# "You can't be a Conservative and a Comedian" - What does this even mean?

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**Created:** [November 5, 2018, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-be-a-conservative-and-a-comedian-what-does-this-even-mean/823994 "2018-11-05T09:59:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-be-a-conservative-and-a-comedian-what-does-this-even-mean/823994/121 "2018-11-13T05:25:03Z")

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Quite frankly, much of Rush Limbaugh’s appeal in his early days was that he was very funny. Eventually (somewhere around the Clinton impeachment era) he became a more humorless political commentator, but before that, he was genuinely funny and obviously conservative. His fake advertisements hold up well against those of SNL, and his song parodies were laugh-worthy as well.

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