Maher, Griffin, Colbert: Anti-Trump comedians are having a really bad moment

[Wingnut]

Typical wapo.  No condemnation just an explanation.

By Callum Borchers June 3 at 10:48 AM

A racial slur. A homophobic joke. A mock beheading.

Anti-Trump comedians are having a moment — and not the good kind.

Bill Maher used the n-word in a Friday-night interview with Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), joining Kathy Griffin and Stephen Colbert on Over-the-Line Mount Rushmore.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/03/maher-griffin-colbert-anti-trump-comedians-are-having-a-really-bad-moment/

[dfwgator]

What about all the anti-Obama comedians?

Oh wait, there weren't any.

[goatprairie]

What about all the anti-Obama comedians?

Oh wait, there weren't any.

The funniest thing I heard from lib comedians during Obama's Reign of  Terror was that there was nothing about Obama to criticize or make fun of.   I don't know if I laughed more or puked more when I heard them say that.

[Gefn]

I read Bill Maher may be cancelled.

His career is on the bubble

[andy58-in-nh]

Comic insults are funny only when the comedian issues them in a spirit of fun. Think: Don Rickles. Otherwise, such words are merely the gratuitous expression of hatred.

Witty critiques are another thing entirely, but I see little or none of that amongst today's comedic media cosmopolitans, none of whom remind anyone of Oscar Wilde, Dorothy Parker, or Noel Coward.     

[Wingnut]

Witty critiques are another thing entirely, but I see little or none of that amongst today's comedic media cosmopolitans, none of whom remind anyone of Oscar Wilde, Dorothy Parker, or Noel Coward.   

Amen.  No talent hacks compared to when insults took brains and wit.

I am fairly unrepentant about her poetry. I really think that three quarters of it is gibberish. However, I must crush down these thoughts, otherwise the dove of peace will shit on me.
- - - Noel Coward (about Dame Edith Sitwell)

She looks like something that would eat its young.
- - - Dorothy Parker (about Dame Edith Evans)

She must use Novocain lipstick.
- - - Jack Paar (about Dorothy Kilgallen)

If I found her floating in my pool, I'd punish my dog.
- - - Joan Rivers (about Yoko Ono)

A cross between an aardvark and an albino rat.
- - - John Simon (about Barbra Streisand)

[dfwgator]

Amen.  No talent hacks compared to when insults took brains and wit.

I am fairly unrepentant about her poetry. I really think that three quarters of it is gibberish. However, I must crush down these thoughts, otherwise the dove of peace will shit on me.
- - - Noel Coward (about Dame Edith Sitwell)

She looks like something that would eat its young.
- - - Dorothy Parker (about Dame Edith Evans)

She must use Novocain lipstick.
- - - Jack Paar (about Dorothy Kilgallen)

If I found her floating in my pool, I'd punish my dog.
- - - Joan Rivers (about Yoko Ono)

A cross between an aardvark and an albino rat.
- - - John Simon (about Barbra Streisand)

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

[andy58-in-nh]

@Wingnut
@dfwgator

It all comes down to the culture, guys, but you already know that.

Ours is a rather sick patient, for which its self-appointed doctors continue to prescribe arsenic.

[Frank Cannon]

Anti-Trump comedians are having a moment — and not the good kind.

These dopes are finding out that the Trump Derangement they live with in their Leftist bubbles doesn't translate out into the country. Stuff they thought would generally be accepted by the public is being condemned.

[andy58-in-nh]

Anti-Trump comedians are having a moment — and not the good kind.

These dopes are finding out that the Trump Derangement they live with in their Leftist bubbles doesn't translate out into the country. Stuff they thought would generally be accepted by the public is being condemned.

That is what happens when you live in a place with the intellectual diversity of Pyongyang, because you enjoy the morphine drip of its culture and the tranquilizing comfort of social conformity.

And here's the real punch line: they think they're edgy and radical.

[txradioguy]

They never were funny to begin with.

[Hondo69]

I must crush down these thoughts, otherwise the dove of peace will shit on me.

Have to remember that one, that's funny.

[Suppressed]

Amen.  No talent hacks compared to when insults took brains and wit.

I am fairly unrepentant about her poetry. I really think that three quarters of it is gibberish. However, I must crush down these thoughts, otherwise the dove of peace will shit on me.
- - - Noel Coward (about Dame Edith Sitwell)

She looks like something that would eat its young.
- - - Dorothy Parker (about Dame Edith Evans)

She must use Novocain lipstick.
- - - Jack Paar (about Dorothy Kilgallen)

If I found her floating in my pool, I'd punish my dog.
- - - Joan Rivers (about Yoko Ono)

A cross between an aardvark and an albino rat.
- - - John Simon (about Barbra Streisand)

A man so obnoxious that karma may see him reincarnated as himself. -- Frankie Boyle (about Donald Trump)

She bought a cook book the other day called 'Cheap and Easy Vegetarian Cooking'. Which is perfect for her, because not only is she vegetarian... -- Jimmy Carr (about his girlfriend :-)

[jmyrlefuller]

The funniest thing I heard from lib comedians during Obama's Reign of  Terror was that there was nothing about Obama to criticize or make fun of.   I don't know if I laughed more or puked more when I heard them say that.

As a guy who's dabbled in comedy I can safely say that there was very little funny about that very sinister man.

[goatprairie]

As a guy who's dabbled in comedy I can safely say that there was very little funny about that very sinister man.

They made fun of Hitler...."Der Fuhrer's Face"...... there was certainly plenty of things about Comrade Obama to make fun of.

[Wingnut]

[Gefn]

They made fun of Hitler...."Der Fuhrer's Face"...... there was certainly plenty of things about Comrade Obama to make fun of.

Bugs Bunny and crew made fun out of Hitler too.