Rising Star
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@lufins-dad said in Rising Star:
Great. More anger and division. I’ll pass.
Actually, Gutfeld can be pretty funny at times....
@jolly said in Rising Star:
@lufins-dad said in Rising Star:
Great. More anger and division. I’ll pass.
Actually, Gutfeld can be pretty funny at times....
As opposed to Trevor Noah. Whose writers, admittedly, can be pretty funny at times.
Trevor got the job for reasons other than being funny.
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@lufins-dad said in Rising Star:
Great. More anger and division. I’ll pass.
Actually, Gutfeld can be pretty funny at times....
@jolly said in Rising Star:
@lufins-dad said in Rising Star:
Great. More anger and division. I’ll pass.
Actually, Gutfeld can be pretty funny at times....
Bill Maher can be very funny at times. He's still a d-bag.
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@jolly said in Rising Star:
@lufins-dad said in Rising Star:
Great. More anger and division. I’ll pass.
Actually, Gutfeld can be pretty funny at times....
Bill Maher can be very funny at times. He's still a d-bag.
@doctor-phibes said in Rising Star:
@jolly said in Rising Star:
@lufins-dad said in Rising Star:
Great. More anger and division. I’ll pass.
Actually, Gutfeld can be pretty funny at times....
Bill Maher can be very funny at times. He's still a d-bag.
"Everybody is a d-bag" is the ultimate evolution of judgmentalism.
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@doctor-phibes said in Rising Star:
@jolly said in Rising Star:
@lufins-dad said in Rising Star:
Great. More anger and division. I’ll pass.
Actually, Gutfeld can be pretty funny at times....
Bill Maher can be very funny at times. He's still a d-bag.
"Everybody is a d-bag" is the ultimate evolution of judgmentalism.
@horace said in Rising Star:
@doctor-phibes said in Rising Star:
@jolly said in Rising Star:
@lufins-dad said in Rising Star:
Great. More anger and division. I’ll pass.
Actually, Gutfeld can be pretty funny at times....
Bill Maher can be very funny at times. He's still a d-bag.
"Everybody is a d-bag" is the ultimate evolution of judgmentalism.
I didn't say everybody. I said Bill Maher. Try and focus. My point was that Bill Maher can be very funny, even if you don't like him. It's a gift.
There are plenty of comedians who aren't d-bags.
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@horace said in Rising Star:
@doctor-phibes said in Rising Star:
@jolly said in Rising Star:
@lufins-dad said in Rising Star:
Great. More anger and division. I’ll pass.
Actually, Gutfeld can be pretty funny at times....
Bill Maher can be very funny at times. He's still a d-bag.
"Everybody is a d-bag" is the ultimate evolution of judgmentalism.
I didn't say everybody. I said Bill Maher. Try and focus. My point was that Bill Maher can be very funny, even if you don't like him. It's a gift.
There are plenty of comedians who aren't d-bags.
@doctor-phibes said in Rising Star:
@horace said in Rising Star:
@doctor-phibes said in Rising Star:
@jolly said in Rising Star:
@lufins-dad said in Rising Star:
Great. More anger and division. I’ll pass.
Actually, Gutfeld can be pretty funny at times....
Bill Maher can be very funny at times. He's still a d-bag.
"Everybody is a d-bag" is the ultimate evolution of judgmentalism.
I didn't say everybody. I said Bill Maher. Try and focus. My point was that Bill Maher can be very funny, even if you don't like him. It's a gift.
There are plenty of comedians who aren't d-bags.
And no political opinions.
Speaking for myself, I'm not aware of a comedian who takes a political stand in their act who is a) among my favorites or b) not a d-bag
There are funny guys who are also angry leftists in their acts (David Cross and Patton Oswalt spring to mind), and at least one angry rightist (Nick DiPaolo), but all my favorite comedians, while most have their political opinions, don't put them in their act. Trevor Noah and Maher do, because it's what they're paid for.
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Politics is very funny, partisanship much less so. Same thing goes for religion.
Comedians doing serious politics isn't as bad as politicians doing comedy, but it's close.
Comedians laughing at politicians can be very funny, but it starts being a lot less so when they become angry about it.
It seems to me that of late the late night comedy shows have become much more partisan, and nowhere near as good.
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I really don't recall Carson doing much of anything political. Leno either. Letterman did some, but it was more making fun of everyone. He did a lot more local politics as well...
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Back in the day, Robin Williams, just to take an example, would laugh at politicians, but it was never angry, or particularly partisan.
Politics is funny, after all.
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That's just it. There was a little bit of gentle teasing of everyone and it was mostly in fun. Now that I think about it, I do seem to recall a story about Carson being a little rough on Nixon, but when he found out that Nixon was actually taking it personally, Carson cut it and told his writers something to the extent of not taking it far on anybody unless you'd be willing to take the same jokes about yourself in that position...
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Ian Hislop, the British satirist, broadcaster and editor of the magazine Private Eye, can be brutal in his takedowns of politicians, but he goes after any of them who he feels deserve it, regardless of party.
And he does it without frothing at the mouth, even when the points he makes can be deadly serious.
