Well, you could try being funny yourselves. Of course, last time conservatives tried being funny, we got the Half Hour News Hour.

Attention Breitbart: The Onion is not your personal erotica site.

Goes nicely with this (new window)

"WHY WON'T YOU RUN YOUR NETWORK THE WAY WE WANT?!"

There is already a right-wing counterpart to The Onion - the Breitbart group of sites.

Oh, that's not satire.

BunkoSquad: Didn't they try to make a right-wing comedy TV show? And didn't it get cancelled before it came back from its first commercial break?

This sketch from the show should explain why the show failed. I am in agreement with the intended sentiment of the sketch, yet I cannot deny that the sketch is not humourous due to a lack of subtlety and an extension of the intended joke for far longer than was necessary.

I thought The Right had their own Onion, and it was called "Hot Air". I mean, it's satirical, right?

WI241TH: It's a classic case of misdirection, a comedic attempt to distract voters from Obama's lifestyle, including lavish Halloween parties thrown by Hollywood elite and taking money-sucking vacations on our dime.

I don't even know how to respond to this...

How about with "Yes, because the president playing guitar with country stars while New Orleans drowned and clearing brush in Texas while the economy collapsed didn't cost us anything."

Conservative "humor" seems to consist largely of name-calling and really-stretching-it puns. When that becomes the primary content of The Onion, then the conservatives might have a chance.

/Also whatever it is that Dennis Miller does. Hyper-referential rapid-fire hate diatribes?

Republicans are inherently humorless.

You see, those silly Obama critics will attack poor Barack on just about any charge. So we should simply ignore them, right?

Holy fark, conservatives can understand satire!

aaronx: James!: They should make their own Onion. They could call it the American Thinker.

HAH!

I think James! won the thread. James! I dig your work, man. In this thread and others.

"I support incentives for the return of industrial jobs to the U.S., but I ain't farking working for Master Lock." (new window)

Diogenes: conservatives, whiny little biatches

Breitbarted

Are the comments from Onion staff writers?

Wow, complaining about The Onion making fun of whiny complaints about the norm and then making whiny complaints about the norm.

This article is pure meta.

Diogenes: When a GOP Congressman believes the Onion's Abortionplex article, I think we can safely assume right wingers "don't get it."

Eh, it'll only be the Abortionplex for like 10 years, then they'll sell it and it'll become the Staples Center.

James!: They should make their own Onion. They could call it the American Thinker.

Holy Crap. I'd declare you the daywinner if not just the threadwinner. If there was only a way.

Well if there is a market for that, jump on it. Stop biatching and make some money.

Because, of course, the Onion leapt into being very recently and didn't hammer at anyone poking their head up in politics ala Whack-a-mole for the past couple decades. Welcome to the 90s, out of touch douchebags.

As of October 2009, An American Carol has grossed $7 million after having a production budget of $20 million.[23]

Zucker, in an interview with National Review Online, had suggested a sequel as his next possible project, but now says he is done making conservative comedies.

Because conservatives continue to forget to make a joke. That's why.

Bloody William: You see, those silly Obama critics will attack poor Barack on just about any charge. So we should simply ignore them, right?

Holy fark, conservatives can understand satire!

didn't you read the comments? apparently it is a subliminal message designed to brainwash the american people.
/get that man a tin-foil hat, stat!

Dimensio: BunkoSquad: Didn't they try to make a right-wing comedy TV show? And didn't it get cancelled before it came back from its first commercial break?

This sketch from the show should explain why the show failed. I am in agreement with the intended sentiment of the sketch, yet I cannot deny that the sketch is not humourous due to a lack of subtlety and an extension of the intended joke for far longer than was necessary.

oh my god. my soul hurts from watching that. i don't even believe in a soul, and mine hurts from viewing that. did conservatives really think that was funny??? Are they aware that you can't just repeat your lame talking points in a sarcastic tone of voice and expect that to be a joke?

I was reading the comments section below the article and found this gem.

"The Leftist wing of the American population is so desperate to keep their dream alive they just can't bring themselves to live up to their proudly stated principles if those principles lead them to criticize Obama, or whoever he is. Journalists practicing journalism would have to criticize Obama, or whoever he is, so these journalists abandon journalism. Comedians known for ridiculing the arrogantly powerful turn instead to ridiculing the earnest criticizers of arrogant power since the seat of that arrogant power is Obama, or whoever he is. The dream they are all trying so hard to keep alive is that of a collectivist utopia. Obama, or whoever he is, will be the one to lead us there if only we would love him enough."


I know I'm probably reading this incorrectly but it makes me happy to think that there's some contingent of people out there who thinks Obama is not Obama. When I read this it makes me think of an invasion of the body snatchers type scenario. Really, it's no crazier than the birther's beliefs.

BunkoSquad: Didn't they try to make a right-wing comedy TV show? And didn't it get cancelled before it came back from its first commercial break?

Colbert made a comment (out of character) when asked about the show that comedy is all about making fun of the establishment and authority which goes against what 'conservatism' is all about. He would watch it if it was funny. But it wasn't. And it died a quick death.

InmanRoshi: I thought The Right had their own Onion, and it was called "Hot Air". I mean, it's satirical, right?

You're thinking of conservapedia.

strange.... I wasn't aware that conservatives had a sense of humor.

Like making it look like the President Obama is cursing out the nation? (new window)

Kuroshin: The Onion only makes fun of absurdity.

Stop being absurd, and they'll stop making fun of you.

Maybe if they whine enough, like with politifact, the onion will cave and start making fun of liberals for believing the earth is not 6000 years old.

give me doughnuts: BunkoSquad: Didn't they try to make a right-wing comedy TV show? And didn't it get cancelled before it came back from its first commercial break?

No, Fox News is still on the air.

I think Fox News would be more accurately classified as "Anti-Science Fiction"/

Ah, conservatives, the soul of the entitlement complex they claim everyone else has. "WHY AREN'T YOU DOING WHAT WE SAY YOU HAVE TO DO WHAT WE SAY WE OWN THE MEDIA". Whining farking maggots.

Because they look at the resounding success of "The Half Hour News hour" and realize that they could never, ever re-create such a feat so why try?

Oh, boo hoo. The Onion doesn't satirize the president as much as the not-RIGHT-in-attic crowd thinks they should. Maybe this is because right-wingers don't tend to recognize satire. Hell, some of the commenters to that blog post think The Onion is a legit, but left wing news site. You just have to ignore people that stupid.

Right wing comedy is always unintentional..and sad. Those fellas make me laugh and laugh.

James!: They should make their own Onion. They could call it the American Thinker.

Of course, that works. In the same way that The Onion has nothing to do with actual onions.

A bit obscure, perhaps. Wouldn't you say?

CapnBlues: Dimensio: BunkoSquad: Didn't they try to make a right-wing comedy TV show? And didn't it get cancelled before it came back from its first commercial break?

This sketch from the show should explain why the show failed. I am in agreement with the intended sentiment of the sketch, yet I cannot deny that the sketch is not humourous due to a lack of subtlety and an extension of the intended joke for far longer than was necessary.

oh my god. my soul hurts from watching that. i don't even believe in a soul, and mine hurts from viewing that. did conservatives really think that was funny??? Are they aware that you can't just repeat your lame talking points in a sarcastic tone of voice and expect that to be a joke?

I have viewed only one other segment from that show. It also related to firearms regulation. It also was not funny.

TV's Vinnie: Because conservatives continue to forget to make a joke. That's why.

You don't have to make a joke when you ARE a joke.

I hope The Onion responds to this...

Stop acting like a bunch of idiots instead of crying about how people point out how you are a bunch of idiots.

Jesus, are right wingers ever capable of personal responsibility?

Dennis Miller hasn't been funny in ages.

Now, P.J. O'Rourke, he's funny...although his last book lost a step, sadly.

Well, I would guess it has something to do with shiat, piss, fart and Ni**er jokes not really appealing to most people.

Right-wing humor is the kind of things school bullies laugh at. See: pretty much any joke told by George W. Bush, or nicknames he gave to underlings.

ultraholland: Republicans are inherently humorless.

They have a different kind of humor. Liberals generally like humor about the unexpected variety of life (ex: "what's long, brown and sticky? A stick!"), conservatives enjoy about the unavoidable cruelty of life (ex: "the difference between a dead lawyer and dead skunk in the road? Skid marks before the skunk.").

Where the liberal generally enjoys humor that challenges expectations, conservatives enjoy the predictable persecution of the individual.

They should allow Breitbart to write an article for them. Now that's comedy!

my favorite Onion Obama headline:

Black Guy Asks Nation For Change (new window)

ELKAY:

I know I'm probably reading this incorrectly but it makes me happy to think that there's some contingent of people out there who thinks Obama is not Obama. When I read this it makes me think of an invasion of the body snatchers type scenario. Really, it's no crazier than the birther's beliefs.

The answer is out there... (new window)

actually i see The Onion article as more of a shot at left-wingers who are criticizing Mitt Romney for living in a huge mansion. The Onion is genius and it seems to take shots at both sides evenly, just conservatives have more of a stick up their ass and tend to get more offended while most other people can just laugh it off.

I dunno, I thought the "Marxists' Apartment A Microcosm Of Why Communism Doesn't Work" article was pretty damn funny.

Dimensio: BunkoSquad: Didn't they try to make a right-wing comedy TV show? And didn't it get cancelled before it came back from its first commercial break?

This sketch from the show should explain why the show failed. I am in agreement with the intended sentiment of the sketch, yet I cannot deny that the sketch is not humourous due to a lack of subtlety and an extension of the intended joke for far longer than was necessary.

Oh, I know that show! Saturday Night Live, it's called, right?

BunkoSquad: Didn't they try to make a right-wing comedy TV show? And didn't it get cancelled before it came back from its first commercial break?

No, it's still on TV, called Fox News.

Dimensio: I have viewed only one other segment from that show. It also related to firearms regulation. It also was not funny.

It's beyond not-funny, though. It's... it's like watching that little kid who was doped up from being at the dentist's office. "Is this real life???" I laugh at it, only because it's so very pathetic. They have no idea how divorced from reality they are.

WizardofToast: The Onion actually makes fun of Obama and the Democrats plenty of times. It's just that when Republicans are made fun of that right-wing bloggers get fussy.


Righties are always getting their panties into a twist. i guess they are sensitive people, unless there are some dollars to steal (wall stroke, et al.), then they get hard as*ed real quick. a strange bunch.

BKITU: ELKAY: I know I'm probably reading this incorrectly but it makes me happy to think that there's some contingent of people out there who thinks Obama is not Obama. When I read this it makes me think of an invasion of the body snatchers type scenario. Really, it's no crazier than the birther's beliefs.

It's actually part of teh birferz. The "or whoever he is" is an oh-so-clever way not to say "Barry Soetoro."

Barack Hussein "Barry 'Ingrid `Senator Vreenak` Edvardson' Soetoro" Obama.

WI241TH: It's a classic case of misdirection, a comedic attempt to distract voters from Obama's lifestyle, including lavish Halloween parties thrown by Hollywood elite and taking money-sucking vacations on our dime.

I don't even know how to respond to this...

You could point out his hypocrisy regarding class by asking "Which is it; are the rich innocent successes being hounded by the envy of bitter failures, or are Hollywood elites frittering away our national wealth on lavish parties?"

You could get personal, attacking his initial reason for creating Bug Hollywood by saying, "And yet your scripts still suck."

You could ask him "Ok; what do you think would be a suitably humble way to make kids forget for a few hours that they may never see their parents alive again?"

If you wanted to be really dismissive, you could give him a good long look and say, "wow, you look tired".

The preferred response for the sake of everyone's sanity, however, would of course be to roll your eyes, slowly wank a giant invisible cock towards his person and say, loudly and obnoxiously, "Come OOOOONNNN."

Dimensio: BunkoSquad: Didn't they try to make a right-wing comedy TV show? And didn't it get cancelled before it came back from its first commercial break?

This sketch from the show should explain why the show failed. I am in agreement with the intended sentiment of the sketch, yet I cannot deny that the sketch is not humourous due to a lack of subtlety and an extension of the intended joke for far longer than was necessary.

What I don't get about that sketch is that it features a guy publicly brandishing a handgun who's constantly threatening to kill people with it, not "sport shooting" or "hunting" - the absurdity of the signs notwithstanding, does that not argue *for* gun control? Are we really expected to not think that the real joke is that that guy has a gun in the first place?

CapnBlues: Dimensio: I have viewed only one other segment from that show. It also related to firearms regulation. It also was not funny.

It's beyond not-funny, though. It's... it's like watching that little kid who was doped up from being at the dentist's office. "Is this real life???" I laugh at it, only because it's so very pathetic. They have no idea how divorced from reality they are.

i should add here that no liberal believes that just putting up a "gun-free zone" sign will actually prevent crimes. that's the fantasy that the bit is making fun of.

BKITU: ELKAY: I know I'm probably reading this incorrectly but it makes me happy to think that there's some contingent of people out there who thinks Obama is not Obama. When I read this it makes me think of an invasion of the body snatchers type scenario. Really, it's no crazier than the birther's beliefs.

It's actually part of teh birferz. The "or whoever he is" is an oh-so-clever way not to say "Barry Soetoro."

That's actually even funnier than anything I thought it could be, conservatives can be so unintentionally funny.

Great comments:

dcase137p · 19 hours ago
once again, is anybody REALLY surprised by this?

'The Onion', not regarded a serious news outfit anyway, is an inner city-centric parody paper that appeals to the kool aid crowd. That they occasionally tweak them is due to their eminnent 'tweakability'; the progressives are so anal they are easy to parody. Lockstep thought does that to a person.

So 'The Onion' is pro Obama. As the sun rises in the East...

Libs are easy to parody, but we continually fail to parody them. What does this tell us?

discgolfguru: ultraholland: Republicans are inherently humorless.

Exhibit A:
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Alternatively, people who lose their sense of humour are more likely to become Republicans.

Diogenes: Breitbart, the whiny little biatches of the conservative chattering class.

Silly poster, you were fooled. This article was an Onion piece spoofing conservatives. Real conservatives aren't that vapid and whiny.

CONservatism is a form of Mental Illness.

something about them seems inhuman. its as if their brains didn't fully develop. i don't mean intellectually, but the thing that makes us Human is missing or damaged in the CONservative/Republican brain.

ELKAY: I was reading the comments section below the article and found this gem.

"The Leftist wing of the American population is so desperate to keep their dream alive they just can't bring themselves to live up to their proudly stated principles if those principles lead them to criticize Obama, or whoever he is. Journalists practicing journalism would have to criticize Obama, or whoever he is, so these journalists abandon journalism. Comedians known for ridiculing the arrogantly powerful turn instead to ridiculing the earnest criticizers of arrogant power since the seat of that arrogant power is Obama, or whoever he is. The dream they are all trying so hard to keep alive is that of a collectivist utopia. Obama, or whoever he is, will be the one to lead us there if only we would love him enough."


I know I'm probably reading this incorrectly but it makes me happy to think that there's some contingent of people out there who thinks Obama is not Obama. When I read this it makes me think of an invasion of the body snatchers type scenario. Really, it's no crazier than the birther's beliefs.

Thiswould be my reply to the precious snowflake from the comments section who is trying SO HARD to not let slip with "whatever he is"...



And yes. It was a gem.

ciberido: Diogenes: Breitbart, the whiny little biatches of the conservative chattering class.

Silly poster, you were fooled. This article was an Onion piece spoofing conservatives. Real conservatives aren't that vapid and whiny.

Since when?

ciberido: Silly poster, you were fooled. This article was an Onion piece spoofing conservatives. Real conservatives aren't that vapid and whiny.

*snicker*

*snort*

*PPPPPFFFT*

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Uchiha_Cycliste: I'd wager that it's because N!&&ER jokes, and jokes about killing gays and those gays going to hell for wanting equal rights aren't funny.

again, conservative humor comes down to forced puns and name-calling.

"..Our shenanigans are cheeky and fun!
And their shenanigans are cruel and tragic...
Which... makes them not really shenanigans at all!"

/Evil shenanigans!

Diogenes: When a GOP Congressman believes the Onion's Abortionplex article, I think we can safely assume right wingers "don't get it."

No, that's when laws get made disallowing The Onion to create satire without ahuge THIS IS NOT REAL watermarked on every page.

LouDobbsAwaaaay: Don't expect entertainment media to do what right-wingers want until right-wingers come up with a single show that doesn't suck donkey balls. Isn't that how your precious free market works? If your ideas aren't being sold, it's because nobody is willing to buy them.

You have to keep in mind that they don't really want a free market. They want a market that benefits them and only them.

CapnBlues: Conservative "humor" seems to consist largely of name-calling and really-stretching-it puns. When that becomes the primary content of The Onion, then the conservatives might have a chance.

/Also whatever it is that Dennis Miller does. Hyper-referential rapid-fire hate diatribes?

His new act seems more like an hour of telling people to get off his lawn, and how much better life must have been when idols like Frank Sinatra were young. In other words, your typically old ex-lefty boomer bullshiat.

crab66: LouDobbsAwaaaay: Don't expect entertainment media to do what right-wingers want until right-wingers come up with a single show that doesn't suck donkey balls. Isn't that how your precious free market works? If your ideas aren't being sold, it's because nobody is willing to buy them.

You have to keep in mind that they don't really want a free market. They want a market that benefits them and only them.

So... Capitalists.

Heron: CapnBlues: Conservative "humor" seems to consist largely of name-calling and really-stretching-it puns. When that becomes the primary content of The Onion, then the conservatives might have a chance.

/Also whatever it is that Dennis Miller does. Hyper-referential rapid-fire hate diatribes?

His new act seems more like an hour of telling people to get off his lawn, and how much better life must have been when idols like Frank Sinatra were young. In other words, your typically old ex-lefty boomer bullshiat.

i've seen him on the O'Really Factor once or twice. inevitably, he just starts spewing hatred and resentment in every direction. It's sickening.

FunkyBlue: No, that's when laws get made disallowing The Onion to create satire without ahuge THIS IS NOT REAL watermarked on every page.

No because that would sink Fox News and most other right-wing media outlets.


Can't have that.

Humor has a liberal bias. I blame the Jews.

Uchiha_Cycliste: I'd wager that it's because N!&&ER jokes, and jokes about killing gays and those gays going to hell for wanting equal rights aren't funny.

This, Conservatives are all about being envious of the very thing they claim to hate. They look at the Islamist Supremacists and secretly fume "why can't WE have Christian suicide bombers" they look at China and secretly fume "Why can't WE have government controlled internet and slave wages" and they look at black comedians/rappers and secretly fume "We can't WE call them N*ggers!"

sigdiamond2000: FTFC:

WarEagle1967 - February 6th, 2012 at 2:16 pm

Wow, you people are still going on about Bush, despite the fact that the Jug-eared SCOAMF and the First Yeti have been occupying the White House for the last three years.

Anyone?

Scratches head...Socialist Communist Orangutan African Muthu Farker?

I was never any good at those license plate thingies either.

I guess coming up with a funny parody OF YOUR OWN is out of the question...

CapnBlues: Conservative "humor" seems to consist largely of name-calling and really-stretching-it puns. When that becomes the primary content of The Onion, then the conservatives might have a chance.

/Also whatever it is that Dennis Miller does. Hyper-referential rapid-fire hate diatribes?

You forgot the smug statement of bald opinions as facts, and mean-spirited jokes about the handicapped.

Rapmaster2000: Great comments:

dcase137p · 19 hours ago
once again, is anybody REALLY surprised by this?

'The Onion', not regarded a serious news outfit anyway, is an inner city-centric parody paper that appeals to the kool aid crowd. That they occasionally tweak them is due to their eminnent 'tweakability'; the progressives are so anal they are easy to parody. Lockstep thought does that to a person.

So 'The Onion' is pro Obama. As the sun rises in the East...

Libs are easy to parody, but we continually fail to parody them. What does this tell us?

You can't do N****** jokes in public anymore?

Classic Republican Comedy:

Uchiha_Cycliste: CapnBlues: Uchiha_Cycliste: I'd wager that it's because N!&&ER jokes, and jokes about killing gays and those gays going to hell for wanting equal rights aren't funny.

again, conservative humor comes down to forced puns and name-calling.

Have they ever even come up with a clever or funny pun? I think they've tried before... but never really had any meaningful success.

Their definition of humor is "0Bama" -- seriously. People post that here and I'm sure in their heads they're wondering "why doesn't everyone think I'm hilarious? this material is gold. GOLD, JERRY"

My favorite Onion article (new window) actually does tweak liberals a bit (towards the end), but it's much easier to target conservatives when they're so vulnerable to self-parody. I guess one could criticize The Onion for taking advantage of the low-hanging fruit.

sigdiamond2000: FTFC:

WarEagle1967 - February 6th, 2012 at 2:16 pm

Wow, you people are still going on about Bush, despite the fact that the Jug-eared SCOAMF and the First Yeti have been occupying the White House for the last three years.

Anyone?

"Stuttering clusterfark of a miserable failure", according to Google.

Heron: CapnBlues: Conservative "humor" seems to consist largely of name-calling and really-stretching-it puns. When that becomes the primary content of The Onion, then the conservatives might have a chance.

/Also whatever it is that Dennis Miller does. Hyper-referential rapid-fire hate diatribes?

You forgot the smug statement of bald opinions as facts, and mean-spirited jokes about the handicapped.

i forget lots of things, friend. :)

Kuroshin: The Onion only makes fun of absurdity.

Stop being absurd, and they'll stop making fun of you.

gay marriage is pretty absurd, but I don't see them making fun of it?

Uchiha_Cycliste: CapnBlues: Uchiha_Cycliste: I'd wager that it's because N!&&ER jokes, and jokes about killing gays and those gays going to hell for wanting equal rights aren't funny.

again, conservative humor comes down to forced puns and name-calling.

Have they ever even come up with a clever or funny pun? I think they've tried before... but never really had any meaningful success.

It tends to turn out to be some kind of race joke.

Liberalism is a mental disease that makes you stupid and cowardly.

This is what happens to that kid who got all huffy whenever he couldn't think of a retort to "whoever smelt it, dealt it"

The comments section makes me want to reach through the tubes and punch somebody. :-\

Rapmaster2000: Great comments:

dcase137p · 19 hours ago
once again, is anybody REALLY surprised by this?

'The Onion', not regarded a serious news outfit anyway, is an inner city-centric parody paper that appeals to the kool aid crowd. That they occasionally tweak them is due to their eminnent 'tweakability'; the progressives are so anal they are easy to parody. Lockstep thought does that to a person.

So 'The Onion' is pro Obama. As the sun rises in the East...

Libs are easy to parody, but we continually fail to parody them. What does this tell us?


That the myth of the "far-left American liberal" is just that - a myth.
It's like making fun of god. What's the point?

GavinTheAlmighty: sigdiamond2000: FTFC:

WarEagle1967 - February 6th, 2012 at 2:16 pm

Wow, you people are still going on about Bush, despite the fact that the Jug-eared SCOAMF and the First Yeti have been occupying the White House for the last three years.

Anyone?

"Stuttering clusterfark of a miserable failure", according to Google.

stuttering? really? maybe staggering.

Stop it, you're killing me.

Diogenes: Breitbart, the whiny little biatches of the conservative chattering class.

The Onion makes fun of alot of stuff. Why, one of my very favorite old pieces of theirs is pro-deregulation and makes fun of nanny-statism.

I love that comment "The Onion is satire. How exactly did you get elected?"

Heron: The preferred response for the sake of everyone's sanity, however, would of course be to roll your eyes, slowly wank a giant invisible cock towards his person and say, loudly and obnoxiously, "Come OOOOONNNN."

Obligatory, and always funny.

CapnBlues: Uchiha_Cycliste: I'd wager that it's because N!&&ER jokes, and jokes about killing gays and those gays going to hell for wanting equal rights aren't funny.

again, conservative humor comes down to forced puns and name-calling.

no..not true libtard go look at that Hoekstra campaign ad from the other day.

Dimensio: CapnBlues: Dimensio: BunkoSquad: Didn't they try to make a right-wing comedy TV show? And didn't it get cancelled before it came back from its first commercial break?

This sketch from the show should explain why the show failed. I am in agreement with the intended sentiment of the sketch, yet I cannot deny that the sketch is not humourous due to a lack of subtlety and an extension of the intended joke for far longer than was necessary.

oh my god. my soul hurts from watching that. i don't even believe in a soul, and mine hurts from viewing that. did conservatives really think that was funny??? Are they aware that you can't just repeat your lame talking points in a sarcastic tone of voice and expect that to be a joke?

I have viewed only one other segment from that show. It also related to firearms regulation. It also was not funny.

Can you imagine what would have happened if they'd have been given a few more episodes. A man dressed as a rabbi or a gangsta, reading conservative forwarded emails, but with all the affirmative statements turned into negative ones. They'd call it "real life liberal forwarded email corner" or something.

All comedy is based on reality, then kicked up a notch or two. That's how people can relate to it. Telling a joke about a horse walking into a bar is funny because horses can walk, and people walk into bars all the time. But if you completely ignored reality and said "a horse flew into a bar using its wings", without there being some pay-off in the joke with (maybe) a Pegasus pun, it's just saying random unfunny things.

That's why a political ideology that eschews reality for its core platform can't be intentionally funny no matter how much they whine about it.

The Onion makes fun of easy targets, the conservatives just happen to have a lot. They were not kind to Edwards.

Heron: Uchiha_Cycliste: CapnBlues: Uchiha_Cycliste: I'd wager that it's because N!&&ER jokes, and jokes about killing gays and those gays going to hell for wanting equal rights aren't funny.

again, conservative humor comes down to forced puns and name-calling.

Have they ever even come up with a clever or funny pun? I think they've tried before... but never really had any meaningful success.

It tends to turn out to be some kind of race joke.

it really does. i heard a guy in a gas station in PA ask his friend what Obama's favorite zeppelin song is ('rock and roll' was playing on the radio) -- and his friend grins and says "whut?" and the dude, honest to god, slaps his knee and yells out "BLACK DOG"

and they were howling with laughter. i don't miss gas stations in rural pennsylvania.

frtmn7: The Onion is genius and it seems to take shots at both sides evenly

Actually, it takes shots wherever it sees them. Anyone famous is fair game, of course, including the President. But when one side keeps making headlines for being laughably absurd, they're giving satirical sites like The Onion free ammo.

A Dark Evil Omen: So... Capitalists.

That's almost as bad as saying anyone who wants universal healthcare is communist/socialist.


I don't know many real capitalists. It's mostly just greedy people and corporations that want to manipulate the system for any advantage they can get. All under the guise of "FREE MARKET!".


Ideological capitalism might actually work. But just like communism, socialism or any other -ism. When you throw in humans it all goes to shiat.

xen0blue: gay marriage is pretty absurd, but I don't see them making fun of it?

Why? Is it tough for Republicans to figure out which one is the wife?

Hint: It's the one who gets cancer.

Headso: CapnBlues: Uchiha_Cycliste: I'd wager that it's because N!&&ER jokes, and jokes about killing gays and those gays going to hell for wanting equal rights aren't funny.

again, conservative humor comes down to forced puns and name-calling.

no..not true libtard go look at that Hoekstra campaign ad from the other day.

lol you're great, headso. :)

Right wingers can not come up with good comedy in the same way the Christians can not make a video game worth playing.

/name one good religious video game.
//Name one funny Right-Wing Comedian.

crab66: LouDobbsAwaaaay: Don't expect entertainment media to do what right-wingers want until right-wingers come up with a single show that doesn't suck donkey balls. Isn't that how your precious free market works? If your ideas aren't being sold, it's because nobody is willing to buy them.

You have to keep in mind that they don't really want a free market. They want a market that benefits them and only them.

which is what they've got! so why all the bloody whining?

Shadune: Libs are easy to parody, but we continually fail to parody them. What does this tell us?

Is there a long German word for "small insight hidden inside massive stupidity?"

Dimensio: BunkoSquad: Didn't they try to make a right-wing comedy TV show? And didn't it get cancelled before it came back from its first commercial break?

This sketch from the show should explain why the show failed. I am in agreement with the intended sentiment of the sketch, yet I cannot deny that the sketch is not humourous due to a lack of subtlety and an extension of the intended joke for far longer than was necessary.

I never bothered with that show because I knew it would be utterly utterly terrible. That clip tells me that I was completely right. That was painfully unfunny.

IXI Jim IXI: xen0blue: gay marriage is pretty absurd, but I don't see them making fun of it?

Why? Is it tough for Republicans to figure out which one is the wife?

Hint: It's the one who gets cancer.

i feel really terrible about laughing at this.

Other crap that proves the Onion never makes fun of left wing types.. (new window)

That's because Democrats aren't funny, even one bit. Who laughs at the ones who care the most about you? About those who care for the poor? The homeless? The downtrodden? The forgotten?

It's because you don't shiat in your own backyard.

You might as well ask why the Media haven't said anything about the lack of Democratic challengers to Obama. Does that represent a complete lack of intellectual and moral dynamicism on the part of the Democratic Party?

Uchiha_Cycliste: CapnBlues: Uchiha_Cycliste: CapnBlues: Uchiha_Cycliste: I'd wager that it's because N!&&ER jokes, and jokes about killing gays and those gays going to hell for wanting equal rights aren't funny.

again, conservative humor comes down to forced puns and name-calling.

Have they ever even come up with a clever or funny pun? I think they've tried before... but never really had any meaningful success.

Their definition of humor is "0Bama" -- seriously. People post that here and I'm sure in their heads they're wondering "why doesn't everyone think I'm hilarious? this material is gold. GOLD, JERRY"

Yeah, that's about the gist of it.
And when we try to explain it, instead of trying to understand the explanation they double down on insisting a) that they are actually funny, b) that others are jealous, c) that we "don't get it" and d) that we are oppressing them. It's pitiful.
Ironically, they are so lame, yet insistent they it becomes funny. Though it's situational humor, not jokes.

unintentionally hilarious, like that SNL skit back in 2000 -- "LOCKBOX" "STRATEGERY"

that wasn't satire. that's what they actually said, to sum up their approach in one word.

Shadowtag: Liberalism is a mental disease that makes you stupid and cowardly.

This is what happens to that kid who got all huffy whenever he couldn't think of a retort to "whoever smelt it, dealt it"

It's funny that the "stupid and cowardly" thing comes from the group that has the unending martyr fetish...

Why doesn't Brietbart ever saying anything nice about Obama? I assume, because he even posted this article, he is of the opinion that all media organization should always give all opinions equal merit within their organization, the therefore the Onion has committed a travesty by only issuing articles that mock things that they don't support. I am sure glad brietbart has a dead even number of pro Obama and anti Obama articles, with equal intensity in each articles criticism or support.

WizardofToast: The Onion actually makes fun of Obama and the Democrats plenty of times. It's just that when Republicans are made fun of that right-wing bloggers get fussy.

They aren't even angry, really, it's just a way to keep the base frothing and possibly "play the refs" by pressuring whoever they're complaining about to stop criticizing them. Its been a pretty effective way to make the mainstream media stop pointing out when cons lie and treat their policy advice as something worth taking seriously. Luckily, it isn't something likely to work with the Onion.

Robespierre: Why doesn't Brietbart ever saying anything nice about Obama? I assume, because he even posted this article, he is of the opinion that all media organization should always give all opinions equal merit within their organization, the therefore the Onion has committed a travesty by only issuing articles that mock things that they don't support. I am sure glad brietbart has a dead even number of pro Obama and anti Obama articles, with equal intensity in each articles criticism or support.

The Fairness Doctrine is only onerous when applied to them.

Raharu: Right wingers can not come up with good comedy in the same way the Christians can not make a video game worth playing.

/name one good religious video game.
//Name one funny Right-Wing Comedian.

Everybody knows that all the best bands are affiliated with Satan.

discgolfguru: ultraholland: Republicans are inherently humorless.

Exhibit A:
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Huh? He's not republican.

Noekken: The Onion has nothing to do with actual onions

Not true

Raharu: Right wingers can not come up with good comedy in the same way the Christians can not make a video game worth playing.

/name one good religious video game.
//Name one funny Right-Wing Comedian.

SKyRIm. They have their own religions that make just is much sense as Christianity, if not more. Now do you mean Christian themed games? Zero.

WI241TH: It's a classic case of misdirection, a comedic attempt to distract voters from Obama's lifestyle, including lavish Halloween parties thrown by Hollywood elite and taking money-sucking vacations on our dime.

I don't even know how to respond to this...

How about: We get it, he's black?

Robespierre: Why doesn't Brietbart ever saying anything nice about Obama? I assume, because he even posted this article, he is of the opinion that all media organization should always give all opinions equal merit within their organization, the therefore the Onion has committed a travesty by only issuing articles that mock things that they don't support. I am sure glad brietbart has a dead even number of pro Obama and anti Obama articles, with equal intensity in each articles criticism or support.

good question -- it's the reason they perpetuate the myth of the liberal media. they can be hyper right wing partisan, and then say "well, we're just trying to balance things out, because the rest of the media is SO LIBERAL" The media doesn't have a political bias. It has a profit bias.

Dimensio: BunkoSquad: Didn't they try to make a right-wing comedy TV show? And didn't it get cancelled before it came back from its first commercial break?

This sketch from the show should explain why the show failed. I am in agreement with the intended sentiment of the sketch, yet I cannot deny that the sketch is not humourous due to a lack of subtlety and an extension of the intended joke for far longer than was necessary.

This is what these people don't get. The approach to comedy should be "make it funny, and if you get some pointed politcal barbs in there, even better". The right-wing approach to humor seems to be "slam Obama and the liberal libs who support him. Be wacky, whatever that means. Remember, our target audience will be grateful for conservative humor, so we don't need to worry about being too clever. The good will alone will guarantee to laughs."

frtmn7: Raharu: Right wingers can not come up with good comedy in the same way the Christians can not make a video game worth playing.

/name one good religious video game.
//Name one funny Right-Wing Comedian.

SKyRIm. They have their own religions that make just is much sense as Christianity, if not more. Now do you mean Christian themed games? Zero.

Skyrim is not a religious video game any more than World of Warcraft is; just having religions in-game does not a religious game make. Thing is, Christian mythology is a gold mine for material you could make amazing games out of, and some people have. The "problem", if you can call it that, is that if you place the game first it's no longer an effective didactic/brainwashing tool, any more than Okami converted people to Shinto.

sigdiamond2000: FTFC:

WarEagle1967 - February 6th, 2012 at 2:16 pm

Wow, you people are still going on about Bush, despite the fact that the Jug-eared SCOAMF and the First Yeti have been occupying the White House for the last three years.

Anyone?

According to Google, it is "Stuttering Clusterfark of a Miserable Failure," which seems to be their new favorite name for Obama. There's even a retarded and sometimes racist blog by that name (don't bother reading it. It's mainly blog posts titled "Obama is a Stuttering Clusterfark of a Miserable Failure" that then talk about completely unrelated things).

Linux_Yes: CONservatism is a form of Mental Illness.

something about them seems inhuman. its as if their brains didn't fully develop. i don't mean intellectually, but the thing that makes us Human is missing or damaged in the CONservative/Republican brain.

The amygdala is the part of the brain that determines how much fear you feel. Conservatives have a big amygdala (new window). Also, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is the part of the brain involved with complexity, which you'd need to invent a good joke. Conservatives don't do so well in the ACC department.

Is this the same "Onion" that use to be state of the art down on the Haight in 64/65 ? I think it was them and "Mother Earth". It seems they have become less than "cool", a pity really, people use to hang on their supposed words of wisdom. Now they bore, no one took their blinders off.

CapnBlues: Heron: Uchiha_Cycliste: CapnBlues: Uchiha_Cycliste: I'd wager that it's because N!&&ER jokes, and jokes about killing gays and those gays going to hell for wanting equal rights aren't funny.

again, conservative humor comes down to forced puns and name-calling.

Have they ever even come up with a clever or funny pun? I think they've tried before... but never really had any meaningful success.

It tends to turn out to be some kind of race joke.

it really does. i heard a guy in a gas station in PA ask his friend what Obama's favorite zeppelin song is ('rock and roll' was playing on the radio) -- and his friend grins and says "whut?" and the dude, honest to god, slaps his knee and yells out "BLACK DOG"

and they were howling with laughter. i don't miss gas stations in rural pennsylvania.

Oooohh man.... Sounds about right :-/

/where'd I put that bottle of Jack?

Today's right wing have been coddled not only by their own 24 hour propaganda network, but by a news media too afraid of being called liberal to call them out on their ridiculousness. It doesn't matter what crazy irresponsible things they do, their talking points are granted legitimacy in the name of "balance."

Republicans have gotten so used to this, they expect comedians, movies, sketch comedy shows, etc to do the same thing. For every 1 joke about Republicans, there has to be a counterweight to insult the Democrats.

CSB time. My cousin (Big Rush Limbaugh fan) posted up a fb screed about the "eye of the tiger" guy suing Newt for using his song. He went on and on about how "This isn't about copyright law! This guy just hates Newt and Republicans so he's playing politics!"

Yeah. Of course the guy is playing politics. He hates Newt and doesn't want his song to help Newt's campaign. He doesn't have to be "fair," whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.

Uchiha_Cycliste: In retrospect, it was a damn good idea too.... thanks for pissing away our money Dubya.

yeah, a couple hundred billion squirreled away in a rainy day fund would have been great in case of, oh i don't know, a sudden loss of revenue from a bursting bubble, or an enormous terrorist attack and corresponding expansion of domestic law enforcement, or maybe to help pay for medicare drug benefits, or to wage wars overseas.... yeah, that rainy-day fund would have at least helped a bit.

My god, I have never seen such a group of whiny, childish, temper-tantrum throwing titty babies as the Right for the past 3 years.

Rapmaster2000: Everybody knows that all the best bands are affiliated with Satan.

VarmintCong: According to Google, it is "Stuttering Clusterfark of a Miserable Failure," which seems to be their new favorite name for Obama. There's even a retarded and sometimes racist blog by that name (don't bother reading it. It's mainly blog posts titled "Obama is a Stuttering Clusterfark of a Miserable Failure" that then talk about completely unrelated things).

Oh shiat, conservatives have discovered Tumblr?

Hey y'all, did yall hear about Barack Hussein Tax-bama's latest economic play?

Get it?

I put the word "tax" in his last name.

Heron: CapnBlues: Heron: Uchiha_Cycliste: CapnBlues: Uchiha_Cycliste: I'd wager that it's because N!&&ER jokes, and jokes about killing gays and those gays going to hell for wanting equal rights aren't funny.

again, conservative humor comes down to forced puns and name-calling.

Have they ever even come up with a clever or funny pun? I think they've tried before... but never really had any meaningful success.

It tends to turn out to be some kind of race joke.

it really does. i heard a guy in a gas station in PA ask his friend what Obama's favorite zeppelin song is ('rock and roll' was playing on the radio) -- and his friend grins and says "whut?" and the dude, honest to god, slaps his knee and yells out "BLACK DOG"

and they were howling with laughter. i don't miss gas stations in rural pennsylvania.

Oooohh man.... Sounds about right :-/

/where'd I put that bottle of Jack?

i grew up there, so i wasn't even surprised to hear it. more horrified that no one else in the place was looking at them with disgust. but then again, that's pennsyltucky.

Lord_Baull: My god, I have never seen such a group of whiny, childish, temper-tantrum throwing titty babies as the Right for the past 30 years.

FTFY

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xen0blue: Kuroshin: The Onion only makes fun of absurdity.

Stop being absurd, and they'll stop making fun of you.

gay marriage is pretty absurd, but I don't see them making fun of it?

See? This is what I'm on about. This is what qualifies as Republican Humor. Open sarcastic bigotry. Ripe for parody.

Every bigot is a walking bulls-eye.



Including you, my friend. Everyone should have the right to marry, but if you don't think gay marriage is ripe comic material, you need a new funny bone.

crab66: FunkyBlue: No, that's when laws get made disallowing The Onion to create satire without ahuge THIS IS NOT REAL watermarked on every page.

No because that would sink Fox News and most other right-wing media outlets.


Can't have that.

True, but the typical response from a politician making a glaring mistake is to legislate that no one can do that to them ever again because it's not his/her fault they are as dumb as a bag of hammers when it comes to some things on the internet. IT CAN'T BE THEIR FAULT!

Shame on subby for giving that political hack more clicks.

Rapmaster2000: Libs are easy to parody, but we continually fail to parody them. What does this tell us?

Portlandian?

doubled99: Kuroshin Smartest
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xen0blue: Kuroshin: The Onion only makes fun of absurdity.

Stop being absurd, and they'll stop making fun of you.

gay marriage is pretty absurd, but I don't see them making fun of it?

See? This is what I'm on about. This is what qualifies as Republican Humor. Open sarcastic bigotry. Ripe for parody.

Every bigot is a walking bulls-eye.



Including you, my friend. Everyone should have the right to marry, but if you don't think gay marriage is ripe comic material, you need a new funny bone.

why don't you tell us some funny gay marriage jokes that aren't rooted in a place of bigotry?

JNowe: I dunno, I thought the "Marxists' Apartment A Microcosm Of Why Communism Doesn't Work" article was pretty damn funny.

They've taken frequent swings at hipsters and far leftists that all tend to be pretty hilarious. I seem to recall one about a vegan co-op or some such that I laughed at for like 5 minutes.

Jackpot777: Linux

very interesting read. thank you. will do more reading on this matter. (:

A Dark Evil Omen: frtmn7: Raharu: Right wingers can not come up with good comedy in the same way the Christians can not make a video game worth playing.

/name one good religious video game.
//Name one funny Right-Wing Comedian.

SKyRIm. They have their own religions that make just is much sense as Christianity, if not more. Now do you mean Christian themed games? Zero.

Skyrim is not a religious video game any more than World of Warcraft is; just having religions in-game does not a religious game make. Thing is, Christian mythology is a gold mine for material you could make amazing games out of, and some people have. The "problem", if you can call it that, is that if you place the game first it's no longer an effective didactic/brainwashing tool, any more than Okami converted people to Shinto.

God and damn Okami was awesome

Brietbart should learn the value of free expression. (new window)

Still my favorite Onion article, and GOOMF is the best three minutes of my day. Besides bunk time.

Lord_Baull: My god, I have never seen such a group of whiny, childish, temper-tantrum throwing titty babies as the Right for the past 3 years.

You must have missed the Bush years. Were you in solitary confinement? Maybe in a coma? Probably "in a closet" now that I think about it.

Bloody William: Diogenes: When a GOP Congressman believes the Onion's Abortionplex article, I think we can safely assume right wingers "don't get it."

Eh, it'll only be the Abortionplex for like 10 years, then they'll sell it and it'll become the Staples Center.

How about the Scraples Center?

CapnBlues: Heron: CapnBlues: Heron: Uchiha_Cycliste: CapnBlues: Uchiha_Cycliste: I'd wager that it's because N!&&ER jokes, and jokes about killing gays and those gays going to hell for wanting equal rights aren't funny.

again, conservative humor comes down to forced puns and name-calling.

Have they ever even come up with a clever or funny pun? I think they've tried before... but never really had any meaningful success.

It tends to turn out to be some kind of race joke.

it really does. i heard a guy in a gas station in PA ask his friend what Obama's favorite zeppelin song is ('rock and roll' was playing on the radio) -- and his friend grins and says "whut?" and the dude, honest to god, slaps his knee and yells out "BLACK DOG"

and they were howling with laughter. i don't miss gas stations in rural pennsylvania.

Oooohh man.... Sounds about right :-/

/where'd I put that bottle of Jack?

i grew up there, so i wasn't even surprised to hear it. more horrified that no one else in the place was looking at them with disgust. but then again, that's pennsyltucky.

I'm from Texas but I've heard guys remarkably similar to what you describe make remarkably similar jokes in similar circumstances more than a few times.

They've got Mallard Fillmore, what else could they want?

bikerbob: Lord_Baull: My god, I have never seen such a group of whiny, childish, temper-tantrum throwing titty babies as the Right for the past 3 years.

You must have missed the Bush years. Were you in solitary confinement? Maybe in a coma? Probably "in a closet" now that I think about it.

Yeah, protesting real things like tanking the economy and starting two hobby wars while cutting taxes is totally the same thing as arugulamustardipodsocialism. Oh, and a pointless and out of nowhere gay joke, too! Your mother must be damned proud of you.

Uchiha_Cycliste: \My dad would vote for Bush again... ugh. And he's an intelligent man otherwise.

your dad must be really rich.

Commenter FTFA "Controse": "Obama, or whoever he is"

I see a meme...

That there is some serious paranoia. if you make fun of the right, you are making fun of the right. if you make fun of the left, you are really making fun of the right for criticizing the left.

/let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little farked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to farkin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?

bikerbob: Lord_Baull: My god, I have never seen such a group of whiny, childish, temper-tantrum throwing titty babies as the Right for the past 3 years.

You must have missed the Bush years. Were you in solitary confinement? Maybe in a coma? Probably "in a closet" now that I think about it.

no, sir. i believe YOU are the one who is a homosexual.

xen0blue: Kuroshin: The Onion only makes fun of absurdity.

Stop being absurd, and they'll stop making fun of you.

gay marriage is pretty absurd, but I don't see them making fun of it?

Like Finley Dunne said a good newspaper should do, good humor should comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Making fun of a minority group for wanting rights does neither of those things.

Also, that's a statement, not a question. The first letter of a sentence should be capitalized. If you're going to live in America, it pays to learn how to write in English.

Some things today's right-wingers find hilarious:

Uchiha_Cycliste: CapnBlues: Uchiha_Cycliste: \My dad would vote for Bush again... ugh. And he's an intelligent man otherwise.

your dad must be really rich.

No, he's not. I'd wager he pulls down 200k.
He refuses to listen to me when I say the GOP doesn't have his interests at heart. He just claims I'm stupid for siding with the democrats. He simply won't listen to anything else. He's a SW engineer. He's very smart in other things but totally blinded in the realm of politics. He honestly believes the DEMS only raise taxes to waste the money on people who don't deserve it, and get this, that the GOP are the fiscally responsible ones. Seriously, he STILL believes that. He is his father's son. Grandpa wa in the navy, hates dems, hates blacks, gays, maybe woman. You know the type.
Years ago my family was discussing why or how I have curly hair and grandpa popped in with "ni&&3rs in the wood pile" he actually said it in front of my mom. Thanks grandpa... My dad never broke out of his indoctrination.

It sounds like your eyes are open, though. If I ever go to Austin, Imma look you up and buy you a beer.

Kuroshin: CapnBlues: doubled99: Kuroshin Smartest
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xen0blue: Kuroshin: The Onion only makes fun of absurdity.

Stop being absurd, and they'll stop making fun of you.

gay marriage is pretty absurd, but I don't see them making fun of it?

See? This is what I'm on about. This is what qualifies as Republican Humor. Open sarcastic bigotry. Ripe for parody.

Every bigot is a walking bulls-eye.



Including you, my friend. Everyone should have the right to marry, but if you don't think gay marriage is ripe comic material, you need a new funny bone.

why don't you tell us some funny gay marriage jokes that aren't rooted in a place of bigotry?

I'd like to hear one as well. Got some gay friends who I would love to make laugh.

Don't worry, I'll wait doubled99. I'm sure it'll be a real rib-stitcher.

his silence on this is deafening, is it not?

factoryconnection: I'm a pretty centrist guy, or moreover a mixed bag when it comes to politics. I don't like appeals to stupidity, so lately that has put me way in the "D" camp. However, I don't want to dismiss the idea of conservatives being funny completely. Maybe they can only create humor that is apolitical. Ron White is really funny, and there's plenty of southern fellers that tell funny jokes about this and that going on in the country. Hell, I like Foxworthy's stuff and even Larry the Cable Guy was good for a few yuks on XM Comedy.

But whenever they attempt to make political humor, it just ends up seeming at best smug and at worst completely mean-spirited.

Is this confirmation bias on my part?

Some of those guys may be Republicans -I don't know them and don't interest myself in the issue so I can't speak to their politics- but I've been rather surprised by the open-mindedness expressed by some of the folks on the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour". As to Larry his act is a lot like Foxworthy's old one; it's a spoof of his audience and of what his audience thinks out-groups think about them, so I don't really know where you'd put it down on the political spectrum. But you're right, that it probably goes too far to say no con can be funny.

theknuckler_33: When comedians make fun of conservatives, they use things that right wingers actually say or very close approximations (like this awesome clip (new window)). When 'comedians' make fun of left wingers, they have to invent some over-the-top caricature of what liberals are really like (like the 'gun-free zone' thing).

It goes backwards as well, in all the wrong ways. When I laugh at comic violence, it's an over-the-top caricature of the real thing, like Butters' tap-dancing accident in South Park. Conservatives laugh at actual violence.

TimSTP: Some things today's right-wingers find hilarious:

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Some things liberals find hilarious:







/HAHAHAHA! look at those stupid Irish Catholics we screwed in tha last one. Now we can ruin their neighborhoods and lives and call them racist why we live in red lined suburbs because we have the courts and the media in our pockets! HAHAHAHA!

To be fair, the conservatives have their share of satirists too. Rush Limbaugh being first and foremost among them, and when he's not being his egotistical, narcissistic self, doesn't he strike so close to home to draw their darkest hatred? From Barack the Magic Knee-grow, actually borrowed from a Los Angeles Times op ed column by David Ehrenstein, to Love Me Like Barack, a play on an old Simon & Garfunkel song, used to poke fun at Hillary Clinton's inability to generate the same level of loyalty among Democrat voters that President Obama did.

Uchiha_Cycliste: Dad also taught me that mexicans and blacks are poor because they are lazy. They have all the opportunities that whites and asians have, but don't try hard enough. Gays are un-natural, marriage is for men and woman only. etc. etc... Man wa my mind blown when I started taking Sociology classes at Cal on race relations and crime, control and deviance. That's about when we stopped seeing eye to eye.

see, my old man went to Oberlin during the sixties. so i was one of five people who voted for clinton in my elementary school's mock election in 1992. Out of about 500 kids.

Uchiha_Cycliste: I live in the bay area ;), work in Silicon Valley. =D if you are ever here, holler we'll go drink.

you got it, buddy.

CapnBlues: his silence on this is deafening, is it not?

In his defense, Modern Family seems to pull off humor set against the backdrop of a gay marriage. Which can be funny.

He was probably talking about making fun of gay marriage, though. Which is basically three completely unfunny "jokes": guy in a dress, they like penis and butt, and "if they're both guys, who does the dishes?".

James!: They should make their own Onion. They could call it the American Thinker.

They have their own Onion. It's called Conservapedia.

thurstonxhowell: CapnBlues: his silence on this is deafening, is it not?

In his defense, Modern Family seems to pull off humor set against the backdrop of a gay marriage. Which can be funny.

He was probably talking about making fun of gay marriage, though. Which is basically three completely unfunny "jokes": guy in a dress, they like penis and butt, and "if they're both guys, who does the dishes?".

whackity schmackity dooooo

doubled99: Including you, my friend. Everyone should have the right to marry, but if you don't think gay marriage is ripe comic material, you need a new funny bone.

Still waiting for that very funny but not hateful gay marriage humor.

sendtodave: Humor has a liberal bias. I blame the Jews.

LOL.

My brother, very conservative, didn't get this joke:

A 95-year-old man is talking to his 85-year-old female friend in the nursing home and he says "You know what I miss? Sex." The friend says "You're too old for sex!" and he answers "I know. At this point, I'd be happy to just have someone take it out and hold it every now and then." The woman "Well I can do that," so it turns into a regular thing: every Tuesday afternoon she comes to his room, they sit quietly next to each other and she holds his equipment for half an hour.

One Tuesday she comes to his room and the door's ajar. She looks in and sees him with another woman! So she tiptoes quietly away and the next day says to him "I see you've found somebody else." He says "I'm afraid so." She says "What does she have that I don't have?" and he answers "Parkinson's."

WI241TH: James!: I'd respond with "that party was for the children of soldiers you horrible prick".

Diogenes: Anything with Nancy Reagan. How soon we forget.

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IlGreven: How about with "Yes, because the president playing guitar with country stars while New Orleans drowned and clearing brush in Texas while the economy collapsed didn't cost us anything."


I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that this man's rebuttal-to a satire piece about Obama's lifestyle-is to talk about what a lavish lifestyle the president leads, especially with those examples. How does he not understand that was the entire butt of the joke?!

And that's why "conservative humor" fails. Because the humorless pricks don't know funny if it crawls up their ass, clamps onto their spinal cords, and makes them dance the Watusi.

Those catamites at Breitbart sure write funny stories.

Magorn: Can you imagine the outcry if those game designers had also included, say, Jesus as a PC and say give him a finishing move that involved nailing his opponent to a cross?

I'd buy that!

Magorn: A Dark Evil Omen: frtmn7: Raharu: Right wingers can not come up with good comedy in the same way the Christians can not make a video game worth playing.

/name one good religious video game.
//Name one funny Right-Wing Comedian.

SKyRIm. They have their own religions that make just is much sense as Christianity, if not more. Now do you mean Christian themed games? Zero.

Skyrim is not a religious video game any more than World of Warcraft is; just having religions in-game does not a religious game make. Thing is, Christian mythology is a gold mine for material you could make amazing games out of, and some people have. The "problem", if you can call it that, is that if you place the game first it's no longer an effective didactic/brainwashing tool, any more than Okami converted people to Shinto.

Years ago I remember one of the Mortal combat variants having Kali as a playable character. Now mythology is a rich vien for video games to tap, but here was an actual goddess from a religion a few hundred million people still follow. Can you imagine the outcry if those game designers had also included, say, Jesus as a PC and say give him a finishing move that involved nailing his opponent to a cross?

Holy shiat I would buy that game so fast.

Kuroshin: In other words, I'm sure OP will deliver.

I think that it's wrong to wish virulent dick cancer upon any human being, but Andrew Breitbart and his slavering cabal of petulant douchebags make me question my value system.

gilgigamesh: And you can tell which one has the cancer, because the other will be the one demanding the divorce.

ORLY???

indylaw: I think that it's wrong to wish virulent dick cancer upon any human being, but Andrew Breitbart and his slavering cabal of petulant douchebags make me question my value system.

If wishing cancer on Andrew Breitbart is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Actually, no. Not cancer. I wish he and his ilk would see themselves for what they truly are, preferably with either a loaded handgun or a straight razor within easy reach.