And Canadian.
If you didn’t know William Shatner was in the Illuminati, you haven’t been paying attention.
Oh shit. My deepest and most sincere apologies to Captain Amazing who also posted in that thread. Captain Amazing is an old timer and a totally cool guy. My confusion threw me for a total loop but now it makes sense.
I am going to ask a Mod to edit my original post.
And being Hispanic doesn’t mean you’re not white. Sanchez talks about himself as though he weren’t.
Done.
How long did that thing last? I know it SEEMED like it aired for only about half an eye-blink. But seriously (folks ;)), how long was it on? Has there ever been a comedy or satire show (similar to TDS or the Fox News comedy effort) that came from the Right that was actually funny?
Part of the problem is that all the funny people are on the left. Seriously, can anyone even think of a decent right wing comedian?
I think Dennis Miller is funny …sometimes.
I really enjoyed that interview. By the end of it I was thinking that perhaps o’Reilly is an ok guy that I just happen to disagree with.
Which is something I never thought I would think.
I do give O’Reilly credit for at least occasionally being willing to go other shows like TDS, The View and Bill Maher’s show and take a little fire. Has Hannity ever stepped outside the conservative media green zone? Or Megyn Kelly or those Fox and Friends tools?
I hope not. I hope they’re locked in the studio. They are not safe to be roaming the streets.
Dennis Miller is a very talented guy who has been really funny at times (most of the time, I’d say). But at some point–judging from what I saw of his work at the time and since (which wasn’t/isn’t very much, in all fairness)–he did seem to get kinda whacked-out (IMO) and his material was no longer as funny (again, IMO).
I don’t know much of anything about his personal life, background, or past political beliefs. Somehow I got the impression (somewhere) that he really freaked out about 9/11 (I mean even more than the rest of the world did) and made an abrupt turn to the Right. I have no idea where this impression came from; I might have just imagined the whole thing. Maybe he’s been a Tightie-Rightie since birth–I don’t know. But I would be curious to find out.*
I guess what I’m trying to say (in a hopelessly confusing way) is: I wonder if Dennis Miller might not be a good example of a “funny Conservative” because he’s really only funny when he’s not feverishly beating the Conservative drum (and/or earlier in his career; before he drastically shifted to the Right–IF that is indeed the case).
- On edit: Hmmmmm… I guess that’s what Wikipedia is for. I will see if I can learn anything there.
I think Dennis Miller is (was?) a pretty socially liberal guy when it comes to things like drugs, gay rights issues, free-speech etc., and has only veered right in recent years, and then just mostly on economic and national defence issues.
He’s libertarian on social issues (pro-choice/pro-gun/pro-gay marriage), and right wing on taxes and the so-called “war on terror,” but he’s also a global warming denier, which edges him a little bit into nutjob territory.
P.J. O’Rourke. But he’s spoken out against the Bush Administration, I think, and he’s certainly not a social conservative. And really, someone who was the war correspondent for the Rolling Stone can’t be that conservative.
I’m not sure I’d even class him as a comedian, even though I do enjoy his writing (I have three of his books). I guess when I think comedian I think ‘able to do standup’.
Christopher Titus…sort of. He doesn’t touch on political matters too often, and when he does he tends to be more moderate-libertarian, but he definitely ain’t liberal. In his End of the World tour, he was very pro-military, pro-kicking-the-shit-out-of-the-Middle-East, and threw in a lot of patriotic and religious references. None of which are the sole purview of right-wingers, of course, but left-wing comedians tend to focus on other issues.
Stewart makes a boatload of money now. 
Dave Barry is a libertarian. He is certainly funny. But he possibly doesn’t count as a “conservative”, since in america that sort of means you have to be clueless regarding the social issues.
Though you can’t really call Trey Parker and Matt Stone conservatives, there have been a lot of great South Park episodes that have a conservative (or at least anti-liberal) bent.