Comments by "A.J. Hart" (@cobbler88) on "Joe Rogan | There Aren't Many Right Wing Comedians w/Anthony Jeselnik" video.

@giancarloleon9983 As opposed to the font of non-Trump and Republicans-are-racist originality that comes fro the Left, right?
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I think you should have to be funny to a more broad spectrum to actually be considered a comedian, not just to people who agree with you on anything. It tends to make people lazy.
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@mriconoclast13 And let's be honest. I think we all kind of expected it from him. We were just kind of hoping it could be tamped down by being surrounded by others. Once he felt isolated, though, that was all she wrote.
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Simon Dewitt True. You have to sort of be in the comedian pod-verse or maybe a Steven Crowder fan to know who he is.
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I was just thinking the other day, THERE'S a guy who raced for the edge of the cliff and tossed himself over. Benjamin is funny in stretches, but was DEFINITELY one who could not afford to burn any bridges in show business.
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@IKILLMANY It's not always so obvious. At least, not when he's not technically performing. For great stretches, he's more like an insane person saying things that make you uncomfortable who occasionally throws a zinger in there.
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@giancarloleon9983 I'm afraid you're going to have to be a little more specific. You didn't really say anything there.
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Miller generally tries to avoid the labels, but strongly implies that he started as a "classic liberal" who was left behind as his people kept racing headlong toward the Far Left.
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@ben5154 He's never been wall-to-wall funny. But his specials were solid. But you had to be the type of person who could be drawn into it. His specials are different than the last couple of decades, though, where things have shifted away from jokes toward stories. His standup wasn't everyone's cup back then, so it certainly will seem odd now.
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@rumble2468 I'd contend - as he does - that he never became a conservative. He was left-of-center and stood his ground while his fellow liberals just kept walking - then racing - toward the Left.
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@rumble2468 Dennis Miller has been famous since 1985 when he became a regular on SNL. After leaving, he then had his own show for 9 seasons on HBO, ending in 2002. The second Gulf War didn't start until 2003. Sixty percent of Congressional Democrats voted in support of that use of military force, including Sens. Biden, Clinton, Kerry, Feinstein, Reid and Schumer. Not only has Miller been in the fray long enough to see his views become characterized as right-of-center as his colleagues all drifted to the Left, but support to start a war almost two decades AFTER he became a celebrity was not a partisan issue. Here endeth the lesson. Now go get your fucking shine box.
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He's broached this subject multiple times. It's not that there are no funny people on the Right. But an audience has to be willing to laugh at itself, and those on the Left do NOT have a sense of humor about themselves.
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@stevelarry3870 The Right is the butt of an overwhelming majority of the jokes told on all network and cable talk shows and late-night shows. How often has that resulted in the Right organizing to boycott a performer or network, cancel a show or declare that those jokes should not be allowed to be told? The Right generally accepts that this is the way things have been for decades and waits for other types of jokes to come around. The Left has a nervous breakdown and calls for the destruction of the offender's career while scrambling for the Vagisil.
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@stevelarry3870 Not biting on the false equivocations. And they wouldn't be necessary if I was wrong on this. It's known as the "Daily Show" approach, where a person used to say, "Jon Stewart makes equal fun of the Left AND Right" even though the attack on the Left was accusations of jaywalking while those leveled at the Right were for rape. You can carve a notch for each side, but they are not equal. While it is true that the Far Right may get squirrely, that faction is almost always quickly condemned by the other 95% of the Right. By contrast, the views of the Far Left are almost all supported by the rest of the Left, allowing for a little bickering about the means to those ends. They claim to not support AntiFa hitting people with bicycle locks, but they will still voice their reservations about Ben Shapiro being allowed to speak on a college campus. Extraneous issues such as how businesses respond aside, given that the politics are what are setting people off, they seem pretty relevant. And I stand on solid ground in putting forth that one side has almost a monopoly on oversensitivity. Take care.
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Miller generally avoids labels, but he strongly indicates that he was a "classical liberal" before all of the other people in his group left him behind as they raced to the Far Left. Of course, it probably doesn't help matters any that you need to have better than a third-grade vocabulary to understand him. :)
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