# Book about Conservative Jokes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 16, 2018, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707 "2018-08-16T02:31:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707/21 "2018-08-16T20:27:37Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Isn’t this backwards??? I was going to say that about the ‘Dictators’ part, but to be fair the right-wing’s love of brutal authoritarianism has only recently become an overt thing. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707/22 "2018-08-16T21:39:36Z")
Bob Dole used to tell a joke that went something like this: Senator McGovern was giving a speech on the floor of the Senate and said: “Gentlemen, let me tax your memories” , which caused Senator Kennedy to jump up and blurt out “That’s great idea, why haven’t we thought of that before?”. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707/23 "2018-08-17T12:11:58Z")
Trump, like Reagan,[tries to be funny](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNXgjnBpxGI). People laugh. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707/24 "2018-08-17T12:36:58Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > I was going to say that about the ‘Dictators’ part, but to be fair the right-wing’s love of brutal authoritarianism has only recently become an overt thing. Recent? Carter was trying to impose sanctions on all sorts of brutal regimes and the right wingers tried to stop him every step of the way. The OpEd columnists would actually praise Argentina’s and South Africa’s governments! Going back to WWII, it was the liberal Roosevelt who prepped the US for war while the conservative isolationists were trying to block him. They saw Roosevelt as a warmonger. ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707/25 "2018-08-17T17:55:23Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Ah, well then, here you go: > > ==================================== > **How To Tell Republicans From Democrats** Democrats worry that there may be someone somewhere who isn’t getting the help they need. Republicans worry that there may be someone somewhere getting help they don’t deserve. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707/26 "2018-08-17T18:10:39Z")
That article was horribly biased and insulting to conservatives. It is highly probable to me that the jokes were written by Collectivists, not conservatives. Steven Crowder Owen Benjamin Nick DiPaolo Let’s be honest. You don’t think the other side’s comedians are funny. The other side doesn’t think your comedians are funny. Few people will even listen to the other side’s comedians because they know it won’t be funny, and will often be filled with insulting comments about the other side. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707/27 "2018-08-17T18:14:36Z")
> [@CurtC](#): > > Democrats worry that there may be someone somewhere who isn’t getting the help they need. > > Republicans worry that there may be someone somewhere getting help they don’t deserve. Libertarians worry that someone somewhere is standing between them and the person they could help, forcibly taking their money and wasting too much of it. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707/28 "2018-08-18T21:57:19Z")
> [@CelticKnot](#): > > Libertarians worry that someone somewhere is standing between them and the person they could help, forcibly taking their money and wasting too much of it. See? This isn’t funny. It’s not even a joke. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707/29 "2018-08-19T05:16:53Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > Reagan had a sense of humor and could certainly deliver a good one-liner. He was a conservative but it wasn’t conservative humor–it was humor everybody could laugh at. At any given time, the CURRENT Republican candidate is Hitler, and the previous ones were much nicer guys. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707/30 "2018-08-19T14:28:58Z")
Earnest ideologues of all kinds seldom have much of a sense of humor. And if you define an essential part of a sense of humor as the ability to laugh at yourself, the numbers decline even more drastically. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707/31 "2018-08-19T18:28:59Z")
> [@Ashtura](#): > > Tim Allen’s okay but he’s kind of one-note. Some middling ones like Dennis Miller, Jeff Foxworthy, and Jeff Dunham, Joe Rogan. Some people love em, ymmv. Barr I don’t consider a true conservative, in spite of liking Trump. Rogan isn’t a conservative. He does have some viewpoints that don’t match well with the current liberal focus on identity politics, but he’s not conservative. I haven’t listened to his standup, but I do listen to his podcast if he’s got an interesting guest on, and he’s not particularly funny on that. Decent interviewer though. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707/32 "2018-08-20T14:03:05Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Exactly. Several of Reagan’s jokes in that montage Shodan linked to are self-deprecating, mocking his age. Even ones that are primarily making fun other others sometimes let the wind out of his own sails: he talks about freedom of speech by contrasting our country, where an American can go around saying what a lousy job Reagan is doing running America, with the Soviet Union, where a Soviet citizen can similarly go around saying what a lousy job Reagan is doing running America. > > A little hard to imagine Trump telling a similarly-framed joke, innit? He gets off a good one from time to time. My favorite? Talking about the planned meeting with Kim Jong Ill, he said, “And that whole ‘dealing with a madman’ thing? That’s \*his \*problem.” ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707/33 "2018-08-21T06:38:32Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > {…} Bill Maher {…} said, “The Democrats have _shitty_ ideas, and the Republicans have _no_ ideas.” Seems to be stolen, > [@](#): > > The only thing dumber than a Democrat or a Republican is when those pricks work together. You see, in our two-party system, the Democrats are the party of no ideas and the Republicans are the party of bad ideas. It usually goes something like this. A Republican will stand up in Congress and say, “I’ve got a really bad idea.” And a Democrat will immediately jump to his feet and declare, “And I can make it shittier.” > Lewis Black[RIGHT][CITE](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lewis_Black#Nothing%E2%80%99s_Sacred_%282005%29)[/RIGHT] CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707/34 "2018-08-21T10:26:27Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Seems to be stolen I saw Bill Maher before Lewis Black was thus quoted, but nonetheless, the idea may be so obvious (sadly) that more than one comedian came up with it independently. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707/35 "2018-08-21T12:08:48Z")
Rush Limbaugh was actually quite funny in his earlier days. It’s a large part of why his show became popular so quickly. He started losing it somewhere in the mid-90’s. But in his late 80’s-early 90’s heyday, his opening monologues, song parodies and commercial parodies were funnier than your average morning FM DJ material. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-about-conservative-jokes/819707.md?page=1)