The Left’s Sense Of Humor April 30, 2011
Posted by Cory Franklin in Uncategorized.trackback
Boy, do I want my blogmate to read this when he gets back. Someone in Britain called a prominent woman “dear” and she got all bent out of shape. An editorialist:
I suspect even Dave has the manners not to address a woman with whom he is not well acquainted as “dear” except in jest. His mistake, however, was to think that these people are easy-going types who like a laugh. He has, at least, now admitted he realises that the Left doesn’t have a sense of humour.
In that, Dave and I are in rare agreement. Lefties, with one or two notable exceptions, are a sour, boot-faced lot. They are inevitably so because they are motivated by grievance and envy, neither of which is a sentiment guaranteed to put joy in one’s heart. They seek offence where none is intended; they strive to suppress individuality of expression; they like to control others. Humour, whose main purpose throughout existence has been to deflate such priggish, pompous and sour attitudes, is therefore the enemy of militant Lefties, who wish to standardise attitudes and behaviour, and whose political project is to enforce and inflict as much control as possible over others.
One reason why any “comedy” programme on Radio 4 is unlistenable is that the “comedians” on it, restricted to a narrow range of targets, are about as funny as putting one’s head in a mincer. For generations our humour was based on the quirks of foreigners, something the Left regards as making us racists. Funny, then, that a nation almost entirely without humour – Germany – was responsible for the most notorious genocide in history, while we, the supposedly racist jesters, were the people who fought against it.
Comedians who are not Leftists have more or less been driven out of business. Bernard Manning was martyred in this cause. Jim Davidson is in the process of following him, not because he isn’t funny, but because he was a strong supporter of Mrs Thatcher. Long after she left office, the spiteful little creeps who form the “comedy” establishment of this country would get laughs from their bovine audiences simply by mentioning her name. When they became too young to remember her, the words “George Bush” were used to the same effect. That is what Dave is up against.
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