Cruelty isn't a good joke, if we're being honest.

I was watching some of Rosanne Barr's most recent stand up special, along with some other right wing/white grievance comedians and noticed that they're objectively not funny. Even the crowds don't seem to think they're funny, because nobody is actually laughing--they howl in approval. It goes kind of like this: (Comic) My pronouns are "kick your ass/AR 15/pledge of allegiance." (Audience) YEEAAAAHHHH!!! WOOOOOO! Kill 'em!!!! 'Merica!!!! Jesus is LOOOORRDDDD!!!!!

And just like that, I understand why I never thought most of the big stand up comics from the 80's were funny. So many of the bits, with the exception of smarter observational comics, were basically just some dude saying shitty things about people at the bottom of society while the audience howled its approval. This is especially evident with 80's comics who spent the entire decade telling the same exact jokes to sold out audiences at arenas. I mean, how many times can a motherfucker hear the same exact Andrew Dice Clay joke on an HBO special before they're not laughing (assuming they ever did in the first place)?

I don’t get it. Someone is going to have to explain these jokes to me.