Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 December 2023

PEOPLE DOING GOOD WORK 1: ANITA'S HALL OF SOCIAL JUSTICE & INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISM

I thought I would draw attention to people doing good work to combat the Left both in real life and on the internet. One of the main reasons the Overton Window keeps moving ever leftwards is the fact that the Right seemed to lose its sense of humour after the death of G K Chesterton. Rightist humour was marginalised in all public high-cultural spheres, meaning it became the preserve of the working class, in whose Working Men's Clubs stand-up comedians told jokes that would be deemed a selection of adjectives ending in -phobic and -ist. This form of humour, in being working class, became an easy target for the middle-class Leftists who came to dominate television by the 1980s. It was derided as lowbrow and cretinous, like the working class themselves were portrayed, even as Leftist middle-class comedians targeted that bane of the working class Margaret Thatcher. By extension, the morality of ethnocentrism and traditional social norms that underpinned such working-class humour became derided and perceived as lowbrow and cretinous in its associations with the lower classes.

 

 

Friday, 23 June 2023

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY XXXV: ALTERNATIVE COMEDY?

A quick look at a representative sketch from Not the Nine O'Clock News, a so-called alternative comedy sketch show that ran from 1979 to 1982 and the extreme Leftist politics contained therein: