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"surprising number of conservatives who were shown Colbert clips were oblivious to the fact that he was joking."
it's genetic. The Party of Stupid!
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/...tewart/385480/
"Dannagal Young, an assistant professor of communications at the University of Delaware, was looking into the lack of conservative comedians when she noticed studies that found liberals and conservatives seemed to have different aesthetic tastes. Conservatives seemed to prefer stories with clear-cut endings. Liberals, on the other hand, had more tolerance for a story like public radio’s Serial, which ends with some uncertainty and ambiguity. Young began to wonder whether this might explain why liberals were attracted in greater numbers to TV shows that employ irony. Stephen Colbert, for example, may say that he’s looking forward to the sunny weather that global warming will bring, and the audience members know this isn’t what he really means. But they have to wonder: Is he making fun of the kind of conservative who would say something so egregious? Or is he making fun of arrogant liberals who think that conservatives hold such extreme views?
As Young noticed, this is a kind of ambiguity that liberals tend to find more satisfying and culturally familiar than conservatives do. In fact, a study out of Ohio State University found that a surprising number of conservatives who were shown Colbert clips were oblivious to the fact that he was joking."
"surprising number of conservatives who were shown Colbert clips were oblivious to the fact that he was joking."
I think there are people who are conservative who do not identify themselves as such and vice versa.
So self indentifying is flawed imo. I know people I would identify as conservative who love the humor of both. I think Dennis Miller is hilarious and those same people who I indentified as conservative think I am liberal. I think Rush Limbaugh is funny even if he is not trying to be.
BTW very good read, thanks.
There's more Liberal political satire because it's easier to write. It's pretty easy to joke about actual Presidential candidates that believe that global warming isn't real.
"joke about actual Presidential candidates"
Colbert, Stewart ridiculed Repug and Dem politicians outside of Presidential campaigns. Satirizing the Repugs is like shooting Klowns in barrel.
VRWC-financed tea baggers and Christian Taliban (southern, rural, low-wage, low-info) Repugs, gerrymandered into safe seats and buttressed by voter suppression, have pulled the Repugs to the fringe, where their Klowns set the agenda, obstruct everything, run their Klown mouths rampantly, and show absolutely no interest in governing, since Useful Idiot St Ronnie told them that govt is the problem, to be drowned in a bathtub.
Conservatives do angry rants (real or faux) better for whatever reason. There are very few who can do real satire without being complete assholes. Apparently it's a fine line.
And this is why it's interesting.
I mean when someone like Lawrence O'Donnell goes into an angry rant it just looks silly. Jon Stewart only did it a few times a year and he was actually angrily telling jokes.
Weird dynamic.
As opposed to Jon Stewart and Bill Maher?
Do people think Colbert is funny? I think Jon Stewart and Bill Maher are funny (even if a bit too snarky), but Colbert? Not so much.
Colbert >>>> Maher for my money. I'm not even sure Maher qualifies as a comedian anymore, he appeals far more to anger and self righteousness than to humor.
What's funny about Colbert? It's a character bit that just repeated over and over.
I was amazed at how long he pulled it off. That's what separated it from The Daily Show; a different way of saying basically the same things.
You forget it's a character after a while. The segments, the writing, the improvisation were all top class. I didn't like it as much as TDS because I thought he went for low-hanging fruit too much of the time, but he was able to pull off the character while still maintaining some humanity and likability. He was never mean spirited, and never approached Bill Maher levels of haughtiness.
I don't know who real Colbert is, because I've never seen him out of character.
Stephen COAL BEAR was a fiction, mocking the rigthwingnuts, not the real Stephen Colbert. Hilarious that you think it was the real SC. Typical rightwingnuts totally lacking in sophistication, nuance, smarts.
Uh, did you take an extra re pill today?
john oliver > colbert
was never a fan of SC. always liked stewart though
Maher sucks IMO.
Dennis Miller used to be one of my favorites.
Doug Stanhope begs to differ. Unfortunately, FOX is too busy convincing themselves that Greg Gutfeld is anything other than an unfunny hack to notice.
That's because you're a republican.
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