/lit/ - Literature

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All of his "conservative standup" (calling everyone in the sf audience a hipster faggot before listing off mental illness statistics among homosexuals, "you might be Michael Brown" standup set) seems to be both unironically antagonistic as well as so out-of-polite-context that it has to be satire; the backlash to his work proves his point that no self-professed millennial liberal wants to deal with the consequences of free speech when they can bucket it as any kind of hate speech (even when it is just rude, inconvenient truth). The same audience that laughs at the writing on Key and Peele (or SNL), and thinks they are "so over the line" and "provocative" (I hate that I know people who have said this) are completely unwilling to sit through a Million Dollar Extreme sketch directly calling out their ideology

But his ironic caricatures of liberals (his TED talk, a must-see; the final MDE sketch of a child talking about growing up to work in Marketing just like his Mom) express his frustration with the mainstream progressive/conservative dialectic. I don't think this is two levels removed, He is not trying to be the Colbert report and ironically depict a mad conservative reacting to liberals; he is a mad conservative reacting to liberals and progressive movements in America, attempting to use the consequences of where they are leading people to highlight this.

But I could be wrong, he could be unironically playing a conservative who is ironically playing a liberal, in the same vein of Tim and Eric ironically playing local TV entertainment providers (characters which are (failing) to portray unironic characters/programs in hopes of successfully advertise products on local cable networks)

What /lit/ philosophy can I read to make any of what I just said more coherent, in terms of layers of irony and pointers to pointers

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