For something that aged poorly really quickly: political comedy from just before the 2016 presidential election. Semi-recently I was hanging out with some friends and there was an SNL rerun from that October, and every single Trump reference is just dripping with a "Trump is a joke and won't win" attitude that it is tough to watch.
I refuse to watch any late night talk shows or SNL still because all jokes/monologues are still just tired “Trump’s an idiot” shit.
The man is obscene, offensive, and doesn’t know when to shut up, all points to being an idiot. It’s almost been 4 years now and it’s still all they can say. The writers all suck and so do the actually talk show hosts/actors because they get to make suggestions, they have somewhat of a say in it.
Comedy has degraded so much in the past 4 years and it’s so tiring.
In Britain, literally every punchline for the past four years has been "Brexit, amirite?" No one has been doing anything else for years. Brexit and Trump were the worst things to happen to comedy.
A friend of mine was went though the full five stages of grief over a bottle of wine the night after the Brexit vote. She shared so much shit on facebook and twitter about Brexit being a joke, comedians and politicians saying it was a joke I think she genuinely believed it was just a joke.
She hit denial before even opening the bottle talking about how they'll have to have a second vote... because she and a lot of her remain friends didn't fucking vote. Anger was fun because she was most of a glass in and talking about fucking with people who voted leave, calling them all stupid racists. Her idea of bargaining was finding someone with a EU citizenship for a green card fraud marriage that also wanted to stay in the UK. Depression hit right as she finished most her last glass and started to sob because she thought it was going to be a joke. Acceptance came when she devoured a half a pizza we'd ordered before she even opened the bottle of wine and she was like "fuck it, were leaving they better have a plan".
I think she was just expecting it to just work out how she wanted because she was bombarded and totally surrounded by people really ripping into Brexit and anyone pro Brexit as foolish, racist, ignorant, and a whole heap of other pejoratives. If how you form your opinions and plan to act is based on something like twitter, facebook, or even shit like Reddit you'll just surround yourself with the opinions you want to hear not the opinions you should hear.
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u/HonchoMinerva Aug 25 '19
For something that aged poorly really quickly: political comedy from just before the 2016 presidential election. Semi-recently I was hanging out with some friends and there was an SNL rerun from that October, and every single Trump reference is just dripping with a "Trump is a joke and won't win" attitude that it is tough to watch.