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Comedy is only ever funny when it punches upwards, that’s why the powerful tend to be targets of humorists. Will be interesting to see what gets axed, & even more so what on earth will be commissioned to take its place. Can anyone give me any egs of truly funny right wing comedy? https://twitter.com/thattimwalker/status/1300545013332488193
I just wasted 10 minutes of my life looking for a funny right wing joke. Every article I looked at was just a turgid critique along the lines of “The Right can be funny! We really can. Really funny. Funnier than the Left, who aren’t that funny. It’s true. But I have no examples.”
Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of people on the Left who think they’re funny but really aren’t. But I can think of a single funny right wing comic who’s actually funny. Or even a single joke.
Twitter Challenge: give us a funny right wing joke. Go!
Twitter Challenge: give us a funny right wing joke. Go!
Most right wing jokes seem to be in “How many X does it take to Z?” format. Which is pretty dull let’s be frank.
Only good one is:
“How many punks does it take to change a light bulb?”
“Ten. One to change the bulb, 9 to kick the chair out from underneath & then stomp on him.”
Only good one is:
“How many punks does it take to change a light bulb?”
“Ten. One to change the bulb, 9 to kick the chair out from underneath & then stomp on him.”
Even Right Wing media don’t think Right Wing comedians are funny, even ones that were lionised for their former ‘comic genius’. I mean, Basil Fawlty was funny bc we laughed AT his right wing racism. Now Cleese actually IS right wing, he’s an utter bore. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/what-to-see/john-cleese-no-hope-review-cadogan-hall-wretched-sight-national/
Come on @bentleybrowning, here’s a challenge for your comedy chops (and possibly a BBC show if you get it going on): got any ideas for some good right wing jokes? Anything?
How about...
“Why did the chicken cross the road?”
“To create an opportunity for Government to cut road tax & release the potential of the free market.”
Hmmm. Needs work.
“Why did the chicken cross the road?”
“To create an opportunity for Government to cut road tax & release the potential of the free market.”
Hmmm. Needs work.
How about...
“It’s 1978 &, post-Watergate, Richard Nixon is down on his luck & having to work as a waiter in a diner that sells jacket potatoes with a variety of toppings. What’s the company’s slogan?
“Slaw & Order!”
“It’s 1978 &, post-Watergate, Richard Nixon is down on his luck & having to work as a waiter in a diner that sells jacket potatoes with a variety of toppings. What’s the company’s slogan?
“Slaw & Order!”
Tough audience tonight.
You don’t deserve me. I’m going to bed. Don’t come running to me when they give Jacob Rees Mogg & Dido Harding their own sitcom on BBC1: “Only the Cruel And Horses”.
This said, there were some brilliant anti-Soviet jokes back in the day. But that was only because, again, they were punching up against the regime with power. Ergo, I suppose what needs to happen is that the Left will have to get power so that the Right can then have the Comedy!
A schoolboy writes in his essay: “My cat had 7 kittens. They’re communist.”
Next week, boy writes: “my cat’s kittens are capitalist.”
Teacher asks him to explain sudden change. “Last week, they were all communists!”
Boy nods. “They were, but this week they opened their eyes.”
Next week, boy writes: “my cat’s kittens are capitalist.”
Teacher asks him to explain sudden change. “Last week, they were all communists!”
Boy nods. “They were, but this week they opened their eyes.”
This is one of the best Soviet-era jokes (lots of variants on it, but this is basic shape):
‘A man walks into a shop. He asks the clerk, “You don’t have any meat?” The clerk says, “No, here we don’t have any fish. The shop that doesn’t have any meat is across the street.”’
‘A man walks into a shop. He asks the clerk, “You don’t have any meat?” The clerk says, “No, here we don’t have any fish. The shop that doesn’t have any meat is across the street.”’
This type is also a favourite of mine:
‘An American dog, a Polish dog & a Soviet dog sit together. The American dog says “In my country if you bark long enough, you will be heard & given some meat”. The Polish dog replies “What is ‘meat’?” The Soviet dog says “What is ‘bark’?”’
‘An American dog, a Polish dog & a Soviet dog sit together. The American dog says “In my country if you bark long enough, you will be heard & given some meat”. The Polish dog replies “What is ‘meat’?” The Soviet dog says “What is ‘bark’?”’
Some Russian jokes cane easily be made apply to Britain these days:
‘Enclosed: Boris Johnson’s plan for the new post-Covid economy. The goal? Make people rich and happy. (List of people attached.)’
‘Enclosed: Boris Johnson’s plan for the new post-Covid economy. The goal? Make people rich and happy. (List of people attached.)’
Man walks into shoe shop. He says: “Give me a pair of shoes, please.”
“What size, Sir?”
“I wear a 10 but I’ll take a five.”
“Why, sir? They’re for someone else?”
“For me. They’ll be too tight but when I take them off, it’ll be the one moment of pleasure I experience all day.”
“What size, Sir?”
“I wear a 10 but I’ll take a five.”
“Why, sir? They’re for someone else?”
“For me. They’ll be too tight but when I take them off, it’ll be the one moment of pleasure I experience all day.”
Dominic Cummings delivers a speech to a large audience at No.10.
Suddenly someone sneezes.
Dom Cummings: Who sneezed?
Everyone is shaking, and no one dares to confess.
DC: Civil Servants, rise & leave. You’ll be shot.
(Applause)
DC: So, who sneezed?
Silence.
(Part 1 of 2)
Suddenly someone sneezes.
Dom Cummings: Who sneezed?
Everyone is shaking, and no one dares to confess.
DC: Civil Servants, rise & leave. You’ll be shot.
(Applause)
DC: So, who sneezed?
Silence.
(Part 1 of 2)
DC: SPADs, rise and leave. You’ll be shot.
(Ovation, shouts: ‘Hail great Cummings!’)
DC: So who sneezed?
A Cabinet Minister rises in the back row, shaking: It was me, sorry…
Cummings: No big deal. Bless you, comrade!
(Ovation, shouts: ‘Hail great Cummings!’)
DC: So who sneezed?
A Cabinet Minister rises in the back row, shaking: It was me, sorry…
Cummings: No big deal. Bless you, comrade!
2021, two BBC Commissioning Editors bump into each other at Soho House. One is laughing out loud.
‘Hello Piers, what you’re laughing at?’
‘Never mind Tarquin, I just heard the funniest joke ever!’
‘Tell me!’
‘No, I can’t, I just cancelled a leftie comedian for telling it…’
‘Hello Piers, what you’re laughing at?’
‘Never mind Tarquin, I just heard the funniest joke ever!’
‘Tell me!’
‘No, I can’t, I just cancelled a leftie comedian for telling it…’
‘Just know if you walk into someone’s house and they have the Soviet Union banner on the wall:
That is a big red flag.’
That is a big red flag.’
Why are members of Boris Johnson’s Cabinet so good at Geometry?
Because they have a Supreme Ruler.
Because they have a Supreme Ruler.
Why do people in the soviet union procrastinate?
Because they love Stalin
Because they love Stalin
