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Don't go to their shows, don't listen to their act. There are a wide range of comedians with different styles and emphasis. Probably more differences than ever to choose from.
They should call the whaaaambulance for the person who wrote that article.
The writer of that article sounds pretty humorless to me. All of the people he criticizes I guarantee are far more talented than the writer of that lousy piece. I think it’s rather arrogant of anyone to make broad claims over what constitutes “good comedy”. I think if you make a lot of people laugh, it means you’re a pretty good comedian. There are some comedians I don’t care for, and others that make me laugh. Pretty simple stuff.
As far as I can tell there hasn’t been an overall decline in comedy. People are still out there doing standup, making funny tv shows and cartoons, hosting late night shows, doing sketch comedy and making lots of people laugh.
OP it sounds to me that you just don’t like political comedy by liberal comedians.
the writer of that article sounds pretty humorless to me. All of the people he criticizes i guarantee are far more talented than the writer of that lousy piece. I think it’s rather arrogant of anyone to make broad claims over what constitutes “good comedy”. I think if you make a lot of people laugh, it means you’re a pretty good comedian. There are some comedians i don’t care for, and others that make me laugh. Pretty simple stuff.
As far as i can tell there hasn’t been an overall decline in comedy. People are still out there doing standup, making funny tv shows and cartoons, hosting late night shows, doing sketch comedy and making lots of people laugh.
op it sounds to me that you just don’t like political comedy by liberal comedians.
The writer of that article sounds pretty humorless to me. All of the people he criticizes I guarantee are far more talented than the writer of that lousy piece. I think it’s rather arrogant of anyone to make broad claims over what constitutes “good comedy”. I think if you make a lot of people laugh, it means you’re a pretty good comedian. There are some comedians I don’t care for, and others that make me laugh. Pretty simple stuff.
As far as I can tell there hasn’t been an overall decline in comedy. People are still out there doing standup, making funny tv shows and cartoons, hosting late night shows, doing sketch comedy and making lots of people laugh.
OP it sounds to me that you just don’t like political comedy by liberal comedians.
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We have a winner!
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I saw right away that this was about the O P and others like minded being P O'ed about their leader being knocked. If the focus had been on another, they wouldn't have brought it up. As I said and many know, what is going on has created continual material for many and show ratings are high, due to it. It is how it is going to be and is not about "Comedy not being funny anymore".
Comedy Is Not Pretty, and Nowadays It Isn’t Even Funny
With sanctimony having replaced humor, the only thing left to laugh at is the farce of politics itself.
by Joseph Epstein
Feb. 6, 2018 7:31 p.m. ET
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I found myself seated at my computer last month, watching on YouTube the comedian Bill Maher talk about Donald Trump’s marriage. If you don’t share Mr. Maher’s politics, you are likely to find him an odious, even loathsome character, for he doesn’t really exist outside politics. His standard tone is mockery, his modus operandi to lacerate his targets with obscenities, flash a nervous smile, and then bask in applause from his audience.
I was watching Mr. Maher on YouTube to see how far he would go on the subject of the Trump marriage. Would he attack the Trumps’ 11-year-old son, or perhaps attack the family for not having a dog? No surprise, he brought up the allegations of sexual harassment against Mr. Trump. Stormy Daniels was mentioned. His final punch line was that Melania Trump hadn’t accompanied her husband to Davos, Switzerland, because she had spent the day having to “lay a wreath on the tomb of the unknown trophy wife.”
Donald Trump has been a great boon to late-night talk-show hosts. His baroque hairdo, his hyperbole, his general extravagance, his unabashed egotism—all these things and more are in the wheelhouse of today’s liberal comedians. Without him, Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers would be practically out of business. Jon Stewart must wake each morning filled with regret for his wretched timing at retiring just as Mr. Trump came into office.
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Yet to have taken what I think of as the Trumpian option in their comedy has rendered these comedians charmless while strikingly limiting their audiences to those who share their politics.
(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)
You should find him an odious, loathsome character even if you DO share his politics.
Sadly, liberals appear to have never met another liberal they didn't like.
And the PC environment in which the Media, and much of society (corporate America, Education) operates is a sorry lot. PC culture is taking the fun, and adventure out of parts of life for some.
Yeah, I wonder if that skit from the Kids in the Hall made back in the mid-1990s who predicted social justice would be made today?
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