Why Do Conservatives Love Fox News' "Comedy"?
September 18, 2021
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as posted by the channelWhy are “comedians” like Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld so successful, despite being painfully unfunny? Professor Dannagal Young, a professor of Communication and Political Science at the University of Delaware joined us to discuss this question and more.
Gutfeld is essentially doing the same show as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, the only difference being that Gutfeld tries to make jokes and then laughs at what he just said. Beyond that, his irony-poisoned diatribes make it impossible to actually tell what he believes and what the joke is. Don’t worry though, your boomer grandparents who can’t remember how to change the channel away from Fox News definitely understand where the jokes begin and end.
Another key thing is that Gutfeld doesn’t have much capacity for empathy, which apparently conservatives are into. It’s pretty easy to make mean and cruel jokes at other people’s expense when you don’t think they’re real people. Of course we can all be less than empathetic at one time or another, but lacking empathy certainly isn’t a key foundational belief for many on the left.
The Bitchuation Room was joined by Professor Dannagal Young. Professor Young is a Communication and Political Science professor at the University of Delaware where she studies the content, audience, and effects of nontraditional political information. Her book "Irony and Outrage" examines satire and outrage as the logical extensions of the respective psychological profiles of liberals and conservatives. Follow her on Twitter here
Also in TBR is Jesse Fernandez. Jesse teaches comedy at Google, and has written for the Channel, Words With Friends Game Show, MSN, Starbucks, Hitachi, and one of the most classic websites on the internet, eBaum’s World. He was also a writer and producer for the awardwinning news comedy show Newsbroke on AJ+ (hosted by Francesca Fiorentini). Follow him on Twitter here
Recorded September 14, 2021
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