Artful Dodger: Now I know why there are so few popular conservative comics

The Col: Or maybe the jokes are above your pay grade?

Artful Dodger: Mine, and everyone elses apparently.Can you name a successful right wing comic? and if you mention Dennis Miller, his career has tanked in the stand up forum

The Col: define success. There are plenty of right-wing comics making a living with comedy. But who cares? There are so many possible factors (like the fact that the John Stewart show has a policy against scheduling conservatives-with only some exceptions to that). Didn't you read that memo from the shows exec? Guess not.

But again, who cares? In the big picture, it's a meaningless thing (except to perhaps say that those in power and control prefer liberal jokesters because they themselves are libs.)

Pretty much like college campuses. Lots of liberal profs, few conservatives. Why? Colleges love diversity of opinion.

Artful Dodger: "There are plenty of right-wing comics making a living with comedy"

name one

The common reason stated, is that conservatives tend to have issue laughing at themselves, liberals don't have the same issues with self depricating humor

The Col: http://www.timhawkins.net

Artful Dodger: I doubt he would even be noticed in public, who is he?

The Col: He'd be completely noticed in the right circles. He's not the only right leaning comedian that makes his/her living telling jokes/stories etc. Just like you have lots of liberals out there making a living as comedians, you have conservatives as well. And for every Jay Leno, there are a few thousand others that didn't make it. Not every lib makes it.

And as we all know, in show business, even if you have leanings to the right, you keep them to yourself or you're shooting yourself in the carreer foot. Letterman bleeds liberalism. Stewart not so much.

Artful Dodger: Ahhh, so he makes his money playing right wing conventions, not from the general public.Leno? now you're dredging the sea bottom.If you can't come up with one popular stand up right wing comic, yikes, that says it all

The Col: You asked for one. I said there are plenty of right wing comedians making a living off their comedy. You said, "name one" and I did. So now you're unhappy about that? Wanna another?

Artful Dodger: making a living? or popular?
name someone other than a cue card reader,I will eliminate Letterman

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The Col: http://www.timhawkins.net

Artful Dodger: You're like a puppy who never tires of chewing on a slipper til next time

The Col:

The Col: Glenn Beck... everyone except conservatives laugh at him anyway.

Maybe it's because he keeps playing the 'straight' guy.

(V): That must explain why Glen Beck is so successful. A conservative knows when he/she is making an impact by the number of times they are belittled by the leftists. You keep bringing Beck up (you're obsessed with him) and that alone is proof of his impact. And liberal thinkers like you can't stand it.

(V): Beck works, I would buy a ticket

The Col: If you bought a ticket you'd have your caricature of Beck challenged and you'd have to change your view. Not that you'd agree with him. But your caricature of him would be ruined!

Artful Dodger: Huh? I would pay to watch Beck cuz he's funny

Artful Dodger: Here's some help, though they aren't stand up :Patricia Heaton, Kelsey Grammer.

The Col: I'm still failing to see a pertinent point in all of this.

Artful Dodger: Most likely cuz you are at a loss for an answer

I'm sure the topic would be considered relevant if you had your usual oodles of info to share

The Col: Not so. I simply said that there are plenty of right wing comedians earling a living off telling jokes/stories. YOu said name one, I did. Now you wanna raise the bar?

The Col: And they don't have to be well known to YOU to be well known to others. It's the same way in music. If you're well known in your circle, that's good enough. There are plenty of people who likely never heard of Leno or Letterman and clearly Stewart is in that category. And that woud prove???

The Col: You've probably never heard of him but he's funny.
http://www.jeffallencomedy.com/funnyclips.html

And this guys routine of skiing is very funny. http://www.kendavis.com/

There are TONS more of guys like this making a living out of making people laugh.

That you've never heard of them (likely) is meaningless to my point. You arrogantly challenged me to name one right wing comedian and now you have three names. But that likely won't be good enough.

However, as most clear thinking people know, if these guys were liberals, guys like you would be all over them with laughter and recommendations.

One other thing, many (if not most) left wing standup contains tons of filthy words. My examples are of guys that don't use that profanity. That's because they are REALLY funny and don't need a filthy mouth to make an audience laugh. Just like Old Red.

Artful Dodger: Funny is funny, the stand up comics you have mentioned would be lucky to be recognised by their parents, let alone the general public

The Col: Clever talking point but of course, it's not true.

The Col: Beck is the US version of Nick Griffin. N' no-one outside the BNP takes Nick Griffin seriously... as this clip proves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viDtJM0BRX4

(V): I think Sean Hannity's editing team worked on that clip

The Col: Well it beats Nick Griffins edited view of history that the Holocaust did not happen. According to him, just a few thousand Jews were shot by the Nazi's.

(V): You can't control stupid, you can only stand back in awe.Take my 12 herbs and spices please!