Not looking to discuss politics. I’m just trying to find the humour in left-wing mainstream comedy.

I’ve tried watching at least 30 movies and as far as I can tell it’s the same two tropes. Someone who is usually smart does something obviously stupid or they are uninformd about something and everyone is shocked that they just don’t get it with a “seriously bro” type of comment. Or the other trope when someone who is super serious becomes upset because someone shocked them with their progressive views with a “yeah that’s how it’s done” type of comment.

What’s funny about that?

  • MGN22@lemmy.worldOP
    344·
    9 months ago

    Sure. The Marvel movies for example like Deadpool and Spider man. There will be a break in the action because someone did something silly and other people in the scene have to comment on it with the “seriously bro” type of comment.

      • Contramuffin@lemmy.world
        461·
        9 months ago

        Even ignoring that Marvel isn’t leftist, I don’t even think leftists think Marvel humor is good. OP’s premise is broken on so many levels

          • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
            10·
            9 months ago

            And Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence’s books:

            • The American Monomyth (1977)
            • The Myth of the American Superhero (2002)
            • Captain America And The Crusade Against Evil: The Dilemma Of Zealous Nationalism (2003)
        • morphballganon@lemmy.world
          18·
          9 months ago

          I don’t think comedic breaks in action films are exclusive to any particular political group. You might be conflating the two because certain slang terms often appear in those breaks, and those terms might be more prevalent in communities you think of as leftist.

          Let me give you a counter-example. In Star Trek Beyond, Spock realizes the crew can locate an away team by the radiation given off by a jewel he gave Uhura. McCoy asks him incredulously “you gave your girlfriend a tracking device?” and Spock responds “that was not my intent.” This is a classic “bruh” moment, but it uses traditional wording, not slang. So if you think of this phenomenon as being intrinsically linked with leftist slang, I can assure you it isn’t.

          • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
            10·
            9 months ago

            He finds a comedic pause interrupting his delicious violence to be a bit too far to the left. I don’t know if bringing up a moment based around an interracial couple in a goddamned socialist space movie about learning, sharing and helping is the best way to show this particular OP that not all BruhBreaks™ are leftist.

      • Lemming421@lemmy.worldEnglish
        181·
        9 months ago

        What do you think a leftist is?

        Any film where the entire cast aren’t straight white men fighting over a prize woman is “radical left” and simply watching it will turn you into a disabled trans lesbian in the name of forced diversity.

        Obviously.

    • SuperDuper@lemmy.world
      33·
      9 months ago

      There will be a break in the action because someone did something silly and other people in the scene have to comment on it with the “seriously bro” type of comment.

      I can’t figure out how this is even remotely “leftist.” It has absolutely nothing to do with any political leaning, left or otherwise.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        101·
        9 months ago

        If anything marvel movies are the most neutral I’ve seen! They go out of their way to try not to offend anyone. Part of the reason I think they’re kinda boring lol

    • Susaga@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      281·
      9 months ago

      Bathos. That’s Bathos. Interrupting something serious to ridicule it. It’s been a trope since the 18th century, and it’s definitely not just a “leftist” trope. It’s also NOT the only type of joke in left-wing media, or the only types of jokes in those specific movies. Most of Deadpool is pop culture references, for example.

    • Lauchs@lemmy.world
      232·
      9 months ago

      Those are really the only jokes you took away from those movies?

      Maybe comedy and jokes aren’t for you?

    • anarchost@lemm.ee
      221·
      9 months ago

      Marvel movies aren’t leftist, and their comedy isn’t leftist either. That’s not even political really. You’re describing a Flanderization of Joss Whedon comedy tropes

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      16·
      9 months ago

      Deadpool was hilarious when they were going through the sex poses for the different holidays, then swapped it around for pegging on “International Womens Day”.

      They even call back to it in the new trailer:

      https://youtu.be/WbN1DJzyjsw#t=33s

      It’s the sudden subversion of expectations that makes it funny.

    • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
      9·
      9 months ago

      Marvel movies are action movies with quips, not comedies.

      They’re also not “leftist:” they’re movies for the masses, and are about as apolitical as you can get. The politics that do get in are fictional ones that are focused group to hell to not resemble any real world politics.

      The Boys is the only leftist superhero comedy.

        • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
          5·
          9 months ago

          The comic character was around before Jones was even alive, and J. K. Simmons started his portrayal before Jones even got big. It’s not Disney’s fault that Jones turned into his own caricature.

      • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        The Avengers are heroic, care about others, and aren’t the cartoon villains they fight, which Republicans fucking literally are. That is why Marvel films are Leftist.

        Plus…to be fair, Tony is all about science, and helping the community, stopping war, and all that gay woke crap.