Posted on 01/28/2023 12:10:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
The generally agreed-upon rule of thumb for comedians who delve into dark comedy is to always try to be more funny and more clever than offensive – the darker you go, the more creative you get to justify tackling the sensitive subject matter.
This past weekend, anti-vax comedy icon Jim Breuer bravely defied this simple standard by making the most sophomoric, obvious and distasteful dig on the cardiac arrest suffered by Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin during Monday Night Football on January 2nd. While performing on the “ReAwaken America Tour,” an event branded as a coming together of conservative Christians, Breuer co-opted the incident in which Hamlin’s heart stopped for several minutes in the middle of a game to make a terrible vaccine joke that the worst parts of Twitter had already been spouting since the moment Hamlin collapsed.
Notice the uproarious applause from the “devout Christians” when he mocks Hamlin’s near-death experience and blames the heart attack on vaccine side effects.
Anyone who was on Twitter in the moments following Hamlin’s collapse during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals saw scores of anti-vaxxers immediately pointing their fingers at the NFL’s long-retired COVID protocols and its promotion of the vaccine among players and coaches. As is the case whenever a tragedy occurs, the dumbest and most selfish among us took the moment as an opportunity to promote their objectively ignorant views – with Breuer getting the memo three weeks late.
Breuer’s career has made a series of steep left turns since his early collaborations with Dave Chappelle and other comedians of note – back in 2021, he went viral for another performance on the ReAwaken America Tour with a different display of vaccine fear mongering thinly disguised as comedy. Breuer sweatily stomped across the stage in an attempted impression of a cockatoo while repeating phrases like “trust the science” and “numbers are up,” because repeating the words of people who disagree with you in a mocking tone is literally the bare minimum required to call yourself a comedian in ultra-conservative circles.
The former Saturday Night Live cast member has clearly found his calling amongst the conspiracy crowd long after the mainstream comedy world realized that his “loud voice/silly face” brand of physical humor could easily be replicated by any one of a couple hundred thousand amateur comics with a couple weeks of improv classes under their belt. Mocking Hamlin with a run-of-the-mill pratfall is par for the course in this stage of Breuer’s career, and stunts like these are likely the only moments he’ll find any recognition outside of the alt-right rallies where simply saying the word “snowflake” is enough to earn a standing ovation.
Breuer’s next step should be to launch his own conservative comedy tour for SNL alumni who had to start skewing alt-right once everyone realized they weren’t funny and their more talented friends stopped offering them roles – call it the “ReAwaken Rob Schneider Tour.”
Did you watch the twitter clip? He told some jokes and was very funny.
Jim has been on top of the covid BS for a long time. You should watch his clip on Joe Rogan's podcast where he outlines the cut throat comedians and why he left.
May it have the success of Air America…
The comedian said...”Here in the NFL...”
...and just (suddenly) keeled over on stage.
Nah I didn’t bother watching the clip......I know a hit piece when I see one.
I suspect Breuer just struck a nerve with the little snotty beotch that wrote this crap because he dared question the covid shot scam.
Amen!
Ok that’s fine but you posted that there wasn’t a joke, and their actually was.
Nice try, Keegan Kelly, but the regurgitation of low hanging, low IQ unfunny and uncreative political comedy fruit lies entirely on your side of the fence - and two drink minimums don’t help your side’s lack of talent.
Since when is Cracked a reputable news source or one to be taken seriously?
Cracked actually used to be funny. Then they fired all the talent and went to comedy aggregations. Plus the comments sections used to be as good as the professional stuff, but the commenters weren’t always perfectly mindless, faithful Chi-com drones, so they axed that.
He played for Buffalo, not Cincinnati.
“the commenters weren’t always perfectly mindless, faithful Chi-com drones, so they axed that”
Which is the mindset that explains this attack on Jim Breuer
There were a tone of them at the time. Here's one: "Did you hear Dahmer had a really high end luxury car (he actually did)? It cost him an arm and a leg."
They were a thing.
Here’s his entire routine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJcp5Ml5s9w
The Damar Hamlin joke is min. 5:10. Start earlier for context. He’s not making fun of Hamlin — he’s going after the Vaxxists.
Wish I had a text-to-speech app to read this in Karen-voice. Pretty funny, anyway, to read it that way in my head. Yikes!
See my post 5.
Yeah, I finally got down there & saw it. 😋
Now it is 100% liberal, and not funny.
Cracked is the Jimmy Kimmel of online humor.
That guy is hilarious. Does the article ever explain the joke?
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