There isn’t really a “conservative political humor”.
No, I think you have ulterior motives in starting the thread. Why is it so hard for you to accept that we don’t really have a political humor? What we do have, you reject for some strange reason.
I’ve rejected only cites that weren’t political because they are irrelevant to the discussion. The ones that were political I’ve only asked for confirmation from other conservatives to see if that’s what they like.
But you’re saying conservatives laugh at liberals all the time but just don’t verbalize it in a way I can understand?
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I’ve rejected only cites that weren’t political because they are irrelevant to the discussion. The ones that were political I’ve only asked for confirmation from other conservatives to see if that’s what they like.[/qyuote]
There’s your problem. There isn’t a general conservative body of humor.
No. You don’t occupy our time or our humor. We may find politics absurd, disgusting, or ridiculous but we don’t really find it so funny that we require constant comic exhalations. I’ve seen the daily show - three times. And Colbert once. I can’t imagine how anyone can listen to politics that often, let alone the endless “political humor.” I may be a bit more seensitive that way than most, but few conservatives enjoy constant politics. It’s just not that important. If we talk politics, we prefer to talk with people and not listen to stand-up.
Well, in our defense, it should be noted that conservatives have long prided themselves on being hard-headed and unemotional. That you guys are sensitive and vulnerable…well, really, who knew?
I mean, it never occured to me that you would even care about lacking a sense of humor, much less being easily wounded by references to it. The widespread image of conservative’s disfunctional and inadequate genitalia and general lack of sexual imagination, coupled with an absence of joy…these are all well known, sterotypical. And a sensitive liberal/lefty will simply avoid mentioning such obvious sore points. We are not cruel people, we don’t mock other people’s afflictions and inadequacies. Unless they are really, really funny.
After all, we pride ourselves on our compassion, and are eager to demonstrate our generosity. I shall endeavor, therefore, not to make snide references to your limitations, it is cheap and easy, one should try to be a better person.
So aside from a absence of humor, inadequate sexuality and a lack of imagination, are there any other characteristics you would like to advise us about? So that we might be more careful in the future, you understand. You can trust us. Really, how can we help?
Rush Limbaugh
And I specifically noted him. Outside of a few similar shows, is it so hard to imagine we have different intrinsic view of what attitude one ought to hold about politics, and how it ought to be discussed? Even leaving that aside, even people who listen to both him and the Daily Show tell me there’s a world of difference. The Daily Show is “wacky” and snarky. Limbaugh is apparently direct and uncompromising.
I think openly conservative humor is more easily found in British/European culture. The classic show Keeping Up Appearances was very funny but intended for an establishment audience. It was all about poor people making fools of themselves trying to act wealthy.
And it has been asked repeatedly that someone conservative provide an example of a Rush routine they find funny, hasn’t it? A simple link will do.
Rush doesn’t have “routines”.
If you think that Rush is funny, can you link to something he said that you laughed at? Or is it just a case that Rush is a conservative that sticks it to liberals, and sticking it to liberals alone is enough to make you laugh?
Rush sticks it to liberals, yes, but often in a way that is amusing to conservatiives. Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity stick it to liberals, but are rarely amusing in the process.
And like I’ve so many times that I’ve lost count, I haven’t listened to Limbaugh for nearly twenty years now, so no, I can’t link to something he said that I found funny. (Besides, I don’t know that there are links even exist to comments made during daily three hour radio programs.) However, I have told you that I found “Barack the Magic Negro” funny, as well as the “Algore Doomsday Clock” which can be found on Limbaugh’s web page. Is there some sort of quota that I’m expected to reach before you stop asking me this same question over and over again?
No, I’m pretty sure we get the gist of what makes you laugh by now.
Ah, so at last you allow yourself a display of the sense of liberal superiority that has so obviously underlain your postings in this thread. Happy am I to be the one to draw it from you at last.
You ask rather belligerently whether I finally understand what makes you laugh, I answer that I do, and this is how you respond? Does your “attack mode” even have an off switch any more?
One thing I’ve noticed which may affect the success of ‘conservative’ comedians is that in my experience conservatives are much more able to put aside the politics of their entertainment figures than are liberals.
I enjoy The Daily Show quite a bit. I watch a lot of shows produced by, written by, directed by, and starring liberals. Such shows often portray people on the right as dolts, or as bigots or intolerant money-grubbing monsters. But it’s just so common and widespread that you just grow used to it and learn to ignore it and focus on the good parts of the show unless it really gets in your face. It used to annoy me on MASH that every career officer other than Colonel Potter was portrayed as a warmongering idiot, but that didn’t stop me or other people on the right from enjoying the show.
But also in my experience, if a show goes out of its way to attack or mock liberals, or the creative people behind the show are identified as ‘right wing’, a lot of people on the left simply won’t watch. They can’t get past it. And liberal critics will savage anything with a right-wing bent. So right-wing types in the entertainment industry learn to stay away from directly attacking liberal icons and liberal tropes, for purely commercial reasons. Hence there is very little ‘conservative’ humor in the mainstream.
Very interesting. Can you perhaps think of a quality show that you think suffered from the non-ability of left-wingers to tolerate right-wing humor?
The fact that none can be named proves that the effect exists!
Not helping here.
Oh, I think his point is apt, and well said, which is to say, brief. Otherwise, how do we explain that in a country which we are constantly assured is center-right and basically conservative, how is it that in such a country negative humor about liberals isn’t more popular? Why is it that humor that caters to the majority opinions of the country doesn’t sell? And doesn’t sell to such an extreme that no one even makes the effort?
The most conservative person I know is my best friend’s fiance. I asked her about conservative humor, she didn’t think Rush was funny but offered Paul Shanklin.
Here’s some stuff off of YouTube:
BomB Iran
Every Cent You Make (I’ll be taxing you)
The Man Who Shot Osama Bin Laden
Is this a good example of conservative humor?