The King of Late Night by Greg Gutfeld

Author:Greg Gutfeld
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 2023-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

The Age Flip

You sensed the trend. Today, most news outlets are just high-tech versions of supermarket tabloids, the ones with headlines like “Amazing Rooster Cries Tears That Look Like Jesus,” and “Pop Rocks That Cure Cancer.” But now it incorporates political adversaries and issues.

But all the weirdest, wrongest stories went in one direction. There would be a fake story about Trump watching a hooker pee on another hooker in a Russian hotel room. But there would never be a fake story about Hunter watching a hooker pee on another hooker in a hotel room… even though we now know, for Hunter, that’s called Tuesday.

But a weird thing happened since Trump: all the young comedians decided that it was more important to be solemn and outraged than outrageous and funny. And in a refreshing fashion, it was the vets, the older dudes, who were taking the risks, and defying the mob. The OGs have really stepped up.

You see this split in comedy, largely because some comedians truly fear for their fledgling careers—while others who’ve made it can actually say “fuck you” to the mob. The young ones think that they won’t make it unless they embrace the new way of thinking, but because the new way is not funny, they have much less chance of making a name for themselves taking that route.

This could explain why the younger comics mimic the woke, while the Dave Chappelles and the Ricky Gervaises don’t.

The old are the new young. The young are the new old. I think I feel a song coming on.

Cancel culture has created a Benjamin Button effect in that older generations start behaving the way their kids should. And I don’t mean “acting young,” as in getting piercings and taking up skateboarding in board shorts—I mean real honest renegade thinking, and saying things that are risky today.

We’ve confused what connotates risk. It’s not saying “America’s hopelessly racist,” when it’s the status quo legacy media saying that every day.

It’s not saying that capitalism sucks, when even capitalists now pretend to be socialists just to keep the teens buying their slave-labor-produced shoes and phones.

I’m talking about saying things that go against that prevailing wisdom of the media. We see that the only reason for liberals to embrace this stuff is to stay safe—if it maintains your popularity, if it gets you good grades in school, and allows you to climb the corporate ladder faster, then just put your head down and say yes.

In comedy, the risk-takers are the ones battling the safe spacers—from John Cleese to Gervais. I’d throw in Nick Di Paolo (who, I should note, writes for my show), Andrew Schulz, Tim Dillon, David Spade, Colin Quinn, Dennis Miller, Joe Rogan (and lots of his comedian guests), Chappelle, Russell Brand, Rob Schneider, and Jim Breuer. Outside of comedy, I would include J. K. Rowling, Morrissey, King Buzzo, Eric Clapton, Johnny Rotten, and Van Morrison.

Most of these are boomers and aging Gen Xers who take real risk against wokeism. It may be because they’ve been through it before—they recognize it.

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