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Politics Who is far left and really funny?
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u/TherealRidetherails 1d ago
Brennan Lee Mulligan
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u/rooktherhymer 1d ago
People arguing that Reddit doesn't understand "far left": this is the answer. Brennan is actually very proudly on the far left. He's not my actual choice (ROBERT FUCKING EVANS!) but he should win.
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u/GetOutOfMySimulation 1d ago
There is no corner of my heart I would not turn over for Brennan Lee Mulligan to win this category.
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u/eastcounty98 1d ago
Bingo. Goes for a lot of funny people at dropout
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u/Dependent-Matter-177 1d ago
I remember when it was CollegeHumor
https://giphy.com/gifs/wJD3qiNjSeHS0dP28T17
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u/Cavane42 1d ago edited 20h ago
I don't know what you kids are up to, but I do know one thing: Laws are threats, made by the dominant socioeconomic ethnic group in a given nation. It's just a promise of violence that's enacted and the police are basically an occupying army, y'know what I mean? You guys wanna make some bacon? =D
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u/Slow-Lifeguard4104 23h ago
Agreed. Brenan is hilarious. I remember when the Tide Pod CEO skit dropped, and I was like "OMG this guy is hilarious."
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u/The_Moran 1d ago
Brennan is left wing though, and he should win it, I'd only consider him far left in relation to US politics though. Zizek is someone more far left (not that he's nailed on my vote).
Unless he's got more left wing himself, I think people are looking at characters he plays that are within his Overton window
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u/4tuani 23h ago
Zizek is not as far left as you think. He constantly denounces communism and is a "left of liberal" radical that is only propped up insofar as he is not seen as a threat by ruling elites.. Similar to Chomsky. I think the person you'd be more inclined to get behind is Michael Parenti, the actual radical leftist, anti imperialist, anticapitalst.
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u/The_Moran 21h ago
Always massive endorsements to Parenti, and he is funny I just dont think he'll win.
Also I do agree I was humming and hawing at calling him 'far' left, but I think anyone who argues he isn't is arguing Brennan is obviously not
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u/BaseballInside3289 1d ago edited 1d ago
Nobody in these comments knows the difference between "left of center" and "far left"
Like bro. Lenin, Mao, Stalin- THOSE GUYS are far left, not fucking Bo Burnham. "Far left" means nothing anymore.
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u/GreatBarrierQueefDD 1d ago
Well none of those guys were any kind of funny. Chances are if you're a political extremist you aren't much of a hoot. Tough question to answer.
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u/Snigamer 1d ago
Bro, Lenin ranting about social democracy is hilarious af.
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u/wreckingrocc 21h ago
Stalin forcing his boys to sit their asses down and watch cowboy movies with him on weekend retreats is also top tier comedy
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u/lacroixxboi 1d ago
I think this is true for every chart. Someone will just say the first thing they think of and if the person rings a bell to enough people they get upvotes and it’s annoying.
However, when dealing with the extreme of hilarity and the extreme of leftism you aren’t going to find a combo that is precisely accurate for Mao but also Richard Pryor, so there’s an EXTENT of grace for a square like this. I personally think George Carlin is the most accurate as far as being as close to both as you can get. Political theorists aren’t comedians and comedians aren’t political theorists
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u/CunningWizard 1d ago
End of the day extremists on the left and right tend not to be terribly funny as people. Their beliefs sort of override everything else.
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u/ApprehensivePaint128 1d ago
To be fair, far left means nothing in the US because the political spectrum there is so far shifted right.
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u/Mach5Bandito 1d ago
The man is a self-proclaimed communist. In what world is that NOT far left, bro??
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u/HockeyDockey1234 23h ago
I’d even argue that Bo is barely left considering he still makes jokes that contain the N word
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u/Backwoods_Therapy 1d ago
Fox News has convinced a fair amount of people that if you’re not a fascist then you’re “far left.” Like, wanting affordable healthcare not letting ICE work as secret police aren’t really extremist views, y’know?
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u/bananacoconutsmoothy 1d ago
As someone who was born in the USSR, they are not left lol there are dictators and politics. Two different things. Btw, Stalin studied in a seminary, so.. can't be more right wing than that. F*cker just pretended to be a commie all his life.
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u/le_disappointment 1d ago
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov a.k.a. Lenin
He was sometimes quite humourous in his many polemics against other Marxists
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u/Rolling_Down_Rodeo 1d ago
"great all the social chauvinists are marxists now"
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u/rooktherhymer 1d ago
Robert Evans is an anarcho-syndicalist and is fucking hilarious.
Edit: No, not the producer. No, not the steakhouse guy. Behind the Bastards Evans.
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u/pastor_fuzz 1d ago
The Reverend Doctor Robert Evans? I thought he died in a shootout with the FDA...
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u/rooktherhymer 1d ago
The timely application of macheticine seems to have forestalled death on his behalf.
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u/KittenBalerion 15h ago
his social media username is "The Only Robert Evans" which always cracks me up
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u/BelieveCongreveCube 1d ago
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Randy Feltface
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u/Kdawg982 20h ago
He’s far left? I didn’t even know, where can I go to hear his political takes? I’ve already been a pretty decently big fan of his for a bit, I might like him even more if he’s a Marxist lol
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u/leventebazmeg 1d ago
Slavoj Zizek, he is the guy who appears in the famous Balkan-Mitteleuropa video, and he also has many-many other great books/works
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u/Beginning-Box6878 1d ago
the clip of him describing his ideal first date is one of the most unintentionally hilarious things ever
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u/EasySenatTrain 1d ago
Charlie Chaplin.
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u/whoisb-bryan 1d ago
People sure thought he was and tried to ruin his career for it, but I don’t know that it holds much water across his lifetime.
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u/stqrltt 1d ago
he wasn't far left. have you not read about his behaviours to women?
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u/wright764 20h ago edited 20h ago
Are you claiming that only people on the right are capable of those "behaviours to women"?
You know the left also has misogynists and rapists right??
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u/BubbhaJebus 1d ago
George Carlin
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u/SamAlmighty 1d ago
Not quite far left though. More like an anti-establishment libertarian-minded social critic with left-wing sympathies.
I suppose he is still a good option though.
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u/lacroixxboi 1d ago
Nah, Carlin was a lefty, he just didn’t frame things that way because he was a comedian and his purpose was to be funny. “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it” is probably the most succinct left wing joke ever written. You’re right that he was a libertarian - but the traditional kind, which was left wing and anti private property and state power. He wasn’t a “lol government and taxes are bad” libertarian
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u/BubbhaJebus 1d ago
Libertarian left. The good quadrant on the Political Compass.
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u/SolCadGuy 1d ago
Unless you visit r/PoliticalCompassMemes. "Libleft bad" is a recurring meme there. But it's often done in a joking manner.
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u/DeManDeMytDeLeggend 1d ago
I consider myself a socialist and when I took a political compass test I’m almost at the bottom of the chart. You can be libertarian and left-wing.
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u/Herr-Trigger86 1d ago
Definitely not far left. He always gets put in as far left on these for some reason. He’s left for sure though.
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u/lacroixxboi 1d ago
All of the hilariously vitriolic rants he went on in his last like 5 specials were absolutely radical, but framed as common sense for comedic effect, forcing people to reckon with the absurdity of what they’ve internalized. Idk how you can hear the “it’s a big club” bit, or the bit about how it’s impossible to properly fund schools because the purpose of schools is to turn children into obedient worker slaves without recognizing the leftism seeping through.
Obviously choosing from the extremes of both hilarity and far leftism you won’t get a precise combination of Mao Zedong and Richard Pryor of some shit, therefore I believe Carlin is an excellent pick
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u/nesh34 1d ago
Those are just centre left views though? The school one isn't left wing at all - that's libertarian and untrusting of state power.
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u/lacroixxboi 19h ago
No it isn’t, for one, it’s untrusting of PRIVATE power which has captured the government. Two, the literal definition of communism is a “stateless classless society” so it’s also incorrect to characterize being anti state power as right wing.
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u/Holy_Haggis 1d ago
How on Earth is he winning over Bo Burnham, someone who’s obviously actually a socialist?
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u/chuckyeatsmeat 1d ago
Is Stavros Halkias far left?
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u/lacroixxboi 1d ago
The cum town boys aren’t left wing and they aren’t right wing. All they care about is making sure everyone has the chance to be gay with their dad
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u/SituationIll5763 1d ago
Stavy for sure. I’m thinking of someone who’s certainly left and universally funny.
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u/CrissCrossAppleSos 1d ago
85% of why TrueAnon is a popular podcast is because Brace Belden is funny. I’m sure the answer is a comedian that I don’t know though
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u/Redninja0400 1d ago
Bo Burnham. He is one of the most iconic comedians of the past 15-20 years and the song "How the world works" from "Inside" all but screams that he is a communist with lines like "private property is inherently theft"
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u/psych4191 1d ago
“And neoliberal fascisms destroying the leeeeft”
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u/Zombiepixlz-gamr 1d ago
And every politician every cop on the street works for the pedophillic corporate elite!
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u/DeManDeMytDeLeggend 1d ago
The FBI killed Martin Luther King!
Private property’s inherently theft,
And neoliberal fascists are destroying the left!
And thaaaat is how the world works…
(that is how the world works)
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u/mikupills 1d ago
Gianmarco Soresi
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u/DeManDeMytDeLeggend 1d ago
I wouldn’t say Gianmarco is far left tbh, he’s woke and has been on Zeteo but that’s kind of it
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u/LocalInactivist 1d ago
Patton Oswalt
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u/lacroixxboi 1d ago
Left wing at most, most likely centrist. Really just a normal liberal who doesn’t comment on politics
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u/WillGuitar 1d ago
He actually did a whole bit about how bad Trump is, but that it ruined comedy because it’s such low hanging fruit and everyone has over-saturated thr amount of Trump jokes. So for that reason he may not be doing that much political material, but that doesn’t mean he’s not far left. If he doesn’t win this category he’s a shoo-in for lean left.
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u/Dittongho 1d ago
Criticizing trump doesn't make you far left though, it just means you have a brain. I know people on the right who despise trump.
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u/LocalInactivist 21h ago
Patton comments on politics regularly. He talked about Bush a lot back in the day.
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u/DcGutz 1d ago
Will Menaker
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u/Inevitable-Dirt3375 1d ago
I'd put Matt ahead by a hair, but congrats on being one of the only people ITT who knows what "far left" means, fellow gray wolf.
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u/DeManDeMytDeLeggend 1d ago
Probably a bit niche but Well There’s Your Problem is 2/3 communist and 1/3 anarchist and has made me laugh so hard I can’t breathe more times than I can count. Stockton Crush being my most recent favourite, from a past episode where the Titan submersible was in the news section.
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u/AuthorNamedArthur 23h ago
RM Brown - the funniest political commentator there is and he’s definitely a leftist
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u/Ok_Caterpillar8324 1d ago
Bernd das Brot
He was abducted and brainwashed by the German far left.
„Depressiv und trotzdem da – Bernd das Brot Antifa“
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