Because the average right winger is someone who has ambient bigotry installed into their brains through a lifetime of not needing to care. A standup comedian doing a conservative act has gone off the deep end and allowed a combination of their own insecurities and racial panic to cloud their brains.
Every public right-wing media figure seems to have a whole list of weird emotional baggage they've never dealt with. Like they'll be in the closet, or have daddy issues, or they got bullied in high school. And they never let that stuff go or went to therapy
Comedy for them is the idea that people they regard as lesser could ever be equal to them
I've bothered in the past to punch up some conservative jokes so they'd still be hateful and conservative but also y'know, function as jokes to see if its possible. Totally is, in form you can construct half decent conservative jokes but I don't think you can if you're a conservative, doing good mocking humor still requires the ability to put yourself in another's shoes to an extent, you've gotta be able to understand what you're shitting on to do it well, and they don't have that.
Oh yes, it's definitely possible. But it's not possible for conservative comedians, because their brains are swiss cheese. Conservatives don't respect comedians, they only respect extremely wealthy white men, or soldiers, or car dealership owners. Any conservative comedian is going to have internal self-hatred built into it.
I've seen a few chuds doing open mike or small shows at a local comedy venue I go to sometimes. They're always like that. It's always like a one-man surreal theater where you watch a guy grapple with emotional trauma he's externalized as hatred of women or gay people or whatever. It's exactly like you said, they can't see the perspective of anyone else because they're wrapped in a bubble of self-loathing they're refusing to acknowledge
I'm more situational humor than a stand up kinda guy, like I'm hilarious, no brag just fact irl, but it's not joke telling to someone, it's joking around with someone based. Like, I can improv super well but improv is just theater kids and they aren't funny. I'm funny in person cause I set people up to set set me up for punchlines, or just being really good at quips. I'd like to have a go at stand up but I'm afraid all I'd do is crowd work cause thst feels safe as hell to me. I just make people around me the straight man and work from that.
Because the average right winger is someone who has ambient bigotry installed into their brains through a lifetime of not needing to care. A standup comedian doing a conservative act has gone off the deep end and allowed a combination of their own insecurities and racial panic to cloud their brains.
Every public right-wing media figure seems to have a whole list of weird emotional baggage they've never dealt with. Like they'll be in the closet, or have daddy issues, or they got bullied in high school. And they never let that stuff go or went to therapy
Comedy for them is the idea that people they regard as lesser could ever be equal to them
I've bothered in the past to punch up some conservative jokes so they'd still be hateful and conservative but also y'know, function as jokes to see if its possible. Totally is, in form you can construct half decent conservative jokes but I don't think you can if you're a conservative, doing good mocking humor still requires the ability to put yourself in another's shoes to an extent, you've gotta be able to understand what you're shitting on to do it well, and they don't have that.
Oh yes, it's definitely possible. But it's not possible for conservative comedians, because their brains are swiss cheese. Conservatives don't respect comedians, they only respect extremely wealthy white men, or soldiers, or car dealership owners. Any conservative comedian is going to have internal self-hatred built into it.
I've seen a few chuds doing open mike or small shows at a local comedy venue I go to sometimes. They're always like that. It's always like a one-man surreal theater where you watch a guy grapple with emotional trauma he's externalized as hatred of women or gay people or whatever. It's exactly like you said, they can't see the perspective of anyone else because they're wrapped in a bubble of self-loathing they're refusing to acknowledge
I'm more situational humor than a stand up kinda guy, like I'm hilarious, no brag just fact irl, but it's not joke telling to someone, it's joking around with someone based. Like, I can improv super well but improv is just theater kids and they aren't funny. I'm funny in person cause I set people up to set set me up for punchlines, or just being really good at quips. I'd like to have a go at stand up but I'm afraid all I'd do is crowd work cause thst feels safe as hell to me. I just make people around me the straight man and work from that.