{"id":34359,"date":"2016-03-11T09:24:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T14:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34359"},"modified":"2016-03-11T09:24:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T14:24:59","slug":"trump-and-the-stand-up-comedians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/03\/11\/trump-and-the-stand-up-comedians\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and the stand-up comedians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gavin McInness<\/a> on the seemingly universal view of Donald Trump among stand-up comics:<\/p>\n

… They don\u2019t have any arguments because this isn\u2019t about facts. It\u2019s about feelings and they feel Trump is a serious threat to their very existence. That\u2019s really what\u2019s going on here: Trump represents the traditional family, and modern comics\u2014especially the alternative ones\u2014have built their careers mocking exactly that.<\/p>\n

Sure, he\u2019s had a bunch of divorces and yes, there are plenty of comedians who are happily married with kids, but we\u2019re talking about the culture here and in America\u2019s eyes, Trump represents a good dad with great kids who wants to get back to when America was great, and comedians represent a reboot of everything traditional and that\u2019s the nuclear family. Comedians are deeply scarred human beings who shudder at the very idea of a family. They\u2019re not pro\u2013gay marriage because they give a shit about two random homos who want to fuck everything that moves while pretending they live for matrimony. They\u2019re pro\u2013gay marriage because they\u2019re anti-marriage because they\u2019re anti-family because their childhood sucked.<\/p>\n

I enjoy watching stand-up, but sometimes I look at these poor bastards standing on a stage for $20 and I just think, \u201cYou poor bastard.\u201d If they came from big, happy families, they\u2019d be the funny guy at the dinner table making their cousin Donny laugh until milk came out his nose. They\u2019d be content amusing their inner circle and not have to stand on a stage and plead for a roomful of strangers to clap for them.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not remotely controversial to say comedians are insecure and almost unanimously depressed. I believe this comes from having parents who didn\u2019t love them. Not only are they drawn to stand-up because it mimics validation, they are drawn to the career because it\u2019s the perfect career for the unloved. A family man can\u2019t disappear for months and months at a time touring the country in his Honda Civic and getting paid in beer to make 35 people giggle at Chuckles. The more we respect the family and the idea of procreation, the less we respect their profession. Louis C.K. divorced his wife not long after they made two kids. Trump\u2019s Great Again America sees that as a failure. The totally hip alternative America sees it as awesome.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is a constant reminder that plenty of us had parents who loved us and made us feel good about ourselves. We have mimicked this success story and created families of our own. We\u2019re happy and what\u2019s worse, we\u2019re content. For the most part, comics are miserable people who developed the ability to make light of a bad situation. We get laughs from them because we\u2019re not in a bad situation so it\u2019s like doing a shot after you won the lottery. To us, seeing a comedy show is like taking Prozac when you\u2019re not depressed. It\u2019s a bonus. To the comedians, it\u2019s what they need to stave off suicide. The more America becomes great again, the less resonance the kvetchers have. And when your entire ethos is based on complaining, you don\u2019t want prosperity. It bums you out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gavin McInness on the seemingly universal view of Donald Trump among stand-up comics: … They don\u2019t have any arguments because this isn\u2019t about facts. It\u2019s about feelings and they feel Trump is a serious threat to their very existence. That\u2019s really what\u2019s going on here: Trump represents the traditional family, and modern comics\u2014especially the alternative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,53,13],"tags":[1037,968,139,190],"class_list":["post-34359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-politics","category-usa","tag-donaldtrump","tag-family","tag-psychology","tag-samesexmarriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Wb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34360,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359\/revisions\/34360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}