Am I missing something here? When have comedians ever backed off from Trump at all? Many of them suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. They’re not even funny.
The College Fix reports:
Notre Dame professor praises ‘comedians’ for ‘refusing to back down’ from TrumpOh, this is just what we needed: a professor of gender studies to lecture us about how important late-night comedians like Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, et. al. are, especially in the era of Trump.Meet Perin Gürel, who teaches in Notre Dame’s Dept. of American Studies and researches “the United States in the world and the world in the United States through transnational feminist lenses,” according to her faculty page.In a Tuesday article in The Conversation, Gürel claims that currently, “fear of reprisals” has made “many people cautious about expressing their opinions” about President Trump.But the one group that “has refused to back down” is television’s late-night funny men.Yes, seriously.“Jon Stewart and the rest of ‘The Daily Show’ team, for example, have been scathing in their coverage of the Epstein case,” Gürel writes. “John Oliver continues to amass colorful analogies for describing the president and his actions. [And] after the ‘Late Show’ was canceled, ostensibly due to financial reasons, host Stephen Colbert was defiant: ‘They made one mistake – they left me alive!’”As is usual with The Conversation, at some point the author includes a sentence indicating what an “expert” he/she is, and in this case Gürel’s says “I’m a scholar who examines the intersections between culture and politics and I teach a class on ‘Humor and Power.’”(She also teaches the courses “Transnational America,” “Gender and Popular Culture,” “Islam and Feminism,” and “American Conspiracies.”)Gürel (pictured) claims the “timeless” folktale “The Bird Indifferent to Pain” can “help us understand why comedy fans enjoy the annoying persistence of the jester, and explain why this trope has endured across cultures for centuries.”
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