PHILADELPHIA, PA — Americans across the country breathed a sigh of relief this morning following breaking news that Vice President Kamala Harris had survived an attempted interview.
I think the main problem is that Babylon Bee isn’t funny…
It’s really easy to make fun of anyone on the left (we do it all the time to ourselves) yet somehow 90% of the Babylon Bee is nothing more than a failed stand up comedian in a small town hoping that saying something offensive will make his parents love him.
I beleive empathy is the root of this difference. With more empathy, you can better understand how someone else might feel - why they may struggle with a situation you breeze through. Empathy pushes people left. Empathy also helps you read the room and better calculate what gets a better reaction to comedy. It helps actors get into character to live as someone else. Conservative actors get typecast quickly, often as some tough, blunt hero-of-every-story character because that’s all they can aspire to be. Conservative comedians lean on an outgroup being the punchline whereas the rest of them tend to be the butt of their own joke or just describe situations. So yeah, 90% of the punchlines there will be that some type of person exists and does what a bigot expects them to do as part of their stereotype.
Robert de Niro went to theater school and played badass mafia roles. Joe Pesci was a NYC tough guy before playing one in movies. Alec Baldwin went to theater school before playing extraordinarily serious roles. Steven Segal… Just watch his karate competitions.
For a seriously in-depth dive, Some More News has an episode called Why Is Conservative Comedy So… Not Very Good? The video even has a whole section about The Babylon Bee. The TL;DW is that real comedy is about the comedy, while conservative “comedy” is all about attacking out-groups. (There’s another section with examples of conservative comedians who don’t do this, and are funny.)
Like in this example, I read the headline, wrinkled my brow, and thought, “Huh?” Then a few seconds later, I remembered that there was some rumbling in the news a while back about how Harris hadn’t done a media interview at the time, and it must be referring to that? That makes sense as an attack, and I guess that’s “funny” to an audience that just wants to see attacks on the out-group, but it’s not humorous. (I mean, she’s done a couple of interviews now, so it comes across as try-hard.)
Okay and if it was a thinly veiled anti maga satire article people opposing it would be taking obvious jokes too seriously right?
It’s a satire community on the internet, everyone gets made fun at some point including the people you like
I think the main problem is that Babylon Bee isn’t funny…
It’s really easy to make fun of anyone on the left (we do it all the time to ourselves) yet somehow 90% of the Babylon Bee is nothing more than a failed stand up comedian in a small town hoping that saying something offensive will make his parents love him.
I beleive empathy is the root of this difference. With more empathy, you can better understand how someone else might feel - why they may struggle with a situation you breeze through. Empathy pushes people left. Empathy also helps you read the room and better calculate what gets a better reaction to comedy. It helps actors get into character to live as someone else. Conservative actors get typecast quickly, often as some tough, blunt hero-of-every-story character because that’s all they can aspire to be. Conservative comedians lean on an outgroup being the punchline whereas the rest of them tend to be the butt of their own joke or just describe situations. So yeah, 90% of the punchlines there will be that some type of person exists and does what a bigot expects them to do as part of their stereotype.
Robert de Niro went to theater school and played badass mafia roles. Joe Pesci was a NYC tough guy before playing one in movies. Alec Baldwin went to theater school before playing extraordinarily serious roles. Steven Segal… Just watch his karate competitions.
For a seriously in-depth dive, Some More News has an episode called Why Is Conservative Comedy So… Not Very Good? The video even has a whole section about The Babylon Bee. The TL;DW is that real comedy is about the comedy, while conservative “comedy” is all about attacking out-groups. (There’s another section with examples of conservative comedians who don’t do this, and are funny.)
Like in this example, I read the headline, wrinkled my brow, and thought, “Huh?” Then a few seconds later, I remembered that there was some rumbling in the news a while back about how Harris hadn’t done a media interview at the time, and it must be referring to that? That makes sense as an attack, and I guess that’s “funny” to an audience that just wants to see attacks on the out-group, but it’s not humorous. (I mean, she’s done a couple of interviews now, so it comes across as try-hard.)
yeah that sounds about right
Kamala Harris is not really an out-group now, is she?
Democrats are kind of the canonical out-group.
But this isn’t making fun of anyone, there’s no joke.