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Kamala Safe And In Stable Condition After Attempted Interview (babylonbee.com)

submitted 1 month ago by tux0r@feddit.org to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago

babylonbee is the onion without humour

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Boo. The babylon bee is MAGA pandering trying to pass as humor.

[+] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works -12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Okay and if it was a thinly veiled anti maga satire article people opposing it would be taking obvious jokes too seriously right?

It's a satire community on the internet, everyone gets made fun at some point including the people you like

[–] Maven@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the main problem is that Babylon Bee isn't funny...

It's really easy to make fun of anyone on the left (we do it all the time to ourselves) yet somehow 90% of the Babylon Bee is nothing more than a failed stand up comedian in a small town hoping that saying something offensive will make his parents love him.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I beleive empathy is the root of this difference. With more empathy, you can better understand how someone else might feel - why they may struggle with a situation you breeze through. Empathy pushes people left. Empathy also helps you read the room and better calculate what gets a better reaction to comedy. It helps actors get into character to live as someone else. Conservative actors get typecast quickly, often as some tough, blunt hero-of-every-story character because that's all they can aspire to be. Conservative comedians lean on an outgroup being the punchline whereas the rest of them tend to be the butt of their own joke or just describe situations. So yeah, 90% of the punchlines there will be that some type of person exists and does what a bigot expects them to do as part of their stereotype.

Robert de Niro went to theater school and played badass mafia roles. Joe Pesci was a NYC tough guy before playing one in movies. Alec Baldwin went to theater school before playing extraordinarily serious roles. Steven Segal... Just watch his karate competitions.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For a seriously in-depth dive, Some More News has an episode called Why Is Conservative Comedy So... Not Very Good? The video even has a whole section about The Babylon Bee. The TL;DW is that real comedy is about the comedy, while conservative "comedy" is all about attacking out-groups. (There's another section with examples of conservative comedians who don't do this, and are funny.)

Like in this example, I read the headline, wrinkled my brow, and thought, "Huh?" Then a few seconds later, I remembered that there was some rumbling in the news a while back about how Harris hadn't done a media interview at the time, and it must be referring to that? That makes sense as an attack, and I guess that's "funny" to an audience that just wants to see attacks on the out-group, but it's not humorous. (I mean, she's done a couple of interviews now, so it comes across as try-hard.)

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

yeah that sounds about right

[–] tux0r@feddit.org -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kamala Harris is not really an out-group now, is she?

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

Democrats are kind of the canonical out-group.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

But this isn't making fun of anyone, there's no joke.

[–] Banichan@dormi.zone 14 points 1 month ago

What in fresh hell is this bullshit?

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Seriously, this is what sociopathy looks like.

Conservatives attempt to display human-like humor, but jokes are more than just insults or a formula. A little humanity is required, which is why conservatives are so profoundly un-funny.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

You tried.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Ah yes they could have picked almost any other politician(because they all melt down from interviews) but they picked the one that has better cognitive than a monkey and id even say shes pretty smart.