Jon Stewart was funny as the host of The Daily Show. Yes, he was biased as hell, but he was at least funny about it. For a show on Comedy Central, that’s the key thing one needs to be.
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Unfortunately, while he’s lost his ability to be as funny as he once was, his successor at The Daily Show was never all that funny to begin with. Trevor Noah is a partisan hack who hasn’t figured out that you can poke at the right in a way that everyone finds funny to some degree or another. Instead, he just caters his “comedy” to the leftist audience.
Which, whatever. I don’t care all that much who he caters to because, well, I’ve never found him amusing.
But not being funny isn’t the worst thing one can do. No, being ghoulish about the assassination of a man who was trying to engage in debate is, and Noah has crossed that line now.
Former “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah said he found it “funny” that Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while defending guns at a speaking event at Utah Valley University last month.
“The guy was shot while defending guns. Do you understand how — I’m not even writing that as a joke — as a human, you have to admit that is an incongruous funny thing that happens,” Noah argued. “You are there. You’re onstage, like, ‘Let me tell you why people should have guns.’ Wa-pow!”
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“Meanwhile, here, comedians are s—ting themselves,” he told the crowd. “‘Don’t say anything about Charlie Kirk.’ ‘I wasn’t going say anything about him.’ ‘Yeah, but don’t say anything about Charlie.’ ‘I wasn’t going to say anything about Charlie Kirk.’ ‘But don’t. There’s nothing funny about it.’
“Oh, now you tested me,” he added, before stating that “as a comedian,” he was sure he could find something funny about Kirk’s murder.
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Now, keep in mind that the oh-so-enlightened comedians were in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for a controversial comedy festival–one controversial because Saudi Arabia isn’t exactly fond of civil liberties like free speech.
So I find it a little odd that he’s talking mad crap like that.
But now I understand why Noah isn’t funny. It’s because he doesn’t understand what funny actually looks like.
I get people who think it’s somehow ironic that Kirk, a staunch defender of the Second Amendment, was murdered during a discussion that wasn’t actually about guns, but mass shootings–a slight but important difference, as the questioner at the time was trying to prove the left was non-violent, ironically. I can even see irony if it happened like Noah claimed.
But “irony” and “funny” aren’t synonyms.
Charlie Kirk never said no one ever does anything bad with guns. He acknowledged that happened. The infamous “it’s worth it” quote that’s been bandied about by people who never listened to the entire conversation he was having at the time stemmed from his understanding that some people are just horrible human beings, but that if we’re going to be free, we have to accept that some people will misuse that freedom.
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His death is evidence that he was right.
There’s nothing amusing about that. There’s nothing “incongruously funny” about it.
And the fact that he somehow thinks it is says a lot about his so-called comedy.
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