Reports of the death of comedy have been exaggerated.
Yes, traditional comedy has been replaced by the political screeds of virtue signalling types who are afraid to lampoon and perhaps offend the left and risk cancellation. This has resulted, among other things, in late night TV shows, once a bastion of comedic hosts, becoming tepid cess pools of political correctness.
In turn, the decline in entertainment value — and ratings — has led to the need to jettison one practitioner, the stuffy, decidedly unfunny COAL BEAR. Can Jimmmeeeee be far behind?
Yet, there is comedy to be found, in unlikely places.
Fox News gives a nightly comedic smorgasbord from the new king of late night, Greg Gutfeld. But, one need not wait for the 10 o’clock airing of his show on weeknights. I’ve noticed a lot of comedy – both intentional and unintended – to be found in news shows and online.
Earlier this week, I saw not one, but two comedy classics during cable news broadcasts.
Both times, D.C. protesters were the unwitting foils.
In the first example, an illegal was being apprehended and the onlookers were spewing typical leftist venom, challenging the law enforcement types to take off their masks, demanding to know their affiliation (apparently the cretins couldn’t read “Police” written on their vests) and generally being blue-haired, nose ring-wearing asses.
One brave type, perhaps secure in the knowledge he would not lose his job after being videoed acting like a moron because he had none, yelled out, “You guys are ruining this country. You know that, right?”
Without missing a beat, one of the guys in a police vest shot back: “Liberals already ruined it.”
Can you feel the burn? Never heckle a comedian, and never chant stale slogans at police, who just might have prepared some comeback material.
Later the same night, also in D.C., a miscreant was being apprehended in the subway and brought up an escalator.
A leftist bovine type, who looked like she hadn’t missed a meal since Obama was president, was offering unsolicited career advice to the law enforcement people, noting they could do something else useful with their lives, perhaps be veterinarians.
Well this apparent female did look a lot like a cow, which prompted one guy to respond to her line that maybe he could choose another career with “You can choose to eat a salad!”
Bang. In this battle of wits, the protester was unarmed.
JD Vance got in some good one-liners directed at protesters during a visit to D.C.’s train station later in the week.
And President Trump’s social media account postings are lethal and funny,
Protester idiocy, general ineptitude, and media types writing like English is their second language, all can provide a few laughs.
Recently, a Savannah, Ga., TV station, during a report on Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Penix Jr., ran “Michael Penis Jr.” as the on-screen graphic beneath his interview.
Blame spellcheck if you must, but shouldn’t someone check this stuff before it goes out over the air?
I was reading a story on yahoo.com about the latest intruder from deep space that has invaded our solar system.
Began the first paragraph: “A strange object hurdling . . . “ “Hurdling” would suggest this interplanetary object was jumping over things as it sped through space. I’m thinking the writer meant “hurtling,” as in moving at great speed, which sounds similar and would have gone undetected if it were just a spoken, not written report.
This reminds me of a former Johnstown TV and radio type who did freelance columns for the newspaper and who thought they’re, there and their, all were the same word and all spelled their.
Again, on the air, he sounded perfectly fine. Reduced to the written word, he came off as a functional illiterate, at least to the staff that had to retype his columns. We had the good grace to clean up his writing to use there, their or they’re where appropriate. He probably never noticed.
But, all these years later, I still get a good chuckle over the memory, just as the aforementioned examples from this week provided comic relief.
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