Have you ever noticed republicans don't make political satire

[Beringia]

All the SNL Skits are done by liberals, all the political cartoons are by liberals.

All the movies, All the Presidents Men, JFK, MASH done by liberals.

What have the republicans added to the social commentary with jokes, or movies or satire, nothing as far as I know.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. too ill tempered, serious or stupid to understand it.

[pangaia]

2. They don't do satire, period. It takes something they just don;t have.

They also don;t do humor of any kind.

[Fla Dem]

3. I'm not sure that's true. Use google.

conservative / right wing movies

conservative / right wing cartoonists

conservative / right wing artists

[Beringia]

11. I did a search and found virtually nothing

I did watch a movie recently called Unplanned about a woman who got an abortion, but it did nothing to change my mind.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unplanned

[Beringia]

13. I did find one called An American Carol

https://www.newsmax.com/Headline/hollywood-conservatives/2008/10/03/id/325731/

Described by Entertainment Weekly as “Hollywood's first unabashedly right-wing comedy,” the film is a play on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” using a Michael Moore-like standin for Scrooge in a story about discovering your patriotic American roots.

Instead of Christmas, the Moore character bah-humbugs the Fourth of July, triggering a visit from country music star Trace Adkins as the Grim Reaper. Filling in for Dickens’ ghosts are George Washington, George S. Patton, and a conservative judge. They’re played by fellow conservatives Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammer, and Dennis Hopper — yes, that Dennis Hooper, the one from “Easy Rider” and “Apocalypse Now.”

The three guides lead “Michael Malone” from the World Trade Center site across the American historical landscape to turn him into a patriot. The film lampoons jihadists, Rosie O'Donnell, college professors, President Jimmy Carter and street protesters, among others. One over-the-top sequence finds Malone alongside Hopper’s judge as they fend off hordes of undead ACLU attorneys.


(Making fun of ACLU attorneys. I bet most of these actors would rush to get help from the ACLU if their liberties were taken away by a cop or a business deal gone wrong.)

[5X]

4. they are laughing in private about what they get away with. n/t

[tblue37]

5. They kiss up and punch down. Good political satire afflicts the comfortable. nt

[Midnight Writer]

9. I think you are correct. It's not funny to make light of people who are struggling.

[LakeArenal]

6. Chris Farley for one.

But seriously why does it matter.

[Beringia]

12. Chris Farley worked for SNL

And I don't think his humor was about being a conservative or how stupid liberals are.

"But seriously, why does it matter". It says something when a whole side of the political spectrum does not contribute to satire. They have Fox news and their radio people, Rush Limbaugh.

[LakeArenal]

16. Chris Farley was definitely a conservative and let folks know it

Dennis Miller was even more of a staunch conservative that makes fun of liberals.

I repeat why does it matter. If it’s good it’s good satire if it sucks it’s bad satire. It’s up to the individual what that is.

[Major Nikon]

18. Dennis Miller was a self-described liberal when he worked for SNL and the decade that followed

Personally I didn't think he was funny even then.

[LakeArenal]

19. Well he sure isn't now.

[Ahpook]

20. Farley?

I've seen the movies and didn't take him for that.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. They don't do humor very well...

I remember when they tried to do a half hour comedy show on Comedy Central and it failed miserably.

[Aristus]

10. Yeah. It was called The Half-Hour Comedy Hour.

The title was the funniest thing about the show.

As pointed out above, good comedy punches up, not down. Right-wingers consistently target the disadvantaged or the suffering. That's not funny.

[procon]

8. They do fear and pain, like war porn, quite well. nt

[Turin_C3PO]

14. They think bullying is humor.

They think it’s funny to pick on the afflicted.

[smirkymonkey]

15. They have no sense of humor.

Or at least not a very good one. Nobody thinks bullying and being an asshole to those who are less fortunate is funny. Except for a select set of demented right-wingers. The general public is turned off by what they think is humorous.

[Skittles]

17. when repukes try satire, it is UGLY

because THEY ARE UGLY

[Major Nikon]

22. They derive joy from human suffering

Because they are either sociopaths or easily manipulated by sociopaths.

[Iggo]

21. By and large, they're just not funny.

[zanana1]

23. They have no sense of humor. nt