I’m of the second view myself. From the first moment I laid eyes on him (on Saturday Night Live, natch), Miller’s preening (and entirely undeserved) smugness practically hit me like a physical slap to the face.

“Liberal” comedians sometimes go after liberals. I’ve seen some bits on the daily show., Even if I don’t like it, I can still tell it is funny.

This Fox thing is going to be a huge flop. Not a monumental flop as some cons will go out of their way to support it in spite of the lack of humor, but a huge flop nonetheless.

And it was funny. Unstoned even.

For all we know, this show could be “top cock”…

Here’s the thing: I want the conservatives to have a good comedian. I want them to be able to skewer us lefties. I want them to make us question ourselves and our actions through humour. Why? Because when we are questioned it causes us to reflect upon our actions and decide if we can continue on that same path.

Yeah, that sure worked on the Bush administration.

Ever seen lesbian comics performing at lillith fair? I have. They suck. Why? Because you don’t have to be funny to make it on the lesbian comic circuit, you only have to appease and talk about lesbian issues.

The Daily show is funny because it appeals to everyone. As long as you like satire humor, it has satire of every walk of life.

A Fox comedy show only has to appeal to Fox viewership’s issues to be considered funny by them. However, Fox viewership’s sense of humor will never be considered funny by the mainsteam because:

1) Above all else, Fox cannot laugh at itself. You can’t make fun of others without making yourself look bad too or you’re a dick. Carlos Mencia has a hit show (even though I think he sucks donkey balls as a comic) and people don’t call him a bastard because he lampoons himself and his group as much as others. Fox will NEVER do this.
2) Most Fox viewers are elderly( not old, realy old), and the elderly don’t really like satire because satire is too subtle and the elderly don’t think in those terms too well. It’s a generational thing. If you don’t make fun of yourself, and you can’t do subtle/satire well, you can’t be funny in today’s terms. If comedy was still about falling down onto a pie, Fox wold rule. But times have changed. Thus, Fox will do ‘mean’ and calls it satire because subtlety is lost on their viewership.

And since a well-developed frontal lobe is what differentiates our brains from those of the apes and other lower primates, it’s also what makes us uniquely human. Higher level cognitive functions like empathy, imagination, judgement, and a sense of humor have all been mapped to the frontal lobe.

See? I’ve explained why wingnuts lack empathy, imagination, judgement, and a sense of humor while I’ve also applied the concept of evolution.

That’s what we call a two-fer.