One of the most obvious and glaring changes among "liberals" in this country during the past decade has been their loss of ability to laugh- but especially at themselves. I started to noticed this change sometime around 2008, when “liberals” started believing that shouting profanities and overacting was the height of humor. Just remember all those cringeworthy "correspondent" interviews on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart". Readers will also remember how talentless cunts such as Amy Schumer and similar women were suddenly celebrated as great comedians and pathbreakers. While good comedy is transgressive by its very nature, the material has to be genuinely funny- as opposed to corporate friendly virtue signaling.
Think of the first episode of the first season of 'Chappelle's Show' which introduced us to the white-supremacist character of Clayton Bigsby, who happened to be blind and black. That 10-minute clip contains so many clever jokes (both obvious and hidden) that is still amazing to see how they packed so many in such a small skit. It also makes one of the best critiques of racism, I have ever seen. Now compare that skit and many others from that show to the unfunny and nauseating crap in almost any TV or cable show featuring heavily promoted women comedians during the past decade. Some of you might say that comparing Dave Chapelle to the current crop of female comedians is unfair because he is so much better than anybody else.
In that case, let us compare them to the many other less famous male comedians who nonetheless are still much funnier than those atrocities. You might remember that I wrote a post about my thoughts on female comedians a few months ago. Since I wrote that piece the quality of women comedians has gone down so much that somebody as unfunny as Hannah Gadsby is actually considered to be a comedian, in addition to be paid as one. That woman is so atrociously unfunny that she makes Amy Schumer look like a comedy genius in comparison . Or just look at how cringy and unfunny so-called mainstream comedy shows such as SNL has become over the past decade? Or have a look at recent movies labelled as comedies. How did they all get so bad and dumb?
I am sure many of you will blame this on SJWs and "wokeism", and those factors are partially responsible for this dismal state of affairs. But here is another question you should ask yourself- how do so many incompetent female and “woke” male comedians get an audience of any size? What about all those people watching TV and cable shows which are so full of dumb attempts at humor ? Clearly, this problem is much larger than too many SJWs and "woke" people in HR departments of NetFlix, Amazon and Comedy Central. I think that this trend has a lot to do with liberals trying to pretend that something or somebody is funny because they are expected to think so- not unlike how almost nobody wants to point out that the Emperor has no clothes.
What do you think? Comments?
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