Conservative Comedy Destroyed My Life 

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"Your gender is: 'Get a job!' " is the most singularly distilled line of boomer comedy I have ever heard

"we wanted to make a doc about how easy it is to join womens basketball as a man but we couldnt do it because it wasnt easy at all" WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THEN

Fun fact... i was homeschooled my whole life, conservative religious household, and didnt get access to the internet until i was 15..... and guess what... figured out that im gay.... almost as if you cant teach kids to be gay...

"We are being censored and silenced because everyone is a snowflake!" says the conservative comedian in a sold out venue for his 5th Netflix special.

I love that Paul Saladino eats only raw animal organs and yet his last name is mostly salad

"I was a weird chubby dweeb" Shows three pictures of himself looking exactly the same

I'm fascinated by the skit about the conservative teacher. When he says the line "You have objectively weak parents..." and it cuts to the woke SJW looking shocked, I was expecting him to finish the line by going "But I can help" or "but that doesn't mean you have to be weak" and he'd then inspire the kid to be a cool strong traditional American or whatever. But no, he just goes "You're also weak and I hate you" and it made me realize, he doesn't want to "correct" the kid or take them under his wing and show them how to be a "strong" person or whatever, it's just time to shit on the kid. He doesn't want to improve lives or help kids like a teacher might, he basically is just there to roast all of the students and make them sad. That's all he wants, that's all his audience wants, they just want to bully those nasty woke liberals

Conservative comedy is the power to "Ironically" say terrible things about people, and then have the plausible deniability to say "I'm not serious it's just a joke"... But also, "it's funny because it's true." It gives fascists the power to dehumanize others through repetitive propaganda, while pretending they're not. It's not funny, because it's not a joke. If you didn't think it's true you wouldn't be laughing about it.

I feel bad for the little girl who had to learn pages of dialogue about how she's inferior to boys

Sorry but the Rosanne joke "Mom, what is my gender?" "Your gender is, get a job, that's your gender." got a full belly laugh out of me for the sheer ridiculousness of it. It's genuinely like a parody of what someone her age would say, it's incredible.

Re: Ladyballers, that scene with protagonist and his daughter highlights the absurd reality of misogyny that would exist if shapiro and ilk had their way. Imagine having that talk with your daughter and earnestly telling them how second class they are?

Amazing that Doug Walker spent the entire Wall review calling Roger Waters whiny for making a concept album/film partly about the physical and emotional abuse he suffered at the hands of his teachers during his childhood when he has complained extensively and earnestly about how awful it was for people to make fun of him as a kid for sharing a first name with a popular children's cartoon character.

Ben Shapiro's idea about making Ladyballers a documentary, but not being able to do it because it's very premise just doesn't exist is endlessly funny. Instead of making up a guy to get mad at, he made up an entire reality.

The attempted joke about "no one watches women sports" is hilariously ironic given the fact that the recent NCAA women's basketball tournament outdrew the absolute hell out of the men's tournament -- including it being the first year where the women's final outdid the men's. So clearly people are watching women's sports, tho it’s also clear that conservatives don’t pay attention… because they don’t actually care about “protecting” sports and more so want another boogeyman to scare people.

i reacted to you appearing dressed as nostalgia critic like a jump scare

That first guy sounds like he just realized conservatives are way more lucrative to appeal to and he got lost in the sauce

For fucks sake, the 'joke' about the sea levels rising would be so easy to do as an actual joke. "I moved to California and went straight to the sea and the levels were LITERALLY rising before my eyes! Halfway through the day they went back down again but THEN came right back up that very evening!" Yeah you could word that better but 'person who believes in climate change confuses the tide with sea levels rising' at least has an actual joke in there somewhere.

bro wanted to prove how easy it was to join the women's basketball league but couldn't, reminds me of that one always sunny episode where dennis is trying to prove how easy it is to buy guns but he's acting like a lunatic so no one would sell it to him

Making snow white a neurodivergent lesbian has potential to be a lit movie

I remember Shapiro saying that the whole inspiration behind producing movies was to remove politics from them. As predicted, "removing politics" just meant "inserting politics we like and being about as subtle as a sledgehammer". They WANT to be what they think Hollywood is.

Roseanne Barr just yelling "Stalinism" and "Communism" reminds me of the Family Guy episode where Lois Griffin is running for office and just says "9/11" to get cheers lol

I freaking hate how seriously Ricky Gervais takes himself.

idk about you, but itts kind of gross how the writers made a little girl act out a line where she describes that essentially men are better than women at most things

Saying “I’m gay” over and over again is still infinitely funnier than yet another alleged comedian crying about how there are too many genders.

Conservative comedy isn't just conservative politically. It's conservative in the sense that they keep reusing the same few jokes and never move past them or get creative.

The "nostalgia critic erotica" in the search history was a rly funny touch. I dont know why but search history jokes always get me

"I hated lockdown because I had to spend time with my spouse/family" is peak sad boomer humour

That punching scene in Lady Ballers pulls away the curtain so cleanly. Finally a character attempts a sincere conversation, an intimate moment with a person coming out to a friend. Only to be met with stone-faced contempt, disgust, and immediate violence. Alex is not refuted by words or even laughter, no, only naked violence suffices to disprove her silly claim to womanhood. All the jokes, all the lampooning and terrible satire, everything suddenly makes sense. Ugly, cruel, violent, a cathartic moment in a conservative fantasy. Congrats to Gary’s actor in that scene, it's the only one where he feels authentic. Actually made me sick to my stomach.

this is truly scary. in 10-15 years Big Joel will stand at the rooftops, shouting how gay mickey is actually quite dangerous and disney shouldn't have made gay mickey. Something for us all to be wary of.

What is the problem with 15 minute cities? No one says you can't travel we just want to make things beautiful, clean and convenient

The "irony" for LadyBallers is now that it's released, the WNBA is taking off thanks to Caitlin Clark

"your gender is get a job" and "father I cannot click the book" are the two most boomer statements

I don't want people saying "that food is flavorful," I want them saying "I found that food to be flavorful"

I feel like no one talks about how JP went from making fun of conspiracy theorists to BEING a full on conspiracy theorist, and his conservatives viewers didn't bat an eye.

My favorite conservative "joke" about trans people is the claim that "we can always tell". Meaning "we can always tell when someone is transgender". At my most recent physical, my doctor's nurse asked me if I wanted my doctor to do my pap smear or wait for my gynecologist to do it. I said that I was a trans woman so I didn't need that, to which she said "OH! Sorry it says on your chart I should have looked". I said it was fine. She then walked out of the room and closed the door, and I could hear her say to another nurse "Well, that was embarrassing." I was also asked by another nurse when my last period was in the pre-op room. For my vaginoplasty. So if conservatives think that the "we can always tell" joke is funny, I fail to see the actual joke, since the claim is flat out not true.

That child actress in lady ballers has way better comedic timing than any of the grown ass professionals around her. Like that list of things boys are better at is a dumb joke but she actually delivered it with the correct cadence for the joke to work which is more than you can say for anyone else

Crazy thing is, notice how conservative comedians tend to resent when you call them conservatives

As a gay kid I was always painfully aware that Southpark (and others) were making people like me the butt of the joke. Yet my friends would continually push this comedy and tell me how funny they thought it was, ask me why I didn't find it as funny as them. The answer was simple, they were laughing at my expense. But in my childhood and adolescence it did not feel safe to express that. As an adult it made me perhaps more distanced from society, I don't want to participate in the group that produces this and that laughs at my expense and makes people like me feel unsafe.

regarding the movie, I just feel sorry for the girl playing the daughter. she seems genuinely pretty talented

The funny part about Lady Ballers is that a lot of their transphobic jokes just rounds around to just being sexist against cis women lmao

"when i left California i realized there was a lot of propaganda".... Proceeds to push conservative propaganda unironically.

This was the most earnest: conservatives, are you ok? I've ever witnessed

"Bad in a deeply fascinating way" is the most hardcore insult I've ever heard

you know, for not caring about the environment, these conservatives sure do recycle their jokes a lot edit: since this comment doesn't deserve to be top comment here, i'll just add something of mild value. at 1:26:22, the joke COULD have worked in another movie and with better timing, as a commentary about how no one watches women's sports. the way they made it is "women's sports bad because women bad at sports", because if they went with the obvious joke i described, they would have to confront the fact that maybe people are sexist and that would squander their point, because they will only ever care about women's sports as a vessel for transphobia.

'you make jokes that would have ted cruz dying from laughter' is about the meanest thing you could say to a comedian. Great job

i think it's relevent that a lot of the 'humor' in conservative media is coming from a place of power. Its punching down or bullying. A lot of the jokes i see conservatives make is treating people who are different from them as the punchline. Theyre not laughing about something funny or relatable. They're laughing at the person. Trans people are 'funny' because being trans in itself is considered absurd. There's just this inherent bad faith in these jokes, because the comedian doesnt really understand the culture or people they're pointing and laughing at. Their jokes are based on stereotypes and generalizations of people, not actual reality. Like with lady balls, the jokes arent based on real trans people, the jokes arent about situations or absurdities trans people deal with. Its based around the conservative idea of trans people. Theyre mocking what they think trans people are because what theyre imagining is absurd. Its out of touch with reality and thats why its so bad. If a comedian is making an arguement with their jokes, if they're trying to point out the absurdity of a situation, it should relate back to a truth. Truth is what resonates with people. Bigots treat their ideas of minorities as reality and that's why the jokes only land with other bigots. Its not funny, because it doesn't make sense. A good example is disabled humor. I'm disabled, almost every disabled person i know has a sense of humor about their situation, even if the jokes can get dark. Disabled people joking with other disabled people about their disabilities is funny, but pretty often we'll have able-bodied people getting offended on our behalf. Because they dont understand what its like to be disabled. from what they imagine, it isn't funny. They don't have access to the truth at the heart of the jokes, so the jokes don't land for them. But then an abled person will makes jokes about disabled people, and they clearly don't know the reality of being disabled. Theyre going off how they imagine being disabled is. And the jokes will land better with fellow able-bodied people, because they share the perspective of the comedian. There will still be people offended on our behalf. But the reasons we disabled people would be offended is that the jokes misrepresent our reality. It's the difference between laughing with us and laughing at us. The joke isn't funny to us, because we're not who the joke is for, despite being who the joke is about. Thats why so much conservative humor reads as mean-spirited to me. The jokes are at the expense of others without critical thought about who they're laughing at. They're arguing for a reality that isn't true. And thats not really something that we can argue back to. Facts and reason and different perspectives don't land with people who refuse to engage with them. When someone calls you a freak, objectivity isn't going to convince them you're normal.

That punch scene from Lady Ballers really guts me. It's so cruel and mean-spirited.

Ricky Gervais priding himself as an ultimate free speech advocate and then saying "you can't say that :'(" to someone calling anybody unfunny is the funniest thing he's ever said.

The part where the girl was saying how all the boys are better is funny because it exposes the contradictions in conservative ideology. The conservative father doesn't want his daughter to be a boy, but then the daughter explains she wants to be a boy because of conservative beliefs about women.

Why is the 8 year old the best actor in ladyballers

the bug-eating thing is a rare occasion when a conservative buzzword got copy-pasted from Europe to US, not the other way around. A while ago (around 1-1,5 years ago I think), there was this European directive that allowed selling flour made of bugs (more or less, I'm not an expert), which, of course, European conservatives started spinning as "EU IS GOING TO FORCE US ALL TO EAT BUGS". Kinda funny that it got transplanted to US without any context

King Of The Hill is an excellent example of what conservative comedy could be. Hank is an old fashioned man in a fast changing world (the starting premise of every conservative sitcom ever) and each episode his conservative beliefs will be tested. Often times he will be proven wrong and have to change a little bit. But almost as often, he will be proven right. And the show always respects who he is and what he believes in, while putting extremist right wing ideology firmly in its place. But somewhere in the last 20 years conservative ideology swung so far right it stopped being funny anymore.

i have spent quite a lot of time around people who are the new agey/energy crowd, and the reason why the dude went from new age spiritualist to hardcore conservative is because new age spiritualists are often way WAY more conservative than you'd expect. being anti-vax, anti-feminist, 'anti-woke' is super common in that culture.

I think people didn't laugh at Roseanne's Q is for quarantine bit because the conservative audience thought she was denying the theory. That it was actually just a bunch of bored and isolated people stewing all day in conspiracies as reality becomes harder and harder to understand. So at that point Roseanne was not part of group that came to her show, and maybe even ridiculing them.

The only funny thing about lady ballers is the fact it is so transphobic, it ends up being misogynistic towards the very women they claim to be fighting for.

Ricky Gervais shouldn't say "that was irony" he should say "i think that was irony, allegedly" because it's just his opinion

Honestly someone just saying “I’m gay” over a classic piece of animation is funnier than anything modern conservatives can come up with. Modern conservative comedy is just saying that everything is fine the way it is and those that disagree are bad and then they say a slur I guess.

“Your gender is get a job” works in a way, because it has a kind of truth to it. It’s an out-of-touch boomer truth (basically “I don’t understand you and I think you’re wasting your life”) but it’s at least honest. It’s actually kind of an eternal joke, that parents/elders don’t understand their kids/youngsters; it’s told from the out-of-touch parent’s perspective, and it’s pretty long in the tooth, but it is a legit observation. For a conservative gender joke, it’s actually kind of refreshing, because it’s not even really about gender at all… it’s about being an exasperated, confused parent in a world you no longer understand. Which IIRC, honestly, is a lot like much of the humor in Roseann’s original TV show. Her perspective was interesting in that she was conservative, and was constantly struggling with the craAaAazy ideas of her kids (and the 1990s more generally)… but she didn’t really fit in with the conservatives, either, because she was way too critical of _their_ hypocrisy as well. I suppose it’s oddly fitting that she’d pack a room full of conservatives, only to tell a bunch of jokes that leave them shifting uncomfortably in their seats.

“what if conservatives ran the schools?” as someone from oklahoma, i can guarantee that they are

Damn, Roseanne did not give a damn if you laughed. Those bits felt like she was just venting out her grievances and if you laugh, whoopee good for you, now shut up and keep listening to me tell you how the world is shit.

“I’m a- uh- I’m a- uh. IM GAY GET OUT OF HERE” “Okay sir I’ll go… fuck off then” Cinematic masterpiece

It's increasingly funny looking back on Team America because it shows liberals teaming up with North Korea, as a joke... And then Donald Trump as a president was like "Oh yeah, Kim Jong, dictator? Great guy."

I think the most hilarious thing about conservative comedy, aside from Graham Linehan having trouble getting a job anymore, is that the Ricky Gervais Subreddit hates him.

Roseanne screaming “We ruined our children’s lives!” to a silent crowd is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen, but I don’t think in the way she intended it.

The scene with the daughter "wanting to be a man" is particularly funny in a... deeply disturbing way. Like my thought was "oh, they'll like have some ham-fisted 'women are good at some things and men are good at some things' moral message" but instead... like they just say men actually ARE better than women. Like, shit, in the world they present why wouldn't you want to be a man?

I was home-schooled, and I'm Omega Gay. Guess the conservatives are wrong again.

The irony of Doug mocking the wall for comparing English education at the time to WW2 while comparing him getting cancelled on twitter to literal actual genocide and race clensing is fucking wild to me. Its hypocrisy on a different level. What were they thinking?

It's such a gift to be told Lady Ballers was supposed to be a documentary, but was stymied by the fact the entire point of the satire doesn't reflect reality. And then they went ahead and tried to make the satire anyway. I had no idea of this hilarious and telling fact. Thank you Huge Joel.

The sooner you realize that nearly EVERY SINGLE conservative talking head online has a failed acting, comedy, or writing career before going into politics - the sooner you can see them for who they really are

All conservative comedy does this thing where they start with a premise and then just get mad and forget to do a punchline

Everyone knows the best comedy routines start with the comedian defensivley lecturing the audience about how their jokes work.

Ben is like "yeah as it turns out it's basically impossible for cis men to pretend to be trans women and play in women's sports but here's a movie about that anyway"

One of the most infuriatingly ironic things about NC's review of The Wall is how he chides the movie for having childishly obvious metaphors, but then goes on to completely misinterpret what those metaphors meant

by reaching part three i feel like i have already watched 2 entire videos with no conclusion and now i have 47 minutes left.

That's the thing, Conservatives don't find intelligence funny, they find maliciousness funny.

Lady Ballers was a rare gem of a movie where the entire cast and crew are actually the butt of the joke, without realizing it in the slightest. Glorious ignorance

The most annoying thing about Lady Ballers is that any college women’s basketball team would smoke them. None of those guys look in particularly good shape and like half of them are well under 6 foot.

plot twist, JP isn't actually a conservative it's just the longest parody he's ever made.

I'm autistic, I actually find a lot of American comedy really difficult to watch because so much of it IS about mocking the socially incompetent. I'm also Australian, and like, the rampant tall poppy syndrome isn't great but at least it means that a lot of the cultural comedic emphasis is making fun of yourself and yours, instead of using comedy to mark yourself as better than the freaks.

Besides the fact that Doug tried to compare naziism to "cancel culture", the shittiest part about that stupid The Wall parody is that Roger Waters, the writer of the original album, lost his father to WW2. Did the guy even know The Wall was originally an album? He even calls one of the songs "oscar bait" 🙄 EDIT: Also worth noting, Doug mocks Waters in the "review" because a part of The Wall is about the bullying he went through at school, both from students and teachers, saying he should "grow a pair." Keep in mind, school in the '50s and '60s were sure as hell not like they were in the '80s and '90s.

My favourite fact about lady ballers is that the original idea was to make a documentary where a bunch of conservative influencers make a real life basketball team and then join a women’s league to show how easy it is for men to fake being trans to win in women’s sports. But then they found out that they’d all have to take HRT for a year before they could play in the women’s league and understandably they couldn’t find any men willing to do that. Ben Shapiro literally tells this story in an interview as if it doesn’t undermine the entire conservative trans sport talking point and the movie they ended up making

Just want to say how much I appreciate this channel. Watching your old videos makes me realize how many things come across as “logical” on a first read but when broken down have major flaws. You’ve made me question the previously unquestionable and I think I’m a better person for it. Keep up the amazing work!

I might JP in person in 2016 and he was a very sweet and humble guy. I told him when i first discovered his channel i didnt know if he was serious or not, to which he seemed taken aback, and i clarified that thw "ultraspiritual" characters pretty much exited and he said fair enough. He said the reason he poked fun at them is because there was part of himself on the characters and it was a way to make light of it, and when i asked about meeting fans he said he loved the attention and that it was part of why he did it. Overall he was a kind, gentle, and self aware dude. He started slipping a little, but the line was always a little blurry. Then covid happened. Seemingly he snapped and went full overboard fast. If you looked at his comments in the early days it was mostly people in on the joke and a good chunk that thought he was being meta and actually promoting whatever the thing was because of course those people would believe that anyway. When he made his switch in the pandemic the comment secrion became full of sycophants. Somewhere in that transition he either posted or said in a video that the outpouring of support was partially what convinced him he was on the right path. I think two things happened, on top of whatever else was already present. One, like you stated, he was predisposed to this kind of group think and after leaving one community (that already exposed him to conspiracy theories and magical thinking) he just absorbed the ideologies of another. And Two, he got the frothy mouthed fandom he could have only dreamed of before that gave him an overwhelming sense of approval and via his own need for attention and approval he went in hook line and sinker. He didnt have to actually be funny to get their praise, just repeat the same old hat over and over and over and as long as it didnt challenge them they'd love him endlessly. His original content had some degree of charm because it lampooned something he was at least partially apart of or related to. The newer content didnt have any degree of self awareness and was just the lowest rung of "owning the libs" because that's what the new crowd wanted and admittedly probably as much as he could come up with. Actually lampooning conservatives and asking them to laugh at themselves would not play at all and he'd suffer backlash, so he just keeps feeding the piranhas so he can keep getting the love and adoration he needs.

Seeing Big Joel dressed as the nostalgia critic was funnier than Doug Walker's entire body of work.

Conservative comedy is like Christian rock. Christians can make good rock, but the moment you turn it into a defined genre chasing a Christian audience the message becomes more important than the medium and the music usually sucks. To bring it back to King of the Hill, lets paraphrase Hank: "You're not making conservatism better, you're just making comedy worse".

I had no idea little Joel made video essays

Finally I see someone talking about JP, his pipeline from wholesome, quirky, weird, but funny to full-on Qtard was sorta baffling and heartbraking

The worst thing about conservative 'comedy' is how heavy handed it is. The 'jokes' are always over-explained, hamfisted trash, obvious and spelled out to 'trigger the libs' who aren't even watching such trash to begin with. Big Joel remembers Lady Ballers so we don't have to.

a lot of these "comedians" matching up to Will Menaker's adage that the problem with "conservative comedy" is "all their bits involve inventing a premise and then getting way too mad at it to tell a joke"

Ricky fancies himself a George Carlin when he’s more of a Rob Schneider

One thing to note about South Park's philosophy is that anyone who cares about something they don't care about is dumb. That's it, that's the central theme. When theg start caring about something, it's very suddenly important & you should also care about it. No reflection will be made about other stances, though, if you care about those you're still dumb.

In the teacher sketch I'm actually kinda shocked at the multiple levels of unintended irony or whatever you can even describe it as, when the teacher sees that their constant ranting and belittling of the kid's parents has made the kid cry and then doubles down on the bullying by saying that their own weakness isn't even the fault of their parents but their own. That's like so many levels of fucked up, I can't even...

Imagine wanting to make a propaganda documentary but after learning the premise does not comport to reality, the film is made as a fiction instead. Amazing stuff.

I think I just had an epiphany about conservative humor. The jokes aren't actually IN the act or the film. The jokes are in the mind of the conservative viewers as they imagine the responses of triggered liberals.

the pauses at the end of the nostalgia critic always drove me nuts despite the quality of writing he'd put out. Just feels like it's room for a laugh track that's not there. no diss on him though.

I feel like so much of the comedic framing of these jokes is "You're so mad. i'm not mad. here's my 90 minute bit about how not mad I am, i have a lot to say about how totally not mad I am"

When he said he measured the sea levels, I thought he was going for a joke about the sea levels chaging rapidly thogh the day, like a joke about the tides. And, I thought, "oh thats not a bad joke", then he didn't even raise to that level of cleverness.

Alex Jones was obsessed with the bug-eating thing in like 2017. I think it's a Great Reset conspiracy thing

Jp is the craziest thing. I remember watching some of his old joke videos and subbing and forgetting til I see him years later and get so confused how he changed so much