to be so green yet ride in limos and private jets and live in mansions.
Celebrities and billionaires against guns......who have armed bodyguards
Leftists claim to be against income and wealth disparity....yet one of the bluest of states, California, has THE biggest gap in the country despite effectively having been a one party state for decades.
Poop and used needles all over the streets in THE most expensive city in America - the Leftist utopia of San Francisco
Massive gun violence in major cities like Chicago, Baltimore etc that are run by Democrats and which have very strict gun control.
Squaw Grey Beaver lying to claim minority status.
Maxine Waters....nothing more needs to be said
The Racist NY Times hiring and sticking with a known racist.
The obvious censorship of big Tech.
The MSM’s constant whining when they get criticized.
White Antifa thugs screaming racial epithets at Black Cops.......in the name of tolerance - natch!
All of the above and more is begging to be skewered - yet NEVER is by the Leftist Media and entertainment companies.
Perhaps. He’s no P.J. O’Rourke, that’s for sure. Or James Thurber...
Comedy has become angry liberals screaming about politics.
That’s not comedy, and it isn’t funny.
We’ve stopped going to comedy clubs or going to comedy shows anywhere else because it has become nothing but insults shouted at Americans.
I find it hilarious that Entertainers affected by these Gestapo tactics react as if they are passengers....These IDIOT entertainers were the ones PUSHING this Fascism as long as it was ONLY affecting Conservatives.
“The last late night funny guys were Carson and Leno.”
Agree with you about Leno. He was very funny and took shot equally at the Left and the Right. Some of his best lines were when he talked about cats.
There is only 1 effective way to respond to a leftist: with mockery.
Mock them mercilessly. Every chance you get. Mock a leftie today!
I understand.
BTW, thanks to you, I changed the word Liberals to Leftists in my tagline. Thanks.
Fixed it.
Kurt... do not repeat MarxistSpeak.
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He was hilarious. I remember a routine of his like it was yesterday, from the time when comedians didn't have to be so PC:
So when I was single, I used to go a lot to this great little Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn. The owner was always so glad to see me, a regular customer.One day, after I was gone for a few weeks, I brought my new wife with me. The owner was so happy to see her. "Mistah Sahr! Mistah Sahr! You bring pretty lady! Herro, pretty lady!
Every time we went there, he was ecstatic. "Mistah Sahr! Pretty lady! What pretty lady want to eat? I make someting speciah fo pretty lady!"
So, recently, I went there alone. The owner comes over and says, "Mistah Sahr, why you come arone? Where pretty lady? Why you not bring pretty lady?"
"She left me. I got a divorce."
"Ohhh. You betta off."
No-one could touch Carson. Leno and Letterman (before Dave became a 24/7 hater) both stepped on their jokes by explaining them after the punchline. Carson never did that. He said the joke with impeccable timing and either the audience got it or they didn't. In the rare instances when they didn't, he would make a joke about the previous joke having bombed, but he would never pander for a laugh.
I agree with poster above who say he is too wordy for truly deft comedy, and I can rarely be bothered to read his tap dancing all the way through.
Which is no doubt the reason ABC cancelled it.
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