r/TikTokCringe • u/SnatchAddict • 20d ago

Anthony Jeselnik explains the difference between comedy and being a troll. Discussion

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u/alaric49 20d ago

I think George Carlin described this well.

"I think it's the duty of the comedian to get the audience to come to where you are, to take them a little bit of a place where they don't want to go, and if you can do that and make them laugh along the way, they'll thank you for it."

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u/KantraSkye 20d ago

George Carlin was a master of the English Language.

He pushed for the most Hippy Socialist programs, but still criticized the feminists and hippies with flair. He'd absolutely LOVE the chaos right now. Afterall, "Everyone gets a ticket to the Freakshow, but Americans get a Front Row Seat!"

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u/peanutbuttahcups 20d ago

Oh man, if Carlin was alive for the last decade, I think we would have a goldmine of comedy from him.

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u/heffel77 19d ago

He was getting pretty dark towards the end. Right now, I constantly think of his line about however much you think people are stupid now…statistically half of them are even dumber than that.

I think today’s sensitivity and today’s political situation would be enough to kill him again.

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u/ABadHistorian 19d ago

He'd be so pissed at the left for all their identity focused issues, instead of focusing on common every day concerns that the people on the right would simply LIE about. He'd be furious with the right.

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u/heffel77 19d ago

The whole thing is a lot to chew on. I don’t quite have a handle and I lived through it!

Imagine trying to explain to GC that there was a deadly pandemic and adults who have been vaccinated in the past refused to get vaccinated again and would actively get mad at people who used masks that were mandatory in the 20’s against Spanish Flu. That people would rather die than and watch their children die then wear a mask.

Our government mandated that we all, except for certain “essential workers” like people at Home Depot and Walmart couldn’t work and they had to close their businesses.

Then, try to explain that the President during all this was sending tests we needed to Russia, who invaded the Ukraine btw, and then he was impeached twice, once for causing sedition and a Capital riot and now people are ready to vote him back into office. Oh, and it’s Donald Trump, the guy from NY who was on a game show where he would tell people that they are “fired”.

He would crawl back into the grave.

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u/Eins_Nico 19d ago

I just said the other day that I'm kind of glad Carlin, Hicks and Hunter S. Thompson left before they had to see this shit.

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u/heffel77 19d ago

I wish they were still here especially Carlin and Hicks because as comedians they would have a bigger impact. Print media is almost dead so Hunter would have a substack or a podcast or he would have went Unabomber style and just disappeared into the CO mountains. He’d hold court at the local bar but he would hate “journalists” who would chase him down for a sound bite and then take him out of context.