Submitted by MixedHeat in AskRaddle (edited )

I've recently discovered a stand-up comedian named Cameron Esposito (CW: if you search her name you will get results involving sexual violence), whose routine often focuses on oppression and her experiences as a lesbian, and I've found myself wanting more. Does anyone know of any other feminist and/or socialist comedians?

Honorable mention to Stewart Lee, who is generally not a total racist homophobic sack of shit like most comedians but is definitely not a socialist and to any extent that he's a feminist it doesn't show through in his routine.

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sudo wrote

I don't watch a lot of stand-up comedy, so if these comedians have done other (bad) bits, someone can let me know.

George Carlin seems pretty good; his bits usually make fun of capitalism and religion.

John Leguizamo did a show called "Latin History for Morons", which completely obliterated the whitewashed European settler myth that kids are taught in school. It was more of a story with bits of comedy interspersed than straight stand-up comedy, but it was still good.

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ratbum wrote

Frankie Boyle's hurt like you've never been loved is fantastic.

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symbiosis_architect wrote (edited )

Contemporary american comedy is in a long, dark phase of apostacy. I am a comedian and have loved comedy all of my life and I can barely watch anything. Also having spent a long time in los angeles trying to break in, I know it is a very rigged game and that actual fbi agents become comedians. They do not want another bill hicks, and a lot of the industry is controlled by zionists. Ari Schaffir is a good example of someone I can't listen to for 5 minutes because it is degenerate cultural programming. He was automatically made a comedian somehow, he didn't work his way up through shit, that isn't chance or luck or talent, especially because he really sucks.

There is a big push for some reason also to trivialize all psychedelic usage, keep an eye out for any comedian bragging about doing shrooms for example.

Dave Chappelle's The Bird Revelation is something worth watching more than once, truly brilliant and I admire him immensely. Read between the lines of what he is saying for the real drops.

Katt William's 2018 special is also fantastic.

Just about everybody else I lose respect because they dodge difficult topics, but like I said this is a horrible time for american comedy and culture in general. Bo Burnham I find insufferable. The golden child when I was in LA was Jarrod Carmichael, one of the most empty headed people Ive ever listened to talk, i.e. 'why care about the climate?' that is just cultural programming to be a nihilist or worse.

I do not want to hear the guys in the inside industry of comedy at all, I want to hear the outlaws, the outcasts, because I am one of them. Basically the king always chooses jesters who know the deal, make fun of the kings enemies, not the king.

And I am no jester for the king.

edit: i feel bad I didn't think of maria bamford, she is fantastic. I will think of others. I don't want to say there are no good comedians but the ones that get on TV are awfully tame. Colbert and Conan get me through the night sometimes even though they are admittedly milquetoasty. But really beward of degenerate social programming, comedy is now treated like a branch of the military and things like 9/11 truth are absolutely censored, which is telling.

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