https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017650413Yavin4 (32,282 posts)
This is why conservatives are not funny.
(With video from Greg Gutfeld's new show.)
Has anyone here seen Gutfeld? I thought that a little of Greg goes a loooong way, and I wasn't sure he could pull off a nightly show.I may have been wrong about that, because Tyrus is a great foil--funny, at times, and really insightful at other times. The parodies are pretty good, especially Tom, who does a good Biden, and Kat who does a good Psaki.
Besides, with Trump gone and their favored candidate in the WH, what are Colbert, Kimmel, etc. going to tell jokes about? WE may find Biden to be a bottomless treasure trove of humor, but they will never tell a joke that makes him look like the addled old fool he is. Gutfeld will have the corner on political humor.
Anyway, I brought this over because the DUpipo try to explain why conservatives can't do comedy. Stupid, and revealing.
Buckeye_Democrat (11,167 posts)
1. They indeed suck at comedy.
I think they COULD pull it off, but it would need to be something like "Curb Your Enthusiasm", with a main character often getting berated by people from the far-left or whatever.
They'd have to play to their sense of perpetual victimhood about it, but portray the main character as a mostly hapless and misunderstood punching bag. Like Larry David screaming, "Nooo... that's not what I meant! Come back! Nooo!"
That approach might bother their authoritarian-types who'd be turned off by any displays of weakness, but I think their only hope in comedy is to make the main characters at least somewhat sympathetic.
Their sense of humor more often seems like something that would make a cruel Roman emperor laugh.
Edit: They should just stick with "America's Funniest Home Videos", laughing hysterically at the videos that show people getting hurt.
Yes, something is ONLY funny if a conservative-type is being ridiculed.
as far as AFHV, remember Tosh.O, or whatever it was? I bet his intended audience wasn't the far right.
Grokenstein (3,603 posts)
2. Some of them don't even know how to laugh like humans
Star Member GoneOffShore (15,457 posts)
8. It's because their human suits make them itch.
Is THAT supposed to be funny?
Midnight Writer (10,950 posts)
5. Cruelty is not funny.
To most people.
Well, Kamala apparently thinks kids in cages is hillarious.
PurgedVoter (1,209 posts)
7. Close to the target
Comedy requires being able to look multiple sides of things and seeing the issues. Being able to see how others feel about things is the root of compassion. So it is not a Conservative thing.
These people are nothing if not oblivious to their own faults.