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Originally Posted by troutman
Can Conservatives be funny? Dennis Miller kind of vanished after coming out.
The Plight of Conservative Comedy: Where's the Right's Daily Show?
Political philosophy isn't what keeps Republican-leaning comics from succeeding—it's corporate hurdles, cultural forces, and the demographics of show business.
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The creators of Flipside don’t think so. Their once-a-week program, in the vein of The Daily Show or The Colbert Report but with a generally conservative tilt, hosted by comedian Michael Loftus, will premiere this fall. Can it work?
So if philosophy isn’t preventing conservative comedy from flourishing, what is? Structural, demographic, and financial issues.
The first great conservative comedy show will put humor before ideology. As Mark Twain noted, “Humor is never artificial.” |
The Daily Show isn't a liberal show. It's hosted by someone with a liberal viewpoint, but they still go after Obama and democrats when they do stupid stuff. Usually though the Republicans offer them far more ammunition to work with. If they make this show as another Republican propaganda piece like everything else on Fox News it'll fail