why arent right wing cartoonist's funny or clever

[brettdale]

Im not posting a link, because their cartoons on the Trayvon Martin case, are pretty sick.

This was their mainstream cartoonists also, cartoons posted over at msm websites.

What is wrong with them??

[eridani]

1. Rigid, authoritarian minds don't do funny n/t

[LuvNewcastle]

5. Exactly. All they know is mean and angry.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Steve Martin said it best in the movie ' Grand Canyon ' Comedy is

Tragedy + Time , wanting to be too cutting edge screws that up .

[liberal N proud]

3. Right wingers tend not to be very creative

They are taking their que from the likes of Ann Coulter and that's not funny at all.

Most creative people tend to be liberal hence the reason most of Hollywood support the left.

[GeorgeGist]

4. lack of empathy

[hobbit709]

6. Because there's nothing funny about mean.

[HiPointDem]

7. for the same reason right wing comics are rarely funny. the right wing mentality sucks up to

power & mocks the powerless.

and that's just not funny to most people.

funny is seeing the powerful, pompous, self-important mocked. picking on the weak is not funny, and only psychos find it so.

[Scootaloo]

8. I've always liked the parody of "Mallard Fillmore" from America: the Book

As HiPoint mentions above, it's pretty much impossible to have honest humor when you're reverential towards power. Humor is, ultimately, a coping mechanism - you have to laugh because you can't cry. But if you've never had to cope, if you think all the shit in the world is justified, and that the peopel who lack power deserve their place... well ,you're just not going to have any humor. Just mean-spirited jabs and callous laughter at others' misfortune.

[TlalocW]

11. I've always described Mallard Fillmore thusly

Panel 1: Mallard and strawman liberal set up ridiculous argument
Panel 2: Faraway shot where characters are in silhouette continuing argument.
Panel 3: Closeup of upper bodies or heads of characters. Liberal in background looms over Mallard and makes ridiculous point no liberal would make while making emotional gestures. Closeup of Mallard's face shows arched eyebrow as he counters liberal point trying to be funny or witty but failing.

Repeat 365 days a year.

TlalocW

[KansDem]

9. Here's one right-winger's attempt at humor...

[Turbineguy]

10. The SS

must have had things they thought were funny too.

[Chan790]

12. Because RWers are not intelligent, witty or clever. QED. n/t

[MrScorpio]

13. Comedy is the truth catching you off-guard

What's ever true about anything that right wingers say, especially when they're lying and being mean as a matter of SOP?

[HughBeaumont]

14. They are sometimes hilarious, but not on purpose.

Then there are times where they make such giant leaps in logic to the point where they need to just shut the fuck up like Silent Bob . . .