I don’t give a rat’s ass about what our culture will or will not tolerate. If you can’t answer the question, just go away.
Just trying to keep things on an even keel here. We wouldn’t want anyone to get the impression that conservatives just don’t have a sense of humor, now, would we?
Tom Wolfe is conservative and I think his writing is hilarious. But it’s definitely not for everyone.
Let me guide y’all along by the nose, o.k.?
“Rush Limbaugh is a conservative comedian that broadcasts nationally every weekday. Something he said recently that I found to be funny was…(fill in the black or provide cite)”
And a good example of conservative humor would be…?
Laughing at you.
Regards,
Shodan
Yes, that does seem to sum it up, doesn’t it?
Do you really think that came out as a clever quip? Conservatives have been accused in the past of making direct attacks and calling them “jokes”, and this is how you respond to an honest effort to find examples of real conservative humor?
It was an example of conservative humor, which is what you asked for.
You’re getting all bent out of shape and snarly, in a thread where people complain that conservatives aren’t funny. That’s too bad, but it is also the source of the humor. It is fun to laugh at the humorless.
You know the joke - how many feminists does it take to change a light bulb? You are giving much of the same effect here.
Regards,
Shodan
Are you saying that conservatives don’t really tell humorous jokes and stories-instead, they sneer?
Earlier it was pointed out that Jeff Dunham qualified as a conservative comedian. I happen to find him very funny, but do you consider him to be a good conservative comedian?
If someone asked me to provide a link to a liberal comedian, I suppose I could respond in one of two ways:
- Link to a current Lewis Black routine, or
- “You stink! Ha Ha!”
Which do you suppose is the better answer?
It doesn’t even have to be a comedian, how about a conservative version of Family Guy? The Daily Show? Doonesbury?
Are you looking for conservative political jokes? Because I don’t think there is very much of that. All the comedians I know to be conservative, that I can think of right now, don’t do political humor. Doing political jokes means you might alienate half your audience so if you want to make the big bucks you need to make the most amount of people laugh. John Stewart and Bill Maher can get away with it because they have a built-in audience who seeks out that type of humor. If you’re out traveling on the road you never know who your audience is going to be.
If you’re talking about comedians that do jokes about things conservatives care about, like family, then there are tons of that. The Blue Collar guys are so popular because they have a conservative bent in their stand-up but they don’t do political jokes.
The Cosby Show and King of the Hill come to mind.
But as has been pointed out time and again here, there certainly are liberal comedians that are very political and have no problem with alienated audiences.
Well, they do have Mallard Fillmore. Does that count, conservatives? Is that strip something you laugh along with?
The Cosby Show stopped running in 1992 and wasn’t political. And I mentioned King of the Hill in the first sentence of the OP.
Hey, your challenge stated:
So it is hardly fair to claim it isn’t funny. I don’t think it is funny, because I don’t share the assumptions which the joke relies on for humour value - but I can at least recognize it as a joke.
Let’s look at the joke again:
The “funny” comes in the (presumed) political irony: Moore (a Liberal) is assumed to hate all things American; yet it is the very things that Moore hates and that Conservatives (allegedly) love - American exceptional devotion to free speech - that require Conservatives to defend Moore’s right to spew his (ignorant, moronic) views.
The “humour” relies in the “aha” realization of this irony. It fails in people who are not themselves Conservative - because, for one, they will not agree with the unstated premise (that Conservatives, unlike Liberals, value freedom of speech).
I didn’t claim it wasn’t funny. In fact, I’ve said repeatedly that it doesn’t matter if I think it’s funny. I am asking if that example of conservative humor is something conservatives think is funny. Does it make them laugh?
edited to add: When it was told, was it told during a monologue, or any other situation that would indicate it was meant to be a joke? Just curious.
I assume it does; as for context, I dunno. I got it from his IMDb page. I’m saying it is silly to argue it isn’t a joke - topical-type partisan political humour aimed at a person often looks unfunny to ‘the other side’, as simply an attack. The ‘humour’ only comes out if you share the assumptions.
Here’s another, same source, obviously Conservative but not aimed at an individual like Moore: