Why did mainstream humor die?
Globohomo killed it
Mainstream humor is dead (and has been dead for years now), and globohomo killed it. RIP.
I’m not a comedian — my writing can occasionally be funny, but almost as an involuntary blackpilled nihilistic groan — and I’ve never been into the comedy scene of stand-up, late-night talk shows, or even focused much on mainstream film or television comedies. This post isn’t meant to be comprehensive. But even for those who don’t seek it out, it’s obvious that globohomo has basically banned humor in the West and that this happened sometime in the last ten or fifteen years. Comedy involves pointing out hidden truths about society, but pointing out such truths carries a risk to one’s livelihood now. Cancellation is an ever-present risk, as argued in 2021 by Chris Rock. When is the last funny movie or television show that you’ve seen? I can’t think of any. Death by wokeness, sponsored by Pfizer.
There’s multi-faceted reasons for the death of mainstream comedy. Here are some:
White Christians who used to rule society enjoyed a gentle ribbing. John Cleese is a perfect example of this; he made fun of society’s rulers but he did it from a good-spirited place of fun. “I suspect I should apologise for my affection for the Englishness of my upbringing, but in some ways I found it calmer, more polite, more humorous, less tabloid, and less money-oriented than the one that is replacing it.” Our former upper class rulers were Prep and Jock cliques and they had an element of noblisse oblige in their outlook.1 Our current overlords, mostly Jewish central bank owners who are Nerd or Loser cliques, cannot stand being pointed out or made fun of. Cleese doesn’t understand where humor has gone; he misses the people in charge he used to make fun of.
John Cleese, good guy Due to the egalitarian ratchet effect the intensity of society’s egalitarianism doubles down and intensifies on itself over time. White Christians were an easy attack vector because they did indeed have privilege historically, just as any majority in a society built for them would have privilege; it’s only natural. However, anyone with an IQ above plant life understands by now that white male Christians are the most discriminated against group in the country. Trying to argue that white Christians now have privilege rings both false and hollow, which isn’t funny (as, again, humor involves the verbalization of hidden societal truths). Howard Stern is a great example of this principle: he has become a globohomo apparatchik without either humor or relevance, going on endless extreme anti-white rants that no one listens to despite pretending to be a man of the people in prior eras.
Loud-mouthed power-hungry hypocrite Consider Larry David, who goes on unhinged real life rants against perceived Trump supporters (even though Dershowitz is not a Trump fan). What kind of humor can one derive from something like this? Perhaps this is why Curb Your Enthusiasm is ending, although it hasn’t been funny for years. Or look at South Park, which also hasn’t been funny in well over a decade (or so I assume, as I havn’t watched it in years), stuck in its ludicrous and irrelevant 90s libertarianism.
Yawn As a corollary to the above, younger generations have simply lost their sense of humor as they have become brainwashed into intersectionality politics. Everything must be viewed first through the lens of oppressor/oppression and that takes away tremendously from humor. This is a point that Jerry Seinfeld (who I don’t think is very funny, although I’ve always liked the show Seinfeld) has made:
“I hear that all the time,” Seinfeld said on The Herd with Colin Cowherd. “I don’t play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me, ‘Don’t go near colleges. They’re so PC.'” Seinfeld says teens and college-aged kids don’t understand what it means to throw around certain politically-correct terms. “They just want to use these words: ‘That’s racist;’ ‘That’s sexist;’ ‘That’s prejudice,'” he said. “They don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.”
Women aren’t funny as a general rule, and due to globohomo demands they are being aggressively pushed into prominent roles as staff writer, story editor, executive story editor, producer, show runner, etc. See page 8 here:
American humor doesn’t translate well globally — humor is local or regional — so media corporations prefer to focus on genres that have universal appeal such as action or horror. China is an increasing part of the world marketplace for film and they basically only accept brainless de-politicized mega-picture action films.
The West is currently undergoing a forced decline from a high standard of living to a low one and this is inherently extremely un-fun and unpleasant, especially when society is so secular and Godless. So everyone is dour, kind of scared and pissed off, but the energy is formless and directionless because people are retarded and don’t know what to point to. We are seeing a lot of on-edge people lashing out in anger, getting huge amounts of tattoos and listening to mumble rap as unsuccessful attempts to cope with this increased pressure.
There is another element to this too: a lot of the humor from older films and television doesn’t seem quite so funny when seen from the current lens. For example, take the comedy classic Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield. When watched today, one can’t help but notice the themes: Jewish Rodney Dangerfield and his son overturn stuffy white Christian establishment norms and steal the white Christian girlfriends of said establishment. The film feels extremely malicious on re-watch. Or look at funny “comedies” like the television show Friends: here it’s creator apologized for having an all white/Jewish cast and gave $4 million to Brandeis to support non-whites.
Even the sex comedies of the early 2000s take on a sinister light when viewed in hindsight, promoting casual sex, promiscuity, and served as a red (district) flashing light of extreme societal decadence.
As blogger “Pumpkin Person” writes, “The 20th century has been a period of great social change. Feminism, civil rights, gay rights, affirmative action, mass immigration, rock and roll, hip-hop, the welfare state, transgender people, secularism, [porn] etc…When a single theory unifies so many disparate facts, Occam’s razor demands we consider it. When one looks at all the social changes of the last 50 years, what they all seem to have in common is the subversion of white population growth. Feminism gave white women careers, making them much less likely to have white babies. Civil rights, hip-hop, rock ‘n’ roll, and affirmative action increased the sexual market value of black men at the expense of white men, thus decreasing white male fertility. The rise of gays, transgender people and secularism gave millions of whites permission to abandon a traditional family lifestyle, thus damaging their genetic fitness. Meanwhile, the welfare state encouraged poor women (who tend to be non-white) to have more children and mass immigration spread non-white genes into traditionally white countries.”
Humor still exists, of course. It’s just that it is found in odd and random places and is not establishment-linked. It is found almost exclusively among the non-establishment dissident right, which is a small community. 4chan, small Twitter posters, non-Reddit/Facebook forums and random memes still have humor sprinkled throughout. The left can’t meme and they have no humor today. Because the personal has become the political in the modern era, especially after the COVID scam, humor today has become associated with political resistance to the establishment. I suspect this trend will only continue to grow as globohomo continues its transition from a soft power model to a hard power boot-on-your-face model.
I thought this video about whether an actor should support Israel or Palestine back in October was funny because it highlighted certain uncomfortable truths:
Hopefully society can find its way back toward incorporating humor, because this grim globohomo-blown out neoliberal feudalism Hellhole sucks. Although I think things will instead get worse and even less funny.
Thanks for reading.
Great minds think alike, comrade. Leftist clapter is cringe, not comedy. SNL is the Harvard of comedy shows: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-tell-a-joke-comedy-clapter-cringe-snl
I'm not a comedian either, I'm rather silly than funny, but...
I worked in media for a while in the last century. People always complained about content. They wrote angry letters, they threatened to complain to the government, United Nations or the pope, they told they «won't leave it like that». Usually they'd be sent some bland boilerplate response about «how much we value your opinion», and by the time the letter made the round-trip, they would've been already calmed down. Sometimes it'd take two rounds but it rarely went anywhere.
Social networks changed a lot. They lowered the transaction costs for public petitioning, hence more complaints are public now; they made communication faster and thus made it easier to maintain the temperature of outrage. Heckler's veto just became technically easier, that's it.