Watching these conservative comics is akin to watching Fox News fumble their way through a horrible Daily Show with Jon Stewart rip off. An even better football simile would be that watching the above set, as Dennis Quaid in Days of Thunder put it, is like watching ‘a monkey fucking a football.’ I’ve always wanted to use that.
Why can’t they do this without putting the agenda first?
Check out The Daily Show making fun of Biden’s recent gaffe. But Biden’s a Democrat! So what, making fun of his gaffe is funny.
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You just don’t appreciate the scope and daring of conservative humor. You need to step back and be overwhelmed by the magnitude and dedication to their comedy vision. Conservatives have turned their presidential candidate into a massive joke, their VP candidate into a bigger joke, the entire campaign into a gut-busting laughfest, their supporters and ideologues into a laugh track and, indeed, tied it all in to their entire ideology and vision to deliiver the biggest punchline ever.
Wow, Midder, I never thought of it that way. It all makes sense now. conservatives are at their funniest when they aren’t really trying.
The reason conservative comics aren’t funny is VERY simple: Republicans have no sense of humor. They don’t know the meaning of irony. They can’t laugh, unless in derision. And, finally, all humor must have at least a modicum of intelligence behind it; conservatives don’t even believe in evolution.
Its Randy Quaid.
“They don’t know the meaning of irony.”
You need to understand nuance in order to understand irony, or indeed most humor. People who don’t have that ability tend to be conservative, and this is not an insult, this has been borne out in scientific studies.
Additionally, liberals tend to laugh at the status quo, which is easy to do. No matter how great things are going now, there’s always room for improvement and you can laugh at those areas.
Conservatives attack the unknown, and their ‘jokes’ tend to come across as ‘Strawman attacks.’
So, the entire Republican Party is really a giant performance art / humor project?
Does McCain pull off a rubber mask at 10 pm, Nov 4th to reveal it’s really Hillary Clinton in disguise?
It’s Dadaism! Dadaist Presidental campaigning!
Grant Morrison did it first.
Republicans can be funny — I thought “Thank You for Smoking,” based on Christopher Buckley’s book and with the William H. Macy character clearly set up to mock Sen. Leahy, was hilarious. But this is because of what Dale Headley says,
all humor must have at least a modicum of intelligence behind it
I disagree with Buckley, but he’s intelligent and respects intelligence, which is why he refuses to vote to make Palin the VP. We have been seeing this over and over with conservatives who don’t think “intellectual” is an insult.
We’re seeing it again with Charles Fried, who is so big a Republican that he was listed on the McCain website as serving on several McCain campaign committees and as an adviser to McCain, but ultimately decided that he could not in good conscience vote for McCain/Palin and asked that his name be removed after he cast an absentee ballot for Obama/Biden.
Of course, the folks at the Corner are crying, “But even if you think Palin is bad, how could vote for Obama?”
The level of hysteria that McCain/Palin and the NRO types have worked themselves up into regarding an Obama administration has gotten so severe, I’m wondering if McCain will reprise the action of the last man to lose to Obama:
“I said during the race that we are engaged in a battle between good and evil. And I think it’s time we understood the significance of that phrase, if we take it seriously. … If you know someone who is in the service of causes that are killing innocent babies, in the service of causes that are destroying the basis for family life, and that individual gets a powerful job that will give him greater influence in pursuing that wickedness–if someone then suggested to you that you call and congratulate them on that lucrative and powerful position, would you do it? … And I find it impossible, in fact, to be intimidated by traditional practice into extending congratulations that, to tell you the honest truth–not anything personal, but just from the simple point of view of the notion. I’m supposed to make a call that represents the congratulations toward the triumph of that which I believe ultimately stands for and will for a culture evil enough to destroy the very soul and heart of my country? I can’t do this. And I will not make a false gesture.”
That was Alan Keyes, explaining why he did not make the traditional call of congratulations to Obama after Keyes got beaten like a rented mule in their 2004 Illinois Senate race. It reminds me of McCain’s insults to and refusal to shake hands with FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith, because Smith thought McCain-Feingold violated the 1st Amendment. This is a conception of one’s opponents as not merely mistaken and wrong-headed (which is how I feel about conservatives on most issues, except the few like gay rights where they seem to be animated by hatred rather that misunderstanding), but of being wicked, evil, immoral individuals who should not be granted even basic courtesy.
“A bunch of stupid people who feel good about themselves” That comic’s take on the product of ‘liberal’ education.
For a rep to say that is purely ironic. Nexus 7 irony.
That was Alan Keyes, explaining why he did not make the traditional call of congratulations to Obama after Keyes got beaten like a rented mule in their 2004 Illinois Senate race.
More proof – if any was needed – that Alan Keyse is a huge asshole.