Recall the Comedic Theory of History.
What was once absurdist humor is now reality (Rachel Dolezal). So if you want to know what’s next served on the dinner plate of America’s decline, listen for themes in the repertoires of current comedians. (Remember Seinfeld’s “You must wear the AIDS ribbon!” gay fascism episode? Yeah, that came true, too.)
I wonder how much longer the predictive power of the Comedic Theory of History will last? If comedians are cowed by shrieking SJW mobs into becoming more PC and less incisive, their comedy will stop being the canary in the coalmine, (and stop being funny, as they come to sound more like the droning indoctrination of government apparatchiks).
[…] The Comedic Theory Of History, Cont’d […]
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ARTIE!!
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“their comedy will stop being the canary in the coalmine”
er, no, it will mean the canary has died, and that the air is no longer breathable. Time to exit the mine.
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“This canary died of natural causes.”
-Julius Hibbard, MD
We’ve been living one big episode of The Simpsons for what, fifteen years?
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Its not Rachel Dolezal, or what she did that is humorous; its peoples reaction that is funny; especially black peoples reaction. They are angry and annoyed by her but they lack the language to accurately describe why.
And then there are the light skinned blax who want to be mad at her but can’t because she looks like one of their family members.
“How can you kill John Wayne when you look like John Wayne”
[CH: what dolezal did is funny too. funny in that “haha i’m laughing at you not with you” way.]
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[CH: what dolezal did is funny too. funny in that “haha i’m laughing at you not with you” way.]
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Hmmm…. I didn’t catch that vibe.
I got an “Im rejecting my parents” and an opportunism vibe; As a white girl she was plain, homely and forgettable…
But as a black girl she was unique, exotic and sexy and she knew how to work it and fool everybody
Can the black experience really be that shallow, vapid and empty?
[CH: how can you not find humor in an obviously white woman trying to pass herself off as a soul sista?]
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… to ask is to answer
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[CH: how can you not find humor in an obviously white woman trying to pass herself off as a soul sista?]
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“obviously white?”
only until you feel that knife blade twisting in your back.
I suspect some of you white people are doing a bit of grave yard whistling…
Trinity: “How did you do that?”
Neo: “Do what?”
Trinity: “You move like they do”
When game finally recognize game; for some of you its gonna be game over.
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James: As a white girl she looked to be a 6 in the main youthful picture circulated – forgettable, but so is 99.9999% of humanity. Still, 5’s and 6’s are the salt of the earth.
Great call on the comparison and question though, and to me the answer is yes, the black experience really is that shallow, vapid and empty.
CH: I think you tripped up here: in a one-drop country, it’s only obvious NOW that she was a white woman. Everything’s obvious in retrospect.
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One essential point to keep in mind about my pet theory of Comedic History is that the prior catalytic humor was considered to be marginal at best when produced. Most of it was thought to be too gross and ridiculous for serious consumption even IF you could laugh at it, one should only do so in private. The Cleavon Little scene in Blazing Saddles in particular was thought to be in abysmally bad taste…thus spake Orenthal.
In a week that sees the lowering of the historical Confederate flag only to be replaced by the ‘rainbow’ flag, I genuinely pine for the Rev Sam Kinnison and his wisdom.
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Sam was the canary:
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Dave Chappell had the whole “Affirmative Consent” fiasco nailed years ago:
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SNL died sometime before the Obama election. So I guess that’s one canary down.
Now that I’m trying to reminisce, didn’t the SNL boss tell us there was nothing humorous about Obama though, and thus there was nothing to joke about? If so, that was inadvertently pretty funny. In the Samizdat way.
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SNL is a weird case. Of course the show, like virtually all other network shows, is leftist; it reflects the opinions of the producers, actors and most writers. However at least one writer, James Downey, has managed to slip a few sketches with an alternative view.
http://web.archive.org/web/20110520113554/http://muchedumbre.com/live-from-new-york
I can only imagine he got away with it because no one else was smart enough to see who was really being skewered.
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It is probably intentional, if they let about 5 or 10% of jokes be from the conservative point of view, then they can claim they are not making jokes only about the right, they can claim they are fair or “bi-partisan” or whatever the correct word is.
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Note that James Downey retired from SNL two years ago. Somehow I doubt they actively looked for another non-progressive pod person to replace him.
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Seemingly appropriate now too:
http://www.theonion.com/article/obama-help-us-destroy-jesus-and-start-a-new-age-of-29478
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Even the PC-ification of comedy was predicted a long time ago.
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SNL is the perfect (dead) canary. The show is stooopid beyond belief. It’s become state sponsored comedy. Remember the “I’m just a bill” spoof on Obamas executive orders? It was a spoof of the old school house rock cartoon. “Bill” gets pushed down the stairs repeatedly by Obama. Was funny. Next day in the Washington Post one writer had a piece about some apparent inaccuracies in the skit that may have made dear leader look bad. That’s the level it’s sunk to. Statist comedy may only make dear leader look good…
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Reminds me of this:
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2012/07/30/lovitz-carvey-lament-lack-of-comedians-targeting-obama/
Earlier today on The Dennis Miller Show, SNL alums Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey spoke about the current state of the comedy world and the fact that comedians are hesitant to target President Obama.
“Hesitant”, yes, if they want to work again. There was a former writer for one of those late-night hosts who said the same, that jokes that criticize Obama were basically forbidden.
The jokes were instead about Bush even a year after the 2008 election. When they did joke about Obama, the “jokes” were about how he was too smart of a professor to be understood by the dumb Americans. (Never mentioning that he never was a professor. That was just a media lie. The university was pressured to give the up-and-coming Black Democrat a job so he could claim to have had a real one. A Democrat donor called them and demanded it. So they let him hold a class. He could thereby be called a “lecturer”, but he wasn’t a professor.)
Or they’d make some tee-hee joke about how he is too handsome for his own good. Or something equally lame. Such as a Jay Leno joke about how Obama had to give an early speech to reporters. Showing Obama at the podium. Then showing him from behind, a photoshopped image where Obama was wearing pink bunny slippers, because he had to get up early. Tee-hee!
No mention of, say, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient tripling the drone bombings on the Afghan-Pakistan border, or supporting the Bahraini king’s bloody suppression of Shia democracy demonstrations.
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Ali-G man before his time
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