It's just a stock picture on ImgFlip. Other than that there's no exaggeration. Lenin actually called himself a "Democratic Socialist" just like what Bernie Sanders calls himself.
Not that I go see stand up comedians but from what I've been hearing (and I don't put any effort into finding this stuff out) they all still do stand up. I don't know how well they're doing. But I'm pretty sure if Seinfeld said he wanted to do another Sitcom, the networks would go crazy trying to get him.
Tim Allen has done well in spite of his conservatism. His Last Man Standing show did get cancelled by ABC specifically because of his politics. His show was one of the highest rated when they canned him. Then a year or so later Fox picked the show up and ran with it until, like all TV shows, the ratings went down.
Allen has another sitcom now but I haven't watched it, don't know the name of it or what network it's on.
But Roseanne Barr got the same treatment when they brought her show back on the air. She made one political comment and they kept the show but kicked her off. I don't even remember what she said but I don't think it was too controversial.
Gina Carano, not a comedian, got kicked off of the Mandalorian just because she was conservative and she did say anything controversial. Disney just dumped her. Thanks to help from Elon Musk she won a wrongful termination lawsuit against Disney.
I don't know where Steve Carrel went. He and Steven Colbert started at the same time on The Daily Show. They did a segment called Even Stevens. It was similar to Dan Ackroyd and Jane Curtin on SNL. It was a point/counterpoint segment. Carrel was really funny on the and on pretty much everything he did on the Daily Show. But his movies were a huge disappointment.
Rob Schneider shows up everywhere if it's conservative. I wouldn't be surprised if he one day spoke at the Republican National Convention. He may have and I didn't know it. He went to a few colleges with Charlie Kirk when Kirk did his thing.
He and Adam Sandler are still friends even though they don't share politics. Sandler will still put Schneider in his movies
"Somewhere during Bush or Obama, watching the RNC Convention, I noticed something curious. They weren't smiling. On occasions they did smile or laugh, it was when they were all supposed to because somebody pulled a funny."
Well as I've gotten older I don't look like I'm having a good time anymore. I can see something really funny. Inside I am cracking up but on the outside I look bored. I didn't uses to be that way. I still laugh out loud sometimes but not like I used to.
I used to think the statement about someone falling out of their seat laughing wasn't real, until I actually did it when I watched Airplane when it was in the theaters. I almost did it again when I saw Ghostbusters in the theater. "Yes, you're honor, this man has no dick". That line still cracks me up.
I never thought Gutfeld was very funny. He always seemed like he was trying to hard.
Jon Stewart used to be funny until the Daily Show went to his head. Colbert was funny when he did his parody of the O'Reilly Factor. I was excited when he got his late night show on CBS. I watched it and it was mind numbingly unfunny. I wondered what happened to him.
Fallon has the best late night show now even though I so very rarely ever watch any late night TV. Actually I watch streaming movies most of the time.
Anyway, maybe it's just because I'm old. Maybe I'm just nostalgic for my youth.
It's very clear that left lost it's sense of humor. The last real comedy movie that wasn't a boring dark comedy was Galaxy Quest. The 2nd to the last Thor movie was funny and so are the Guardians of the Galaxy movies but they're superhero movies, not comedies.
Everything offends leftists and because of that they forgot how to laugh.
I know Mel Brooks is still alive and kicking and he's about to release a sequel to Spaceballs but Spaceballs was the dumbest movie he ever did (except for Life Stinks). But where is the new Mel Brooks. What happened to Zucker Abrams Zucker who did the Airplane and the Naked Gun movies. I saw the new Naked Gun movie with Liam Neeson. It was ok.
But even liberals like John Cleese, who is 683 years old and still funny, has commented on how wokeness has killed comedy. He pointed out that comedy is about offending people while making fun of yourself.
And somethings gotta change because the left is all wound up and tense. That's why they killed Charlie Kirk.
If someone said something truly funny to a leftist today the leftist would shoot him.
I tend to think that Stalin, Lenin, Mao and Hitler probably didn't know how to laugh either.
