# Liberals=Funny, Conservatives=Mean **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 9, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-funny-conservatives-mean/615294 "2012-03-09T17:12:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-funny-conservatives-mean/615294/21 "2012-03-09T19:51:57Z")
To quote myself from the other thread: > [@Conservatives: Where's the funny?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-wheres-the-funny/584526/35): > > Well for one thing, I don’t think that the conservative mentality and most types of humor mix very well. Someone capable of not taking things seriously probably wouldn’t be a conservative in the first place. > > And I expect most of what actually passes for conservative humor is deeply bigoted and generally juvenile, and not the sort of thing they want to expose for public consumption. Remember “Barney Fag” and “Ellen Degenerate”? Bigoted, and something out of grade school. And there’s all the race based “humor” aimed at Obama, like the White House with a field of watermelons, or portraying Michelle Obama as a monkey. Conservative humor is going to be mean and bigoted because they themselves are mean and bigoted. Lots of nasty race and sex jokes. I’ll also add that American conservatives are becoming more and more fanatical, and fanatics aren’t known for their sense of humor (outside of finding sadism funny). I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a strong cause and effect connection between being humorless and being conservative; whatever mental problem makes someone humorless is I think likely to also make them engage in the kind of poor judgment and lack of compassion that leads to conservatism and other extremist positions. No one knows exactly what humor is for, but a _lack_ of it seems mentally and morally unhealthy. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-funny-conservatives-mean/615294)._