“An American Carol”: Why Can’t Conservatives Be Funny?

5:40 pm EST August 15th, 2008 | News | 8 Comments

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Seriously. They fail time and time again. It was the 1/2 Hour News Hour, or Newsbusted, etc. As I’ve said a million times, we liberals are a target rich comedy environment of the highest order! Cons have been handed a prime situation for comedy gold and the best they can seem to muster is a deflated whoopee cushion.

The Daily Show’s Rob Riggle goes to Berkeley, hangs out with Code Pink, and shows David Zucker and Co. how to make fun out of those freaking liberals. Learn.

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8 Responses to ““An American Carol”: Why Can’t Conservatives Be Funny?”

  1. Graniteman says:
    August 15, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    I’m looking forward to seeing the Zucker film. Movies crafted by liberals are so serious about being PC that they are usually devoid of humor. (Look at Bill Maher, for example.) My only criticism is that poking fun at Michael Moore is too easy.

  2. White Whale says:
    August 15, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    Besides Nick DiPaolo, every conservative I have seen just doesn’t understand comedy. I believe its because they can’t understand irony.

  3. daniel rotter says:
    August 15, 2008 at 10:55 pm

    Interesting that Bill O’Lielly, who proclaims that he has no partisan or even ideological bias would make an appearance (and yes, I know it’s just a cameo, but it’s still an “appearance”) in a liberal-bashing movie.

  4. Oliver Willis says:
    August 16, 2008 at 9:55 am

    Movies crafted by liberals are so serious about being PC that they are usually devoid of humor.
    Yes, that’s why just about every major comedian is a liberal. See, the key to this is simple: FUNNY FIRST, politics later. Much later. Cons are so keyed up to be Mini-Rush Limbaughs they leave out the FUNNY.

  5. SpiderJ says:
    August 16, 2008 at 10:59 am

    How telling that one of the first major conservative American comedies can’t come up with an idea more original than to parody A Christmas Carol, written by a man who would surely be appalled by today’s conservative Republican philosophy.

    Also, Graniteman, let me guess: Michael Moore is fat? Conservative humor rarely rises above the level of wit expected from third-grade bullies; as far as I have read about this film I expect no different.

  6. Rex Mundane says:
    August 16, 2008 at 11:00 am

    meh… well looking on IMDB there doesn’t seem to be anyone playing Ted Kennedy, so we can at least assume there probably wont be a Chappaquidick “joke,” I guess… Also The Onion Movie was okay I suppose, plus not everyone involved is a republican, I know at least Dennis Hopper voted for Kerry… You know, I’m almost willing to be cautiously optimistic that this might only be slightly retarded. At least the parts that dont involve Trace Adkins.

  7. Parthenon says:
    August 16, 2008 at 11:34 am

    I’m not sure how much these people have to parody when many of their usual positions (liberals are America-hating, tax-and-spend Neville Chamberlains) are already essentially parodies.

    How telling that one of the first major conservative American comedies can’t come up with an idea more original than to parody A Christmas Carol, written by a man who would surely be appalled by today’s conservative Republican philosophy.

    I can just hear the shrill cries of ‘class warfare!’ if he were writing today.

  8. SpiderJ says:
    August 16, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    Sure…any story of a me-first, why-don’t-the-poor-just-die-already businessman who suddenly decides to help the infirm and downtrodden can only be a diseased liberal fantasy.