Why are there no FUNNY RW humorists, comedians or cartoonists?

[Earthlyone]

jfk, that earthly twat is going back 40-50 years or more. comedians since those days are mostly left-leaning in their social commentary. and not afraid to knock 'lefties' when it's deserved.

In the mid nineties "Lad culture" was the thing, and people like Lee Hurst, Rory McGrath, Neil Morrisey, Martin Clunes and even Jonathan Ross to a degree, revived a little bit of that old-school spirit in comedy. I was a teenager in the nineties so this was my era.

A little later in the 2000's, David Walliams and Matt Lucas in Little Britain did some quite controversial stuff, but because they are BBC luvvies, what they were doing was apparently "ironic" so they got away it.

 

[pecksniff]

NL hasn't been the same since PJ and Matty Simmons left.

NL isn't much of anything any more but a movie franchise. The magazine, cultural treasure that it was, folded in 1998.

 

[Earthlyone]

You generally need a good social sensibility to be funny, which is not a strength for most Conservatives. That's why the vast majority of famous comedians tilt leftwards.

Case-in-point: Lit Deplorables. Angry, dumb, and secluded from the public doesn't help someone generate laughs. Excluding the ones at their own expense, you can count the number of genuine chuckles they provide on two hands in any given year.

The root of all comedy is basically laughing at someone else's misfortune, or having a laugh at someone else's expense. "Progressives" mock Trump endlessly over his weight and hairstyle, and you yourself started a thread recently mocking someone on here for saying that Sirhan Sirhan killed JFK instead instead of RFK. You were laughing at his expense.

 

[Champakian]

Rory is the board idiot.



Anyone mention the likes of Dennis Miller yet?

There are plenty of examples. Unfortunately, reporting/entertainment seem to be locked up by the Democrats.



It might be the residue of FDR....

 

[Champakian]

The root of all comedy is the grain of truth.

This is why the Left eschews real comedy in favor of politically hacking
at the cherry tree while at once denying that they have an axe in their hands...

 

[mayfly13]

OP forgot about Busybody
the Charlie Chaplin of Political satire & cartoons.

 

[Champakian]

Charlie was actually funny...

 

[bellisarius]

The root of all comedy is the grain of truth.

This is why the Left eschews real comedy in favor of politically hacking
at the cherry tree while at once denying that they have an axe in their hands...

Good one.

 

[RoryN]

This subject always triggers our resident Deplorables. It's probably a reminder of a personal failure they've had.

They've no doubt, at one or various points, been reprimanded by someone with the words "that's not funny".

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Dennis Miller may have been the closest thing to being funny....kind of.

All the RW radio hosts dying from covid is pretty hilarious, give them some credit.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Dennis Miller may have been the closest thing to being funny....kind of.

All the RW radio hosts dying from covid is pretty hilarious, give them some credit.

Miller stopped being funny when he reached for the tinfoil hat.

 

[pecksniff]

The root of all comedy is basically laughing at someone else's misfortune, or having a laugh at someone else's expense.

I'm always wary of any attempt to comprehensively define humor. E.g., what you're describing would not include puns.

 

[pecksniff]

The root of all comedy is the grain of truth.

Again, does not cover many forms of humor.

 

[pecksniff]

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr used to pen some very good dry humor in his various dissections of the Democrat Animal Kingdom.

If this is who you mean, no, there was never anything funny in The American Spectator.

 

[pecksniff]

Really, all RW efforts to be funny seem to turn out totally lame, like Mallard Fillmore.

 

[GothTalk]

Really, all RW efforts to be funny seem to turn out totally lame,

Meanwhile one of the greatest comedians of all time is an alt-reich white nationalist.
https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/10/08/13/newFile-7.jpg?quality=75&width=982&height=726&auto=webp

 

[pecksniff]

Meanwhile one of the greatest comedians of all time is an alt-reich white nationalist.

Not that bullshit again!

 

[GothTalk]

Not that bullshit again!

Hey man it's you and your tribe that did it.

Dave Chapelle...the fucking GOAT himself, alt-Right extremist.

 

[nowisthetime]

Because they have a stick up their you know what and don't have a sense of humor.

 

[WillJ8787]

Bitter folks for sure.

 

[JohnEngelman]

Rush Limbaugh was funny if you like jokes made at the expense of homosexual AIDS victims and homeless people.

 

[Rightguide]

The only exception I can think of is P.J. O'Rourke, and he has not been very funny since his National Lampoon days. I have never seen a funny RW cartoon on this board. A few years ago I heard NPR do a piece on "conservative comedians," and not one of them delivered a line worth a laugh.

Why is it that the whole RW is so much worse positioned to make fun than to be made fun of?

Here's a list:
https://www.ranker.com/list/best-conservative-republican-comedians/ranker-comedy

 

[Chernosoth]

We are long past the golden age of comedy. The geniuses mined the gold decades ago, so what's left attracts lesser talents with ripoffs of old acts and easy stuff like complaining about the price of gas.

 

[Rightguide]

We are long past the golden age of comedy. The geniuses mined the gold decades ago, so what's left attracts lesser talents with ripoffs of old acts and easy stuff like complaining about the price of gas.

A few are still around.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I haven't heard him in years but isn't Jeff Foxworthy conservative?