“I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show’s more important than that. It isn’t for everybody else in the world, but it is for us. We don’t want you to come to it thinking, ‘These guys are going to bash liberals,’” Stone said to Huffington Post in 2010.It really is more interesting comedically to bash liberals. What a reaction you can get just by failing to continually signal that you are one of them! It's funny to say "We're Republicans." It wouldn't be funny at all to say "We're Democrats."
I know from experience.
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The left could use a self deprecating sense of humor: it would defuse so many situations.
"It wouldn't be funny at all to say "We're Democrats."" Indeed. Not only is it not funny, That's Not Funny.
Anyway, for the left humor, like ethics and linguistics and law, is strictly a tool.
“What a reaction you can get just by failing to continually signal that you are one of them!”
Off to the Gulag you go.
You're either on the bus, or off the bus.
Is this old news? They said the same thing years ago while accepting an award.
That was my reaction too: Whether or not it’s true that they’re actually Republicans, just *saying* they’re Republicans in front of that audience is hilarious and very like the humor in South Park.
Trey Parker is supposedly a lot of the talent behind the duo - one of the longest running shows on TV, Emmys, Oscar-nominated, Tonys. These people are supremely talented.
Of course, as you say and they demonstrated: There’s a lot of space for making fun of Progressives because *nobody* else does it! And it’s so easy. Progressives are the new Christian Conservatives - mocking their hypocrisy and inconsistencies and self-righteousness is easy and funny.
I recall watching some dumb primetime TV show well over a decade ago -and one of the characters spouted proudly "We're all good liberals".
That was a long time ago and the pro-corruptocrat propaganda that streams out of Hillarywoodland hasn't stopped.
We need more brave souls proclaiming that the democrat party is an embarrassing socialist pile of Jimmy Kimmel Meryl Streep Sean Penn rot.
Interesting headline over at Instapundit:
VIRGINIA POSTREL: The Politics of ‘Roseanne’ Are Recognition and Empathy. Its radical premise: Recognizing diverse viewpoints can in fact showcase the things we share.
Apropos of nothing
http://www.weeklystandard.com/dossier-author-steele-suddenly-mum-in-the-face-of-lawsuits/article/2012128
I seem to remember humor going round on pets having a political proclivity.
So Google said in their top ten:
POLITICO: Cats are Republicans, dogs are Dems
Daily Kos: Why cats aren't Republican
YouTube video: Cats Are Democrats, Dogs Are Republicans
WordPress.com site: MY CAT IS A REPUBLICAN.
So there is spirited disagreement on the matter.
Probably depends on the cat you have.
I clicked on the last, trusting an individual would have better humor than Politico or Daily Kos. Here's a sample:
• My cat is a Republican. He mocks homeless strays. He is prejudice against dogs. My cat loves duck hunting.
• My cat does not grasp complex truths and clings to his fantasy that a felt and cardboard mouse is alive and he will attack anyone who disagrees with the mouse-shaped symbolism.
• My cat perceives anything new as a threat and is frightened by anything moving quickly in progression.
Most of the rest is predictable in a Republicans-are-bad way, but "My right-wing cat judges all foreigners as smelly" is pretty damn funny, regardless of politics.
But even if we reduce the voting-age to sixteen most pets wouldn't live long enough to vote.
But I'd trust my cat's vote more than most human sixteen-year-olds.
Because my cat would be pro-Second Amendment, if he were able to understand what a gun actually is.
Because 'meow meow meow' isn't far from 'pew pew pew'.*
*From Know Your Meme:
"The earliest definition of the phrase “pew pew” appeared on Urban Dictionary in August 2005:
interj. 1. Used to imitate the sound made by firing a gun; specifically a laser gun (esp. a Stormtrooper rifle).
Cats with Lasers: SNL DIGITAL SHORT: LASER CATS
Andy Samberg and Bill Hader show Lorne Michaels their low-budget sci-fi film in which they live in a futuristic world where cats shoot lasers from their mouths.
The Germans have a word for this.
South Park’s “Vote or Die” episode was classic,and harkened back to in 2016 via lawn signs in the background: “Giant Douche 2016” and “I’m ready for a Turd Sandwich 2016”.
This must be old news. You can't say you're a Republican anymore! If even one Nazi voted for Trump, anyone who voted for Trump is a Nazi.
Quick, someone make a list of "South Park" advertisers! They need to decide whether their business or Parker and Stone are going to be destroyed.
I'm glad the guy loves his cat.
New CBS show "Living Biblically" points out that the Left is not finished mocking Christians.
How about a show called "Living Quranically"?
“Chip Curry is a modern day man at a crossroads in his life, who decides to live strictly in accordance with the Bible. A film critic for a New York Newspaper and a soon-to-be father, Chip wants to be a better man following the loss of his best friend. He decides to put his slightly obsessive temperament to use and start living his life 100% by the Bible to find direction. His smart, pregnant wife, Leslie, while both skeptical and entertained by her husband’s new passion, supports him completely. Knowing he’ll need some practical advice, Chip forms a “God Squad” with Father Gene, a Catholic Priest who helps Chip translate the rules of the Bible to a modern world; and Father Gene’s best friend, easygoing Rabbi Gil Ableman, who respects Chip’s chutzpah and is glad to serve as a sounding board when they meet at their local bar. At Chip’s newspaper, he finds support from his no-nonsense boss, Ms. Meadows, who knows Chip’s self-penned story will sell newspapers, and his co-worker and friend, Vince, who is quick with a reality check and likes to wind Chip up for his own amusement. As he begins his sincere spiritual journey toward a more moral life with the help of his wife and friends, Chip wonders if he’ll be able to take a page – or every page – out of the Good Book, and if the effect will be of Biblical proportions.”
🤢🤢🤢
It’s going to be a My Name is Earl derivative. Except with mocking Christians instead of White Trash.
I listen to Rush Limbaugh frequently. I'm not particularly interested in his political analysis, but I do so enjoy listening to his mockery of liberals and their pretensions. It's not so much the fact that he's very good at it, as the fact that he's the only one who does it. It's like taking off a cast and scratching a long suppressed itch to hear him do it.........There's an untapped market for this humor, but don't look to see anyone in Hollywood mine it. That would be like sending the lace makers of Bruges to the Yukon to mine for gold. It's beyond their skill set and imagination,
"Is this old news? They said the same thing years ago while accepting an award."
Oh, I am not sure now. The Blaze just presented it as news, but looking at it again, it seems that the news is based on a tweet by Larry Elder. Was Elder just randomly talking about something from years ago?
I didn't want to link to The Blaze because I suspect it of not doing things right.
I don't see the story other than on The Blaze, so I'll be much more suspicious of it in the future.
It's not on my regular list of places to go.
See, this is why I'm stuck reading liberal media!
“Chip Curry is a modern day man at a crossroads in his life, who decides to live strictly in accordance with the Bible."
Can you imagine a show doing that for a strictly orthodox Jew. Now there is some humor!
Slow news day? Perfect time to binge on South Park! -willie
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