Comedy and culture are intimately intertwined. If you want to see the direction of a country, look at the comedians who are breaking out.
FACT-O-RAMA! George Carlin was once a short-haired, suit-wearing, Las Vegas comedian. He saw the culture changing, grew out his hair, and started doing jokes about the Vietnam War.
Some people consider Stephen Colbert to be a groundbreaking comedian. Others believe he is was nothing more than a vomitous, propaganda fountain for the Democrats, globalists, and the Operation Mockingbird media mudpuppies who lie to their lickspittles on 24-hour "news" networks.
If you were to ask me, a 36-year veteran of stand-up comedy, "Hey KDJ, what's the most cringey, pukey, attempt at comedy you've ever seen? Something so bad that the comedian involved should be drummed out of comedy and forced to clean chicken-deboning machines in a food processing plant in deep Alabama with no air conditioning for the rest of they/them's life, "I would say, 'Watch THIS!"
Now let's step back a bit. I have done some bad jokes. Every comedian has. I have also done gigs so tragic that I was happy no one videotaped.
FACT-O-RAMA! I once performed on a moving "booze train" in Pennsylvania that was hosting a 40th high school reunion. I was told to go car to car, telling jokes. Simultaneously, there was a magician and a "murder mystery" troupe doing the same thing. The audience wanted to catch up with old friends and mocked each of us as we went car-to-car. I eventually bought two beers, hid in the caboose, and wondered if I should quit comedy and consider a career as a pig slop processor. Bonus fact: That caboose was used to deliver the Rolling Stones to Philly to kick off their "Steel Wheels" tour in 1989.
Colbert was comedically horrific, but what he did on air wasn't comedy. It was nothing more than Democratic Party agitprop disguised as "humor." And I thoroughly believe he was funded by someone/thing other than CBS, the network that finally canned the man who did more to kill the late-night comedy model than anyone else, including Chevy Chase.
Once upon a time, before Donald Trump was president, Colbert was rumored to be facing cancellation because his ratings were lower than his comedy standards. That is the point, I suspect, that Colbert was given an offer he can't refuse: get canceled or get Trump.
This was the last episode of Colbert's propaganda fest that I watched. As a comedian and an American, I found the bit below to be not only tragically unamusing but also insanely disrespectful.
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As a New York-based comedian, I was aware that Colbert's show had been hemorrhaging money and viewers for years, but it continued anyway. How does a show that is losing $40-$50 million per year continue?
According to scores of folks on X, there may have been some cheddar flowing in from USAID, and once that was closed, Colbert's show was doomed.
Is it really improbable that the Biden administration would spend our tax dollars to support a show that spews liberal dogma (psssst, like NPR and PBS)? No, it isn't.
It also doesn't seem likely that any human with a pulse (much less someone from the vaunted 18-49 demographic) would care what Samantha Power (who?) has to say about Trump defending USAID, and yet, there is this:
If that boosterism didn't put you to sleep, check out the televised roofie of an episode Colbert did with serial liar Adam Schiff:
However, a broader picture of comedy is being painted these days.
Two days before Colbert's career was executed, right-leaning comedian Shane Gillis, who was once fired from "Saturday Night Live" for something he said years earlier in a podcast (he did a joke that included him speaking with a Chinese accent), hosted the ESPY Awards show and killed doing jokes that, one year ago, would have had him branded a "bigot" and relegated to cleaning porta potties.
Gillis's return to televised comedy and Colbert's fall, which occurred roughly two days apart, is a crystal-clear indication that American culture is changing for the better.
Woke comedians will no longer dominate the late-night shows, not just because woke is dying like a worm under a magnifying glass, but also because I suspect the late-night comedy show model is destined for the tarpits.
And yes, woke is dying. If you aren't convinced, ask yourself this: how did a banned, right-wing, "racist" comedian make it to the ESPYS — not to mention returning to host "Saturday Night Live" — while the Left's darling brainswasher, Colbert, gets "et tu-ed" by CBS?
LAUGH-O-RAMA! You can see me doing my edgy, completely unwoke, insurrectionist comedy act at the Wheeling Casino in West Virginia on August 15.
The culture is changing, and comedy, yet again, is weathervaning the direction into which we are headed, and I believe Trump is responsible.
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Trump used his time between his terms and his court appearances to direct the culture away from woke and back into common sense.
PINK-O-RAMA! "Woke" was nothing more than a means by which to control people and keep them from complaining about the crimes committed by other cultures. People who resisted "woke" could be fired. In the UK, people are jailed for "inappropriate" memes that question the Muslim rape epidemic. Killing "woke" was a key move needed to wrestle our nation back from the far-left skanks of the Democratic Party.
The notion that creepy, pig-tailed dudettes don't belong in women's locker rooms was once considered the thoughts of a maniacal bigot. Now, once again, it's just common sense, and only a blue-haired milksop would disagree.
Woke is dead; long live freedom of speech.
