Truth matters in comedy where you have a message (Mitch Hedberg, for example, is excepted).
If you are trying to deliver a message, that requires that your basis for that message be true. Basically, if you're speaking truth to power, it kind of matters that it actually be true.
The Daily Show almost always had a message (and it is notable that when it didn't they could get VERY silly very fast). Therefore they had to actually try to be accurate. That Hasan does not get this is concerning.
The left-wing trend toward making it all about feelings has been extremely unwise, given they could see how it was working out for the right wing - i.e. whenever it was about feelings the right wing won. You can reason people out of conservative impulses. You cannot feel them out of conservative impulses.
> As these shows grew in popularity and number, some comedians whispered their annoyances, most famously for “clapter”. As described by Tina Fey: My friend, SNL writer Seth Meyers, coined the term clapter, which is when you do a political joke and people go, "Woo-hoo." It means they sort of approve but didn't really like it that much. You hear a lot of that on [whispers] The Daily Show.
Tina Fey already explained that that quote was misreported almost sixteen years ago.
This is not a good look to be pushing inaccuracies in which you're putting a comedian under the microscope for punching up a story in their act.
> Fact-checkers were necessary, but it’s unlikely they made the show funnier. Facts, messy and complicated and unsatisfying as they are, often can’t hit us at a gut level.
They do, but the jokes have to actually be witty, and not just stuff like this:
> By my count, they won 30 Emmys and were nominated for approximately 53 million more.
Not specifically at Minhaj's mosque, sure. At other mosques in Orange County.
> Bafflingly, the only real element is Craig Monteilh. He is a real person and real, mosque-infiltrating FBI informant. But he did not infiltrate Minhaj’s mosque, never knew Minhaj, and in fact was in jail at the time of the story. Yet Minhaj names him (and shows his face) on Netflix as though he were responsible for an entrapment scheme that never happened.
He was responsible for an entrapment scheme, against other Muslim kids. Just not Hasan.
That's not baffling, that's a pretty basic way of how standup works. The story is more engaging if, in the story, it happened to the teller.
Truth matters in comedy where you have a message (Mitch Hedberg, for example, is excepted).
If you are trying to deliver a message, that requires that your basis for that message be true. Basically, if you're speaking truth to power, it kind of matters that it actually be true.
The Daily Show almost always had a message (and it is notable that when it didn't they could get VERY silly very fast). Therefore they had to actually try to be accurate. That Hasan does not get this is concerning.
The left-wing trend toward making it all about feelings has been extremely unwise, given they could see how it was working out for the right wing - i.e. whenever it was about feelings the right wing won. You can reason people out of conservative impulses. You cannot feel them out of conservative impulses.
> As these shows grew in popularity and number, some comedians whispered their annoyances, most famously for “clapter”. As described by Tina Fey: My friend, SNL writer Seth Meyers, coined the term clapter, which is when you do a political joke and people go, "Woo-hoo." It means they sort of approve but didn't really like it that much. You hear a lot of that on [whispers] The Daily Show.
Tina Fey already explained that that quote was misreported almost sixteen years ago.
https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/21852681.html
This is not a good look to be pushing inaccuracies in which you're putting a comedian under the microscope for punching up a story in their act.
> Fact-checkers were necessary, but it’s unlikely they made the show funnier. Facts, messy and complicated and unsatisfying as they are, often can’t hit us at a gut level.
They do, but the jokes have to actually be witty, and not just stuff like this:
> By my count, they won 30 Emmys and were nominated for approximately 53 million more.
> There was no Brother Eric,
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/557128-supreme-court-to-hear-case-over-fbis-surveillance-of-california/
> no undercover FBI agent at Minhaj’s mosque,
Not specifically at Minhaj's mosque, sure. At other mosques in Orange County.
> Bafflingly, the only real element is Craig Monteilh. He is a real person and real, mosque-infiltrating FBI informant. But he did not infiltrate Minhaj’s mosque, never knew Minhaj, and in fact was in jail at the time of the story. Yet Minhaj names him (and shows his face) on Netflix as though he were responsible for an entrapment scheme that never happened.
He was responsible for an entrapment scheme, against other Muslim kids. Just not Hasan.
That's not baffling, that's a pretty basic way of how standup works. The story is more engaging if, in the story, it happened to the teller.
"Minhaj, in contrast, is saying it honestly."
In the context of his standup.
That's what that line was about. Was his standup. Explicitly NOT his newsreading.