Where are the spliced clips of chappelle spreading missinformation about trans people in his special? You put a clip of another comedian after saying chappelles jokes spread misinformation and are harmful....
This brings to mind one of my favorite Pratchett quotes “Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying.”
Remember that the point is that to them LGBTQ+ people are the ones trying to rule their life and stripping away their freedom, doesn't mean it is true though
Kicking a person when on one knee is hardly the stuff of comedic lessons. This only is funny if said person was a total douchebag. At this point its more satisfying.
When my dad heard that Chappelle's special was offending the "woke snowflakes", he jumped at the chance to watch it. I think we were only 5 minutes in when he turned it off because he got angry at the Mike Pence jokes. Edit: My dad is doing a lot to grow as a person. I am super proud of him and how he has been becoming more conscious of the struggles each person and group are going through. This was just one of those times in the past that he fell to right-wing group-think, and it eventually helped him come to great realizations.
With that Gutfeld joke I was so confused that my brain tried to piece it together as the punchline being "I guess he's having sex with his massage therapist".
That was not a threesome joke? I'm not joking. I find it hard to believe it isn't one. Mainly because i'd have a hard time to get into someones head thats so squared up that they made that joke, not even think about the sexual connotation and still think its funny.
Okay but "gender reveal grenades" is a decent setup for a good joke article. Like "after witnessing the myriad horrors inflicted upon its citizens domestically, the US Army has decided to weaponize gender reveal parties abroad. A spokesperson for the Army has said 'in addition to the increased effectiveness of these grenades, we think this will also improve morale, since soon-to-be parents will get to experience the joy of discovering the gender of their unborn child right before they get gunned down in a desert a thousand miles away from home in a pointless war'".
@@stanhartley5311 I... I actually have no idea either. All I have is my longstanding distrust of social conservatives, and this brief, scintillating lapse in judgement on one of their part. I'm just really excited it made sense OUTside of my head, too.
And more than often it's both at the same time because they want to have their cake and eat it, too. They apologize publicly and then in some private platform wink at their audience and say "just kidding" because they still want their paycheck. And usually that just ends up pissing off both sides as we see whenever republicans turn on each other after one of them tries to even slightly denounce someone else's bigotry. If your whole thing is that you're this are this arrogant prick, slightest sign of weakness just ruins everything
A 78 minute video trying to convince you that liberals are more funny is the most hilarious thing. This is the only funny liberal joke I've seen in years lol
@@GeronimoPlaz it's not that Liberals are more funny. Conservatives aren't funny to begin with. And the video breaks down why their comedy falls apart. Another thing I notice about Conservatives is that they have 0 media literacy.
Dennis Miller actually did the 'accidental satire of himself' thing on the Daily Show once. He was talking about how 'the left' wants to get rid of coal and oil, and his response was - 'What will we use instead, solar power? That's all well and good now, but what happens when the sun blows up in 5 billion years? These people don't have any long-term solutions!' - Which is a great joke if you're making fun of how bad the takes of fossil-fuel defenders are, but he seemed to think he was mocking environmentalists by saying it...
I went to Dennis Miller’s taping of his show in like 1991. He was a real jerk when not taping and not in a “I’m so rude it’s funny” it was just annoying
Regarding trans humour, I'm a trans woman and my roommate told me the funniest joke I'd ever heard, I'm disappointed I didn't think of it myself. We're huge D&D nerds in the friend group, and after long contemplation after me coming out, he utters "You're just multiclassing." I was wheezing. It's startling accurate to my experience. I wasn't offended at all. If anything it validated my experience as a trans person in that moment. Like the cute feet joke! As always love the Showdy.
Same, it went right over my head, and not in a good way either. Overly complicated "jokes" are a sign of someone who isn't funny or intelligent enough to make them land.
I'm still not convinced it qualifies as a joke. It's backwards, obtuse, and the punchline is "I get a nightly massage from two masseuses?" That's not a joke, that's some sort of weird bragging at best. It tells you a lot about Gutfeld and his writers that they even considered that a joke, let alone one that made air.
I feel like this is why absurdist humor has EXPLODED, the satire era was semi retired because it got stale and we couldn't satirize reality when it was getting so insane so we collectively said "fuck it lets just get weird"
Humor needs tension, it needs to defy your expectations somehow. Conservatives are about reinforcing expectations, about *not* adjusting to new things. It’s incompatible with humor.
The Chappelle clip about JK Rowling shows just how meaningless the word "cancelled" has become. He claims that "they cancelled her" but there's a new Fantastic Beasts movie coming out and there's a Hogwarts video game too. Gee, I wish I could be cancelled like that. Since then, some people have also claimed that Dave Chappelle has been cancelled too, despite him having suffered no consequences whatsoever. The definition of "cancelled" truly is "criticised for expressing a right-wing position".
@@liammarshall393 , yes I do. Three things though: 1. Many people have had an issue with JK Rowling for years now. 2. People are still reading her books and watching movies and playing games based on them. 3. Not only has she not lost anything professionally, as far as I'm aware, she hasn't been removed from any social media or suffered any other consequences. This is a perfect example of how "cancelled" really just means "criticised". It's always the same people whining about lack of free speech that whine about being cancelled when others exercise free speech.
@@liammarshall393 And? People still love her books, just not her and her neo-liberal bullshit. She hangs out with anti-abortion organizations and claims to be a feminist. That's an oxy-moron.
"King of the Hill" to me is an example of good conservative humor. The reason it works is because even when it presents characters who are exaggerated liberal stereotypes, it's clearly just poking fun in a friendly way as opposed to this barely suppressed tone of "I would eliminate people like this from the planet if I could." Also the show made just as much fun of conservative Hank and his friends as it did any other characters. It wasn't purposefully trying to trigger or troll anyone, but just to make people of all types laugh at themselves.
@@verifiedhandle9103 It's also a satire of liberals, who are often the antagonists. Generally, the antagonists of KotH episodes were outsiders who threaten to change the world that Hank is so comfortable in. The thing that made it great conservative comedy was precisely that it wasn't political and they didn't punch down.
Also KotH's conservatism isn't usually the aggressive brand of conservatism. It's down-to-earth and understandable. The characters feel like people I could have a decent conversation with without worrying about getting insulted or hurt.
I think it can be more nuanced that. If the person being made fun is not in a position of power, but they *think* they are, and if they unquestionably bully others they can also be legitimate targets of irony. Evangelicals who stand on their soapboxes to rail against “welfare queens” are 100% worthy of being satirized. Or rather, their hypocrisy is worthy of satire. Hypocrisy is always worthy of satire, regardless of the group the hypocrite belongs to.
The problem with that frame is that leftists are constantly battling for a position of “powerlessness” to constantly play victim even when the left narrative has a great deal of influence in our current society. For example, most workplaces now have mandated indoctrination in leftist dogma such as pronoun policing and a majority of news mediums favour a left wing narrative. Right wing comedy which satirizes the left Isn’t going after specific vulnerable people, it’s a mockery of the rediculousness of leftist dogma propagated by powerful movements and organizations
@@stuflikethis Yes, the "left wing narrative" (aka: just don't be a dick) has a great deal of influence. But a trans person isn't a "left wing narrative". A black person isn't a "left wing narrative". They're _people_ and while the generalized "narrative" might have power, those _people_ still don't. The law hasn't caught up with the "narrative" and if anything the social contract surrounding marginalized groups has been regressing over the past few years thanks to Trumpism. A trans woman being beaten for simply being who she is doesn't really care how her story gets framed on tomorrow's news - she wants to not get beaten in the first place. "The narrative" is just words and no matter how many people repeat those words, until they translate into actual action its not actually "powerful" - its just popular.
Best way to deal with racist/conservative jokes is to politely smile and ask them to explain it. Continue to do so. Either they get angry because you just don't "get it" or they get uncomfortable because they have to explain their own racism. Both are equally funny to watch!
@@MixinnitupIt doesn't ruin Stewart Lee jokes! In fact, 80% of his routine is explaining his jokes to a subatomic level while slowly becoming more and more unhinged. It's absolute gold.
It's like a terrible 80's syndicated comedy show title. Saturdays at 5:30pm, comedy hijacks abound with curmudgeony ex golfer turned political writer, THAT'S GUTFELD!
Wasn’t that when a fox-worthy book was worth a laugh, but not because it was a cash grab shallow expose ghost written for a politician/bureaucrat who aided and/or abetted a crime president before their career washed away in the fallout.
Christopher Titus was talking about how he had to stop working with some and correct entertainment folks to “Not call me a fox-worthy comedian. Because there’s no comedy on Fox today. You can’t be actually funny and be considered funny to Fox because you’re not punching up. If you make a joke and the only people laughing are rich? You’re not funny, you’re a fucking court jester.”
Once again we see why "cancel culture" culture is so exhausting. I wish Rowling hadn't said what she said, but people still buy her books, she's still worth nine figures (no longer a billionaire, since she gave so much to charity), she continues to write and be published. She wasn't cancelled. She was criticized.
Who has actually ever been cancelled anyway, besides Louis CK, whom wasn't actually cancelled but more like, charged with a sex crime, only to be bathed in multitudes right on his first shows after the brunt of the whole thing passed?
@@granudisimo Loads of people have been cancelled for all sorts of things. Mainly, for being too leftist or trying to unionize or something. But it is very rare for anyone actually big, powerful and very well known are cancelled. A number of, to be fair, medium sized youtube channels (or breadtube big, if you will) have been cancelled. ContraPoints were cancelled for having Buck Angel as a voice actor on a video, for instance.
@@Taeerom people forget the whole Red Scare led to a fucktonne of entertainers, producers, directors and writers being blacklisted in Hollywood. Maybe conservatives are afraid of getting their fair share?
Lemme rephrase then. Who has actually ever been cancelled for doing the things conservatives accuse the leftist mass media (HA! If wishes where horses) of cancelling them for? Or How does the Intellectual Dark Web get away with calling themselves that, precisely when they're successfully using the same "not dark web" as everybody else? (I mean, Facebook for crying out loud, it doesn't get more mainstream and normie than that)?.
@@Taeerom Think you are oversimplifying the issue here. Contrapoints wasn't cancelled for having Angel as a voice actor, she was criticized. Then she doubled down, and has since made other problematic comments and has slowly fallen out of grace (in some circles). The instigating event of her loss of popularity (has she actually lost popularity?) did not cancel her
Hot take: "Schools to Get Around CRT Bans by Just Beating White Kids with Sticks" genuinely got a hearty laugh from me. Maybe it's just the absurd imagery or the phrasing, but that one I think is genuinely funny.
Agree, but for me it wasn't that I was laughing at the joke as much as I was at them. Meaning, their understanding of CRT is so far off the f**king map that they think this is what CRT does: it just exists to make white kids feel bad about being white. In that, conservatives think it's funny because that's what they believe, and I'm over here laughing at how absurd and stupid their beliefs are.
@@didibus Like the video said - The joke is actually satirizing the absurd perception that conservatives have about CRT. It parodies their extreme fear of a liberal-fascist takeover of the school system. Coming from a liberal outlet, it would be a biting commentary. Coming from a conservative outlet, it's just weird... As for a real world example of this sentiment, look at the organization Moms for Liberty, a conservative group that advocates against academic materiel containing any mention of race or ethnicity. Now you could argue that the joke satirizes liberals - the satire being: that liberals are oppressing white children by pushing racial equity showing their hypocrisy. The issue with this reading, is that there isn't any basis for the satire. There aren't any white children being oppressed by CRT. Maybe a few feel butt hurt that their great-great-great grandparents owned slaves, but that has nothing to do with racial oppression, it's just fragile privilege showing through at that point. This is why the satire is incredibly weak from that POV. The satire itself is nearly useless, except to play into the audience's preconceived notions about something they are butt hurt about (namely CRT curriculum).
@@didibusConservative snowflakes think the purpose of CRT is to make white children feel bad by informing them that systematic racism exists, so the joke here is that instead of potentially hurting children's feelings by teaching them... history about people who look like them, they'll instead just physically assault them and make them feel bad that way. Because conservatives sincerely believe that the only reason schools teach children about things like slavery is to make white children specifically feel bad.
Calling someone out because of evil deeds he did is not personal insult even if hurts this person because exposed him what he is. Chappelle do exactly this to the gay community and that's way can't stand him.
@@Gromkiii I can’t barely tell why you’re trying to say but the gay community is absolutely lovely, you’ve clearly never spent time around LGBT+ people because they’re the most understanding, patient, fun-loving, easy-going people. Don’t get fooled by the media that targets your ignorance.
@@firstlast-wg2on in my experience i can say its true I was once in an edgy alt-right phase when i was a teen, so i wasnt open to any friendship with a member of the lgbtq community when i started growing out of that phase and starting opening up to members of the lgbtq community, i ended up having the pleasure of befriending the sweetest, most kind and comprehensible person i have ever met (who nowadays is my best friend) I cant say everybody is the same because there is always a bad apple in any group of people But what i can say is that by letting yourself be guided by prejudice just ends up making you lose many oportunities of knowing pretty awesome people They dont want to destroy the western civilization, to corrupt our children, to turn your country into a communist distopia They are just normal people who just want to live their lives free from being judged for something that doesnt even harm other people Edit: My only shame is that it took me so long to figure out something so simple lol
"why are you two fighting each other" me: HE'S SCUM HE SLIGHTLY DISAGREES WITH ME! the other leftist: YOU B@ST@RD I'LL K1LL YOU! "what do you two disagee on" me: the type of communism america should be!
@hognoxious that one I don't get... also don't see how it's related other than numbers not adding up. Is the joke that somebody is lying about the numbers?
The most shocking revelation I've had this year was the discovery that Ben Garrison, the man who once drew Trump tilting at windmills like Don Quixote, was totally sincere and massively misunderstood one of the seminal works of Western literature.
@@Rawnblade13 what a good role model that Don quixote guy is. Totally best dude totally being a 100% real brave knight who isint assaulting random people in his delusions
@@f0xygem I’m lost. “Everyone does this, that being said this group does only this” is the conceit, how is that giving with one hand and taking away with the other?
Michelle Wolf with Huckabee Sanders, Tina Fey and Seth Meyerd with Sarah Palin, Full Frontal and Ivanka...it happens all the time both ways and sometimes more mean spirited than others. Then you can look at violence. Now, we can say physical violence and near death is nowhere near the harm of words...but both are done with one mindset. Ze Party. Bombarded with Groupthink. Endorphins for being liked to saybwjat the establishment wants you to say to further their agenda...which isn't really good. Look what they do and not say. OG Nazzees are right there on the left with the Soviets, Fascists and Totalitarian regimes. All those major powers before and at start of war were complimenting each other including US for its Fascism and Euthanasia to support Eugenics. History is there to see even with the supported burning of books.
"Why are you telling me I'm insincere?" "Because I... I know who you are. Good day, Steven." My favourite dialogue of all time, why would Crowder even include this in his original video lmao
the babylon bee makes me so much more appreciative of the onion. it’s really just a look into an alternate universe where the onion sucks weird smooth balls
@@Onattamato And church culture needs ppl who understand it from inside to tease them. Jokes by hostile jerks who know nothing about church life are worthless, and rarely funny.
The Onion was never funny. In fact, some of their “classic“ articles were and are downright problematic. That “Four Generations of Viewers Demand Sitcom Reparations” article was racist and homophobic as fuck; it speaks volumes that the only shows they could remember actual plotlines of were *Silver Spoons* and *Webster,* both shows with Blacks and Gay MEN in their respective casts. Just for that, I want reparations for that article alone! And that whole “autistic reporter” shtick was so ableist it constituted a hate crime. Make it cash. Shitlibs aren’t funny. The Onion is not funny. It does not make me laugh. Babylon Bee is funny. It makes me laugh out loud. No, I’m not just saying that to support “my team.” In fact, the writers are Jewish, but they don’t know it yet.
Liberalism is nothing but hostile jerks these days. That’s how it’s always been. That’s why Archie Bunker carried on for another five years without the meathead dragging him down.
I understood the Gutfeld massage joke from the getgo, then did the exact song and dance that Cody described where I thought, "I'm missing something." Like three minutes into Cody talking about how dumb the joke was I was still going over the punchline in my mind, genuinely feeling stupid, until finally he revealed that the punchline meant exactly what I thought did to begin with. Never before have I heard a joke so horrendously bad that my brain actually rejected the punchline outright. This joke LITERALLY caused me pain.
Your own expectations for comedy made you reject the “punchline” because you assumed it couldn’t be that stupid. I think we all went through that. It really is embarrassing how bad it is.
I had a similar experience lol. Not as bad, but also with the native American/blackjack mascot thing. I was like "...Is the school known for producing casino owners? Do they have blackjack championships or something? Huh, weird." "...OH IT'S A RACIAL STEREOTYPE, RIIIIIIGHT. Because of course it is."
Honestly, when I heard it, all I heard was a rich white guy bragging about having not one but two massage therapists on him at once. Also, I just kind of assumed the massage therapists were prostitutes because that's what I would expect from a guy that looks and dresses and speaks like him.
"The facial hair of a tech-age viking and the secret misogyny of a regular viking" I'm not saying the Norse people weren't misogynistic, but in many of their kingdoms a guy would get done for rape if he tried to feel up a woman and she stabbed him, which is better than most modern justice systems on the matter of sexual assault.
That’s kind of the reason why the joke works so well though. The Vikings weren’t any stretch of feminist by todays standards, but at the time, they where incredibly progressive in comparison. In fact their whole legal system, while maybe not quite as complex and nuanced as some contemporaries, was surprisingly egalitarian (again, in comparison at least). So yeah… the secret misogyny of a regular Viking is more or less correct!
@@rocknroll909What do you mean by "outsiders" in this case, or rather, outsiders as it pertains to such women? The Vikings were known to raid their "own" settlements; remember that the notion of "national/ethnic identity," and especially recognising it as particularly important, are comparatively quite modern concepts, historical racism notwithstanding. What I'm getting at is that people who got raided (successfully) by Vikings were likely to only have 2 outcomes in their immediate future: either they immediately got unalived violently, or they got enslaved. Now, it wasn't actually known as a slave back then, but a "thrall". Among those "enthralled", yes, it might well have sucked _badly_ to be a woman in particular. There'd be a high risk that she got 🍇'd in the process, even repeatedly, for one thing. And if she was attractive or otherwise "of value" in particular, and one of the raiders took a liking to her, she could become a personal prize, or sold off/gifted as "worthy loot". It was not uncommon for them to become "mistresses" (or even wives, iirc), and it goes without saying that this would, unless she came to like her captor, essentially be systematic SA at the least. In most cases though, thralls became workers and domestic servants. And afaik, there weren't much difference in whether they originally came from a viking background or something else. And compared to the modern notion of slavery, which is basically thought of as New World-style chattel slavery, Viking thralls were treated better and even had a _modicum_ of rights, including that they regularly bought their own freedom. See, the notion of thralls actually had its roots as a form of indentured servitude - a person could pay off a debt to another by becoming their thrall. It follows that being a thrall were thus not necessarily seen as an inherently permanent state of being, and so the culture and legal system surrounding them were in accordance with this. I feel I should add, though, that I'm obviously not trying to defend the practice or make it seem "wholesome" or whatever. I just wanted to add some historical context, in that you seemed to maybe have some misconceptions (however minor they might actually be in the grand scheme of things, wrt. the actual horrors that were still inherent to Viking thrall practices).
As a non-USA-citizen, I have never heard of Gutfeld until now, but he feels like a mediocre half-assed news anchor character who escaped a B-movie and has somehow ended up in our reality.
I had encountered Gutfeld when checking out Facebook profiles of rightwingers. Almost as popular as Tucker Carlson. Hadn't actually heard him. Now I have...
I recently had a discussion with somebody claiming Gutfeld was "the king of comedy" because he had the biggest numbers. When I asked him if he considered McDonalds to be the best food on earth or the Ford F series to be the best car because they where bough most, he called me a pedo. Figures .... somehow.
I don't believe it. T hat's how leftists argue because the left doesn't believe in logic. Leftists believe a logical argument can be beaten by an argument that is illogical but told by the proper identity politic. Your story sounds like a person that lost their ability to understand logic. The right are very logical. They don't think like that at all.
@@nuckygulliver9607 sure, because you said so right? I mean, you didn't provide any evidence, so surely we should just believe you despite clear and obvious facts to the contrary (vaccine hesitation, January 6th, etc)
Mcdonalds is the king of food, just on pure accesability. It represents a treat to so many poor kids (or former poor kids), that to millions, it is the best in the world (Best in a cost/nutrion/flavour combo). Same with the F-150. A bunch of people will agree that if that many people are buying it, it is the best all around vehicle.
The conservative comedian stance seems to be that if people aren't laughing, it's the fault of the people not laughing. That's one of the biggest issues, in my opinion. Every comedian out there is capable of being bad, every comedian no matter affiliation is guilty of sometimes writing jokes their audience doesn't understand, but the major difference is how leftist comedians will change their jokes to fit the audience reaction they want and conservatives will just blame the audience if they're not finding it funny.
I especially adore how he did NOT want anyone else to know that he did, in fact, know who Steven Crowder was, just kind of off to the side whispering and reluctantly admitting it. And honestly? I don't want anyone to know I know who Steven Crowder is, his existence is embarrassing and knowing about it is embarrassing in it's own way
nah the babylon bee skit when they admit they can't think of another joke, thinking that is the new joke, and that my feeling genuinely sorry for them for being so little self-aware, in a skit about being self-aware, is the punchline - or so they keep saying
@@yosha101 From my understanding, Steven has been kicked out of Planet Fitness a lot, and always for the same reason: dropping the weights and setting off the alarm. So it's probable that they just recognized him from the last time he had to be removed for being disruptive.
it's kind of like "I really want to say that "I hope you are ok" because I really do hope that, but I can't say that because it will come off like an attack"
I almost felt a little sorry for Chowder at this point. Almost. Then I remembered that he is an absolute throbbing sphincter. The fact that he chose to leave this in is just baffling. It’s almost as if he is entirely lacking in anything resembling self awareness.
@@ellagage1256 Every retailer in his local area must have had conversation with their employees at some point about "What to do when Steven Crowder shows up doing something stupid". This was not that dude's first rodeo with Crowder.
“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.” - E.B.White Babylon Bee apparently didn't get the memo.
That bit of DailyWire "satire" is comically, tragically bad. There's so much that could be dissected just in that final list alone, but one jumped out at me in particular: imagine having the audacity of telling the Iroquoian Clan Mothers that post-Columbian Euroamericans brought women's suffrage to the continent.
They like to claim Greek culture in their heritage but they never mention that it’s always been ‘in the east’ of the cultures, Muslim cultures saved its legacy from oblivion and the ‘Spartan myth’ that seems to excite their military was only possible because of widespread slavery. Conservatives love to claim ancient authority, but they are really the handbrake in the car on a journey to a better humanity. And their angry comedians don’t understand comedy. Long live warmbo
@@mr.dalerobinson I absolutely loathe the idolization of the Spartans. I'd love to see some Helot-centric narratives enter into the pop culture consciousness to show that the Spartans were not the brave defenders of liberty they're often portrayed as.
So here's something about the Brexit joke which, whilst structurally funny, has incredibly rotten contents which means it falls flat. Pro-Brexit people were heavily involved in drafting the plans to leave and many ran on positions on having "A great deal" when the UK would eventually leave the EU whilst some ran on an idea that they didn't need one. This comedian has restructured reality to make a joke and make it appear as if it was the Anti-Brexit people are the bad guys who caused the problem... and I swear that was the point on the last episode on Steven Crowder and his humour? Tucker Carlson recently did a bit about Joe Biden turning Orange and how it's making liberals nervous because "Orange man bad" and whilst I found it kinda funny as a well structured satire the more I thought about it the more rotten the joke's contents were. Liberals don't say "Orange man bad", it's conservatives who made up that parody and perpetuate it... So they're making a satirical joke about a liberal position which is actually also already a parody made up by the conservatives? They can get bits here and there correct but usually it never works because either they don't know how to tell a joke or the contents are rotten, as the only way to make the joke work is to alter reality to make conservatives out to be the good guys
Exactly. That was my problem with the joke. It falls flat because he skewed it into a weird scenario where the person who didn't want to leave the E.U. was the crazy one because they didn't want to leave the... was it a restaurant? He made a wacky metaphor that has no basis in reality. Really, Brexit was more like a bunch of conservatives taking the rest of the U.K. on a holiday promising that it would be fantastic, but once they got there, it was shitty and they would have to stay there until they figured out a plan to get home, which would be a problem because _OOPS_ nobody has money, but the conservatives play it up to the rest of the U.K. like the holiday was still the _best_ idea as they frantically try to fix their mistakes. Sorry if that metaphor got out of hand. I'm not a comedian, but my point is that any problem caused by Brexit wasn't the fault of people who wanted to stay in the EU. Plus, he talked about it like people who wanted to stay were the tiniest minority when it was really close to 50/50.
Yeah, as someone who is actually informed about Brexit, this "joke" had exactly the same problem Cody described before: it rewrote reality, specifically the reality that in order to get Brexit over the line, "the easiest deal in history" was promised. So it is wrong that people first voted and then someone said "oh, lI need to go to make a deal", what actually happened is that those people in the room were promised "I will go an make a great deal" and then they voted for Brexit due to that promise....and if you start the very same joke with THAT premise, it is actually quite funny, but by leaving it out/reweiting reality, it becomes unworkable, becuae the basic premise is already a big lie.
He definitely missed the part where a majority-swinging amount of people who chose to leave the Burger King then immediately had to Google what Burger King was and were left with the impression they should probably stay in Burger King
It is curious, because I used to know Alistair, at least at a business level, and I remembering him leaving his job to become a comedian. I would have never guessed he was a right-wing comedian, I wonder how much is genuine?
@@studio_beasty I think you make a good point, maybe he's playing the right for easy publicity? Either way, the Austrians have a good saying for it : "If you sit at a table of 11 Nazi's and break bread with them, then that is a table of 12 Nazi's.". Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.
My right-leaning family members would watch conservative comedy with me around and when a “joke” would happen they would giggle, look at me and wait for a reaction. I would, of course, not laugh, but any facial tick I may had would result in knee-slapping laughter from them. Needless to say, we don’t talk much anymore.
There's a bunch of research behind this. It's not just seeking a reaction (i.e. trolling), it's also seeking validation. When researchers asked people how much of a bad trait was the best amount to have, most people answered "none" or "less than average"... but people who scored high on traits of right-wing authoritarianism answered "an average amount". Because they didn't care if it was bad; they only cared if it was common. They know what they're doing is wrong, but they don't care as long as other people are doing it too. They need to believe that _everyone_ is bad, in order to feel okay about themselves. So if you laugh with them, they feel validated about doing stuff they know is wrong. And if you _don't_ laugh with them, they feel hurt but cover it up by laughing at you.
@@ToyKeeper Gonna need more info on the "bad trait". Because "bad" in politics is subjective. Ask a communist if it's "bad" to confiscate property from people and they'll say no, ask a liberal and they'd say yes. Your argument sounds biased and just a bit ridiculous to be real.
On March 5, 1994, a little known cartoon called Duckman once had an episode where the main character gives a speech about comedy. And in his speech he said "But it's precisely when humor is offensive that we need it most. Comedy should provoke! It should blast through prejudices! Challenge preconceptions! Comedy should leave you different than when it found you....Demand to be challenged! To be offended! To be treated like thinking, reasoning adults!" Now, the right has no problem offending or provoking people, but the last thing they want is to be challenged or to change in any way. Conservative comedy is all about just doubling down on your own shitty opinions. They don't want to be treated like thinking, reasoning adults, they just want everyone else to stop thinking and believe only in what they believe. Conservative comedy is bad because conservatism and comedy are directly antithetical to each other. Like oil and water, they don't mix.
As an intersex person, that's the quickest accurate description of sex variance, I know you don't read the comments but I hope someone from the team does! Really awesome
@@burnttoast8646 Or you could just read about it somehwere with better information, make a conclusion yourself, then say to yourself; "I'm not a bigot, I'm not insecure, and I don't worry about what others are doing, unless they are causing harm towards others.." That's all. No need for; "y r u gAy!?" or "i was told gAy iS bAd bY My iGnoRaNt pAreNts, I believe that" 🤷🏽♂️🤣
I went to the beekeeper the other day to pick up a dozen bees. When I got up to the counter he set a little cage on top with 13 bees inside. "Hey man, that's thirteen bees. I only asked for twelve," I said. He replies: "Oh yeah that one's a freebie."
The way I've heard the joke about fishing with religious people is "If you're going fishing, never bring a Mormon, because he'll drink all the beer. Bring two Mormons and then you'll have it all for yourself." I found it very funny at the time. I think that joke is very sensitive to details of timing and word choice.
@@WillEnj0y Mormons can't drink alchohol. If you bring one Mormon, they'll drink because they assume a non Mormon won't know that or wouldn't judge. If you bring two Mormons both will pretend they don't drink.
That Columbus Day video left me speechless. That isn't satire, that's just pure, undiluted racism. I'm shocked. But here's the funny thing, IF that video had been made by a non-conservative comedian, I'm 100% sure it would've been made in an actual satirical way that shows what an ignorant POV it is. For example (and this is not me saying Family Guy is actually funny) but picture that showing up in Family Guy... most likely it would've been told by Peter (an absolute idiot) and everyone else would've reacted with horror. That's the point, it's a horrible opinion that can be so over the top wrong it can be funny.
The headline "Army Introduces New Gender Reveal Grenades For Trans Soldiers" got a chuckle out of me. Probably not for the reason the writer of the headline intended (I'm guessing "The Military is THIS woke now!"), but because gender reveal explosives are a bizarre concept and the idea that someone would come out as trans by using a pastel grenade in an active war zone makes about as much sense. And is sort of cute. I'm imagining a soldier throwing a grenade into a building, followed by a loud bang and a big pink cloud billows out the windows. Then the soldier turns to their fellow comrades, tears in their eyes, only to be met by supportive nods, back-pats and hugs. As pained groans can be heard in the background from the grenaded building.
But at the same time there's already such a thing as colored smoke grenades, so simply making them come in either blue or pink isn't that much of an absurd stretch.
But it's not really funny because trans people are against gender reveal. It just makes you sound dumb because you basically paint a strawman of reality when it's conservative leaning people who like gender reveal parties.
@@zr_1234 "Paint a strawman of reality" huh? Well, I wouldn't want to sound dumb. If I wanted that I'd use some sort of awkward mixed metaphor, for example. Obviously gender reveal parties in reality suck and I'm well aware of who have them, thank you. The headline just made me think of a cuter alternate reality where they had been coopted into an extravagant way to come out as trans. I thought that was a bit funny, largely because that's kind of opposite what their function is in reality and because of how much that would piss off the type of people who traditionally have gender reveal parties. Clearly it didn't strike you as funny the same way. That's fine.
The trolling segment reminds me of Innuendo Studios' concept of "Schroedinger's Douchebag," who just says offensive shit and then decides afterward based on the reaction whether they were joking or not
Funny little story from Europe about that: A few years ago, Germany's far right party AfD posted on Facebook "surveillance footage" of "leftists" unsuccessfully trying to kick in the glass of the ad showcase at a bus stop allegedly because it contained one of their campaign posters. Within hours people on the internet not only pointed out that bus stations usually not carry political campaign posters and more importantly: That footage was photoshopped. It was initially designed as an ad by a company making high security glass and in the original image there were stacks of money behind the glass in the showcase. The party's result a few hours later: Oh woooooow! Leftists so cannot recognize satire. Fucking idiots.
I don't remember the original Roseanne show being "conservative" at all. I remember a conservative high school teacher who hated her guts (he hated her because she was a woman, poor, crude, and overweight). She was especially hated for singing the national anthem, depicting gay issues on tv, being very liberal with her children's relationships, and "celebrating" poverty. I know it has been 30+ years, but my memory is that conservatives HATED both the show and Roseanne herself. It's just another one of those historical/cultural revisions that occurred after Trumpism.
Its so fucking true, they do that with a ton of media. Fucking paul ryan saying he loves rage against the machine, anti-sjw edgelords saying that nobody can make comedy like george carlin anymore, ignoring the fact that he was about as far left as you can get politically. There is also this effect that happens from the other side where ppl who were once on the front lines of socially radical movements start to stagnate when they find success. They get rejected by the new social movements of the day, they start running to the conservative groups they once maligned, to have their egos stroked. "Yeah! The past was better! I'm not out of touch its those damn kids"
Yeah and Home Improvement was mostly pretty neutral/center (especially compared to that weird gender flipped version of it that Tim Allen did recently with like the fake Cabelas). I think we maybe have fewer neutral/center shows and sitcoms? Mostly because sitcoms are less popular than they were. But the main jokes were that he liked tools, had accidents with them and his kids would get into sitcom antics that would require someone giving a speech or hugging
@@merchantfan I was pretty young when reruns of "The Brady Bunch" were on all the time in the '70s, but it seemed that half the audience was watching it as if it were a wholesome family show, and the other half was watching it ironically, as if it were a satire making fun of how perfect families were supposed to be (and wasn't it funny that anyone actually expected that). There isn't much "subversive subtlety" anymore where there might be audience crossover, and perhaps a chance for learning about a more nuanced view. Everything just smashes you in the face. (Which is probably a byproduct of the fractured audience. When there were only three channels, a show HAD to be subtle to get across any message at all. Now they do not have to try to reach a wider audience--they just have to find one small niche audience.)
yes. i dont think the show was ever overtly political. they did feature a gay wedding portrayed as a serious and beautiful occasion. but none of the characters ever seemed to pick a side. if anything they all hated all politics. except maybe Darlene.
You are a sharp guy my friend. Being able to explain the “why” of something as nuanced as comedy in way that can be digested in real time is quite the display of intellect and talent.
Except that everything about this video is a lie from the cherry picked and deceptively edited clips to the entire thesis of this video from the get-go. Conservative comedy is not only not “not funny,” it’s the only funny current comedy left anymore this century. This video is nothing but pure psychological projection, gaslighting, and promotion of degeneracy and eugenics. It’s definition of what constitutes humor is degenerate and imperialist, and also violently homophobic and misogynistic, in addition to being racist and xenophobic. It is more proof that the left is everything it accuses the right of being. Attacking the Greg Gutfeld show is attacking his Gay MALE guests, so it constitutes a hate crime. Attacking Dave Chappelle is racist and misandrist. Attacking Ricky Gervais is xenophobic. Attacking J. K. Rowling is xenophobic and misogynistic. That’s what this boils down to: a “bigot” has now been redefined to mean “anybody who stands in the way of the profits of the emasculation industrial complex.”
wow, your comment instantly reminded of that eternal 5th grade bully, Ted Cruz. And it seems he is so obsessively preoccupied with conjuring up Twitter zingers and "owning the libs" that he probably does zero actual "work" as a Senator. Ugh.
You are spot on. I have tried to watch "Dry Bar" a few times. It's all "comedy" without swear words that tends to be pretty conservative. It's absolutely awful. It's possible to be "clean" and funny, but apparently, the standard for Dry Bar is just...to not swear and make fun of liberals and you'll get chuckles galore. No, thanks.
There has been more than one occasion where I've seen a Babylon Bee article and thought it was making fun of conservatives until I realized that it was from the Babylon Bee and that they actually meant it sincerely and the real punchline was basically "look at us trying to trigger the libs!"
Happened to me so many times too lol. I assume it’s biting satire, then see it’s from Babylon Bee, and realize it’s a completely sincere article…. And not actually funny, but just really dumb
Not sure why “he does it to everyone” is a defense. If I went around punching everybody in the face, that wouldn’t make it any less right to be pissed about being punched.
@@freddiesimmons1394 except he is, cuz he never did this to any other group He's mocked white people before too. I liked those jokes, because they made sense and didn't require me to feel grossed out by white people in order to get the joke Same can't be said for the latest special
@@rainjaydd8213 he never did what, exactly? Also, I'm responding to Bob's objection the premise of the "he does it to everyone" defense. Not the application of it to Dave specifically.
I see this kind of defense of Thanos’ actions from the MCU as well. Just because his slaughter of half of the universe is at random (except for Thanos himself being exempt, of course) that somehow makes it better? Like, we’ve changed it from a genocide to a mass murder; not sure if that evens things out
🤔To quote "Super Troopers", "Our shenanigans are cheecky and fun. His shenanigans are just cruel and tragic. Making them not shenanigans at all really. Evil shenanigans."
I think a lot of them do. There's a weird level of "SHES SO UGLY!!! I SWEAR!" stuff when looking at right wingers mocking AOC. The fact that she's good looking seems to annoy them. I get the feeling its because mocking women for being ugly is a good way to shut them down. Anti suffragettes from the old days made jokes that only ugly women would want to vote. Its an age old tactic. AOC is pretty stereotypically good looking, so you cant make that joke. Since that's like 90% of their material for mocking, they get angry. Just my conclusions on it haha!
Um asking for a friend, does anyone have every single solitary goddamn one of those in say a zip file at the ready to send to certain someones, not me though, obviously..a friend though a friend might definitely want that asap.
@Bob Bob It uses the same tropes that were used in the subjugation and killing of native Americans and the subsequent justifcation of these actions. "They were uncivilised cannibals anyway" "We brought them civilisation" And so on. And they thought it would be a good moment to release this skit on Indigenous People Day which, I would think, is also a day of remembrance.
I actually found it funny. (: It amuses me in a sadistic way, that people can actually be that stupid, racist, nationalist and simple. The worldview someone must have to write such a play... and the people who animate and voice it over (: And all of them have to be "ok" with the message. Holy shit, humanity is so fucked up it's hilarious (: For the similar reasons I am amused by presidents shipping immigigrants with planes to other nations borders to "annoy" them or military drones proudly shooting up weddings. We are such a shitshow (:
@@tanner.mackey.mp3 I don't know what Bob said, because he removed his comment, but I just wanted to point out (provided this was the point being discussed) that cannibalism could have been part of some tribes' culture. Just not in the way colonizers said Cannibalism has always been (except for dire situations) a ceremonial thing, and not a way to find food, like hunting or harvesting crops. It could consist of ritually eating a slain enemy, in order to assimilate his power, or it could be a way to reintroduce a dead member of the community (this is the particular case of the Yanomami, which cook the ashes of their dead to be ritually eaten by the entire community) Another case (but I can't recall what tribe it was, or where) saw two tribes ritually eating their respective captives, in order to maintain a perpetual cycle of death and regeneration between the two sides (the captives were treated well, and were even allowed to have a family inside the tribe, but they would eventually face their death: being eaten by another warrior meant to be renewed as him and continue to live on). It comes without saying that the wars between these two tribes had a whole different meaning than ours. Anyway, the point is that cannibalism was, and in some cases is a thing for some tribes, but it definitely wasn't as Europeans depicted it. It was just part of those tribes cultures (and it wasn't even that common like they said.) As for the rest of your comment, I agree. Those who still believe in "Manifest Destiny" should make a trip to Sand Creek on 29th November 1864 and see for themselves their own bs before their eyes.
Jk rowling is nowhere cancelled... She has a lot of fans and still writes books that sell. Just because some people called her out doesn't mean she is cancelled. These people always talk about free speech but cry when public exercises it.
The best example of the shift from enjoying "edgy, racy humor" to immediately regarding it disturbing is Cards Against Humanity. Literally everyone I knew (in white liberal bubbles) was playing it in the 2010s. Its joy was in the irony of saying deeply chauvinist and racist things but in a harmless safe way to mock the lunacy of those who actually felt that way. And then everyone in the bubbles suddenly realized that half the country wasn't playing it ironically.
Okay, but playing it in racially and LGBTQ diverse circles is hella fun, like you get a group of 7 queer people who aren't all white and my god, you know that literally any joke you make is gonna hit somebody and everyone knows it's in jest. So then it becomes really funny again.
If I'm honest I kind of really dislike Cards Against Humanity, because it's lazy. Most of the humor it seems to generate is who can make the most absurd or crude joke (IE comes down to if you are lucky enough to draw certain cards). Any time I suggest Apples to Apples (the game Cards Against Humanity is derived from) people always say they want to play CAH. Which is fucking annoying since you actually have to be smart with the cards you pick in AtA to make jokes land.
i write sarcastic comments all the time but as the years go on i just cant seem to write them against republicans anymore because no matter how sarcastic i get i will be writing something someone actually believes. this one time i made what i thought was a joke about how anti abortionists will start claiming a women having a period would be abortion since they wasted a childs life by not fertilizing the egg, and my joke was ruined when someone linked me a article of someone saying just that in a non ironic manner
I liked it until one day I was playing it at a friend's house, and some guy who was invited by my friends brother got genuinely upset that his "killing all the native americans" card didn't win the round, and asked, unironically, "don't you all want that too?" It was an eye opening moment for me, that not everyone gets the joke and people are out there taking the game literally. Even though that's not what I'm doing when I play it, it just doesn't hit the same.
@@CrystalLily1302 The thing here, and this is something that I think the internet has made much worse, is that the general atmosphere of "offensive humor" like roasts and such is the implicit understanding of the people involved that they are all friends, and none of the insults are meant as genuinely hateful. This works when you are playing a game with your ACTUAL FRIENDS, but the anonymous atmosphere of comedy is not that. Random assholes trolling on twitter is not that, because they are not your friends, and you have no reason to believe that their "jokes" do not represent their true feelings even if they are trying to layer it under a veneer of irony. What it boils down to is a lot of people point to games like CAH or comedy roasts or whatever and claim that people who get offended at deliberately offensive jokes "just don't get comedy", while completely ignoring the context that makes those jokes acceptable vs. when they aren't. The reason I feel like the internet has made this worse is that social media tries to deliberately cultivate an atmosphere of "everyone is friends", pushing people to cross these boundries and then you get pileons of thousands of strangers making the same "joke" to someone that wasn't even funny when the first person said it, because hey we're all just hanging out right? They know I don't REALLY mean it.
So I've always been known to laugh at any joke, but recently people have been telling me jokes and I've juste ended up going "That's just mean and rude. Why would you say that?" And now you've finally explained what I couldn't. I thank you for that a lot
On a lighter note, I accidentally made a comment about swallowing babies to my grandmother. It wasn't even about THAT, but I immediately realized what I had said after I had said it.
About Chapelle, I want to repeat what Hasan has said about it: "Cancel culture has ruined comedy. Not because comedians are getting canceled, but because they can't shut the fuck up about it"
@@theninjararar You don't need to be a chef to recognize shit food. You do, however, need to be able to make a point to argue on the internet. So, you may present your point now.
@@thejudge1728 his point is "Hasan bad." That's it. He is proving the entire premise of this video: that conservatives don't get comedy and are only trying to be mean edgelords for reactions.
@@theninjararar last time I watched Hasan, he made me laugh. I've seen Chappelle live, I've loved his work for decades, but if you haven't noticed that it's no longer funny, then you know nothing about comedy. Dave has a lot to look back on, but he's not giving me anything to look forward to but unhinged rants about shit that doesn't even affect him. Which is what puzzles me most about bigots: why the fuck do they even care? What business is it of theirs what people do for kicks in a free country? The guy who got famous for a movie about illegal drug use is going to preach to us about morality? Fuck outta here with that shit.
@@theninjararar People can be the arbiter of things which they don't do themselves. It's how logic works. Like how you are trying to do now with this argument. You are trying to participate in something, which you don't do - logic and reason. The difference is you are failing miserably.
"Law abiding citizens will abide by the laws and criminals won't. They're criminals" Man I wish there was a term for what criminals were before they commited crimes, you know when they abided by the law. If only there was a term for that. Oh well
As a gay southern male, I regularly think about Ron White's standup. "I wasn't drunk in public. I was drunk in a bar... they threw me into pub-lick." There used to be so much about life I could relate to my fellow southerners with and now the culture war nonsense is dividing us and it's sad.
I’m from a mining region that’s so close to Canada the banks have a whiteboard with the current exchange rate. I remember watching Blue Comedy Tour for the first time with my family as a kid. During Jeff Foxworthy’s bit I remember the one about mowing your lawn and find a car, and slowly turning to look out the window at the pile of rust in the yard up to the top of the doorframes in snow. And at the ‘matching set of salad bowls that all say cool whip on the side,’ leaning out slowly while looking at them- and taking another bite of the cereal I was (I sh!t you not) eating out of a cool whip bowl. 😂
What you touch on at the end of the Babylon Bee segment is SPOT ON. I've observed this before too, a satire headline that is literally just stating what conservatives believe. It was something like "Netflix board room discusses making lead character black to deflect criticism of script as 'racist'". There's no punchline. There's no exaggeration. That's literally what the right believes companies that make movies and shows are doing behind the scenes. Conservatives don't understand satire.
Because, in an effort to not be racist, leftists are embracing discrimination based on race. Yeah... there's no room for an ironic twist there, eh? It's all just right-wing anger, eh?
What's even more insane is that liberal satire directed at conservatives is *also* just stating what conservatives believe. And it's funny because what they believe is fucked up. "Black conversatives rally support for candidate who's religion believes black people bear the mark of Cain" -The Onion Week in Review
@@tinfoilslacks3750 Liberal Comedy is only funny to you because of what you admitted. You believe that Conservative views are insane and agree with Liberal Comedy. This doesn't make Liberal Comedy better it's just showing your bias towards one side rather than the other even though both sides are unfunny moments.
King of the Hill was a great example of a funny show that featured conservative protagonists. It poked fun of liberals (and other conservatives) while never being too mean spirited. It's rare to see bipartisan comedy done well in this day and age.
King of the Hill is the most realistic expression of being Texan. It's not "liberal" or "conservative." It's something else that has a gift to see through the pretenses of either. But it's also dumb. That's part of it. It's an appeal. It's normal people trying their best and often failing, but sometimes succeeding.
Mike Judge is a genius. He thrives at taking people you know, turning up the dial on the ridiculousness that we all have to point out their flaws. And because no one is flawless, you ain't safe. But also to make those jokes and write the characters so well he clearly understands their point of view. Which isn't politics, it's people. People are complex.
One of my favorite jokes on the show is when Hank catches his son ironing a dress in his bedroom he says with a supreme grimace of horror on his face, "There better be a naked cheerleader under that bed."
Checked on Babylon Bee and they actually had a good joke for once "NASA developing even larger telescope to photograph your mom" And that's the best joke I've ever seen from them. Pretty sad
Tisk, tisk, you see, you simply aren't sophisticated enough to to understand the breadth of astrological humor. What they are saying is your mother (and all of our mother) is the big bang, the very beginning of reality itself, obviously the ultimate mother. It's obviously an infinite entendre.
I find it amazing that someone in Europe can make a joke containing the words “minimum wage” and be considered conservative. If that parking meter joke was used in the States they would be booed of the stage and called a socialist.
there’s actually studies detailing how the US’ political landscape is much, much farther right than europe’s. (though europe is also sliding further right, sadly.) what’s considered a democratic (i.e. liberal) position in the US will probably correspond to one of germany’s most right leaning parties (the FDP).
@@littlekishmish I'm from EU and nobody finds minimal wage funny, is just instrument for people in government jobs to rise their wages without actually done something. Each time they rise minimal wage so many business closes, so many more people go on social support and they start print more money and put more taxes because they need to take care for so more people on welfare. And Conservative comedian is also Dave Chappelle so much that leftist even attack him on stage, I thing is quite good.
I spent an entire year working in a conservative workplace. During that time, I heard one joke. It was an *extremely* racist joke involving black people, drugs and slavery. The rest of the time, the only "jokes" I can think of involved mocking other people's hardships-- which, in doing so, they simultaneously acknowledge and deny. (They don't actually learn about the issues they're mocking-- just that they exist and are "wrong.")
@A.J. I think I've heard it before, something about how pill bottles are packed with cotton or something ? I don't really remember it being particularly funny
Look, I could say a lot about the political situation around Brexit, but that English comedian with his Brexit joke? It’s not just “structured” like a joke, he also manages to phrase it in a way that even if you disagree with him, you CAN see his perspective. Good comedy is a great equalizer, because so often it boils down to pointing out things in the simplest or bluntest ways possible, which can really help people see eachother’s perspectives, even if they still disagree with eachother, and can then connect or commiserate over the ridiculousness of their shared situations. Bad comedy leaves you going, “Wait, what specific part of that was even *supposed* to be funny?” And then these days, a bunch of ghouls either get defensive that you didn’t give them the laughs they feel entitled to, or just laugh at you for… not being able to parse their bad, confusing, poorly-structured jokes. (Plus, as Cody said, so often it seems like the joke is “[adjective] people exist… AND I’M AN ASSHOLE!” Like, yes, clearly you are, but what do those two things have to do with eachother???)
Much like Cody points out in the video, their primary (and FAR AND AWAY so, at this point) goal is simply to "trigger" those who they hate. There's a tweet I saw a couple months back, I wish I could remember who the hell it was, it wasn't a politician, more like just a pundit I think, but the woman clearly thought she was being hilarious in her original tweet. It got lots of engagement. As I scrolled down the thread, I shit you not, there had to have been AT LEAST 20-30 different follow up replies I saw by the woman stating some small variation of "oh my god sorry to see you're so triggered by this!! I can't believe how much the libs are triggered by this!! LOL" like as if she didn't type out "trigger" as every 9th word in what she was saying, her computer was going to explode. And it brings to mind the line I've seen recently about how it's pointless to argue with a moron, that it's like playing checkers with a pigeon. It's only going to wind up shitting on the board and then strutting around like it won anyway. This is one of the many down sides to social media, and the whole "everyone getting a voice" thing. These people don't have to worry about the capacity for feeling shame or embarrassment anymore. There's ALWAYS going to be a large enough group of people surrounding any one moment of clear objective idiocy to help convince the perpetrators that of course they were in the right, and sufficiently "DESTROYED!! the other side".
I mean... Except it's a liberal joke about liberals, like the whole thing is it's supposed to come from a conservative mindset, but the punch line exhibits a concept they don't buy into.
@@madestmadhatter The conservative version being "He's got a beard like a viking, but isn't going around raping people like a viking?! Then WHAT IS THE POINT IN THE BEARD?!"
@@EmperorSmith which is actually funny. Not my cup of tea funny, but it has an actual punchline, a little twist. Not too much, but it's conservative, don't move too much, or you'll hurt your back.
@@MrBen51309 I think the best way is to pick at the people and trends around him; going after the man directly is like trying to explain why shit smells.
Pretty much. Though overall, I do find it funny how I could openly jab at his orangeness to some Trumpers without issue. Particularly when one Fox News broadcast- though I forget what- genuinely put a filter over the footage to counterbalance his orange skintone and made everyone else pale as hell.
The BB Kamala headline would have been funny if they said something like “Kamala Harris is hoping her unlikability will deter migrants from wanting to live in America”. 27:10
anyone who says trans folk aren't funny or can't laugh at themselves have never been in a position or community where trans folk felt safe enough to let their guard down and just exist.
@@andrewchristian6466 what op is saying is that you would've seen a funny trans person if you've ever been in a setting where they've let their guard down.
One thing about that Gutfeld “We'll all be driving tanks” bit showcases one aspect of conservative comedy: Hostility. Many conservative “jokes” are just threats, in this case of the proliferation of paramilitary organizations in response to perceived increasing progressive lawlessness
'Under every president'. The thing about left wing humour or middle of the road humour which the right wing thinks is extreme left wing humor is that it looks at what is ridiculous in the world and makes jokes about it, which means they tend to laugh a little at everyone, but quite a lot at the right wing because they do have the market pretty much cornered in ridiculous. Right wing humor, on the other hand, first decides what they want to ridicule and then trying to make it ridiculous, which is ridiculous.
The reason conservative comedy doesn’t work is because comedy is about vulnerability. You can’t be funny if you can’t expose at least some part of yourself. So if you come from a world view that’s about *always* being the most macho and the best, it falls flat.
That, paired with the fact that to make puns or intricate wordplay work, you need to have a decent/deep understanding of the topic, the words you'll be using, the language itself, pronunciation, etc, AND be intelligent enough about all of those to construct the joke in a way that communicates your point effectively without needing an explanation - which involves having a decent understanding of the average audience's understanding of everything I listed. Conservatives refuse to learn anything, refuse to allow others to control the meanings of words (see J.peterson saying anything) and refuse to even attempt at understanding another person's thoughts/feelings/experiences etc 🤷♀️ It's like watching a child remove the wheels on a skateboard and then get upset that it WONT work anymore and when you try to explain what the wheels are for, they call you the idiot 😂
One would have figured that at this point people would understand this, considering how the british are repeatedly lauded as the masters of comedy and specifically pointed out that this is because they don't flinch at making fun of themselves. But no, somehow this has escaped people.
Recent conservative comedy* Just look back 10 years and even the rednecks could make fun of themselves on comedy central. Been a long time since Ron White or the Old Jeff Foxworthy performed.
@@doctorwholover1012Ah yes, how could conservatives ever be smart or understand things? Stop being stupid for a second and understand that you're not actually making a point and are just pushing your worldview that "Conservatives are Simply Not Smart Enough for Comedy" when Liberals fall into similar if not the same Pitfalls.
It's funny that you mentioned Simon Evans - after hearing him on the radio and finding him funny I went along to one of his shows, thinking it would be good to get out of my bubble. What I found was the majority of his show attacking various groups of people (some of which I belong to), to the point where I genuinely felt unsafe when the lights went up and I was faced with a huge group of people I now knew couldn't stand me for what I was. I think there can definitely be a difference between a sanitised version of someone you see on TV/radio and what they feel like they can say when they feel they're among their own people, whether that's right or left. It really made me think in comedy I enjoyed after that, 'If I didn't agree with this person, would I still feel safe?' I don't ever want to support someone who makes others feel unsafe just because I agree with their beliefs. As ever great showdy Cody and crew!
As a Brit, I did find it interesting Cody highlighting who he did. Evans is great on panel shows when discussing things, but his live audiences tend to really pull in the gammon. It's a shame you felt like you did, but totally understandable in the circumstances.
I've noticed that too. We're living in an age when the American people in general feel paranoid and very defensive, and consider self-mockery to be "betraying their people." Everyone thinks he/she is an underdog, and that he/she has no choice but to lash out at all the "oppressors" out there. And, as with many insecure people, this tends to bring out the bully in them.
A shorter and better version of the centipede joke would be, “…more often than a masochistic centipede.” Bam it’s shorter, actually makes sense, funny.
The thing about harmful jokes is that they’re framed like “It’s funny because it’s ironic” when lots of people will think “it’s funny because it’s true”. Edit: Watch the part at 14:40 before replying
I think a lot of people just use the word ironic to excuse themselves of their actual opinions because they're 4chan dwellers who never developed the ability to endorse their own beliefs.
@@cameronsitton501 A lot of people don't WANT to distinguish between comedy and bullying. They really, deep down, know better but they don't want to let anything get in the way of their bullying or shitting on others. As the video explains, a lot of conservative comedy these days is just thinly veiled right wing talking points proffered by rich conservative organisations and others who want to stoke culture wars. It would take courage to move back to actual comedy and not culture wars, but most people doing this don't want to give up ground in the culture wars and are just angry about the things the left is doing or saying. So people definitely know better, but it would take courage and commitment to move back to actual comedy, courage which a lot of people lack. But yeah, I definitely don't think it is for a lack of knowing better most of the time, but more a moral failing on behalf of many people.
I think it's just different flavors of bullying. Like look, you're presumably a perfectly normal person like the rest of us. Normal people usually have no real trouble distinguishing between, say, a "dark joke" and outright racism. Like for example, if I say "How many cops does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" followed by "None, they'll just beat the room for being black." That joke is built on racism, however it's clearly not a racist joke because it's a simple commentary on American police relations with black people. The racism IS the the butt of the joke. Misery and suffering is the essence of comedy. However, on the part of these Rightwing comedians, they're not aware of exactly why that joke might be funny. Because they state similar forms of jokes TO the one I just mentioned, but somehow the minority suffering IS the joke, not "Gee, isn't it super fucked up that we still do this?" On the flipside, you've got a type of bully that's existed since the beginning of human history and has gained massive levels of traction in recent years among the Social Justice movement's more.... Shitty members: Gaslighters. The Right's absolutely getting more mileage out of it these days, but the people who gaslight others into thinking their sense of humor was racist and hateful for even Mentioning race or gender if they didn't Expressly belong to the demographic in question (and even then "Those one's never count" if a minority person ever has an opinion or viewpoint contrary to the sensitivity mob, like Latin nations and Latin Americans calling American SJW's a bunch of culture-abusing hypocrites for trying to tell them their own language of Spanish was sexist for having gendered nouns like EVERY LATIN-derived language Does!) ...For the record I am absolutely on the Left and in favor of equal and civil rights and the above is Not representative of my general opinion of Social Justice, just the worst examples of the community.
I had to rewatch the example of a good trans joke several times over. Never do I see a joke about us that’s not only pro our existence, but it wasn’t even political. It’s a completely innocent, positive joke about a group of people, and the fact that it shocked me with that is telling.
It's also just incredibly good set-up and payoff. Because the set-up is exactly the expectation of what most teams jokes are, so the punchline lands harder because there's a whole meta layer. It's great.
we are living in a cage where jokes are becoming outlawed. the left are doing tis so that the corporations get full power over our speech. Trans people will be abandoned once we lose free speech. China did this with identity politics. The good identities were abandoned after the revolution.
Conservative comedy is not funny because it is bad "dark humor". Dark humor in this sence is just being racist or a bigot, and this is the punchline. Nothing more, nothing less; after you say they are being racists and bigots, they just start crying saying that you dont get their jokes
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@S.L.F. I had a stroke reading this.
The "Hello Fresh" Commercial? Sold me with the word "Union"!
Love you Cody
I hope Cody doesn’t read this.
Where are the spliced clips of chappelle spreading missinformation about trans people in his special?
You put a clip of another comedian after saying chappelles jokes spread misinformation and are harmful....
This brings to mind one of my favorite Pratchett quotes “Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying.”
I miss that man 😔
Everybody at sime time in life are hurting whats your point?
@@Gromkiii whataboutism isn't funny. Or even relevant.
Remember that the point is that to them LGBTQ+ people are the ones trying to rule their life and stripping away their freedom, doesn't mean it is true though
Kicking a person when on one knee is hardly the stuff of comedic lessons.
This only is funny if said person was a total douchebag. At this point its more satisfying.
When my dad heard that Chappelle's special was offending the "woke snowflakes", he jumped at the chance to watch it. I think we were only 5 minutes in when he turned it off because he got angry at the Mike Pence jokes.
Edit: My dad is doing a lot to grow as a person. I am super proud of him and how he has been becoming more conscious of the struggles each person and group are going through. This was just one of those times in the past that he fell to right-wing group-think, and it eventually helped him come to great realizations.
your dad is a woke snowflake
Lmao
Leave poor Mike Pence alone! God damn it, make fun of the lesbians and black people more!
That's so ironic.
Uh oh, he got offended! You know what that means...
With that Gutfeld joke I was so confused that my brain tried to piece it together as the punchline being "I guess he's having sex with his massage therapist".
same lol
I didn’t get it either
That was not a threesome joke? I'm not joking. I find it hard to believe it isn't one. Mainly because i'd have a hard time to get into someones head thats so squared up that they made that joke, not even think about the sexual connotation and still think its funny.
same, I think that might actually be it.
WAS THAT NOT THE JOKE?!
Okay but "gender reveal grenades" is a decent setup for a good joke article. Like "after witnessing the myriad horrors inflicted upon its citizens domestically, the US Army has decided to weaponize gender reveal parties abroad. A spokesperson for the Army has said 'in addition to the increased effectiveness of these grenades, we think this will also improve morale, since soon-to-be parents will get to experience the joy of discovering the gender of their unborn child right before they get gunned down in a desert a thousand miles away from home in a pointless war'".
Let’s not forget about the fires they’ll cause!
The only joke liberals have is "hur durr Republicans are stupid!" Over and over
I would buy your grifter razors
"If massage therapists won't go near you without backup... don't publicize it" is more free legal advice than any human should need
SERIOUSLY
Thanks for clearing that joke up for me, I was completely at a loss.
What is this in reference to?
@@stanhartley5311 I... I actually have no idea either. All I have is my longstanding distrust of social conservatives, and this brief, scintillating lapse in judgement on one of their part. I'm just really excited it made sense OUTside of my head, too.
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We call stuff like that, "Schrodinger's Douchebag": Whether or not you're serious or joking depends on the reaction of the audience.
And more than often it's both at the same time because they want to have their cake and eat it, too. They apologize publicly and then in some private platform wink at their audience and say "just kidding" because they still want their paycheck. And usually that just ends up pissing off both sides as we see whenever republicans turn on each other after one of them tries to even slightly denounce someone else's bigotry. If your whole thing is that you're this are this arrogant prick, slightest sign of weakness just ruins everything
Oh yes, the narcissists game of plausible deniability
Not knowing if your career is alive or dead until you open your phone and check
A 78 minute video trying to convince you that liberals are more funny is the most hilarious thing. This is the only funny liberal joke I've seen in years lol
@@GeronimoPlaz it's not that Liberals are more funny. Conservatives aren't funny to begin with. And the video breaks down why their comedy falls apart. Another thing I notice about Conservatives is that they have 0 media literacy.
Dennis Miller actually did the 'accidental satire of himself' thing on the Daily Show once. He was talking about how 'the left' wants to get rid of coal and oil, and his response was - 'What will we use instead, solar power? That's all well and good now, but what happens when the sun blows up in 5 billion years? These people don't have any long-term solutions!' - Which is a great joke if you're making fun of how bad the takes of fossil-fuel defenders are, but he seemed to think he was mocking environmentalists by saying it...
Amazing argumentation, ehh i mean joke :)
Did he talk about somebody's acting "chops" or mention that he was on SNL for five minutes and therefore knows everything about show business?
I went to Dennis Miller’s taping of his show in like 1991. He was a real jerk when not taping and not in a “I’m so rude it’s funny” it was just annoying
The real truth is that conservatives have embraced humor so much, they've decided to *be* the punchline.
Just think, he’s one of the funnier conservatives. Good god
Regarding trans humour, I'm a trans woman and my roommate told me the funniest joke I'd ever heard, I'm disappointed I didn't think of it myself.
We're huge D&D nerds in the friend group, and after long contemplation after me coming out, he utters "You're just multiclassing."
I was wheezing. It's startling accurate to my experience. I wasn't offended at all. If anything it validated my experience as a trans person in that moment. Like the cute feet joke!
As always love the Showdy.
😂
Bard into Druid
"I'm transfem" is just a shorter way of saying "I only ever play tieflings."
My sister is big in electronics.
That's because she's my trans-sister.
Sorry
@@oskarhenriksen that’s terrible
I love it
I really like how he broke down that gutfeld joke because, as he explained, I had no goddamn idea what was going on
Same, it went right over my head, and not in a good way either. Overly complicated "jokes" are a sign of someone who isn't funny or intelligent enough to make them land.
I'm still not convinced it qualifies as a joke. It's backwards, obtuse, and the punchline is "I get a nightly massage from two masseuses?" That's not a joke, that's some sort of weird bragging at best. It tells you a lot about Gutfeld and his writers that they even considered that a joke, let alone one that made air.
Fox news is trash propaganda that is just as bad as CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times.
Me either.
I like how he emphasizes "GUT" in Gutfeld
"I don't know, I don't read the comments."
Very sensible decision
wait... I'm reading the comments... *oh*
The comments are like a party, there's something there that will trigger anxiety for everyone!
@@naomistarlight6178 This is stressing me out!
Lord grant me the serenity to not read the comments, the courage to not read the comments, and the wisdom to not read the comments.
Rush Limbaugh's funniest joke? Throat Cancer. Is it funny? Nah.
I feel like this is why absurdist humor has EXPLODED, the satire era was semi retired because it got stale and we couldn't satirize reality when it was getting so insane so we collectively said "fuck it lets just get weird"
I shall send you a picture of the surface of some water with the text "Spain" on it with no context.
I snorted at that.
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I haven't noticed any "explosion" of absurdist humor. Perhaps I'm out of touch...?
But what you're saying makes a lot of sense.
@@lewsouth1539 If you don't understand, it's probably because you have a healthy social life and are not terminally online
Humor needs tension, it needs to defy your expectations somehow. Conservatives are about reinforcing expectations, about *not* adjusting to new things. It’s incompatible with humor.
The Chappelle clip about JK Rowling shows just how meaningless the word "cancelled" has become. He claims that "they cancelled her" but there's a new Fantastic Beasts movie coming out and there's a Hogwarts video game too. Gee, I wish I could be cancelled like that. Since then, some people have also claimed that Dave Chappelle has been cancelled too, despite him having suffered no consequences whatsoever. The definition of "cancelled" truly is "criticised for expressing a right-wing position".
"Our attempt to cancel didn't work therefore cancelling doesn't exist..." wow you're lack of self awareness is sad
You do realise that games and movies take years to make most of the time
@@liammarshall393 , yes I do. Three things though:
1. Many people have had an issue with JK Rowling for years now.
2. People are still reading her books and watching movies and playing games based on them.
3. Not only has she not lost anything professionally, as far as I'm aware, she hasn't been removed from any social media or suffered any other consequences.
This is a perfect example of how "cancelled" really just means "criticised". It's always the same people whining about lack of free speech that whine about being cancelled when others exercise free speech.
@@liammarshall393 And? People still love her books, just not her and her neo-liberal bullshit. She hangs out with anti-abortion organizations and claims to be a feminist. That's an oxy-moron.
@@wunnell Andrew tate got kicked off every major platform for his "free speech" so cancel culture is definitely a thing
"King of the Hill" to me is an example of good conservative humor. The reason it works is because even when it presents characters who are exaggerated liberal stereotypes, it's clearly just poking fun in a friendly way as opposed to this barely suppressed tone of "I would eliminate people like this from the planet if I could." Also the show made just as much fun of conservative Hank and his friends as it did any other characters. It wasn't purposefully trying to trigger or troll anyone, but just to make people of all types laugh at themselves.
That seems like a fair assessment to me.
King of the hill in general is a satire of conservatives though
@@verifiedhandle9103 It's also a satire of liberals, who are often the antagonists. Generally, the antagonists of KotH episodes were outsiders who threaten to change the world that Hank is so comfortable in. The thing that made it great conservative comedy was precisely that it wasn't political and they didn't punch down.
I say all the time "king of the hill is so conservative that it's liberal" I think it's one of the only things in life that theory can apply to
Also KotH's conservatism isn't usually the aggressive brand of conservatism. It's down-to-earth and understandable. The characters feel like people I could have a decent conversation with without worrying about getting insulted or hurt.
"Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying."
Terry Pratchett
I think it can be more nuanced that. If the person being made fun is not in a position of power, but they *think* they are, and if they unquestionably bully others they can also be legitimate targets of irony. Evangelicals who stand on their soapboxes to rail against “welfare queens” are 100% worthy of being satirized. Or rather, their hypocrisy is worthy of satire. Hypocrisy is always worthy of satire, regardless of the group the hypocrite belongs to.
We are laughing at the horribly inane people who are taken seriously and destroying the country.
The problem with that frame is that leftists are constantly battling for a position of “powerlessness” to constantly play victim even when the left narrative has a great deal of influence in our current society.
For example, most workplaces now have mandated indoctrination in leftist dogma such as pronoun policing and a majority of news mediums favour a left wing narrative.
Right wing comedy which satirizes the left Isn’t going after specific vulnerable people, it’s a mockery of the rediculousness of leftist dogma propagated by powerful movements and organizations
@@stuflikethis Ideas like this are why leftists make jokes about right wing stupidity and delusion.
@@stuflikethis Yes, the "left wing narrative" (aka: just don't be a dick) has a great deal of influence. But a trans person isn't a "left wing narrative". A black person isn't a "left wing narrative". They're _people_ and while the generalized "narrative" might have power, those _people_ still don't. The law hasn't caught up with the "narrative" and if anything the social contract surrounding marginalized groups has been regressing over the past few years thanks to Trumpism.
A trans woman being beaten for simply being who she is doesn't really care how her story gets framed on tomorrow's news - she wants to not get beaten in the first place. "The narrative" is just words and no matter how many people repeat those words, until they translate into actual action its not actually "powerful" - its just popular.
Best way to deal with racist/conservative jokes is to politely smile and ask them to explain it.
Continue to do so. Either they get angry because you just don't "get it" or they get uncomfortable because they have to explain their own racism.
Both are equally funny to watch!
I mean, thatd ruin any joke but i agree with the sentiment
@@MixinnitupIt doesn't ruin Stewart Lee jokes! In fact, 80% of his routine is explaining his jokes to a subatomic level while slowly becoming more and more unhinged. It's absolute gold.
@@MixinnitupNot every joke makes you feel uncomfortable to explain. Just the ones that reveal cruelty and bigotry.
Weird that almost all racist jokes I’ve ever heard weee told by liberals.
@@fredlebhart1393 Sick anecdote bro
I for one appreciate that he pronounced the "!" in "Gutfeld!" every single time he said it.
It's the little things in life that matter.
reminded me of Jeb Bush's slogan, "Jeb!"
Gee, I wonder why Gutfeld (!) gave up trying to be a comedian and moved into the right-wing propaganda industry… 🤔
It's like a terrible 80's syndicated comedy show title.
Saturdays at 5:30pm, comedy hijacks abound with curmudgeony ex golfer turned political writer, THAT'S GUTFELD!
Amazing how the Gutfeld(!) bit gets more of a laugh out of me than any of Gutfeld(!)'s jokes.
I remember when "Fox-worthy" was a specific comedian and not a cutting assessment of a comedian's lack of skill.
Wasn’t that when a fox-worthy book was worth a laugh, but not because it was a cash grab shallow expose ghost written for a politician/bureaucrat who aided and/or abetted a crime president before their career washed away in the fallout.
Damn, nice one.
ZING!
That is high-caliber zingery, well done! :D
Christopher Titus was talking about how he had to stop working with some and correct entertainment folks to “Not call me a fox-worthy comedian. Because there’s no comedy on Fox today. You can’t be actually funny and be considered funny to Fox because you’re not punching up. If you make a joke and the only people laughing are rich? You’re not funny, you’re a fucking court jester.”
Once again we see why "cancel culture" culture is so exhausting. I wish Rowling hadn't said what she said, but people still buy her books, she's still worth nine figures (no longer a billionaire, since she gave so much to charity), she continues to write and be published. She wasn't cancelled. She was criticized.
Who has actually ever been cancelled anyway, besides Louis CK, whom wasn't actually cancelled but more like, charged with a sex crime, only to be bathed in multitudes right on his first shows after the brunt of the whole thing passed?
@@granudisimo Loads of people have been cancelled for all sorts of things. Mainly, for being too leftist or trying to unionize or something. But it is very rare for anyone actually big, powerful and very well known are cancelled.
A number of, to be fair, medium sized youtube channels (or breadtube big, if you will) have been cancelled. ContraPoints were cancelled for having Buck Angel as a voice actor on a video, for instance.
@@Taeerom people forget the whole Red Scare led to a fucktonne of entertainers, producers, directors and writers being blacklisted in Hollywood. Maybe conservatives are afraid of getting their fair share?
Lemme rephrase then.
Who has actually ever been cancelled for doing the things conservatives accuse the leftist mass media (HA! If wishes where horses) of cancelling them for?
Or
How does the Intellectual Dark Web get away with calling themselves that, precisely when they're successfully using the same "not dark web" as everybody else? (I mean, Facebook for crying out loud, it doesn't get more mainstream and normie than that)?.
@@Taeerom Think you are oversimplifying the issue here. Contrapoints wasn't cancelled for having Angel as a voice actor, she was criticized. Then she doubled down, and has since made other problematic comments and has slowly fallen out of grace (in some circles).
The instigating event of her loss of popularity (has she actually lost popularity?) did not cancel her
Hot take: "Schools to Get Around CRT Bans by Just Beating White Kids with Sticks" genuinely got a hearty laugh from me. Maybe it's just the absurd imagery or the phrasing, but that one I think is genuinely funny.
Agree, but for me it wasn't that I was laughing at the joke as much as I was at them. Meaning, their understanding of CRT is so far off the f**king map that they think this is what CRT does: it just exists to make white kids feel bad about being white. In that, conservatives think it's funny because that's what they believe, and I'm over here laughing at how absurd and stupid their beliefs are.
Can you explain the joke?
Yep I laughed, it's an Onion type joke. Not the best joke but not the worst I've heard.
@@didibus Like the video said - The joke is actually satirizing the absurd perception that conservatives have about CRT. It parodies their extreme fear of a liberal-fascist takeover of the school system. Coming from a liberal outlet, it would be a biting commentary. Coming from a conservative outlet, it's just weird... As for a real world example of this sentiment, look at the organization Moms for Liberty, a conservative group that advocates against academic materiel containing any mention of race or ethnicity.
Now you could argue that the joke satirizes liberals - the satire being: that liberals are oppressing white children by pushing racial equity showing their hypocrisy. The issue with this reading, is that there isn't any basis for the satire. There aren't any white children being oppressed by CRT. Maybe a few feel butt hurt that their great-great-great grandparents owned slaves, but that has nothing to do with racial oppression, it's just fragile privilege showing through at that point. This is why the satire is incredibly weak from that POV. The satire itself is nearly useless, except to play into the audience's preconceived notions about something they are butt hurt about (namely CRT curriculum).
@@didibusConservative snowflakes think the purpose of CRT is to make white children feel bad by informing them that systematic racism exists, so the joke here is that instead of potentially hurting children's feelings by teaching them... history about people who look like them, they'll instead just physically assault them and make them feel bad that way.
Because conservatives sincerely believe that the only reason schools teach children about things like slavery is to make white children specifically feel bad.
Back in my day, saying something hurtful on purpose to upset someone was called an “insult”
I actually like that "back in my day".
Keep at it.
Calling someone out because of evil deeds he did is not personal insult even if hurts this person because exposed him what he is. Chappelle do exactly this to the gay community and that's way can't stand him.
@@Gromkiii I can’t barely tell why you’re trying to say but the gay community is absolutely lovely, you’ve clearly never spent time around LGBT+ people because they’re the most understanding, patient, fun-loving, easy-going people. Don’t get fooled by the media that targets your ignorance.
@@firstlast-wg2on in my experience i can say its true
I was once in an edgy alt-right phase when i was a teen, so i wasnt open to any friendship with a member of the lgbtq community
when i started growing out of that phase and starting opening up to members of the lgbtq community, i ended up having the pleasure of befriending the sweetest, most kind and comprehensible person i have ever met (who nowadays is my best friend)
I cant say everybody is the same because there is always a bad apple in any group of people
But what i can say is that by letting yourself be guided by prejudice just ends up making you lose many oportunities of knowing pretty awesome people
They dont want to destroy the western civilization, to corrupt our children, to turn your country into a communist distopia
They are just normal people who just want to live their lives free from being judged for something that doesnt even harm other people
Edit: My only shame is that it took me so long to figure out something so simple lol
Yeah, there was a whole genre called "insult comics" or "hack comics". People take themselves too seriously these days.
There is joke about leftist, which I genuinely like:
Three leftist meet and then form four subgroups
Funny thing, I heard variations of this jokes told about leftists, artists, liberals, Ukrainians, Russians, French, British and Jews.
"why are you two fighting each other"
me: HE'S SCUM HE SLIGHTLY DISAGREES WITH ME!
the other leftist: YOU B@ST@RD I'LL K1LL YOU!
"what do you two disagee on"
me: the type of communism america should be!
@hognoxious that one I don't get... also don't see how it's related other than numbers not adding up. Is the joke that somebody is lying about the numbers?
there are 7 possible unique (though not nonoverlapping) subgroups of 3. all three, each possible 2, and each 1 alone.
Three [humans] meet and then form four subgroups
The most shocking revelation I've had this year was the discovery that Ben Garrison, the man who once drew Trump tilting at windmills like Don Quixote, was totally sincere and massively misunderstood one of the seminal works of Western literature.
Oh my god xD
Was fun to watch him try to say Don Quixote meant the exact opposite of what it actually does.
@@Rawnblade13 what a good role model that Don quixote guy is. Totally best dude totally being a 100% real brave knight who isint assaulting random people in his delusions
Something was certainly semenal about those works alright!
You really shouldn't be surprised at all but somehow I relate to your surprise lol
To be fair the "maybe you run a mom and pop weapons conglomerate" was very hilarious
“It’s not exclusive to the Right, but the Right seems to do it almost exclusively,” was an absolute gem of a sentence.
The words almost confuse, but the logic is crystal clear; it's great!
I think you call that giving with one hand and taking with the other.
@@f0xygem I’m lost. “Everyone does this, that being said this group does only this” is the conceit, how is that giving with one hand and taking away with the other?
Michelle Wolf with Huckabee Sanders, Tina Fey and Seth Meyerd with Sarah Palin, Full Frontal and Ivanka...it happens all the time both ways and sometimes more mean spirited than others.
Then you can look at violence. Now, we can say physical violence and near death is nowhere near the harm of words...but both are done with one mindset. Ze Party.
Bombarded with Groupthink. Endorphins for being liked to saybwjat the establishment wants you to say to further their agenda...which isn't really good. Look what they do and not say. OG Nazzees are right there on the left with the Soviets, Fascists and Totalitarian regimes. All those major powers before and at start of war were complimenting each other including US for its Fascism and Euthanasia to support Eugenics.
History is there to see even with the supported burning of books.
@@bakerfresh Hey bud?
Fascism is a right wing ideology.
It's totalitarian ultranationalist conservatism.
"Why are you telling me I'm insincere?"
"Because I... I know who you are. Good day, Steven."
My favourite dialogue of all time, why would Crowder even include this in his original video lmao
So the ghouls could make "misgendering" jokes or something
ever
@@kashthrills this
That man is a treasure (not Steven, the guy who called him out)
@@larissabrglum3856 The hero that we need.
"Like a fruit fetishist, forces always come in pairs" is genius level comedy
I love puns
a highlight
pears
Cum
I totally heard "foot fetishist" and as a result a different pun made me snort haha 😄
@@Sailortwilight Six inch black pumps❓
the babylon bee makes me so much more appreciative of the onion. it’s really just a look into an alternate universe where the onion sucks weird smooth balls
It stinks, because they were actually genuinely funny when they did the satire about church culture.
@@Onattamato And church culture needs ppl who understand it from inside to tease them. Jokes by hostile jerks who know nothing about church life are worthless, and rarely funny.
That’s not an alternative universe, that’s the actual universe. The onion sucks. Babylon Bee rules. Accurate knowledge of human anatomy for the win!
The Onion was never funny. In fact, some of their “classic“ articles were and are downright problematic. That “Four Generations of Viewers Demand Sitcom Reparations” article was racist and homophobic as fuck; it speaks volumes that the only shows they could remember actual plotlines of were *Silver Spoons* and *Webster,* both shows with Blacks and Gay MEN in their respective casts. Just for that, I want reparations for that article alone! And that whole “autistic reporter” shtick was so ableist it constituted a hate crime. Make it cash.
Shitlibs aren’t funny. The Onion is not funny. It does not make me laugh. Babylon Bee is funny. It makes me laugh out loud. No, I’m not just saying that to support “my team.” In fact, the writers are Jewish, but they don’t know it yet.
Liberalism is nothing but hostile jerks these days. That’s how it’s always been. That’s why Archie Bunker carried on for another five years without the meathead dragging him down.
Someone once said about Steven Crowder, “I’m glad his bio says ‘Comedian.’ You’d have no way of knowing otherwise.”
hbomberguy?
@@retro_aqua_ yes
XD
That's actually a funny joke... And I actually think Crowder is funny sometimes.
The same goes for Trevor Noah, if his show wasn't broadcasted on Comedy Central, i wouldn't wait for a decent joke forever.
I really do not like Critical race theory being called "CRT" because I cannot for the life of me hear "CRT" without thinking Cathode Ray Tube.
Lol!
I also think "critical". But I may have burned too many hours playing rpg's.
Or CRT TV’s.
Saaame
@@pepearown4968 that’s what I’m referring to here cathode ray tube televisions
I understood the Gutfeld massage joke from the getgo, then did the exact song and dance that Cody described where I thought, "I'm missing something." Like three minutes into Cody talking about how dumb the joke was I was still going over the punchline in my mind, genuinely feeling stupid, until finally he revealed that the punchline meant exactly what I thought did to begin with. Never before have I heard a joke so horrendously bad that my brain actually rejected the punchline outright. This joke LITERALLY caused me pain.
Your own expectations for comedy made you reject the “punchline” because you assumed it couldn’t be that stupid. I think we all went through that. It really is embarrassing how bad it is.
My brain did exactly what Cody said. I honestly didn't get it and after he explained it I was still like "that can't be it? Right?"
I originally thought gutfeld was saying he pays two masseuses for a happy finish?
I had a similar experience lol. Not as bad, but also with the native American/blackjack mascot thing.
I was like "...Is the school known for producing casino owners? Do they have blackjack championships or something? Huh, weird."
"...OH IT'S A RACIAL STEREOTYPE, RIIIIIIGHT. Because of course it is."
Honestly, when I heard it, all I heard was a rich white guy bragging about having not one but two massage therapists on him at once. Also, I just kind of assumed the massage therapists were prostitutes because that's what I would expect from a guy that looks and dresses and speaks like him.
"The facial hair of a tech-age viking and the secret misogyny of a regular viking"
I'm not saying the Norse people weren't misogynistic, but in many of their kingdoms a guy would get done for rape if he tried to feel up a woman and she stabbed him, which is better than most modern justice systems on the matter of sexual assault.
That’s kind of the reason why the joke works so well though.
The Vikings weren’t any stretch of feminist by todays standards, but at the time, they where incredibly progressive in comparison. In fact their whole legal system, while maybe not quite as complex and nuanced as some contemporaries, was surprisingly egalitarian (again, in comparison at least).
So yeah… the secret misogyny of a regular Viking is more or less correct!
Yeah, the vikings were comparatively progressive in their treatment of their OWN women.
Outsiders, on the other hand...
@@rocknroll909What do you mean by "outsiders" in this case, or rather, outsiders as it pertains to such women? The Vikings were known to raid their "own" settlements; remember that the notion of "national/ethnic identity," and especially recognising it as particularly important, are comparatively quite modern concepts, historical racism notwithstanding.
What I'm getting at is that people who got raided (successfully) by Vikings were likely to only have 2 outcomes in their immediate future: either they immediately got unalived violently, or they got enslaved. Now, it wasn't actually known as a slave back then, but a "thrall". Among those "enthralled", yes, it might well have sucked _badly_ to be a woman in particular. There'd be a high risk that she got 🍇'd in the process, even repeatedly, for one thing. And if she was attractive or otherwise "of value" in particular, and one of the raiders took a liking to her, she could become a personal prize, or sold off/gifted as "worthy loot". It was not uncommon for them to become "mistresses" (or even wives, iirc), and it goes without saying that this would, unless she came to like her captor, essentially be systematic SA at the least.
In most cases though, thralls became workers and domestic servants. And afaik, there weren't much difference in whether they originally came from a viking background or something else. And compared to the modern notion of slavery, which is basically thought of as New World-style chattel slavery, Viking thralls were treated better and even had a _modicum_ of rights, including that they regularly bought their own freedom. See, the notion of thralls actually had its roots as a form of indentured servitude - a person could pay off a debt to another by becoming their thrall. It follows that being a thrall were thus not necessarily seen as an inherently permanent state of being, and so the culture and legal system surrounding them were in accordance with this.
I feel I should add, though, that I'm obviously not trying to defend the practice or make it seem "wholesome" or whatever. I just wanted to add some historical context, in that you seemed to maybe have some misconceptions (however minor they might actually be in the grand scheme of things, wrt. the actual horrors that were still inherent to Viking thrall practices).
I didn't know gutfeld was supposed to be a late night comedian. Then again, like Cody's weird and smooth balls, I've never voluntarily looked at him.
goddammit
(chuckling gleefully to myself)
SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH
Delicious wordplay.
...
... just like Cody's weird smooth ba-*WHACK*-OW, sorry! Too soon.
I don't get it. How would Cody's weird and smooth balls voluntarily look at GUTFELD? Wouldn't the pants get in the way?
As a non-USA-citizen, I have never heard of Gutfeld until now, but he feels like a mediocre half-assed news anchor character who escaped a B-movie and has somehow ended up in our reality.
We must find that portal.
The people that come out of it are just just not good.
As an American citizen, I never heard of him until today lol. Honestly wish I never had.
He is - that about right
Also was t he someone who called himself a nice guy or do all the news people look alike?
Pretty similar to John Oliver and Trevor Noah actually.
I had encountered Gutfeld when checking out Facebook profiles of rightwingers. Almost as popular as Tucker Carlson.
Hadn't actually heard him. Now I have...
I recently had a discussion with somebody claiming Gutfeld was "the king of comedy" because he had the biggest numbers.
When I asked him if he considered McDonalds to be the best food on earth or the Ford F series to be the best car because they where bough most, he called me a pedo.
Figures .... somehow.
That discussion was a microcosm of the conservative mindset and ability to have a debate.
I don't believe it. T hat's how leftists argue because the left doesn't believe in logic. Leftists believe a logical argument can be beaten by an argument that is illogical but told by the proper identity politic. Your story sounds like a person that lost their ability to understand logic. The right are very logical. They don't think like that at all.
@@nuckygulliver9607 sure, because you said so right?
I mean, you didn't provide any evidence, so surely we should just believe you despite clear and obvious facts to the contrary (vaccine hesitation, January 6th, etc)
Mcdonalds is the king of food, just on pure accesability. It represents a treat to so many poor kids (or former poor kids), that to millions, it is the best in the world (Best in a cost/nutrion/flavour combo).
Same with the F-150. A bunch of people will agree that if that many people are buying it, it is the best all around vehicle.
@@kyleellis1825 whoosh
The conservative comedian stance seems to be that if people aren't laughing, it's the fault of the people not laughing. That's one of the biggest issues, in my opinion. Every comedian out there is capable of being bad, every comedian no matter affiliation is guilty of sometimes writing jokes their audience doesn't understand, but the major difference is how leftist comedians will change their jokes to fit the audience reaction they want and conservatives will just blame the audience if they're not finding it funny.
The way the Planet Fitness manager handled Crowder was probably the funniest bit in the whole video.
🤣 Bye, Steve.
I especially adore how he did NOT want anyone else to know that he did, in fact, know who Steven Crowder was, just kind of off to the side whispering and reluctantly admitting it.
And honestly? I don't want anyone to know I know who Steven Crowder is, his existence is embarrassing and knowing about it is embarrassing in it's own way
"Have a good day, Steven." Poor guy, he was not having a fun time.
nah the babylon bee skit when they admit they can't think of another joke, thinking that is the new joke, and that my feeling genuinely sorry for them for being so little self-aware, in a skit about being self-aware, is the punchline - or so they keep saying
@@yosha101 From my understanding, Steven has been kicked out of Planet Fitness a lot, and always for the same reason: dropping the weights and setting off the alarm. So it's probable that they just recognized him from the last time he had to be removed for being disruptive.
The “Have a good day, Steven” from that Planet Fitness Manager killed me. It feels like a total summation of the Crowder episode.
It's such a polite way to tell him to fuck off. So elegant.
it's kind of like "I really want to say that "I hope you are ok" because I really do hope that, but I can't say that because it will come off like an attack"
@@kugelblitzingularity304it's also a stinging indifference. Like, "i know you who you are, l didn't react because i dont care...now leave".
@@iswearimofage It totally disarms the bit as well. Showing no signs of an emotional reaction ruins their "trolling".
I almost felt a little sorry for Chowder at this point. Almost. Then I remembered that he is an absolute throbbing sphincter.
The fact that he chose to leave this in is just baffling. It’s almost as if he is entirely lacking in anything resembling self awareness.
95% of conservative comedy is "does my being a trash person trigger you"
conservatives punch down. its about mocking those less fortunate. thats why it sucks so hard.
Something Sure triggered you.
So what is the other 5% of conservative comedy....Material that never made it unto Seinfeld???
@@jebidiahnewkedkracker1025 that's those 2 comedians Cody showed near the end of the video
@@jebidiahnewkedkracker1025
It's "I'm not saying my tenants are deadbeats, but ..."
And "I had the last laugh when I stole their deposits!".
The one and only conservative punchline: U MAD BRO?
That's it. They have knenthr one joke, and it only has one punchline.
The exasperated "Have a good day Steven" is the funniest thing in that entire Crowder clip
Imagine if he said "See you next week Steven" 😏
@@ellagage1256 😳🥚🐣
@@ellagage1256 Every retailer in his local area must have had conversation with their employees at some point about "What to do when Steven Crowder shows up doing something stupid". This was not that dude's first rodeo with Crowder.
@@ellagage1256 "OK, so last week you were a Muslim, this week you're trans. Which group are you going to badly impersonate next week? Windmills?"
It's literally gold, that dude deserves a medal.
“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.” - E.B.White Babylon Bee apparently didn't get the memo.
You see, it's funny because Babylon Bee isn't
casually late by 81 years
@A.J. Well that's called vivisection and it's ethically tricky
That bit of DailyWire "satire" is comically, tragically bad. There's so much that could be dissected just in that final list alone, but one jumped out at me in particular: imagine having the audacity of telling the Iroquoian Clan Mothers that post-Columbian Euroamericans brought women's suffrage to the continent.
And the Mayans had written language and books. And the Aztecs had philosophers.
No wonder Hollywood didn't want him
They seem so fucking up their own ass they would need to pool noodle to sit anywhere
They like to claim Greek culture in their heritage but they never mention that it’s always been ‘in the east’ of the cultures, Muslim cultures saved its legacy from oblivion and the ‘Spartan myth’ that seems to excite their military was only possible because of widespread slavery.
Conservatives love to claim ancient authority, but they are really the handbrake in the car on a journey to a better humanity.
And their angry comedians don’t understand comedy.
Long live warmbo
@@mr.dalerobinson I absolutely loathe the idolization of the Spartans. I'd love to see some Helot-centric narratives enter into the pop culture consciousness to show that the Spartans were not the brave defenders of liberty they're often portrayed as.
I’ve said this before, but blue collar comedy show wasn’t really conservative, just working class. A lot of working class people are liberals.
They have liberal ideals, but would never describe themselves as "liberals"
Yeah, i don't think Ron White was actually conservative, or at least his jokes weren't. Ironically, he was the only truly funny one of the group.
I think the "even the funniest joke will fall flat if told by someone with bad intentions" answers the question perfectly
You gotta be able to vibe to be funny, and if there's anyone who can't vibe it's conservative Americans enslaved to the media machine
@@grimble4564 They're so vibeless it literally makes me laugh out loud to even imagine one of them thinking they're anything but
@@grimble4564 why is it so hard for lefties to be self aware? The smugness is so pervasive with you people.
@@grimble4564 ; of course, by "vibing" you mean being part of the hive-mind. No, we don't vibe with YOU and your imaginary genders.
Yeah but Chapelle will die thinking he tells those jokes in good faith. To them, they are just saying the truth and getting punished for it.
So here's something about the Brexit joke which, whilst structurally funny, has incredibly rotten contents which means it falls flat. Pro-Brexit people were heavily involved in drafting the plans to leave and many ran on positions on having "A great deal" when the UK would eventually leave the EU whilst some ran on an idea that they didn't need one. This comedian has restructured reality to make a joke and make it appear as if it was the Anti-Brexit people are the bad guys who caused the problem... and I swear that was the point on the last episode on Steven Crowder and his humour?
Tucker Carlson recently did a bit about Joe Biden turning Orange and how it's making liberals nervous because "Orange man bad" and whilst I found it kinda funny as a well structured satire the more I thought about it the more rotten the joke's contents were. Liberals don't say "Orange man bad", it's conservatives who made up that parody and perpetuate it... So they're making a satirical joke about a liberal position which is actually also already a parody made up by the conservatives?
They can get bits here and there correct but usually it never works because either they don't know how to tell a joke or the contents are rotten, as the only way to make the joke work is to alter reality to make conservatives out to be the good guys
Exactly. That was my problem with the joke. It falls flat because he skewed it into a weird scenario where the person who didn't want to leave the E.U. was the crazy one because they didn't want to leave the... was it a restaurant? He made a wacky metaphor that has no basis in reality.
Really, Brexit was more like a bunch of conservatives taking the rest of the U.K. on a holiday promising that it would be fantastic, but once they got there, it was shitty and they would have to stay there until they figured out a plan to get home, which would be a problem because _OOPS_ nobody has money, but the conservatives play it up to the rest of the U.K. like the holiday was still the _best_ idea as they frantically try to fix their mistakes.
Sorry if that metaphor got out of hand. I'm not a comedian, but my point is that any problem caused by Brexit wasn't the fault of people who wanted to stay in the EU. Plus, he talked about it like people who wanted to stay were the tiniest minority when it was really close to 50/50.
Yeah, as someone who is actually informed about Brexit, this "joke" had exactly the same problem Cody described before: it rewrote reality, specifically the reality that in order to get Brexit over the line, "the easiest deal in history" was promised. So it is wrong that people first voted and then someone said "oh, lI need to go to make a deal", what actually happened is that those people in the room were promised "I will go an make a great deal" and then they voted for Brexit due to that promise....and if you start the very same joke with THAT premise, it is actually quite funny, but by leaving it out/reweiting reality, it becomes unworkable, becuae the basic premise is already a big lie.
He definitely missed the part where a majority-swinging amount of people who chose to leave the Burger King then immediately had to Google what Burger King was and were left with the impression they should probably stay in Burger King
It is curious, because I used to know Alistair, at least at a business level, and I remembering him leaving his job to become a comedian. I would have never guessed he was a right-wing comedian, I wonder how much is genuine?
@@studio_beasty I think you make a good point, maybe he's playing the right for easy publicity? Either way, the Austrians have a good saying for it : "If you sit at a table of 11 Nazi's and break bread with them, then that is a table of 12 Nazi's.". Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.
My right-leaning family members would watch conservative comedy with me around and when a “joke” would happen they would giggle, look at me and wait for a reaction. I would, of course, not laugh, but any facial tick I may had would result in knee-slapping laughter from them. Needless to say, we don’t talk much anymore.
So they themselves didn't even find the comedy funny, they just got a certain schadenfreude from your reaction...
@@berjanbeen7188 perfectly sums up conservative ideology
There's a bunch of research behind this. It's not just seeking a reaction (i.e. trolling), it's also seeking validation. When researchers asked people how much of a bad trait was the best amount to have, most people answered "none" or "less than average"... but people who scored high on traits of right-wing authoritarianism answered "an average amount". Because they didn't care if it was bad; they only cared if it was common. They know what they're doing is wrong, but they don't care as long as other people are doing it too. They need to believe that _everyone_ is bad, in order to feel okay about themselves.
So if you laugh with them, they feel validated about doing stuff they know is wrong. And if you _don't_ laugh with them, they feel hurt but cover it up by laughing at you.
@@ToyKeeper Gonna need more info on the "bad trait". Because "bad" in politics is subjective.
Ask a communist if it's "bad" to confiscate property from people and they'll say no, ask a liberal and they'd say yes. Your argument sounds biased and just a bit ridiculous to be real.
So the comedian on-screen wasn't even providing the punchline they were after.
On March 5, 1994, a little known cartoon called Duckman once had an episode where the main character gives a speech about comedy. And in his speech he said "But it's precisely when humor is offensive that we need it most. Comedy should provoke! It should blast through prejudices! Challenge preconceptions! Comedy should leave you different than when it found you....Demand to be challenged! To be offended! To be treated like thinking, reasoning adults!"
Now, the right has no problem offending or provoking people, but the last thing they want is to be challenged or to change in any way. Conservative comedy is all about just doubling down on your own shitty opinions. They don't want to be treated like thinking, reasoning adults, they just want everyone else to stop thinking and believe only in what they believe. Conservative comedy is bad because conservatism and comedy are directly antithetical to each other. Like oil and water, they don't mix.
As an intersex person, that's the quickest accurate description of sex variance, I know you don't read the comments but I hope someone from the team does! Really awesome
I tend to agree! I hope to see more stuff like this in the future
Do you have any good videos that explain intersex?
@@burnttoast8646 Or you could just read about it somehwere with better information, make a conclusion yourself, then say to yourself; "I'm not a bigot, I'm not insecure, and I don't worry about what others are doing, unless they are causing harm towards others.."
That's all.
No need for;
"y r u gAy!?"
or
"i was told gAy iS bAd bY My iGnoRaNt pAreNts, I believe that"
🤷🏽♂️🤣
@@RSAgility
WTF are you talking about?? I am asking an intersex person for more information about intersex people so I can learn more about it.
@@RSAgility A misunderstanding I sense. Strong it is.
I went to the beekeeper the other day to pick up a dozen bees.
When I got up to the counter he set a little cage on top with 13 bees inside.
"Hey man, that's thirteen bees. I only asked for twelve," I said.
He replies: "Oh yeah that one's a freebie."
Gonna get my boyfriend to break up with me over this excellent joke
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM
*disappointed upvote*
Can someone explain this to me?
The way I've heard the joke about fishing with religious people is "If you're going fishing, never bring a Mormon, because he'll drink all the beer. Bring two Mormons and then you'll have it all for yourself." I found it very funny at the time. I think that joke is very sensitive to details of timing and word choice.
I don’t get it
@@WillEnj0y Mormons can't drink alchohol.
If you bring one Mormon, they'll drink because they assume a non Mormon won't know that or wouldn't judge. If you bring two Mormons both will pretend they don't drink.
@@U562-l5l yeah he explained the similar joke in the video, I just wasn’t there yet haha
Now THAT is funny
Thank goodness Fox News decided to drown it in the bsthtub!!
That Columbus Day video left me speechless. That isn't satire, that's just pure, undiluted racism. I'm shocked.
But here's the funny thing, IF that video had been made by a non-conservative comedian, I'm 100% sure it would've been made in an actual satirical way that shows what an ignorant POV it is.
For example (and this is not me saying Family Guy is actually funny) but picture that showing up in Family Guy... most likely it would've been told by Peter (an absolute idiot) and everyone else would've reacted with horror. That's the point, it's a horrible opinion that can be so over the top wrong it can be funny.
The alarming thing is that the people behind that video made it because they actually believe it, not because it could be funny
The headline "Army Introduces New Gender Reveal Grenades For Trans Soldiers" got a chuckle out of me. Probably not for the reason the writer of the headline intended (I'm guessing "The Military is THIS woke now!"), but because gender reveal explosives are a bizarre concept and the idea that someone would come out as trans by using a pastel grenade in an active war zone makes about as much sense. And is sort of cute.
I'm imagining a soldier throwing a grenade into a building, followed by a loud bang and a big pink cloud billows out the windows. Then the soldier turns to their fellow comrades, tears in their eyes, only to be met by supportive nods, back-pats and hugs. As pained groans can be heard in the background from the grenaded building.
But at the same time there's already such a thing as colored smoke grenades, so simply making them come in either blue or pink isn't that much of an absurd stretch.
Yep, that does raise a funny picture.
But it's not really funny because trans people are against gender reveal. It just makes you sound dumb because you basically paint a strawman of reality when it's conservative leaning people who like gender reveal parties.
@@zr_1234 "Paint a strawman of reality" huh? Well, I wouldn't want to sound dumb. If I wanted that I'd use some sort of awkward mixed metaphor, for example.
Obviously gender reveal parties in reality suck and I'm well aware of who have them, thank you. The headline just made me think of a cuter alternate reality where they had been coopted into an extravagant way to come out as trans. I thought that was a bit funny, largely because that's kind of opposite what their function is in reality and because of how much that would piss off the type of people who traditionally have gender reveal parties.
Clearly it didn't strike you as funny the same way. That's fine.
@Kurt Hart Wait until you get the bill for the WiFi.
The trolling segment reminds me of Innuendo Studios' concept of "Schroedinger's Douchebag," who just says offensive shit and then decides afterward based on the reaction whether they were joking or not
Funny little story from Europe about that: A few years ago, Germany's far right party AfD posted on Facebook "surveillance footage" of "leftists" unsuccessfully trying to kick in the glass of the ad showcase at a bus stop allegedly because it contained one of their campaign posters. Within hours people on the internet not only pointed out that bus stations usually not carry political campaign posters and more importantly: That footage was photoshopped. It was initially designed as an ad by a company making high security glass and in the original image there were stacks of money behind the glass in the showcase.
The party's result a few hours later: Oh woooooow! Leftists so cannot recognize satire.
Fucking idiots.
@@KasCalwein Absolute classic far right behavior these days. Thanks for sharing
The Card Says Moops - excellent video! Glad I’m not the only one who thought of it while watching this.
I don't remember the original Roseanne show being "conservative" at all. I remember a conservative high school teacher who hated her guts (he hated her because she was a woman, poor, crude, and overweight). She was especially hated for singing the national anthem, depicting gay issues on tv, being very liberal with her children's relationships, and "celebrating" poverty. I know it has been 30+ years, but my memory is that conservatives HATED both the show and Roseanne herself. It's just another one of those historical/cultural revisions that occurred after Trumpism.
Interesting.
Its so fucking true, they do that with a ton of media. Fucking paul ryan saying he loves rage against the machine, anti-sjw edgelords saying that nobody can make comedy like george carlin anymore, ignoring the fact that he was about as far left as you can get politically.
There is also this effect that happens from the other side where ppl who were once on the front lines of socially radical movements start to stagnate when they find success. They get rejected by the new social movements of the day, they start running to the conservative groups they once maligned, to have their egos stroked. "Yeah! The past was better! I'm not out of touch its those damn kids"
Yeah and Home Improvement was mostly pretty neutral/center (especially compared to that weird gender flipped version of it that Tim Allen did recently with like the fake Cabelas). I think we maybe have fewer neutral/center shows and sitcoms? Mostly because sitcoms are less popular than they were. But the main jokes were that he liked tools, had accidents with them and his kids would get into sitcom antics that would require someone giving a speech or hugging
@@merchantfan I was pretty young when reruns of "The Brady Bunch" were on all the time in the '70s, but it seemed that half the audience was watching it as if it were a wholesome family show, and the other half was watching it ironically, as if it were a satire making fun of how perfect families were supposed to be (and wasn't it funny that anyone actually expected that). There isn't much "subversive subtlety" anymore where there might be audience crossover, and perhaps a chance for learning about a more nuanced view. Everything just smashes you in the face. (Which is probably a byproduct of the fractured audience. When there were only three channels, a show HAD to be subtle to get across any message at all. Now they do not have to try to reach a wider audience--they just have to find one small niche audience.)
yes. i dont think the show was ever overtly political. they did feature a gay wedding portrayed as a serious and beautiful occasion. but none of the characters ever seemed to pick a side. if anything they all hated all politics. except maybe Darlene.
You are a sharp guy my friend. Being able to explain the “why” of something as nuanced as comedy in way that can be digested in real time is quite the display of intellect and talent.
Except that everything about this video is a lie from the cherry picked and deceptively edited clips to the entire thesis of this video from the get-go. Conservative comedy is not only not “not funny,” it’s the only funny current comedy left anymore this century. This video is nothing but pure psychological projection, gaslighting, and promotion of degeneracy and eugenics. It’s definition of what constitutes humor is degenerate and imperialist, and also violently homophobic and misogynistic, in addition to being racist and xenophobic. It is more proof that the left is everything it accuses the right of being. Attacking the Greg Gutfeld show is attacking his Gay MALE guests, so it constitutes a hate crime. Attacking Dave Chappelle is racist and misandrist. Attacking Ricky Gervais is xenophobic. Attacking J. K. Rowling is xenophobic and misogynistic. That’s what this boils down to: a “bigot” has now been redefined to mean “anybody who stands in the way of the profits of the emasculation industrial complex.”
Whenever you hear members of the GOP making a joke, just imagine schoolyard versions of them saying the joke instead, and it’ll all make sense.
wow, your comment instantly reminded of that eternal 5th grade bully, Ted Cruz. And it seems he is so obsessively preoccupied with conjuring up Twitter zingers and "owning the libs" that he probably does zero actual "work" as a Senator. Ugh.
You are spot on. I have tried to watch "Dry Bar" a few times. It's all "comedy" without swear words that tends to be pretty conservative. It's absolutely awful. It's possible to be "clean" and funny, but apparently, the standard for Dry Bar is just...to not swear and make fun of liberals and you'll get chuckles galore. No, thanks.
@@JennyJeong425 I've seen some great clips from Dry Bar. Never picked up on a political tilt at all.
Lots of it's bad because they're amateurs.
joke sram bad now. Comedies don't get made because our society follows a cult. The cult of woke is just western maoism
@@JennyJeong425 what is dry bar? All comedy is now conservative and cancelled. George Carlin said, "political correctness is social fasciism."
There has been more than one occasion where I've seen a Babylon Bee article and thought it was making fun of conservatives until I realized that it was from the Babylon Bee and that they actually meant it sincerely and the real punchline was basically "look at us trying to trigger the libs!"
Happened to me so many times too lol. I assume it’s biting satire, then see it’s from Babylon Bee, and realize it’s a completely sincere article…. And not actually funny, but just really dumb
Not sure why “he does it to everyone” is a defense. If I went around punching everybody in the face, that wouldn’t make it any less right to be pissed about being punched.
Because it means he isn't being discriminatory?
@@freddiesimmons1394 except he is, cuz he never did this to any other group
He's mocked white people before too. I liked those jokes, because they made sense and didn't require me to feel grossed out by white people in order to get the joke
Same can't be said for the latest special
@@rainjaydd8213 he never did what, exactly?
Also, I'm responding to Bob's objection the premise of the "he does it to everyone" defense. Not the application of it to Dave specifically.
@@freddiesimmons1394 Hey! Don't Rain on Jayyd's pity parade!
I see this kind of defense of Thanos’ actions from the MCU as well. Just because his slaughter of half of the universe is at random (except for Thanos himself being exempt, of course) that somehow makes it better? Like, we’ve changed it from a genocide to a mass murder; not sure if that evens things out
🤔To quote "Super Troopers", "Our shenanigans are cheecky and fun. His shenanigans are just cruel and tragic. Making them not shenanigans at all really. Evil shenanigans."
I am 100% positive that Ben Garrison has the hots for AOC considering how often he draws her like a dominatrix
I think a lot of them do. There's a weird level of "SHES SO UGLY!!! I SWEAR!" stuff when looking at right wingers mocking AOC. The fact that she's good looking seems to annoy them. I get the feeling its because mocking women for being ugly is a good way to shut them down. Anti suffragettes from the old days made jokes that only ugly women would want to vote.
Its an age old tactic.
AOC is pretty stereotypically good looking, so you cant make that joke. Since that's like 90% of their material for mocking, they get angry.
Just my conclusions on it haha!
I mean... AOC as a dominatrix... What's not to like?
@@soulance8342 A woman in charge? That's against their core beliefs
I hope so. Everyone has flaws, and that would be a pretty based one to come out of an otherwise dry, empty husk of uncreativity.
Um asking for a friend, does anyone have every single solitary goddamn one of those in say a zip file at the ready to send to certain someones, not me though, obviously..a friend though a friend might definitely want that asap.
"To put that in terms that might understand: jokes that identify as jokes" was S++ tier
Wow, that "Happy Indigenous People Day" skit was unbelievably vile.
Right??? When he spelled "o-o-f" afterwards I couldn't help but say it out loud, that's a straight PAINFUL cartoon
@Bob Bob It uses the same tropes that were used in the subjugation and killing of native Americans and the subsequent justifcation of these actions.
"They were uncivilised cannibals anyway"
"We brought them civilisation"
And so on.
And they thought it would be a good moment to release this skit on Indigenous People Day which, I would think, is also a day of remembrance.
@Bob Bob I won't engage with you any longer.
I actually found it funny. (: It amuses me in a sadistic way, that people can actually be that stupid, racist, nationalist and simple. The worldview someone must have to write such a play... and the people who animate and voice it over (: And all of them have to be "ok" with the message. Holy shit, humanity is so fucked up it's hilarious (:
For the similar reasons I am amused by presidents shipping immigigrants with planes to other nations borders to "annoy" them or military drones proudly shooting up weddings. We are such a shitshow (:
@@tanner.mackey.mp3 I don't know what Bob said, because he removed his comment, but I just wanted to point out (provided this was the point being discussed) that cannibalism could have been part of some tribes' culture. Just not in the way colonizers said
Cannibalism has always been (except for dire situations) a ceremonial thing, and not a way to find food, like hunting or harvesting crops.
It could consist of ritually eating a slain enemy, in order to assimilate his power, or it could be a way to reintroduce a dead member of the community (this is the particular case of the Yanomami, which cook the ashes of their dead to be ritually eaten by the entire community)
Another case (but I can't recall what tribe it was, or where) saw two tribes ritually eating their respective captives, in order to maintain a perpetual cycle of death and regeneration between the two sides (the captives were treated well, and were even allowed to have a family inside the tribe, but they would eventually face their death: being eaten by another warrior meant to be renewed as him and continue to live on). It comes without saying that the wars between these two tribes had a whole different meaning than ours.
Anyway, the point is that cannibalism was, and in some cases is a thing for some tribes, but it definitely wasn't as Europeans depicted it. It was just part of those tribes cultures (and it wasn't even that common like they said.)
As for the rest of your comment, I agree. Those who still believe in "Manifest Destiny" should make a trip to Sand Creek on 29th November 1864 and see for themselves their own bs before their eyes.
This should have been titled: How conservatives killed satire.
"Pissing into your own mouth on the bus and then claiming you 'owned' the other passengers when they all get off at the next stop..." ROFL
Jk rowling is nowhere cancelled... She has a lot of fans and still writes books that sell. Just because some people called her out doesn't mean she is cancelled. These people always talk about free speech but cry when public exercises it.
"Cancelled" more often than not really just means "criticized".
She believes in some very insane stuff and she’s a real nut.
Critically analyzing media is considered “cancel culture” now.
People have the freedom to misrepresent facts or falsely describe things in bad faith, and so we have the freedom to call them out. 🖖
@@paulmartin6419 No, changing the name or completely ruining something because it hurts the feelings of some person at some time is.
The best example of the shift from enjoying "edgy, racy humor" to immediately regarding it disturbing is Cards Against Humanity. Literally everyone I knew (in white liberal bubbles) was playing it in the 2010s. Its joy was in the irony of saying deeply chauvinist and racist things but in a harmless safe way to mock the lunacy of those who actually felt that way.
And then everyone in the bubbles suddenly realized that half the country wasn't playing it ironically.
Okay, but playing it in racially and LGBTQ diverse circles is hella fun, like you get a group of 7 queer people who aren't all white and my god, you know that literally any joke you make is gonna hit somebody and everyone knows it's in jest. So then it becomes really funny again.
If I'm honest I kind of really dislike Cards Against Humanity, because it's lazy. Most of the humor it seems to generate is who can make the most absurd or crude joke (IE comes down to if you are lucky enough to draw certain cards).
Any time I suggest Apples to Apples (the game Cards Against Humanity is derived from) people always say they want to play CAH. Which is fucking annoying since you actually have to be smart with the cards you pick in AtA to make jokes land.
i write sarcastic comments all the time but as the years go on i just cant seem to write them against republicans anymore because no matter how sarcastic i get i will be writing something someone actually believes. this one time i made what i thought was a joke about how anti abortionists will start claiming a women having a period would be abortion since they wasted a childs life by not fertilizing the egg, and my joke was ruined when someone linked me a article of someone saying just that in a non ironic manner
I liked it until one day I was playing it at a friend's house, and some guy who was invited by my friends brother got genuinely upset that his "killing all the native americans" card didn't win the round, and asked, unironically, "don't you all want that too?" It was an eye opening moment for me, that not everyone gets the joke and people are out there taking the game literally. Even though that's not what I'm doing when I play it, it just doesn't hit the same.
@@CrystalLily1302 The thing here, and this is something that I think the internet has made much worse, is that the general atmosphere of "offensive humor" like roasts and such is the implicit understanding of the people involved that they are all friends, and none of the insults are meant as genuinely hateful. This works when you are playing a game with your ACTUAL FRIENDS, but the anonymous atmosphere of comedy is not that. Random assholes trolling on twitter is not that, because they are not your friends, and you have no reason to believe that their "jokes" do not represent their true feelings even if they are trying to layer it under a veneer of irony.
What it boils down to is a lot of people point to games like CAH or comedy roasts or whatever and claim that people who get offended at deliberately offensive jokes "just don't get comedy", while completely ignoring the context that makes those jokes acceptable vs. when they aren't. The reason I feel like the internet has made this worse is that social media tries to deliberately cultivate an atmosphere of "everyone is friends", pushing people to cross these boundries and then you get pileons of thousands of strangers making the same "joke" to someone that wasn't even funny when the first person said it, because hey we're all just hanging out right? They know I don't REALLY mean it.
"I probably didn't need to break it down that much"
You did. You absolutely did. I had absolutely NO IDEA what Gutfeld's joke meant
So I've always been known to laugh at any joke, but recently people have been telling me jokes and I've juste ended up going "That's just mean and rude. Why would you say that?" And now you've finally explained what I couldn't. I thank you for that a lot
On a lighter note, I accidentally made a comment about swallowing babies to my grandmother.
It wasn't even about THAT, but I immediately realized what I had said after I had said it.
Like articulated retardation, explain something so stupid isn't very easy
In your defense, they'd have to be pretty small babies to swallow them by accident.
That means you're turning into an old fart.
It's probably because you're too defensive
About Chapelle, I want to repeat what Hasan has said about it: "Cancel culture has ruined comedy. Not because comedians are getting canceled, but because they can't shut the fuck up about it"
oh yeah Hasan, the arbiter of comedy.... over Dave Chappelle
@@theninjararar You don't need to be a chef to recognize shit food. You do, however, need to be able to make a point to argue on the internet. So, you may present your point now.
@@thejudge1728 his point is "Hasan bad." That's it. He is proving the entire premise of this video: that conservatives don't get comedy and are only trying to be mean edgelords for reactions.
@@theninjararar last time I watched Hasan, he made me laugh. I've seen Chappelle live, I've loved his work for decades, but if you haven't noticed that it's no longer funny, then you know nothing about comedy. Dave has a lot to look back on, but he's not giving me anything to look forward to but unhinged rants about shit that doesn't even affect him. Which is what puzzles me most about bigots: why the fuck do they even care? What business is it of theirs what people do for kicks in a free country? The guy who got famous for a movie about illegal drug use is going to preach to us about morality? Fuck outta here with that shit.
@@theninjararar People can be the arbiter of things which they don't do themselves. It's how logic works. Like how you are trying to do now with this argument. You are trying to participate in something, which you don't do - logic and reason. The difference is you are failing miserably.
"Law abiding citizens will abide by the laws and criminals won't. They're criminals"
Man I wish there was a term for what criminals were before they commited crimes, you know when they abided by the law. If only there was a term for that. Oh well
As a gay southern male, I regularly think about Ron White's standup. "I wasn't drunk in public. I was drunk in a bar... they threw me into pub-lick." There used to be so much about life I could relate to my fellow southerners with and now the culture war nonsense is dividing us and it's sad.
I'm a Black Southern Woman & I remember that Ron White joke. I saw all of his Stand ups he was HILARIOUS, & I could relate to him.
As a white Californian, Ron White is hilarious! Love that fat bastard!
Love him. He wasn't afraid to make a pegging joke.
His "everyone is a little gay" bit was great. I saw him live a few years ago, and he was still funny.
I’m from a mining region that’s so close to Canada the banks have a whiteboard with the current exchange rate. I remember watching Blue Comedy Tour for the first time with my family as a kid. During Jeff Foxworthy’s bit I remember the one about mowing your lawn and find a car, and slowly turning to look out the window at the pile of rust in the yard up to the top of the doorframes in snow. And at the ‘matching set of salad bowls that all say cool whip on the side,’ leaning out slowly while looking at them- and taking another bite of the cereal I was (I sh!t you not) eating out of a cool whip bowl. 😂
What you touch on at the end of the Babylon Bee segment is SPOT ON. I've observed this before too, a satire headline that is literally just stating what conservatives believe. It was something like "Netflix board room discusses making lead character black to deflect criticism of script as 'racist'". There's no punchline. There's no exaggeration. That's literally what the right believes companies that make movies and shows are doing behind the scenes. Conservatives don't understand satire.
Because, in an effort to not be racist, leftists are embracing discrimination based on race. Yeah... there's no room for an ironic twist there, eh? It's all just right-wing anger, eh?
So, they're the stand-up "comedy" version of the Friedberg/Seltzer "parody" films, just repeating a scene from a popular film and calling it "comedy."
What's even more insane is that liberal satire directed at conservatives is *also* just stating what conservatives believe. And it's funny because what they believe is fucked up.
"Black conversatives rally support for candidate who's religion believes black people bear the mark of Cain" -The Onion Week in Review
@@tinfoilslacks3750 the difference is The Onion knows that their beliefs are insane and are mocking them for them.
@@tinfoilslacks3750 Liberal Comedy is only funny to you because of what you admitted. You believe that Conservative views are insane and agree with Liberal Comedy. This doesn't make Liberal Comedy better it's just showing your bias towards one side rather than the other even though both sides are unfunny moments.
King of the Hill was a great example of a funny show that featured conservative protagonists. It poked fun of liberals (and other conservatives) while never being too mean spirited. It's rare to see bipartisan comedy done well in this day and age.
King of the Hill is the most realistic expression of being Texan. It's not "liberal" or "conservative." It's something else that has a gift to see through the pretenses of either. But it's also dumb. That's part of it. It's an appeal. It's normal people trying their best and often failing, but sometimes succeeding.
Mike Judge is a genius. He thrives at taking people you know, turning up the dial on the ridiculousness that we all have to point out their flaws. And because no one is flawless, you ain't safe. But also to make those jokes and write the characters so well he clearly understands their point of view. Which isn't politics, it's people. People are complex.
Hank was also a principled conservative, which is basically nonexistent now.
One of my favorite jokes on the show is when Hank catches his son ironing a dress in his bedroom he says with a supreme grimace of horror on his face, "There better be a naked cheerleader under that bed."
... the punchline to most of King of the Hill's jokes is "Hank's beliefs are objectively stupid".
I'm ashamed to say I cracked up a little every time he said, "Gutfeld!"
Checked on Babylon Bee and they actually had a good joke for once
"NASA developing even larger telescope to photograph your mom"
And that's the best joke I've ever seen from them. Pretty sad
And it's not even political. Maybe they should stick to that lol.
Really shows the maturity of the people who don't find them funny eh?
@@ronmastrio2798 you sound like a 15 year old that just discovered the internet
@@ronmastrio2798 - Quote from a guy who is a great hit at parties
Tisk, tisk, you see, you simply aren't sophisticated enough to to understand the breadth of astrological humor. What they are saying is your mother (and all of our mother) is the big bang, the very beginning of reality itself, obviously the ultimate mother. It's obviously an infinite entendre.
I find it amazing that someone in Europe can make a joke containing the words “minimum wage” and be considered conservative. If that parking meter joke was used in the States they would be booed of the stage and called a socialist.
there’s actually studies detailing how the US’ political landscape is much, much farther right than europe’s. (though europe is also sliding further right, sadly.) what’s considered a democratic (i.e. liberal) position in the US will probably correspond to one of germany’s most right leaning parties (the FDP).
@@littlekishmish Thank God that America that is not a second Europe!
@@harrylime9611 Totally agree with you! We should be even MORE left leaning than Europe!
@@cousinmajin You just might get your wish.
@@littlekishmish I'm from EU and nobody finds minimal wage funny, is just instrument for people in government jobs to rise their wages without actually done something. Each time they rise minimal wage so many business closes, so many more people go on social support and they start print more money and put more taxes because they need to take care for so more people on welfare. And Conservative comedian is also Dave Chappelle so much that leftist even attack him on stage, I thing is quite good.
I spent an entire year working in a conservative workplace. During that time, I heard one joke. It was an *extremely* racist joke involving black people, drugs and slavery. The rest of the time, the only "jokes" I can think of involved mocking other people's hardships-- which, in doing so, they simultaneously acknowledge and deny.
(They don't actually learn about the issues they're mocking-- just that they exist and are "wrong.")
My condolences. It must have been a tough work environment.
Tell us the joke.
Oh jeez, people make light of *racism*??!! That's SO bad how could they do this!!!
@A.J. I think I've heard it before, something about how pill bottles are packed with cotton or something ? I don't really remember it being particularly funny
@@realleon2328That’s probably the one, its not particularly good.
Because good comedy requires empathy and conservatives… just don’t have that.
“It’s not exclusive to the right but they do it exclusively,” is excellent wordplay that I plan to steal.
9:08 for reference.
Good to know a double negative is considered clever word play if your an idiot.
@@ab-hx8qe it's not a double negative, mate
@@ab-hx8qe you're
@@ab-hx8qe you can't reason with the unreasonable. Don't trouble yourself with these simps!
Look, I could say a lot about the political situation around Brexit, but that English comedian with his Brexit joke? It’s not just “structured” like a joke, he also manages to phrase it in a way that even if you disagree with him, you CAN see his perspective. Good comedy is a great equalizer, because so often it boils down to pointing out things in the simplest or bluntest ways possible, which can really help people see eachother’s perspectives, even if they still disagree with eachother, and can then connect or commiserate over the ridiculousness of their shared situations.
Bad comedy leaves you going, “Wait, what specific part of that was even *supposed* to be funny?” And then these days, a bunch of ghouls either get defensive that you didn’t give them the laughs they feel entitled to, or just laugh at you for… not being able to parse their bad, confusing, poorly-structured jokes.
(Plus, as Cody said, so often it seems like the joke is “[adjective] people exist… AND I’M AN ASSHOLE!” Like, yes, clearly you are, but what do those two things have to do with eachother???)
Yeah, I don't think I support the Brexit movement, but I thought he was a great comedian. The Burger King story was brilliant!
The "pissing in your own mouth on the bus and calling anyone who gets off at the next stop triggered" really did it for me
Much like Cody points out in the video, their primary (and FAR AND AWAY so, at this point) goal is simply to "trigger" those who they hate. There's a tweet I saw a couple months back, I wish I could remember who the hell it was, it wasn't a politician, more like just a pundit I think, but the woman clearly thought she was being hilarious in her original tweet. It got lots of engagement. As I scrolled down the thread, I shit you not, there had to have been AT LEAST 20-30 different follow up replies I saw by the woman stating some small variation of "oh my god sorry to see you're so triggered by this!! I can't believe how much the libs are triggered by this!! LOL" like as if she didn't type out "trigger" as every 9th word in what she was saying, her computer was going to explode.
And it brings to mind the line I've seen recently about how it's pointless to argue with a moron, that it's like playing checkers with a pigeon. It's only going to wind up shitting on the board and then strutting around like it won anyway. This is one of the many down sides to social media, and the whole "everyone getting a voice" thing. These people don't have to worry about the capacity for feeling shame or embarrassment anymore. There's ALWAYS going to be a large enough group of people surrounding any one moment of clear objective idiocy to help convince the perpetrators that of course they were in the right, and sufficiently "DESTROYED!! the other side".
Sir, or Mrs (I dunno), you are absolutely right!
@@kevinw712 "Never argue with a moron: he'll drag you to his level and beat you with experience!"
-Mark Twain
Non-binary joke:
How does a non-binary samurai kill their enemies?
They/them.
Nice
Nice
Why did the non-binary prospector move west in 1849?
Because there was gold in them/their hills.
Took me a second but holy shit that's hilarious 😂
Genius
49:30 was great "the secret misogyny of an actual viking" 💀
“The facial hair of a high-tech Viking and the secret misogyny of a regular Viking.”
THIS is how you make jokes about liberals.
I mean... Except it's a liberal joke about liberals, like the whole thing is it's supposed to come from a conservative mindset, but the punch line exhibits a concept they don't buy into.
@@madestmadhatter The conservative version being "He's got a beard like a viking, but isn't going around raping people like a viking?! Then WHAT IS THE POINT IN THE BEARD?!"
@@EmperorSmith which is actually funny. Not my cup of tea funny, but it has an actual punchline, a little twist. Not too much, but it's conservative, don't move too much, or you'll hurt your back.
Listen to Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, they make fun of Liberians every week
@@peterw8835 Librarians are funny. Its the most redundant job ever. (because books are for Loosers who would never steal one or be loud.....)
I’ll never forgive Trump for what he did to comedy: four years of low-hanging Trump jokes.
lets be honest, they did it to themselves.
I'll never forget when Trey Parker and Matt Stone said that Trump was too difficult to satirize properly.
@@MrBen51309 I think the best way is to pick at the people and trends around him; going after the man directly is like trying to explain why shit smells.
Pretty much.
Though overall, I do find it funny how I could openly jab at his orangeness to some Trumpers without issue. Particularly when one Fox News broadcast- though I forget what- genuinely put a filter over the footage to counterbalance his orange skintone and made everyone else pale as hell.
and sadly the funniest Trump presidency bit was made before he even was a candidate. ua-cam.com/video/jjonGtrCyVE/v-deo.html
I’m actually really glad you explained that massage therapist joke because I seriously didn’t understand what was happening
I....i still don't get it
ngl I thought it was just a prostitution joke
@@Snickerway same.
@@Snickerway I still think it is
Humour man! That’s what’s happening!.. I still don’t get it. Im done thinking about it.
The BB Kamala headline would have been funny if they said something like “Kamala Harris is hoping her unlikability will deter migrants from wanting to live in America”. 27:10
anyone who says trans folk aren't funny or can't laugh at themselves have never been in a position or community where trans folk felt safe enough to let their guard down and just exist.
That still doesn't make them funny tho.
@@andrewchristian6466 hi andrew
@@MADeline4223 hey
@@andrewchristian6466 what op is saying is that you would've seen a funny trans person if you've ever been in a setting where they've let their guard down.
@@andrewchristian6466 Not inherently, but if you haven't even seen us cracking jokes, then you definitely haven't seen us cracking funny ones.
One thing about that Gutfeld “We'll all be driving tanks” bit showcases one aspect of conservative comedy: Hostility. Many conservative “jokes” are just threats, in this case of the proliferation of paramilitary organizations in response to perceived increasing progressive lawlessness
It makes it easier to flip between "I'm just telling it like it is!" and "It was just a joke, bro!"
Similar to what seems to be deliberate reductive reasoning in a lot of cases
Conservative comedy has its moments. "Have a good day Steven" sent my sides into orbit
'Under every president'. The thing about left wing humour or middle of the road humour which the right wing thinks is extreme left wing humor is that it looks at what is ridiculous in the world and makes jokes about it, which means they tend to laugh a little at everyone, but quite a lot at the right wing because they do have the market pretty much cornered in ridiculous. Right wing humor, on the other hand, first decides what they want to ridicule and then trying to make it ridiculous, which is ridiculous.
missed opportunity to say how those Raycon earbuds have 8 hours of playtime, much like Cody's weird smooth balls
Ahhh I didn't know I needed to hear so badly. Thank you!
The reason conservative comedy doesn’t work is because comedy is about vulnerability. You can’t be funny if you can’t expose at least some part of yourself. So if you come from a world view that’s about *always* being the most macho and the best, it falls flat.
That, paired with the fact that to make puns or intricate wordplay work, you need to have a decent/deep understanding of the topic, the words you'll be using, the language itself, pronunciation, etc, AND be intelligent enough about all of those to construct the joke in a way that communicates your point effectively without needing an explanation - which involves having a decent understanding of the average audience's understanding of everything I listed.
Conservatives refuse to learn anything, refuse to allow others to control the meanings of words (see J.peterson saying anything) and refuse to even attempt at understanding another person's thoughts/feelings/experiences etc 🤷♀️
It's like watching a child remove the wheels on a skateboard and then get upset that it WONT work anymore and when you try to explain what the wheels are for, they call you the idiot 😂
One would have figured that at this point people would understand this, considering how the british are repeatedly lauded as the masters of comedy and specifically pointed out that this is because they don't flinch at making fun of themselves.
But no, somehow this has escaped people.
Recent conservative comedy*
Just look back 10 years and even the rednecks could make fun of themselves on comedy central. Been a long time since Ron White or the Old Jeff Foxworthy performed.
@@doctorwholover1012Ah yes, how could conservatives ever be smart or understand things? Stop being stupid for a second and understand that you're not actually making a point and are just pushing your worldview that "Conservatives are Simply Not Smart Enough for Comedy" when Liberals fall into similar if not the same Pitfalls.
This is kinda very insightful into one of the key problems.
It's funny that you mentioned Simon Evans - after hearing him on the radio and finding him funny I went along to one of his shows, thinking it would be good to get out of my bubble. What I found was the majority of his show attacking various groups of people (some of which I belong to), to the point where I genuinely felt unsafe when the lights went up and I was faced with a huge group of people I now knew couldn't stand me for what I was.
I think there can definitely be a difference between a sanitised version of someone you see on TV/radio and what they feel like they can say when they feel they're among their own people, whether that's right or left. It really made me think in comedy I enjoyed after that, 'If I didn't agree with this person, would I still feel safe?' I don't ever want to support someone who makes others feel unsafe just because I agree with their beliefs.
As ever great showdy Cody and crew!
As a Brit, I did find it interesting Cody highlighting who he did. Evans is great on panel shows when discussing things, but his live audiences tend to really pull in the gammon. It's a shame you felt like you did, but totally understandable in the circumstances.
It's a shame everyone can't just be human.
I've noticed that too. We're living in an age when the American people in general feel paranoid and very defensive, and consider self-mockery to be "betraying their people." Everyone thinks he/she is an underdog, and that he/she has no choice but to lash out at all the "oppressors" out there. And, as with many insecure people, this tends to bring out the bully in them.
A shorter and better version of the centipede joke would be,
“…more often than a masochistic centipede.”
Bam it’s shorter, actually makes sense, funny.
The thing about harmful jokes is that they’re framed like “It’s funny because it’s ironic” when lots of people will think “it’s funny because it’s true”.
Edit: Watch the part at 14:40 before replying
Tbh, I think a lot of people just can't distinguish the difference between comedy and bullying.
I think a lot of people just use the word ironic to excuse themselves of their actual opinions because they're 4chan dwellers who never developed the ability to endorse their own beliefs.
@@cameronsitton501 A lot of people don't WANT to distinguish between comedy and bullying. They really, deep down, know better but they don't want to let anything get in the way of their bullying or shitting on others. As the video explains, a lot of conservative comedy these days is just thinly veiled right wing talking points proffered by rich conservative organisations and others who want to stoke culture wars. It would take courage to move back to actual comedy and not culture wars, but most people doing this don't want to give up ground in the culture wars and are just angry about the things the left is doing or saying. So people definitely know better, but it would take courage and commitment to move back to actual comedy, courage which a lot of people lack. But yeah, I definitely don't think it is for a lack of knowing better most of the time, but more a moral failing on behalf of many people.
I think it's just different flavors of bullying.
Like look, you're presumably a perfectly normal person like the rest of us. Normal people usually have no real trouble distinguishing between, say, a "dark joke" and outright racism.
Like for example, if I say "How many cops does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" followed by "None, they'll just beat the room for being black."
That joke is built on racism, however it's clearly not a racist joke because it's a simple commentary on American police relations with black people. The racism IS the the butt of the joke. Misery and suffering is the essence of comedy.
However, on the part of these Rightwing comedians, they're not aware of exactly why that joke might be funny. Because they state similar forms of jokes TO the one I just mentioned, but somehow the minority suffering IS the joke, not "Gee, isn't it super fucked up that we still do this?"
On the flipside, you've got a type of bully that's existed since the beginning of human history and has gained massive levels of traction in recent years among the Social Justice movement's more.... Shitty members: Gaslighters. The Right's absolutely getting more mileage out of it these days, but the people who gaslight others into thinking their sense of humor was racist and hateful for even Mentioning race or gender if they didn't Expressly belong to the demographic in question (and even then "Those one's never count" if a minority person ever has an opinion or viewpoint contrary to the sensitivity mob, like Latin nations and Latin Americans calling American SJW's a bunch of culture-abusing hypocrites for trying to tell them their own language of Spanish was sexist for having gendered nouns like EVERY LATIN-derived language Does!)
...For the record I am absolutely on the Left and in favor of equal and civil rights and the above is Not representative of my general opinion of Social Justice, just the worst examples of the community.
sounds like you're talking about 4chan and r/gamersriseup
I had to rewatch the example of a good trans joke several times over. Never do I see a joke about us that’s not only pro our existence, but it wasn’t even political. It’s a completely innocent, positive joke about a group of people, and the fact that it shocked me with that is telling.
It's also just incredibly good set-up and payoff. Because the set-up is exactly the expectation of what most teams jokes are, so the punchline lands harder because there's a whole meta layer. It's great.
we are living in a cage where jokes are becoming outlawed. the left are doing tis so that the corporations get full power over our speech. Trans people will be abandoned once we lose free speech. China did this with identity politics. The good identities were abandoned after the revolution.
15:48 for reference 🏳️⚧️
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!
shut up
Oh shit that actually is really good.
Even though Cody doesn't read these, the algorithm does...so here ya go
This bit is getting old fast.
@@NotoriousLightning
You’re getting old fast.
praise the algorithm
so true
Well that's only because Coty Can't Read
Conservative comedy is not funny because it is bad "dark humor". Dark humor in this sence is just being racist or a bigot, and this is the punchline. Nothing more, nothing less; after you say they are being racists and bigots, they just start crying saying that you dont get their jokes