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The Babylon Bee Is Winning


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2021 Oct 21, 2:44pm   710 views  18 comments

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Humor is one of those concepts that has seemed to fade. People on the left have suddenly decided there is a direction in which jokes can flow. One must not punch “down,” but should punch up. Up is always towards the right. Midget jokes are no longer allowed because one must always punch down there.

Along comes the Babylon Bee and it punches in every direction. It makes jokes about evangelicals, a class of people the writers are a part of. It makes jokes about Trump supporters. It makes jokes about the left.

The latter is considered problematic to the left, which not only finds no humor in the jokes, but cannot understand why anyone sees those jokes as funny. At least people on the right understand why jokes about the right are funny even if we don’t find them funny. The Babylon Bee has a new book coming out on wokeness. The Atlantic decided to profile the Bee as the book comes out and it is hilarious in its inability to relate to conservative humor. Here’s what I said about it on radio yesterday.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCB3zKKpukU

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1   Ceffer   2021 Oct 21, 4:57pm  

Titania McGrath needs to go to the Bee and straighten it out.
2   BayArea   2021 Oct 21, 9:41pm  

Babylonbee is the best (and most honest) news site on the internet today.
4   Patrick   2021 Nov 1, 9:38am  

https://babylonbee.com/quiz/the-bee-or-not-the-bee

Holy cow, it's seriously hard to tell which of these headlines was parody by the Bee and which was actual "news".
5   PerfectlyFlawed   2021 Nov 1, 9:49am  

I always liked 'The Onion' and their 'Today Now' episodes
6   Patrick   2021 Nov 1, 10:44am  

Wow, that's quite un-PC of the Onion, which really took a turn to the Left lately.
7   SunnyvaleCA   2021 Nov 1, 12:10pm  

Please check out the link Patrick posted in #5 above. It's a hard test. I'm a daily reader of the bee, so managed to get only 1 wrong.
8   SunnyvaleCA   2021 Nov 1, 12:16pm  

Along with BabylonBee, there is a website called NotTheBee.com. The two are are to tell apart except that NotTheBee posts absurd stories that actually happen to be true. Well, as far as I can tell the stories are true.
12   Automan Empire   2021 Nov 21, 2:08pm  

mell says
Don't get this one. Who can explain


It's a line delivered by the pictured actor in the original Star Wars. "But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!" A superb visual pun for SW nerds.

The livery, and the can lettering on the other side, look like a Mobil station.
13   richwicks   2021 Nov 21, 2:15pm  

Automan Empire says
It's a line delivered by the pictured actor in the original Star Wars. "But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!" A superb visual pun for SW nerds.


I didn't get it either. But now that I recognize Mark Hamill, and see he is indeed holding a power converter, I got a laugh out of it.
14   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2021 Nov 21, 3:54pm  

Greg Gutfeld has been genuinely funny lately and so have some of the guest hosts. Probably why Fox bumped him up from late night to prime time.
15   Automan Empire   2021 Dec 22, 9:46pm  

I love the B.B.!

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Move over, Chairman Meow! The Biden family has brought an adorable puppy into their family, and have decided to name this "pawesome" pal Karl Barx, after the brilliant economist Karl Marx, who inspired many of Biden’s policies during his flawless first year as President.

“We are so happy to welcome Karl Barx into our happy, non-dysfunctional family,” said First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Esquire, as her husband showed their fur baby the proper way to chew on slippers.

https://babylonbee.com/news/its-official-new-white-house-dog-to-be-named-karl-barx?source=patrick.net
16   Ceffer   2021 Dec 22, 10:02pm  

Has Joe taken a nude Karl Barx into the shower with him yet? Are his children jealous? Curious minds need to know.
17   EBGuy   2021 Dec 23, 4:41pm  

Imagine going back in time ten years ago and telling people the worlds richest man will:
1. Manufacture EVs (in a tent at one time in order to save his company)
2. Will also manufacture reusable rockets that ferry satellites, people and supplies into space
3. Will be TIME's Person of the Year and grant a interview to a satirical Christian website
https://rumble.com/vr8s2e-full-interview-elon-musk-sits-down-with-the-babylon-bee.html?source=patrick.net

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