First section of my new video!

just wanna say ive always hated this guy from his anti vegan schtick days and feel very validated by who he's turned into

Can’t wait to see the whole video! Also FWIW, I found your opinion on that TikTok mom to be completely reasonable, and was a little shocked to see the negative reaction it got from a lot of the comments.

His modern content throughout this video is downright unwatchable in a scary way. Very sad to see his turn, from a guy who at one point seems like a bit of an independent thinker, but a nice guy. And with the red hair/kinda languid, dead-eyed stare, he reminds me a little of Chris Bores (who, frankly, let's be thankful hasn't gone down this road).

I really like little and medium joel content but it's nice to see you standing in a random location holding a microphone again

Vaguely knowing where the guy ends up really gives those first seven something minutes a heavy sense of dread. GOod stuff, though very depressing.

Here's also a resource from a university about shortest flight paths. https://dynref.engr.illinois.edu/aos.html The shortest path on a sphere will always be tracing the circumference of the bisection of the sphere between those two points. When using the mercator projection onto a 2D plane, this is almost never a straight line between the points.

at 26:35 you read “psyoppery” as “psypoppery” (which is good, keep it)

One comment: Sears still using the same bell sound to start all of his videos is a strikingly odd detail, but I wouldn’t have registered it if I didn’t go back and rewatch the beginning. Before knowing about his political shift, I didn’t really know what to make of that line. I’d consider either moving that line later in the video or perhaps seeing if you can work in a call back.

I mean i love it I'll watch it all the time but yea him yelling at himself as a girl, beating up his old pansy beliefs is a bummer - yes, it is m, bumming me out

when i think of conservative comedy, i think very surface level about it. its smugness, immaturity, and just the general disrespect for human life. steven crowder thinking his showing his balls to his male coworkers and saying the n word are funny acts. i think of ben shapiro flexing on his streams for some strange bit that i don't think he's fully aware of. but your video has me thinking more critically about comedy's role in conservative brain rot. really looking forward to this video, big joel!

This is probably just my engineer brain but I wasn’t really satisfied with your proof of the shortest path between two cities. I did look it up and the mathematical proof is absolutely horrible and certainly out of the scope of this video. Maybe you could prove it more convincingly by holding a piece of string tight to the surface of the globe? Again, this is probably just a me problem and it’s not like the target audience of this video actually needs convincing that the earth is round.

Can't wait to see the full video! Your video, "The Strangest Moment of Ricky Gervais's Career" is one of my favorites, because I love getting to hear discussions about comedy from someone who cares about it in the same way that I do. I think it's really interesting to go into what choices made something funny or not funny, and why someone would have made those decisions. Also, I can't get enough of my fave lefty video essayists making videos about bad conservative comedy. It's ALWAYS very fun to watch

I really like the comment that quotes George Orwell, apparently in the sincere belief that Orwell would read that comment and be like "Yes, the flat earth, that's the kind of revolutionary truth-telling I'm talking about, babyyy." I don't know, I just find it funny how absurdly twisted the legacy of George Orwell has become in modern right wing discourse.

Dale yeah brother

awesome vid, genuinely very excited to see the whole thing!! obviously there's a lot of talk about conservative comedy being specifically bad but i think failed comedy in general is very interesting, have you seen Nathan Fielder & Benny Safdie's recent show The Curse? lots to unpack in it, but in particular Nathan Fielder's character is a guy who desperately wants to be funny but consistently fails at it, the show dedicates a good chunk to focusing on this aspect of his character, and this video made me think of it. neat show and worth a watch imo if you haven't seen it already!

It's very sad! He can barely make jokes anymore bc his world has been overtaken by anger and fear

One quick critique is that maybe the delivery of the key line that no one in JP’s current comments gets the joke could be a bit clearer somehow. “No one’s laughing?” Not a big deal, I just came away with it thinking that that style of humor was out of fashion now, so only got the line when you said he’s a conservative now.

There’s something so interesting about the trend of conservatives becoming their comedy. It’s the main problem in his later jokes: he can’t quite separate the character and the joke. It’s also what I heard radicalized spaces like 4chan. Really excited for the rest!

Conservative comedy is just saying conservative things and then calling it a joke

Looking forward to this! Thanks Big Guy!

I'm mostly disturbed that this Sears dude is my double. Except he's a ginger, while I'm a normal blonde. That means he's my EVIL twin, right?

Very intrigued by the idea that conservatives are unable to make jokes because it would require them to say the thing they don’t believe is true, even in the temporary frame of a joke. I feel like potentially this has been posited before (you and/or Thoughtslime?) and I’m interested to see this explored further.

good shit

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the idea of the Covid pandemic as a collective trauma. My irony pilled brain is eager to mock the phrase “we lived through a pandemic we really did that shit” as something stupid a contemporary liberal would say, but there really is something to it, of course there is. I think your particular angle of social political critique is very well suited to explore what that trauma did to JP sears and people like him, looking forward to seeing the whole thing.

Hell yeah, I remember you mentioning the conservative comedy video. Loving it so far! Can't wait to see what more comes of it

This is fascinating. Excited for the whole thing! DALE GRIBBLE BASED LEGEND