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NanceGreggs

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3. Think about their 'target' audience.

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2019, 03:11 AM

Apr 2019

They are trying to appeal to people who think high comedy is putting a whoopy-cushion under Uncle Chester’s ass at the Christmas dinner table.

They’re too stupid to understand satire, too uneducated to comprehend nuance, and far too uninformed to ‘get’ references to current events as they have actually unfolded, rather than what they’ve been told is going on.

They’ve tried these shows before – they always fail spectacularly.

Republican knuckle-draggers (which is their target audience) just don’t have no humour genes – and that’s a fact.

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Oh boy. Ooooh boy. There is a new conservative comedy-show hosted by a MAGA. And it's so bad. [View all] DetlefK Apr 2019 OP

I've seen this type of shit for probably 20 years. rusty quoin Apr 2019 #1

google limbaugh sajak tv scrutineer Apr 2019 #18

Did I just feel a lurch toward Idiocracy? Hugin Apr 2019 #2

Think about their 'target' audience. NanceGreggs Apr 2019 #3

and most importantly... Hugin Apr 2019 #6

I think the main model is "Mallard Fillmore", the funniest thing about which... JHB Apr 2019 #14

Good comedy is subversive, which is inherently antithetical to conservatism as a principle. NYC Liberal Apr 2019 #4

So, what idiot is blowing a wad of cash on this failure? rpannier Apr 2019 #5

Great comedy comes from truth that punches up... MrScorpio Apr 2019 #7

Precisely! And the sharpest comics/comic actors are always outsiders. VOX Apr 2019 #10

the "conservative" idea of comedy is to watch a minority be tormented anarch Apr 2019 #8

Exactly. A bunch of seventh graders punching down on the littlest, weakest kid is laugh riot scrutineer Apr 2019 #16

Fascists like their "humor" crude, and it's always tough on underdogs. VOX Apr 2019 #9

It's been tried before. Dennis Miller's show was a total flop. PA Democrat Apr 2019 #11

Conservatives are bad at comedy, even worse at parody & satire Tarc Apr 2019 #12

Fascist propaganda sprinkled on a steaming turd. VOX Apr 2019 #13

Comedy and satire must have the "ring of truth" rickford66 Apr 2019 #15

What they will never get: DFW Apr 2019 #17