Frank J. of Imao.Us right wing humor, wrote a satire about how smart President Obama is. If you’re not familiar with Frank’s work, I would spend some time over at Imao.Us and familiarize yourself. Frank and his site are probably the main reason why RadioactiveLiberty political humor exists.

Normally I don’t pay any attention to his comments or responses, but this time he drew attention to a response on the Daily Kos. The Kos diary was the same old, tired, predictable “conservatives like Faux News because they’re too stupid to understand the enlightened complexity of Pravda.”

This got me thinking about all the times that I have read some dull Liberal screed about “why conservatives aren’t funny,” because the reasoning behind such wastes of bandwidth are almost identical in their vacuous and insipid line of reasoning. In fact, we’re treated to such a discourse in the comments section of the Pajamas Media post by comment #38.

As for this article . . . Brilliant? Very funny? Flat-out hilarious? . . . Nonsense. This essay is a perfect example of conservative thinking . . . half-assed, desperate and aimed at the lowest common denominator. There’s nothing clever about it. It offers no new insights. It’s just re-heated leftovers from EVERY OTHER POST on this site, proof yet again that conservatives are nothing more than humorless, witless, sexually repressed retards.

What this particular analysis of why conservatives aren’t funny has in common with all of it’s tiresome, predictable conservatives are teh stoopid rants is that is completely and utterly fails to look at the situation from the angle of how to write humor. This is predictable, as Liberals are prone to completely and utterly failing to comprehend anything that isn’t one of their own vapid fantasies.

What is Political Humor?

As any author of political jokes knows, writing political humor is largely based on some form of cruelty. Usually, the goal of a political joke is to, in some way, ridicule, humiliate, mock, or make folly of something to which the author is opposed. That can be a politician, a policy, an organization, or just a broad class of people, like Conservatives, or Liberals.

Sometimes the goal is compliance or persuasion through humiliation or ridicule. Other times, it’s just the pleasure we get of knowing that it’s the other people that are the stupid ones. In other cases, it’s just a matter of bringing levity to a situation so that it does not weigh too heavily on us, like with making jokes about a bad economy.

What most screeds about why conservatives aren’t funny do seem to grasp is that we’re being cruel towards them. What they don’t seem to grasp is that they are doing exactly the same in return. They see what they are doing as funny and what we are doing as – to quote commenter #38 above – humorless and witless.

The Key to Writing Cruel Humor

This is because of the nature of cruelty based humor. In order for cruelty based humor to be funny, the audience member, or reader needs to feel that the ridicule, humiliation, whatever is deserved. This is why ironic justice is funny. If someone is a total cocknozzle and winds up humiliated, that makes us say, “Yeah! You had that one coming, cocknozzle.” It’s pleasurable because it appeals to our sense that what goes around comes around.

This is the premise for why a movie like Home Alone is funny. A cute kid beats up on bad guys in clever ways. Whenever Kevin gets one over on the bad guys, it triggers the brain to produce pleasure, because they’ve earned their punishment. In fact, it triggers enough pleasure to produce laughter.

Video Link: Home Alone Trailer

To understand Liberal political humor, you have to understand that in their tiny, insufficient lemming brains, they truly, sincerely and deeply believe that conservatives are evil, destructive, violent, malevolent, demonic cavemen. The best case scenario is that we’re simply stupid. Either way, give a conservative an inch, and it’s mushroom clouds and extinct species for everyone.

As Conservatives, we know that Liberals are evil, America hating, terrorist loving, tax increasing, Socialist, tree hugging Dirty Hippie Communists. The best case scenario is that they are simply stupid. Either way, give a liberal an inch, and it’s mushroom clouds and extinct species for everyone. Therefore, they are deserving of the ridicule that we direct towards them.

There is an element of fantasy to what we do. In Home Alone, where Kevin did plenty of things that would have killed an actual human, yet only minor injury was inflicted on the bad guys. On the same note, when we talk of beating hippies, we are speaking of the manner in which the fantasy stimulates the pleasure center of the brain. By no means are we advocating actual violence.

Conservatives are smart enough to understand the more complicated nuances of such things, but Liberals, with their convoluted, drug addled minds, are not sophisticated enough to differentiate between fantasy and reality. This is why they think we just need to show a little compassion to the terrorists and it will be Kumbaya and unicorns for everyone.

Why Liberals Aren’t funny

Based on the Liberal delusion of reality, President George W. Bush was a vicious genocidal maniac. Thus, Tony Snow was the propaganda mouthpiece for a deranged mass murderer. This is why they seemed to think it was appropriate to laugh about Tony Snow having cancer.

You would not be concerned for the family of Joseph Goebbels if he was said to have cancer, and in the hallucinogenic Moonbat mind, that is exactly what Tony Snow was. To the moonbats, the cruelty was more than deserved.

One thing I have noticed about Liberal political humor is that is generally lacks the self awareness that is often exhibited in it’s conservative counterpart. It’s exceedingly rare to see a Liberal satire that simultaneously takes jabs at the author’s own perspective, while offering a more severe level of ridicule at the opposing viewpoint. They just lack the ability to make fun of themselves. All well written humor stems from a good humor toward oneself, especially when that humor is cruelty based.

That is why Liberals aren’t funny. So, the next time a Liberal makes a joke that fails to hit the mark. Don’t get mad. Laugh. Not with them. Laugh at them.

Because they deserve it.

Category: Political Humor Tags: Conservative Political Humor, Home Alone, How to Write Humor, Liberal Political Humor, Political Jokes, President Bush, Tips on Writing Political Humor, Tony Snow