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I typically find liberal comedians with a massive hateboner for the PC Police to be way more grating than right wing comedians who feel the same way. Maybe it's just the "cultural gatekeeping" of the left that puts me off. I find Bill Maher and Seth MacFarlane to be completely annoying. But I still have a somewhat positive opinion of the South Park guys for example. Maybe citing Trey Parker and Matt Stone as conservative comedians is unfair because they're actually often funny. Uhh... I like Mike Judge... he's kind of conservative and libertarian also I guess.
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Echo Chamber posted:Maybe it's just the "cultural gatekeeping" of the left that puts me off. I find Bill Maher and Seth MacFarlane to be completely annoying. But I still have a somewhat positive opinion of the South Park guys for example. Maybe citing Trey Parker and Matt Stone as conservative comedians is unfair because they're actually often funny. The problem with saying "conservatives can't be funny" or whatever else is it doesn't really allow the fact that a person's individual politics rarely fit in one side's box. MacFarlane is really proud (and often smug) to be left leaning, but he is also a giant white guy who doesn't get why women wouldn't want him singing about seeing their tits to their faces at the Oscars. Parker and Stone are kind of libertarian, but mostly just like saying the truth is always in the middle. It's hard to tell what their actual beliefs are. They did some real lovely things about transgender people, but then seemed to change their minds and did an episode with some actual nuance to it. But now they're apparently doing a whole season whining about PC culture.
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Practical Demon posted:There was also Red Eye, a late night panel show on Fox News that tried to cash in on Daily Show style topical humor. Don't know if it's still a thing. That reminds me, what was the name of the show Fox news had that was trying to copy the daily show, that had jokes like Barack Obama = B.O which is also BODY ODOR! I remember it was so bad they had to pay people to watch it and it still had empty seats.
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Conservative comedian? Here you go, enjoy. Please watch the whole thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c Smoothrich fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Nov 8, 2015 |
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Nov 8, 2015 00:52
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Smoothrich posted:Conservative comedian? Here you go, enjoy. Please watch the whole thing I skipped around and didn't see any attempt at comedy, just ranting and dementia.
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Nov 8, 2015 01:04
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Echo Chamber posted:I typically find liberal comedians with a massive hateboner for the PC Police to be way more grating than right wing comedians who feel the same way.
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coyo7e posted:I'm not sure what you mean. You can't be liberal and anti-PC. That just makes you a libertarian with bad taste. And it always shows. There's a lot like Patton Oswalt or Dan Harmon that pride themselves on being super liberal but go off on hour long Twitter rants if anyone says they don't like rape jokes or the word "retard". But they make certain to keep letting you know how liberal they are as they do it.
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Echo Chamber posted:I typically find liberal comedians with a massive hateboner for the PC Police to be way more grating than right wing comedians who feel the same way. Taste is subjective and all, but man, claiming Parker and Stone as being "often funny"... woof. I'd definitely put them in the same camp as Seth MacFarlane, they certainly attempt the same "humor." I mean, maybe 15 years ago or so, but I also liked Family Guy back then so I'm not sure if they were actually funny or if it was just that I was 19 and their off-color brand was still shocking and edgy to me, rather than moldy and played-out.
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The Book of Mormon seemed to be pretty funny and was remarkably not mean-spirited for a satire on religion. Then again, BoM premiered in 2011 so I guess we're already well beyond whatever honeymoon period of goodwill the creators had with that. I'll admit I haven't seen that much South Park since college, but I always thought it was slightly more nuanced than people give it credit for. It was a little bit more than "the truth is in middle" that people who hate on the show parrot about it. (Though not much. I don't want overstate it. It obviously falls into the same traps that makes other faux anti-establishment libertarian "humor" intolerable.) And that its writing had more commitment to plotting and joke construction than Family Guy. John Oliver needs to hurry up and pump out a new episode of LWT so I can stop being part of the problem with thread derails.
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coyo7e posted:I'm not sure what you mean. You can't be liberal and anti-PC. That just makes you a libertarian with bad taste. And it always shows. PC Police = Thought Police "The Thought Police (thinkpol in Newspeak) are the secret police of the fictional superstate, Oceania, in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's Thought Police are charged with uncovering and punishing "thoughtcrime" and thought-criminals. They use psychological methods and omnipresent surveillance (such as telescreens) to search, find, monitor, and arrest members of society who could potentially challenge authority and the status quo—even if only by thought—hence the name Thought Police. They use terror and torture to achieve their ends. Orwell's concept of "thought policing" derived from and had much to do with his own "power of facing unpleasant facts", as he referred to it, and his willingness to criticize society's prevailing ideas—which often brought him into conflict with others and what he called their "smelly little orthodoxies" Thank you for demonstrating in plain terms that all liberals support an authoritarian Nazi-Communist Hitler/Stalin oppression-state where words and thoughts are punishable by torture and death. Being anti-PC means you are pro-freedom, so if you can't be anti-PC and be a liberal, it means All Liberals Hate Freedom
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Smoothrich posted:PC Police = Thought Police The Great Unmedicated One is Johnny Appleseeding his way through the subforums I see.
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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/here-are-7-times-john-oliver-perfectly-captured-whats-wrong-with-america-and-triggered-reform/
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Here Are 16.3 MIND-BLOWING Reasons Why I Am Not Clicking That
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coyo7e posted:Here Are 16.3 MIND-BLOWING Reasons Why I Am Not Clicking That ... and what you did next will melt our hearts.
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tarlibone posted:... and what you did next will melt our hearts. Number 4 will SHOCK YOU.
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I would actually love it if one week the topic was clickbait and the Buzzfeed-like sites that profit from curiosity of the inane.
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Nov 8, 2015 19:24
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Clickbait is one of those things that are annoying and okay to make fun of until you realize the kind of people who really get irrationally mad at them.
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Echo Chamber posted:Clickbait is one of those things that are annoying and okay to make fun of until you realize the kind of people who really get irrationally mad at them. They're terrible dude
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Nov 9, 2015 02:53
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It's literally a single page with a list of 7 things, not a 7 page monstrosity.
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Nov 9, 2015 03:02
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I really liked the personal touch with tonight's episode. Bilal is a brave man, for all the wrong reasons. 
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adhuin posted:It's literally a single page with a list of 7 things, not a 7 page monstrosity. Sometimes it's 7 pages with one thing on each one and a slide show thing you're forced to click through! The horror!
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hcreight posted:I really liked the personal touch with tonight's episode. Bilal is a brave man, for all the wrong reasons. Yeah, I really hope he come out of this ahead.
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Timett posted:Sometimes it's 7 pages with one thing on each one and a slide show thing you're forced to click through! The horror! You might be joking but a list that you have to click through has made me exit out of many web pages because its pretty annoying.
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Nov 9, 2015 14:23
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Perhaps if the link had been shared in a way that was not so unlike that of a fake russian chick who posts listicles to dog site to a dog breed page, despite not owning a dog..
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This episode contained references to a hog, the Queen, and loving something inappropriate in the distant past, and not a single mention of David Cameron? For shame, LWT 
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I noticed that despite the amount of times he's mentioned it, the globe behind the interview table doesn't even have New Zealand on it. Shame on you, John Oliver! (or your set builder, or whatever) Really, it's quite a large island. How do so many maps just leave it out?
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Nov 13, 2015 00:27
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It's not important.
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Laverna posted:I noticed that despite the amount of times he's mentioned it, the globe behind the interview table doesn't even have New Zealand on it. Shame on you, John Oliver! (or your set builder, or whatever) gently caress new zealand
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Laverna posted:I noticed that despite the amount of times he's mentioned it, the globe behind the interview table doesn't even have New Zealand on it. Shame on you, John Oliver! (or your set builder, or whatever) It's a map of Earth, not Middle Earth.
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Nov 13, 2015 03:54
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Take a map of Italy, turn it upside down... boom. New Zealand.
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Maybe they're just setting up for a future "a place you think so little about" gag.
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The world's going to poo poo now. But John Oliver is a dad now. And it seems like there's only two more episodes this season.
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He didn't even birth the child on his bathroom floor? For shame, John!
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Nov 14, 2015 15:57
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That closing sketch might have been the darkest thing Seth Rogen has done since Observe and Report, and it couldn't have been directed at a better target.
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DraftKing and FanDuel advertisements are constant and insidious, and I can't wait until they're forced into "fly-by-night offshore operation" status.
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Nov 16, 2015 05:57
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Ama request: Janice From Accounting
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Nov 16, 2015 06:41
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I like how Seth lost it in the credits with "I think it just died!"
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Nov 16, 2015 07:00
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Janice in Accounting jokes have gotten to be loving hilarious.
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Nov 16, 2015 08:22
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Also, was the guy who appeared just before Seth Rogen Mike Birbiglia? I think it is.
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Timett posted:Ama request: Janice From Accounting Never going to happen. You know she don't give a gently caress.
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