# Conservative stand-up comedians? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 8, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372 "2007-02-08T17:24:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/1 "2007-02-08T17:24:57Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/2 "2007-02-08T17:27:12Z")
Dennis Miller has mostly crossed over to conservative since 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/3 "2007-02-08T17:30:00Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] 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.) [/QUOTE] ??? 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. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/4 "2007-02-08T17:48:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/5 "2007-02-08T17:55:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/6 "2007-02-08T18:00:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/7 "2007-02-08T18:06:01Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] Colin Quinn would probably qualify as a conservative comedian… if he qualified as a comedian. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/8 "2007-02-08T18:06:03Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] Or a dude named Jeff Wayne who I’ve never heard of but showed up on a Google. [/QUOTE] 😕 [This](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne) Jeff Wayne? A musician, not a comedian. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/9 "2007-02-08T18:06:20Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Colin Quinn would probably qualify as a conservative comedian… if he qualified as a comedian. That’s probably funnier than anything Colin Quinn has ever said… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/10 "2007-02-08T18:08:18Z")
And I think [this article](http://www.brainsnap.com/culture/drew_carey_closes_conservative_comedians_association) is an _Onion_-style joke . . . ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/11 "2007-02-08T18:21:08Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] 😕 [This](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne) Jeff Wayne? A musician, not a comedian. [/QUOTE] This one: [http://www.washtimes.com/culture/20031105-093420-8305r.htm](http://www.washtimes.com/culture/20031105-093420-8305r.htm) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/12 "2007-02-08T18:26:44Z")
Perhaps the one who came to Tampa back then was [Brad Stine.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/13 "2007-02-08T18:30:21Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] ??? Sam Kinnison ??? He never struck me as a right-wing conservative. Not even a little. [/QUOTE] 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 . . . ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/14 "2007-02-08T18:35:09Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] 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 . . . [/QUOTE] 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!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/15 "2007-02-08T18:35:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/16 "2007-02-08T18:40:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/17 "2007-02-08T18:44:35Z")
He was into fast cars, overindulgence in food and drugs, whores, and over-the-top comedy. I wouldn’t call that conservative. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/18 "2007-02-08T18:49:47Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 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. [/QUOTE] Ignoring the fact that [it **wasn’t** always sand . . .](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertification) ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/19 "2007-02-08T18:53:46Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] He was into fast cars, overindulgence in food and drugs, whores, and over-the-top comedy. I wouldn’t call that conservative. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372/20 "2007-02-08T18:55:00Z")
I suspect that some of these redneck-styled standup comics are politically conservative. Of course, that’s just speculation. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-stand-up-comedians/391372.md?page=2)