Did you know there's a conservative answer to Jon Stewart and the Daily Show?
Here's some samples of the humor.
The show seems to have launched last month. So, being it's a conservative show, what kind of topical subject matter would it pick to poke fun at? Why, New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, of course.
He starts off by saying how much he loves New Orleans.
It's as if God said what would happen if I took a French guy and a hillbilly and smashed them together -- that's how he made Cajuns.
(Mouths some bad stereotyped witticisms in bad Cajun accent.)
Hurricane Katrina was horrible, but never fear, the government was going to fix everything.
The government spent billions of dollars to fix "everything" - did it work? Of course not - this is the government we're talking about.....
If you took all that money and put it directly into the accounts of the people who lived in New Orleans when the hurricane hit, they'd all be hundreds of thousands of dollars richer. And you know what they would have done with all that do-re-mi? They would have moved away from New Orleans...
Each Cajun would have had his own space shuttle. It would have been up on blocks, but...
(Mouths more bad stereotyped witticisms in bad Cajun accent.)
I. Am. Not. Kidding.
That's the level of humor.
This makes me wonder about several things.
One, is conservative political humor an oxymoron, an impossible thing? It seems like political humor has to juxtapose sordid reality with some kind of ideal or truth to get its laugh. The conservative ideal seems to be life as it was a hundred years ago -- nasty, brutish, and short for most people, and untrammeled wealth and power for the few. The "free market" and the virtues of selfishness just aren't great ideals to contrast with sordid reality.
Two, if you're within the conservative worldview, is this stuff actually funny? There is some laughing going on, with a live audience, so evidently some people must find it funny. Maybe if all you have to hear is "government" to feel scorn, you might be primed to find humor in it. But it's just scoffing, really, not satire or incisive humor that gets to the heart of an issue the way Jon Stewart's does. Conservatives obviously get that, or they wouldn't be trying to find or make their own version of what he does.
For all conservatives say they're so representative of the majority, I do have to wonder. The shows are on Youtube, and they get a couple of hundred to a couple of thousand views -- easily beat by your average cat video. This particular clip, which was featured on Democratic Underground, has over 15,000 views.
I actually kind of feel sorry for the dude. Not to be petty or anything, but he's the new conservative Jon Stewart and he's got all of 114 followers on Twitter.