The answer seems obvious to me. It’s not that they are too nice. On the contrary, they’re mean, and mean is rarely funny. They like to bully, and bullying is rarely funny. The butts of their jokes are often the poor and the oppressed, and that’s just not funny most of the time.
“Conservatives” are funniest when they are just being themselves, when they don’t intend to be funny. What could be more comical than Ted Stevens’ explaining how the internets work, for example? The linked to column by Doug Giles is also a hoot. Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity, and Bill O’Reilly are veritable self-parodies. Nobody is more uncomfortably hilarious than William Donohue, self appointed defender of Catholicism. "Conservatives" can't tell a joke, but they can be a joke.
I put “Conservative” in scare quotes because I don’t think the label means what it might once have meant. In fact, one of the funniest things about the “Conservative” movement is how radical it is. How is it that big government, interventionism, authoritarianism and such like came to be an integral part of the “Conservative” agenda in just a few decades? Hypocrisy is fodder for comedians, and “Conservatives” have taken hypocrisy to a whole new level. Using the label “Conservative” as it is used nowadays is analogous to calling oneself a vegetarian even though one eats meat or calling oneself a libertarian even though one supports a massive federal national security and surveillance apparatus.
All my life, “Conservatives” have seemed a mirthless lot, tolerable only because of their unintentional ridiculousness. They were the crotchety old fart who would shoot at us schoolchildren if we wandered onto his land and who railed against the Jews at every opportunity. They were the geeky dateless guys in YAF in college that didn’t have the social skills to get into a D&D game and hung out together and rooted for their favorite Central American death squad. They were my Idiot Brother In Law ™ who destroyed almost as many brain cells listening to Rush Limbaugh as he did by drinking and who, while employed by the County, railed against those “tax eating parasites” in government. They were fat little fundamentalist preachers who, with a straight face, proclaimed from their pulpits (or cushy couch on a TV set) that Jesus had sent some catastrophe somewhere to kill a bunch of sinners, because that’s what the Prince of Peace is all about, killing people.
Maybe some real funny comedians have “Conservative” political leanings, but they aren’t making a living by being political in their acts. Dennis Miller became a lot less funny when he became a warmongering stooge. His rants are just mean spirited now.
“Liberals” are generally better at humor. Of course, there are joyless nannies on the “Liberal” side that are as authoritarian as any “Conservative”, just about different things. Nannies have no sense of humor, but they can be made sport of just like “Conservatives”.
But let me give you a more basic reason they aren't funny:
CONSERVATIVES ACTUALLY BELIEVE THE SIMPLE MINDED CRAP THEY SPEW FORTH WITHOUT CONSIDERING THAT ALMOST ALL OF IT FAILS THE MOST OBVIOUS TEST.....OF HAVING FAILED TIME AND AGAIN IN THE PAST.
Conservatives are too self possessed to look at the effect on humanity their "me-ism" shoot from the hip approach to the world has. This is not a world of a few million people and this is not a Nation of a few hundred thousand.
This crap they want to force us to accept is the same crap they spread across the world during the Reagan/Bush mess, in the Nixon years. and that was fosterred by the Nazies in Germany. Havent you noticed that we keep finding the same crooks committing felonies and lying about them each time......Rumsfield...Chaney....people named Bush....
Their idiocy doesn't work, it just makes good sound bites to lure the ignorant, just like the propaganda machines of the Nazies. I think they know and don't care, so long as they keep padding their own fortunes. And there isn't any humor in it at all.
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You are correct bdgee conservative aren't funny because all there policies fail.
Look at when they controlled both houses and the presidency. Fail,fail and fail maybe treason now also.
Like I have always said Republicans swear that big government is the cause of all evil and they manage to win elections with that slogan. Once they get hold of the Government they prove it.
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