When Did The Left Stop Being Funny?

>early 00s - near impossible to be right wing and funny - right is butt of jokes
>mid 10s - left wing TV has become insufferable - left is butt of jokes
What happened?

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You grew up. Kinda.

America elected a Marxist because he was black

We got old, and so did the culture of critique, they criticize but never offer solutions that aren't pants on head retarded.

Bullshit. A recent episode of a Channel 4 comedy show over here featured the Irish Prime minister giving a speech and at the end everyone clapped. Not a single laugh. How the fuck is that comedy?

Obama

the best humor is that which is in the face of overwhelming adversity. The media has gone from apolitical with a slight left lean to sickeningly and overwhelmingly leftist, and any humor the left puts out just seems like it's all part of this big soulless agenda-following machine now instead of rebellious and bold.

notice how the left is constantly trying to stifle free speech and calling us immoral, bigoted, etc? that's because we're in the face of overwhelming adversity. instead of the comedy coming from TV shows or whatever though, we're ahead of the curve because we use the new media instead of the old. it's not coming from a board meeting, it's coming from cynical autists who are tired of being told that they have to fit their senses of humor and belief around what the media tells them.

or they just stopped being funny, i dunno.

Humor comes from uncomfortable truths. For the left, easy to do with Bush in power. For the right, easy to do when the left makes nearly everything uncomfortable.

Be me, left wing
Used to love The Daily show
Watching him hilariously hold Bush accountable every night eased the tension
Made me appreciate free speech because you couldn't get away with that without it

Obama gets elected, Stewart goes soft
I was still leftwing, and knew Stewart was a Democrat, but he straight SHILLED for Obama
Worst, he continued to attack and blame Republicans even when Dems had WH and Congress

Start drifting to the right, now libertarian, while left has drifted out-to-space

THIS!
Love this.
You can see my post where I alluded to the same thing

Better question, when has the right even been funny?

this board can be pretty funny. you have to look in places other than suit-approved television and films. it's current year user, fuck.

>leader of American right is currently Donald Trump

C'mon user, the right is hilarious right now

Truth got out.

The truth about immigration by the numbers:

>youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE

Cultural Marxist Jews Admit Organizing White Genocide

The plan to eliminate the white race:

>youtube.com/watch?v=bOgkGzMdieI

Cultural Marxism in action… Political Correctness, the tip of the blade:

>youtube.com/watch?v=q6c_dinY3fM

Cultural Marxism & Social Justice Explained:

>youtube.com/watch?v=xnqIj8C2Aek

Why are we in Decline - Cultural Marxism:

>youtube.com/watch?v=VggFao85vTs

also see

The facts about slavery in North America:

>youtube.com/watch?v=b5tci36bNjg

Cultural Marxist Jews fund media propaganda against whites on an enormous scale:

>youtube.com/watch?v=-4Ojbi6lXQI

Does this sound familiar at all? (starting at 6:52)

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The Holocaust:

>youtube.com/watch?v=tPc899uUb-A

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They were never funny.

You were just a retard who liked southpark tier humor and now that your an adult paying taxes you are slightly less retarded and thus find retard comedy less funny.

>When Did The Left Stop Being Funny?
When Obama won and suddenly making fun of or criticizing the incumbent administration was now politically taboo.

Excuses and ass-kissing aren't funny.

When they accepted the shekels and doing nothing but anti trump shit in return

The left was never funny.

When they started taking themselves seriously. They've become so unable to separate themselves from their politics that they've become bitter and rude.

Also their memes fucking suck. Even the passable ones are only funny once they're corrupted by actual humor.

And that's another thing: Their humor isn't humor because they have to play so far from the fire. It's not taking any risks, or playing on expectations. It's just become the expectations. That's not fucking funny. It's incidentally why the left tends to eat their own. Sarah Silverman had some legit funny jokes in her heyday, but now she can't get away with black face, or pedophilia jokes. She couldn't even get away with taking a soft jab at bernie-bros. The morals the left espouses have boxed their comedians in a corner. Which is why no one is listening to them anymore. Because no one likes a fucking bully.

>everyone clapped
Can't tell if tumblr or American with proxy

They burnt up all their strawmen and now just sound like repetitive wankers.

> Hur-Durr! Trump sucks his boyfriend Putins cock! (((Applause)))
All of the "jokes" are based on the DNC/CNN talking point d'Juor. Real comedy steps on everybodys toes. You could do a whole show on Maxine Waters that would have the audience shitting their pants and people dying of asphyxiation, but are any of these pussies doing it? Propaganda is just not funny.

When you woke up.

TV was never funny.

The left was never funny.

Please clap

It became too obvious they were shilling for a suicidal ideology

Because leftist politics and thus cultural marxism is now the mainstream. It's being pushed by all the major cultural institutions like government, media and Hollywood. They've become a parody in and of themselves with hypocrisy. Younger generations are now rebelling against this mainstream(as is natural for young people trying to create a new identity for themselves) and realizing that full blown leftist policies are creating a degenerate society that irrationally demonizes whites, males and families.

The left turned to authoritarianism. When you have that mentality, part of what drives you is a sense of denial over realities that conflict with the authority's values. That denial causes ridiculous behavior. Ridiculous behavior is easy to make fun of. That's how we got here. The "smart" people are now a complete and utter joke.

This board is funny as fuck if that's a proof

What I "woke up" to was comedians I had enjoyed as provocateurs toeing the CNN line. Throwing away decades of hard work for a political fad that nobody will remember in six months.

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They had me fooled for a long time, but the evidence of propaganda became too massive to ignore

I wouldn't call it the Right, but I remember a time when people could poke fun at race and gender and have a laugh rather than being triggered into rage. Humor is about being on the edge of your comfort zone, not being coddled and listening to someone who merely re enforces your beliefs.

Muh racism, dude weed lmao, what's wrong with being gay, omg you're Hitler etc etc gets boring after a while

The overton window shifted to towards political correctness and multicult so much that things boiled over. People don't like being told they're evil.

I love how you retards care so much about image that being constantly mocked on TV bothers you so much.

That wasn't even super bad or anything. The James Woods bit was pretty funny.

Alright. It was super bad for most of it, but not as bad as I was expecting I guess.

Obama happened. The 'punching down' thing is real. all humor is critical, so to be establishment and funny means being self-critical. But all the comedians that cut their teeth during the bush years didn't have that style, so they fell flat when they stopped criticizing the people in charge.

what happened

what happened in the basement

Donald Trump.

I feel like they put less effort into their joke writing because they're legitimately angry

punching down

Logos catalyses humor. No logos, no laff. The only people who can find this leftist filter bubble garbage funny are those firmly within the leftist filterbubble. It's transmitting on the goy control frequency, and you aint receiving. Consider yourself liberated.

Jesus, Patton Oswalt looks like he should be Rosie O'Donell's girlfriend. No wonder his wife died. If I had to wake up to that ugly motherfucker every day, I'd want to die too.

That's because reality is rarely humorous but bittersweet.

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Even this antifa girl realizes that the left is no longer funny at all.

The left started being more authoritarian than the right.

It will swing back again I'm sure once this pc garbage is pouned into dust, the right will take it too far and the center (normies) will start to turn on them again.

It will never stop, user. Only the sweet release of death will free you forever.

this, they didnt do it for teh lulz anymore

Kys

Oswalt has become a complete shill for the left and has lost his edge. His wife's death has left him humorless and broken.

Underrated

>lame faux-punk slut telling anybody what is and isn't corny

I admire your dedication and I hope you keep up the good work.

Let me explain what happened. In the mid 90s, the Democrats and the Republicans decided it would be fun to murder several million Iraqi children. They did so by implementing sanctions which starved hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children to death. People like Bernie Sanders voted for it. Then in 1998, they decided that killing Saddam Hussein was official US foreign policy, this was a joint resolution of congress, only 11 members of the senate refused to sign it. One of these was Ron Paul, one of them was NOT Bernie Sanders, because he supported it, because he likes murdering Iraqi children.

Then an election happened between George W. Bush (who supported the proposed invasion of Iraq) and Al Gore (who also supported the proposed invasion of Iraq) to see who would get to invade Iraq. George Bush won, but before he could invade Iraq the Saudis, with some help from the Israeli Mossad, crashed a plane into the World Trade Center, which gave George Bush a great idea: As long as we're invading Israel's enemies, we might as well invade Afghanistan too!"

So they put off the invasion of Iraq until 2004, and spent a few years blowing up sand people in Afghanistan before invade Iraq. In 2004, there was another election, between George W. Bush (who supported the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan) and John Kerry (who also supported the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan) to see who would get to continue those wars. George W. Bush won again.

Now all the while, the Democrats, who at the time were still convinced that they were supposed to be the anti-war party, were trying to figure out why none of the people in congress who they elected were trying to prevent the wars from happening and continuing. They grew quite upset in fact. Enter Jon Leibowitz.

Okay now add that same logic to this thread.

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>JET FUEL CAN'T MELT STEEL BEAM

Neck yourself, you retarded Faggot

Jon Leibowitz discovered something very interesting, which is that people respond to cognitive dissonance by laughing. When people feel confused and afraid, they start giggling. We've all experienced it. Leibowitz realized that the Democrats were psychologically "thirsty" for a way to blame affairs of state on someone else, since acknowledging that their own party quite objectively wanted war exactly as much as the Republicans, and were every bit as willing to spill child blood rich, red and thick all throughout the Middle East, was too traumatic for them.

They needed a way out, and that way out, it turns out, is making fun of rural and suburban retards. So the name of the game became "aren't Republicans dumb," and that game played out very successfully for about twelve years.

Assess the influence of foreign governments on US military decisions? NO! Never do that, it's just the Republicans guys, they just want oil, can you imagine that some of them still believe in God? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

What's that goy? AIPAC unerringly pushes for war in the middle east but most Jews vote Democrat? WHAT COULD THAT MEAN GOY ignore it, IT'S RURAL AND SUBURBAN RETARDS GOY!

Learn about the IMF and the petrodollar? Hoo hoo NO GOY, IT'S JUST RELIGIOUS PEOPLE HATE MUSLIMS THAT'S WHY WE'RE INVADING IRAQ HAHAHAHAHAHA

And so on and so forth. The reason it isn't funny is because Obama was elected, and nothing changed. And now the Democrats are faced with the reality that they were willing accomplices to the villainy of the "ebil Republicans" all along because their party is owned body and soul by the same people.

It actually can, and it did. 9/11 was committed by Islamic radicals, and the Saudis were involved, and the Israelis knew. You should read Ryan Dawson.

Because all, or nearly all, comedy shows are liberal. These comedians have always been at odds with Republicans since they are often the easiest to make fun of. Most of the time all they have to do is repeat their own words and the jokes already made.

These complaints about comedians always rise when a conservative takes office, and yet so does their popularity.

Where are the conservative comedians anyway? The only ones I know of are either not very popular at all, or they went crazy a decade or so ago.

Evangelicals lost their political clout after losing nearly all their major anti-gay social issues. Feminists and feminist inspired LGBT activists desperately search for new outrage issue while hijacking liberalism. Become far more sensitive and easily offended then evangelicals ever were.

the only thing that ever made me laugh on the (((Comedy))) channel was Cartman ripping on Kyle and the jews

Is it bad if I never found Colbert or Stewart funny at all?

I come from a country that reveres judaism, but I also found that funny.

>When Did The Left Stop Being Funny?
When did they start ?

Because they don't make jokes.

Think about it, user: Any time these retards make a "witty jab" at Trump, what does the audience do? They cheer. They applaud. They don't LAUGH. None of these people actually make JOKES they're just preaching off of a soapbox.

The right used to be easy to make fun of because neocons fucking suck.

Now with people like Trump, all they can say is "are you kidding me? are you serious? he's racist! two scoops of ice cream!"

They've made all their material about their political beliefs, but now their political beliefs are opposing common sense things like not letting literally every single human be able to cross borders and live in your countries for free, or saying we should screen people coming from nations that produce tons of terrorists.

Obama
Pretty much everyone hated Bush except for hard line conservatives and he was a person everyone wanted to laugh at. When Obama got elected they went into Democratic Defense Mode and everything is good because of democrats and is bad because of republicans. There was some neutral banter where they targeted general nonpartisan targets, but there was always that agenda that contradicted what the show was supposed to be about.

Indeed, he would have called this scene demon cock, dunked in glitter and deep-fried.

Don't tell me what is and isn't funny fucking cocksucker. I hate you. You and your whole fucking family.

>supports killing Iraqi children
Who doesnt?

>When Did The Left Stop Being Funny?

When they were forced to lick Hillary's cunt...

I stopped watching the Daily Show when Craig Kilborn left. I hated Jon Jewart since he was on MTV

Kilburn was funnier.

This. Trump might be an idiot but he delivers top tier bantz.

When was "the left" ever funny? Barely any talented comedians take left and right politics seriously. Perhaps, as they are entertainers, they will express left-leaning viewpoints sometimes to avoid being blacklisted, but it won't be reflected in their comedy. Only tittering pussies like those colberg style fags, they were never real comedians and never produced real belly laughs. Leftists are always reaching, claiming George Orwell was a socialist, Kafka was "anti fascist" and comedy like Monty Python is somehow "left wing".

South Park is funny. Stop being a humourless autist who screeches at everything that doesn't represent his views 100%.

The left became the mad conspirators evangelical "no rock it's the devil's music" type they made fun of conservatives for being ten years ago

No, it makes you not retarded. Well, you could still be retarded. But if you found Stewart and Colbert funny, you were definitely retarded.

Just admit it, you never found these Jews funny you just liked the implication that you were superior to the people they were shitting on. So when they told you to laugh you did. But it was never funny.

>comedy like Monty Python is somehow "left wing"

this

The memes they make that are funny end up backfiring. Vic Berger made those air horn debate vids to make Trump look like a dick but instead provided a massive boost to Trump's Internet presence

The kingdom of political correctness is now ruled by the left.

The moment you realized that they were lying to you.

This shit right here is the best god damn post I have ever read

Good shit my dude

This.

Ideology shift.

Jokes are funny when they are based in truth/fact, or people belive that they are based in truth/fact.

That pretty much sums it up.

This discussion sucks and is littered with utter dumbasses.

All of you can go take those white genocide fairy tales and shove 'em up your crusty Trump masturbating bungholes.

This. If anything there is a black genocide threat in America right now.

No, they aren't funny. Their satire was transparently biased as early as 2002 and I was a teenager.

Colbert and Stewart "stopped being funny" because they spent over 8 years finding ways to shred Republicans and "rural and suburban retards" despite Democrats having the levers of power. It became such a stretch that even normies started waking up.

>It became such a stretch that even normies started waking up.

Nope. It was because you guys cucked yourselves by being swindled by a really flawed, moronic trust fund baby millionaire who's more well known from his crappy reality TV show than his actual millionaire success stories.

This. For at least the past 4 years, Obama blamed every problem on the fucking weather (maybe he was afraid to blame God, because that would cost him the atheist vote or something). Stone fucking silence from the funnymen on TV. No one made that joke.

or maybe they weren't witty/clever enough to make jokes about Obama that doesn't go right into the gutter of jokes.

Not that I blame them, thought. Obama is an insanely hard fellow to make good satire out of and there wasn't really much wrong about that. It's you idiots that are in denial of that.

On the contrary, I think Trump is a really shitty mine for satire too. Spicer was a much better source of comedy until that megacunt we've been seeing these last two days stepped in.

Jon Oliver please stop, you're not funny and shitposting on Sup Forums isn't going to salvage your career.

Hah. I kinda find it cute you thought I was Jon Oliver.

I'll take that as a compliment, kiddo.

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The best SNL could come up with was "LOL Obama you're TOO perfect! Us mortals don't deserve someone as smart as you are. We're not ready for your greatness as a country."

Southpark is funny, but this last season (20) was prof that the creators are drifting out of touch

The left moved heavily towards extreme progressive policies and political correctness during the Obama years, hence why the left is in the current state it is with Sanders socialists, antifa, etc.

A good example is how I lost points off an English paper a few weeks ago. I kid you not the professor took off points because I used "gendered" nouns and referred to "mankind" which she said should be "humankind". I also referred to "man's best friend" and she said that it's possibly offensive since it assigns ownership of dogs to the entire male gender.

Shit like that happening everywhere in the country is enough to push the average normie from center to slightly right leaning.

You lost your sense of humor somewhere along the way

Rich, insulated people cannot be funny.

It happens to every single comic without exception.