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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

fuck i hate comedians.. i watched a special of hers just about a month ago after not having heard anything from her in like 10 years and i actually laughed out loud a number of times. Most comedians don't really make me laugh out loud so I was surprised. Then the murderous isn'treal kicks off their genocide and she's right there to throw her support behind it. Fucking hell.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

even comedians that have the occasional "good take" tend to devolve into a sort of petty individualistic nihilism on a number of other issues. Comedians are afraid of doing anything other than petty individualistic nihilism because their job is to make the largest group of people possible laugh, even if that group of people is full of sadists, bootlickers, and exploiters. Standup comedy is descended from 1800s vaudeville and minstrel shows so it's always been about preying on the reactionary instincts of an undifferentiated audience.

I liked standup when I was 10-15 years old but it soured on me as I got older.