Do conservatives have a sense of humor?

Conservative humor tends to be an oxymoron.

Great minds and all. I hate punching down satire and that's about all Republicans have.

When they can put someone down.

screwed over royally.

Not the kind of thing many people laugh at.

They are twisted, themselves.

left-leaning The Daily Show.

It was called The Half-Hour News Hour, and the title was the funniest thing about it. It consisted of kick-them-when-they're-down polemics against liberals, progressives, minorities, and poor people.

The show lasted six months because right-wingers aren't funny...

... being "politically incorrect" is fumy, but they confuse the term with merely being vulgar and cruel.

I’ve used this as a litmus test of sorts. Say something a bit ironic or maybe not too (smartassed) sarcastic. Not expecting a laugh out loud but usually a nod of the head. Those who have no reaction are almost always conservative.

In the 90’s there was another “tell” that I encountered- people who proudly announced that they didn’t watch Seinfeld were almost always conservatives.

I didn't watch the show.

It was strange to see. I’ve never watched a whole Lucy show but I don’t go around telling people that.

I didn't watch Seinfeld either.

it was like a badge of honor to say how much they hated Seinfeld. I liked it ok but many conservatives seem to have a fiery, raging, hatred against it.

But I'm not a fan of most sitcoms anyhow - they tend to get stale pretty fast.

Use of certain "arguments" too.

Discussion of a novel can be interesting. You say something sarcastic and they take it literally. You can tell they are politically conservative. Conservatives will take any sarcasm literally, to pretend you are crazy.

Also if they won't back up their point, telling you to do your own research. Saying you are being entitled to have them do your research for you. When they are the ones demanding you do their research for them. Anyone who has handy proof for their own argument will produce it

right wing show.

Unless you find Twin Peaks, 70s cop shows, MASH, and Kubrick funny. From what I see this is what most of my conservative co-workers watch. The stupidest, weirdest shit.

MASH was pretty strongly anti-war and pretty inclusive for the 70s. And if a liberal is laughing at Dr Strangelove, they don't get it. Kubrick's early stuff is pretty solidly liberal. Then he gets weird, but not conservative. And Twin Peaks? Lynch is weird as shit, but not conservative.

Other than 70s cop shows, I wouldn't call any of that stupid.

I don’t know any conservatives other than my co-workers. We are all Senior Engineers in Silicon Valley. It’s what they watch and I don’t find it enjoyable and funny in the least. So based on my limited interaction with RW nutjobs, I find their humor and viewing choices not in my taste.

Loved Twin Peaks, Mash and a bit of Kubrick.
Not so much cop shows either... although my kids like those.

What’s wrong with MASH? It wasn’t a conservative show.

It is a seventies show that is set in the fifties. Think constant sexual harassment and nicknaming one of the few black characters on the show "spearch**ker."

Dennis Miller and Kelsey Grammar.

So, no. They aren't very humorous.

When they aren't focused on "the left", they can be a riot.

When Tucker Carlson turned his ire on Kim Jong Un, it was epic.

They are also pretty adept with the memes on the forums, for better or worse.

Comedy requires truth to get the laugh. Conservatives aren't really funny because they just don't care about the truth. They just want to believe what they believe and can't handle anything that disrupts their world view.

Cynical and mean. Of no interest to me.

Usually they are on the right side of things in my opinion.

And they are geniuses at satire. I mean, they made a movie that--IN THE MOVIE--made fun of the people the were attacking the movie. That's some multi-level chess right there.

It’s definitely not for everyone (I can take it or leave it) but I definitely wouldn’t call it Republican-friendly.

"Har har har them disabled people sure is funny."

whereas satire that is usually received well is punching up.

That and they're assholes.

and like many of those on the narcissistic spectrum he has difficulty ever laughing at his own foibles or those of his right wing idols

end of that thought.

they only laugh when someone else is crying or hurt

Kicking disabled veterans out of their home on Christmas seems to give them quite the chuckle.

It punches down.

I usually put it in terms of (conservative comic strip ) Mallard Fillmore vs the non-conservative strips it was designed to "balance," like Doonesbury, Bloom County, or The Boondocks.

The latter three frequently poke(d) at political topics, but had ensemble casts that generated multiple storylines that weren't necessarily political, took potshots at some of the absurdities of their own "side," and from time to time acknowledge their biases with some self-deprecating humor. For instance, The Boondocks would poke some self-referential fun at Huey Freeman's political stridency with storylines where he's spinning conspiracy theories about Santa Claus, or how politics so crowded Jasmine out of the strip that Aaron McGruder had her reappear after two years and Huey didn't even notice she was gone.

In contrast, Mallard Fillmore has one joke: liberals are stupid, Democrats are venal, and the "reasonable people" are perpetually perplexed at how they don't implode. The laughter is more like a braying donkey than mirth-filled belly-laughs.