bluethread wrote:why does Reverand Wright seem to feel he has to yell all of the time?
Because even with his big ears, Obama didn't hear what he said.
I don't get it how is that a right wing joke and where is the joke.
ThatGuy wrote:Glad to be of service. But rather than getting sidetracked over different tastes in comedy, forget I said anything. Do you have examples of how people react with outrage to jokes about left leaning preachers?
I guess the taste does matter a little. You can take some mediocre stand up comedian who just drops "your mama" jokes non stop and say it is comedy. Those kind of jokes may be good if they are sprinkled in a little but that is just bad comedy.
Bill Maher did complain about the young people at colleges who don't get half of his jokes and blame him for it. Of US comedians I only really know about a dozen. In German I know obviously more from a broader spectrum and we kind of divide into Kabarett and Comedy (that is just called by the English name). Kabarett is kind of the more small circle smarter kind. While Comedy is more the mainstream stuff. That mainstream stuff is just not nearly as good. There is a guy who constantly rants about women. Kind of the Anti-feminist. People like him. Some jokes a good but it is too much of the same aside from those it isn't all that good. Also sometimes he the jokes go too low. Anyway it is quite apolitical and not even against women all that much. It is always somewhat ironic.
A really good political Kabarett guy is just different. The jokes are better and there is more variety. Bavarian Kabarett got some really great ones that haven't fallen victim to the mainstream media quality. They do come from the most conservative part in all the German world, yet they mostly mock conservative politics, morals, traditions and stuff. They are really liberal. I cannot think of a single exception.
Kind of like Jews, they don't take themselves too seriously.
The really conservatives cannot watch that. It is almost like they mostly perform for the smaller part of the population.
In Carinthia (very right wing aera) there is every year a big carnival show with lots of comedians. The often mock the EU and politics in the better programs. There used to be some decent ones but they got worse every year. Out of 10 there is maybe one left worth watching.
I feel like the left is not left enough to mock them properly. The right is an easy target. Liberals in general are difficult to hit with any smart jokes. If I see a comedy program that only throws out cheap jokes it is bad comedy. It ought to deliver the truth in a satirical form. There is also a difference in the audience. If you deliver stupid jokes to people who think themselves smart it is a little like insulting them. A good program is just smart enough so the audience doesn't feel dumb not getting the jokes and still smart enough so they aren't bored by stupidity.
I feel like the right wing intellectuals lack proper comedy.
I am going to check some Youtube of the guys you mentioned.
I guess I'll have to keep my day job. People at my night job, at the convenience store, thought they were funny. I guess that they're just a bunch of nobodies. 
To bad they aren't as intelligent as Bill Maher and Rosie O'Donnell. Yah, those two idiots Dennis Miller and Bill O"Reilly are really good at conning people into thinking that they are having a good time at all of those sold out houses on the Bold and Fresh Tour.
