Rift in the Democratic Party

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(07-09-2019, 11:56 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I think you missed the point entirely.  I have no issue with political humor.  Did I not praise Colbert for once being immensely clever and witty?  The Colbert Report was one of the best satire shows ever made.  I'll condense the point down for you.  I don't mind political humor, at all.  I do mind hacky, unclever and obvious jokes spouted to get cheap applause.  There's a reason stand up comics hate hacks.  Hacks kill because they go for cheap laughs, that doesn't make them good.  I suppose I could condense this point even further, I hate pandering.

I don't think that I missed the point. I believe I got the point and just don't understand your viewpoint. How can you view The Colbert Report, a show that satirized the absurdity of, primarily, President Bush by caricaturing someone stupid/uninformed/naive/hyperpatriotic/silly enough to support him as clever.

But you view someone commenting on the absurdity of President Trump (and, in doing so, highlighting how stupid/uninformed/naive/hyperpatriotic/silly you'd have to be to support him) as hackery? 

Now, maybe you just enjoyed the satire side of the joke more than the straight side. That's fine. But that doesn't mean the straight version of the joke is more hackish than the satire version of the same joke.