• slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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    8 days ago

    If you ever heard real right wing comedy, it makes sense that normal comedians try to tap into that well.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      7 days ago

      you should really elaborate more, the only people/comedians that go fore “anti-woke” jokes are right wingers themselves, or they were closeted right wingers. you might be confused by comedians that has a veneer of "punching Up).

        • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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          7 days ago

          So they would sell out just like that and suddenly promote an extreme ideology while alienating most of their potential audience?

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                6 days ago

                The comedians Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and others decided that alienating their fan base by accepting an egregious amount of money from the conservative monarchy of Saudi Arabia may not be in the room with us right now, probably because he’s on the other side of the Atlantic.

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                  6 days ago

                  IDK under what rock you’ve been living to not see that Bill Burr is actually speaking out a lot more than most against these fascists or that Chapell has been a right-wing douche since forever.
                  So you have nothing

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                    6 days ago

                    Right, and he seems to be willing to throw away the audience he built for “speaking out” in favor of a check from the crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. I won’t assume what is and isn’t genuine from Dave Chappelle but to pretend like his bigoted takes aren’t a recent shift is wild. All that being said I have no stake in this argument, I was a fan and all I’m saying is that I am not surprised. Just disappointed.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      I think you need to clarify… Is it because right wing comedy is just so good that they want to participate, or that right wing comedy is so terrible it’s a ripe opportunity to be a gigantic fish in a small crappy pond?