With "An American Carol" bombing at the box office, conservatism's chronic unfunniness is on painful display once again. Those of us who have winced through the awful "Half-Hour News Hour" on Fox (now mercifully cancelled) or the risible comedy stylings of the right's numerous Limbaughs and Coulters should not be surprised to see this movie tanking.

Conservatives just have to face up to the fact that they suck at comedy. Because conservatism just isn't funny. Making a great conservative comedy is about as easy as making a great liberal action film. . . and each of those feats has been accomplished exactly once in the past 25 years. The one great conservative comedy movie was Brazil; and the one great liberal action film was The Matrix.

Reminds me of Dennis Miller's "act" today. Pugs don't seem to know that juvenile insults are just not funny to adults.

Which liberal movies about Iraq beat it?

Of course you haven't, nobody has.

He is surely 5 times funnier than Maher.

Let's look at some of the movies that are beating it.

1 - Beverly Hills Chihuahua Buena Vista Pictures Distribution $29,000,000 $29,000,000 1 3215 2 1 Eagle Eye Paramount Pictures $17,700,000 $54,605,000 2 3516 3 - Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist Sony Pictures Releasing $12,000,000 $12,000,000 1 2421 4 2 Nights in Rodanthe Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $7,355,000 $25,075,000 2 2702 5 37 Appaloosa Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $5,015,000 $5,570,000 3 1045 6 3 Lakeview Terrace Sony Pictures Releasing $4,500,000 $32,140,000 3 2574 7 5 Burn After Reading Focus Features $4,083,000 $51,641,000 4 2397 8 4 Fireproof Samuel Goldwyn Films $4,069,000 $12,491,000 2 852 9 - An American Carol Vivendi Entertainment $3,810,000 $3,810,000 1 1639

Now I think he is too stupid to be funny.

Let's face it, you have to play for your audience, and the dolts on Faux News wouldn't be able to understand 3% of what Miller says.

Stop Loss took in 4.5 million in its opening weekend.

Fahrenheit 9/11 took in 23.9 million in its opening weekend.

The only one who could pull it off, because he was so anti-politics was George Carlin. No other "politics" comedian or political full-length features are funny.

You stopped liking him because his opinion changed.

As for me, my tastes don't change so easily. Woody Allen is pretty left-wing, but I still find him very smart and very funny. Miller is okay to my taste. Maher is too primitive.

Commander Guy:

Reminds me of Dennis Miller's "act" today. Pugs don't seem to know that juvenile insults are just not funny to adults.

And yet they do seem to be funny to conservatives. I find this somewhat disturbing.

Some liberal political comedy is funny.

features. I'm not saying that comedy writers can't write funny skits or fake news stories, those can be funny. The Onion proves that better than a phony news anchor reading madeup stuff. But stand-up and movie-length features, not happening.

Opening weekends Per Screen average

American Carol $2,325

Lions for Lambs $3,025

Stop loss $3,528

War Inc $17,668

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