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In reply to the discussion: Can you name any successful conservative comedians? [View all]Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Oftentimes, like with George Carlin, Foxworthy's bits are used to push a political agenda he did not make.
Like this right-wing bit that was popular on the internet a few years ago:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/07/facebook-posts/no-evidence-jeff-foxworthy-behind-viral-facebook-p/
As for him being a Trump supporter - I wouldn't doubt it with his style of humor. But I doubt he's lobbing too many political jokes.
And that's the difference, I guess.
I actually do find popular conservative comedians focus more on observational humor than social critics like Carlin or Chappelle, who identified as liberal, or more left-leaning. Why? I don't know. Probably because even they'd admit their side slides into crazy (Hence, 'you might be a redneck...).
I don't know. Either way, there's not a lot of mainstream comedians who use political conservativism in their routines. They might resort to conservative commentary but it's more jabbing liberals for drinking their lattes as opposed to doing the total social deconstruction of an ideology like Carlin used to do in his routines.
Of course, as awful as this sounds, I think their core audience is too simple to understand that humor and since many of these comics are businessmen even before they're comedians, they're not going to offend by going after the low fruit that may gain the applause of their audiences - like, you know, calling Obama a Muslim traitor or something stupid. A good example of this is Roseanne, who used racist and sexist terms to describe Valerie Jarrett. It wasn't funny. It was shocking. But it didn't gain her anything. It lost her her TV show and basically has turned her into a pariah.