Which side of the political aisle has the best sense of humor?

[TurtleDude]

Most every Republican that I personally know is an older angry white guy with ZERO sense of humor. Their only enjoyment in life appears to be listening to right-wing radio and getting angry at the world.

you need to get out more.

 

[disneydude]

you need to get out more.

I get out plenty. The reality is though....I live in Los Angeles and there aren't many Republicans around here. I have a couple of old neighbors who like to hang out in their garages and still have ross perot signs up. They are nice enough...but seem angry most of the time. I think they feel threatened by the fact that white men are becoming less and less a majority in this country.

 

[TurtleDude]

I get out plenty. The reality is though....I live in Los Angeles and there aren't many Republicans around here. I have a couple of old neighbors who like to hang out in their garages and still have ross perot signs up. They are nice enough...but seem angry most of the time. I think they feel threatened by the fact that white men are becoming less and less a majority in this country.

Yeah LA is pretty much a conglomeration of those dependent on the Government dime, or those who are rich because of the government. the real problem is that net tax payers are becoming less and less of a majority in this country

 

[disneydude]

Yeah LA is pretty much a conglomeration of those dependent on the Government dime, or those who are rich because of the government. the real problem is that net tax payers are becoming less and less of a majority in this country

I don't agree with that. I would say that LA pretty much encompasses every spot on the spectrum.

 

[TurtleDude]

I don't agree with that. I would say that LA pretty much encompasses every spot on the spectrum.

its voting pattern is far more Dem. than average. but yes, i am sure you can find just about any political perspective in that city.

 

[Mr Person]

"Conservatives" is winning.

That's why I have seen, on at least 4 different website forums and comments sections, self-identified conservatives railing against persons like Stewart, Colbert, Oliver, and Maher, for making fun of the right more than they make fun of the left.


(Query: is this due to the vast liberal conspiracy to restrict air time?)

 

[Port & Starboard]

I get out plenty. The reality is though....I live in Los Angeles and there aren't many Republicans around here. I have a couple of old neighbors who like to hang out in their garages and still have ross perot signs up. They are nice enough...but seem angry most of the time. I think they feel threatened by the fact that white men are becoming less and less a majority in this country.

LMAO. You judge a entire party, on two old guys?

There is a entire world out there past the the stop sign at the end of your street.

 

[disneydude]

its voting pattern is far more Dem. than average. but yes, i am sure you can find just about any political perspective in that city.

I was talking the economic spectrum. LA county politically is heavily democratic.

 

[disneydude]

LMAO. You judge a entire party, on two old guys?

There is a entire world out there past the the stop sign at the end of your street.

No....I know a few other Republicans....but they pretty much fit the same mold.

 

[coldjoint]

Probably liberals, far less boundaries.

Irony.

 

[Captain Adverse]

Relative to each other, which side of the political aisle has the best sense of humor?

Whichever side the Colbert Report was on.

Too bad he decided to give up real political humor for the specious "honor" of hosting the fading Tonight Show.

Hasn't been very good since Johnny Carson.

 

[Manc Skipper]

Look at the "cartoon" section. The actual cartoons with jokes and wit are the liberal ones. The angry foaming at the mouth partisan memes are not. QED.

 

[Kobie]

Whichever side the Colbert Report was on.

Too bad he decided to give up real political humor for the specious "honor" of hosting the fading Tonight Show.

Hasn't been very good since Johnny Carson.

Colbert doesn't host the Tonight Show.

 

[Captain Adverse]

Colbert doesn't host the Tonight Show.

Sorry, you're right, its the Late Show. Jimmy Fallon currently host's the Tonight Show (Stopped watching it years ago).

All the worse. I don't understand why he'd give up a highly popular show for crap like the Late Show. :shrug:

 

[Cardinal]

Fair point on the "especially if", but the point about your interpretation stands; "conservatives are mean, but liberals are ironic" fits neatly with what I described.



what,

At best conservative jokes are grounded in the principle that they're making a joke, ergo it's funny. The 1/2 hour News Hour was particularly guilty of the latter​

Seriously? That's the entire premise of the joke-news-shows, all of which are leftist.

You misunderstand. The point of the "jokes" in the 1/2 hour news hour is that they're "jokes" by virtue of the fact that they were crafted with the intention of them being humorous. Not whether or not they were successful in being humorous jokes, just that they were jokes. It's like they expect us to agree that because what they told were jokes, then de facto they should be funny. That, of course, is terrible, terrible assumption. It's like assuming that because you're having sex with your wife, she will by definition enjoy it, regardless of the effort or quality of your lovemaking.

 

[Fruityfact]

Maher, Oliver, Stewart, Colbert vs who..Bill obeat my wife?

 

[lenski7]

To be honest


Steve Maley is kind of a funny guy, conservative as well, serious amounts of wit right here.

 

[Kobie]

Watch "Gran Torino". A LOT of what Walt says is actually pretty funny. Liberals think he was a racist, but the truth is Walt was kind of a comedian. He had a vocabulary that if you can past being offended at it, was actually intended to be funny. When he called his neighbors "zipper heads" it wasn't racist, it was his form of humor. All liberals can see is an old, angry white guy, but the truth is that it was Walt's sense of humor. Watch the scenes where Walt takes Tao to the job interview and the barber shop and you'lll see that Walt's vocabulary was used to be funny, not as a form of racism. But you will NEVER get a liberal to see this, they're just too busy being offended.

I'm a liberal and I saw that.

Thus is the problem when you speak in such generalities.

 

[blackjack50]

Liberals. They use humor to divert from the fact that they have nothing worthwhile to contribute.

 

[blackjack50]

:lamo

Man, if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. A big, shiny bridge.

In my experience...one side is typically more offended by racism than another. Not saying. I'm just saying.

 

[blackjack50]

I wonder what the merits of discussing which side is funnier? I find both sides comical in who they think is an acceptable candidate this year. You know...in a sad clown kind of way:

 

[OrphanSlug]

Irony.

In looking at the polling results, you may have a point.

 

[cpwill]

Maher, Oliver, Stewart, Colbert vs who..Bill obeat my wife?

The ensemble of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour comes to mind.

 

[haymarket]

I would have to give it to the Republicans. Dick Nixon was a veritable joke machine and Joe McCarthy always left you rolling in the aisles. Dick Cheaney reminds me of George Carlin but even funnier. And when it comes to visual sight gag comedy even Chevy Chase or Jerry Lewis could not hold a candle to Mitt Romney who always left me in stitches.

Phyllis Schafley might be the funniest but she works too much blue dirty material in there with all the routines about sexual positions so that puts some folks off.

 

[OpportunityCost]

I would have to give it to the Republicans. Dick Nixon was a veritable joke machine and Joe McCarthy always left you rolling in the aisles. Dick Cheaney reminds me of George Carlin but even funnier. And when it comes to visual sight gag comedy even Chevy Chase or Jerry Lewis could not hold a candle to Mitt Romney who always left me in stitches.

Phyllis Schafley might be the funniest but she works too much blue dirty material in there with all the routines about sexual positions so that puts some folks off.

Both sides have a sense of humor, but they tend to laugh at different stuff. Except for apparently Haymarket, who can't seem to laugh at anything. Way to make the partisanship blatant, buddy.