South Park is downright hilarious
Team America rocks!!!!!
Carlin made some genius points regarding the nature of politics in America, although he was a bit overly vulgar for my tastes. As it has been stated, comedians tend to tread a fine line, insuring that they do not alienate their audience by taking explicit sides.
"America, *** yeah, comin in to save the muthafuckin day yeah, America, *** yeah, freedom is the only way..."
Don't forget the mormonism episode. That one was genius as well.
You can't take the sky from me.
Taelor: Don't forget the mormonism episode. That one was genius as well.
Rainforest Schmainforest was my favorite episode. It makes fun of people who care more about the rainforest than poor people, even though they've never even been there.
"I cannot prove, but am prepared to affirm, that if you take care of clarity in reasoning, most good causes will take care of themselves, while some bad ones are taken care of as a matter of course." -Anthony de Jasay
If were going to go the tv show route: Firefly is pretty funny; it's also has a noticable libertarian slant.
Stolz2525:When it comes to political comedy, I prefer the Daily Show and Colbert Report even though they both are obviously biased to the left.
I stopped watching Colbert after I heard him blame the Civil War (and all its associated death and destruction) on the seceding states. I can't remember the exact context (it was some time ago), but his comments disgusted me so thoroughly that I couldn't find him funny anymore.
I have the entire series.
The movie was even more noticably libertarian, with it's heros trying to break a government cover-up, and it's villian spouting "The Ends Justify the Means" bs.
"You know what your sin is Malcolm?"
"Hell, I'm a fan of all seven!"
(fights government killer for a second)
"Right now I'm going to have to go with Wrath!"
Nitroadict:For a Conservative, I thought the Colin Quinn undertaking known as "Tough Crowd" was uncharactertistically open-minded; he came off more about being a blue-collar worker than Conservative, imo. The debates / arguments were messy & obviously biased but it was brilliant (& highly under-rated) comedy.Hopefully, it is released on DVD soon.
I'll accept blue-collar over conservative, he did seem to support the Bush administration from what I saw on Tough Crowd. On one particular episode he did an impressive job standing up Jeanine Gerofalo, Al Franken, and two other liberals. I kind of miss that show.
Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même
*boinks the loony left*
*boinks the crunchy cons*
Nitroaddict,
You're right..I was remembering a very good and humurous reception of Ron Paul on Maher's show.
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Jon Stewart is one of the worst late night hosts. All he does is pander to the audience with he jeers at what he considers the "right." Stephen Colbert is actually funny and when he does interviews, his conservative persona oftens puts his guest off guard with not knowing how to respond.
Does anyone else watch Red Eye on Fox News?
CopperHead:I saw colbert's show the other night and he actually mocked the people who were making fun of Obama's ridiculous "inflate your tires" energy plan.
Yes, but he did go on to mock the tire guage energy plan himself later on in the show at the end of the word segment. I really don't think either one of them tell jokes in the traditional sense, but I enjoy both shows in different a different light. Also, after watching a 60 minutes interview with Colbert I was really surprised how much work he actually puts into the show. Perhaps Jon Stewart just shows up and reads the teleprompter like you suggest, but I doubt it.
Either way, I didn't claim that these two were conservatives, only that they had no problem making fun of both sides when they do something stupid. Both Stewart and Colbert have made jokes about the media's love affair with Obama in the past few weeks, as well as him being for hope and change and not much else. They are both obviously liberal though, and I watch them in the same light as I would watch O'reilly on the other side (if he were funny and I actually enjoyed watching him yell down people).
Morty:I stopped watching Colbert after I heard him blame the Civil War (and all its associated death and destruction) on the seceding states. I can't remember the exact context (it was some time ago), but his comments disgusted me so thoroughly that I couldn't find him funny anymore.
I must have missed that one, and he has definitely said some things I find distasteful (also when you watch his show online right now there is an ad about global warming....). He's just the only political commentary I also find funny. I mentioned Stewart earlier, though honestly I haven't watched the Daily Show much since Colbert has been on because I rarely watch more than 30 minutes of television a day. Most of my memories of the Daily Show are from 2-3 years ago, and I might have quite a bit different perspective on it now.
I'd offer P.J. O'Rourke as a right-wing comedian. Dave Barry is a very funny libertarian.
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