And wasn’t it noted that those lines were from before Miller took a sharp right turn on 9/11? Here’s a hint-he jokes about a Martin/Lewis team up, and about the Soviet Union.
Where is that current Conservative funny?
Miller was funny then, and a conservative now. This does not, in any way, qualify him to be a funny conservative.
No, that’s a fine excuse. 
Here’s a Miller joke that is pretty Conservative in tone, and is post 9/11:
Does Miller still do regular standup? I have to admit I haven’t seen much about him in a while. I think he’s doing some sort of radio show these days.
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Why I just lost all respect for Dennis Miller.
Now, I generally like Mr. Miller. I do think he’s funny. He has a fantastic wit, great timing, he’s smart, he knows the comedy game, etc. … but his aim is all fucked up.
I’ve given him a pass these last 10 years. So he’s conservative; so’s my uncle, but I still like him too. However; I just now caught a few minutes of his radio show. He was making Weiner jokes. That’s fine. But he stopped to break the fourth wall for a moment letting us know that, heck, he generally likes Weiner, but it’s his job to make Weiner jokes. As a comedian and political pundit it is his job to make fun of politicians when they fuck up. Thus spake Miller.
Not 5 seconds after he said this he took a call from someone who congratulated him on his appearance on O’Reilly’s show for not bashing Palin.
“Well, I like Palin, and I’m just not going to go down that road.”
What a fucking hypocrite.
That was a joke? Did it make you laugh, or even grin? It seems to be more of a serious off-the-cuff remark. Where is the funny?
That just reinforces the notion that conservative humor can’t be self-deprecating. It’s fine to make jokes about other people all you want, but I get the sense that his audience would turn on him in a red second if he dared to poke fun at Palin, no matter how funny or justified the jokes might be.
Most of the Miller bits Sam Stone posted aren’t really political, though.
I would imagine that the same comment by someone like Jon Stewart in regard to Sarah Palin, GWB, Donald Trump, etc. would have your average liberal guffawing.
I personally don’t think he’s funny, but a lot of people do. Jeff Dunham, the ventriloquist, is very conservative.
I don’t really care about your off-topic imaginings, and I wasn’t being freakin’ rhetorical, bucky.
Did or did you not find that comment humorous? Was it a joke? Did it make you laugh?
If so, fine.
If not, could you please provide a link to a conservative joke that does make you laugh?
Are his jokes conservative?
It’s an opinion, not a joke. If someone said the same thing about Bachmann, it wouldn’t be a joke either.
I doubt it. Anything said like this would be in a non-humorous apology segment, or maybe during an interview. Not as a joke. It does not have the structure of a joke. It does not break expectations the way a joke does. It does not exaggerate things like a joke does. That is all about its structure, not the content.
ETA: I posted my previous comment before I read yours.
Exactly.
I don’t know. This is from his wikipedia page: “Some have accused Dunham’s characters of being racist caricatures, sexist, and homophobic.”
Sounds like the same criticism of the Tea Parties.
I wasn’t talking about you there, chief. As you might recall, you already said you didn’t find it funny.
Then he qualifies, in my opinion-but my opinion isn’t what I’m really looking for,
Conservatives: Does Jeff Dunham qualify as a good conservative comedian in your eyes? Does his conservative humor make you laugh?
Exactly why the Soviet Union was not a laff riot. Much humor works by building up expectations and breaking them, which is something a group of people very big on orthodoxy don’t like to do.
Take Obama and Palin. We have expectation that our candidates are well spoken to some extent. The reason there were few Obama jokes during the campaign was that for the most part he was. Exaggeration jokes about Obama as the Messiah worked a lot better. Palin, on the other hand, couldn’t count to ten without getting tangled up, and so was funny. That was why Tina Fey was funny quoting Palin verbatim.
Conservative comedians are lot Fox News. If your primary goal is to support the party, you are not going to be very good at what you are supposed to be doing.
You might as well be insisting upon examples of conservative sitcoms. Today’s political climate entertainment-wise won’t tolerate conservative comedians, so one is forced to search nooks and crannies to try to come up with some. And since nook and cranny conservative humor isn’t easily come by, you are left with frustration over the fact that no is coming up with whatever it is that you are for whatever reason insisting upon in terms of conservative humor.