The Miserable Hell of Conservative "Comedy"

[@isaacevilman7586]

The heckler who yelled “Tell us some jokes” was the first funny conservative in history.

[@dowitcher]

If I were the guy on stage at that point I would’ve literally just passed away right then and there from embarrassment like there’s no recovering from that

[@Cascade7155]

​@@dowitcher"That's just because you are a sissy liberal with your sissy-liberal brain and you don't stand up and fight your enemies, cuz you are a sissy liberal."

[@milascave2]

The second one was the guy who yelled, "Louder! Funnier!"

[@fromthedumpstertothegrave3689]

@@milascave2 "Louder! Funnier! More intense!" fuck thats an amazing heckle. Though tbh I'd say that sums up most conservative comedy and why it isn't funny (and a lot of self described 'left wing comedy' , its just shit you say with your mates if you have that worldview. A decent comic makes a set of carefully crafted jokes LOOK like they're just having a ramble like you and your mates do.

[@swissarmyknight4306]

FATALITY

[@thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247]

In the immortal words of the great Sir Pterry Pratchett: "Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, that's not satire. That's bullying."

[@00s.v.n.s00]

Wise mf words

[@thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247]

@@00s.v.n.s00 He was a wily old cuss, our Sir Pterry.

[@arcadiaberger9204]

@@00s.v.n.s00 Sir Pterry was a wise MFer.

[@zackswitch9656]

Doesn’t really apply when they think being a straight white guy is being at the bottom of the pecking order.

[@erkl8823]

Good thing nobody ever heard of that LOSER

[@1bfnmusic1]

I love how a lot of this humor comes from the idea of "You know, its getting really popular to treat people with actual respect...what if I...didn't?"

[@JosephFuckinStalin]

Exactly. You can't excuse anyone who finds this funny. Comedy doesn't lie. If they laugh at this, then it reveals who they are It'd be one thing if from the jump trans people were accepted, then you could do the "I identify as a blank" joke. It would be subverting common logic. But it's not. When they do it they just do it because they want us suppressed and their voice louder

[@JosephFuckinStalin]

@Smash-gs5kd Exactly. Hence why I agree with them that comedy doesn't lie. They think the fact that they find transphobic jokes funny means it secretly is. What it really reveals is just how they think about you. Comedy doesn't lie in the sense that it brings out how you feel through laughter What is also revealed in their transphobic jokes is how they want to use laughter to suppress your voice and what you have to say about yourself

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

Comedy is when azzhole apparently lolz

[@Oscar_the_fascist_slayer]

South Park in a nutshell

[@akedi2734]

Another YT posted a video recently saying she doesn’t like horror movies with R-word and how ppl were getting mad at her saying just bc you don’t like that horror doesn’t mean it’s bad etc. Very similar to this, they may not be aware that the type of content ‘comedy’ very loosely in this case, is actually harmful to some groups and not interpreted as comedy/horror at all but lacking creativity/originality-bottom of the barrel ideas aimed to get a cheap laugh or scare from those not using critical thinking or imagination

[@Demagora]

"Comedy is dead!" -Conservative comedian holding the murder weapon.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

Ngl saying something is dead because low hanging fruit doesn't reward you with the same clout as professional work sounds like an admission of incompetence

[@NataliePine]

Love them saying "you can't tell these jokes anymore!" while still telling those jokes and getting booked for gigs

[@CesRaisons]

« Cancel Culture is trying to kill me!!1!!1 » and they’re selling out stadiums

[@Thelastunicornlover]

Fax📠🤣

[@maxwell-auel]

So fr!!!! I wish that someone would take the low-hanging opportunity to make it a joke... Like "Comedy is dead! And I'm the necromancer 🎉" or sum shit

[@oengusfearghas9608]

I always find it amusing and rather cringy when a right-winger tries to imply that the Nazis weren't vehemently right-wing.

[@joe19912]

Yep, before Nazis went after Jews, they locked up union leaders, college professors, and gay men. What political party does that resemble?

[@approximated_nerd]

there is a disturbing amount of people who believe the Nazis - and fascism in general - were on the left wing. classic historical revisionism.

[@robertstraw9881]

BuT tHEy weRE nAtIonaL SoCIalIstS

[@oengusfearghas9608]

@@robertstraw9881 calling yourself socialist yet not doing anything consistent with the definition of socialism would indicate that you aren't actually socialist.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

​@@robertstraw9881 it's really weird how nobody seems to call out how 1 Ideologies don't exist just on paper, they are meant to reflect your actions not just your words(which considering how Transphobic these people are I'm surprised this goes over their heads) 2 if they believe that then that means they are falling for nazi propaganda that's more than a century old

[@AllergyPuppy]

Graham Linehan saying he’s giving up comedy is surprising, considering how long he’s been abstinent from it already.

[@deaddomain]

Lmaooo

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

Oh ho ho ho, scathing! 🔥

[@spockezri]

this is funnier than anything he's ever said

[@olivierluisin1790]

"Graham Linehan saying he’s giving up comedy is surprising" I mean **he** is already the joke

[@Thedude87]

Father ted is funny and the IT crowd was alright. It’s really sad to see him come to this kind of behaviour 😢

[@CasualFox12495]

Nothing says "hilarious" to conservatives like twelve racial slurs, eleven queer slurs, and ten political donors who make up their actual audience.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

Nine attack helicopters, eight attack helicopters, seven attack helicopters, six attack helicopters, FIVE GOLDEN RINGS of holy matrimony under god, four play absolutely forbidden before that, three somes neither, two biological genders and just one joke in a comedy tree

[@wingtub]

@@thewhitefalcon8539so poetic and beautiful

[@notNajimi]

@@thewhitefalcon8539i could sing this carol in my hometown and be applauded

[@falsum2701]

Nah, the donors don't care about anything except lower taxes on their super-yachts. This is just red meat for their dupes. It's like that scene in Jurassic Park where they lower a goat into the raptor pen.

[@thebigdawgj]

This, but unironically.

[@jobi1kawobi317]

“You know who’s really oppressed? Me!” - white straight man. Also white straight man; “You know what I hate, victimhood” *applause

[@stylis666]

Ignorance is bliss. Also me: I trust theists and conservatives as much as I would Cypher in The Matrix, with good reason I would say.

[@ND-nr6mx]

As always with them: "discrimination isn't real, and if it was, I would be the biggest victim"

[@vinx.909]

You can't be a conservative without being a hypocrite

[@Colddirector]

I genuinely think if laws against white people were passed (this will never happen), these guys would be over the moon about it because there's finally something that affirms their victim complex.

[@ParanormalEncyclopedia]

As a white straight christian cis male I'd make a joke about how oppressed I'm NOT.... but I can't think of one so I'm clearly oppressing my own sense of humor. :D

[@TheNerevahkiin]

“Being straight nowadays is like being a minority around Nazis” Damn Graham I didn’t realize that you got put into a death camp I’m so sorry to hear that 🙏

[@JDMimeTHEFIRST]

Wow, there’s a lot of straights terrorized, starved, and tortured in death camps. How many millions of straights? There must be only gay people left now.

[@daved2352]

I regret to inform you that he sadly hasn't. It's a nice thought though.

[@TiBiAstro]

​@@daved2352we can dream. 😌💅🏻

[@foehammer5047]

I didn't want to believe he was a right wing hysteric. I wanted to believe he was "just" a TERF. IT Crowd, Father Ted and Black Books are defining British comedies, and he wrote them. TERF is a gateway drug for famous people; they say a couple of dumb things about trans people, Twitter tells them they aren't as important as they think they are, and a little switch gets flicked and suddenly they're right wing mouthpieces.

[@actualgoblin]

i genuinely didnt understand that bit. ive never felt the least bit persecuted for disliking pride lmao

[@indridcold9593]

as a trans guy, even i can find transphobic/homophobic jokes funny as long as they're, you know, actual creative jokes that haven't been beaten to death since 2015. i want to hear something that isn't just an insult with no setup, or "well if you're a woman then i'm an attack helicopter lol" for the 8000th time. i'm not "triggered," i'm bored!

[@deaddomain]

Yeah a lot of people don’t understand that trans people and minorities don’t mind offensive humor, it just has to be *clever*, not the same jokes we’ve all heard 1000 times

[@dinosaysrawr]

The quality jokes are ones that you can't tell if they were devised by a transphobe or a trans person.

[@bmiller7419]

@@dinosaysrawrexactly! I said a queer joke in front of my parents and they were clutching at their pearls trying to figure out how I, an openly gay trans guy, could be homophobic/transphobic. Queer people tell self deprecating jokes to each other all the time (at least my friends and I do) and I forgot how straight people would react to it.

[@Lolzosaurus]

I think, you're onto something there, it's important to know something about the subject you're joking about in order to construct a clever joke. If someone's whole shtick is to misrepresent the thing they are joking about, they can never, unless by accident, make a clever joke about the subject. So in order to make a clever offensive joke about the trans experience for example, they'd have to actually read up on the subject,... Since they haven't done even a minute of research outside of their trans = groomer echo chamber of nonsense, they'd either joke about that for the millionth time or make another attack helicopter joke,... I think there is a clear difference between an offensive joke even if it's really offensive or hate speech poorly masquerading as a joke!

[@dinosaysrawr]

​@@Lolzosaurus , well said! I reckon that's basically it. I might argue that some kinds of jokes can be ironically funny or anti-humorous if their premise is sufficiently bizarre or wildly off-base, but that would require the would-be jokester to venture outside of the safe, warm playpen of "I identify as X" and "Queer people are groomers."

[@french.toastman]

Conservative "comedians" heard Mel Brooks say, "Tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die" and took it literally.

[@DavidRichardson153]

Didn't he say that in that autobiographical documentary film about him? I remember watching a video of him and he said that. Maybe it was from that, I don't know, and I've been searching for it for quite a while to find out. I also remember audibly laughing when he said it, though it tends to get overshadowed by the laughter I release from him saying that after he screwed up the first performance he was ever in, the play's director picked up a knife and followed him into the mountains.

[@CinemaMack]

They're the crowd that identify with the racist townsfolk in Blazing Saddles - thus, missing the point of the whole movie.

[@dracocrusher]

Somebody should tell them that Mel Brooks said it's ONLY funny if the black guy gets away. They don't understand that that's the bit. These people would immediately cry on Twitter like the fragile snowflakes they are if Blazing Saddles came out today, because it's WAY too "woke" for their delicate sensibilities.

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

​@@dracocrusher Which makes their constant "You can't make a film like Blazing Saddles today! Too much wokeness for a film like that to ever be made again!" Whinging real ironic.

[@dinosaysrawr]

Conservative comedians think that comedy is when you shove someone else into an open sewer and they die.

[@khill8645]

TERFs being called such online: "That's a slur!" TERFs being called such at a Graham Linehan show: "WOOOhooo!" _wild applause_

[@PatrickWDunne]

I have flashbacks to a Shoe0nhead clip: "So you're a radical feminist?" "Yes" "And your radical feminism excludes transwomen?" "Yes" "So you're a trans exclusionary radical feminist?" "TERF IS A SLUR!"

[@KarlSnarks]

@@PatrickWDunne Isn't Shoe into the whole groomer conspiracism now? Kinda ironic

[@Breadcrochets]

“TERF is our word!!1!!”😂

[@CassieAngelica]

@@KarlSnarks I think it’s nothing new. Shoe has always been ideologically halfway between Kyle Kulinski and Lauren Southern.

[@themajesticspider-man6116]

​@@CassieAngelicaYeah, that's why I see her takes and content as a waste of time and space. She has no real ideology, it seems. Funnily enough though, and I shit you not, her partner is literally a nazi.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

"Conservatives can't do comedy because PUNCHLINES CANNOT TELL JOKES." - old comedian proverb

[@JDMimeTHEFIRST]

😂 I bet they don’t even understand this joke.

[@SeasideDetective2]

They're also not funny because they're "PC" in providing disclaimers for their offensive jokes. (As the Batman villain Joker famously put it: "If you have to explain a joke, there IS no joke!") It's absurd to say you're "not allowed to tell a joke" when you're on the verge of doing precisely that. Worse, by "apologizing" for the joke, you're merely playing into the hands of the PC police by all but admitting you're a social outcast, and "deserve" your marginalization. But, more to the point, by apologizing, you're making the joke less funny by robbing it of its power. If you're going to tell a joke, don't preemptively "justify" it. Just say it! (But of course, these people don't even care if their jokes are funny or not. All they care about is playing the victim.)

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

​@@SeasideDetective2 The irony of their anti-PC schtick is that "Political Correctness" was _invented by conservatives to let them be racist, queerphobic, and sexist without making it obvious they were doing so._ "PC" is literally just conservative dogwhistling and abstraction of their views by another name. Like how Lee Atwater explained conservative politicians had to go from just saying "n*****s bad" to talking about "Forced bussing" and taxation, to abstract their real positions and ends into "side-effects" of their policy propositions.

[@stylis666]

@@SeasideDetective2 I just want to say that not only I think that that is a great comment, I also want to express my appreciation for ending up going full circle to the OP by showing that conservatives are the ironic character in their own plays. Sure, it's inevitable, because that's all conservatives do, but still, the symmetry is very pretty. And they themselves really don't see it, like JDMime points out. It's really sad. Pathetic even, but somehow conservatives feed my dark humour so much that it wayyyy outweighs my empathy for them.

[@milascave2]

@@SeasideDetective2 How about people with all sorts of media access and platforms complaining about being canceled?

[@KarpeNoktum]

The bit about "identifying as a kid" was almost a joke but he ran it into the ground so hard it started identifying as a grave

[@JackgarPrime]

You just told more of a complete joke than anything he's ever delivered on stage or in a video.

[@heyidaroo]

Nick DiPaolo doing a “let me say something to all you young people” bit to an audience with *zero* young people in it is some top tier boomer shit. It’s almost impressive.

[@rasheed7934]

😂😂😂

[@CassieAngelica]

Conservative comedy boils down to “you’re inferior, haha!”, “let me be a professional victim” and END OF LIST.

[@deaddomain]

Yep

[@Guro-Blue-kun]

You forgot all the "I hate my wife!" _'jokes'_ 🥲

[@CassieAngelica]

@@Guro-Blue-kun Oh yeah! This from the guys who so vehemently defend the institution of marriage.

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

You forgot one other category: "[Minorities]/Women, amirite folks?"

[@madsgrams2069]

@@CassieAngelica Yes...we've all seen how much conservatives care about the institution of marriage...so much so, that they want their abuse victims...ugh...I mean wives to remain shackled to them forever (opposed to no-fault divorce), despite that bringing unhappiness to both sides. 😂😂 😂😂 I think I'll call this...the Steven Crowder model... 😂😂😂

[@nekovalley]

“Women can’t get PTSD from being assaulted, that’s only for war veterans!” You can get PTSD from being in a car crash. You can get PTSD from losing a family member to cancer, one of the most common human experiences in the world. Idk why that specifically irked me so much that i needed to leave a comment, but yes, conservative “comedian” who i can’t bother to remember the name of-being sexually assaulted DOES cause PTSD. Shocker.

[@UncleSamsoniteLover69]

I once knew a kid in highschool who had ptsd from being bullied when he was younger. The things our brains process as traumatic vary so wildly different from person to person. I really hate generalizations when it comes to the brain, someone acting like all brains work the same way immediately tells me they have no idea what they’re talking about.

[@Yeahsoanyways0]

Sexual assault is one of the most traumatising and psyche scarring things a person can ever go through, no one that I know who has went through things like CSA has ever grown up normally, shit like this makes me so angry.

[@muscularclassrepresentativ5663]

As a therapist (yes really) this is like one of the dumber takes ever. That’s like famously the ptsd thing that most commonly gives you ptsd, like the second thing discovered that does that (after war). This is like a hot take from 40-50 years ago, like woah that’s outdated

[@JDMimeTHEFIRST]

Also most autistic people have CPTSD from how people treat us our whole lives. Because of our enlarged amygdalae and hippocampuses at a young age, we are more prone to having emotional reactions when remembering trauma hence panic attacks and avoidance. So he’s anti-science. Even kids now who survive mass school shooting . . . That’s like someone attacking you in war. Except you don’t even expect it. So yeah, being abused and bullied over and over has an effect on most people.

[@gremlinwc8996]

Nah that's a valid thing for you to comment, conservatives can't understand anything bad being equal to violence in war, especially if it's related to anything SA

[@koenkiryuu]

The problem with conservative comedy is that there is no comedy, there is no punchline, there is no build up to a joke, it's just a constant "I'm going to say the most offensive things possible until someone laughs"

[@J-manli]

Some More News also added that there’s a meta joke to the offense. Conservatives who laugh at the offensive “jokes” also imagine some “Wokey” getting offended and laugh at that perceived offense.

[@SeanStrife]

It's a carryover from the shock jock craze that they never mentally outgrew.

[@ezachleewright2309]

Or they joke about how they can't say the offensive thing they want to say, which is even more annoying and spineless. They know damn well they can joke about whatever they want, they're just too afraid of the consequences, specifically being roasted on Twitter and being recognized as a bigot.

[@dirtbag1713]

I've been revisiting early 2000s comedies for some reason. The "jokes" are very similar to conservative "comedy". Most jokes are either white people saying the N bomb with an a at the end or just straight up the punchline is gay. Just "ha ha this dude is gay"

[@dracocrusher]

It's the equivalent of seeing a Progressive go up and be like "Hey, you know how people are deadnaming eachother? Yeah, it's pretty bad. I once saw a conservative deadname his mom. If you're a man they say you're a woman, if you're a woman they call you a man, it's like, what is the deal?!?!" Like you said, there's just not even really jokes here, they're just saying stuff they already believe in a goofy way and just expecting that to be good enough. You don't even have to say bad jokes to do comedy about offensive content, there's just no effort on display at all. As nothing as it was, at least Dave Chapelle gave us actual jokes about situational Transphobic comedy. They're not his best material, and it wasn't handled well, but it was a heck of a lot better than whatever this is.

[@meganhammer7857]

the two conservative jokes: - "i don't like minorities" - "i don't understand what a vaccine is"

[@Blakbox92]

the two conservative jokes: - "i don't like"😡 - "i don't understand" 😡

[@PatrickWDunne]

My pronouns are please/laugh

[@stylis666]

@Blakbox92 And it's a feature, not a bug. "I couldn't have been any other way." - Morheus (I couldn't resist that. I almost phrased that sentence another way and this echoed in my head and I like myself too much to ignore that :)) But the thing is that conservatism, just like religions intrinsically encourages and requires relying solely on thinking errors and fallacies (excuse the tautology - some people see them as different things). Many of those feel intuitive, and to stay religious or conservative you have to believe that the world is different than it's shown to be. Because many thinking errors and fallacies are intuitive for all people, that's their common ground where they find each other. Their comedy inevitably encourages staying uninformed and overly intuitive. (And intuition is a good thing, unlike instincts, we can train our intuitions by learning how reality works. Intuitions are basically nothing but speeddials for the mind, shortcuts. They can be wrong and screw us over and we can train them to work to our advantage by working on expanding our knowledge about ourselves and the world around us.)

[@meganhammer7857]

@CT2NCFishing how does it feel to exist in this world without ever being curious about what the other people around you are feeling and experiencing?

[@stylis666]

@@CT2NCFishing Do give an example of that. Just saying things is the rightwing to do, but it doesn't make your delusions and hateful thinking true. Out in the real world, where actual people live instead of the strawmen that conservatives make of people who aren't in a perpetual state of conservative delusion, we tend to back up our claims. It's a good habit. Not that you would have any use for it, but assertions without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. So, I think you're wrong and your comment shows a braindead butthurt stereotype of a conservative, with made up delusions and all. To be fair, everything after the word wrong is backed up with your comment and the context ad evidence. Just the dismissal of your nonsense comment is equally lacking evidence. And you're gay, just so you know.

[@TheNerevahkiin]

In like 99% of conservative attempts at comedy, the jokes are just "here are my barely concealed thoughts of unbridled contempt and seething anger against the groups of people I hate. Now laugh."

[@deaddomain]

The crazy part is how much their audiences will laugh. Forced laughter, but nonetheless

[@dinosaysrawr]

@@deaddomain , I've heard it called "clapter." I'd say that if more than a third of your bit evokes clapter and not laughter, I don't know what you are, but you're no longer a stand-up comedian.

[@damianwomack4668]

Except people laugh because they do find it funny. Woke culture borders on parody just by existing. People laugh at it because they like seeing someone who actually has the balls to make jokes about the very vocal but small amount of people who try to crucify anyone who disagrees with them. You know, the thing that birthed comedy? Making fun of things that the powerful would usually not like? Comedy is about release for the people who view it. You don't have to like "conservative" comedy, the same way many other people don't like "woke" comedy either. You want to talk about forced laughter when you literally HAVE to make yourself laugh at most of the "jokes" woke comedians tell. You want to talk about people who are hurting or oppressed having jokes made about them while simultaneously oppressing or demonizing everyone with different views than your own. Its pretty tone-deaf. Do you not see the irony in doing so? There is a reason why everyone with any decent level of consciousness believes that the majority of left-leaning people don't understand comedy at all. If you like the comedy, then all the power to you. But if you're incapable of seeing why other people like comedy on the opposite end of the spectrum, you simply aren't getting the point.

[@stevonwhite8933]

⁠​⁠@@damianwomack4668 Y’all mfers co-opted a word, that was coined by Lead Belly, a singer from the early 20th century. A term meant for us black people being awoken to the violence and lynchings around us, and to stay vigilant at night. And instead, use it as a catch all for things and “certain” people you don’t like or understand because it hurts your brain. Y’all have no sense of thought to the world and history around you.

[@pandemoniousivy4651]

​@@damianwomack4668 oof you just shared all that out loud 😢

[@Imtrashbutimfree]

Conservative humor is saying stereotypes and then complaining you can't say stereotypes anymore.

[@ND-nr6mx]

"I'm a hero for saying bigoted things twice as much when people tell me to be more considerate"

[@jgcoverkknot5701]

"You know who's been long overdue a challenge? The trans community. They've had their guard down for too long if you ask me." - James Acaster (sarcasm) James Acaster did a great bit about transphobic comedy and how unfunny it is, it's really good.

[@deaddomain]

Acaster is honestly one of my favorite comedians of the last few years. Genuinely unique style and fresh bits. His joke about geese being non-plused with bread gets me every time

[@noahbossier1131]

Agreed

[@TomCantDance]

Graham has been around comedians for decades, the reason they're looking at him weird is because he has spent the last half a decade burning the reputation he had to the ground with his bigotry.

[@TheBurdenOfHope]

Well said. He’s erased the love I had for Father Ted, the IT Crowd, Black Books. Before his brain melted he was demonstrably funny and a very good writer.

[@DavidSmith-vr1nb]

​@@TheBurdenOfHope I think that does a disservice to the comic actors who starred in those three, although I'll admit I didn't see much of Black Books.

[@emmao6578]

​@@DavidSmith-vr1nb black books is honestly my favourite out of the three and yeah I can't imagine it working with any other cast. It's a shame Grahams utter inability to be a decent human being has cast such a shadow over those shows, black books and IT crowd used to be some of my comfort watches

[@chrisbfreelance]

Graham cares about the truth, you care about children being manipulated by fetishists and delusionists.

[@fromthedumpstertothegrave3689]

@@emmao6578 And TBF he was only involved in the first series of black books, the other two were Dylan Moran and a few other writers.

[@bayamoth]

"where'd you get your racism from, a minstrel show?" is probably the best joke I've heard all week lmao

[@bayamoth]

@@datrenarakiel8202 the minstrel show fandom is up in arms jesus christ

[@roaldpage]

Last year while visiting family in Florida I was taken to a Jeff Dunham show in Fort Meyers, because my family remembered I found him funny decades ago as a teenager. At the show nearly every single one of his jokes were tired conservative dog whistles that made the entire audience cheer and laugh, except for me and my father who sat there deeply uncomfortable forcibly faking laughter so that the crowd around us didn't turn and attack us. By the time we sat down we already felt singled out like the people around us could tell that we weren't one of them because we were the only ones wearing masks (to avoid covid) in that section of the crowded arena. Few times in my life have I felt so out of place, and never have I been surrounded by so many potentially hostile people.

[@mst3kharris]

Every time Jeff Dunham comes up, I remember seeing him perform on a tiny side stage at my State Fair in the early 1990s. You’ll never believe this, but he had a woozle whose name was Peanut.

[@nightwingszitka8213]

This!! I grew up on Jeff Dunham, because my parents loved him, and of course I found it hilarious. Throughout middle and high school, he was “that one edgy comedian” I was allowed to watch I ended up watching it about 5 years later and it was kind of horrifying in a sense. Like, I was laughing at a vaguely “Middle Eastern” (put in quotes because it feels wrong to even call Ahmed Middle Eastern to any extent, even as satire) extremist skeleton played by a white man when I was 14. I was introduced to those jokes when I was a child. It really makes you think about how normalized this kind of humor is

[@CoffeeDrinkerKim]

If you’re ever in an unfunny competition, god help you if your opponent is a conservative.

[@alexanderrestaino1921]

I whole heartedly agree EXCEPT I cannot deny that Alex Jones is one of the most unintentionally hilarious people ever... He isn't trying to be funny and it isn't funny because people take him seriously but still....

[@CasualFox12495]

Say the line, [Conservative]!! *yaaaaaay*

[@justinwatson1510]

Just say you identify as something inanimate then whine about cancel culture and opine on how well you think Gen z would survive the battle at Normandy.

[@regulargoat7259]

@@justinwatson1510 what the hell did you just say lol

[@JessicaFEREM]

try to laugh challenge: conservative comedian edition

[@Froggsroxx]

"Minorities, am I right?" -All of conservative "comedy"

[@deaddomain]

Basically

[@richardnoggin1526]

Minorities ☕

[@box_is_real]

Minorites ☕

[@schachmaster]

“You’re laughing with me, not at me, right?”

[@robertpresley1503]

Joe many libruls does it take to screw in a log by bolb??? None their too busy???? They're gender!?///?

[@LowkeyFawkes]

You know a comedian is a hack when they get more applause than laughter

[@Zac_Frost]

So... 100% of woke comedians, then?

[@chrisbfreelance]

Case in point most comedians on the circuits.

[@seventeenseventythirteen7465]

@@Zac_Frost Yes, the shitty comedians that are just political and that's all. Either side does that... However, Conservatives are WAY worse in this sense. Not to be a Centrist of course. But what even is a "woke comedian"?

[@Zac_Frost]

@@seventeenseventythirteen7465 Hasan Minhaj, who lied about shit and wasn't even trying to tell jokes. Amy Schumer, who's never been funny. Seth Rogen, Jon Stewart, etc.

[@seventeenseventythirteen7465]

@@Zac_Frost IDK about the first one, but if we want to go based on a "both sides" scale, no "woke" comedian is as bad as Conservative one. Amy Schumer just tells sex jokes, Seth Rogan tells mostly stoner jokes, I don't know much about Jon Stewart honestly or anything about this Hasan Minhaj person. They're "woke" in the sense they're progressives and that's about it. They don't make their ENTIRE comedy based only on their politics. Conservatives only do this kind of "comedy", just repeating the same tied stereotype jokes about people they either disagree with or are just non straight white people in general. Oh my god the "gay voice" that every single Conservative comedian does physically hurts people that aren't tuned to the same stupid wavelengths as them.

[@marthsinclair3796]

Every conservative comedy event is like, half a step above that Patton Oswalt bit of "I went to Vegas and got paid six figures to have a room of the drunkest people on Earth scream my IMDB page at me for 90 minutes"

[@Montesama314]

I watched that bit for the hundredth time a couple days ago. Patton knows how to,craft a narrative.

[@Gambit2483]

"Conservative comedy" is like "Military Intelligence." The biggest examples of an oxymoron.

[@JDMimeTHEFIRST]

I have to disagree. I hate war and there are some people who join the military for the wrong reasons, but most people I know in the military are actually liberal people and also second generation Americans. My friends husband, who is a liberal gay man serves in the military. Many people join to pay for college because they don’t want to be in debt. And the military needs intelligence to evolve and fight cyber wars just as much as prevent attacks, etc. so, there are smart people in there. I don’t think we need our entire budget into weapons that end up sitting in a warehouse because of lobbyists and contractors. Healthcare for veterans would be better.

[@caffetiel]

​@@JDMimeTHEFIRST 'military intelligence' being an oxymoron is a really old military joke, dude

[@Figgenawesome1992]

@sneedfeedandseed2410those marines are onto something these crayons are fuckin tasty

[@midnightcassettelibrary5171]

Boomer joke there bud.

[@V01DG0D]

@@JDMimeTHEFIRSTacab includes the military

[@noalowenstein6741]

"being straight nowadays is just like how Nazis used to treat minorities" hey Graham. Hey. Hey. Hey Graham. Hey Graham. How do you think Nazis treated LGBT people Graham

[@deaddomain]

😬

[@WilliamBrowning]

As a straight man who is currently hiding in my gay neighbors attic, I can confirm.

[@velaethia6]

Apparently nazi's held bigots accountable for their actions /s

[@joeyj6808]

Tots and pears, my king. Tots and pears.@@WilliamBrowning

[@markferguson3745]

So the idea is that it's somehow deserved? The alternative" community" can do their best to divide and alienate those not so inclined, but in the end, it will only be to their own detriment.

[@redactedredacted6656]

that graham linehan set feels like being at a family dinner with a sad drunk uncle whose life is falling apart

[@knuckles543]

constantly about two minutes for slapping him and telling him to STFU and let us eat in peace? that tracks

[@cityhawk]

It is sad. I love Father Ted, Black Books, and The IT Crowd. Not like, love. Graham wrote some of the funniest comedies I've ever seen, and it’s very sad to see him go down this road. I don't know what happened to him and how he got so bitter but in many ways I am left shaking my head. Please come back to reality and write some great comedy again. I miss that Graham.

[@drumworkoutstuff4934]

Going to a conservative stand-up comedian and asking them to tell some jokes is like going to a kindergartener and asking them to tell you what calculus is. Only difference? One is a child that will tell you, "I don't know," and the story ends there. The other is a child that will try to tell you anyway, and somehow make the kindergartner look like a savant in comparison.

[@pigpotty]

I saw Nick DePaulo like 20 years ago at the Comedy Cellar. He got upset at the audience because he was bombing. And it was not some liberal-whatever crowd (this was like 2003), because Colin Quinn followed him and got a standing ovation. Nick DePaulo has just been bad at comedy for a long time.

[@pembrokelove]

Being a straight person during pride… is like being a Jew in Nazi occupied France… I’m queer and I’m Jewish, and I’m not entirely sure which bit of me is most offended.

[@prestonbruchmiller497]

I’ve seen straight people at pride and the ones who aren’t holding signs seem to be having a great time.

[@btarczy5067]

This could work as a setup with a different punchline. I‘ll give it a try: „I’m a heterosexual guy so when I went to the city during Pride it was a bit like being a jew traveling through occupied France… Was that comparison OFFENSIVE to you?! Stop acting like such a victim, jeez…“

[@thuglifeinc4894]

Being straight during pride month is a godsent for straight men since they're gayer than the gays.

[@Colddirector]

@@prestonbruchmiller497 I'm straight, I have no interest in going to pride and I've never once been heckled about it. I think the longest conversation I've ever had regarding it is probably like "Hey do you want to come to pride with us?" "No thanks" "Okay". I've faced more pressure to go to church than I *ever* have going to pride (which again, I'm pretty sure is none). What planet do these people live on?

[@Zecuu]

Steven Crowder's best joke was "OH NO SAM SEDER WHAT A FUCKING NIGHTMARE!" that shit had me rolling when he said that

[@deaddomain]

I have that voice clip memorized lol, it’s so good.

[@AmbitiousNoodle]

Ok, that was one of the funniest moments in political KZbin history

[@chaotic.tired.goblin.]

Second best joke has been his life from thereafter that moment 😂

[@thespacebat]

I use to work closely with the heads of anime and comic conventions, and every single time Vic Mignonga was a guest, every single time, we were warned not to let any underaged girls go to his booth or talk to him alone.

[@deaddomain]

YEP. The amount of “open secrets” that get shoved out of sight in the performance industry is staggering and terrible.

[@o0bookwyrmknight0o]

I’m glad it’s finally out in the world now what a vile man he is.

[@muderiscoolbutsoisbeansandrice]

oh but that trans woman that works at McDonald's is a gr00mer! /s

[@KindlyCryptid]

Conservative comedy is literally just jangling keys in front of babies

[@nondescriptcat5620]

except the babies are also evil.

[@veroniquewolff8963]

I am still flabergasted that these conservative comedians expect everyone else to not get offended by their jokes when they themselves are so offended by everyone else's existence.

[@mordaciousfilms]

Yeah we're all snowflakes yet they're so offended by not being able to be racist and homophobic and they're triggered to rage by the mere existence of people who aren't white hetero men.

[@homelesshannah50]

PREACH!!

[@88monorail]

Yelling out, 'all the terfs here?', kind of felt like he was a little broken. Like, 'well this is my life now, performing for these wine mom loons, I used to be cool and edgy. Still gotta pay that child support, so show must go on.'

[@EnigmaticGentleman]

Its not just comedy. The daily wire has a streaming service for kids now, and even their own brainwashed audience is accusing them of ripping off other shows (also the google trends graph for it literally goes down to 0, 9 days after its launch). Just seems like art in general isn't really compatible with the conservative way of thought.

[@margotpreston]

That's because making art requires one be able to think critically, and that is something conservatives struggle mightily with.

[@suzbone]

Any art outside of outright propaganda is anathema to the right.

[@TurbopropPuppy]

@@suzbone i mean, "propaganda" is a word that actually means something, the right doesn't have a monopoly on it. left wing propaganda tends to be actually creative though (and often furry 🦊)

[@lukedoesbutter]

New original ideas are scary to conservatives

[@DavidRichardson153]

​@@margotpreston Hey now, conservatives do not struggle with critical thinking at all. They just never do it, and you cannot struggle at something you never do in the first place.

[@quietone2674]

I liked the Some More News take on conservative comedy, and how it was actually - even quite recently - still very funny. And that the reason it's not anymore is because they're stuck in reactionary mode and just...angry. Gee, I wonder what they watched to make them so pissed off over literally nothing.

[@jaybee4118]

I guess that might be true of American conservative comedy. I grew up with British comedy and the conservative comedy was like this stuff but so, so, sooooo much worse. I am also old though, so I’m talking 70s, 80s and 90s. Bernard Manning, Roy “chubby” Brown, Jethro to name a few. Honestly, it makes me shudder to remember them. So, for me, conservative comedy has never been funny because it was all just *insert word*phobia/ism. Edit to add, and of course the “I hate my wife” “jokes”.

[@SteffBrockley]

The weirdest thing about Linehan saying you can’t make jokes anymore is his old shows like Father Ted have well-crafted jokes that are generally inoffensive. Father Ted hasn’t been attacked for regressive views or anything like that. It’s just a silly show. The IT Crowd had one episode that I would call trans problematic rather than intentionally transphobic, but he just refused to take any criticism of it and spiralled down into this absolute mess of a person. Honestly, I don’t think he’s really trying to become a comedian at all, he’s just so obsessed with trans people that he wants to be heard being offensive now. He just wants to push his views now and doesn’t really care about making people laugh anymore.

[@Stephen-Fox]

Yeah, he got some mild pushback for a single episode of The IT Crowd and he's made being angry about it his entire life ever since.

[@Blackhawk19892]

He's absolutely convinced making a comedy show about priests in the UK, one of the most secular societies in the world, was a stunning act of moral bravery that makes him a freedom fighting truth teller. It's just.....sad....

[@schachmaster]

Now I look back at that episode and think “Yeesh… well, at least it ends with a little bit of vindication for her.”

[@rhaeven]

@@Blackhawk19892 well, he did make it in Ireland which isn't very secular at all. Very funny man back then, I wish he hadn't caught the terf brainworms

[@chetmanley1885]

Nah he's mad because he's a chaser and he got turned down by someone while he was still married. I also hear he employed the services of a trans person who wasn't an accountant if you catch my drift.

[@coldninja9]

Mad props to you for actually sitting through this, I could never lmao. Your commentary is the only thing that makes it bearable.

[@paultaylor914]

As a lefty lib LGBTQ, I can take a good gay/trans joke. I miss shows like "kids in the hall". Recently saw a good bumper sticker that said "only gay cops pull me over"🤩

[@PatrickWDunne]

How does a non-binary samurai kill their opponents? They/them

[@BabyMaharaja0]

those are all boring, safe jokes. peak gay comedy is men on films skits from in living color

[@rasheed7934]

The best LGBTQ jokes come from their own.

[@bdarecords_]

@@rasheed7934 Why did the trans person cross the street? BLAHAJ! Ok I'm bad at this :(

[@rachael_grey]

Buddy Cole was sheer perfection.

[@VayaKahvi]

I have a theory about conservative humor. Laughter is often a sign that things are okay. Conservative jokes that punch down are showing that marginalized people are still "in their place" and thus the status quo is in the right order, things are comfortable enough to laugh.

[@michaelburk9171]

That's a solid point. Showing the audience that bigotry and down punching is ok.

[@ProfessorYaoiI]

tbh listening to them or their fans trying to explain the joke will expose that, like its just saying a stereotype because you believe a stereotype. There’s no subversion at all its just I hate people below me and the people who care about them and want to freeze the world in the 1950s

[@ProfessorYaoiI]

people try to deny it and say the jokes are somehow not racist just because they’re jokes but then their fans will defend the joke by just nakedly saying they believe the stereotype and “ they’re just saying what everyone’s thinking”. See any comment section below conservative comedy

[@jonathanschweiss316]

@@ProfessorYaoiI They can get away with saying anything, as long as they use the "just a joke/can't take a joke" cop-out to shut down any criticism. Also, someone needs to tell them that "what everyone's thinking" isn't necessarily true or worth saying.

[@DarkExcalibur42]

Come to dunk on conservative "comedians", stay to hear the kitty purr.

[@HirschfeldWillamette]

Was just about to comment something similar, hearing that kitty purr outta nowhere was a treat

[@Ancusohm]

Such a good kitty!

[@SPDYellow]

Comedians, as a whole, tend to be the kind of people who were the weird kids in school and were in no danger of being popular in high school. Heck, often they became the class clown mostly because being seen as funny is still better than being seen as weird. That and humor is a common coping mechanism when it comes to people with mental illnesses or who are neurodivergent. This is why comedians tend to be more willing to live and let live when it comes to people’s’ eccentricities. Plus, people being eccentric is how they pay the bills; gotta mine for material somewhere. Conservative comedians are the jocks who spent high school bullying the weird kids and unfortunately, they managed to make a career out of it. Their humor explicitly relies on the suffering of others, and anyone who has had the misfortune of arguing with conservatives online, know they love to use humor as a dodge, going all, “I was only kidding; god, why do you have to be so sensitive about everything!” Conservatives are basically Goliath, wondering why no one will take their side in the fight against that David-asshole.

[@lloroshastar6347]

Linehan was one of the people who went round attacking comedians for their offensive jokes before he decided to commit to hatred of trans people and now he's the one saying 'you can't tell jokes anymore' because he found his favourite minority to harass.

[@93LibraZebra93s]

Conservative stand up is like taking that one kid in class who desperately tries to be the class clown but wasn’t funny and was incredibly unlikable, put them in an adult body and place them in a David Lynch film about a nightmare stand up comedy show, this is what you’d get.

[@rasheed7934]

I never felt sorry for that kid.

[@PatrickWDunne]

Nick Di Paolo can't even do a Trump impression, which is like the bare minimum for any modern comedian

[@LaBlueSkuld]

18:45 I'm honestly surprised the crowd didn't cheer when he said "I'm a heterosexual man."

[@NapoleonBlownapartMMA]

As an Irishman, it pains me that one of the creators of Father Ted turned out to be such an unrepentant turd

[@Passw0rdYT]

if you tell a joke and you hear more clapping than laughing, you aren't funny, the audience just agrees with your politics

[@mp5enthusiast]

Ya know, growing up I didn't realize that dream catchers were a Native thing. Didn't realize 'til I was a teenager and then I saw the video of crowder mocking them. Comments like that, and many other similar comments by similar people mocking different facets of Native beliefs and culture have this uncanny ability of completely bypassing my ability of keeping my anger in check. I suppose I just don't understand looking down on others because of a cultural difference, and I, ya know, value people as they are. TL;DR: I get bent when people mock Indigenous people for their cultural practices. Especially fuckheads like crowder

[@laurenwalker1048]

This “comedy” was only bearable because of you and the kitty. Otherwise, I’d be crumpled into a ball of immense cringe and sadness.

[@deaddomain]

The kitty deserves all the credit tbh

[@laurenwalker1048]

@@deaddomain she is a show stealer, ngl

[@Gabriel_Blair]

​@@deaddomainyou should give the kitty more screentime

[@BeastNationXIV]

Most of 1st guy's jokes are basically "queers exist haha" while the crowd laughs in hate. 🙄🙄🙄

[@deaddomain]

Yeppp. And they’ll still say they don’t hate gay people somehow

[@BeastNationXIV]

@@deaddomain but they're the ones who are censored...*insert gif of the rock rolling his eyes*

[@SteelerFanInRI]

I'm a standup comedian on the east coast; you hit the nail on the head with this; it's so annoying to hear the crowd that supposedly hates "clapter" will give huge applause to things that aren't even jokes just because they agree with them; conservatives really have mastered projection. Also, love your cat! 😻

[@ND-nr6mx]

How to trick a conservative audience into thinking they're enjoying your set: Mention the military and they'll all get that serotonin hit from clapping together.

[@ProphetofZod]

I took a train to downtown Seattle on the day of a huge pride parade, and I was surrounded with nothing but the happiest, friendliest, most welcoming group of people I’ve seen. I never felt like I was about to be interrogated or even looked at funny for being a basic looking old straight guy. If that guy felt surrounded by Nazis on Pride Day, the thought was only in his head because he wanted it there.

[@thatbachus]

I think that, he feels that way because he's no longer the opressive majority, and because of his long time of being in said opressive majority, he believes that the new majority will be as equally opressive as himself Tl:dr, Because nobody is standing with him, he believes everyone is standing against him

[@CymruPhoenix]

that pop Glinner got simply for saying TERF is insane, reminds me of that bit in Family Guy where Lois is running for office and during a speech says "9/11 was bad" and her audience goes wild so she just keeps repeating "9/11"

[@jaybee4118]

Tbh I think most groups are guilty of that. But he and his audience still suck.

[@ariel_haymarket]

JP Sears' comments have me, being a potential aunt, thinking that he needs to be put on a sex offender register.

[@Madison-ur2qn]

When that woman shouted about the “banks” we all know what she actually meant, I’m sure.

[@deaddomain]

😬😬😬

[@sirbilliam3455]

I'm pretty sure she'd write it as "(((banks)))" though

[@jamielockdown]

Ah Graham Linehan. The one Irish celebrity where we don't correct the British media when they act like he's one of theirs.

[@GregOrCreg]

I love that you're still giving right-wing comedy a hypothetical chance and are critiquing the 'jokes' with an open-mind, rather than automatically assuming that it's going to be crap. Of course, it is [crap], but I do appreciate that your initial objective is to identify the potential for humour including gag construction, irrespective of how offensive, stupid and mean-spirited the whole endeavour of right-wing comedy inevitably is.

[@deaddomain]

Thank you! I actually really appreciate that examination

[@GregOrCreg]

@@deaddomain Cheers! I suspect most people watching this channel already share your politics to a large degree, so, it's fascinating to look at these 'comedians' from a different angle (i.e. are they actually funny or at least capable of constructing a decent joke/routine, irrespective of their shitty politics?)

[@MFGizmo]

I cannot describe how happy I am to open up KZbin and see that not only has Dead Domain uploaded a new video, but that it's over an hour long! Thanks for the great content as always 🙌🏻

[@deaddomain]

Thank you for watching! :)

[@liesalllies]

My feelings exactly lol

[@TamRoxPox]

i am cocooning. the video slurp in veins.

[@dermotfenster9980]

I could listen to a tight 5 min of your cat's material on repeat for 10 years and at the end it would still be fresher than the top of the top tier of conservative comedy

[@deaddomain]

She has a KILLER set about dropping her catnip in the litter box.

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

It must be hard being this unfunny but not realizing it. Being conservative is so cringe.

[@Gravewhisper]

Thing is, you can absolutely be a man who's straight, white, a boomer, very offensive, and yet still funny. Bob Saget does a pretty good job at that. It's just hard to be funny, when all your material is retired 4chan pol memes.

[@deaddomain]

Anthony Jeselnik is another great example of broadly offensive pitch black humor. But he doesn’t punch down, he doesn’t target people because of his insecurities and prejudices.

[@TheSapphireLeo]

Oof, have you also heard about all that happened with Bob Saget? Same things, before maybe getting wacked, if we recall?

[@Kaanfight]

@@deaddomainbob’s interview with Dave rubin on his podcast is one of the greatest things I’ve ever watched. It’s literally just Bob going “Dave, that’s stupid, don’t believe that.” For like an hour and a half. Highly recommend watching it on stream!

[@cowoljarwoff]

So, basically: "People aren't the same as me." **Audience loses their actual shit like it's the funniest thing that's ever been said**

[@deaddomain]

Yeah that about sums it up

[@princesspupcake1269]

Rightoid "Comedians" litchrally never know when to END THEIR JOKE, they just keep going and going and going, Schneider's painfully unfunny booster-shot rambling is a good example of that.

[@flick2502]

my parents took me to a jeff dunham show as a christmas gift cause i watched his free special to get a vibe for him. the show was boomer humor about people on technology and transphobia. im trans didnt have a good time

[@lawrenceredmacher4382]

guy known for his racist puppets is also a transphobe? shocked.

[@squirrel0485]

"It's not brave, it's not bold, it's old" that was a much better joke then DePaolo's whole set.

[@saket9083]

Conservatives spew out buzzwords and other one's go "duhhh i know what that is" For example, heres my conservative stand-up routine: PRONOUNS! WOKE! TRANS! TWITTER!

[@deaddomain]

You’d get big laughs from those crowds with this exact routine for sure

[@atlasthewolf1508]

*Uproarious laughter and cheering ensues.*

[@MegCazalet]

“You should try telling some first” is one of the best responses to the “you can’t tell jokes anymore” whine. Simple but impactful.

[@tacosux691]

JP sears is the saddest downfall. Like 8 to ten years ago he had legit videos on how to heal from trauma and how to help yourself, mixed in with some light hearted jokes about vegans. But now he is just a right wing grifter

[@manolgeorgiev9664]

He's likely also been mentally unwell for 3-4 years now and getting worse, so makes sence that he's going more and more unhinged.

[@clrbrk9108]

It has been so strange watching him decline. He was genuinely funny.

[@tacosux691]

@@clrbrk9108 and he seemed like a good dude. A lot of his old videos were legit helpful when it came to accepting yourself, trauma, and other mental health issues. And now he is talking about anti vax nonsense and transphobia.

[@michaelburk9171]

Years ago a friend of mine used to share his stuff on her KZbin. It was funny insightful stuff. Nothing like the shit in this video

[@nillomat]

@@tacosux691Yeah iirc it was during covid when he made the switch from poking fun at woowoo healing to making abhorrent political content sprinkled with conspiracy theories.

[@Hamokk]

Graham is a comic in the same way Trump was a good president. Thank you Jordan for putting these on KZbin. I cannot almost ever catch your streams because of the time difference. Also as non-binary MtF you have given me so much courage. Love you! 💕

[@brodyjohnstancliff4822]

"I liked Dane Cook in middle school." "Who is Nick DiPaolo?" I can *pinpoint* our single-digit age gap on these two statements, alone lol

[@josephimperatrice5552]

Nick DiPaolo is so Far Right that when he went on The Joe Rogan Experience he was complaining that Joe Rogan is not pro-Donald Trump enough.

[@rustkitty]

Has anyone ever told Graham that "stand-up comedy" doesn't mean rattling out a continuous stream of bland in-group references and self-promotion for half an hour? Maybe it's an honest mistake and just nobody told him...

[@deaddomain]

It’s a wonder why he’s giving up comedy!

[@brandonsaffell4100]

"He's not making any jokes, he's just demeaning other people and reinforcing their worldview". That is conservative comedy.

[@deaddomain]

Basically yeah

[@ItsPredator]

The fact Crowder called them a “corpse man” is painful

[@schachmaster]

The fact that he got upstaged by Amy Schumer on a conservative late night show should remedy that.

[@k.chu13]

the “a breath of fresh air” comedian was literally disgusting and vile to watch. just truly awful 😢 thanks for covering this Dead Domain

[@deaddomain]

Of course! Sorry for making you suffer through it! 😬

[@JennyJeong425]

They are so awful. Nothing clever or funny or refreshing. Just vile, repetitive, hateful buzzwords and epithets. That's it. That's not talent.

[@Higley1234]

If this were a "you cringe you drink" then by the end of it I'd be almost as drunk as Rudy Giuliani

[@SilverAceOfSpades]

"Joe many liberals does it take to change a log by bolb? None?? Their to busy???? Their gender 😂😂😂😂😂😂" I think this is the funniest conservative joke because it makes no sense.

[@chaotic.tired.goblin.]

Birds rights activist Twitter is that you?

[@chrisjones5949]

Well that was pathetic. That was actually painful to listen to. ...am I in Hell?

[@spantigre3190]

Graham Linnehan's act seems to be mainly about how nobody can stand him when he's not saying tranphobia, and the joke is that it's true...

[@chrisbfreelance]

The majority of the world agree with his views.

[@umtic]

​@@chrisbfreelanceis this a good thing?

[@joshuacoleman8000]

​@@umticNo

[@chrisbfreelance]

@@joshuacoleman8000 Because you hate reality.

[@chrisbfreelance]

@@umtic Yes for the greater good, for not bending to those who refute reality and want to control language, let alone stopping the grooming of youngsters into radically changing their bodies.

[@jakethorne8336]

You have rapidly become one of my favorite content creators

[@deaddomain]

Who me? 🥺

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

Same I love this channel!

[@arcadiaberger9204]

Friend @@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 and Friend @jakethorne8336 speak my mind in this matter.

[@edwardkantowicz4707]

Me three!

[@michaelburk9171]

Agreed. Clicked on one of DD's vids. (the infiltrating the hate church one) interesting, insightful, and educational.

[@heiyuall]

Cruelty is the point.

[@Yulenka-]

These performances are not funny because hating or denigrating someone is not fun in itself. It's not a fun, light-hearted activity that is comedy. That's why I think a better term would be a sermon, a rant, a support group for people with common sensibilities or attitudes, anything but certainly NOT comedy

[@Wizalot]

"Ideas about communism were popular in America." So much so that the writer of the Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy, was a socialist. President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add in the "under God" bit. Bellamy's daughter objected to the change

[@Froggsroxx]

1:15:00 literally admitting he knows trump is a con artist and still acts superior for supporting him lmfao

[@rowanatkinson3594]

There's a Chapo bit I think about a lot where I think it's Matt Christman hypothesizes that the reason conservative comedy tends to be so unfunny is that halfway through telling a joke they keep on making themselves legitimately angry and it throws off the pacing you need to tell a decent joke because they get wrapped up in that anger (I also think Cody Johnston is onto something about how modern conservative comedy is foremost focused on showing political allegiance and actual comedy is a very distant secondary objective- this happens especially with jokes about minorities I've found because if you find a group of people inherently ridiculous, then you spend less effort crafting a joke because hell, we're already a punchline in their eyes)

[@feistygheisty]

Matt always brilliant. Has Matt come back to the show since his stay in the hospital?

[@dinosaysrawr]

Yes, I think there's something to this! And, to be sure, left-leaning comedians can suffer from this, too. I saw Margaret Cho live in the early 2000s, and her whole bit was basically seething and ranting about Shrub and the Iraq War, and I was so bummed that none of it was funny---and, yes, it overwhelmingly evoked clapter from the audience, and no real laughter.

[@dreadedworld8864]

One not so wise facebook user once said "Joe many liberals dose it take to change a log a bulb none there two bisy there gender"

[@blouburkette]

"He looks like a deep fried Dennis Hopper". Yes girl. I screamed. You are a platinum comedian. Get it. 10/10.

[@gregoryrau3894]

Ya know, I just realized that Gen Z figured this out. You can shut down Nick DePalo's entire rant with the phrase "OK Boomer." Keep this phrase going everyone.

[@BirdSign4]

So much of their "humor" only works if you look down on others. That and just repeating buzz phrases

[@michaelburk9171]

If it punches up is comedy. If it punches down it's conservative comedy

[@philmaro84]

I really enjoy listening to the stuff you create, especially your hilarious and scary podcasts about Matt Walsh. I also enjoy your crazy brave work on that church. There are some fun comedy clubs in St. Louis if you ever come out here, I'd come see ya!

[@deaddomain]

I'll definitely keep that in mind! :)

[@burpiephillips5664]

It's truly baffling how they have the confidence to stand up there with such unfunny and cringe sets. They are doing standup with literally the only people who might laugh at their jokes and even they know it's not funny. Like has no one told them? Are they just so deluded that they think a couple chuckles means they're killing it? Are they incapable of feeling embarrassment?

[@rodneysmith873]

It's the money. They don't care about anything except how easy it is to milk the crowds

[@andrejg4136]

They need the positive reinforcement any way they can get it to stave off the mental unraveling.

[@Jacked_Dude_Loves_Wheyfus]

The first guy wasn't even telling jokes, it was a lecture.

[@Tony-ny9fp]

About his sad life no less

[@jercos]

Did he really open with a "Titanic" joke? What a terrible icebreaker.

[@deaddomain]

Better than any of his jokes

[@lyokianhitchhiker]

Dad?

[@MinoriGaming]

I think the reason conservative comedy sucks so bad is ultimately the appeal isn't too laugh at the jokes themselves, but to spite-laugh at the imagined strawman leftist that would get mad at the 'jokes. When Crowder is confusingly doing a racist impression of an Indian stereotype to represent an Arabic person, they aren't laughing at the impression itself, they're laughing at the idea of a 'triggered woke SJW' with dyed blue hair typing a 5 paragraph Twitter thread on why that joke is racist and unacceptable so an epic cool alpha cishet man can dunk on them epically by replying "TRIGGERED MUCH?" in all caps. That's why the crowd laughed so hard at the 'that's gonna get a comment on Media Matters' line. They're not laughing at the material itself, but at the idea that the jokes would be upsetting to someone. It's all about cruelty in the end. As with all things in conservative culture, the primary motivation and driving force behind their actions is the idea that they'll make someone else uncomfortable or upset.