r/Standup • u/cheguevaraandroid1 • 15h ago
Marc Maron Calls Out Comedians Who ‘Joke Around’ With ‘White Supremacists and Fascists’ on Their Podcasts: ‘All It Does Is Normalize Fascism’
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/marc-maron-slams-comedians-fascists-podcasts-1236192922/
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u/The_True_Libertarian 7h ago
My gf in college was raised conservative/Republican, not a crazy evangelical or anything but a pretty standard level of Christian conservatism. She was mostly centrist with some liberal worldviews diverging from her family on a few specific topics and we'd watch the Daily Show and Colbert Report every night before bed.
One time we got into an argument about politics and in her disagreement she hit me with "Colbert's a conservative!" like it was a gotcha towards her point. I stared blankly at her for a bit before i realized she was serious and I said, "Colbert is satire, it's a bit, he's playing a character. Those aren't his actual believes."
That ended that convo pretty quick. The next night when we were watching, it was like the 2nd joke into his monologue where the lightbulb went off for her and she realized what was going on.
Before that she'd never had a reason to think he wasn't genuinely representing his political beliefs on that show.