A couple of years ago in Tampa I heard a bit on the radio about a right-wing stand-up comic who was in town to do a show at a local comedy club, but I forgot his name. What distinctly political, conservative stand-up comedians are there? (I mean, since Sam Kinnison died.)
Dennis Miller has mostly crossed over to conservative since 9/11.
??? Sam Kinnison ??? He never struck me as a right-wing conservative. Not even a little.
Try Dennis Miller. Or a dude named Jeff Wayne who I’ve never heard of but showed up on a Google.
Is Dennis Miller really conservative? From the bits I have seen lately, it seemed more like, “Please keep my scared and useless ass safe from the terrorists. If you have to trample any civil rights, mine or anybody else’s, go ahead, do it. Just don’t let those mean men get me!”
I’d say he was crying like a little girl, but little girls don’t cry like that.
Miller was always a conservative, or so I hear; he’s just been more open about it in the last few years. I’d never heard Sam Kinison called a conservative before - Wikipedia describes him as a homophobe with some justification, but I don’t know about him being a conservative.
Colin Quinn would probably qualify as a conservative comedian… if he qualified as a comedian.
Dennis Miller’s act turned conservative once Dubya came into power, as he probably thought he could get a bigger audience, as his act wasn’t playing well to the liberals anymore. I expect him to change back any time now that the conservative base is shrinking.
I don’t know what he does qualify as.
On his crappy Politically Incorrect-ripoff talk show on Comedy Central a few years back, he had a few conservative comedians on - Nick DiPaulo (I’m not gonna bother looking up the spelling) is the only one I remember.
This Jeff Wayne? A musician, not a comedian.
That’s probably funnier than anything Colin Quinn has ever said…
And I think this article is an Onion-style joke . . .
Perhaps the one who came to Tampa back then was Brad Stine. The name doesn’t ring a bell, but I remember a clip they played and the style certainly seemed ““aggressive” with a “rat-a-tat delivery”.”
I know it wasn’t Dennis Miller.
Well, I remember him doing bits like, “It’s the '80s, man! Ronald Reagan’s in the White House, and Clint Eastwood has his own police force!” Or about the bombing of Libya – “Where’s the baby’s room?! Where’s the baby’s room?!” Or advocating execution of the homeless. Or shrugging off the plight of the Kurds after the Gulf War . . .
I always took those parts of his bit to be sarcasm; not his true feelings. Like the one about the starving people in wherever it was…“Move to where the food is!!!”
Or telling the starving people of Ethiopia to pack up their stuff in order to be taken “to where the food is!”
"See this stuff, Hadji? Know what it is? It’s sand! Yes, sand. Know what it’ll be in a thousand years, motherfucker? Sand!!!"
Good times.
Kinison was tight with Bill Hicks, and their styles were somewhat similar - Hicks was no liberal (in fact, I’ve never heard more violently anti-Republican comedy), so I kind of doubt Kinison was a conservative.
He was into fast cars, overindulgence in food and drugs, whores, and over-the-top comedy. I wouldn’t call that conservative.
Ignoring the fact that it wasn’t always sand . . .
I don’t think any of those things disqualify him as a conservative, just as a Christian conservative. For example, Colin Quinn once offered to buy Bill Clinton his next hooker.
I suspect that some of these redneck-styled standup comics are politically conservative. Of course, that’s just speculation.