Is Comedy Less Funny Lately?

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For every unfunny meta bullshit we get a lot more good content out of guys like Bill Burr and Norm Macdonald making fun of them.
 
Only people in unfortunate cringy videos and internet (especially KF) shitposts makes me laugh nowadays
 
I always thought it was me getting more insensitive, but honestly I think comedians are trying to appease everyone which is why the content sucks.
 
When comedy goes from being a means to criticize society in a satirical way, to be a political and biased medium. That's where the comedy stops being funny.
 
If you know funny you probably know of Monty python. Terry Gilliam a former Python came out as a trans lesbian black woman. The response from shit sites like "Terry Gilliam has some very stupid ideas about diversity" Link http://dlisted.com/2018/07/05/terry-gilliam-has-some-very-stupid-thoughts-about-diversity/ .
What it left out was Terry saying that the producers or whoever the fuck is organizing comedy shit are picking people to fit quotas like a boy band instead of picking whose funny.

I'm leaving this video of the legendary Patrice Oneal going at with a Proto-SJW. A description wouldn't do it justice.
 
Mainstream comedy is dead and leftists killed it. Jerry Seinfeld said it, Chris Rock said it, any comedian with a brain fucking knows it.

Anyone who buys into politically correct rhetoric, at least overtly, should've stayed away from comedy. But they saw how effective it was at conveying a message, so they co-opted it. A lot of budding comedians these days see comedy as being a John Oliver character or like Samantha Bee: making fun of anything that is not the socio-political status quo. And personally, I think John Oliver can make funny, informative content, but I take what he says with a grain of salt because at the end of the day, he's a fucking comedian. People in John Oliver's comment section will go on and on about how you can't criticize the dude for not giving accurate information because "He's a comedian, he's not trying to be Anderson Cooper", but trust me when I say this: for a majority of John Oliver's audience, he's their primary news source. And that's the fucking problem: people take comedy too seriously.

Let me put it in another way: y'all know Trump Baldwin, right? Alec Baldwin's Trump impression on Saturday Night Live? Trump Baldwin is not popular because it's funny or it's a good Trump impression, Trump Baldwin's popular because it validates the viewpoint that Trump is a fucking moron faggot who's as incompetent as he is gay for Vladimir Putin. They think an exaggeration of Trump is a portrait, and they clap because the artist made a mirror image of someone they hate. They don't laugh, by the way. They clap.

TL;DR: Mainstream comedy's dead because modern political satire (the most saturated form of comedy popularized by John Stewart, Seth Myers, John Oliver, and other guys) is used as a tool to validate the status quo instead of a tool to make people laugh and feel better.

(srry for sperging i'm just very passionate abt comedy and seeing Saturday Night Live become a husk of it's former self bcoz of this bullshit makes me very very sad)
 
It sucks. John Mulaney's new Netflix special made me want to fucking an hero myself.
 
Today I learned that Kiwi Farms loves Norm Macdonald. And rightfully so.

Also Chappelle is still really funny.
 
Ron /pol/ said:
What is "funny"?
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Chris Rock once said that comedy is the blues for people who can't sing. I think comedy is when people try to "win", and despite the fact that they don't have the tools or the skills to succeed, they go for it anyway. Look at a movie like Liar Liar for example. When the good-hearted but slimy lawyer finds himself unable to lie, what happens next is spontaneous and funny. The 40-year-old Virgin is similar. The guy's buddies try to get him laid, but without really understanding what makes the guy tick. Eventually they end up facing their own hangups and flaws, and it becomes spontaneous and funny when they end up getting more than they bargained for.

This is why I find comedians like Louis C.K. and Aziz Ansari to be grating and unfunny. Their whole shtick is "I'm a piece of shit with a depressing life, and so are you.". That's an ok place to start, but you have to be motivated to be entertaining. If the things you want are stupid and not worth caring about, that's fine, but you at least need to have a goal that the audience can relate to.

John Oliver can be funny in the same way a TV commercial can be funny, but it's never gut-laugh funny. He and people like him are representative of the Powers that Be, so when he makes fun of Trump, it's never in a way that points out the fucked up randomness of life. He just comes off as snide and arrogant. Good comedy mocks and belittles the audience, it isn't supposed to make them feel good about themselves.
 
The problem isn't that most comedians are liberals, it's that liberals have changed so much. They're no fun anymore.
 
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