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A common rightist lament is that Hollywood is liberal and why aren`t there more conservative actors yada yada.....like Hollywood`s job isn`t to produce films and tv shows that sell ad time but rather Orwellianly impose a political "fairness doctrine"...
It`s been the same with comedy and comedians......
But what rightists don`t get is that it`s not the political POV that counts but what`s funny that counts....in comedy. Sounds obvious I know,but in right-wing-world,politics trumps the obvious and everything else....a lot of desperation there.
Over the last two decades ,while you were away over-seas,there have been a lot of discussions on why there really aren`t any conservative comedians......
Dennis Miller doesn`t count b/c he`s no linger funny. Same with this clown.....
No longer funny, if she ever was.....
No doubt she`s popular with extreme rightists....like the ones who love the nra-pedophile.....
Here`s an interesting piece I found in Huffpo
Enjoy....
"Yet the moment that spoke volumes during the discussion was a moment when I asked for examples of conservative humor. Only Dennis Miller was mentioned, the rest was an awed silence.
I knew it would go down like that. Even while prepping for the panel it had become clear to me that the available resources for political humor were, by a huge margin, a ridiculously huge margin, leftist. My desire to be an evenhanded moderator was hindered by my lack of access to comedy or comedians who self-identified as right leaning. Regardless of how deep online I searched, there was little in the way of "Right-Wing comedy" that made any sort of mark on the political spectrum. Not in the enormous ways that Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart have been making waves, by tying satire to genuine political action. At best, right wing comedy seemed to be relegated to the notorious conservative radio talk show circuit, where pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Anne Coulter gently dip their toe into satire from time to time and Dennis Miller holds court as the sole comedian who will dive into conservative politics exclusively.
It was at that point in my research that I reached out to Professor Peter McGraw who has been studying what makes people laugh and the nature of comedy and humor in his ongoing series, "The Humor Code."
During our brief discussion, Professor McGraw admitted to me that there was no real research on my chosen subject, and so the best we could do was speculate and hypothesize based on some sincere observations. The conversation that ensued was a frank discussion not on whether or not humor leans left, or whether progressives were just more clever or interesting, but rather a real conversation on why precisely, political humor and comedy does skew left in our day and age, without falling into a trap of motivated reasoning that would skew my panel too much."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alf-lamont/the-left-and-right-hands-_b_1380569.html
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