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@sweatergod5386

Ай бұрын

One thing to understand is that alot of Gen X left wingers or liberals (pls don't kill me with terminology I'm a dumb dumb) have switched slowly to conservative beliefs, my mom did the same thing. I believe the idea of freedom of body and distrust of the government of that generation causes them to make the switch. You will likely find more Gen Xers who have switched from lib to con

@whalemaxxing

Ай бұрын

so goddamn happy you're back m8

@xenomorphexidious9102

Ай бұрын

Why is your channel always so cynical? Lady Ballers was exactly what we needed today world

@ymeynot0405

Ай бұрын

@bigJoel I Laughed so hard at 22:25 . Beacause, the answer is... the USA has the fastest rate of Atheism in the world and an Atheist lives a life closer to the teachings of Jesus than the modern American self-identifying Christian. 🤣

@wodekw6862

Ай бұрын

I know you probably won't read it, but your video made me very emotional, just seeing nostalgia critic part and Roseanne Barr made me feel bad for them, I wondered what happend in their lives that they turned out that way (oh and the same goes for people like Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh), is the reason why they act like that rooted in childhood trauma? Self hatred? I can't be even mad at Roseanne because in how pitful situation she is, how lied to she is. I would really love to know what pushed them where they are right now

"we wanted to make a doc about how easy it is to join womens basketball as a man but we couldnt do it because it wasnt easy at all" WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THEN

@bosstowndynamics5488

Ай бұрын

They were probably thinking one of 2 things: 1) Even if trans women "go all the way" they still have some intrinsic advantage at sports just by way of having a Y chromosome. This belief is obviously very wrong but if you did believe this then criticising trans people in sports would at least be a logical course of action even if you exaggerated it substantially in doing so 2) They don't actually care about trans people in sports at all directly, they only care about using it as the thin end of the wedge to promote transphobia in general, and eventually overall queerphobia

@nicholasmolnar8312

Ай бұрын

​@bosstowndynamics5488 so why do men only go into women sports and not vice versa? Because of the natural difference in bone structure and natural muscle we have? Once enough mentally challenged ppl join the women sports there won't be women sports just men sports.

@notyourdamnbusiness8795

Ай бұрын

@@bosstowndynamics5488 im all for living at let live.....but i kinda do think that trans women do have an advantage over they XX peers when it comes to sport. i agree that those folks dont give a flying fuck about female sport/leagues but......that doesnt make the advantage point invalid.

@bosstowndynamics5488

Ай бұрын

@@notyourdamnbusiness8795 The fact they don't care isn't what invalidates the advantage point, the reason most people don't consider trans athletes to have an advantage is because, for the most part, they don't. This isn't as new of an area as reactionaries would have you believe, there's been studies on the performance of cis vs trans women and after a period on hormones their performance is largely equivalent in most sports, with the exceptions being areas where being tall confers an advantage more than anything else as post puberty MTF transition tends to result in being taller than cis women (and even then you could just stratify athletes by height, the actual thing conferring advantage, instead of mostly meaningless markers like chromosomes). The only thing the y chromosome does is make testosterone, so in and of itself it confers no advantage to athletes on exogenous hormones that suppress testosterone production - this is the key reason DW couldn't do a "documentary", because none of their cis man participants were willing to self inflict gender dysphoria by going on hormones for it, and even if they were they would almost certainly have lost anyway since a bit of height can't compensate for far less skill even in a height advantage game like basketball.

@DragonNexus

Ай бұрын

It is so bizarre to me that he outright said that. Its one thing to intend it, say it, then edit it out. It's crazy to me he admitted it publicly. That the entire premise of his comedy is nonsense.

"Your gender is: 'Get a job!' " is the most singularly distilled line of boomer comedy I have ever heard

@atleyf3500

Ай бұрын

It's all of their jokes combined into one elegant phrase.

@iheartlreoy8134

Ай бұрын

It’s kind of gold ngl

@anyoneattheendoftime4932

Ай бұрын

FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW:

@FunAngelo2005

Ай бұрын

​@@atleyf3500 yup

@arturoaguilar6002

Ай бұрын

And far funnier than most of their other trans jokes.

Fun fact... i was homeschooled my whole life, conservative religious household, and didnt get access to the internet until i was 15..... and guess what... figured out that im gay.... almost as if you cant teach kids to be gay...

@jacksobrooks

27 күн бұрын

If I wanted a gay kid, I think that's how I would go about it.

@ffff7164

26 күн бұрын

Sorry for your condition, I pray you get better.

@BloodInTheStrawberries

21 күн бұрын

​@@ffff7164 Sorry for your lack of braincells, I'll pray for you to get better.

@strictlybananas

15 күн бұрын

Unless… the INTERNET made you gay 😱

@billiecruz4399

15 күн бұрын

Same here, didn't own a computer till 18 and knew i was trans before i knew the word existed, i was like 11 and had never even heard the concept.

"We are being censored and silenced because everyone is a snowflake!" says the conservative comedian in a sold out venue for his 5th Netflix special.

@Unhingedanduninformed

17 күн бұрын

It’s like… they’re all full of shyte. ‘I got punished for my abhorrent actions’ Punishment =\= canceling.

@blad...

11 күн бұрын

​@@Unhingedanduninformedhuh? Cancelled = punishment

@blad...

11 күн бұрын

Yeah, he gets to get away with it because he's insanely popular and careful with it. He's talking for all comedians. Nothing wrong with that.

@zote8106

11 күн бұрын

​@@Unhingedanduninformed beong cancelled is a punishment me thinks. its just funny how these people frame being cancelled as anything other than people not liking them

@theeast7005

11 күн бұрын

​@@zote8106 Being cancelled isn't a punishment because people have made "being cancelled" into people just saying they don't like them online. What happened to "not everyone is gonna like you/you can't please everyone"?

I love that Paul Saladino eats only raw animal organs and yet his last name is mostly salad

@TheMetalGaia

Ай бұрын

Holy shit 😂

@feedmewifi_477

Ай бұрын

facts ‼️

@justinsemple7454

Ай бұрын

Paul Salad-eat-o

@The_Boctor

Ай бұрын

You can never trust someone's name. Dino Dini's real name is "Dinosaur Dinisaur," yet he inexplicably evolved from a mammal.

@kayleawilson

Ай бұрын

Brilliant

"I was a weird chubby dweeb" Shows three pictures of himself looking exactly the same

@AClockworkMelon

Ай бұрын

Big Joel: Conservative Comedian

@loekust

Ай бұрын

he looked like the kind of guy i would have dated back then

@sortofsomething

Ай бұрын

I was very confused about „chubby“

@quali-vd3ud

Ай бұрын

he looks somewhat evil

@fart63

Ай бұрын

@@quali-vd3udhe really does

I'm fascinated by the skit about the conservative teacher. When he says the line "You have objectively weak parents..." and it cuts to the woke SJW looking shocked, I was expecting him to finish the line by going "But I can help" or "but that doesn't mean you have to be weak" and he'd then inspire the kid to be a cool strong traditional American or whatever. But no, he just goes "You're also weak and I hate you" and it made me realize, he doesn't want to "correct" the kid or take them under his wing and show them how to be a "strong" person or whatever, it's just time to shit on the kid. He doesn't want to improve lives or help kids like a teacher might, he basically is just there to roast all of the students and make them sad. That's all he wants, that's all his audience wants, they just want to bully those nasty woke liberals

@stardusst

17 күн бұрын

a pattern i've noticed with transphobes is telling trans people to "get help", yet in the many times i've seen said suggestion, none actually answer what this "help" is. it's almost like they don't actually want to ""help"" trans people, but just further taunt them.

@wetoddedd

15 күн бұрын

@@stardusst "get help" usually just means "jOin tHE 40% hHEhEHEHhEHh!!!" when you dig deep enough

@SomeCrow-rq5dz

13 күн бұрын

the cruelty is the joke

@Karanthaneos

8 күн бұрын

@@stardusst They don't want them to get 'help' they want them to be gone so they don't have to deal with them.

@isweartofuckinggod

8 күн бұрын

When I hear "get help" the joke is usually that the person has a mental illness (help being therapy/medication). In that context, it makes perfect sense since it implies that gender nonconformity is a mental illness. Thankfully I've never had to deal with someone that deep in the conservative hole.

Conservative comedy is the power to "Ironically" say terrible things about people, and then have the plausible deniability to say "I'm not serious it's just a joke"... But also, "it's funny because it's true." It gives fascists the power to dehumanize others through repetitive propaganda, while pretending they're not. It's not funny, because it's not a joke. If you didn't think it's true you wouldn't be laughing about it.

@nhedd0s839

25 күн бұрын

fascists LOOOOOL

@shadenox8164

24 күн бұрын

@@nhedd0s839 What would you call book banning?

@JD-wu5pf

24 күн бұрын

​@@shadenox8164A normal thing that schools already do.

@anteehatte7962

24 күн бұрын

@@shadenox8164what kind of books do you want in elementary schools? 🤨

@CharlotteSWeb-oh7ou

23 күн бұрын

@@anteehatte7962 Found the fascist moral panicker. "OH WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN" is most uncompelling from your lot.

I feel bad for the little girl who had to learn pages of dialogue about how she's inferior to boys

@ianianianianian

Ай бұрын

funny since she’s easily the best actor in the movie

@morganhess6876

Ай бұрын

​@@ianianianianian Funny in the most depressing way possible.

@maxmote23

Ай бұрын

I hate being told I'm inherently racist because I'm white

@blablah9938

Ай бұрын

That part really threw me off, like what, are they addressing misogyny in conservative narrative? Are they admitting that there is such a thing as performing a gender? I´m still confused what actually happened there.

@leonardooriano5794

Ай бұрын

@@maxmote23huh? Try to grunt more intelligently please

Sorry but the Rosanne joke "Mom, what is my gender?" "Your gender is, get a job, that's your gender." got a full belly laugh out of me for the sheer ridiculousness of it. It's genuinely like a parody of what someone her age would say, it's incredible.

@alisdraws

Ай бұрын

Same! With the right set up that joke is really funny

@jan-willemvandijk3850

Ай бұрын

I laugh out loud and also use the super bad "my pronouns are..." jokes for the same reason.

@Spanishdog17

Ай бұрын

And the irony is that she lost her job because of horrible jokes.

@whatsthatnoise5955

Ай бұрын

​@@Spanishdog17 lol

@commandantcarpenter

Ай бұрын

"NO MORE BULLSHIT!"

Re: Ladyballers, that scene with protagonist and his daughter highlights the absurd reality of misogyny that would exist if shapiro and ilk had their way. Imagine having that talk with your daughter and earnestly telling them how second class they are?

@Waspinmymind

22 күн бұрын

That’s just conservative fathers? Like many girls who lived underneath these guys have had that talk before.

@MissBeloved__

20 күн бұрын

fucking exactly what i was thinking

@Shoegaze-

19 күн бұрын

@@WaspinmymindI honestly don’t think that all conservative fathers tell or even think that women are ‘second class’. If they tell their daughters that physically they can’t compare I don’t really see an issue with that. They are going to find out over time and it’s better if your parents tell you. But ig it’s all about wording.

@Console.Log01

18 күн бұрын

@@Shoegaze- I mean that scene did also say that women were worse drivers and worse in pretty much every STEM field, so yeah, just second class.

@Shoegaze-

18 күн бұрын

@@Console.Log01 I don’t know what you mean by “scene” but I’m pretty sure women being worse drivers is a joke and shouldn’t really be taken seriously lol. With the stem thing men from what I’m aware do better in those fields on average. Doesn’t mean women can’t excel but the idea that men and women’s brains are the exact same is really silly.

Amazing that Doug Walker spent the entire Wall review calling Roger Waters whiny for making a concept album/film partly about the physical and emotional abuse he suffered at the hands of his teachers during his childhood when he has complained extensively and earnestly about how awful it was for people to make fun of him as a kid for sharing a first name with a popular children's cartoon character.

@arturoaguilar6002

9 күн бұрын

Because if he is called whinny about it, he can deny it and say he was playing a character for the sake of comedy. Doug Walker's wall is made of irony.

Ben Shapiro's idea about making Ladyballers a documentary, but not being able to do it because it's very premise just doesn't exist is endlessly funny. Instead of making up a guy to get mad at, he made up an entire reality.

@grimroten3299

Ай бұрын

​@@qjames0077lol wrong again Ben actually said they wanted to make it a documentary and couldn't find any leagues that were a free for all like you morons think

@vex7550

Ай бұрын

​@@qjames0077 i think lia thomas is not similar to the charachters in this movie. She is not fake-transitioning and conspiring to compete in womens sports to win--that is a imaginary thing that exists only in the movie

@natk4017

Ай бұрын

@@vex7550you’re right, he’s a f3t!shist man who’s into AGP with his boyfriend, not a transgendered person at all, or in any shape or form a woman.

@a1b1c184

Ай бұрын

@@qjames0077 You hit the nail on the head. Ladyballers was a terrible movie because it had low production value and bad writing. You can make almost any topic funny if the writing is witty and sharp. That movie, much like this video, is intended to promote a narrative and reassure members of it's team that they are correct and the others guys are the bad guys. It's makes us all dumber as a society but it makes it much easier to manipulate people.

@KyraTheStrangeAndUnusual

Ай бұрын

@qjames0077 literally not at all, also, most if not all of the records she broke have been broken AGAIN, by cis women. You are almost comically wrong

The attempted joke about "no one watches women sports" is hilariously ironic given the fact that the recent NCAA women's basketball tournament outdrew the absolute hell out of the men's tournament -- including it being the first year where the women's final outdid the men's. So clearly people are watching women's sports, tho it’s also clear that conservatives don’t pay attention… because they don’t actually care about “protecting” sports and more so want another boogeyman to scare people.

@samt3412

22 күн бұрын

I do hope that women's basketball can get more celebrity like Caitlin Clark. I think it would be a bit of a shame for this year alone to be the only time people paid attention to the women's side of college basketball.

@Flameb0

16 күн бұрын

@@samt3412 if you actually watched women's basketball you would know the reason why nobody watches women's basketball (because it's fucking boring and sucks)

@Ineedgames

16 күн бұрын

My mum once asked me "who wants to watch woman play sports?" When she doesn't watch sports anyway.

@beccak8166

15 күн бұрын

​@@Flameb0First of all, the top stars in mens basketball all watch and love the women play. You can always see them in the front row. So ppl who know the game enjoy women playing lmao. Even if this wasnt the case this is wild to say did you even watch the women's games this season? They were awesome !

@beccak8166

15 күн бұрын

​​​@@Flameb0and only someone living under a rock thinks "no one is watching women's basketball" these days!!! Even my sister who has never given a shit about sports knows who Caitlin Clark is

i reacted to you appearing dressed as nostalgia critic like a jump scare

That first guy sounds like he just realized conservatives are way more lucrative to appeal to and he got lost in the sauce

@ulture

Ай бұрын

partly, but it also sounds like he got kicked out of his cult for 'being too masculine' (molestation)

@pharoahcaraboo9610

Ай бұрын

@@ulture ... por que?

@iananderson4754

Ай бұрын

​@@ulturehe did what now?

@Friend-

Ай бұрын

​@@iananderson4754 I did some googling to see if there are any allegations against him, but it looks like @ulture made that up.

@JackH_123

Ай бұрын

@@ulture unless you know something I don’t, sounds like a bit of a stretch. “Too masculine” can mean anything like butting heads with leadership or even just being a general ass no one likes

For fucks sake, the 'joke' about the sea levels rising would be so easy to do as an actual joke. "I moved to California and went straight to the sea and the levels were LITERALLY rising before my eyes! Halfway through the day they went back down again but THEN came right back up that very evening!" Yeah you could word that better but 'person who believes in climate change confuses the tide with sea levels rising' at least has an actual joke in there somewhere.

@abhijithnarayan1370

Ай бұрын

I truly thought that's the direction it was going, I was almost going to defend it in advance

@user-uv2cp1qd1j

Ай бұрын

I genuinely thought that was going to be the joke. It was maybe a bit predictable with the pre amble, but wouldn't have been *not* funny I guess

@atoucangirl

Ай бұрын

i was bracing for that punchline because i've heard it so many times. shock value usually leads to funnier moments, but here it somehow made it worse.

@Isak_Real

Ай бұрын

Nr

@juanjuri6127

Ай бұрын

@@Isak_Real like many other conservative jokes that appear to have a couple of extra beats crammed in there, my money would be on them initially considering telling the joke that way but deciding most of their audience would need an explanation about the rising tides.

bro wanted to prove how easy it was to join the women's basketball league but couldn't, reminds me of that one always sunny episode where dennis is trying to prove how easy it is to buy guns but he's acting like a lunatic so no one would sell it to him

idk about you, but itts kind of gross how the writers made a little girl act out a line where she describes that essentially men are better than women at most things

@JosilyneTwigg

26 күн бұрын

Then a full grown adult guy tells her it's her job to make babies REALLY gross

@CAT-2323

22 күн бұрын

The fact they taught her to say penis several times. Really gross. Let’s wait about 10-15 years or so and see if there’s sketchy stuff going on behind the scenes. I hope there isn’t but it wouldn’t be suprising.

@AyenLogic

13 күн бұрын

Conservatives being a danger to children? Who'd have thunk it.

Conservative comedy isn't just conservative politically. It's conservative in the sense that they keep reusing the same few jokes and never move past them or get creative.

@squibble08

Ай бұрын

OOUGH! thats a good one.

@leahsanders798

Ай бұрын

They aren't known for their ability to think outside the box.

@harrywrinklesach2057

Ай бұрын

Your comment just proves the same about you lol

@adamplentl5588

Ай бұрын

How does it do that?​@@harrywrinklesach2057

@angelainamarie9656

Ай бұрын

@@harrywrinklesach2057 What does conservative 'comedy' consist of other than 'hur hur hur! people look funny and are stupid!'

Roseanne Barr just yelling "Stalinism" and "Communism" reminds me of the Family Guy episode where Lois Griffin is running for office and just says "9/11" to get cheers lol

@gaye_alisir

Ай бұрын

Haha

@rabidrabbitshuggers

Ай бұрын

OMG THIS

@Rad-Dude63andathird

Ай бұрын

​@@rabidrabbitshuggers "9/11.... was bad!"

@0ldar

Ай бұрын

I think of that episode often. That and the futurama election with Jack Johnson running against John Jackson

@AhSawDood

Ай бұрын

@@0ldar A damn classic haha

Making snow white a neurodivergent lesbian has potential to be a lit movie

@shablam0

8 күн бұрын

I totally agree on the lesbian part, but I'm not really familiar with what neurodivergent means. Does it mean being on the autism spectrum or something like that, or is it just more of a general term for not thinking the same way that "normal people" do?

@salmonandsoup

8 күн бұрын

@@shablam0 Neurodivergence is an umbrella term for mental disorders and learning disabilities. Autism and ADHD are two of the most common and most talked about facets of neurodivergence, but you've got trauma-born disorders like PTSD, BPD, DID, and schizophrenia-but it ALSO encompasses things like dyslexia, dyscalculia, Tourette's and other tic disorders, and much more! Neurodivergence spreads far and wide.

@cranberryrosebud

4 күн бұрын

Is there a real reason for Snow White to not be portrayed as a neurodivergent lesbian? Because I don't see one. In fact, I see a smash hit on the horizon; and then in a year, we could bring it to Broadway! I'm unironically ready to invest in this.

@skippykay599

Күн бұрын

Hey what if I told you there was a niche steampunk pirate sea shanty band called the mechanisms who makes albums with overarching plots based on different mythology/folklore/fairy tales? And that one of these albums, once upon a time in space, has their version of Snow White be a lesbian? And that it kinda goes hard?

@mutantbuzz

Күн бұрын

@@skippykay599 that's amazing lol

I freaking hate how seriously Ricky Gervais takes himself.

@1travstone

17 күн бұрын

Yeah. If he was a little less self important he would be much funnier.

@jamesbest9038

15 күн бұрын

@@1travstone even George Carlin, the king of speaking truth to power and making incredibly cutting social commentary in his stand up, only ever said "My job is thinkin' up goofy s**t"

@hooting-ton5215

10 күн бұрын

He thinks he's the second coming of Comedy Christ

@TheBonkleFox

8 күн бұрын

There's a reason his character getting stabbed in stardust is so euphoric.

@gregoryberrycone

8 күн бұрын

@@jamesbest9038 george carlin became unbearable towards the end though. i liked his last few comedy specials as a teen, but going back to them now i find him to be misanthropic to the point of self parody

Saying “I’m gay” over and over again is still infinitely funnier than yet another alleged comedian crying about how there are too many genders.

@emirozdemir2037

Ай бұрын

cumtown entered chat

@squibble08

Ай бұрын

i think the reason saying "im gay" 120 times is funny js because of that rule that its funny the first time, and then it stops being funny, but then on the 5th time its funny again

@braindent6464

Ай бұрын

​@@squibble08 it gets exponentially funnier the longer it goes on

@lancesmith8298

Ай бұрын

Hell, I’ve seen that exact thing be a punchline, and not even the setup for a joke. In old editions of D&D, succubi literally take psychic damage, one point at a time, when they are rejected. You do the math

@PapaHeavy1

Ай бұрын

Hell yeah dude

That punching scene in Lady Ballers pulls away the curtain so cleanly. Finally a character attempts a sincere conversation, an intimate moment with a person coming out to a friend. Only to be met with stone-faced contempt, disgust, and immediate violence. Alex is not refuted by words or even laughter, no, only naked violence suffices to disprove her silly claim to womanhood. All the jokes, all the lampooning and terrible satire, everything suddenly makes sense. Ugly, cruel, violent, a cathartic moment in a conservative fantasy. Congrats to Gary’s actor in that scene, it's the only one where he feels authentic. Actually made me sick to my stomach.

@olivercharles2930

Ай бұрын

Least dramatic joel fan:

@SomeKidFromBritain

Ай бұрын

Something something art should disturb the comfortable something something.

@bookiebook8543

Ай бұрын

I know. I remember seeing parts of that scene before, and it broke my heart. Alex shares about her struggles, and her moment of finally feeling "right" when she went into drag. She was so sincere I expected the answer to be "oh okay, you're a real trans woman, I respect that" and for that moment to show that the filmmakers believe trans people exist, they just want to keep them out of sports. But Joel cut out quite a bit from that scene. He cut out Gary's rant about how Alex is just sick and misguided, and there's no way she's a woman. How trans women are just messed up or brainwashed. It shocked me how willing he was to say that to her face. Usually conservatives at least try to say something kind of compassionate towards what they deem as "real" trans people. Gary said the quiet part out loud. I wish I could give the character Alex some hugs. She felt so real in a sea of satire.

@ulture

Ай бұрын

@@olivercharles2930 so sorry you had to read new words Oliver. that must have been very upsetting for you

@rickwrites2612

Ай бұрын

​@SomeKidFromBritain sure just discomfort isn't enough to make something art

The "nostalgia critic erotica" in the search history was a rly funny touch. I dont know why but search history jokes always get me

What is the problem with 15 minute cities? No one says you can't travel we just want to make things beautiful, clean and convenient

@josueayala1249

26 күн бұрын

They make cars less necessary, and since these guys receive a lot of funding from oil magnates, that makes 15 minute cities bad

@ffff7164

26 күн бұрын

Gulags are 15-minute cities.

@eeeertoo2597

26 күн бұрын

Conservatives need to fearmonger so naturally 15 minute cities mean you have no freedums

@stevedyssal2495

25 күн бұрын

@@ffff7164 A Gulag is a Russian prison/labor camp. At that point you're just saying "place you walk to get around is bad". Damn, I guess Amusement Parks are Gulags as well. Or are Amusement Parks 15-minute cities? Suppose it's all the same to someone who is just parroting the talking point for an agenda being directly guided by oil magnates and motor vehicle companies rather than actually thinking about what they're saying.

@CAT-2323

22 күн бұрын

As some one who doesn’t drive I’d love a walkable city

this is truly scary. in 10-15 years Big Joel will stand at the rooftops, shouting how gay mickey is actually quite dangerous and disney shouldn't have made gay mickey. Something for us all to be wary of.

@fart63

Ай бұрын

Imagine how much bigger he will be then too

@megan-mr9vk

Ай бұрын

@@fart63large joel

@TastelessTrees

Ай бұрын

@@megan-mr9vk LARGEST joel

@zoey2421

Ай бұрын

@@TastelessTrees immense joel

@NocturnalTyphlosion

Ай бұрын

KAIJOEL ​@@zoey2421

"your gender is get a job" and "father I cannot click the book" are the two most boomer statements

@zellalaing5439

17 күн бұрын

Boomer and Gen Xers, they exhaust me with their pathetic unispired attempt at comedy.

@denkinoms

15 күн бұрын

I feel like gen x jokes try to be more edgy like My pronouns are f** you or AR 15 but it gives off the same energy

@aaronokemaysim7310

23 сағат бұрын

"Father, I cannot click the gender", the ultimate boomer joke, the world is not ready for it yet.

"I hated lockdown because I had to spend time with my spouse/family" is peak sad boomer humour

@JiminyCrickets

10 күн бұрын

Please, do not go to comedy shows...youre gonna hate it and miss the point of every joke told.

@gardeninthevoid

5 күн бұрын

idk young people joke abt how annoying it is to be around your family for a long time pretty often

@skyler4211

5 күн бұрын

@@gardeninthevoid and we laugh at them too. its just a stereotype of old people hating their husbands/wives

The "irony" for LadyBallers is now that it's released, the WNBA is taking off thanks to Caitlin Clark

I remember Shapiro saying that the whole inspiration behind producing movies was to remove politics from them. As predicted, "removing politics" just meant "inserting politics we like and being about as subtle as a sledgehammer". They WANT to be what they think Hollywood is.

@tressonkaru7410

Ай бұрын

Also almost anything, even if unintentionally, political. Dr Seuss books, if you understand historical context, was political. Sonic the hedgehog in a vaguely simple way is political. You can't necessarily escape it. And it sometimes makes a film more interesting if done right.

@ameliashananya

Ай бұрын

lmfaaaaao, I guess ben shapiro is into contradicting himself publically and explicitely

@DaL33T5

Ай бұрын

@@tressonkaru7410 Yeah, the Sonic series, both in the games and in the expanded media (comics, anime, etc.) is very clearly anti-authoritarian in its messaging - you have a plucky blue hedgehog (and his various friends) going up against a mad scientist and an army of robot slaves bent on world domination.

@thevioletbee5879

Ай бұрын

Huh. Didn’t realize you were a Big Joel fan. Always took you for more of a conservative type.

@michaelbarbour7625

Ай бұрын

Omg I love your videos

I don't want people saying "that food is flavorful," I want them saying "I found that food to be flavorful"

@zoey2421

Ай бұрын

it's so interesting hearing him say that because he's literally representing the sensitive "snowflake" caricature that he jokes about but completely unironically. you're telling me that you're feelings are hurt over the way people are saying things? and you're calling other people "triggered"??

@diskgrinder

Ай бұрын

I found the 10 commandments to be moralful, except the ones that are god wanking himself off, the obvious ones about how society works, and the thought crime one

@Warsmith_The

Ай бұрын

Meh, there kind of is a distinction between "this steak is bad" as in "you did not cook this steak correctly and objectively you did a bad job" and "this steak is bad" as in "I don't like how this steak tastes, subjectively". I'm aware that I'm focusing too much on the analogy, but that's something that I like to do.

@rhythmandblues_alibi

Ай бұрын

​@zoey2421 time and time again, conservatives prove that *they* are the delicate snowflakes they love to strawman and take down. It's hilarious.

@darkhobo

Ай бұрын

​@@Warsmith_Thebut that's not the analogy he made...

I feel like no one talks about how JP went from making fun of conspiracy theorists to BEING a full on conspiracy theorist, and his conservatives viewers didn't bat an eye.

@alienbob21

24 күн бұрын

He went full crazy

My favorite conservative "joke" about trans people is the claim that "we can always tell". Meaning "we can always tell when someone is transgender". At my most recent physical, my doctor's nurse asked me if I wanted my doctor to do my pap smear or wait for my gynecologist to do it. I said that I was a trans woman so I didn't need that, to which she said "OH! Sorry it says on your chart I should have looked". I said it was fine. She then walked out of the room and closed the door, and I could hear her say to another nurse "Well, that was embarrassing." I was also asked by another nurse when my last period was in the pre-op room. For my vaginoplasty. So if conservatives think that the "we can always tell" joke is funny, I fail to see the actual joke, since the claim is flat out not true.

@pureevil9496

15 күн бұрын

Yo props for passing so well that you surprise medical professionals lol that's awesome

@thalissevero7627

14 күн бұрын

They gaslight themselves into believing that. And once a girl admits to being trans or someone else points it out to them, they will go “Ah, I knew it!“ the same way horoscope crazies go when someone says they are **insert random horoscope sign here** when actually these people couldn’t be more clueless.

@SarahJ70

13 күн бұрын

It's a little bit creepy how they try to always "tell" when a person is trans. Like, why does that matter so much to them? They're bunch of creeps. Since they realize it's not fun to go after gay people anymore, they go after trans, mostly trans women. Trash human beings will always exist

@PacmanLickThisGuysAs

13 күн бұрын

coping and delusional as always, 99% of people can tell

@DolphinsAreWeird

6 күн бұрын

I remember the one week freak out from transphobes accusing Henry Cavill of being trans. Fucking hilarious.

Crazy thing is, notice how conservative comedians tend to resent when you call them conservatives

@Gorbgorbenson

Ай бұрын

I think it's because they want to be seen as transgressive, and when you call them conservative it tells them that they're beliefs are closer to their parents rather than anything actually transgressive.

@L_Train

Ай бұрын

It's a compliment to call them comedians

@rasengdori13

Ай бұрын

@@Gorbgorbenson the word “trans” is in “transgressive” so they probably hate being called that too

@Gorbgorbenson

Ай бұрын

@rasengdori13 I was going to comment on that, but probably. Progressive wouldnt work either. Maybe they just dont want to be called anything.

@krombopulos_michael

Ай бұрын

Its because in their minds the things they say aren't "conservative" they're just "normal" and all of the other comedians are just radical left wing libs.

The funny part about Lady Ballers is that a lot of their transphobic jokes just rounds around to just being sexist against cis women lmao

@cosmosisrose

Ай бұрын

nothing new there, most transphobia boils down to misogyny

@pipster1891

Ай бұрын

That's why conservative comedy isn't funny - it just attacks minorities and vulnerable people, always punching down, trying to make us believe that rich white men are the victims. No authenticity.

@penelopeandpriscillaaregay1712

Ай бұрын

69th like :)

@angelikaskoroszyn8495

Ай бұрын

Transphobia and sexism are closely related. They believe that men and women are different on the most basic level. That's why men can't "become" women. Even if a trans woman never went through male puberty thanks to blockers, even if she was on hormons since 18 - she would always be male After all if they admitted that men and women are not so different from each other then their sexist views would be irrational

@MLBlue30

Ай бұрын

Men just hate women in general for not naturally liking being enslaved.

regarding the movie, I just feel sorry for the girl playing the daughter. she seems genuinely pretty talented

As a gay kid I was always painfully aware that Southpark (and others) were making people like me the butt of the joke. Yet my friends would continually push this comedy and tell me how funny they thought it was, ask me why I didn't find it as funny as them. The answer was simple, they were laughing at my expense. But in my childhood and adolescence it did not feel safe to express that. As an adult it made me perhaps more distanced from society, I don't want to participate in the group that produces this and that laughs at my expense and makes people like me feel unsafe.

@jthen8454

22 күн бұрын

If I had to go out on limb I'd say that, based on your comment, your friends laughed at you because you're insufferable, not because you like men.

@steelydanfan321

21 күн бұрын

​@jthen8454 nice head cannon lonely dork.

@eeeertoo2597

16 күн бұрын

​@@jthen8454average gaslighting conservative response lol

@eeeertoo2597

16 күн бұрын

Thats how all dark humour works, white people make everyone else the butt of the jokes to the point of harassment and get mad and gaslight you when you tell them to relax a bit

That child actress in lady ballers has way better comedic timing than any of the grown ass professionals around her. Like that list of things boys are better at is a dumb joke but she actually delivered it with the correct cadence for the joke to work which is more than you can say for anyone else

@tomhomunculus

Ай бұрын

Genuinely a talented kid, I hope she doesn't get indoctrinated. Was hard to watch her being given that cringe sexist speech.

@loekust

Ай бұрын

i feel so bad for her.

@user-lk7cv8vg7r

Ай бұрын

I do wonder how she will feel a dozen or two years from now about her parents getting her to do this.

@spongecakes1986

Ай бұрын

Would be hilarious if she turned out to trans years from now

@blueisasomedancer

Ай бұрын

I have to say her just, yelling about opening pickle jars did make me laugh.

"when i left California i realized there was a lot of propaganda".... Proceeds to push conservative propaganda unironically.

@lunarumbreon7699

29 күн бұрын

A lot of propaganda like “treat other people with respect”. The absolute horror

@Geats-IX

29 күн бұрын

@@lunarumbreon7699 You subhuman chimps don't respect anyone.

@lawrencedewan9838

29 күн бұрын

YA YOU DO THAT Dipshiticus Maximus

@IcyDragonPolaris

28 күн бұрын

"But now I'm awake" ... I thought they hated woke people?

@kinghunternick1365

28 күн бұрын

As long as you can see how both sides lie to us to push their agenda goals against the constitution and will of the people. There’s a reason the grift works so well. The little truth to it creates confirmation bias, but there is SOME truth. I miss real conservative values, not the BS culture war.

This was the most earnest: conservatives, are you ok? I've ever witnessed

@jacksobrooks

12 күн бұрын

They are. They aren't watching this stuff. They're watching Shane Gillis. Elderly people always watch lame content. It's just that if Joel really got in touch with what is popular right now, he wouldn't have anything to dunk on. And he needs money just like you and me.

i think it's relevent that a lot of the 'humor' in conservative media is coming from a place of power. Its punching down or bullying. A lot of the jokes i see conservatives make is treating people who are different from them as the punchline. Theyre not laughing about something funny or relatable. They're laughing at the person. Trans people are 'funny' because being trans in itself is considered absurd. There's just this inherent bad faith in these jokes, because the comedian doesnt really understand the culture or people they're pointing and laughing at. Their jokes are based on stereotypes and generalizations of people, not actual reality. Like with lady balls, the jokes arent based on real trans people, the jokes arent about situations or absurdities trans people deal with. Its based around the conservative idea of trans people. Theyre mocking what they think trans people are because what theyre imagining is absurd. Its out of touch with reality and thats why its so bad. If a comedian is making an arguement with their jokes, if they're trying to point out the absurdity of a situation, it should relate back to a truth. Truth is what resonates with people. Bigots treat their ideas of minorities as reality and that's why the jokes only land with other bigots. Its not funny, because it doesn't make sense. A good example is disabled humor. I'm disabled, almost every disabled person i know has a sense of humor about their situation, even if the jokes can get dark. Disabled people joking with other disabled people about their disabilities is funny, but pretty often we'll have able-bodied people getting offended on our behalf. Because they dont understand what its like to be disabled. from what they imagine, it isn't funny. They don't have access to the truth at the heart of the jokes, so the jokes don't land for them. But then an abled person will makes jokes about disabled people, and they clearly don't know the reality of being disabled. Theyre going off how they imagine being disabled is. And the jokes will land better with fellow able-bodied people, because they share the perspective of the comedian. There will still be people offended on our behalf. But the reasons we disabled people would be offended is that the jokes misrepresent our reality. It's the difference between laughing with us and laughing at us. The joke isn't funny to us, because we're not who the joke is for, despite being who the joke is about. Thats why so much conservative humor reads as mean-spirited to me. The jokes are at the expense of others without critical thought about who they're laughing at. They're arguing for a reality that isn't true. And thats not really something that we can argue back to. Facts and reason and different perspectives don't land with people who refuse to engage with them. When someone calls you a freak, objectivity isn't going to convince them you're normal.

you know, for not caring about the environment, these conservatives sure do recycle their jokes a lot edit: since this comment doesn't deserve to be top comment here, i'll just add something of mild value. at 1:26:22, the joke COULD have worked in another movie and with better timing, as a commentary about how no one watches women's sports. the way they made it is "women's sports bad because women bad at sports", because if they went with the obvious joke i described, they would have to confront the fact that maybe people are sexist and that would squander their point, because they will only ever care about women's sports as a vessel for transphobia.

@heszedjim9699

Ай бұрын

Oh well that's easy, it's because recycling is a scam so they're all for it

@Rope_Adope

Ай бұрын

Exactly, everyone knows recycling is a scam

@sairassiili

Ай бұрын

On a meta-level, I find joy in the amount this specific joke has also been recycled

@petaflop.

Ай бұрын

many conservatives care about the environment, they just don't like when the government tells them to care

@reptariguess

Ай бұрын

​@@petaflop. that seems to me something of a contradiction, given that deregulation has allowed growth-at-all-costs overproduction and overextraction to flourish and cause ecological harm across the planet

King Of The Hill is an excellent example of what conservative comedy could be. Hank is an old fashioned man in a fast changing world (the starting premise of every conservative sitcom ever) and each episode his conservative beliefs will be tested. Often times he will be proven wrong and have to change a little bit. But almost as often, he will be proven right. And the show always respects who he is and what he believes in, while putting extremist right wing ideology firmly in its place. But somewhere in the last 20 years conservative ideology swung so far right it stopped being funny anymore.

@TheFiresloth

Ай бұрын

In a weird way, I'd say American conservatives have trouble making conservative art, nowadays. It always devolve in some all out attack on strawmen that no one even recognize. So we now have progressives doing "conservative" shows, like Fargo, featuring honest god-fearing republicans, because if a conservative made it, our heroes would be harassing minorities for the kicks of it.

@carlycrays2831

Ай бұрын

I'm honestly wondering how that reboot will work given this. How does someone like Hank Hill survive in a world where he simply can't be conservative enough?

@mommalion7028

Ай бұрын

King of the Hill was made by a progressive/lib though. He tried to do a version teasing progressives but it never got past the pilot. It doesn’t reinforce conservative values or idealogy; it mocks them from a place of knowledge but doesn’t embrace them at all.

@davidmylchreest3306

Ай бұрын

@@mommalion7028 Co-creator Greg Daniels is a libertarian and you can see a lot of his influence on the show. The episode I was thinking about was the one where Hank's workplace can't fire a drug addict because government legislation says he has a disability. It's the kind of story that today's anti-DEI republicans would love. And there are plenty of episodes (such as the ones about religion - the mega church, Christian rock, the Halloween hell house - all things that were to the right of traditional conservatism then, but where the Republicans find themselves now) where the episode comes down on the side that Hank is right, he shouldn't have to change and it's the world around him that's gone too far. The plot to every Fox News broadcast ever.

@spencerlively3049

Ай бұрын

@@davidmylchreest3306just to clarify your comment: the mega church, halloween hell house, etc. were "Hank vs. Extreme Conservatives", not hank being an extreme conservative himself. But otherwise yeah. I vividly remember him being outraged about an x-ray of his steak-filled colon being displayed in an art museum without his permission and him leveraging a texas law against people 'defaming the beef industry' to have the cops take it down -- and the episode framed the artists as 'out-of-touch city liberals'. Hank's always been vaguely conservative but also almost entirely apolitical. Today, he would almost definitely consider himself a "Moderate". Especially because of Bobby's weirdness expanding his worldview over the show's run.

That punch scene from Lady Ballers really guts me. It's so cruel and mean-spirited.

@SarahJ70

13 күн бұрын

The real predators are the ones who made that film, absolute creeps like Matt Walsh

"Bad in a deeply fascinating way" is the most hardcore insult I've ever heard

Ricky Gervais priding himself as an ultimate free speech advocate and then saying "you can't say that :'(" to someone calling anybody unfunny is the funniest thing he's ever said.

@nicolarobatto7469

Ай бұрын

he used to be funny, but now he's just a spoiled out of touch millionaire who couldn't be relatable if he tried, so he cries about mostly made-up stuff while having disclaimers that "it's actually ironic" because he doesn't want his feelings to be hurt by people telling him he's not funny anymore. So many comedians went down the same path as him, completely lost in the conservative-reactionary sauce with nothing interesting to add to the same 2 jokes about cancel culture and trans people. It's so fucking sad

@roryschussler

Ай бұрын

There's a certain weird ideology that wants comedians, specifically, as a group, to be elevated to a special status where they're allowed to say anything they want, but any criticism of them must be subject to strict rules to avoid making any comedian feel uncomfortable about any joke they might choose to make.

@douglaswills4624

Ай бұрын

I mean, I think Ricky Gervais sucks as a standup, but he's clearly being sarcastic when he says that. It's the joke. He doesn't actually believe it.

@lewiskazzamo230

Ай бұрын

@@roryschussler Ricky is so unfunny he caused the one time the American version of a show was better than the UK version.

@jaimestark3019

Ай бұрын

That was my thought. Dude is whining about how we shouldn't hurt his feelings by even implying that he's unfunny and should alter our language to be more considerate... before turning around to whine about liberals forcing him to use "pronouns" for the millionth time. These people are so dense and tiresome.

'you make jokes that would have ted cruz dying from laughter' is about the meanest thing you could say to a comedian. Great job

The part where the girl was saying how all the boys are better is funny because it exposes the contradictions in conservative ideology. The conservative father doesn't want his daughter to be a boy, but then the daughter explains she wants to be a boy because of conservative beliefs about women.

@artcowboy

Ай бұрын

I was thinking something similar

@actualgoblin

Ай бұрын

reminds me of TERFs saying "trans men only want to transition to escape misogyny!!" nd then proceeding to be the most misogynistic group of mostly-women you could possibly imagine

@damien678

Ай бұрын

It's not enough that they succeed. Others must fail for them to be satisfied. Also, as a FtM, many cisgender men are genuinely defensive af about what they see as 'just for men'. They think me being in a men's restroom is emasculating for them.

@bumblehoney7206

Ай бұрын

I used to think I was transgender before I realized I was more so just insecure about what society told me "being a woman" was when I was a kid. I didn't want to be a girl I didn't feel like a girl because I knew I didnt want to be treated the way I saw girls and women portrayed in the media I had as a kid.

@damien678

Ай бұрын

@@bumblehoney7206 Gender Euphoria is critical to realising if you're trans or not if you're AFAB. It would have been impossible for me to figure out I'm FtM without having had played male characters in stories and video games, and feeling very joyous to be treated as masculine. Wanting to be a man and wanting to stop experiencing misogyny can be so hard to differentiate from each other even when you have both feelings. I'm years on HRT and honestly envy women in some ways. There's so, so many things about femininity and womanhood that's worth admiring and celebrating.

the bug-eating thing is a rare occasion when a conservative buzzword got copy-pasted from Europe to US, not the other way around. A while ago (around 1-1,5 years ago I think), there was this European directive that allowed selling flour made of bugs (more or less, I'm not an expert), which, of course, European conservatives started spinning as "EU IS GOING TO FORCE US ALL TO EAT BUGS". Kinda funny that it got transplanted to US without any context

@jacksobrooks

12 күн бұрын

I mean, there were plenty of mainstream articles about how bug eating was going to save the world. I don't think Americans are paying attention to European news like you suggest. Probably trailed off because the big thing turned out to be massively inefficient to the point of worthlessness. Leather Apron has a great video on the subject.

Why is the 8 year old the best actor in ladyballers

Ricky Gervais shouldn't say "that was irony" he should say "i think that was irony, allegedly" because it's just his opinion

@afckingegg7585

Ай бұрын

"I found it to be irony."

@picahudsoniaunflocked5426

Ай бұрын

He sucks so much sometimes when I need a laugh I like to watch that awkward interview where Garry Shandling is super mean to Gervais.

@Silverwind87

Ай бұрын

Ricky Gervais isn't beating the fascism allegations.

@thomasstone3480

Ай бұрын

i don't even understand where he is saying the irony turns, like is his claim 'ahah actually there ARE funny women' because he doesn't like... develop that, or seem to think it

@brook_angel

Ай бұрын

Him actually saying that would be funnier than his actual jokes

I think people didn't laugh at Roseanne's Q is for quarantine bit because the conservative audience thought she was denying the theory. That it was actually just a bunch of bored and isolated people stewing all day in conspiracies as reality becomes harder and harder to understand. So at that point Roseanne was not part of group that came to her show, and maybe even ridiculing them.

“what if conservatives ran the schools?” as someone from oklahoma, i can guarantee that they are

Honestly someone just saying “I’m gay” over a classic piece of animation is funnier than anything modern conservatives can come up with. Modern conservative comedy is just saying that everything is fine the way it is and those that disagree are bad and then they say a slur I guess.

@lucymorrison

Ай бұрын

unironically true

@megan-mr9vk

Ай бұрын

yeah i mean steamboat willie was really throwing it back in that cartoon… there’s actually something there

@SomeKidFromBritain

Ай бұрын

Strawman.

@artyomtimoshenko2610

Ай бұрын

Calling stuff gay is the cumtown recipe for comedy.

@Nanook128

Ай бұрын

​@@SomeKidFromBritainyou don't know what a stawman is

“I’m a- uh- I’m a- uh. IM GAY GET OUT OF HERE” “Okay sir I’ll go… fuck off then” Cinematic masterpiece

@cheeseguru1017

Ай бұрын

Release the Gay Steamboat Willie cut

@ianhoddinott9492

Ай бұрын

hazbin hotel if it wasn't mid

@beanstalks8

Ай бұрын

@@ianhoddinott9492 HWJKLGHRNESKJGNFJDKLSG PLSSSSS

@mykal4779

Ай бұрын

@@cheeseguru1017 it is released tho

@austinluther5825

Ай бұрын

I can't wait for Joel to make this into a t-shirt.

The only funny thing about lady ballers is the fact it is so transphobic, it ends up being misogynistic towards the very women they claim to be fighting for.

“Your gender is get a job” works in a way, because it has a kind of truth to it. It’s an out-of-touch boomer truth (basically “I don’t understand you and I think you’re wasting your life”) but it’s at least honest. It’s actually kind of an eternal joke, that parents/elders don’t understand their kids/youngsters; it’s told from the out-of-touch parent’s perspective, and it’s pretty long in the tooth, but it is a legit observation. For a conservative gender joke, it’s actually kind of refreshing, because it’s not even really about gender at all… it’s about being an exasperated, confused parent in a world you no longer understand. Which IIRC, honestly, is a lot like much of the humor in Roseann’s original TV show. Her perspective was interesting in that she was conservative, and was constantly struggling with the craAaAazy ideas of her kids (and the 1990s more generally)… but she didn’t really fit in with the conservatives, either, because she was way too critical of _their_ hypocrisy as well. I suppose it’s oddly fitting that she’d pack a room full of conservatives, only to tell a bunch of jokes that leave them shifting uncomfortably in their seats.

Damn, Roseanne did not give a damn if you laughed. Those bits felt like she was just venting out her grievances and if you laugh, whoopee good for you, now shut up and keep listening to me tell you how the world is shit.

@johnwalker1058

Ай бұрын

I feel like that's a lot of conservative "comedy" in a nutshell though. They just vent and grieve about how things are not the way they think they should be. If you happen to agree, you might find it funny, but if not, then it's just awkward. That would explain why other conservatives find conservative "comedy" funny, but anyone else just suffers through something extremely cringey.

@rasengdori13

Ай бұрын

Honestly I kinda feel bad for her. The final chapter of her life and career is ending on an evil ideology taking advantage of her declining mental health. We need rehabilitation centers that focus on conservatism and I’m not kidding.

@g.b.f9859

Ай бұрын

This is my takeaway too, growing up in the 80s she was one of the first female actors who really made me crack up, I loved the original Rosanne show. And like with anyone who (at the time,) brought joy to the world and made it more fun to be a part of, I just wish she had seen continued success, happiness and health.@@rasengdori13

@thylacoleonkennedy7

Ай бұрын

It was pretty depressing, because _no one_ laughed. They might have cheered in agreement with some of it but there was no actual laughing.

@hanna-liminal

Ай бұрын

@@thylacoleonkennedy7 which is so tragic, because a lot of those similar grievances and jokes (at least those that Bug Joel showed here) might've landed pretty well with a millennial leftist trans-positive audience. "Your gender is, get a job!" got a real belly laugh outta my jobless nonbinary self

Roseanne screaming “We ruined our children’s lives!” to a silent crowd is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen, but I don’t think in the way she intended it.

It's increasingly funny looking back on Team America because it shows liberals teaming up with North Korea, as a joke... And then Donald Trump as a president was like "Oh yeah, Kim Jong, dictator? Great guy."

I think the most hilarious thing about conservative comedy, aside from Graham Linehan having trouble getting a job anymore, is that the Ricky Gervais Subreddit hates him.

The scene with the daughter "wanting to be a man" is particularly funny in a... deeply disturbing way. Like my thought was "oh, they'll like have some ham-fisted 'women are good at some things and men are good at some things' moral message" but instead... like they just say men actually ARE better than women. Like, shit, in the world they present why wouldn't you want to be a man?

@Strauss-

Ай бұрын

they follow it up with the "women are good at caring and being reasonable" line

@molluscumlore

Ай бұрын

With how conservatives talk about gender you'd think men were all superhuman roided out terminators and women are all just like the eraserhead baby dragging our bodies across the floor when in reality consistent, guaranteed sex differences just don't exist lol. There's tendencies, but nothing is guaranteed. If the reason trans women are banned from women's sports is because they're tall, what about cis women who are just as tall? Why don't we separate basketball teams by height instead of gender? What about cis men who wanna play basketball and are good at it but are stuck at a dead end because they're 5' 7"? Isn't that unfair to them? Why do we care so much about high school teams when for most people high school sports are entirely about making friends and having fun? The more you think about it the more obvious it is they just want to exclude the people they hate from public view. Before trans women it was lesbians everyone wanted to ban from bathrooms and sports. Time is a flat circle. For comparison, a fun factoid I remember is that many sports have a relative age effect where people born in the first few months of the year are overrepresented because in youth leagues they're months older than their peers and as a kid that makes a huge difference. So they get more attention from coaches, enjoy their time more, and are more likely to continue the sport until they're old enough a few months doesn't make a difference. Sports are inherently unfair in about 10 billion ways, but we only care when it means we can exclude marginalized groups

@winterviveca5976

Ай бұрын

​@@Strauss-the girl was clearly the smartest, the most confident of them all and they didn't even giver her that

@lordmanimani-

Ай бұрын

Without seeing the rest of the movie it's almost a Twilight Zone-esque cautionary tale twist: As she lists things we rack focus slowly back to Rod Serling to talk about how you played the system and the game and you won both. But in doing so you've proven to your child that men are better at the things your daughter wants to be. Now you have a gender-questioning child as your 'ironic prize.'

@Nebukanezzer

Ай бұрын

​@@Strauss-but they dont even think women are more reasonable.

It's such a gift to be told Lady Ballers was supposed to be a documentary, but was stymied by the fact the entire point of the satire doesn't reflect reality. And then they went ahead and tried to make the satire anyway. I had no idea of this hilarious and telling fact. Thank you Huge Joel.

@limemason

Ай бұрын

They weren't allowed to join the league because they're not transgender. Not because the league don't allow transgenders.

@taylor6528

Ай бұрын

@@limemason it was specifically that it turns out most leagues actually have requirements (e.g. being on over two years of hrt, which affects things like metabolism, muscle distribution, etc) which no one was willing to do for a dumb daily wire video, and that cis guys can't just walk up and say 'i identify as a woman' and immediately get to play, which was the core thesis of their movie.

@thebigdork8030

Ай бұрын

@@taylor6528That just proves the Daily Wire crew can't commit to the bit, they can't go the mile to save America. 😤😤😤

@cass7448

Ай бұрын

@@thebigdork8030 Just once I'd like a transphobe to prove how it's "easy" to transition, by transitioning.

@RealDonaldDrumpf

Ай бұрын

And then Ben Shapiro is sharing this information as if it’s the funniest thing ever and it’s affirming his beliefs

I was home-schooled, and I'm Omega Gay. Guess the conservatives are wrong again.

@reinhardt3090

27 күн бұрын

molested? too much internet access? what was it?

@eeeertoo2597

26 күн бұрын

​@@reinhardt3090lol thats rich coming from the neo nazi

All conservative comedy does this thing where they start with a premise and then just get mad and forget to do a punchline

i have spent quite a lot of time around people who are the new agey/energy crowd, and the reason why the dude went from new age spiritualist to hardcore conservative is because new age spiritualists are often way WAY more conservative than you'd expect. being anti-vax, anti-feminist, 'anti-woke' is super common in that culture.

@Themrsnappyify

Ай бұрын

oh weird, people who think they know all the answers by just believing the opposite of what most people think are morons.

@samovarsa2640

Ай бұрын

I... used to be unsure as to how there was a lot of psycho-reactionary stuff from the new-age movements, until I read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which was a memoir of a commune of one of the big LSD movers-and-shakers back in the 60s. Then it became very obvious (to me) how it could be. They weren't progressive - just a bunch of hedonists who thought their hedonism made them better than others. Goodness knows that the mainstream culture of the U.S. in the 60s wasn't good, it obviously wasn't. But a big bit of the counter-culture wasn't civil right movements and the like, but just... well, druggies.

@BunchaNothin

Ай бұрын

It might also be that new agey/energy people already have such a crazy and unreasonable understanding of the world that these other beliefs that deny (scientific) reality isnt a leap. Being conservative is comparatively grounded.

@tinfoilslacks3750

Ай бұрын

That's not what cognitive dissonance means. You're describing compartmentalism. Cognitive dissonance refers to feelings of discomfort when you actively and most importantly knowingly engage in actions and behaviour which contradict your beliefs and values. Simply holding multiple values or beliefs which contradict simultaneously is just compartmentalizing.

@kbppeuhle7872

Ай бұрын

Exactly. The venn diagram of back to the earth, natural medicine, flowy skirt hippies and anti-vax, racial supremacist, "trad" conservatives is nearly a circle.

The sooner you realize that nearly EVERY SINGLE conservative talking head online has a failed acting, comedy, or writing career before going into politics - the sooner you can see them for who they really are

@goldenboy3154

Ай бұрын

They do it because they’re not even conservatives. They just know their only hope of being famous is pandering to the right. You can entertain them by jangling car keys in front of them.

@sebastiencarrieres8825

Ай бұрын

Good God! Failed artists are the real scourge of humanity!

@Astro_Latte

Ай бұрын

*gasp* They're theatre kids!

@aylbdrmadison1051

Ай бұрын

The dude has obviously always been a grifter. It just took him that long to figure out that bigots are naturally far more gullible than non-bigots.

@KenLinx

Ай бұрын

This is the single most horseshit comment I've read all week. Name every one of them that fits this bill.

The irony of Doug mocking the wall for comparing English education at the time to WW2 while comparing him getting cancelled on twitter to literal actual genocide and race clensing is fucking wild to me. Its hypocrisy on a different level. What were they thinking?

Everyone knows the best comedy routines start with the comedian defensivley lecturing the audience about how their jokes work.

@LlywellynOBrien

12 күн бұрын

Eh, it can be legit. Hannah Gadsby does a fair bit of this kind of thing.

Ben is like "yeah as it turns out it's basically impossible for cis men to pretend to be trans women and play in women's sports but here's a movie about that anyway"

@spenser9908

Ай бұрын

How is it impossible?

@nezahuatez

Ай бұрын

@@spenser9908 Because Shapiro literally said they couldn’t do it because they’d have to medically transition. Assuming you aren’t being pedantic about the word “impossible” because that would be silly.

@blank4227

Ай бұрын

the film's premise is that it's a joke. hope that helps!

@gaku3217

Ай бұрын

@@blank4227 you are saying that there is no problem in women’s sport. The conservatives made it up as a joke. 🏳️‍⚧️let’s go

@BeyondFables

Ай бұрын

@@blank4227The film’s premise is to scaremonger about trans women in sports. This is something Ben talks about as not a joke but a real thing, which is why he wanted to try it as a doc. This is literally what Joel talked about, hiding behind “it’s a joke” when people point out how ridiculous your idea of the world is

One of the most infuriatingly ironic things about NC's review of The Wall is how he chides the movie for having childishly obvious metaphors, but then goes on to completely misinterpret what those metaphors meant

@Noname72105

Ай бұрын

The lesson of Doug's... Thing he did regarding The Wall (calling it a "review" feels incorrect) is that while there may not be any invalid interpretation of art, there are certainly bad interpretations. I genuinely believe that was Doug engaging with the work as best as he could in the space he was in at the time. It just happened to reveal all the most disconnected and childish parts of himself.

@bingobongo1615

Ай бұрын

True but the wall is still godawful…

@Plain--Jane

Ай бұрын

​@@bingobongo1615 lol

@TacticusPrime

Ай бұрын

@@Plain--Jane Ultimately, Waters is a reflexive antisemite and Putin ally. In the Wall, he's comparing Thatcherism with Hitlerism to ask if the war was even worth it. As if there can be no justification for *any* conflict and "who really cares about the Holocaust anyway" etc.

@jmiquelmb

Ай бұрын

@@bingobongo1615 Like all of it? Do you watch "goodbye blue skies" and feel that this part is bad?

by reaching part three i feel like i have already watched 2 entire videos with no conclusion and now i have 47 minutes left.

That's the thing, Conservatives don't find intelligence funny, they find maliciousness funny.

@jacksobrooks

27 күн бұрын

You have been propagandized. The vast majority of Conservatives aren't into any of the irrelevant stuff he talks about here. They're just listening to harmless Shane Gillis standup. Basically the only function of this video was to strengthen stereotypes and he didn't even use any genuine examples. This is like if I said you like SNL Trump impressions.

@jumptoit3812

20 күн бұрын

Norm Macdonald is pretty intelligent…and deeply closeted

@jacksobrooks

19 күн бұрын

My favorite deeply closeted Christian conservative

@jijitters

19 күн бұрын

@@jacksobrooks Nobody believes you and everyone thinks you're crazy.

@LlywellynOBrien

12 күн бұрын

​@@jacksobrooksHonestly a lot of the discourse here sounds so similar to conservative echo chambers talking about "blue hairs on tumbler". As a non-American it is fascinating and depressing watching yanks become unable to talk to or understand each other.

Lady Ballers was a rare gem of a movie where the entire cast and crew are actually the butt of the joke, without realizing it in the slightest. Glorious ignorance

@Sonichero151

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately that joke is also just really painful to watch......

@NStarks007

Ай бұрын

Perfect description

@crippycooke8743

Ай бұрын

And it didn't even support women, despite conservatives claiming to be pro-womens sports with their anti-trans agenda.

@Rawnblade13

Ай бұрын

​@@Sonichero151Especially with how bad the acting is. Though that adds to the hilarity if you know anything about the people who made it and are in it. The vast majority of the people at the Daily Wire are people who failed to get into Hollywood or washed out of it.

@666kittycat666

Ай бұрын

I find it way more fascinating that they started off with the premise of “we’re going to show these transes” but instead the overwhelming misogyny took over and they ended up mostly shitting on women and women’s sport.

The most annoying thing about Lady Ballers is that any college women’s basketball team would smoke them. None of those guys look in particularly good shape and like half of them are well under 6 foot.

@YadonTheCat

Ай бұрын

Yeah well the movie isn't exactly interested in celebrating women's sports, despite supposedly defending it

@KrisStay

Ай бұрын

​@@YadonTheCat its just like the real arguments. Thr conservatives who "care deeply" for the sake of womens sports are usually misogynists who couldn't give less of a shite. It's just an excuse to shit on trans people "acceptably".

@Remedy462

Ай бұрын

They couldn't even be a good towel boy for any women's basketball team.

@user-vg9dl2hp6i

Ай бұрын

Isnt that kind of the point though. They are specifically meant just to compete against women's basketball teams. I find it hard to believe thst untrained unfit men could defeat a professional women's basketball team, but the entire point of the movie is that they don't have to compete against male basketball teams

@peachypet808

Ай бұрын

​@@user-vg9dl2hp6iA college team would still smoke them in reality. You don't get to participate in a college team without showing promise. Those guys? They didn't just show no promise, they were absolutely unfit for the sport they were supposedly participating in.

plot twist, JP isn't actually a conservative it's just the longest parody he's ever made.

@noodlebrains2689

15 күн бұрын

It really seems that way, it’s either grifting or a parody

@hooting-ton5215

10 күн бұрын

"The joke is now supporting most of my life"

Ricky fancies himself a George Carlin when he’s more of a Rob Schneider

Besides the fact that Doug tried to compare naziism to "cancel culture", the shittiest part about that stupid The Wall parody is that Roger Waters, the writer of the original album, lost his father to WW2. Did the guy even know The Wall was originally an album? He even calls one of the songs "oscar bait" 🙄 EDIT: Also worth noting, Doug mocks Waters in the "review" because a part of The Wall is about the bullying he went through at school, both from students and teachers, saying he should "grow a pair." Keep in mind, school in the '50s and '60s were sure as hell not like they were in the '80s and '90s.

@trianglemoebius

Ай бұрын

It's not even just that he lost his father, the Wall is largely autobiographical, even if not in an entirely literal sense. It's Waters sharing his most personal experiences, laying himself bear because that's the only way he can find to get across his message, and he genuinely feels his message is so important it's worth it. And that message, of course, is that his father laid down his life and ruined their family for fascism, and now Waters can't even say the sacrifice was maybe worth it because he's seeing the world fall back into it. Waters went "I am terrified for us all" and Doug told him to, quote, "grow a pair".

@heyheyhey33351

Ай бұрын

@trianglemoebius Well put. The guy even tries to call the review "a love letter to Pink Floyd". Yet he treats it like a dead rat left on his doorstep. I get why some people dislike The Wall. But man, that "review" was disrespectful as hell, and it felt like he purposefully misunderstood the point.

@Oldass_Deadass_dumbass_channel

Ай бұрын

Folding Ideas video on that whole thing is great

@CinnamonGrrlErin1

Ай бұрын

I first saw The Wall when I was 12, and even I could see, and understand, the subtext. And it genuinely moved me, I'd say it was one of those movies that changed my life (or it at least gave me a new appreciation for history that I still have today). Doug Walker is a tool.

@emisformaker

Ай бұрын

He couldn't even tell the difference between primary school and high school. The bar is below the frost line.

Conservative comedy is like Christian rock. Christians can make good rock, but the moment you turn it into a defined genre chasing a Christian audience the message becomes more important than the medium and the music usually sucks. To bring it back to King of the Hill, lets paraphrase Hank: "You're not making conservatism better, you're just making comedy worse".

@oswaldmosley5012

Ай бұрын

Leftist commedy is talking about their periods. Why can't the left meme? We may never know.

@xandercrews4729

Ай бұрын

Anyone who thinks Hannah Gadsby or the comedians in her new special are funny, needs their head checked.

@redjirachi1

Ай бұрын

Hank Hill could be pretty based when he wanted to

@gaysextape

Ай бұрын

@@oswaldmosley5012 anyone who uses the word meme as a verb has no right to decide what is and isn't funny

@stalfithrildi5366

Ай бұрын

Yes. Its not about removing God or spirituality from music, its about not crowbaring it in to force it to fit. There's a British radio show called 'Thought For The Day' where they invite on the Bishop Of Bottomley-cum-Hyde to try and force a religious message out of whatever's in the news today. Bands who primarily identify as Christian Rock are that with a soundtrack.

Just want to say how much I appreciate this channel. Watching your old videos makes me realize how many things come across as “logical” on a first read but when broken down have major flaws. You’ve made me question the previously unquestionable and I think I’m a better person for it. Keep up the amazing work!

I had no idea little Joel made video essays

My favourite fact about lady ballers is that the original idea was to make a documentary where a bunch of conservative influencers make a real life basketball team and then join a women’s league to show how easy it is for men to fake being trans to win in women’s sports. But then they found out that they’d all have to take HRT for a year before they could play in the women’s league and understandably they couldn’t find any men willing to do that. Ben Shapiro literally tells this story in an interview as if it doesn’t undermine the entire conservative trans sport talking point and the movie they ended up making

@Unknowntyper

Ай бұрын

you miss the point, that team, had they been willing to take the drugs for 1 year, would have stomped the other teams.

@dustmite7558

Ай бұрын

@Unknown no, the point of the doc was to show men are faking being trans to join women teams. But they found no men willing to do it.

@alexisloveschocolate

Ай бұрын

@@UnknowntyperOk but you see how the thing you and Ben Shapiro are suggesting is the natural outcome is a future hypothetical that can not be proved because he was literally unable to find a group of men willing to go through the necessary condition to prove it and the thing Joel and the original poster are saying is based on the reality of that failed experiment right? If you're that concerned about fairness divide all sports by these natural advantages you say ALL men have instead of by gender and you should still get the exact same result you and Ben want (men and women will all be naturally separated into the appropriate groups with no overlap) and you'll even shut up all the critiques by proving your point.

@thatrantinggirl7376

Ай бұрын

@@Unknowntyperok I keep seeing people say this, but where’s the evidence? Why aren’t all women’s sports dominated by trans women?

@maybelater1464

Ай бұрын

​@@Unknowntyper hrt doesn't involve drugs at all. Hormones aren't classified as drugs 😂😂😂

Seeing Big Joel dressed as the nostalgia critic was funnier than Doug Walker's entire body of work.

@teddieprox2307

Ай бұрын

​@@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female I recommend watching the video

@Nathan-Croft

Ай бұрын

I don't think Doug intends to be funny, instead he tries to put some comedy into his shallow critisms

@jennyanydots2389

Ай бұрын

Is Doug still out there beetin' dawgs?

@cornycarl

Ай бұрын

But his voice is funny tho

@trashteamracing8262

Ай бұрын

When NC was first making videos, those pregnant pauses were the height of awkward comedy. Doug's audience has grown up, but the way he writes and edits shows he hasn't grown with them.

I might JP in person in 2016 and he was a very sweet and humble guy. I told him when i first discovered his channel i didnt know if he was serious or not, to which he seemed taken aback, and i clarified that thw "ultraspiritual" characters pretty much exited and he said fair enough. He said the reason he poked fun at them is because there was part of himself on the characters and it was a way to make light of it, and when i asked about meeting fans he said he loved the attention and that it was part of why he did it. Overall he was a kind, gentle, and self aware dude. He started slipping a little, but the line was always a little blurry. Then covid happened. Seemingly he snapped and went full overboard fast. If you looked at his comments in the early days it was mostly people in on the joke and a good chunk that thought he was being meta and actually promoting whatever the thing was because of course those people would believe that anyway. When he made his switch in the pandemic the comment secrion became full of sycophants. Somewhere in that transition he either posted or said in a video that the outpouring of support was partially what convinced him he was on the right path. I think two things happened, on top of whatever else was already present. One, like you stated, he was predisposed to this kind of group think and after leaving one community (that already exposed him to conspiracy theories and magical thinking) he just absorbed the ideologies of another. And Two, he got the frothy mouthed fandom he could have only dreamed of before that gave him an overwhelming sense of approval and via his own need for attention and approval he went in hook line and sinker. He didnt have to actually be funny to get their praise, just repeat the same old hat over and over and over and as long as it didnt challenge them they'd love him endlessly. His original content had some degree of charm because it lampooned something he was at least partially apart of or related to. The newer content didnt have any degree of self awareness and was just the lowest rung of "owning the libs" because that's what the new crowd wanted and admittedly probably as much as he could come up with. Actually lampooning conservatives and asking them to laugh at themselves would not play at all and he'd suffer backlash, so he just keeps feeding the piranhas so he can keep getting the love and adoration he needs.

@AllenSmithe

28 күн бұрын

Admittedly hadn't finished the video before posting this, I see you touch on a number of these points.

I'm autistic, I actually find a lot of American comedy really difficult to watch because so much of it IS about mocking the socially incompetent. I'm also Australian, and like, the rampant tall poppy syndrome isn't great but at least it means that a lot of the cultural comedic emphasis is making fun of yourself and yours, instead of using comedy to mark yourself as better than the freaks.

@des.esseintes

6 күн бұрын

important to note that Australian comedy also isn't funny

The worst thing about conservative 'comedy' is how heavy handed it is. The 'jokes' are always over-explained, hamfisted trash, obvious and spelled out to 'trigger the libs' who aren't even watching such trash to begin with. Big Joel remembers Lady Ballers so we don't have to.

@notahumanbeing6892

Ай бұрын

they’re never even new over-explained hamfisted trash, it’s the same shit theyve been saying for 30 years now over and over again. Especially transphobes, they truly have One Joke.

@arthas640

Ай бұрын

that's just political "humor" in general, they're often worried you'll miss 0.1% of their message so they beat you over the head with it with all the tact and subtlety of a toddler cramming a square box through a round hole on their toy with the grown up hammer they grabbed out of the closet when you werent looking.

@BrickBreakerXX

Ай бұрын

This is an interesting take since it's been one of the main criticisms I've heard of "liberal jokes" for nearly a decade now. How it just over explains itself with hamfisted trash clearly just pushing an agenda to people who don't watch that type of stuff anyway. The most recent example I can think of is how there were complaints in the new Doctor Who being too "liberal" with the revised David Tennant being mocked for being a man now compared to superior female predecessor (who was given terrible scripts and therefore had a bad run), used gender on an alien and had to apologise after being told by his new female sidekick who he then congratulates for correcting him on his improper gender, and changed the race of Isaac Newton with the Doctor talking about how attractive Isaac Newton looked and made a point of whether or not he's gay now. None of these points ever progress the plot or characters after that point and they're not really entertaining either so it just sticks out like a nail in a pillowcase. Maybe it's more accurate to say that BAD comedy over explains itself with hamfisted trash for a non-existent audience, and the political alignment of the people making it just codes it in specific jokes. Statistically there's always going to be bad comedy writers on both sides of the political spectrum and statistically speaking there will be those that laugh at comedy regardless of quality if it aligns with their views. Framing the quality of a single piece of writing or media as a reflection of the ideologies behind it is a reductive view. It's like a mirror with "Lady Ballers" where the movie depicts an hyperbolic idea to conservatives of what all liberals do just as it also makes a hyperbolic idea to liberals of what all conservatives believe despite it being a movie that I've heard no one talk about outside of this video. Sorry for the long reply.

@arthas640

Ай бұрын

@@BrickBreakerXX i think that's just a hallmark with most political "humor". It's not universally terrible but 90% of the time it's hamfisted. I work in a very conservative industry in a company full of conservatives but live in an area that's overwhelmingly liberal and when it comes to social media i spend a lot of time on more left leaning sites like imgur and reddit. I see a lot of the same, sometimes nearly identical memes and jokes used by both groups and i always find it hilarious because they'll admit the jokes are heavy handed when its the other side making the same joke but happily join the circlejerk when the "humor" aligns with their biases. Like I've seen a million jokes, memes, and pictures all making it seem like Biden wears diapers and liberals will say those jokes are in bad taste, they're purile and immature, that he's not so old he needs diapers and the pictures arent conclusive, and that even if he does wear diapers that it's a medical thing and you shouldnt mock people for medical issues they cant control... then those some people will show pictures of Trump that make it look like he wears diapers and mock him for it while the Trump fans jump to his defense using the same exact claims. Political humor is hard to do well but people are often willing to overlook terrible quality so long as it aligns with their biases. Between that and many people writing political humor being afraid that you might miss their message, not get the joke, or misunderstand their point that they decide t make it as obvious as possible by beating you over the head with it.

@MelancoliaI

Ай бұрын

@@arthas640 I think what frustrates me about conservative 'comedies' like Lady Ballers here is that *the jokes are not even jokes.* To call this movie hamfisted would be a compliment. The intent of Lady Ballers wasn't to trigger any leftists, since they wouldn't be watching it outside of reviews like this. Rather it strokes its own choir's collective knob via a cavalcade of conservative culture-war talking points poorly disguised as jokes. It's low-grade conservative copium. The people who watch this film in earnest already think trans people are freaks who are after their kids. There are bad kinds of political humor of all shades. The other dude mentioned Doctor Who. I don't count woke pandering by massive corporations as 'political humor' but that's just me.

In the teacher sketch I'm actually kinda shocked at the multiple levels of unintended irony or whatever you can even describe it as, when the teacher sees that their constant ranting and belittling of the kid's parents has made the kid cry and then doubles down on the bullying by saying that their own weakness isn't even the fault of their parents but their own. That's like so many levels of fucked up, I can't even...

@josephinehendricks

Ай бұрын

The funniest part of that bit was that guy admitting that is powerfantasy is berating a child by speculating what sex acts that kid's parents engage in. Publicly humiliating a child by screaming about sex. Definitely not groomer behavior

@user-lk7cv8vg7r

Ай бұрын

If a teacher said that to my kids, I’d be fucking incensed. That spiel was tantamount to sexual harassment. I honestly can say I would have no idea what I would do in that situation as a parent to that child.

@sillyspider

Ай бұрын

sweet bro and hella jeff pfp spotted!!

@jimmybean420

Ай бұрын

@@sillyspider where MAKING THIS HAPEN

@gabrielsalahi3656

Ай бұрын

Wow- it’s almost like- that’s the joke

One thing to note about South Park's philosophy is that anyone who cares about something they don't care about is dumb. That's it, that's the central theme. When theg start caring about something, it's very suddenly important & you should also care about it. No reflection will be made about other stances, though, if you care about those you're still dumb.

Finally I see someone talking about JP, his pipeline from wholesome, quirky, weird, but funny to full-on Qtard was sorta baffling and heartbraking

a lot of these "comedians" matching up to Will Menaker's adage that the problem with "conservative comedy" is "all their bits involve inventing a premise and then getting way too mad at it to tell a joke"

@thecianinator

Ай бұрын

Holy shit that's good

@xandercrews4729

Ай бұрын

You mean the Tankie Rich kid from the “Leftist dirtbag” podcast?

@manpotion

Ай бұрын

This would explain why they love Trump so much. Maybe they figure if they can be just as vapid and incompetent it will make them invincible to criticism. If you're a self-satire, what is there left to satirize?

@jijitters

19 күн бұрын

That's pretty accurate, because even when they tell "jokes" they're pretty much always just stating a concept they find ridiculous and expecting people to laugh at the idea, the concept, rather than making a joke out of it at all. "Aren't pronouns crazy?" "omg gay right?" "Disabled characters and POC on tv so much now!" That's all they've got. No jokes, just bringing up ideas they find weird and laughing in theory. It's kinda like when they fearmonger on the news about things they suspect democrats are doing (that democrats aren't doing at all) but the things sound awesome to us and we're baffled what they're upset about.

Imagine wanting to make a propaganda documentary but after learning the premise does not comport to reality, the film is made as a fiction instead. Amazing stuff.

@TheFiresloth

Ай бұрын

In a meta sense, this would actually be an interesting comedy premise.

@Lismakingmovie

Ай бұрын

I reject your reality and substitute my own

@user-yq4dm1gc5s

Ай бұрын

Absolutely nasty work

I think I just had an epiphany about conservative humor. The jokes aren't actually IN the act or the film. The jokes are in the mind of the conservative viewers as they imagine the responses of triggered liberals.

the pauses at the end of the nostalgia critic always drove me nuts despite the quality of writing he'd put out. Just feels like it's room for a laugh track that's not there. no diss on him though.

I feel like so much of the comedic framing of these jokes is "You're so mad. i'm not mad. here's my 90 minute bit about how not mad I am, i have a lot to say about how totally not mad I am"

@spOOkytimes

Ай бұрын

Also afraid, definitely not afraid of the world changing around them and the people no longer being satisfied with being forced into very specific societal standards and expectations.

@nostalgiatrip7331

Ай бұрын

this is it, this is the energy

@andrewlaco1776

Ай бұрын

@@spOOkytimesit’s because they’re being forced into strict societal boxes and new norms that are antithetical to their lived experience. That’s why it should be live and let live. The irony is staggering, but that’s reality.😂

@Vesarret

Ай бұрын

@@andrewlaco1776 i mean people in the 1960s were pretty mad when black people were allowed to attend white schools and be in white spaces because it was antithetical to their lived experience (feeling superior to another race). people having to confront that other people exist is a good thing, and the generations who are mad about it will eventually die and everyone else will normalize to it. so it goes, so it goes

@atoxicfish4962

Ай бұрын

@@andrewlaco1776 Some awfully pretentious talk from somebody who can’t even manage to properly center their profile picture :^)

Conservative comedian: “Gah everyone is so sensitive, I should be able to say what I want without any consequence.” A person not liking their joke: “That joke was offensive.” Conservative comedian: “You can’t say that! You have to use “I” statements to express your opinion.”

@daddywarbuxx5194

Ай бұрын

Something can't be offensive without a offended party. Kinda of like no victim, no crime...

@Captain-Nikolai

Ай бұрын

lol comedy is litearlly making fun of groups / dark humor and sometimes light hearted jabs or just dirty jokes. so yea people are sensitive and liberals are the types crying victim for people who are just having fun. sit down shut up

@ShinyAvalon

Ай бұрын

@@daddywarbuxx5194 - If you intend something to be offensive, but the target of it doesn’t care enough to be offended, is it still offensive? Well, it’s at least _attempted_ offensiveness. It’s like attempted murder: if you fail at it, then you’re not a murderer…but you’re still a piece of shite who tried. You may not get the same jail time, but you should get the same social stigma.

@daddywarbuxx5194

Ай бұрын

@@ShinyAvalon Once again comparing actual violence (attempted murder) to jokes and being offended. The first amendment protects the speech you DON'T like. And if the intended target doesn't care why should anyone else? This reminds me of the mobs of white women that go around being offended on behalf of others.

@bibibo743

Ай бұрын

Disregarding the context, it's a nice thing to do in life in general. If a friend shows you a song and you don't like it, it's better to say "I didn't like it" than "it sucks". How nice an audience should be to an artist... I'll leave that discussion to others.

Ah yes, the good ol new age spirituality to right wing pipeline. I’ve seen many people fall into that. People just want to latch onto something that makes them feel “enlightened” in some way. He says he’s thinking for himself yet fully immerses himself into group think communities.

Alex Jones was obsessed with the bug-eating thing in like 2017. I think it's a Great Reset conspiracy thing

@jacksim5759

18 күн бұрын

still is, it's an easy american right wing thing to point at and be weird. it's not even consistent with his dont trust anyone and protect your family in case a nuclear war happens marketing of some years ago cus in that case, you'd think bugs is a great self-sufficient source of protein out in the woods