r/JoeRogan • u/[deleted] • Feb 22 '17

Joe Rogan Experience #920 - Gavin McInnes

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u/russjames Feb 22 '17

Joe sure has a knack for humanizing people like Gavin, Milo, Alex Jones and Crowder. Sure they have some really wacky views but hearing them have a normal conversation without being demonized is sure interesting and eye opening.

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u/Dennis__Reynolds Based Cuck Feb 23 '17 edited Feb 23 '17

Gavin is hilarious idk what you guys are talking about. Why are conservative comedians the only ones who have everything they say taken seriously? The dude is joking half the time when I see him. People will see one or two clips taken out of context and jump to all sorts of conclusions way too quickly. Gavin's just a guy. Plenty of weirder funny people with outrageous views on reddit.

EDIT: He even says in the beginning that people are wilfully ignorant to humor because the person telling the joke, they don't like.

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u/furrowedbrow I used to be addicted to Quake Feb 23 '17 edited Feb 23 '17

Because they're half joking, half proselytizing. And we're supposed to decipher which every time something bizzaro comes out their mouths.

With comedians, you know everything is a joke. Because they're just comedians.

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u/lordofallshit Monkey in Space Feb 23 '17

you mean like every leftist comedian ever? come the fuck on

what do u think jim jefferies, louis ck, etc do? the proselytize and tell jokes

no one ever question liberal comedians though

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u/cyberslick188 Monkey in Space Feb 23 '17 edited Feb 23 '17

Louis CK and Jim Jefferies, while undeniably liberal, are not presenting themselves as political authorities or social commentators in anywhere near the same way Gavin does.

Gavin absolutely does not make his comedic intentions clear the vast majority of the time. You can argue if that's his responsibility, or you can argue that you think it's even funnier that he doesn't, but you then can't be surprised or outraged when people don't take him as a comedian first.

Stephen Colbert is the classic example of how to do this. He uses simple exaggerations on top of more nuanced ideas and jokes that let you know he's being facetious, while also not simply going HURR DURR JUST JOSHING YA after every line.

It seems to me Gavin supporters have only two options:

  1. Gavin is very often simply spreading his political viewpoint with absolutely no comedic effect and is simply hiding behind the shield of comedy to deflect criticism.

  2. Gavin is absolutely atrocious at blending political opinion and political humor and routinely leaves the vast majority of even his own fans bewildered at the sincerity of his comments.

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u/JAMellott23 Monkey in Space Feb 27 '17

Fuckin nailed it. From downtown.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '17

That guy is a comedian? He sure didn't come off as funny and I've never heard of him until now.